Fishing Our Waters

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had started doing the Greek quests from scratch on another server.  Every now and then I'll pull up one of those early Greek quests for a bit of a look.

The quest Fishing Our Waters can be found with the Port Master around level 6.

I was curious when this quest came up because a few weeks earlier, on the official AoEO forum, a poster mentioned that he had had trouble completing it because he ran out of enemy fishing boats to destroy.  This didn't happen to me.

The Port Master is the quest giver for Fishing Our Waters

Open the book to find out more!

The Bandit Armada (Elite)

This is the final of a three part series of posts on the Greek capital city repeatable quests which you can do in Elite mode.

This is the bigger and grander of the three repeatables, but it's not any more difficult.  Once again, there's a smart way to complete it efficiently, including the second objective, which requires you to produce no military units.  The quest can be, and should be, completed by focusing on ships.

Start Game

Let's remind ourselves of what the quest looks like from the start.

I've just started aging up to Age III, I have one dock ready to go

Open the book to find out more!

Challenge: Kill the Docks (Elite)

This is the second article in the series dealing with Greek capital city challenge quests on elite.

Early on in your AoEO career, you want to start having a crack at this quest on Elite, and even when you get to level 40, it's worth the occasional look at it because on Elite mode, you're receiving level 40 chests.

Plenty of people do this on co-op, which is fine, but try and get to the stage where you solo it. I wouldn't say it's a difficult quest (it's not), but there's a smart way to do it, and then there's, shall we say, the inefficient way to do it.

You should always (always) be aiming to get the second objective of finishing five minutes early.

Kill the Docks is one of two capital city quests available from the Port Master. The Bandit Armada is the other one, and I'll cover that one another time.

The Port Master is the Quest giver for Kill the Docks

Open the book to find out more!

Challenge: Not Without a Bomb

Let's cut to the chase - this challenge is insanely difficult - outrageously difficult.

In my early AoEO playing career, I can remember the following challenge quests which initially had me stumped:

• Final Farmdown
• Size Matters
• Defence of Arsinoe
• Not Without a Bomb

...and it's this one which takes the cake - top of the pops - no question about it.

Full marks to the developers for showing some humour with the title of the quest.

I became obsessed with this quest, and after at least 10 goes, maybe more, I finally soloed it with only seconds to spare - it was a damn relief!

So that's the first point, it is possible to solo it, but if it finally gets to you, it's also available for co-op, and don't worry, I've helped out some very good players in co-op on this quest over the journey.

The engineer from Mycenae is the quest giver for this challenge.

If you are soloing, you should aim to get out at least 6 rams, probably need 8.

Open the book to find out more.

Challenge: Keep Them Under Our Wing (Elite)

Your Greek city has a few repeatable quests which are worth doing in Elite mode as you gear up and start to improve your game play.

One of these is Keep Them Under Our Wing.

Keep Them Under Our Wing with the Scout Quest giver next to the Adviser Hall

Even once you've reached level 40, playing this quest in Elite mode gives you three level 40 chests, not too bad for a 10 minute quest.

On top of that, it's a good game for practicing a few basic skills, micro-managing your villies, etc.

Open the book to discover how to crack this quest!

Challenge: It's the Final Farm Down

The Helice Merchant, to left of the Palace, is the quest giver for the farm quests.

All of the three premium civs  offer a series of challenge quests which are often as much about improving your game play as anything else.  The Final Farm Down in the Greek civ is a good example of this.  In this series of challenge quests you have to build 10 farms in 10 minutes, and a minute is knocked off each subsequent quest, until finally you have a bare 5 minutes to build your 10 farms.

If you're anything like me, you were relieved to build your 10 farms in 6 minutes and were completely dismayed that you had to do it all again with one minute less.

I struggled a couple of times with the Final Farm down until I cottoned on to something really stupid which I
was doing.

Open the book to read more!

Strategy

A new Strategy section has been added to the site. Uncover the secrets of the sage's teachings by learning the strategies and applying them to your PvP game. Enemies will cower in fear as you execute your plan to perfection. First up is a very popular build in the current metagame.

Villager Rush

1. Put all villagers on food
2. Rally your Town Center to food sources
3. Continue pumping out villagers
4. Put two-three on wood
5. Build houses as necessary
6. Once you have about 15-20 villagers, attack
1. Alternative: Leave a few villagers behind to gather resources in case it fails

Civilization: Any

How to Execute it:

Grand Opening of the Sage's Ancient Manuscript

This blog will feature various tips, hints, strategies, emotional tirades, and more to help you stay on top of your Age of Empires Online game. You, yes, you, will be the sole proprietor of a kingdom that will shine above all else. Read what's written in this old manuscript carefully, and it will reveal to you the secrets of generations past.