posted 20 August 2004 04:32 PM EDT (US)
When the map is loading and the green bar is halfway or done it is a good idea to.. Click "h" on your keyboard ( default for towncenter - if ur tc is a diff button then press that button ) and then click "v" ( villager - if it is different then press the vill button ) 5 times. This helps u get a jump start so when the map loads you are already training villagers and u can look around for food. It saves time... When the map loads you have to send your vills most likely to a food source ( unless your thor and you have duarves ). Different food sources have different gathering rates. Huntables such as elk or animals that you shoot with the bow n arrow allow u to get food the fastest. The second fastest is chickens/berries. The third fastest is sheep/goat/cow. The fourth fastest is farming. Go to the huntables first and don't be afriad to move your vills from foraging if u spotted huntables. Also when the map has lots of hunting get hunting dogs asap and if it has not much hunting get husbandry. You almost always want to start by sending 7 vills to food if hunting and 8 if foraging. Then you can either send your next 3 vills to gold or wood. You have to decide depending on what you are gonna do. If you are possy and want to mass hippokins then you might as well send ur next few vills to gold and if you are hades then you should send your next vills to wood. Also.. I forgot to mention. If you are massing hoplites in classical then you should send lots of vills to food in the beginnign ( possibly 9 ) This is the same for other gods. Send the amount of vills to the resource depending on your plan. You also may want to send more vills to the resource than you usually do depending on your plan. Okay. I have seen this too much and it has got to be stopped. Your tc idle for even a second can lose you the game in the end. Never have ur tc idle in archaic. Don't have 4 vills on wood and 2 vills on gold and 18 vills on food when you advance.. It's just stupid... Balance where your vills are in archaic. When I advance when I am m fav god ( thor ) I have 5 duarves on gold. 2 duarves and 4 vills on wood and 7 vills on food. Sometimes I see people wondering what god to pick for over 10 seconds.. Have your god chosen. I know sometimes you have to pick different gods depending on the god your facing. I like to pick Forseti when facing atties because they have about 7 mus when they attack you and hall of thanes help your hersirs. Ahhh!!! In archaic this is awful.. Being popped means you are like 15/15 or like 25/25. In archaic this could possibly lose the game. When it says 15/15 blinking red and you start building a house then which takes 10 seconds it could take 20 seconds off your advance time if being popped twice or once for a while. Build your houses when you are like 12/15. hm.. Keys. The should be hot by the time you reach classical. My reason why they are called hotkeys. They were pressed so much that they are hot. lol.. Anyways. Use them a lot in archaic. You know why? Scrolling takes seconds. You don't have that kind of time. Even clicking on the minimaps makes you scroll to the minimap. Get familerized with your hotkeys. Mine are default but I know them all to shave off my advance time. Instead of scrolling to my tc I can just press "h". Instead of clicking the house button I can just click "e". get familerized with your hotkeys and use them often. I decided to replace Part 9 with what to do in water maps. Water maps are different than land and must be treated different. U should immedialtly build a dock with one vill or ulf. On this map you should have a vills on food but on wood too. I'm not really good at one bos so I can't give much info but you want to have enuf wood for boats and enuf food for vills. Watch some expert recorded games and copy down their build orders. I have seen many loki and odin noobs only using duarves and/or sending duarves to food or wood and not using them wisely.. Remember. For Loki and Odin you should send duarves to gold and villagers to food and wood. - - - - - - - - So ends my guide. Remember that the archaic age is the most important and if you do bad in it you will do bad in the game and if you do good in it you will do good in it [This message has been edited by Mythical_King (edited 08-20-2004 @ 07:51 PM).]
good job on ur guide, i learned a few stuff (i'm new).
