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"Tower that fires a focused ray of sunlight."
In-game description
The Mirror Tower is a defensive structure featured in Age of Mythology: The Titans, as a building for the Atlanteans. To be able to build it, the player must advance to the Mythic Age with Helios. They seemingly use reflected sunlight on mirrors to cause damage.
The Mirror Tower does extra damage to ships (due to their largely wooden aspect) (and also against flying units before Retold). They do not count towards the max number of normal towers available to build (20), but have a build limit of their own (5).
Mythology
"Mirror Towers are available to the Atlantean Titans Kronos and Oranos through Helios, Titan of the Sun. The towers use mirrors to focus sunlight into a burning beam that is especially strong against ships. Archimedes of Syracuse is credited in legend with the invention of large, hexagonal mirrors mounted in towers to burn invading Roman ships to ash. There is some evidence that these towers were copied from similar towers that defended the harbors of Atlantis. Atlantean mirror towers used highly polished orichalkos mirrors which could focus beams much further and hotter than the mirrors of Syracuse."
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Trivia
- Despite the story section describing the Mirror Towers of Atlantis could fire beams of sunlight further and hotter than the ones from Syracuse, the series does not attest to this, since the other variation can outrange and kill most units in one shot.
- This is most likely for gameplay and story segregation, as having a high damage, long-range building would be overpowered. It should also be noted that the variant from Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome is exclusive to scenarios and is not buildable, unlike the Atlantean variation.
- Originally, the Atlanteans were considered to have access to the Ballista Tower, but it was removed before any art assets could be made. The Mirror Tower is possibly a replacement for this idea.
- Unlike regular towers, Mirror Towers can be made to move if given movement speed using the editor.
- The model of the Mirror Tower in the beta version of The Titans used for marketing was much slimmer.
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