Stragey Guide

This page will serve as starting point for a 0 A.D. strategy guide. The basics will go in this page, and a new page will be created with build order examples.

Basic concepts

There are several types of units :

• Female Citizens, that cannot fight.
• Regarding fighting units, you have infantry & cavalry, with both ranged units and melee units.

A (really general) overview can be summed up as:

• Strong civ phase 1 (early) --> Civ that have archers or slingers (britons, athenes, ptolemes, etc)
• Strong civ phase 2 (mid) --> Civ that have access to sword cav / archer cav / chariot (Celts / athenes / Mauryan / Persians etc)
• Strong civ phase 3 (late) --> I have no Idea yet but I'd say strong fortress, good siege, good champions --> Romans

In-game strategy

Many things can be considered when starting a game (they can influence your build order / strategy):

• what are the characteristics of the map
• what are the characteristics of the civilization
• to be continued

The map

• What is the size of the map?
• Is it naval or not?
• How many resources do you have? (this will help you devise your build order)
  1. Are there many forests?
  2. Do you have access to many stone or not?
  3. Do you have access to many metal or not?
• From where can the enemy attack you?

The civilization

To identify your civilization on a random game, you can use the "diplomacy" button at the top of the UI. We will list here the main characteristics of each civ.

Athenians

Britons

Carthaginians

Gauls

Iberians

Macedonians

Mauryans (Indians)

Persians

Ptolemies (Egyptians)

Romans (Republican)

• Romans is the only civ with a Phase I hack unit.

Seleucids

Spartans