How to play as Hades???

[Shalashaska]

How do i use Hades well?

[sunspot42]

I turtle, which doesn't work very well against skilled human players. My strategy generally involves towering up, staying close to my base, using heroes and free myth units for defense, getting lots of upgrades and trying to age up as rapidly as possible. I age up using Apollo, and get the healing temples, which I surround my base with along with forts.

Once I'm fully aged up I switch my focus away from food and more onto favor, while keeping up the production of gold and wood. I only build Heroes, Gastraphetes and Chimera from that point out. The Chimera are great because they're fast and massed against an army their flame attack does massive damage, so I can deploy them quickly across a wide area.

I try to use the earthquake power as quickly as possible against an enemy base, hopefully before they've had a chance to fully age-up. If that doesn't work out, I'll save it for knocking down a Titan Gate and hopefully by that point I'll have enough fighting units to follow thru with an underground passage and an assault on what's left of their base.

This strategy takes lots of pop, so move to take empty or enemy settlements as quickly as possible. I see lots of players online who don't even try to take empty or enemy settlements - you need to grab as many of those as fast as you can. Pop is life!

[Azarath]

Well, you could watch some expert replays on RTS-Sanctuary. Not sure if there are EE-Replays already.. or if Titans-Replays can be watched on EE now. However, Armycore played quite some Games with Hades while trying out to beat guys with the gods considered to be weaker. Which was pretty cool actually.

[Azarath]

OH, there is a replay section for Extended edition. There you go, download, watch and learn:
http://www.rts-sanctuary.com/The-Titans/showforum=493

[Mark Clark]

lots of archers

[El Flesh]

I get loads of flak from my teammates for turtelling strat. I usually go Hephaestus though. I think there might be more advantage to his Collossi and Gastra weapon upgrade. I could be wrong!

I hardly use regular archers - only until Gastras are available; because late game is more about bringing down buildings, not units. I'm pretty thick headed about my strat; though; you can see from my rating I don't adapt too well.