I need some good strategys for poseidon, I dont have any skills withy him..well I know bonuses and stuff....but I dont really know how to use him...so any help would be great
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LiquidFire Mortal
posted 01 July 2004 06:51 PM
EDT (US)
1 / 4
hey screwball, i have few strategy's for him, but my best one is to place that lure (GP) next to your t/c right away!
lessthanjakeman9 Mortal
posted 01 July 2004 07:18 PM
EDT (US)
2 / 4
Fast heroic using ceasefire to stop rushes if needed. Then pump out hipps and promrodos and hypapists if needed. Get spirited charge and raid. Use bronze in a big battle to win it. Then attack your opponents base. Go to mythic as quickly as possible and use earthquake. Pump out some hetaroi and building raid. Then get a titan and finish them. Also make sure to building spam everywhere as you gain ground.
[This message has been edited by lessthanjakeman9 (edited 07-01-2004 @ 07:19 PM).]
ipso Mortal
posted 01 July 2004 07:52 PM
EDT (US)
3 / 4
vs non rushing civs on high food maps:
6 on food, 3 on wood 2 on gold 1 build a house then go to gold. use lure next to your tc or granery, and keep adding villies to food. build a temple with 2 villies at around 3 mins, try to up as soon as its built. get a few eco up's as you advance and when you hit classic make 3 stables with the praying villie and the next 2 villies from your tc. make hips from all 3 and carry on making houses as fast as you can with 2 villies. when you have 5-8 hips, go off and start raiding around 7 mins, earlier if possible. split groups up and carry on making hips.
when he has quite a large counter-cav army build 2 archery ranges and make around 10 toxotes. pull back your hips and make a few more so you have a smallish army of hips and tox. if he attacks, lead his counter cav with a few hips and send a few more over to his archers. if he doesnt attack, stop millitary production and get heroic asap. get some rax up and begin replacing whatever units he kills with counter units. get ranged seige, steal his tc, get mythic and keep momentum with your extra pop.
err... advance to classic at 5:30ish, build 3 stables and an archery range. If you can afford it, build 4 stables instead of 3 and also build armory. Research Medium cavalry and if you can, research weapons or armor and build hippikons from all of your stables. Don't build any toxotes yet. Use the first 4 hippikons to raid the opponent. As soon as the next batch of Hippikons are out, use them to raid too. Keep them in different groups. If you can't find enemy villagers, just attack random buildings, just keep him on the defensive. Make at least 3 groups of raiders and replace them whenever one dies. When they are raiding, watch out for the warning siren and retreat them as soon as they are under attack by enemy soldiers. Once in a while attack him with a full army of 4 parts hippikon, 1 part toxote. Use the hippikons to target buildings and archers and use the toxotes to target enemy cavalry counters. Build your forward base next to the enemy base. If the enemy attacks your forward, you'll get free militia to help defend it. Soon you'll wear him out and he'll be dead. If you seem to be winning, but can't finish him off, go heroic for siege and whipe him off the map, meanwhile build a market and build a crapload of caravans. If I remember correctly, they are cheaper or get a bonus. If you still can't kill him then you are lame go mythic and use hetarois to raid undefended enemy buildings.
[This message has been edited by Mjolnir_ (edited 07-01-2004 @ 08:26 PM).]