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!

Consumables and the Crafting Hall

Consumables are items which you can use while on a quest.  They can be dropped automatically into a quest without the need to use the resources you have gathered during the quest.

The Craftsman school symbol

I have to admit I'm not a big user of consumables myself.  Not because I'm opposed or anything like that, but as a general rule, once I'm up and about in a quest, focusing on the game, I just don't think about whatever conusmables I have.

It is fair to say that the elite player (that doesn't include me) will generally shun consumables, because:

1. they don't need them; and
2. well.... they don't need them.

Having said all that, I believe they do have their place in AoEO so it's worthwhile getting to know them a bit better.

Open the book to learn about consumables!