This week's winner was the Heka-Gigantes. And with their +150 HP boost from the patch it was no real surprise. Cost: 300 Gold, 25 Favour, 5 Pop spaces Special attack: Pounds ground which sends units flying, causing additional damage. No specific upgrades available. So in general, quite a tough unit. Slow with low armour and a high cost, but nice HP and damage. For a basic test to see how good the unit is, I start with a battle vs a Hoplite. NOTE: All human and hero units used in the tests have Medium upgrades, Heavy upgrades, Champion upgrades, Copper armoury upgrades Bronze armoury upgrades and Iron armoury upgrades. All buildings have the Masons and Architects upgrades. MU upgrades and other upgrades will be stated. Hoplite stats: Heka-Gigantes does approximately 28 damage to Hoplite per hit Heka-Gigantes kills Hoplite in 6 seconds with 804HP left. Interestingly, the Heka-Gigantes does more than its base hack attack to the Hoplite each hit. Even with the crush attack, the attack is very high, especially considering the Hoplit's high armour. From what I could see, it looks the Heka-G attacks twice per hit, because as the Hoplite's HP goes down, it jerks suddenly. Normally, when attacked, the HP would just drop in one go. From this, I have come to the following conclusion: This makes it an extremely powerful unit. 50 Hack damage and 60 Crush damage is a hell of a lot! It even manages to beat 5 Hoplites, although only just with 9 HP left. But with all that crush attack, how do they do against buildings? House stats: Heka-Gigantes does 96 damage to house per hit Heka-Gigantes destroys house in 5 seconds. Very impressive, 5 seconds is no time at all, and even with 2 building improvements the house falls extremely quickly. But how about bigger buildings? Palace stats: Palace is destroyed in 10 seconds. I was amazed at the speed in which the Heka-G's took down the Palace. Taking this experiment further, I wanted to check if they really were the "best seige myth unit". Are they better then Scarabs and Behemoths, units directly for seige? NOTE: All of these MUs cost 5 pop spaces, total of 15 pop spaces are used. 3 Heka-Gigantes destroy Palace in It's official, the Heka-Gigantes is the Following this I wanted to see if the Heka-G's are the best seige unit over all in the game. The Heka-Gigantes destroy the palace faster than: The only non-myth units that destroy the Palace faster than the Heka-Gigantes are Sekhmet's Catapults and Seige Towers and Baldr's Portable Rams with all available upgrades. Very intersting indeed. This makes me wonder why people whould choose Rheia for her Behemoths when they could go Helios and get Heka-Gigantes+Strong Fire Siphons. Heka-Gigantes seem to be the perfect Myth Units for Kronos, because they are cheaper, and since he gets cheaper seige as well, Helios seems a very wise choice if you're against a building spammer. Anyway, now for the fun bit: The special attack. This is what I have found out through many tests: Seige weapons Being able to fling heroes backwards is very useful, and the Heka-Gigantes special attack is one of the most useful in the game. Microing the Heka-Gigantes to use it's special on the right units can have devastating effects for your opponent. The Heka-Gigantes defeats all human units one on one, including Jarls and Atlantean Heroes. They can defeat Mythic Priests and Hersir, but lose to Mythic Pharoahs and all Greek Heroes. The Heka-Gigantes wins one on one against the following Mythic MUs: The Heka-Gigantes loses one on one to the following Mythic MUs: Heka-Gigantes are affected by: The Heka-Gigantes is a The only real "brute" myth unit the Atlanteans get, the Heka-Gigantes is a very impressive and powerful unit. When used right, they can cause a hell of a lot of damage to units and buildings alike. Its only real cons are it's very slow speed, and very poor armour, making it easy for ranged units to get at it. Although expensive, they are well worth it. Just make sure you're not spending that amount of gold on a unit that will be taken down by the 10+ priests or the Perseus just out of your LOS. Keep them away from heroes and Compared to the Colossus, the Heka-Gigantes wins on all levels apart from the HP. The Heka-Gigantes is certainly up there with the best Myth Units, and I hope to see lots more of them. They may be ugly, but they sure are powerful. I know lots of people like that Creator of the Egyptian Myth Unit Guides - Phoenix, Wadjet, Scorpion Man, Scarab [This message has been edited by ArtemisChimera (edited 02-14-2004 @ 11:26 AM).]
They may not be the most attractive myth unit in the game, but just how good are they?
HP: 850
Speed: 3.30
Hack armour: 44%
Pierce armour: 44%
Crush damage: 30
Hack damage: 25
All attack rates are tested per hit, not second. This is fine as the Heka-Gigantes attacks every second.
The Heka-Gigantes special attack has been invoked on a greek villager behind the Heka-Gigantes each time so it does not affect the results of the battle.
HP: 166
Speed: 4.70
Hack armour: 52%
Pierce armour: 38%
Hack damage: 12
Hoplite does approximately 9 damage to Heka-Gigantes per hit
Because the Heka-Gigantes has 4 arms, it means
HP: 495
Crush armour: 14%
Hack armour: 30%
Pierce armour: 95%
HP: 2600
Crush armour: 14%
Hack armour: 30%
Pierce armour: 95%
Pierce damage: 12
Range: 20
3 Scarabs destroy Palace in
3 Behemoths destroy Palace in
3 Collosi destroy Palace in
3 Mountain Giants destroy Palace in
5 unupgraded Catapults
5 unupgraded Seige towers
3 fully upgraded Heliopoli
5 unupgraded Portable Rams
5 fully upgraded Petroboli
5 fully upgraded Destroyers
3 fully upgraded Fire Siphons
Hersir
Priests
Pharoahs (including Son of Osiris)
Atlantean Heroes
Destroyers
Water units
Flying units
All other Myth Units apart from those mentioned before
Medusa Stone Gaze
Perseus Stone Gaze
Mummy's Minion Change
Argus' Toxic Acid
Lampades' Chaos
Promethean
Caladria
Servant
Carnivora
Automaton
Nereid
Behemoth
Dryad
Argus
Man-O-War
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Rating - 1662
Favourite Major Gods - Isis, Gaia, Hades, Loki
And the Atlantean Myth Unit Guides: Stymphalian Bird, Satyr, Lampades Heka-Gigantes, Man O'War