The early game is remarkably important and a strategy has to be in place from when you spawn the very first villager. There are a lot of defense missions where you need to guard a given structure or an entire town from enemy assault. Better still, many missions combine a number of these objectives simultaneously. The age of mythology means an ancient time when people believed in different Gods, each of them with different strengths. While the majority of the missions enable you to build a base and begin collecting resources, there are a few missions where you must make do with a certain number of troops.