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Summary: Read the book! Read any book on AOM! They will all help!!
Review: The book AOM: Sybex Official Strategies & Secrets, comes in handy in terms of explaining the cultures and their differences and the differences between AOM and other Age of Products. It does a very fine job explaining each god, hero, infantry, archer and all of the combinations there of within thereown cultures. That is what makes this game so compelling. The getting along and adjustments that your civ will have to make to your opponents civ to win. However, you have to read the book. I have read it several times and I pick up something new everytime. Certain soldiers play much better against certain others. The wrong match and it is a slaughter. The book gives several examples of how to start each civ at the start of a game and if the instructions are followed fairly closely you will get off to a very good/fast start. I know I did and I feel confident that I have gained a lot from the book to advance my play. I wish there were more books to read on this subject. More strategies to follow. Suffice it to say that there is so much to explore in terms of the variances of the game and the cultures. I believe Ensemble has integrated the nuances of the various cultures into the manner that they fight and they create their individual culture mannerism in the way they act as well. Any piece of writing will help, but since this is the first, by all means read it. The subtlety's of the cultures and the multitude of the god combinations are incredible. Can you imagine through the use of just one of the strategies I followed I whipped out a civ. with just the "walking tree power". Have fun with the game and the book.Thank you Ensemble Studios for all of your hard work!!!! And for giving us another in your series of civ games. Best regards,
Charlie
Rating: 
Summary: Great strategies
Review: This book supplies great strategies on anything you want to know. It goes into great detail for every team in economic and military tips. It also includes a dead-on appendix for all units and an excellent walkthrough through the 32 level campaign. If you want to get better at this game, get this book, because it's worth every penny.
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Summary: Its great, but could be better
Review: Well, its a great book to start to really take advantage of the different civilizations.
It has 6 strategys that can come handy.
All the stats that should be in the manual for all units are here.
The walkthrougs of the campaign its like the 70% of the book, thats why i didnt give it 5 stars.
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