How to beat Persian invasion as Athens - Normal Mode

[rajwarrior]

Just can't get past this one! Does anyone have a detailed walkthrough of how they beat this trial?

I just don't see how you can generate enough gold to get enough envoys to ally 3/4 nations before persia attacks AND develop your army AND have enough production to build all necessary buildings.

I've read some discussions saying that they got roads built before persia attack. How in the world can you produce 8.4K production in 40 turns or less?!

So if you have a system for beating this on normal or hard, please educate this newbie

[Ramidel]

The thing is, you don't need to ally with anyone - Persia attacks all of Greece regardless. So don't build gold, build tech.

[Hannibal the cannibal]

Once you get use to the game and how it works beating the Persian invasion is rather easy, Tech does help and is something you should work on also having allys helps too. XD

[FEAR]

there is a fairly easy strategy just do your best at getting more population and you get more of everything else ok

[1bean234]

Choose advanced marble working as your perk, it by far the strongest perk out of the lot.

On turn one, only put 4 workers in farms. That lets you immediately get a tech point. Spend it on agriculture.

Then reduce farmers to 0 so you get another tech, put it in mythology (the culture tech).

Then place everyone into culture. You should get 2 more tech points. Spend them on pottery and craft.

Then stick everyone into farming. Once filled, put people into culture.

Your first colony should be a production colony.

Your next tech, around turn 10 should be Mining.

At this point, you should have the max 22 people. Enough to have 8 sages, 9 miners, 5 farmers.

On turn 11, build houses. Send your sages into farming. NOT your miners, keep your miners maxed at all times.

On 12. Build vegtable garden. Due to the games rubberbanding mechanics, you should get a hungry settlers event. Choose the populaion bonus.

On turn 15, the Minoan volcano erupts, giving -30% culture. This makes the -40% culture from hungry settlers a minor loss.

Research water supply. Once you hit 150 people, you will complete your quest and you will be rewarded with 20 warriors. Which is enough to fight off the Dorian inasion by themselves.




Everything after that is affected by random stuff so my guide ends. Generally though:




Reseach Marble working ASAP, then build a Marble Quarry. Then put all your workers (except farmers) in mining. Build a Well, then Cropland.

Once you build those two buildings, put as many as you can in culture, then the rest into farmers. Rubberbanding should trigger the hungry settlers event again. Choose population.

You should fight off the Dorians about this time, enslave them. You'll need the production.

Research Eduaction, then the Wheel. You should build Library around this time. Its. very cheap.

Research monuments ASAP. Dont build anything in this time except a gymnasium. Save up for a Marble Workshop, put everyone in mining (except farmers) and build Roads, Granary and Fountain.





Around this time, the Persian should only be a few turns from invasion. You should have more than population to gain lots of allies, and make lots of troops.

For some reason, on the final few turns, just before the Persians attack, your defence strength will go through the roof. I dont know why.

Try and prevent crossing, if you have enough troops. Otherwise just fight with allies. If you lose, restart. If you win, hooray.









Other tips:

Upon reforming into the Byzantium Empire/Greek Republic, you will lose all generals, envoys, production, gold, warriors an culture. Your traders will remain, however.

Dont bother making the Roman Empire your friend, your relations with them will null after the Hun invasion. After that, you have to conquer them to complete your quest.

If you ever hit your population limit, always fiddle with your farmers to get the maximum number of them off while still remaining in the positives.