Titan Gate

Titan Gate
Availability
Introduced in	Age of Mythology: The Titans
Civilization	All civilizations
Age	Mythic Age
Usage
Max. usage	Single-use (Mythic Age) Infinite (Wonder Age)
Recharge time	600 seconds
Reuse cost	400
Ramping cost	+400
Effect
Places a Titan Gate

Titan Gate is a Mythic Age god power in Age of Mythology that is available to all civilizations once Secrets of the Titans is researched. When it is invoked, it summons a Titan Gate, a building which needs to be excavated by villagers or Norse infantry to release a Titan, the strongest of all units.

The infobox uses the shorthand R as a suffix to refer to Retold. It uses G, E, N, A, and C to refer to the Greeks, Egyptians, Norse, Atlanteans, and Chinese respectively.

Unlike other god powers in Retold, this one starts off single-use only. It becomes reusable once the Wonder Age is reached, and can be recast after 10 minutes. Before Retold, this god power and building were available only in the Titan Age.

Strategy

The placement of a Titan Gate is important for quick use considering the slow speed of the Titan, but it must also be placed in a safe location so that enemies do not destroy it before it is completed. Before Retold, placement in water or hybrid maps was even more important, as Titans could not cross water. In addition, it takes a considerable amount of time to excavate the Gate (three-quarters as long as a Wonder); defenses must be set up to prevent enemy armies from destroying it. On the plus side, Titan Gate foundations are not susceptible to the bonus damage incurred by all other building foundations when attacked. The player must also be prepared for the considerable population increase after the Titan is unleashed. Furthermore, neither Priests nor Pharaohs can empower a Titan Gate to speed up its excavation, although Fu Xi and Nü Wa players who choose Dabo Gong for the Heroic Age can invoke Imperial Examination to speed up its construction.

Building

Titan Gate
Building information
Introduced in	Age of Mythology: The Titans
Type	Military
Civilization	All civilizations
Age	Mythic Age
Use	Produces a Titan when completed
Required for	Titan
Construction
Requires	Titan Gate (god power)
Built by	Villager Norse foot soldiers
Build time	1,350 seconds (50%)
Build limit	1 (Mythic Age) None (Wonder Age)
Statistics
Hit points	15,000
Hack armor	50%
Pierce armor	90%
Crush armor	15%
Line of Sight	5

“	Villagers or Norse infantry tasked on the Titan Gate will dig out a Titan.	”
—In-game description

A foundation of the Titan Gate is placed where the god power is invoked. It starts with 7,500 (50%), and must be built up by builder units to produce a Titan, after which it collapses. If the Titan Gate is destroyed, irrespective of whether it was completed or not, the same one cannot be constructed again. The Gate can be reinvoked in the Wonder Age, but has a steep cost of 400 favor which increases by the same amount for further reuses.

Further statistics

Several god bonuses and technologies which affect all buildings exclude Titan Gates.

General technologies

• Signal Fires ➞ Carrier Pigeons: +6 Line of Sight.

Myth technologies

• Oracle (Apollo): +4 Line of Sight.
• Sun-dried Mud-brick (Sobek): +10% hit points.
• Titan Shield (Atlas): +15% hack and crush armor.

Relics

• Blanket of Empress Zoe: -10% crush vulnerability.
• Head of Orpheus: +8 Line of Sight.
• Nose of the Sphinx: +15% hit points.

Changelog

The Titans

• Titan Gate is available in the Titan Age, which is reached when Secrets of the Titans is researched.
• Titan Gate is a single-use god power.
• The Titan Gate building foundation starts at 1 hit point, and has 96% pierce armor.

Retold

• Titan Gate is available in the Mythic Age after Secrets of the Titans is researched (no practical difference).
• Titan Gate can be recast after reaching the Wonder Age, after a cooldown and for increasing favor costs.
• The Titan Gate building foundation starts at 7,500 (50%) hit points, and has 90% pierce armor.

Mythology

“	The Titans are bound in Tartarus, or they were.... Tartarus was a prison and holding pen for creatures distasteful to the reigning gods. When Oranos ruled the cosmos he locked many of his ill-begotten children in the depths of Tartarus. When the Olympians rose to power they threw the deposed Titans into Tartarus and bound them there with gates wrought of adamantine. The Titans spent millennia trying to find ways out of their prison, often enlisting mortals to free them. This gate is a breach in that deep, dark prison and the Titans await below.	”
—In-game help section

Gallery

A Greek Titan Gate

An Egyptian Titan Gate

A Norse Titan Gate

An Atlantean Titan Gate

A Chinese Titan Gate

Citizens uncovering a Titan Gate

A Norse Titan Gate where a Titan has previously emerged

A Norse Titan Gate under attack and almost destroyed

A Norse Titan Gate manually destroyed before completion. The gate immediately disappears. Notice that there is a green half round shape at the center of the screen (on its former location).

	God powers in Age of Mythology
Greeks Archaic Age Bolt · Lure · Sentinel Classical Age Pestilence · Restoration · Ceasefire Heroic Age Underworld Passage · Curse · Bronze Mythic Age Earthquake · Lightning Storm · Plenty Egyptians Archaic Age Prosperity · Vision · Rain Classical Age Eclipse · Shifting Sands · Plague of Serpents Heroic Age Locust Swarm · Citadel · Ancestors Mythic Age Tornado · Meteor · Son of Osiris Norse Archaic Age Dwarven Mine · Great Hunt · Spy · Gullinbursti Classical Age Healing Spring · Forest Fire · Undermine · Asgardian Bastion Heroic Age Frost · Flaming Weapons · Walking Woods · Tempest Mythic Age Fimbulwinter · Nidhogg · Ragnarok · Inferno Atlanteans Archaic Age Deconstruction · Shockwave · Gaia Forest Classical Age Spider Lair · Valor · Carnivora Heroic Age Chaos · Traitor · Hesperides Mythic Age Tartarian Gate · Vortex · Implode Chinese Archaic Age Year of the Goat · Recreation · Timber Harvest Classical Age Barrage · Great Journey · Call to Arms Heroic Age Geyser · Uproot · Imperial Examination Mythic Age Great Flood · Inferno · Earth Dragon Other (except Campaign-exclusive) Mythic Age All civilizations: Titan Gate Cheat Chicken Storm · Goatunheim · Walking Berry Bushes Cut Bramble · Enrage · Rebellion · Shepherd · Sight · Snowstorm · Volcano