Milestone techs from other civs - what would help Norse Throwing Axeman?

Pankrationing from Greeks - 8% damage boost.
Sturdiness from Babylon - 8% health boost.
That's the 2 main ones - For Rome and Egypt, 9/10 times you pick decreased building cost (Rome lvl 40), faster build time (Egypt lvl 5), because the overall eco boost these give is almost always better then the alternatives for infantry builds.
Celts have several good ones - Athleticism makes your infantry faster, and Weapons Master should let your throwing axemen crit (Maybe, crit has been bugged for Celts).
Persia doesn't really have anything good- 5% reduced train time translates into something like .2 seconds or so off Throwing Axemen train time, and you can already reduce that down to like 6 seconds.

Also, for Norse - The trickiest one is the lvl 40 one, and you should always, always pick Adaptiveness, it's a huge defensive boost in most older legendary quests, and a better boost then Parry in all other quests. Sunder vs Frenzy are pretty much on par with each other, though I'm partial to Sunder myself.

Good set of "guides" here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...o61pzQyDTPILsaH6f_XTx-fXo/edit#gid=1801545957 though some are outdated now. Milestones are still relevant though.

Also, what's your in-game name? I have numerous Axe of Piercing Frosts, which are best weapon at lvl 40 for Throwing Axemen, I'll send you one in the mail.

 

im just coming back in to the game after a long break. But i do remember having a lot of fun with axemen I'd say look at damage mostly, they are not strong guys defensively, so no point adding to that as a % increase wont add much. But add to their damage and they are a lot of fun. Especially when you have a huge amount of them haha.

 

So, in AoEO, you are going to have tens, if not hundreds of thousands of "hits" in pretty much every match. With the 2% crit milestone, you'll have hundreds or thousands of crits. Without that milestone, and no other sources of crit? 0 crits. With that said, it's still an overall increase of roughly 2% damage a game, so Athleticism can be a better pick. Up to you


[/QUOTE]Shoot well I have Parry set instead of Adaptiveness. My thought was to make my Norse have really good infantry since they have Berserkers and Throwing Axemen. I might reconsider though. I suppose if I have enough Throwing Axemen they shouldn't be doing melee anyway. I have Frenzy rather than Sunder, and it's probably a good thing for more attack rate on a Throwing Axeman. I know those Marduk's bow or whatever with attack rate from a Halloween event are pretty huge.
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Big ouch. Good news is that getting Empire Points is extremely easy now, getting that 1k can be easily done. Bad news? Adaptiveness is incredibly strong on quests with high Bonus Damage on units - on quests where units get a large 2.9x bonus it's essentially equal to 10% extra health, and far more on units with high bonus damage - over 5x bonus damage it's basically equal to 20% damage reduction. Even on quests where units don't get extra bonus damage, it's still a very good milestone as it helps remove a bit of damage off pretty much all ranged units (Which tend to have a minor amount of bonus damage from gear) and counter units - It's also huge on cavalry based civs since all spearman in the game have incredibly high bonus damage vs cavalry.