Age of Mythology: Extended Edition – Guide for Oranos

Oranos Guide

Oranos 4:30 Build Order

• Easy to learn and execute
• Effective at all levels of play
• Balances Economy and Aggression
• Also works for Kronos and Gaia
• Is the most commonly used Build Order for 1V1s
• Works on all land maps

Archaic Age (4:30 Build Order)

• Auto-queue villagers
• Build economic guild and upgrade to hunting dogs
• Send free scouts around the map
• Get 2 food villagers
• Get 1 wood villager
• Get 1 gold villager
• Build house with gold (or wood) villager
• Get 2 more food villagers
• Build temple with gold (or wood) villager (Time should be around 3:05)
• Get 1 more gold villager
• Stop auto-queuing villagers
• Start advancing to classic age (Prometheus)
• Move 1 food villager to wood
• Upgrade to hand axe and pickaxe
• When you got 120-150 gold move 1 gold villager to wood

Note: Don’t build sky passages too early.

Classical Age (Prometheus)

• There should be 2 food, 3 wood and 2 gold villagers
• Auto-queue Prometheans (Not necessarily and only until 115 population)
• Build 2 counter-barracks
• Build 1 house
• Build 1 barrack
• Auto-queue Turma, Murmillos (until 115 population)
• Use the Valor god power on one villager and 3 military units/oracles
• Harass your enemy’s hunt sources and guard your own hunters
• Harass your enemy’s wood and gold sources
• Build more houses (until you have 115 population space)
• Try to get 3 town centers early on
• New villagers all go to wood
• Put 8 citizens on farms
• Build an Amory
• Start advancing to the heroic age (Theia)
• Build 3 or 4 barracks for Arcus

Heroic Age (Theia)

• Place the tree god power near the town center (to protect from other god powers)
• Get economic upgrades
• Build a palace
• Train Destroyers and Arcus
• Build market (trade wood for gold, gold for food, if necessary)
• Quickly start advancing to mythic age (Hekate)

Mythic Age (Hekate)

• Quickly get the titan and/or attack the enemy with the help of Tartarian gate
• Get Mythic Rejuvenation for your titan

General Tips

• Take a 2nd Town Center (around 8:30 if you don’t lose too many soldiers, take it even earlier against Egyptian, right after you harass him off hunt.)
• Attack your enemy on his 2nd Gold Mine (His first 3000 gold runs out at about ~10 minutes in game usually, a bit later for Greeks.)
• Your goal: Either gold starve your opponent, secure a 4-2 TC advantage or gain a large economy advantage and win in the mythic age with Tartarian Gate and a push or build a Titan Gate
• Stymphalian Birds are very powerful against Norse, and Lampades can be used to counter big myth units such as Fire Giants and Colossus
• Try denying your opponent gold by controlling gold mines and their trade route
• If you choose to go for a Titan Gate, place it next to Hesperides Tree to protect it from God Powers
• Controlling your oracles to constantly be walking instead of standing still is better for collecting pigs/goats/cows
• After advancing, try to hide your oracles near settlements and gold mines to get vision of them
• It is often worth using Shockwave just to pick off one or two units
• Turma can dodge most projectiles while moving (this is only the case for Oranos, and not for Kronos and Gaia)