Just wanted to go over some Poseidon stuff and see what you guys think.
So the Egyptians and Norse all have some sort of economy/vision based starting god power. Zeus and Hades are of course both extremely powerful and dangerous gods and their economies are both without lure.
Lure provides a reliable 1000 food. I personally wait until my initial food source is exhausted. I then either pop lure at my second hunting source if I'm going aggressive or between my TC/granary if I'm going defensive.
My point is Poseidon has a more reliable and thus more powerful economy with this lure ability.
Zeus fast mythics are used and for good reason. Myrmidon/siege weapon/collosus/hero spam is pretty unstoppable. Now let's discuss what a Poseidon fast Mythic would look like. Poseidon has the lure to get through his most vulnerable phase: Archaic to Heroic. Once in heroic, you just need 300 wood for a market and then you can make use of Poseidon's cheaper market trade to get exactly what you need to advance to mythic. Furthermore, Poseidon is capable of following Aphrodite, thus being able to use her Curse and a few heroes/towers to basically negate your enemy's classic army. Furthermore Poseidon may not be able to get more total favor(which is usually useless), and he may not start with favor like Zeus, but he can get favor faster through Aphrodite's favor bonus.
We're all familiar with the Hades building spam yes? Now imagine a free army spawning from those buildings. I play aggressively with hippikon rushes often and I have a harder time taking down a Poseidon's base. Every building gives him a lesser hoplite which is massive when every unit counts. Also let's note that his stables are 85 wood, which is a very cheap price for a such a large greek building.
Now that we're lategame, wrapping up why we followed Poseidon in the first place: Lure for an easier and more reliable economy, cheaper stables for free militia guards, cheaper market trade for faster mythic age transition, faster favor for collosus spam and curse to negate a part of their classic army. Also we don't have myrmadons but hippikons work very well too, that is our signature unit after all.
It's actually very effective. Furthermore there are branches of this strategy that should be noted. A poseidon fast heroic for a scylla spam on Mediterranean is a lot more viable with his lure power allowing you to eat 1000 hunt in addition to your chickens.
Let me know what you guys think, I'm sitting at 1800 elo right now.
So the Egyptians and Norse all have some sort of economy/vision based starting god power. Zeus and Hades are of course both extremely powerful and dangerous gods and their economies are both without lure.
Lure provides a reliable 1000 food. I personally wait until my initial food source is exhausted. I then either pop lure at my second hunting source if I'm going aggressive or between my TC/granary if I'm going defensive.
My point is Poseidon has a more reliable and thus more powerful economy with this lure ability.
Zeus fast mythics are used and for good reason. Myrmidon/siege weapon/collosus/hero spam is pretty unstoppable. Now let's discuss what a Poseidon fast Mythic would look like. Poseidon has the lure to get through his most vulnerable phase: Archaic to Heroic. Once in heroic, you just need 300 wood for a market and then you can make use of Poseidon's cheaper market trade to get exactly what you need to advance to mythic. Furthermore, Poseidon is capable of following Aphrodite, thus being able to use her Curse and a few heroes/towers to basically negate your enemy's classic army. Furthermore Poseidon may not be able to get more total favor(which is usually useless), and he may not start with favor like Zeus, but he can get favor faster through Aphrodite's favor bonus.
We're all familiar with the Hades building spam yes? Now imagine a free army spawning from those buildings. I play aggressively with hippikon rushes often and I have a harder time taking down a Poseidon's base. Every building gives him a lesser hoplite which is massive when every unit counts. Also let's note that his stables are 85 wood, which is a very cheap price for a such a large greek building.
Now that we're lategame, wrapping up why we followed Poseidon in the first place: Lure for an easier and more reliable economy, cheaper stables for free militia guards, cheaper market trade for faster mythic age transition, faster favor for collosus spam and curse to negate a part of their classic army. Also we don't have myrmadons but hippikons work very well too, that is our signature unit after all.
It's actually very effective. Furthermore there are branches of this strategy that should be noted. A poseidon fast heroic for a scylla spam on Mediterranean is a lot more viable with his lure power allowing you to eat 1000 hunt in addition to your chickens.
Let me know what you guys think, I'm sitting at 1800 elo right now.
[This message has been edited by Nikita23 (edited 12-15-2015 @ 01:20 PM).]