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| title = Sarissa
| title = Criosphinx
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| content2 = [[Egyptians]]
| content3 = Athena
| content3 = [[Bast]]
| content4 = Classical Age
| content4 = [[Classical Age]]


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| section2 = Research
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| content5 = [[Temple]]
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| content6 = [[Hieracosphinx]]
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{{Quote|Athena’s technology extends the range of Hoplite attacks, and enables them to inflict more damage.|In-game description}}
{{Quote|Bast upgrades Sphinxes to Criosphinxes, with more hitpoints and attack.|In-game description}}


Sarissa is a [[Greeks|Greek]] myth technology in that is available to worshipers of [[Athena]] and can be researched at the [[Military Academy]] or [[Armory]]. Once researched, it increases [[Hoplite]]s attack and range.
Criosphinx is an [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] myth technology that is available to worshipers of [[Bast]] and can be researched at the [[Temple]]. Once researched, it upgrades [[Sphinx]]es to the Criosphinxes. [[Hieracosphinx]] is the further upgrade of this technology.


==Effects==
==Effects==
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! Affects !! Effect
! Affects !! Effect
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| [[File:grk-h-hoplite.png|40px]] [[Hoplite]]|| +10% hack attack and +1 range.
| [[File:egp-m-sphinx.webp|40px]] [[Sphinx]] || Upgraded to Criosphinx:</br> +20% hit points (+60 in practice), and +20% hack and +50% crush attack.
|}
|}



==Technologies==
==Relic Bonuses==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! Name!! God !! Description
! Name!! Description
|-
|-
| [[File:grk-t-forge-of-olympus.png|40px]] [[Forge of Olympus]] || [[Hephaestus]] || Costs -60% wood
| [[File:shared-r-tools.webp|40px]] [[Gambanteinn, Odin's Wand]]|| -25% cost except favor
|}
|}


==Mythology==
==History==
{{Quote|The ram-headed Criosphinx was a guardian of sacred Egyptian sites. The Temple at Karnak was once connected to Luxor and the Nile by the Avenue of the Sphinx – a road flanked by dozens upon dozens of the implacable riddle keepers.
{{Quote|Although often referred to as the goddess of wisdom, Athena's realm more accurately extended to technology, and the development of the sarissa qualifies as one of the greatest achievements in military technology. While Greek infantry used 8-10' long spears for centuries, Alexander the Great refined its use for the Greek phalanx, creating a 16-20' long, two-handed pike called a sarissa. Macedonian phalanxes armed with sarissas dominated Mediterranean warfare until the rise of Rome.|In-game compendium}}

"And yet the riddle was not to be solved by guess-work but required the prophet's art; wherein thou wast found lacking; neither birds nor sign from heaven helped thee, but I came, the simple Oedipus; I stopped her mouth by mother wit, untaught of auguries."

-- Oedipus, Oedipus Rex|In-game compendium}}


==Myth Tech==
==Myth Tech==

Latest revision as of 01:23, 6 November 2024

Quick Facts:
Criosphinx
Egyptian
Criosphinx
Availability
Civilization
God
Research
Researched At
Required For
Wood
150
Favor
5
Research Time
40 seconds

"Bast upgrades Sphinxes to Criosphinxes, with more hitpoints and attack."
In-game description

Criosphinx is an Egyptian myth technology that is available to worshipers of Bast and can be researched at the Temple. Once researched, it upgrades Sphinxes to the Criosphinxes. Hieracosphinx is the further upgrade of this technology.

Effects

Affects Effect
Sphinx Upgraded to Criosphinx:
+20% hit points (+60 in practice), and +20% hack and +50% crush attack.


Relic Bonuses

Name Description
Gambanteinn, Odin's Wand -25% cost except favor

History

"The ram-headed Criosphinx was a guardian of sacred Egyptian sites. The Temple at Karnak was once connected to Luxor and the Nile by the Avenue of the Sphinx – a road flanked by dozens upon dozens of the implacable riddle keepers.

"And yet the riddle was not to be solved by guess-work but required the prophet's art; wherein thou wast found lacking; neither birds nor sign from heaven helped thee, but I came, the simple Oedipus; I stopped her mouth by mother wit, untaught of auguries."

-- Oedipus, Oedipus Rex"
In-game compendium

Myth Tech


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