Zeus: 3:50 Beginner Friendly and Strong
By [DoD]CraggHack · retold
Zeus: 3:50 Beginner Friendly and Strong by [DoD]CraggHack: the full build order with allocation sequence, phase timings, construction notes, and follow-up instructions.
Archaic
| Food / wood / gold / favor |
Assignment / build order |
Notes |
Follow-up / transition |
| 4 / 0 / 0 / 0 |
4 to Food |
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| 4 / 1 / 0 / 0 |
1 to Wood |
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| 4 / 1 / 2 / 0 |
2 to Gold |
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| 7 / 1 / 1 / 1 |
3 to Food , until we have 7 on food |
Build temple when you have 150 gold 150 wood with 2 Gold villagers.; One of them will go back to gold , and one will stay to gather favor . |
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| 7 / 4 / 1 / 1 |
3 to wood |
Build a house with a gold villager |
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| 7 / 4 / 2 / 1 |
One last villager to gold . |
Move 2 gatherers from food to gold after you click advance, we need the gold to make Hercules as soon as we advance to the classical age. |
Advanced players can try to skip this last player and advance faster. This requires you to forcedrop food just before the last wood villager comes out. |
Advance 2:50 (Athena)
| Food / wood / gold / favor |
Assignment / build order |
Notes |
Follow-up / transition |
| 5 / 4 / 4 / 1 |
Option one - army focus: Train Jason . On advance make a stable and barracks and start producing as fast as possible.; New villagers are rallied to gold until 7, then more to food . Train Hercules as fast as you can. Aim for harrasment with your army and a good use of restoration. Bolt the enemy myth unit or hero. |
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| 4 / 4 / 4 / 2 |
Option two - early Minotaur raiding: Get Jason . On advance get Labyrinth of Minos (Minotaur upgrade).; Send the minotaur to your enemy and the upgrade should be in just before you are raiding his villagers.; New villagers are ralled to gold until 7. Train Hercules as fast as possible. Follow up with a barracks and stable.; Alternate new villagers to food and gold .; Train minotaurs whenever you have enough favor . Follow it up with hoplites, hippeus and heroes. |
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| 3 / 4 / 7 / 0 |
Option three - 2nd TC: Get Jason and Hercules -Aim to use your early heroes agressively early, while also grabbing a 2nd TC.; Make the TC with all of the gold villagers when you have 350 gold .; While you are building the TC, new villagers are rallied to hunt or other food in base.; Also move 2 of the wood villagers to food once building the TC starts, you need food to produce from two TCs. |
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Source: [DoD]CraggHack · Deities of Death