Empire Earth/The Early Helladic Peoples

This level isn't especially difficult and can be done in about ten minutes if you know what to do, slightly more if you do everything there is to be done on the map.

Mission information
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 * Summary
 * 1) Bring Kalkas to Troas' Dock
 * 2) Cross the Aegean Sea into Thessaly
 * 3) Build a city on the summit in Thessaly


 * Victory Conditions
 * 1) One Settlement in Thessaly
 * 2) One Temple in Thessaly
 * 3) Heracles has been to the summit in Thessaly

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 * Defeat Conditions
 * 1) Heracles or Kalkas dies
 * Factions
 * 1) Greeks - Blue (Player)
 * 2) Troas - Orange
 * 3) Dorians - Green


 * Epochs Available
 * 1) I - Prehistoric Age
 * 2) II - Stone Age

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 * Special Units
 * 1) Heracles (Strategist Hero)
 * 2) Kalkas (renamed Prophet with unusually high health)

Walkthrough
As soon as you get control, have your Citizens start harvesting food and wood. You don't need to make more Citizens, what you already have is enough.

Meanwhile, take Heracles and Kalkas to the southwest, through the dirt road. You might encounter a few orange Citizens but don't bother with them; Troas will just keep making more and there aren't any consequences for killing them anyway. After a while, you reach Troas. Steer clear of the towers until you reach the shore then stop. Take advantage of Kalkas' boosted sight range for scouting and locate the group of Clubmen guarding the Dock. Use Malaria on them then run back to Heracles and let him take care of the now weakened enemies. Once they are all dead, use Heracles to destroy the first Tower guarding the Dock. The occasional Citizen might come to repair it but one stab from Heracles will scare them off.

As soon as the Tower is down, pull Heracles back and let him heal while you take Kalkas to the Dock which comes under your control. By now your Citizens have harvested enough wood to build ships so build two Transport Rafts, taking care to keep them out of the other Tower's firing range. Now Troas has served its purpose and you can ignore it. Your next problem are the enemy War Rafts patrolling the sea. While the game hints recommend you to build War Rafts of your own, it's a much better use of resources if you just summon a Hurricane with Kalkas and send it out to the sea where it kills any enemies it comes across. During your cleaning of the sea, you might want to advance into the Stone Age; it will give you a unit you can put to good use.

Once you have 325 wood and a decent amount of food, send all your citizens down to the shore and load them into the transports with your heroes; note that Kalkas takes five spaces so you can't fit your whole population into one raft, hence why I said to build two. Once you are certain the enemy has no more War Rafts in the way, sail to the west until you reach land then disembark. From now on, you have to be careful: Dorian horsemen are patrolling Thessaly and you don't want to get caught by them. If you do, your Citizens should focus fire on one Dorian at a time and you will bring them down with small casualties (but keep in mind that Citizens have permanent scout behavior, meaning that they won't auto-attack enemies and will run away if attacked while idle; you have to babysit them if you want them to fight). Send Heracles to the summit but keep the others back until you're sure there are no Dorians on the way. If you get into a fight, use your Citizens while Heracles stays back and provides healing.

Before you do anything else, build a Barracks and start building Spearmen once you're in the Stone Age. They will keep the Dorians off while you build the rest of your city. Every time you build a major building, a wave of Dorians will attack. As soon as all required buildings are up, you win.

If you want more Civilization Points, you can attack and destroy the Dorian city north of the summit. Your Spearmen have the advantage due to bringing spear against mace; the tutorial wasn't exaggerating about unit counters. You could also use your advancement into the Stone Age to build up an infantry force and raid Troas, although you can do the mission without that one.