Age of Mythology Walk Through

Cultures

• Each culture in the game has its differences as far as what you'd start with and how you can build favor and heroes. The Greeks start with three villagers, a scout and some towers around their Town Center. The three major Greek gods each have their own heroes, which you can get from the town center once you build a temple, and favor is gained in a controlled way by the number of villagers worshipping at the temple. The Egyptians start with their only two heroes--the Pharaoh and priest--along with three villagers and several towers. They gain favor easily by building monuments. The Norse begin with an Ulfsark, ox cart, and two dwarves or gatherers. The Hersir is their only hero, and they gain favor only from combat.

Age Advancement

• When you start at the Arcane Age, quickly start exploring with either a Greek cavalry unit, the Egyptian Priest or a secondary Norse Ulfsark unit. Have one of your units begin building a temple and houses while all your other villagers search for food in bushes and both hunted and herded animals. Don't spend resources on farms and walls yet; attacking the enemy with your army is the best way to keep them out.

  Your only requirement for advancing to the Classical Age is 400 food. Once there, focus your production on food and gold while producing some wood as well. You also need to build an armory. To start building favor, place a Greek villager at the start of this age or start building monuments for the Egyptians near the end.

  You'll advance to the Heroic Age with the Armory, 800 food and 500 gold. You'll begin building an army in this age, building a unit each that can fight against infantry, cavalry and archers. Get every hero you can if you are Greek. Once you have a couple of siege engines, you can begin attacking the enemy, staying on the offensive to keep the fight out of your town. At the same time, build a reserve army and a Market and start investing in Tech.

  Once you have 1000 food and gold and a Market, you advance to the Mythical Age. At this point look to develop every Tech that can help you pull in the resources you need faster. Caravans running between the Market and Town Center are very useful.

Battle Tactics

• When fighting the enemy in battle, fight their infantry with your archers, cavalry with infantry and archers with cavalry. When you attack the enemy city, attack the villagers with archers, the houses, lumber yards, granaries and mines with infantry and the towers and town centers with siege units.