Greetings from Greece

By Nemanja Isailovic
Published 8/26/10, orig 1/18/09

STARTING AGE: Heroic
AGE LIMIT: Heroic
GOD CHOICES: N/A

MAP LAYOUT: You have no way of building more Villagers, but there are eight Plenty Vaults on the map. There are also several Statues of General Melagius which each give some bonus when destroyed. See the walkthrough for details.

WALLS: Tons, see the walkthrough.

WALKTHROUGH: Start building a Temple, two Barracks and Palace by the Sky Passage, with the Palace furthest N to help in defense. Send Kastor SE to take control of the undefended Plenty Vault and send your Murmillos E to destroy the Statue of Melagius in the fishing village. You’ll get control of a Market, two Docks and two Fishing Ships. Get the ships to fishing and return your military to defend your buildings. No need to kill the Villagers.

You’ll get two more Villagers among your reinforcements. Send one wall off the N end of the fishing village, then put them all on resources as needs dictate. Get upgrades (particularly Stone Wall and Medium and Heavy Infantry) when possible, but focus on defense first. You’ll be short on lumber for a long time, so don’t rush to Manors. After the first attack, go NE and destroy the Statue of Melagius. You get five Sentinels there, but they’re pretty weak, so put a Wall NE of them. You’ll also need to counter a small attack immediately. At some point (not sure what the trigger is), a large attack may come from the E. The Wall will stall it until you can respond.

Now sit back and build up an army of around 30 fully upgraded Murmillos and 10 fully upgraded Arcuses. Lumber is extremely rare for now, so forget about Satyrs. Also choose one Villager as your builder and upgrade him to Hero so he’ll build faster. Get Heart of the Titans and Heroic Renewal and start turning wounded Murmillos into Heroes to let them regenerate. Not only are they a little tougher, but many MU’s do reduced damage to Heroes.

After an attack, head N with your army and stop just SW of the Plenty Vault, but don’t take it. Wall off the pass to the W and build a Sky Passage, then rally your military buildings to the Sky Passage at home. This is how you’ll get reinforcements to the front. Once you take this Plenty Vault, the attacks get much larger, which is why you should get the Sky Passage up before you take it. This battle is also a good time to use a Shockwave God Power. You’ll get a flying healer MU called a Caladria at some point. Protect her: you only get one.

You’ll hold here for a while, since you’ve probably mined out your gold and are depending on the Plenty Vaults at this point. Pull wounded Heroes out of combat to save on costs, and you should be able to hold here indefinitely. Also, wall around the entire N side of the Plenty Vault, but leave a gap for their attackers. This will prevent them from retaking it every single time they attack, and it’s safer than holding to the N of the Vault.

At this point, you’ve basically secured victory, but there’s still a whole map to explore. Explore as little or as much of it as you want, then keep inching N and building Walls to funnel their attacks and Sky Passages to reinforce your army.

When you’re ready to finish, take the Plenty Vault NW of General Melagius and hold here. Their attacks will be minimal at this point. Now build to capacity an army of your choosing, but include 30 Arcuses to focus fire on the General. Remember that upgrading a unit to a Hero increases its use of population spots by one, so build to capacity before upgrading. You don’t have to upgrade everyone (it’s tedious to wait for the Favor to accumulate), so just charge in when you have plenty of Heroes. Enemy reinforcements will appear when you engage the General, so keep your Arcuses focused on him.

On to Titans mission 4

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