Dealing with Hydras

[Lingchih]

OmikronWarrior said:
Offhand, I'd say some very high protection thugs with poisoin immunity to occupy them while a whole bunch of archers attack. Remember, hydras cost between 10 or 20 normal units, and that kind of investment means the player is very vulnerable in having invested so much into this one tactic.

I don't know, but I would doubt an LA Pythium player would have just invested in Hydras. Their elite infantry is the best in the LA game, and I would hope any player could back up those Hydras with their hard-to-beat infantry.

[Aezeal]

If he has so much unit so early in the game (low research yet it seems) then he must have pumped it all in hydra's 40 of them is like 10 + turns of cash (assuming some researchers have been recruited too)

[HoneyBadger]

Even Heracles needed help, and he didn't manage to kill the Hydra, he just cut off most of it's heads and buried the last one under a rock. The Hydra got it's revenge, in the end: it was the Hydra's poison that did Heracles in, in the end, that and his wife and her tricksy centaur lover.

[Gregstrom]

I can thoroughly recommend archers, as stated above. Even if it's just to lop off as many heads as possible before you face them in melee.