| “ | Helios petrifies the wood of your siege weapons, increasing their hack armor and causing them to gain additional hack armor while standing still. | ” |
| —In-game description in Retold | ||
Petrification (named Petrified before Retold) is an Atlantean myth technology in Age of Mythology: The Titans that is available to worshipers of Helios and can be researched at the Palace. Once researched, it decreases the hack vulnerability of siege weapons and Siege Biremes by 10% and then decreases it even more once it has stopped moving.
Effect[]
It decreases the hack vulnerability of the described units by a fixed amount of 10%. Further, when the unit has stopped moving (even if still attacking enemies in range), it causes the hack vulnerability of the unit to reduce by another 2.5% per second for 10 seconds, for an extra effect of -25% hack vulnerability. This results in a total of -32.5% hack vulnerability from this technology for a unit standing still.
where,
- The resulting hack armor in decimal value
- The hack armor of the unit without considering this technology
- The time in seconds since it stopped moving
Once the unit starts moving again, the vulnerability reduction decays by 2.5%[Variable value?] per second.
Note: The decay duration is not constant in practice, and is approximately 10 seconds for Siege Biremes, 13 seconds for Cheiroballista, and 17 seconds for Fire Siphons.
Further statistics[]
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Myth technologies[]
- Rheia's Gift (Rheia): Favor cost removed. If already researched, favor cost reimbursed.
Changelog[]
The Titans[]
- The technology is named Petrified and costs 250 wood, 100 gold, 15 favor. It reduces siege weapon hack vulnerability by -15%. It does not affect Siege Biremes.
Retold[]
- The technology is named Petrification and costs 150 wood, 50 gold, 10 favor. It reduces siege weapon hack vulnerability by -10%, and also causes the hack vulnerability of siege weapons to reduce by 2.5% per second while standing still, up to an extra -25%. It also affects Siege Biremes.
Mythology[]
| “ | …were made of a strange and very hard wood. Just as Helios' searing gaze beats down onto all things, so too did these giant-crafted siege weapons, rock-hurlers and arrow-throwers, lay waste to our shining capital. They reduced our beloved city to rubble in a matter of hours, but we remained unafraid. -- The Inverada, the Siege' |
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| —In-game help section | ||
| “ | …were made of a strange and very hard wood. And as Helios's searing gaze beats down onto all things, so too did these giant-crafted siege weapons, rock-hurlers and arrow-throwers, lay waste to the shining capital of Lemuria. They reduced our beloved city to rubble in a matter of hours, but Chalu was not afraid. -- The Inverada, The Siege at Murinca' |
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| —In-game help section | ||
Trivia[]
- If granted to non-Atlantean units in the Scenario Editor, this technology grants the first effect of direct hack vulnerability reduction, but does not grant the second effect of increasing armor over time.
