ashthedominator
Clubman
posted 04-07-08 01:22 PM ET (US)
does anyone know how to beat this one on hardest? because its impossible!!! Why? Because of all the yellow Triremes and landings with Ballistae and Long Swordsmen. Also the Reds keep pounding on the door with swordsmen,cavalry and siege weapons. I have all my villagers on getting wood to build boats but I can't keep building and repairing ships. There is very little wood in my base and it very soon runs out. Then i get overrrun by siege and boats. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to beat this one?
Suppiluliuma
AoEH Seraph
posted 04-07-08 09:22 PM
ET (US)
2 / 21
Well, for me Battle of Mylae was even harder to finish.
ashthedominator
Clubman
posted 04-08-08 10:58 AM
ET (US)
3 / 21
peter: thanks for your help but the hints are very vague and dont help much. Ive been trying most of yesterday still getting nowhere. I did find the auxillary army though that i didnt know about. It helped to some extent but the phalanx troops got killed by long swordsmen which is wierd. The catapults also got killed by boats. I walled off the entrance to my base that helped for a few minutes but then the reds & yellows turn up with ballistae,priests and catapults and i got wiped off the map. any ideas?
Suppiluliuma: I found the battle of Mylae much easier than Tunes.
Suppiluliuma
AoEH Seraph
posted 04-08-08 11:11 PM
ET (US)
5 / 21
Maybe our gameplay is totally different ashthedominator. I mean in Tunes one has far more resources, while in Mylae you must travel by sea even early in the game.
Taking Syracuse is a real pain in the butt.
peter
HG Alumnus
posted 04-09-08 03:54 AM
ET (US)
6 / 21
I Mylae you can make life easy at the start by building scout ships like mad and controlling the sea. Tunes: IIRC it took me a game of two hours or so to win it. If you want to beat it in less time, you need to be really good at this game.
Suppiluliuma
AoEH Seraph
posted 10-18-09 12:37 PM
ET (US)
8 / 21
I rememebr once when i Rushed Regulus (red) taking the vast resources within their city (stone and gold mines) that has been one of my bast games however Rome (yellow) get stronger than they usually do, maybe to fill the void of power left by the early defeat of Regulus.
Suppiluliuma
AoEH Seraph
posted 10-22-09 11:54 AM
ET (US)
10 / 21
See i wasn't the only one who thought that. In any case the RoR trial is fun fo sho!.
Suppiluliuma
AoEH Seraph
posted 10-24-09 03:35 PM
ET (US)
12 / 21
Yeah i only played it almost on a daily basis as Trial version was the first RTS i ever played. Good memories.
eagletimes
Clubman
posted 11-02-09 11:22 PM
ET (US)
14 / 21
Yes played it many a time.
First time playing both Mylae and Tunes, lost on hardest.
However I won Mylae on hardest first before Tunes. And it helped in learning what to do for Tunes.
Two ways of winning Mylae -
Retreat to western corner and develop everything before breaking out and taking control of your land, than sea, than conquering. (the Invaders don't explore and if you don't leave a trail they wont find you)
2ndly: Build walls along the main invading shoreline portion. Docks in the remote inlet, and try to establish a beachhead on Reds northend. Shorter game, faster pace, and you starve Red of some gold, stone, and wood.
Tunes requires some fast moves at the start to insure your survival and thus victory. Best game I had: 4-5 war ships left, destruction of Yellows initial fleet, no loss of archers (priests help), two other remote town sites, plus securing all gold and stone on my side of the river channel (as well as behind yellow's camp on way to secret forces).
As long as I wasn't attacking yellow I basically dealt with Reds overland and some yellow ships - Yellow was tributing like crazy to red till I hit them. And this was at the hardest level.
The_Patriarck
Clubman
posted 09-23-18 05:17 PM
ET (US)
20 / 21
Played this scenario a couple months ago, had a blast. Difficult?, I didn't find it all that hard. I turtled with Hoplites to fend off red, rushed to the Iron Age, and started training an army of Elephant Archers. Yellow was mostly busy trying to take down my Sentry Tower; i used War Galleys to take out Catapult Triremes. By the way, I took out Yellow first, what a fight. Like I said: "a couple of months ago", I might not have remembered everything.