Hi guys, I like the gameplay of Isis. But I have a problem with era 2. Which troops should I make, because if I go against the Greeks and their hominotaurs it will be painful. So, in era 2 what should I do, before moving on to 3 and then having the elephant which is universal as a troop?
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Priests are very good against Mythic units and can heal your troops.
You should build a lot of them.
Egyptian Barracks units are weaker then the units of other civilisations so you need the priests to support them.
War Elephants also have weaknesses. You can’t just build one unit with any civilisation.
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Elephants are very good and well rounded unit, but they are expensive and slow, and most of the time useless until you get a mass of them.
For age 3, chariot archers and camels are better, depending on the situation, and both very strong.
For age 2 just mass priest if the enemy is building myth units, and train the barracks units only as a counter towards the enemy human units.
- singers → archers
- axemen → infantry
- spearmen → cavalry
But if you can just go for the midgol units or myth units yourself
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You can go Anubis into Classical Age and try some Anubite raiding to be annoying to your opponent and make Priests and Slingers with some Spearman to help deal with Minatours, Heroes and Toxotes. Plague of Serpents has been buffed in Retold so that can help with some important early base defense too.
War Elephants are overrated IMO. They are solid support unit for attacking a base but shouldn’t be the backbone of your military with how good anti-cavalry units most civilizations have easy access to.
How do Greek troops stack up vs Egyptians?
imo priests are too strong. especially as a spammable unit. either reduce their dmg, change the tech of certain minor gods, get rid of the devine dmg (even tho i think its a cool idea) or reduce the numbers of trainable priests to 10 - 12 max.
If Priests would do Pierce Damage again then the Egyptians would only have hero units doing Pierce damage so high pierce armour Myth units would be hard to fight.
Ever other pantheon now has heroes doing both pierce and hack damage.
Maybe just reducing the attack a little would help balance.
I think Egyptians mostly want to go Fast Heroic Age (to get Midgol units), unless you are rushing with Set. Their Classic Age units are supposed to help on this, and maybe harrass exposed Villagers.
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Gonna see how that works for me!
I like going Set, Pthah and then Horus to make the strongest egyptian infantry possible and swarm.
No idea if that works in a serious game but its fun!