If the AI rushes after just a couple of minutes.....

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Can anyone tell me how to deal with the situations where the AI rushes with 6+ spearmen, one of them usually an elite, and just mows down any defense I can assemble, usually about 10 axemen and 5 spearmen, along with two defense towers and my town center without my defenses even killing half the attackers? In on situation, I had my scout run around to kite the attackers and that helped a bit, but the elite spearman all by himself brought down my town center without it being able to kill him. That just doesn't seem right.

I've read some posts mentioning a bug where even on normal difficulty the game is attacking as if on elite mode. Is this what is happening? Is there a way to tell? If that is what is happening, anyone know what I need to do to "reset" things? Do I have to restart the game completely because restarting the quest doesn't seem to fix it.

Any advice would be appreciated. This is really impacting my ability to quest and enjoy the game. Thanks!

|||This bug only activates on quests you can press elite. You can tell whether the quest is bugged by checking whether their units/towers are doing way more damage than normal. ex. If their guard towers are doing 50 damage a shot, it's probably the bug. To fix, try abandoning the quest, then re-accepting it. You need to click the abandon button instead of restart for that to work.
|||When this happened to me, I used the consumables that spawn troops like Heroic Aid.|||

The quest to get to cyprus is really discerning when playing egypt. I had to spam epic consumables to get passed the 3:00/10:00 sarri rushes.