Age of Mythology Retold - The Ultimate Hades Guide

[@tinman244]

I want to give you the credit you deserve here. I've played AoM casually on my own and with friends since I was a little kid back in 2005. I have never won a match because I play super slow and don't really know how to micro very well. I just played a game against two of my friends, one as Kronos and another as Thor. I used this video as a guide and managed to pretty cleanly win my first ever competitive match of AoM. It wasn't perfect but I'm really proud of it and wanted to give my thanks and share.

[@perrollaco8640]

Congratulations 🎊!!! It feels awesome doesn't it!

[@Iam1nsane]

Ohh what a payoff. Imagine your victory has a buildup of 20 years 😅

[@peterjamesluck]

@@Iam1nsanehe’s got a very messy keyboard 😂😂😂

[@yaboyaj5614]

ATTA BOY

[@DJSSJ420]

nice so you cheated and used a guide when your friends were just playing casually lol

[@stefanfrank7426]

Rare good video that actually shows a efficient build order, subscribed

[@joointcrasher]

the nostalgia is real

[@MongolordD]

i play Hades more lategame orianted. Use the hero to collect relics very fast. With Classic Age you have the ressources to instant build 2nd TC. Because of your defensive God power you are pretty safe. Then build archery range and racks or cav depending on the enemy civ

[@ZaItan1]

Can you share an example bldg choice and target unit composition you'd respond with if, say your opponent is Zeus who went Athena, a lot of vills on temple, and has an archery range?

[@Vonzuli]

@@ZaItan1 In your example, you would build a Stable or Archery range and get anti-ranged units. In the case of Greek that would be Hippeus (Stable) or Toxotes (Archery). I prefer Toxotes because they are a bit more versatile and safe, but Hippeus would be good for a quick counter attack.

[@ZaItan1]

@@Vonzuli thanks for the tip! In one game I blindly massed toxotes and was crushed by ~10 minotaurs at 15min, neither of us macroing particularly well. Had I splashed in Hippies, might've been easier to raid and reduce them

[@Vonzuli]

@@ZaItan1 I find that in this game you have to really micro your units in combat to get the most out of them. I feel like the unit tic tac toe is very prominent compared to other games I've played.

[@djnefrozhardstylepromotion3527]

That's probably the most reliable way to play Hades, I think you may still pop Erebes in the age up and maybe greed the resource upgrades after launching the B2 but from that point you can play as you want (meaning as in this video), you'll just have way more eco but be ~30seconds late

[@AMDGBananaBen]

As a fellow Aussie and legacy AOM enjoyer, I'm a big fan of your content for retold Drongo! Keep up the good work. Also sidenote, I find it fascinating how strong Hades is offensively considering that, if you think about it, has a more defensive list of unique buffs (Archer/Ranged Fortifactions upgrade for example). Meanwhile I'm kind of struggling my way through Ranked playing Gaia, Atlanteans are just too fun now so I'm going to keep at it and am taking notes as I go.

[@dusanzigic1349]

This is awesome, I hope u release also the starting guides for the other gods.. :)

[@TheLuc224]

I need moooore of this. Thanks Drongo

[@bizbear1274]

I would love to have acess to that screen shot of the Vaults of Erebus build order and practily any other for the different gods and civs. that sheet looks so neat and easy to follow and keep up on my second screen

[@TheJest3r]

Since you're doing the best civs, I'd love to see Odin and Gaia guides. Eventually, to see how other's play them

[@justincronkright5025]

Depending on Starting circumstances I kind of think this is for when you need to take straggler trees - or do second storehouse as you've done. Building one on both resources should be best no - though not every map is equally accommodating. It seemed to be more efficient if I sent first built ville to gold, 2 to wood, 1 to food, 1 more to wood & then 2 to food with 1 after that to favour. Then you have everyone on food basically, even take 1/3 wood villes to food just to secure the age-up time. You can build another storehouse on the way up to transition a group of food villes to wood/gold if needed as you don't need housing atm.

[@Bushwackerinpa]

Is there anywhere you can find the build order sheets at?

[@nicholasschneidermadsen370]

I am quite sure that the amount of idle time is not at all worth getting the tech that early. Imo, you can simply do a normal BO and get the tech by taking the gold vills to favor during transition. This means you are not able to slap down the fast 2nd TC right away, but it's a much easier build and you don't get excessive vill walking time

[@ManchmalGaming]

Hey this seems like a nice build order to follow!

[@L_Calvo1]

0:13 Good tech 👍

[@zamuwolf16]

Where i can find the file for follow the step?

[@sonho1604]

Nice video!

[@Craigory722]

How to you split up your first 4 villagers? They always come out as 4 for me and idk a way to split them efficiently.

[@rone7106]

THIS IS THE ANSWERS WE NEED

[@chabbab6698]

its literally in the start of the video lol did you even watch it, 2 food, 2 gold

[@DajuSar]

@@chabbab6698 Bro, whath he meant was: "How do you split up your villagers so that 2 go in one direction and 2 in another at the beggining? When I play, they always spawn as a group of 4."

[@zawarrudo3930]

​@@chabbab6698idiot

[@RalphieLippert]

Select them one by one

[@flylikedjango]

interesting build - i wonder how good it is on high level like top 100 or better bcs these strong players just timingattack you and thats danger but i guess you could then play more defensive gonna test it out on the ladder at some point :)

[@lordixus]

I was wondering if there could be a similar approach with poseidon's horses and get that HP Regen going, but the main thing was the gold so i was wondering if you could do this strat but using the better exange rates of the market from poseidon's bonuses to make it up for it until you get the eco upgrades and the difference between having vaults or not is not that noticeable?

[@TheWazzawazza]

MOBA background I hear. Play any DOTA? cool vid btw, subbed

[@batuhan8842]

Im not sure but your villagers seems to play gather resources automatically when they build the related storege building? Am I wrong or is there a setting to allow it?

[@cenkakdere7094]

was going to ask the same thing.. did you find the answer to this?

[@LeeroyyyJenkinsss]

Use shift and then click next task on villagers. Can use it for all tasks :)

[@ghostuk4062]

Is there a way to "right click" so to speak, to queue up research and tech like with a mouse, but in controller. I can't find an answer anywhere...

[@MediMash]

solid opener

[@stevenstone307]

No spreadsheet link in the description? :(

[@FreeNomad88]

Is your hud a setting I'm unaware of? If it's a mod what's it called? It really helps that it shows you how many villagers you have on any given task T.T

[@33mavboy]

And Freyr gets the feast tech which is 1 food per second per town centre, village centre and hill fort, tell me that is not broken

[@jameslindsay2950]

Norse has been buffed beyond belief, I can’t abuse them anymore haha

[@33mavboy]

@@jameslindsay2950 Loki in the end game can make heaps of cheap ox carts, 500 food and 500 wood fills a fort giving it double damage for no pop space, imagine seeing that on ranked

[@merlin91]

Where can I find this spreadsheet you showed?

[@SD-kx9jj]

how to turn off automated work in skirmish mode?

[@dave6653]

Vaults of Erebus is probably the best starter God tech since I noticed gold is hard to come by in this game, like harder than other AOE games.

[@Bleilock1]

Well unlike aoe2 you can trade with yourself... but thats late game

[@Danny-gs5dv]

@@Bleilock1 such a useless comment.

[@Bleilock1]

@@Danny-gs5dv i mean that says more about you and your cognitive inability to understand the relevancy of my comment Sooo... do go on

[@dave6653]

@@Bleilock1 Best starter tech since you can't do that in age 1 or 2.

[@Bleilock1]

@@dave6653 its defo overtuned atm, but again yea, thats early game

[@MrNumbers6969]

How u got that ui ?

[@juanfisi]

Havint 2.5 villagers worth of gold constnatly and endleslly is inane, in late game it stacks well with the vaoults of plenty.

[@Vonlichtonstien]

How does one choose hades but then not the color red.. lol .I keep assuming red is hades. Because thats the color I choose.

[@nestorassotirchos1473]

PLEASE HELP!!! IN MY GAME WHEN I HAVE ADHS I CAN'T BUILD TITAN!!! WHAT CAN I DO? I HAVE DONE THE GAME FORMAT BUT NOTHING!

[@houstonclinch585]

The Titan symbol is on the screen once you research the ability to build it in the town center

[@Angels-Haven]

no tox oats?

[@ManchmalGaming]

Too predictable!

[@Bleilock1]

Late game yes

[@nothat1pop897]

FIRST VIDEO. These other mediocre creators wasting time with their videos jesus christ. ty

[@swisspikeman8290]

No way you can do this without it written down. Haha so many moving vills around and 1 vill here, 1 vill there.

[@TheSrikanp]

Ya this is a complicated build lol takes some practice

[@RunItBack95]

I fucking suck at this game. Thank you

[@gabrielfarfan5222]

Do Nordic guides aaaa

[@tygoro]

lemme get that discord link dawg

[@Awesomeman1987]

Drongo you are leaving some efficiency on the table by making 2 storehouse! You should just place that first storehouse between the wood and gold… it translates into about 30 seconds faster age up timing

[@mlaopiuayhszalaoiusyh]

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[@tcgenthusiastsryan538]

Are Spartans in the game?

[@TheWretchedWorld]

Vaults of Erebus is overpowered, needs a nerf. 2 gold per second is crazy it’s like having 2 villagers on gold with a storehouse at maximum efficiency. Needs to be nerfed to 1 gold per second.

[@Danny-gs5dv]

lol no.

[@TheWretchedWorld]

@@Danny-gs5dv shit playa

[@mickethegoblin7167]

No

[@Danny-gs5dv]

@@TheWretchedWorld sounds like you just need to get good, instead of asking for insane nerfs. nerfing everything you dislike to near useless isn't how you balance a game.

[@TheWretchedWorld]

@@Danny-gs5dv no it’s a logical nerf, isis food trickle doesn’t even come close to this and gold is a more finite resource