The New Atlantis - Betrayal at Sikyos (7)

Guide for the seventh mission, Betrayal at Sikyos, of the campaign "The New Atlantis".

Overview

The mission begins with a number of units, towers, a town center, and a lot of resources. The goal is to survive the unslaught of the titan Prometheus for 15 minutes. The guide provides 3 ways of completing the scenario.

Walkthrough - A (Outlast all the waves)

Since Prometheus will only send Promethians (Myth units), Priests are a perfect counter. Also, do not worry about too much about Kastor. He can handle himself.

Start autoqueuing laborers and task your villagers to build 1-2 temples, a mining camp, and then set one to build many houses as possible. Empower the temples with priests and send your pharaoh to the mining camp. Research "Hands of the Pharaoh" to improve your priests as soon as you can. Split some villagers to food to sustain constant production. Keep autoqueuing laborers and priests.

Once you have about 20-30 priests you'll start reaching critical mass. Towards the end you should easily have 80 or more priests. Keep producing priests and upgrade weapons and armor at the armory. Now you only have to wait for the timer to tick down. The swarms of Promethians will be shredded as they get into attack range of the priests and the priests will heal eachother after each battle with little to no management needed. While the timer is ticking down build 3 Rocs and send them to Kastor's town centre.

After the 15 minutes have passed, bit earlier on higher difficulties, the Titan Prometheus will start moving towards your base. Run around with it for a bit and once the timer reaches 0, you'll win the scenario. If you haven't sent Rocs to Kastor prior to this, your objectives will be updated instead. Build 3 and send them over.

Walkthrough - B (AFK)

Due to the large amount of resources at your disposal at the beginning of the mission it's basically an autoscroller with minimal input.

Take your starting villagers and build 1 temple, 2 houses and a monument if you lack enough favour to build 3 Rocs. Set your Son of Osiris or Pharaoh to empower the temple and monument. Train 3 Rocs and load everything into them. Fly to Kastor's base. Your old base will be overrun and the enemy myth units cannot cross the sea.

Optional: In Kastor's base, set your villagers to wall off the narrow pass leading into the base. This will prevent the "enemy" Atlanteans from attacking Kastor. As they are "Neutral", they cannot attack the wall.



Go brew some tea, coffee, or cook something. After the 15 minutes are up move the Rocs to Kastor's town centre if you haven't already to finish the scenario.

Walkthrough - C I'm going to pull that thing's head off

The Ajax method. Lets save Greece right now instead of running away like sissies.

This strat is more for the memes than anything else. Will assume you're playing on Titan but it's applicable to any difficulty setting.

When you get control; Autoqueue laborers from TC. Build a temple and a mining camp at the back of the base. Take the Pharaoh or Son of Osiris to empower the temple and the other to empower a Mining Camp. Build one or two houses then all villagers on gold, then delete all non-hero units. From the temple build Rocs until you're out of favour (optionally: research Hands of the Pharaoh at the temple if the attack wave hasn't hit yet). By now on Titan you'll get a large wave of myth units bashing your front towers.

Put everyone in the Rocs and send the villagers to Kastor's base to build 1-2 temples, a mining camp, and a Siege Workshop; while the Roc carrying Ajax and misc heroes goes to the Western corner of the map to pick up the relic (preferably with anyone other than Ajax or Amanra) on an island. Once your temples are up, start autoqueuing priests. Optional: Wall off the pass to Kastor's base.

Fly the Roc back to the ruined city and drop Ajax near Prometheus and lead him to the cliff just south of the city. Once he passes the small choke, unload your relic carrier and drop the relic (try to position it in the middle-ish.



Hard part done, the titan is stuck. Send over your priests with the Rocs and clear out the Promethians. Transport your villagers back to the mainland, claim the TCs, boom your economy, build several Siege Workshops. Research weapon and melee armour upgrades at the armory and siege upgrades at the Siege Workshop. Autoqueue Catapults, and start deleting priests, keep a few around to empower the workshops and dropsites. Once you have a large stockpile of resources, start deleting laborers to max out on Catapults



If the titan keeps moving around, put Ajax and either the Pharaoh or SoO on "Stand Ground". Then move Ajax next to the relic and the Titan. Make sure Ajax's pocket healer doesn't stop. Wait a few minutes and down goes Prometheus.



Hail Ajax, Slayer of Titans and commander of Catapults. What do you mean we don't win and get to skip missions?

Build additional Rocs if needed and send 3 to Kastor's Town Centre to finish.

[Day Walker]

Hi. Don't you have a video. How to kill the titan Prometheus ?

[weevol]

im ngl, I was stuck on this level for years and didn't know what to do. Send rocks? wtf? And then years later, oh... rocs... im so stupid...

[A Psychopathic Rat]

Only 20-30 priests? I had around 60.

[Kyp astar]

nice

[Ghuldas]

lol cool:)