Need help with Chapter 8 - Bad News

[Swaggaccino]

I'm playing on moderate difficulty and this mission has stumped me more than anything else so far. I'm at the point where I'm trying to link up both bases and am caught in a tug of war with the AI. I push far into their territory, destroy a ton of their buildings, get my army destroy, the AI counter pushes almost immediately, destroys some defenses, and I counter. And it's kinda of a stalemate like this.

I'm pretty much failing from a micro perspective. Though I'm not slow, I'm far from quick. Since I really could care less about hotkeys and APM, could someone fill me in on the meta and best units I should be spamming? As well as the upgrades each age? It's my first time playing. Thanks.

[Vimeyer]

Hey!
Try to use Apollo's god power to connect your bases.

[Thor II]

Hydras are your best friends, grow your heads, make sure they don't de with Hoplites, Archers and Cavalry and they will do the hard work. In the 4th age I prefer Hephaestus because of the Vault and the Colossus are also very good.

[Jack Deth]

Is that the Greek split forces one?

Looked back at one of my vidyas and I basically turtle up both sides with starting units,buying few units,to rush to the Heroic/3rd age for Appllo.

Drop the underworld as quick access between both sides and move all my units to/heroes to whichever side is about to be attacked.

If I remember they stagger their attacks but generally prefer hitting Ajaxs side more frequently.

Get the temple healing upgrade and hit the temple on the right, using underworld, to top off any injured units.

Put a fortress down closer to the 2 gold on Ajaxs side.

Hit tier 4 and pump a mix of catapults, colossi and whatever flavor mix of troops and myth units I want.

Once large enough I just push up the left side all the way up.

Best advice I can give for most missions is to weather the storm and play solely towards the objectives.

Not very helpful and of course their are a myriad of ways to tackle the missions but hopefully I provided some help.

[Swaggaccino]

Thanks guys.

Yeah I beat it. Basically had to combine both armies to rush one side and pray the other side didn't attack during that time. Not gonna lie, moderate is getting sweaty so I turned it down to standard. Something about the AI blatantly cheating and pumping out army after army with no economy. Also catapult after catapult then retreating behind their walls so my cav can't get them then rushing when my cav retreats with perfect reflexes. Maximum game logic. I love RTS games when the AI is given equal footing as you and doesn't pump out unlimited armies with 0 economy.

[J4MESOX4D]

Quite a tricky mission for newcomers and the first one to test micromanaging different parts of the map. From what I remember, the right side of the map is good for wood and the left is ideal for gold and food. Get a fair few villagers going and then mirror the buildings i.e build a temple on both sides and maybe some military/siege. That way you can have two strong bases that can sustain any attacks whilst you continue gathering resources and upgrading.

I then branched out slightly on the left side out of the gate taking an army larger than that they send and it acted as a good deterrent plus I could access the gold mine out of the gate. I didn't proceed to far because the entry to main base was a chokepoint plus there is also an enemy building elevated which can be dealt with by the right sided army. Destroy that and then you can plant a siege unit on the top which covers the left side and totally deters them sending much of a force and keeps your left army safe.

The right side is tougher but more open and hydras are ideal. Use siege to get any buildings and then slowly progress push up each time. watch out for towers and also keep your siege moving up. If you have a large enough army then it should be good enough to muscle through and you don't need to worry about the left side too much. Too little army and pushing up too fast will result in total wipeout so taking time and building up is the way to go.

[ICE]

you can try to copy my strat, works well on titan. on medium must be so easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6BToC3O5VQ&list=PL65A6y6u0Wy7eQhqrrrWqqXjW-OE9FsZY&index=8

[Ry]

I downloaded the More Heroes mod and that helped a lot