How the F. do you beat Welcome back (mission 31 - fall of the trident)

[Synka]

So far the campaign was a breeze on hard except for Isis hear my plea - but even that one was easier.
But Welcome back? wtf? I lose my entire army before establishing a foothold to attacks from the enemy base, huge swathes of heavy hoplites, hepastists, cavalry and cyclops with at least a couple catapults are constantly bashing against my few remains of units, before I even get to the heroic age!
I tried pushing forward and taking out production too, but only managed to break the first area and then the same thing happend.

I just wanted to play through the campaigns again after having them played over a decade ago... wtf

[Rex Goodwin]

There is a safe place to build a Town Center than the usual one. Look to the right for a small island.

[Synka]

as a comparison, I beat the mission right after without even building the wonder. Just smashed that poseidon to pieces with a bunch of human soldiers. Same difficulty

[Animalman]

You can smash many of the titans in the titans campaign without following objective aswell. For example raising the guardian, ita quicker to train priests with all the gold you’ll get from finding caravans. These priests and if you hit the river with some siege briemes, hardest difficulty you can just skip the intermittent objectives and just go for the main objective, pretty much in every mish. I’ve never tried it vs Poseidon statue though sounds interesting


On the final mission, there is a way to trap Kronos and softllock the mission with clever use of forest power. This makes it so Gaia cannot kill Kronos. But special actions must take place. For example; luring Kronos away from his spawn before Gaia is resurrected. Luring him towards one of the Gaia seeds surrounded by forest and encapsulating him in the forest. The developers went to great lengths to ensure Kronos couldn’t be trapped in and around the area he spawns despite there is places that look like you can wedge him in there while he fights your heroes

Also if you go into editor place Arkantos Uber as an enemy, then place for yourself ten militia select them. Ctrl c and ctrl v copy paste ten lines of ten Militia for 100 militia

They will take down Arkantos Uber and god in a fight


On mission with King Folstag, who freezes titans, it’s very easy with a small bit of folstag micro resurrecting your starter heroes but never himself dying. It’s like it’s disgustingly easy. You can literally just micro him with freeze cooldown, and build a temple next to him and just throw Norse heroes at him