Call of Olympus question

[Pie]

I've done all the inner small islands.

(I have yet to get stone.) But I'm finding both the big creature, and the crab spawning together to decimate my forces instantly. I've been keeping my spearmen just out of the way of the portal tentacle, and letting my archers shoot.

Am I doing it wrong? Cheers

[WeWickYou]

hello, if you take "to much" time to do island hte days metter go high quite hard and so you will end up having to fight monster who "would" need you to have at least stone wall. iirc stone "should" be on the bottom left island with the "hammer" item who would help you lot too. (not going to spoil you what it does XD)

[The Grand Mugwump]

Yes, you need stone. Once you get stone, you can recruit squires. Once you get squires, they will lead their squads to man the ships and fire at the enemy when you use the banner. This gives you a massive boost in your firepower. And when you're using the banner, you can move away from the enemy to get your forces to fall back while the ships pepper them with stones.

You can also brute force it a bit. You'll eventually deal enough damage to the portals to bring them down despite the heavy losses if you attack, damage the portal a little, get pushed back, beat the counter attack at the walls and repeat. This is also why it's important to build your walls close to portals if you can't use the ships yet.

[dawagamer]

TL;DR: Unfortunately, yes, it does look like you're doing it "wrong". :-(

It's my first Call of Olympus run, too. I did it differently. After the first, "Oracle" island, I took care of a small island, and then went straight to the big island that was unlocked. After that, I did a small island again, and once more I invaded its associated big island.

It's not a spoiler to say that each small island is a stepping stone to its larger one. After all, the ghost says words to that effect sometimes. I can tell you this: while doing what I just described, I got stone relatively early on (can't remember which island), and later, the iron/rock upgrade as well. You also get powers from the big islands (not much of a spoiler honestly). Not to mention advanced mounts. The big creature and the crab you mentioned? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been able to beat them without my upgrades. It sounds rough, my man.

[Pie]

Thanks to all of you for your help. Looks like I'm starting again! :)

[dawagamer]

All the best! Olympus awaits!

[Airxy]

Dosnt matter witch Large island you go to first the one always spawns stone and the next one always spawns iron

[Stardustfire]

also take in mind that the gates spit out much more units if you field an army urself with the leader banner, when you only send your squires, the let baner at home and just use your mount abilitys the enemy defender masses are like in none olympus maps

[dawagamer]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

when you only send your squires, the let baner at home and just use your mount abilitys the enemy defender masses are like in none olympus maps

Hey, that's very useful! Thanks for the tip!

[Velorien]

Get the chimera from Hephaestus's island (SW). Its fire attack lets you solo just about anything (except longer waves where it runs out of stamina).

[Pie]

Thanks for that @Velorien. Unfortunately 2nd time on Medium, and I feel like I can't progress. (Did Start Island, Small Island, Got Wood, Small Island, and now trying to go to the 2nd big island.) We shall see.

[Velorien]

Can you describe what kind of problems you're running into?

Also, while the chimera is awesome, it turns out the island contents are randomised. All I can usefully say in that regard is that my preferred order is SW -> NW -> SE -> NE. This is because Hephaestus has the simplest quest, and the reward is very good. Artemis has a terrible reward but the next easiest quest (once you figure out the puzzle). Athena has harsh conditions, so she's best left until you have more units to carry over. Hermes isn't bad, but you can't complete his quest until you've visited every other island.

[Stardustfire]

Artemis Terible reward? we live in different worlds, the bow is a fatty killer.

rule of tumb: first Big Isle has stone, so dont idle around on all the small ones first.

[RCMidas]

I actually prefer going after Athena first, so I can blitz through the eternal winter when the retaliation waves are weakest. Plus, if I've found the chimera, I can spend all my cash without fear because the boar will die almost instantly to its charge.

[Palicai]

We finished the Campaign on Hard, and let me tell you alittle secret thats going to save you alot of frustration when it comes to choosing Islands.

There is a WINTER island, and doing that late game is going to, probably, end your run. I suggest you do that as the first Island, when the waves are still small, because late game in winter, with bad RNG, its game over as the winter lasts until you free an NPC. On hard we got 5 Brutes, 3 Crabs, and probably 50+ small greeds with masks, we tend to spend alot of time on each island, but this was also on Hard.

We did it last before the final island, we barely made it trhough it, bad berry bushes placement, only 1 vagrant camp until we scraped togheter enough coin for the vagrant bait building, and its expensive.

The winter island is the SE one btw

[Pie]

I'm slowly getting there. (Also, thanks for being nice gamers. You can definitely be unlucky on Steam.)

I did the Winter Island 3rd. I'm on the 4th. (NE)
Mounts wise, I quite like the Bear for eeking out money fast.
I keep getting decimated. I'm on my 2nd heir.

On my first run I had several boats. But I've tried to hurry through so only have 2 now. Should I be going to the other islands trying to actually finish all portals? And re-get the boats?

I swear I didn't have so much issues on the original game. :)