Rampage

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

STARTING AGE: Heroic
AGE LIMIT: Mythic
GOD CHOICES: It really doesn’t matter.

MAP LAYOUT: A free Settlement for your TC is in the E corner. The enemy crushes the two towns along the NW edge of the map then builds over them. Four more towns are on the Titan’s winding path to your base. Plenty of resources are in your base. Passes into your base are to the far NW and to the SW. Two relics are in the E corner (trickle of gold) and in the S corner (infantry do more damage to Titans: cute).

WALLS: Wall off the pass where your forces start to block entrance into your base from the NW.

WALKTHROUGH: The Titan will rampage to the N corner, then to the NE middle, then to the SW middle, then to the S corner and finally to your base in the E corner. Folstag calls to the Nidhogg, which takes its sweet time in getting here. Folstag also has the special ability to freeze the Titan for a very long time, but the recharge time is approximately double the freeze time. So you can keep the Titan frozen for half the time. Unchallenged, the Titan will reach your base long before the Nidhogg does.

Head SE to the Settlement, walling off the NW pass on the way, then build a TC. The Norse traitors will send attacks against your base regardless of what the Titan is doing. They consist of a few Jarls and many Hersir and Throwing Axemen. You’ll periodically get one Frost Giant from each allied Settlement still standing, so all you need to do for defense is upgrade to and build Champion Throwing Axemen.

You have time to get your economy up and running while the Titan is taking down the first two towns, since several enemy units will be with him during these attacks. (Interesting note: Folstag’s breath does not freeze anyone but the Titan. Unpleasant discovery to make.) Place the Healing Spring at the pass where you’ll be doing the fighting and get up to max capacity with fully upgraded Champion Throwing Axemen.

Once the Titan is on its own in the NE corner of the map, do the following. Freeze him with Folstag, then attack him. Feel free to tend to your base at this point. When you hear the sound signifying that Folstag is being attacked, move him to the TC to the SW. By the time he gets there, his special ability will be recharged, so use it again and keep attacking. When the Titan unfreezes, walk back to the NE. The freezing of the Titan is a great time-waster, but so is getting him to follow Folstag across the map, and Folstag regenerates. If the Norse traitors find Folstag, run him through the NW pass into your base. No one will follow him through that.

When the Nidhogg arrives, pull Folstag back to your other forces. When the Titan gets there, freeze him and attack him with at least Folstag and the Nidhogg. Note that the Titan can’t attack the airborne Nidhogg, and the Nidhogg isn’t nearly as powerful as the Guardian in the previous mission, so you need Folstag’s freezing breath for this battle. The Titan tends to be surrounded by Norse traitors at this point, so use your army to slaughter them, then focus on the Titan. He should go down in no time.

On to Titans mission 10

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