I'm having a hard time with mission 8 "bad news" on moderate difficulty.

[Peaceful Joe]

How embarrassing. I think I just ♥♥♥♥ at missions where I have to focus on two fronts at once. My army can't keep up with the raids that are sent to attack me. I can't generate powerful enough units in time before my villages get ransacked. It doesn't help that my villagers sometimes bug out and not gather resources, even when there are stockpiles nearby.

Game is still awesome btw, but I don't remember having this much trouble when I was a kid lol. Maybe my multitasking skills have diminished over time. I'm considering putting the difficulty down to story mode just for this mission or using the built in cheats. I don't want to do that though.

[ppleec021]

The difficulty has definitely gone up.
You are fighting against 2 players. That can be good or bad news. Bad news is the fights are definitely tough. The good news is. They won't help each other out. So My suggestion would be to hold one side and push the other. (I pushed with the Arkantos side)
Hydras are like a must for Hard/Titan difficulty considering their high attack and tankiness.
Farm and pray on the right if you have too much wood.

[CptKerion]

A large part of why the game is harder now is because the enemy paths a lot better than they used to and actually picks up their upgrades. I followed my general defensive anti-AI guidance of "fight under the cover of your towers". I had to keep some sacrificial cavalry around to destroy the petrobolai.
You can also use walls with a designated gap to force choke points, exploiting the enemy's pathing to get them into a killbox. Nowadays they sometimes actually attack the wall instead, in which case they're attacking the wall while you get to shoot at them.
Combining archers and cav generally gets you a lot of mileage on that mission.

[CptKerion]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ppleec021:

The difficulty has definitely gone up.
You are fighting against 2 players. That can be good or bad news. Bad news is the fights are definitely tough. The good news is. They won't help each other out. So My suggestion would be to hold one side and push the other. (I pushed with the Arkantos side)
Hydras are like a must for Hard/Titan difficulty considering their high attack and tankiness.
Farm and pray on the right if you have too much wood.

This^ Hydras+Colossi will efficiently push the line forward, especially if you throw some archers or siege in to support them.

[Soul]

Rush age up to get underworld passage god power. Build large army. Send 2-3 pegasus towards objective. Use underworld passage with large army. Free win xd

[ethorin101]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Soul:

Rush age up to get underworld passage god power. Build large army. Send 2-3 pegasus towards objective. Use underworld passage with large army. Free win xd

They actually block godpowers by the fortresses so you can't anymore.

[Soul]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ethorin101:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Soul:

Rush age up to get underworld passage god power. Build large army. Send 2-3 pegasus towards objective. Use underworld passage with large army. Free win xd

They actually block godpowers by the fortresses so you can't anymore.

Just do it right outside of it. That's what the pegasus are for lol. It's still a really strong strat.

[SWISH]

Diposting pertama kali oleh ethorin101:

They actually block godpowers by the fortresses so you can't anymore.

You could also do this:

1. Destroy the fortress in arkantos side that can't be reach by ajax
   
2. Rush Apollo and get underworld
   
3. Defend till you get enough wood, you could bring unit from ajax to arkantos and vice versa to defend as one
   
4. Since you got apollo your temple can heal also
   
5. Once you have enough wood migrate to ajax side (shorter from him) and you could left the building to the other side to waste the enemy time
   
6. Beware once you migrate the enemy wave will be doubled but at least it's easier to def 1 instead of 2
   
7. Get Hephaestus so you can get plenty vault and once gold and timber run out villager that gather wood and gold can be used to pray to get the next vault
   
8. Once you mass enough unit/you're satisfied you could engage the fortress, but beware gargerensis will use thunder storm (if you mass colossus it doesn't really matter tho)

[Peaceful Joe]

Thanks for the tips everyone. I'll try again when I get back from work. I read that the game is a bit more difficult overall because of changes/fixes of the AI from the original. So maybe the AI was dumber when I played as a kid lol.

[ICE]

my strat for complete it on titan, hope it will help you to beat it on moderate :)
https://youtu.be/d6BToC3O5VQ?si=rkYARaexCS93YYc5

[Chimichanga]

I double walled the left side, set up a lot of archers and focused the right