Part 18

Once you begin to receive giants as reinforcements, head north. Gargarensis will use the Ancestors god power twice. You can flee or destroy them.

Continue north and free the Hersir trapped behind a wall. Work at getting through to Eitri's forces.

When the Taproot is below 1000, the enemy will break through the wall. Finish chopping through the wall with your dwarves.

Bring Thor's Hammer Haft to meet the Hammer Head to achieve victory.

Head up the hill quickly and locate the nearest settlement to build your Town Center.

Wall around the Towers leading up the hill and begin to hunt the nearby Elk.

Once your Town Center is complete, you have 10 minutes before Gargarensis' army attacks. Build up your economy during this time, focusing on creating dwarves to mine gold and gatherers to chop trees, farm, and hunt.

Scout using your heroes to locate the two relics and an additional settlement.

Use your Ulfsarks to create additional houses, four or more Longhouses, and two Temples.

Wall up the two passes to the north east and consider placing additional Longhouses at that location.

Once you advance to the Heroic Age, place Hill Forts at the top of the pass with the Towers, as well as along each wall you have built to the north east.

Create a second Town Center on the settlement near the second relic.

Place the Healing Spring near the Hill Fort at the top of the path with Towers.

Begin creating a mix of units, preparing to advance to the Mythic Age and upgrade technologies at the Longhouses and Armory.

When your 10 minutes are up, you will need to defend for an additional 20 minutes.

The enemy will come from various directions. Destroy any Underworld Passage used against you immediately.

Counter enemy forces intelligently: use Heroes and Hersir against Myth Units, and Throwing Axemen and Trolls against infantry.

If the enemy takes out a wall, repair it after clearing them out.

Retreat to the Healing Spring to recharge when needed.

Help will arrive in the form of Odysseus and several troops. Fight your way to the Yellow flags.

You may attack and destroy the enemy city to the north west, or proceed directly to the Yellow flags, engaging or avoiding troops as you go, to find victory quickly thanks to Odysseus' army.

Locate the transport containing your hero characters and drop them off on the nearby island to pick up the artifact.

Return the heroes to the transport and scout ahead with your Pegasus.

Head straight ahead and empty all transports near the lighthouse.

Send Scarabs ahead as siege weapons to take down any Fortresses in the area, assisted by catapults.

Bring down any enemy buildings in the area and use the rest of your troops to guard these siege weapons.

Create a Town Center over the nearest settlement using your villagers.

Farm or create a dock and fish to gain the necessary resources to advance to the Heroic Age.

Create a second Town Center on the settlement directly to the north and continue to create villagers to harvest resources.

Build a Military Academy and begin to create Hoplites.

Follow the route back with your armies, destroying anything that gets in your way, as attacks generally sweep from the north and east.

When blocked by a gate, build a Fortress before attempting to push through.

Advance to the Mythical Age, choosing Hephaestus for his Plenty god power and the Armory upgrade.

Research Forge of Olympus at the Armory for a discount on all other upgrades.

Create four or five Military Academies and create swarms of Hoplites.

Ensure you have researched all farm (or fish), lumber, and gold upgrades and have sufficient villagers if you are running low on resources.

Once you have created swarms of 20 or more Champion Hoplites, send them in on a target to take it down quickly.