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Last updated on May 2nd, 2005GUIDE TO THE STRATEGY FORUM
Created By Theris 264
Reposted by FD2Searching for informationBefore posting a new thread in Strategy forum, first consult the Newbie Guide, and this article which gives more advanced information. And, also, read the FAQ.When you have consulted these, and do not have found an answer to your question or the help you wanted, please consult the guide at AoMH's Strategy section: it contains more specific articles on certain subjects, like a certain civilization.
If the information you seek cannot be found there either, please consult the list of strategy guides from the forum, which can be found at the end of this thread (use Ctrl+f to search for the subject you need information on).In case the information you are looking for cannot even be found there, then first try to search for threads that might have discussed the issue you want information on. For this, you can use the Search bar at the bottom of the page:Only when you have tried all above mentioned methods to find the information on your subject, and still haven't found (enough) information, consider making a new thread.
How to make a good threadWhen making a new thread, please consider that the better you explain your problem, the better you can be helped.
(some general guides at making threads at AoMH can be found here and here)Before starting your thread, consider a few things:
- Use proper spelling, and do not use 1337 (leet) spelling, curse words, abbreviations like "Omfg!" and the like. Also, try to use proper interpunction, and when your thread becomes lenghty, consider using alinea's.
All this will result that people are more likely to answer your question/help you with your problem.
- Explain your problem as detailed as possible: "When I play as an Atlantean, especially with Oranos, I never seem to know when to advance to classical Age, thus resulting in hitting classical with a very bad econmoy, or reaching it too late, which results in me being raided before I have an army" is obviously a lot better than: "I suck at playing Atties".
- Provide your ESO statistics (rating) and prefarably, upload a recorded game to AoMH's Recorded Games Section, so people can better examine what you are doing wrong.
Thus, a bad example of a thread is:
OMFG I suckzorz at playin' Atlanteans Could someone plz help me I suck soo badly at playin' tha freakin' Atties I always get beaten |-|31p |\/|3 plz!And a good one is:
Hello fellow AoM lovers!
After reading and searching trough all the strategy guides I still couldn't find an answer to my problem, so I decided to make this thread.
My problem is that I am not good at playing the Atlanteans (my former ESO rating (TT) was about 1690 (I played mainly Isis), but since I switched to playing Atlanteans for a change, my rating has dropped to about 1590-1620).
My main problem is (especially when playing Oranos), that I never seem to advance to the classical Age at the right time: I advance too early, and get beaten because I have a really bad economy, OR I advance too late, resulting in being raided before I even have an army.
Could anyone out there please help me or provide me with a build order for Oranos? Thank you.
(a recent recorded game can be provided upon request)
One last note to the so-called experienced players at this forum:
Do not answer questions when you are not completely sure about the answer, and only give strategical tips when you are a decent ESO player (rating well over 1700) (link)
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-----------------------------------------------------------LIST OF STRATEGY GUIDESPlease, if you think I left out an important guide, or should delete one, say so in a reply to this thread, or e-mail me (theris264@hotmail.com; subject: AoMHListStrat) and give clear arguments for your statement.Only proposals backed up with decent arguments will be taken into consideration
Guides to CivilizationsCivilization choosing
Comparison of the original Age of mythology cultures in eraly Archaic Age
Egyptian minor God choices
Egyptians
Gaia (1;2;3)
Gaia's agressive and fast Mythic age advancement strategy
Gaia (rushing)
Greek versus Norse
Hades(1;2)
Hades (on land maps)
Hathor (Heroic age minor God for Isis and Ra)
Hyperion (Heroic age minor God for Kronos and Oranos) (1;2)
Isis(1;2)
Isis'team strategy
Kronos' dock strategy
Kronos' rushing
Loki (1;2;3)
Loki on land maps
Norse (recovering from an attack)
Oceanus (Classical Age minor God for Gaia and Oranos)
Odin (1;2;3;4;5)
Odin (in comparison to Thor)
Odin's team strategy
Oranos (1;2)
Poseidon
Ra (1;2;3;4;5;6)
Ra's Isis-beating strategy
Ra's minor God choices
Rheia (Heroic age minor God for Gaia and Kronos)
Set
Set's animal stealing strategy
Set's mercenary vortex strategy
Thor (1;2;3)
Thor (minor God choosing)
Thor's dwarf strategy
Zeus (1;2)Guides to Human Units, Ships and Siege UnitsBallista
Comparison between all the cavalry units
Comparison between Thor's huskarls and jarls and Odin's huskarls and jarls
Comparison between toxotes and chariots
Egyptian Classical Age units
Hetairoi
Hoplite
Hoplite (as a Zeus player)
Myrmidon
Siege weapons
Ulfsark
Ulfsark (as an Odin player)
Ulfsark (upgrades)
War elephantGuides to Mythological Units, Hades' shades and TitansAnubite
Automaton
Avenger
Centaur
Centaur (as a Zeus player)
Chimera
Comparison of ranged mythological units' effectiveness versus Titan units
Cyclops
Dryad
Einherjar
Heka-gigantes
Hydra
Lampades
Man o'war
Manticore
Mummy
Nemean lion
Nereid
Petsuchos (1;2)
Phoenix (1;2)
Promethean
Satyr
Scarab (1;2)
Scorpion man
Shade
Shade countering
Stymphalian bird
Titan
Troll
Valkyrie
Wadjet
Water-based mythological unitsGuides to heroic unitsBellerophon
Hersir (as a Loki player) (1;2)
Son of OsirisGuides to God powersAtlantean Godpowers (1;2)
Atlantean Archaic Age Godpowers
Egyptian God powers
Greek Godpowers
Implode
Nidhogg
Norse Godpowers
Ragnarok
TraitorGuides to Buildings and the Norse Ox CartComparison of defensive structures
Egyptian buildings
Ox cartDeathmatch GuidesDeathmatch guide
General tips (for Deathmatches) (1;2)
Loki (in Deathmatches)
Loki (in Deathmatches)(as well as some general Deathmatch tips)
Odin (in Deathmatches)
Set (when fighting Norse)(in Deathmatches)
Zeus (in Deatmatches)(1;2)Guides to Multiplayer Maps and ScenariosAlfheim (1;2)
Anatolia (1;2;3)
Highland
Marsh
Oasis
Water maps (when to fight on the water and when not)Miscellaneous Guides10 Age of mythology commandments
1700 ESO-rating
1800 ESO-rating (1;2)
Basics of Age of mythology (1;2;3)
Beating Titans (as an Egyptian player)
Beginner improvement guide
Elevation
General strategy guide
Hints and tips to advance to the Classical age
Hotkeys (1;2)
Lush
Map control (1;2)
Medium upgrades
Microing tips (advanced)
Multiplayer Defense Tactics
Raiding (1;2)
Rushing
Sekhmet
Survival tactics
Team games
Teamless games
Time shifting
Undocumented unit attributes
Unit effectiveness at countering other units (1;2)
http://aom.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action=ct&f=11,21017,0,10]Various strategies[/url]Interesting discussion threads
Here are listed some threads, not guides, that are worth mentioning beause they adress interesting topics.Little known facts
Myrmidons
Analasis of early Thor economy
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the numerous strategy guide makers at this forum