Who is your favorite major god to play as?

[snowyonetwo]

Topic title. Who is your favorite major god to play as? Minor gods as well, but not required.

[Dragonsouled]

I'm still learning but I've enjoyed Hades the most at the moment.
I didn't feel like I could make a strong army with Isis, vikings are neat but haven't tried them too much and same with atlanteans.

Minor gods with Hades
Ares - Blacksmith Upgrades + Spell + cyclops are all cool

Apollo - Archer upgrades and AoE from manticore that also only cost wood are really good.

Artemis for the earthquake spell to absolutely destroy your opponents base. (if combod with pestilence they are having a really bad time).

[LORDxLUBU]

Greeks, why use anything else?

[GarbageCollector]

Hyperion... who is a minor god, so Oranos/Kronos.

Chaos is the best god power in the game (and should be nerfed) that lets you instantly win against certain enemy comps. Satyrs are great and it's been fun to push my micro a bit trying to optimize their special. I actually dislike Sons of the Sun because the sudden LOS change on oracles is annoying, but I still research it anyway.

Oranos and Kronos both have interesting unique abilities that they used to rely on to be able to compete with other gods. Now that Atlantean units have some of the best base stats you don't need to be super tricky anymore to put up a fight. It feels great. I still don't like Gaia though.

[Diavkha]

Greek - Hades
Egyptian - Isis
Norse - Thor
Atlantean - Gaia

[Rhalius]

I am a fan of Odin.

The ravens give free respawning scouts to uncover the map, great hunt is a useful god power for early food, improved hillfort units is always good and he has a great selection of minor gods.

I tend to go Freya for the valkyries, then Njord for the mountain giants which are my main siege unit, and finally Tyr for fimbul winter and the boost for Huscarls.

I am still playing all factions though, in the previous version Odin was my favourite and I think he still is for now.

Soldiers building is also such a great benefit. Lets you build up wonders and titans pretty fast without hurting your economy at all and you can quickly claim any town center you find without pulling villagers from their work.

[Homer]

Zeus because of advantage on favor gain to build myth units and heroes..

Then I pair with Minor gods, Athena, so I can pop out Minotaur and Hoplite with upgrade, also those heal ray.

Then pick Hera for myth units upgrade and lighting strike. Also free Myrmidon with her fortress upgrade.

Have two temple with at least 20 villagers worship in can make me call lighting easily and then pop out none stop Minotaur and send the wave of free Myrmidon toward enemy, support by heal ray time to time, and I have a hoard of army there.

[David McMurdo]

Gaia. I always choose characters/nations in games for their flavour first, and I like her style. I'm glad they made her look like a dryad, because she was a bit unexceptional looking originally.

[Thanathos]

Freyr at the moment, his god powers are unstoppable and when you throw in Hel into the mix, non stop myth units.