![]() ![]() You can boost your troops' performance in battle by equipping them with special weapons and armour pieces at your capital city's armoury. My city's many shops and crafting lodges held interest long after the steady stream of missions had started to feel like a grind. The capital city offers layers and layers of customisation like this. My copper age advisor lets my villagers take more wood from trees, my bronze age advisor makes my guard towers more powerful and my silver age advisor lets me train Phalanx warriors. To train them on the battlefield you must install that unit's commander at your advisor's hall in your capital city, but you can only do this if you've paid for the Greek or Egyptian Civilisation Pack, which costs around £12.Īs well as adding unique units, advisors confer general bonuses to your empire, and you can appoint one for each age your civilisation has progressed through. It was a rare moment of excitement in a campaign that was quickly becoming dull, but unique units like the Hetairoi can't be unlocked through the skill tree. They crushed every building and razed the town centre in a matter of seconds. I created a vanguard of swordsmen and spearmen to sweep away enemy combat units, then scurried them out of the range of the lethal guard-towers to make room for the Hetairoi, who formed a column and stampeded through the town. They're tough, and their rarity makes them worth protecting.Īt level eight, I finally had a reason to change my strategy. Mounted on barded steeds, flaming torches in hand, they're adept at smashing buildings to pieces. Occasionally, missions will gift you a devastating advanced unit to play around with. Spearmen are adept at taking down mounted enemies, for example, while swordsmen mince up foot soldiers, but in practice every problem can be solved by box-selecting everyone and right clicking on it. As you advance further down the tree, your civilisation advances through the ages, but after six or so hours spent grinding homesteads into the dirt, I still only had access to spearmen, bowmen, swordsmen and a useless variety of javelin-throwing cavalry.Įach unit is designed to counter a type of enemy unit. Levelling up your town grants you points to spend on an enormous, three pronged tech tree where you can unlock and upgrade new units and buildings. A constrained choice of units doesn't help. This was satisfying for a while, but it's not long before missions start to feel like a chore.
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