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If your having a difficult time completing a level
try the following tips
Try building the basic castle needs such as a Marketplace Mercenary
Post Granary Stockpiles and Industry Buildings then save there
It is easier to start at that point in case your placement of
some walls or towers do not work well
Pause game play whenever you can to save time It is very important
to build faster than the enemy
Keep your money making resources Food Rocks Iron Pitch or
Weapons protected or put walls around them to keep them safe
Capitalize on them whenever you can
Create layers of walls around or in front of important towers
and other targets that the enemy likes to knock down
Horse archers are very useful in this game especially when aggressing
enemy castles with Mongonels to help put big holes in enemy walls
and a few swordsman as guard dogs
By immediately placing a group of Woodmans Huts around a enemy
base then putting them to sleep you will block the area and
prevent him from building Barracks or a Mercenary Camp It costs
a lot of Wood but it means they cannot make any troops and therefore
very easy to defeat Note This does not work on the pig
When attacking a castle concentrate on the enemy Barracks Once
destroyed try to block it from being rebuilt by placing troops
over its remains Again it makes the enemy easier to defeat without
it producing more troops
The Ballista is good at holding positions far from the security
of your home base Get a group of about eight built with approximately
twenty Archers and stick a couple Trebuchets in the middle of
them The Trebuchets can attack the enemy castle well protected
If needed you can always take the six Engineers from them to
make three more Ballista when the enemy counterattacks Ballista
are also great at taking out enemy troops on the castle walls
especially fire throwers
On several levels there is very little farm land but you always
find at least one resource available Stone or Iron Concentrate
on the mining and sell it at the market for Food
Have both Archers and Crossbowmen on Towers five each for a
good defense Add a Ballista on the Tower to make it better as
they have a huge range and can even hit attacking Trebuchets
To protect farms etc outside your walls build a Tower and a
Gate next to each other This allows you to put Archers in and
have them protected from enemy soldiers entering the Tower You
Crossbowmen
Crossbowmen are useful for base and offensive measures You should build up at least fifteen Crossbowmen at the start Buy them and place a tower near a stronghold or farm depending on the landscape For offensive tactics build up at least 75100 Crossbowmen 2 Balista or 8 Assassins and 2 Catapults Take out enemy tower first then move the Baslistas and Crossbowmen in for the kill Pick off enemy troops and use Assassins to take the gate house or have a Siege Tower so you can get on to the ramparts Then have your Crossbowmen shoot the Enemy Lord while only suffering minimal casualties Note This does not work well in multiplayer games against human opponents without the support of a lot of Swordsmen However this is still a high risk tactic in multiplayer mode as the opposing lord may wipe out your Crossbowmen For base defense when you have your production up and running you need to have two to three large Siege Towers full of Crossbowmen This tactic works very well To get crossbowmen recruits up and running build one or two dairy farms Then build three Tanners to each farm and have three or more armorers to build crossbows Have eight or more peasants around the campfire You should have your keep enclosed by now If you have a money source you can buy Crossbowmen Have many iron mines or quarries for income Also you can have inns and raise taxes You should also have gardens for the people
Food management
It is easier to build manage and supply Inns rather than food because ale lasts longer You can use the extra available farm space to build wheat fields and mills to make flour Once you have flour you can sell it for a profit or you can make bread and raise your taxes
Gold
During the beginning of the game if you have good open space around you Granary on an oasis you can build three or four Apple Orchards two or three Dairy Farms two Hops Farms then build only three Wheat Farms around the Granary Then near the Granary where there is not an oasis space build a Mill and two Bakeries This will keep constant food production it will not run out even when you have about a 90 population limit Next build one or two Breweries and one or two Inns Also build a Church This will get the population happy to about 4 Wait until you have 100 popularity then raise the taxes to average taxes Keep that at a constant rate and you can have a lot of gold flowing into your keep
Great economy
When you first start use all your stone to set up some defenses and build four to six Wood Cutters Huts Build a market as soon as possible and buy about 150 Wood Build nothing but Wheat Farms in your farming area If you have some resources nearby such as Rocks or Pitch use them to get some Gold As soon as you start to get some Wheat build about four to six Mills and about twenty to thirty Bakeries Once you get enough food set it to Double Rations and if you have enough gold build a couple Chapels Churches or Cathedrals If you have all three you will get 3 points on Religion Buy some Hops and build some Breweries Place about four Inns throughout your Castle About halfway through this process you should set the Tax to 4 When you are done with this you can set the Tax to 12 or even 20 depending on the map Make sure to keep your defenses up With this setup you will soon have more than 2000 Food even with double rations over 20000 gold and a very good a stockpile
Hold enemies captive inside their own castles
Take a small building such as an Oxen Tether Place one or two of them directly outside the gatehouses of your enemys castle but make sure their keep is enclosed first Immediately put the Oxen Tethers to sleep The ground troops will walk to the gatehouse to destroy them but cannot get through They will just walk back to their spot Your enemys buildings outside of the castle will spontaneously crumble because the workers cannot get back inside Also the gatehouses that you blocked may spontaneously crumble after awhile Soon there will be no food and the peasants will leave the castle The small army will be trapped inside their own walls awaiting your arrival When your army is built up you can move over and wipe the whole castle off the map Note Make sure that there are no enemies outside of the castle or else they will probably destroy your Oxen Tethers
Lookout towers
Lookout towers are very useful as they give good missile unit defense Build an army of 20 Archers and select 5 of them Set the game to slow speed and send the 5 archers to the tower Quickly select another 5 Archers and send them in before the others get there Do the same for the other 10 to get 20 archers on a small tower
Mangonels
Towermounted Mangonels can prove to be good siege weapons In many maps the keeps start in close proximity to each other Build your walls out as far as they can go Place round towers and lookout towers on the wall facing your opponents castle Fill them with Archers and Mangonels In many cases you can hit the enemys walls with the Mangonels from you own Also if you Archers can reach their walls you can clear his Archers from your own walls
Siege equipment on walls
Use the following trick to get siege equipment on walls not the mounted ones that are bought but the ones that you make Build a Gatehouse connected to a wall and build stairs far away from this Send the equipment that you want through the gate from the outside to the inside As soon as they are inside the gate shut it and they will appear on the wall heading for the stairs Stop them where desired but not on towers as they will disappear then you have a nice weapon on a wall
