NoFx_Bruntino
Mortal
posted 04 March 2003 08:03 PM EDT (US)
when using ra, is it better to use hathor or sekhmet? in heroic, i tend to become very militant, but do not rely a lot on siege. i don't know whether the petsuchos, or scarab would help me the most, or which upgrades would help the most.
any good insight is welcome.
God of War
Mortal
posted 04 March 2003 11:37 PM
EDT (US)
7 / 16
I choose Sekhmet exclusively. He's the siege beast. Actually the thing I love the most is that you can end the game very quickly with him if you get a good forward base going in classical you can build a couple scarabs and ravage his base with Classic units and scarabs. And I find Hathor's techs much less useful overall. The only thing Hathor gets that I really like is the roc. If you've never used a scarab, build a couple, keep them protected from heroes and watch them go to town.
God of War
Mortal
posted 05 March 2003 09:11 AM
EDT (US)
9 / 16
Sadly... I'm a moron. Scarface has quite rightly pointed out my stupidity. The saddest part of the whole thing is that just the other day, I was thinking, "Wow, this chick has a hot body, too bad it looks like she would eat me." And then I post "He" I would normally just edit my post, but you already busted me, so I must leave it up now. Anyhow, I played last night and beat a greek player into the Heroic by a minute. One Scarab, and a ton of Axemen and Spears and he was done. I wiped out his 15 or so hips and his small force of toxotes and then he just couldn't get enough out to stop that scarab. Damn I love those things!!! -- Best Heroic siege in the game and second best overall siege after the colossus.
DaMijit
Mortal
(id: tobymac)
posted 05 March 2003 10:33 AM
EDT (US)
10 / 16
you are forgetting Mountain Giant. I personaly don't like collosus for seige
Avenger_
Mortal
posted 05 March 2003 01:32 PM
EDT (US)
11 / 16
If u still have u r rain GP and waiting fro heroic farm upgrade go hetor and use locust b4 rain. Other vise hetor is useles because hes has been killed by ES because all of her other tec benefit what has been nerfd so. Only usefull would be sun dried mudd brick. that sucks to for its prise.
Liquid Snake
Mortal
posted 06 March 2003 06:37 PM
EDT (US)
12 / 16
Some people prefer the Scarabs, but I personally think that there isn't a more useful MU in the game then RoC, I was watching a game with two 1950+ players and one was norse, one was Ra, Ra did an FH while norse was raiding, and then after he hit Heroic the Norse backed down and walled him in. No problem. RoC transported his entire army over the walls in an instant. What a waste of Norse Resources.
Battle Boar
Mortal
posted 07 March 2003 08:16 AM
EDT (US)
14 / 16
Sekhmet. I use chariots. And Hathor's Roc + siege is "cheap"!
goodbaby
Mortal
posted 07 March 2003 05:28 PM
EDT (US)
15 / 16
I prefer sekhmet now.Although crocdile is cool,I find I seldom have that much favor to spare.And gold is always short for egypt.
I thought locust warm was pretty strong before,but now...
Greek and norse player places farm everywhere.You can only do that effectively to egypt player but to isis,you dont have the chance.There are very few players play ra now and when Ra meet a Set,it's really hard to get up to heroic age.
Roc+Siege seems not a good strategy now.I wont call it cheap,but it's hard to implement.Roc is nerfed a lot.You can not do hit,load fly now.If you load a lot sieges in a roc,the resource and pop will affect a lot on your real army.If only 2 sieges,they are easily killed by vills,mencenary.Mostly you killed a TC,lost several sieges,which is not a good deal on economic,not mention a lot of micro involved.
Master_Blaster
Mortal
posted 08 March 2003 02:32 PM
EDT (US)
16 / 16
Really depends on what my opponent is doing. I really love 'laser crocs'. Locust swarm I find very useful as I generally save rain until later in the game. When I go that path I like to locust swarm in early heroic and then rain which gives me the food to jump straight to mythic. Then the mythic catapults with the petsuchos and some army backing them up can take out enemies pretty darn fast. I do however take Sekhmet sometimes, I'm not a big fan of scarabs but the sekhmet military techs really are nice and citadel is highly underrated... 10 pop = 10 more villagers which means 10-20% better econ than my opponent given the same number of settlements.