Part 9

Guide to Age of Mythology Part 9: Help Amanra excavate the Sword of the Guardian and defeat Kemsyt's army.

Walkthrough:

1. Reassign villagers on food to constructing two Towers on the north east wall. Task all military personnel to the MIDDLE passage immediately.
2. Reassign all gold digging villagers to digging up the artifact. Let the wood gatherers reach about 300 wood, then have them dig up the artifact as well.
3. Once a skirmish completes on the north east wall (three Towers should take it out), repair the wall.
4. By this time, the military in the center should be in battle. Let them finish up, and move all ranged weapon units to the north west.
5. Hold out in the north west, playing a shell game by holding off enemies in each area as long as possible. Siege units will cut through walls.
6. IMPORTANT: Wall around the artifact too. This stops ground units and lets yours concentrate on pulling it up, but not siege units.
7. If you get overwhelmed at a pass, pull all troops back to a point before it near the gold mine and protect the area as long as possible. Use your priests to heal and fight myth units.
8. The artifact should be freed in time. Pull all villagers back inside a wall (add a gate if needed) to dig at the artifact.
9. Once victorious, you enter the Egyptian portion of the campaign. Watch the tutorial if you haven't used the Pharaoh (the new hero) before.
10. To start [8.12] Light Sleeper, move the four heroes forward instead of the starting military, which will be overwhelmed. Follow the ridge south.
11. Move ahead slowly, luring enemies back up the ridge to dispatch them until villagers thank you for freeing them.
12. Leave 2 or 3 villagers to work the gold found along the ridge. Grab the artifact by a wonder and bring it along.
13. Advance heroes only to deal with mummies, snakes, and crocodiles. Be aware that some snakes appear behind your position; backtrack and eliminate them before moving the rest of your military, sword bearers, and laborers.
14. Upon arrival at the allied town, they will join you. Task all villagers to work on nearby farms, mine gold, and chop trees.
15. Put the majority of brought villagers on tree detail and create additional laborers to mine gold and build farms around your town center. Check the dock to ensure fishing ships are busy, creating more if needed.
16. Move all military to the north east section of your town to prepare for raids.
17. Advance to the Classical Age and choose a god to experiment with.
18. Continue to boom, create a barracks for units (axemen are fun), an armory, and several monuments. Use your Pharaoh to