Hero Strategies

[PiR]

I use Maui to plan building Zimbabwe.

 

[Socrates99]

Maui's been a godsend for coastal cities imo. He creates useful tiles to work and if you get him there before the border expands too much you can get killer harbor adjacencies.

I used Himiko to wipe out deity Macedonia in the classical. I only had a small handful of units in 2 cities when he DoWed me early on. I used her and Amani to suzeraine and levy 3 CS armies. Then her combat bump nullifies the deity combat bonus and you just steamroll anyone you want.

 

[Alaindor]

Maui sounded promising to me but he just kept spawning bonus resources such as stone, rather than luxuries... meh? Probably bad luck for my first game using heroes mode

 

[walkerjks]

You can game Maui some if you know what resources will spawn where. Nothing but luxuries will spawn in desert plains, for example. The other common use for Maui is all ocean usage to up harbor adjacencies and to take further advantage of god of the sea pantheon. Maybe others have niche uses of Maui. Overall, I rarely try to claim him (particularly since you can no longer get luxuries not in the game), but he has his use and sometimes you just just don't find the heroes you would really like.

 

[Alaindor]

Okay, will give him another chance... up to now, I found Himiko a game changer, Hercules OP, Beowulf a favourite (took two walled CS in classical era almost by himself!) and the twins. Didn't like Arthur but probably I overlooked the fact that knighted units die after use so it left me too weak afterwards...