troll A troll's guide to trolling and troll strategies in TGs and SP

[Arup]

I just thought of documenting all these stuff, I don't even have pictures (I'll add them later)

1. Trump Wall

As athens you can get a nice research in the sanate that gives you the ability to place walls in neutral territory. this way you can basically partition the entire map in two piece. with Themoclydes or whatever that hero's name is,he gives half construction time and 30% less cost so it's even better. do note that this works very well against annoying cav mfs. also a point to note is to not start to build walls directly from neutral territory. start building them from your territory otherwise the walls you build will fall to gaia. this way you have a literal wall which can act as a root for making storehouses in random places,or making entire forts and stables and barracks and basically a new frkn base without a cc. do note that this costs a shitton of stone and a fair amount of manpower for both gathering and building. so in most cases it's best not to do this,but it's very fun

 

2. BAKE SOME CITY GUARDS

ingredients: Athen civ, Barrack, Hoplite Tradition research, Athenian Hoplites

process: P2 Hoplite tradition then bake your Hoplites in the oven (barracks) for about 3 minutes. and voila! you will have fresh champions for barely half the cost! and even before p3! ready to invade with the rest of your army!!

it's actually a very strong strat so you can actually do this one quite a lot of times and situations

 

3. Hippo smash 

(by now you might have guessed what my fav civ is and who's really the biggest worshipper of Athena)

in phase 2,you can invade with peltast mercs, Hippocrates,and a primary citizen spear army with Hoplite tradition. make sure to get the hoplite tradition, and in the forge get the pierce resistance as well as ranged attack damage buffs

this strategy focus on constantly bombarding your enemy. the hippo is a very underrated hero,you can spam healers with that hero and your army can be nigh immortal,filled with rank 3 and city guards in little time if the enemy doesn't pay attention. works best against noobs who don't know how to counter.

 

 

pictures and more troll strats coming soon!!  

[Thalatta]

5 hours ago, Arup said:

start building them from your territory otherwise the walls you build will fall to gaia. this way you have a literal wall which can act as a root for making storehouses in random places,or making entire forts and stables and barracks and basically a new frkn base

Never thought about this... even when it's like Athens' historical connection to its port (too bad in the game one can build docks on neutral territory, I'd reserve that just for some civs):

 

Regarding the baking of champions, it does seem to me that's a bit OP, but I don't play MP. Related: why is it that a building cannot be set as its own rally point? Maybe because this strategy in general would become too OP?

And yes, Hippocrates is the best, the AI can't deal with the nigh immortal army.

[Gurken Khan]

2 hours ago, Thalatta said:

(too bad in the game one can build docks on neutral territory, I'd reserve that just for some civs)

Terrible idea imho.

 

2 hours ago, Thalatta said:

why is it that a building cannot be set as its own rally point?

It can. [+CTRL]

[Thalatta]

43 minutes ago, Gurken Khan said:

Terrible idea imho.

Why? Isn't that how for example Rise of Nations works? Besides not being realistic, except on particular cases, and for understandable reasons.

 

43 minutes ago, Gurken Khan said:

It can. [+CTRL]

Ah, thanks. But I don't get why it's not just right-click, right now that does nothing, and the hovering icon is a crossed flag, making one think it's just impossible to do. Besides, when rallying to other buildings the hovering icon is the garrisoning one, no need of CTRL. Is there a reason why that's not the same for self-rally?

[Gurken Khan]

37 minutes ago, Thalatta said:

Why?

I just thought that it would possibly suck terribly on maps like Hyrcanian Shores if you don't have the proper spawn position. I can't say anything on the other stuff.