In this guide you will learn the 4:00 ptah shifting sands rush.
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Build Order
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Arhaic Age
- From the initial 3 villagers, send 2 to food(build granary on hunt) 1 to gold(build mining camp on gold).
- Empower granary with pharaoh
- Send 1 new villager to gold
- Send priest to convert the best animals you can find(Rhinos, hippos, elephants.)
- Scout the map with baboon + scout with the newly converted animals.
- Build house with gold vilager.
- Send all new remaining villagers to food until you have 9 on food total.
- Send remaining new villagers to gold.
- Build temple once you have 150 gold.
- Once you have around 350 food, drop off food to the granary with your hunt villagers, and leave 5 villagers on food, send the other 4 food villagers to gold
- Empower the mining camp with your pharaoh.
- Make 2 to 4 priests from your temple + get the priest upgrade.
- Click advance around 3:00
Classic Age
- Use vision on the enemy towncenter.
- Bring all your animals priests and pharaoh together and shifting sands them on the enemy villagers.
- Send new villagers to gold then take a towncenter with about 5 gold villagers.
- Send new villagers from both towncenters to food.
- Send 2 villagers from gold to wood.
- Make a monument .
- Make 2 barracks around the monument to get 5% cheaper units from the barracks.
- Make the units that counter your opponent. Axeman>infantry, Slinger>archers, Spearmen>cavalry.
Tips
- Scout the enemy base out with your converted animals to make sure you dont miss your vision.
- Move pigs to your granary if you run out of hunt in your base in arhaic to still get the right timing.
