Atlanteans/Strategy

The Atlanteans a civilization with a heavy emphasis on quality over quantity. As a result their units are powerful but expensive and often take up multiple population slots.

Strengths
The Atlanteans have a powerful economy due to their villager unit, the Citizen. Citizens are expensive but are very efficient. They can build faster than the villagers of other civilizations and do not need to drop off resources, instead sending them directly to the stockpile. This saves time as they do not need to move between points and resources as they do not need to build a drop off point. As a result the Atlantean economy develops fairly quickly. In addition they have the ability to build Town Centers in the Archaic Age, allowing them to expand right away.Their military is composed mainly of infantry. The Murmillo is the standard unit for the Atlanteans and is available in the Classical Age. They cannot train any other units from their barracks during this time. Instead other Classical Age units are trained from the Counter-Barracks, which trains units made to counter specific units. In the Heroic Age cavalry and archers become available. Another major strength for the Atlanteans is that they can use their God Powers multiple times. This allows the Atlanteans to harass the enemy with God Powers or strengthen themselves to provide an advantage. Atlantean Heroes are fairly easy to mass. Instead of having a specific hero unit they can upgrade any of their units to heroes, which grants them an attack bonus against Myth Units in addition to whatever strengths they already possessed. This allows Heroes to participate in general combat, not just against Myth Units.

Weaknesses
Citizens, while useful, are very expensive and take up multiple population slots. This makes starting off somewhat more difficult as training them requires more time and resources. Population is often an issue because of the Citizen. In addition upgrading units to Heroes increases their population space. As a result the Atlanteans cannot train as many units as other civilizations, which is why they focus on having a few strong units as opposed to a large army. The Atlanteans also lack any long range siege units. As a result their siege units have to get close to enemy defenses, leaving them vulnerable to a quick counter-attack by the enemy.