Benefits of Hydra

[DeletedUser1405]

I just want some info on the benefits of this Myth unit, im trying to fit it in with a new strategy im working on, ive read all the guides but they dont beat real experience.
Can someone tell me where they found this unit at its strongest and no guesswork please only post if youve used them.
I would also like to know its weaknesess.

Thanks in advance.

 

[DeletedUser]

Weakness, it always is the first target of a storm, I caste a storm on 100 or so ls and 5 hydras and it selected all 5 hydras as a target. Ive found almost no use for this myth unit, or any myth unit that cant fly for that matter.... (but thats just personal opinion)

 

[DeletedUser]

Hydra is invalid because it is not the most succesfull form of attacking. It is a mythical creature that only roamed the seas. Pick a better god to worship such as zeus.

 

[DeletedUser2663]

if the devs got rid of the god supporting thing, where you can only support another city with myth units so long as they worship the same god, hydra's would be without a doubt the best cs escorts, the have = attack as an ls and nearly is as good as trimerines. apart from that the only + side with hydra's is they are unaffected by fireships. your enemy could have 1000 fireships and your hydra's would be unaffeacted by them. not sure if hydra's kill fireships though, but if they did that is another + on their half because you could kill 1000+ fire ships with a single hydra if that is the case.

its weakness is
1) to favour expensive
2) susceptible to sea storm and you will take more losses as in LS terms you will only lose them in bunches of 5 instead of maybe 1-4.

Hydra is invalid because it is not the most succesfull form of attacking. It is a mythical creature that only roamed the seas. Pick a better god to worship such as zeus.

hydra's are just as good for attacking as ls if not better because they are unaffected by fireships only difference is the hydra's are slower. shows you who the real idiot is aye.

I used them at the start of the game and found them to be effective but the time it takes to build them is definatly not worth it, better to build 2 ls nukes than the time it takes to build a hydra one.

 

[DeletedUser]

Comeon guys do we really have to stoop to insults? The guy is just asking for information.

 

[DeletedUser1405]

I can guess who de-repped me at least for asking.

 

[DeletedUser]

now thats just low. if someone asks a question, you don't de-rep them. anyways, hydras are bacially just super-good trirmes.... attack and defense.

 

[DeletedUser]

now thats just low. if someone asks a question, you don't de-rep them. anyways, hydras are bacially just super-good trirmes.... attack and defense.

I disagree, ships target them, I had 115 biremes, and 1 hydra, I was attacked, only 5 briemes died, but the hydra died also :Angry:

 

[DeletedUser]

I once had 15 Hydra's in a city with 75 Ls (I think it was 75ls) and a city of mine was put under Conquest and the city had round about 300 Bri's. I killed all bri's with 2 Hydra's and a handful of Ls left (bearing in mind I had Favourable wind and good luck). I overall think Hydras do well with an Ls escort and a power cast over them.

 

[DeletedUser]

To the people saying Hydra's get targeted etc:

As far as I am aware, it is completely random

 

[DeletedUser]

To the people saying Hydra's get targeted etc:

As far as I am aware, it is completely random

it isn't. Zeus's rage goes for the units with the largest population count and the same with Sea storm

 

[DeletedUser1405]

So 10 Hydras attacking a decent size Bireme force wouldnt be worth it then, im looking for a clearing force to use alongside Lightships.
Im looking for something for the Hydras to work with to make a decent sea attack force, any suggestions.

 

[DeletedUser2663]

well if you want to make a hydra nuke you will need 40+ and that will do s good as a job of 200+ ls. when i first started playing on Gamma i made a 10 hydra escort for my first cs. as you can guess i got sea stormed which really stuffed me over, but i still managed with 8 hydra's to take out over 50+ bri's / tri's.

 

[DeletedUser1405]

Thats the point im trying to work out some decent numbers, yes you can use several blocks of 200 LS but im thinking of putting a Hydra Nuke in wih them.
Losses are acceptable because of the defensive capabilities of the Hydra

 

[DeletedUser6812]

From my experiance hydras are only good as Fake cs attacks.
speed makes them look so much Cs its fun Especially if you drop a few fake supports in afterwards!

Only useful as escorts for Cs's due to speed imo, and sea storm should never be an issue as why the hell would you not cast a god power on your cs to disguise it?

 

[DeletedUser]

Comeon guys do we really have to stoop to insults? The guy is just asking for information.

Nicely said

Anyone even asking questions shouldn't be insulted simply for asking advice.

If you have to confirm something without you actually knowing, it means that there is much in the world you haven't learn't, but have the opportunity to do so.

~V

 

[DeletedUser]

I once had 15 Hydra's in a city with 75 Ls (I think it was 75ls) and a city of mine was put under Conquest and the city had round about 300 Bri's. I killed all bri's with 2 Hydra's and a handful of Ls left (bearing in mind I had Favourable wind and good luck). I overall think Hydras do well with an Ls escort and a power cast over them.

They don't just do good with a power over them, as far as im concerned its the only way to use them... Also realize you can have bad luck with hydras, 20 hydras attacked 200 of my birems, I killed all 20 at a loss of only 50 birems... I seriously doubt it was worth the effort of makeing 20 hydras.

 

[DeletedUser]

I find them to be good mixed with a half decent LS escort, other than that they are pretty crappy.

 

[DeletedUser]

To prevent a sea storm, cast a spell on the attack. Guaranteed.

 

[DeletedUser]

Hydras are so slow they are only useful when sent together with the CS in conquest worlds because of their versatility. Pretty useless in a revolt world.