Yeah but if your Ra..u got Rain..which will give u enough food to flood more spears then the Atlantean player can keep up with...furthermore spears are the FASTEST trained unit in the game...Cherios cost 4 pop..spears cost 2 pop..Turma's die horrable to Spearmen plus spearmen do damge bonus to siege weapons(Cherio)..and as Ra with Rain..u can flood so mnay spearmen there is no way u can keep up...as Ra i sugest using Pharoah/Preist to empower your Barracks..the units come out at an incredabe Rate..why shy away from what egypt is good at..and that is flooding CHEAP units..Eggy always loses more units then their opponents..but still wins because he is spamming on the offensive..i see no prob..go spears+Slingers+sphinx+Preist and u should be okay..making Sphinx and really push the issue and force him to waste his valor spells while your Spears+slingers Rape his Turma Hero's once he is out of Valors..it becomes Really Expensive for Atlanteans to counter myth units
Once in Heroic..just contine what is working..if he starts making Murmillo's u can do 1 of 2 things
1.Start Making Axemen
2.Advance through Sekhemut and Research"Slings of the Sun" with Slings of the Sun Eggy Slingers become like Greek toxtoes that also counter archers..Slings of the Sun give Slingers 30% bonus damge to ALL infantry incudling ulfs,hops,murmillo,fanatic,any infantry for that matter thus u won't have to change your spear meatshield..don't make camels against murmillo's or katapeltes..they cost too much to die the way they will.
migdol units are only good against other eggy civs..norse counter migdol units too easy, with Greek it's even worse Prodromos OWN camels, and atlantean katapeltes will kill your camels quick camels are not the answer. i don't belive in the math logic behind migdol units..and what u get out of the unit relationship..Camels cost 3 pop..50 food and 70 gold..the spearmen cost 2 pop..and 50 food and only 20 gold..u get more for what u pay for in Barracks units then u do Migdol units..if Egypt got from the Migdol a real punch unit like the Jarl...i may be tempted to use it even if it wasn't as effectivemath wise but this isn't the case..think about it..cost u 400 gold and 10 favor just to build the building to make camels from..where as a Barracks only cost 75 gold..u cna make more of them..thus produce from more buildings at the same time..migdol dependacy is bad...and very fragile..now the Chariot Archer is an okay support units and good raiding units..their okay to supplment a few with your rax army..but don't go all out on them
eggy is a civ that shines from mid classical to mid heroic..why shy away from what works against atlanteans that is flooding rax units, pumping siege and mercs..always have enough on gold to spam Mercenarys..take that forward TC with your army..lay down a migdol for defense to fortify and 3 or 4 more raxes and a siege workshop..atlantean siege stinks..so why not solidfy that point..siege towers will definitly draw alot of their units attention while your rax army kills their units too busy beating on your siege towers..put your siege camp on auto-que and spamm those siege towers..and spam those mercenarys too..Army+Siege towers+Mercs=Opponents worst nightmare..
also don't forget to build migdols bye your goldmines before u start mining to secure them from raiding..i win games when i migdol my gold..i lose games when i don't
[This message has been edited by IAmRa (edited 10-18-2003 @ 07:45 PM).]