Template:Infobox units The Stympahlian Bird is a Heroic Age Myth Unit in Age of Mythology: The Titans available to Theia. They attack by flinging arrows out of their wings at their enemies. They are dangerous support units and formidable in combat for several reasons. As a flying unit they can only be attacked by ranged units. This coupled with their large amount of pierce damage makes them dangerous to both infantry and cavalry, who cannot fight back due to their lack of ranged attacks. Archers can attack them but inflict relatively little damage and will only take them down if in groups. The fact that they also do bonus damage to myth units makes them even more dangerous. Ranged heroes are the best way to deal with them. Countering with other ranged Myth Units is also a viable method.
Mythology
In Greek Mythology the Stymphalian Birds got their name from the Stymphalian lake that they nested at for a time. They would terrorize the villagers and their livestock by dartbombing their iron feathers and ripping their victims apart with their toothed beaks. They continued to frighten the locals until Heracles came on his sixth labor. When Heracles entered the lake, the birds came upon him like a storm. Heracles then proceeded to kill them with his arrows that were dipped in the venomous blood of the Hydra.