Zeus: 4:07 Pickaxe & Hand Axe
By [DoD]CraggHack & [DoD]Godschalk · retold
Zeus: 4:07 Pickaxe & Hand Axe by [DoD]CraggHack & [DoD]Godschalk: 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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Note:; There are 4 times where you have to pay attention to Force-Drop:; - 6 vill : Hand Axe : Food Force-Drop or watch that you have enough food for continuous villager production); - 9 vill : Pickaxe : Food Force-Drop or watch that you have anouf food for continuous villager production); - 12 vill : Temple : Force-Drop Gold after 8th villager on Food to make Temple; - 14 vill : House at 15 pop: use 2 Wood villagers as soon as you have 50 Wood for continuous villager production); - 15 vill : Force-drop Food after 15th villager (16 pop) to Age Up |
| 4 / 0 / 1 / 0 |
1 to Gold |
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| 4 / 2 / 1 / 0 |
2 to Wood |
Research Hand Axe after 1 vill on Wood; (be sure to have enough Food for villager production before researching) |
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| 4 / 2 / 2 / 0 |
1 to Gold |
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| 5 / 2 / 2 / 0 |
1 to Food |
Research Pickaxe after 1 vill on Food (5 Food ); (Force Drop Food after making the Food villager , so you can make Pickaxe right after the villager and have enough Food by the time the next villager is produced) |
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| 8 / 2 / 2 / 0 |
3 to Food |
After 8th Food vill :; Build temple when you have 150 gold 150 wood with 2 Gold vill (Force drop Gold if needed), 1 vill back to Gold after Temple is done |
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| 10 / 2 / 1 / 1 |
2 to Food |
2 Wood vill build House when 50 wood , then back to Wood; (make the house right after 10th villager on Food ) |
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| 10 / 2 / 2 / 1 |
1 to Gold |
Force-drop Food to age-up |
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Advance 3:07 (Athena)
| Food / wood / gold / favor |
Assignment / build order |
Notes |
Follow-up / transition |
| 7 / 4 / 3 / 1 |
Option one - army focus: Train Jason . On advance make a stable and barracks and start producing as fast as possible.; New villagers are ralled 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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| 5 / 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 / 6 / 6 / 0 |
Option three - 2nd TC: Get Jason - Then shift Transition into 2nd TC.; Make the TC with all of the gold villagers.; While you are building the TC, new villagers are rallied to hunt or other food in base.; Also move 3 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 & [DoD]Godschalk · Deities of Death