this is looong im warning you.
its fun writing war stories before the game is out Heres another combo that could be awesome, but any combo could look awesome if you really feel like making it seem awesome.
Ra Zeus team vs Odin Poseidon team
Archaic age: Ra empowers TC, gets temple as soon as possible to get priests to empower more. Makes rings of obelisks with priests to make it hard to make a forward base.
Zeus gets a temple as soon as possible to get a pegasus to complement his katakaspos in scouting.
Both Ra and zeus gather as much wood/gold as they can while keeping steady flow of villies.
Odin gets a temple as soon as he can and uses ravens to scout like mad. His ulfsark builds and his villies gather.
Poseidon scouts also looking for a place where animal magnet will summon as many animals as possible.
Poseidon does animal magnet. As the animals gather, hunters pick off the predators and odin does great hunt once poseidon has a granary and odin has an oxcart nearby. They hunt to their hearts content.
As soon as Ra-zeus hears that the GPs have been used they build farms with as much wood as they have. Ra uses rain and the food comes flowing in, albeit not necesarilly as fast as the hunters. Poseidon and Odin weren't prepared and didn't have the wood to make large amounts of farms, but got a few.
Zeus starts to gather favor, enough to get a few minotaurs on classical. Ra builds the cheapest monument. Poseidon gathers favor as well with same # of villies as Zeus.
They hit classical:
Zeus chooses Athena
Ra chooses Ptah
Poseidon chooses hermes
Odin chooses Freyja
Zeus starts building minotaurs and hoplites.
Ra empwoers his barracks and temple starts building slingers, spearmen, and a few Wadjets to support Zeus's army. They mix so that they have some of each player defending each town.
Poseidon gets a stable and starts pumping hippikons, with a few centaurs mixed in. Poseidon makes a dock and starts exploring the seas.
Odin starts pumping TAs and Ulfsarks from longhouse, with valkryies.
They also mix so that there are an even amount of units guarding each town.
There are minor skirmishes but nothing major
Heroic age
Zeus chooses Dionysus
Ra chooses Sekhmet
Poseidon chooses Dionysus
Odin chooses Njord
Zeus continues making hoplites with a few hypasists and archers mixed in. He makes his heroes, Jason Odyseus and Heracles, and makes hydra with a few minotaurs. Makes a dock and uses scylla to defend his fishing boats.
Ra makes a midgol as fast as possible using empowering and starts making camels, chariots and elephants.
He makes a few scarabs so that Zeus doesn't need to make much in the way of siege weapons. makes a dock and fishes under protection of scylla
Poseidon keeps making Hippikons and adds some prodromos. He makes some archers along with his centaurs to protect his cavalry from spearmen and hoplites. He makes a few siege engines. He starts making hydras, but continues making centaurs. He makes a few scylla to defend his fish.
Odin gets a hillfort and starts making jarls, huskarls, and battering rams. He keeps making a few ulfsarks and TAs but not as much as before. He makes Mountain Giants, and krakens to defend fishing boats.
Mythic Age:
Zeus chooses Hera
Ra chooses Osiris
Poseidon chooses Artemis
Odin chooses Tyr
Zeus stops making archers, and starts making medusa. He makes more and more hoplites. He makes some more warships to keep his fishing safe.
Ra makes some mummies as well as more and more camels, chariot archers and elephants. He makes a few more Scarabs, to be ready. Finds an island in the sea and takes not of it.
Poseidon makes chimeras along with hippikons and siege engines.
Odin makes more Jarls, and gets a swarm of fenris wolves.
Time for bloodshed.
The armies march on each other at about the same time.
Ra's army clashes with Odins. Zeus's clashes with poseidons.
Ra shifting sands Odins army onto the island, and goes to aid Zeus in smashing poseidons army.
Poseidon uses the Bronze GP when he realizes what is happening. But his troops are still no match to the combined army
The spearmen and hoplites take out hippikons. Ra's pharaohs and priests use their attack bonus vs MUs to take out as many hydras and chimeras as possible as camels and chariot archers take out the centaurs. Minotaurs knock the infantry and foot archers around, medusas turn things to stone, and mummies convert units temporarily and the poseidon army falls.
Zeus uses restoration to heal the army as it attacks odins town.
Odin rushes transports to the island, but finds it guarded by warships and scyllas. Krakens, Scyllas, Warships, and the Argo rush to take the island. Eventually they get the troops off the island, and load troops onto transports as the transports are on the way, a zeus fishing boat manages to find them long enough to use bolt on one of the transports.
Ra-zeus army is already in Odin's town. The scarabs are shredding buildings all over, archers taking out villagers.
Odin's ravens manage to get LOS on Ra's town and Poseidon uses earthquake to weaken the buildings. As the earthquakes fade, Odin uses fimbulwinter and wolves begin to ravage the town. Ra uses Citadel and his TC becomes a citadel which manages to lessen the damage done by wolves.
Poseidon has no army, Odin has no town.
Ra-zeus moves towards poseidons town. Odin's army catches up to them. As Odin's army approaches, Zeus uses Lightning Storm to soften them up, and Ra uses Son of Osiris to make his pharaoh a son of osiris. A mummy converts a mountain giant and it kicks a huskarl away from the battlefield and smashes jarls with its clubs. etc etc etc, Odin's army is dead, and Poseidon can't resist much as the 2 armies crush its town.
See? There are other deadly combos...
And yes, I do have too much time on my hands... I need the alpha....
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