Im a newer norse player.. usually using Odin. As far as the villager thing go.. i usually go with the standard 40ish. Im a big fan of the recycle button, and usually use it on my rax/tc's/hf's/ and sometimes temples. What I usually do is mass that big ass army starting at classical.. attacking and getting my population to max. While im rushing with this army im continuosly making.. i take over a few tc's and usually end up with pop cap of 160 or 180. By time i get that done, im in heroic, and ive upgreaded the tc's. I toss on recycle on all my tc's and start churning out villagers. My population max restricts how much stuff i can have.. so my barracks/hillforts are still turning out a army, but im also gaining villagers at the same time. My army gets smaller and smaller.. while my villager count gets bigger and bigger. (It's hard for enemy to tell if your army is getting smaller or not, because the big battle has already taken place, and your both just fighting with people fresh out of your rax by now)
Once the tide starts to turn in their favor.. and it will, because your army is smaller now.. then i usually stop pumping out military units and go all villagers. When im ready to hit ragnarok.. ive usually got about 100 or so villagers, plus a titan gate waiting to be laid down. If your set up semi defensively... you can lay down the titan gate, and work on it with rag heroes... while al so defending it with the rest of the rag heroes. Titan gate goes up very quickly with 100 rag heroes available to work on it. And then you go on to marching your merry way over whatever gets in the way. There are some bad things about this strat, but some really cool things as well =) Rag hero invasion + titan + skadi's freeze god power = gg....
Now, if I could get a Norse classical time under 6 minutes.. i'd be set...
Anyone want to help me out on ESO?? I used to play as eggy, but trying to broaden my horizons and could use some advice from exp. norse players. For one... getting to classical quicker.. and secondly with raiding. I dabbled with anub. raiding, but I was never too good at it =)
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