Hydra's Heads

[KrispyAss]

With the Hydra's, how it gains a head after a kill or so, is there a limit to how many heads a Hydra can get? and which each head, does it provide more damage or what?

[GrimDaReaper]

5 max no bonuses sadly

[KrispyAss]

Originally posted by Lifes_A_Beach:

5 max no bonuses sadly

Well, that is pretty weird. Extra heads, but no stat bonus or such.

[GrimDaReaper]

maybe faster attack tho seems cosmetic

[Azarath]

I thought every head makes just as much damage as the first one.. so two heads->double damage..? At least thats what I was told.

[Legendary Raider]

you were told right: every extra head adds +100% damage, the problem is getting that many heads and still keeping Hydra alive

[DragonQ]

Yeah Greeks have no real way to heal units so it's tough to get a Hydra with 5 heads, but if you do it does 100 Hack Damage. Crazy stuff.

[Nanostrike]

In team games with an ally who can heal, Hydras get insane really fast!

[sunspot42]

Yup, play with Ares or Zeus and have them get healing temples... An army of 5-headed Hydras will unleash serious devastation.

[Mutant Overlord]

Sorry for necro guys but I see the question still wasnt fully answer.
According to wiki:
http://ageofempires.wikia.com/wiki/Hydra
"Extra Heads: the Hydra gains an extra head for every three units it kills. Each head adds 100% to its attack."

[Loggy]

My experiences and advanced tooltips both suggest that +100% per head is true. The stuff that controls it somewhere in the anim data but I don't know enough about that stuff to dig it up.

[Pimpin Pippin]

With the china expansion the greeks have access to healing in the form of the new unit that is built from the town center (apothecary or something).

[Prosecutor Lurker]

Hydra does more attack if it has more heads. She gets a head after 1-2 kills depending on the unit that's killed by her. You can actually use a cheap cheese strat to kill neutral animals which actually count towards the head multiplication.

[WollieWoltaz]

Hydra heads will gain experience because it uses the experience-logic in the anim file like so
"ExperienceLogic 0 25 50 75 100". So at 0 it starts with 1 head and at 100% is has 5 heads.
Don't know the actual time between those percentages but maybe that's in his protox entry.