Age of Mythology: Retold - Best Egyptian Build Orders

The best Egyptian Build Orders in Age of Mythology: Retold are centered on either using certain Egyptian Major Gods abilities (such as Set’s ability to allow Priests to convert animals) in conjecture with some really smart usage of Minor God Powers, or relying on an economic advantage to build a strong army in the first 10 minutes of a match.

While we focused here on playing with Set or Ra (the strongest and the weakest Major Egyptian God, respectively), some of the best Egyptian Build Orders in Age if Mythology: Retold also include Isis. In fact, that one is so good that we covered it in the list of the best Build Orders in the game, regardless of the Pantheon.

With that being said, the following Build Orders are smart enough to surprise your opponents with, and any player, casual or pro, can use them, as they’re easy to follow and implement. You might want to try them with AI first – go for the Extreme/Legendary difficulty mode and see how they work there.

It’s also worth noting that these Build Orders mainly focus on starting the game, but they can be easily adapted to long-term matches as well after you get a grip on your enemy.

Without further ado, let’s get into it.

Here are the best Egyptian Build Orders in Age of Mythology: Retold

The 2 Anubites Rush Order Build (Set)

Archaic Age:

1. 3 Villagers to gather Food from Animals.
2. Build a Monument and a House.
3. Build a Gold Mine and order 2 Villagers to gather Gold.
4. When the Monument and House are done, get the Villagers to mine Gold.
5. Recruit Villagers until you have 9 to Food.
6. Build a Temple.
7. Put all the Food Villagers to mine Gold.
8. Advance to the Classical Age
   • Choose Anubis (mandatory).

Classical Age:

1. After you advance, recruit another Anubite immediately.
2. Attack your enemy with the Anubites.
3. Build your army, recruit more Anubites, and send them to the enemy base.

Why It Works: You can quickly get 2 Anubites to harass your enemy early in the game. These myth units are incredibly effective against human infantry, and you can quickly kill dozens of the enemy’s Villagers with them. If you can, upgrade them as soon as possible, and you’ll most likely win the match very early.

The Ptah Shifting Sands Rush (Set)

Archaic Age:

1. Send 2 Villagers to Food
2. Build a Granary near the Hunt.
3. Send 1 Villager to Gold
4. Build a Mining Camp on Gold.
5. Use the Pharaoh to empower Granary.
6. Recruit 1 Villager and send it to Gold.
7. Recruit 2-3 Priests
   • Convert the best animals – Rhinos, hippos, elephants.
   • Scout the map with a weak converted animal.
8. Build a house.
9. Send villagers to Food.
   • You should have 9 in total.
10. Send the rest of the villagers to Gold.
11. Build a Temple.
12. Gather 350 Food.
13. Leave 5 villagers on Food,
    • Order the other 4 Villagers to Gold.
14. Use the Pharaoh to empower the Mining Camp.
15. Recruit 2-4 Priests.
    • Upgrade your Priests.
16. Advance to the Classical Age.
    • Choose Ptah (mandatory).

Classical Age:

1. Gather all of your converted animals, priests, and Pharaoh.
2. Cast the Vision God Power on the enemy.
3. Cast Shifting Sands on your gathered units and then on the enemy villagers.
   • They will be teleported to the enemy base, giving you the flexibility to attack as you please.
4. Send new villagers to Gold.
5. Take the nearest Settlement and build a Town Center.
6. Send new Villagers to gather food.
7. Order 2 villagers from Gold to gather Wood.
8. Build a monument.
9. Build 2 barracks around the monument.
10. Recruit units and send them to your enemy’s base.
    • Axeman, Slinger, Spearmen.

Why It Works: You can easily destabilize your enemy by using converted animals, and with the Vision and Shifting Sands in hand, you can infiltrate the enemy’s base without taking damage on the road. It allows you to control the movements of your opponent precisely. You can kill its Villagers or upcoming Infantry while building your army.

Ra’s Rain Economic Push (Ra)

Archaic Age:

1. Send your three initial Villagers to hunt Food.
2. Recruit 1 Villager and build a Monument
   • Order it to go mine gold.
3. Recruit 2 more Villagers and send them to mine Gold.
4. Recruit 6 more Villagers, and order them to hunt Food.
5. Send Villagers to mine Gold until you gather 150.
6. Build a Temple and a House, simultaneously using 2 Villagers.
7. When you reach 16 population, drop off all your food and advance to the Classical Age.
   • Choose Ptah.
8. Keep 3 Villagers on Food, the rest of them on Gold,
   • Use your pharaoh to empower the Gold gathering and your priest to empower the Food gathering.

Classical Age:

1. Build a Villager Center and
2. Order 4 Villagers from Gold to gather Wood.
3. Research Pickaxe, Shaduf, Husbandry and Plow,
4. Switch the Wood Villagers back to Gold.
5. Get the Food Villager to mine Gold.
6. Build as many Houses as you can.
   • Preferably around Guard Towers.
7. Build an Armory.
8. Build 12-14 Farms around your Town Center when Shaduf is researched.
9. Recruit Villagers for Farms, and then cast Rain.
10. You can quickly advance to Heroic Age now.

Why It Works: You’ll be able to use the Rain God Power to maximum efficiency and gather hundreds of Food resources in under a minute, quickly giving all you need to advance to Heroic Age in under 7 minutes. This will allow you to research better infantry and build a deadly army quickly.

These are the best Egyptian Build Orders in the Age of Mythology: Retold. Special thanks to aombuildorders.com for the inspiration. If you have any Egyptian Build Orders of your own, be sure to drop them down in the comments section below.

And if you’re looking to play with the Greek Pantheon, make sure to check the best Build Orders for it.