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INTRODUCTION
Finally a good guide for beginner players. The guide is simple and contains only some basic tactics.
This game is all about strategy in real time. You must be smart and be fast at the same time not to mention that you must know the game features inside out. You must know everything about the Norse, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Atlanteans.
GREEKS
These are one of the most powerful in the entire game. They have the strongest Fort, they have the strongest unit and they have the fastest generators. They don’t have any big weakness except maybe the counter units which are not good at all but it doesn’t matter that much because your normal units can take care of the job. The hoplite is one of the most powerful and expensive units of this type and since it costs only two population you can have dozens.
The Greek biggest disadvantage is the lack of heroes. You can only have three or four trained in the Fort. They are very strong but not enough heroes to be successful cleaning a Titan for example. If this was not a big threat they would probably be the best civilization in the game.
STRATEGY
The Greeks are the best all round players. You should attack with them while building Forts for defence and high pierce damage. Hoplite can wipeout every horse and siege weapon while making reasonable damage to buildings. If you encounter archers or anti-infantry units or myth units you have always the forts backing you up. For myth units you must use the Colossus that has bonus damage.
Always be aggressive and attack when you can and when you can’t as well. If you play with Hades there is a change of your dead soldiers to return as shades to fight once more before they go to heaven definitely. These shades appear at the temple. It’s a great way to have more military power while costing you nothing. Combining this with archer of Hades this is the second best civilization to be played with!
EGYPTAINS
They are the most complex civilizations to be played with. They are made for defence with the best towers, walls and defensive buildings. Their units are among the strongest in the game too. They have a very long range, cheap and powerful Hero, the Priest that can heal your units after a ugly War. The Petsuchos Ra is probably the strongest long range unit in the entire game. It deals 50 damage per second! All that at distance. Keep these ones inside the walls with the priests while the War Elephant and the Camels fight outside. Isis is probably the best god in the game. It can create any unit the speed of light with the right minor gods. This means you can have an army always ready without delay.
STRATEGY
These ones were not made to attack. They work much better defending a Wonder for example. Never attack unless you have to conquer to win. Build a wall, protect that wall with a big army made of Elephants, Camels and Petsuchos. Priest can heal some but don’t over user them. Make room for more elephants instead.
NORSE
They were designed to be attackers. Their buildings are very weak and their towers do not have nor range nor attack power to be worth building. These people are nomads looking always for a better spot to be temporary there. Their main advantages are the way they generate favor, the way they build and of course the units they have. Favor is generated for every military action you do, every soldier you attack, every animal you kill and every building you smash. Very good to train new units and to inflict some psychological pain in your opponent mind. Finally their last advantage is the units they have. They are very cheap, they don’t too much space in the population number and they are the strongest ones and the fastest soldiers too. The Ulfsark can be trained by almost any building and instead of walking it runs making it a horse on foot.
STRATEGY
With these ones you have no option but to attack soon and often. If you are going for the wonder with these ones forget it as you are just going to lose. They are built to attack and kill not to defend. In the death match game, the most played one by the hard core players, you should build as many military buildings as you can so on battle you have always the highest number of soldiers. Why is this so important? There is one magic number called damage per second and the bigger your army is, the more damage per second you do and the faster you wipeout the enemy army. In the place where you want to focus your army, build around 5 barracks on each side making 10 in the total. It’s not too many trust me.
Such huge army is not cheap, actually it costs the eyes of your face just to build the initial army not to count all those soldiers you will have to replace. You should have always plenty of farmers working for you as well as mine diggers or gold diggers. Don’t waste your time with caravans. The miner can make more gold for you in the same period of time.
Don’t waste many resources building the Hill Fort. It’s not very effective
Atlanteans
They are somewhat interesting to play with. First of all you can turn all your units into heroes with just one click. This means you can have a huge army with even more force with one click not to mention you can regenerate them with the right God. The disadvantage is you can’t get enough favour even with many Town Centres.
STRATEGY
They are the only ones with a Titan that can regenerate itself. If you choose Gaia you can have both myth unit regeneration and building regeneration. Take a Titan with you plus the fanatic that is good against every unit plus myths when turned into hero. To counter the archers build that horse called Centaurs. The palace can give you extra power when defending or even when attacking. They are very easy to be played with and the third choice.
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