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Age of Mythology
I really need help. When I get to the first Egypt part, I always lose. Please help me, Games Guru!!!!!
Games Guru: I generally need more specifics before I can tell you what you are doing wrong. That being the case — and seeing that it has been five years since I have played this game — I will try to give you some general advice. (I am sure I will get some names wrong. As I say, it’s been five years.)
In Age of Mythology, you generally start with a town center, a few soldiers and a few workers. You may have food enough to create a few more workers or soldiers and maybe enough wood to construct a building or two. The trick to this game, and all real-time strategy games, is to get your society up and running quickly.
I once played the number two player in the world at Age of Empires. (If you are wondering, he crushed me in a matter of minutes. His trick? He could level up from Stone Age to Iron Age in 11 minutes.) I am not one of the world’s great RTS players, but I have seen some play.
So here we go. Say you have three workers and a soldier with enough food for two more workers or another soldier or two. Immediately set the town center to creating a new worker, then send your workers to gather food at the nearest source — generally berries.
When that new worker comes out, have him build a house, then start gathering more food. You need houses because the game will limit the size of your population until you have enough houses. Start the town center on your next worker. When he comes out, have him start gathering wood. By this time, your workers will have gathered enough food for another worker. Create him and send him out for food.
The goal is to have seven guys collecting food and three guys collecting wood so that you can build two buildings quickly and move up to the next age. Also, as you grow your population, be sure to build two more houses.
What two buildings should you go for? I generally like one military building and a granary. If wood is too far away or you find yourself hunting animals for food, a storage pit will work.
Once you reach the next age, it is time to build one or two workers whom you can send to explore the map. Send them on long trips to every corner of the map so that you can discover oases with food, gold and good fishing spots, as well as your enemies’ location.
In the meantime, as early as possible, you need to start developing your military as the second age. You will want archers and foot soldiers, but you also need to increase your work force. You need to expand into farming (meaning you will need a marketplace along with a granary) or fishing. Given a choice, I generally prefer fishing as my method of gathering food — assuming there are enough ties on the map to sustain a good fishing fleet.
You will want to build through to the next age quickly. During the second age, I generally like to have one worker assigned to constructing houses and other buildings, and 20 workers gathering food and wood. Because of the importance of the gods in this game, you will also want to start gathering gold in this age.
Do not neglect your military. Once you reach this age, build it up as well. If the workers you sent to explore the map locate your enemies, you might send packs of soldiers out to see if you can catch them off guard. Level up to the third age once you have the buildings, gold and food. Here you need to make decisions. Do you want to rely on military strength? Do you want heroes? Do you want to specialize in priests? You take over from here … and good luck.
Read 29 comments about “Age of Mythology”
March 29th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
TRY THIS CHEAT
CODE: O CANADA
IT GIVES YOU A LAZAR BEAR. IT DOES 4000 DAMAGE
March 19th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Where is mario in dis game? Me lookz everywerez.
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
BEST GAME EVER INVENTED!!!!!!
February 29th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
iv completed the campion esey
February 26th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
This is my favorite game EVER. Try these cheats: TINES OF POWER
BAWK BAWK BOOM
ISIS HEAR MY PLEA but don’t try the last one until you beat the campaign
February 16th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Here are some AoM cheats for more resources.
1.you start your game.
2.you press ENTER.
3.you type in the cheat in CAPS.
4.you press ENTER again.
CHEAT / EFFECT
JUNK FOOD NIGHT = 1000 more food
TROJAN HORSE FOR SALE = 1000 more wood
ATM OF EREBUS = 1000 more gold
MOUNT OLYMPUS = 1000 more favor
February 9th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
hey ppls its CYCLOPEFREAK32 back with info on the Expansion Pack. You now have a new civ under ur control, the Atlantians. For the new Campaign (which is MUCH shorter than the Fall of the Trident Campaign only 12 scenarios!) insted of being greek Atlantis is its own man worshiping the Titans Such as Kronos, Oranos, and Gaia. The Atlantians gain favor from controling Town Centers so they can build them from the start of the game. A new age is at ur disposial to, the Titan Age. After u advance to the Titan Age, you can use the titan gate god power. which allows the release of a TITAN! First you must task Villagers to unearth it. And after its done, Presto you got a Titan. But beware, your enemy can unleah titans to! Dont take this lightly! Destroy their Titan Gate by all means nessacary. So enjoy this awsome Expansion pack. Ciao!
February 9th, 2008 at 12:11 am
I always use differnet nickname for everything. On a comment for Age of Empires, my nickname is AOEIII.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 am
for the lightning-fast canadian bears, 1.Choose a level and god 2.press enter 3.type in “OCANADA”. i cant remember if theres a space between O and CANADA, so try it with and without it.
p.s., this cheat does not work in career mode and you MUST MUST MUST have a town center to do it.
January 29th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
use this cheat:PANDORAS BOX