If you have diplomacy points, first upgrade it to get more wood. Instead, capture the closest commander as soon as possible and start ordering wood from him. There will be strong enemy troops, so you have nothing to catch on the other side. So, looking ahead, I will say that crossing the river is absolutely unnecessary and undesirable. Fight off the attack of local tribes and Hung warriors. When you have established production, stand at the intersection and follow the map. And you can get wood yourself from sawmills. You will have enough stone since in the future it will not be needed at all. Interact with them to collect additional resources. In addition, the locations have pallets with bags and barrels. It is better to make a little more archers to make it easier to capture enemy camps. Then build workshops for shooters and axes, and then create a squad of archers and axes. Build it all up and focus on building sawmills, rice paddies and home. The second purpose is the construction of an arsenal and barracks. Until you do this, the enemies, it seems, will not attack you. First, you need to finish building the wall.
The stones are useful for several purposes. Subsequently, I recommend creating another quarry and a couple of harnesses. After killing everyone, gather the troops together, break the gates and complete the remaining objectives, including the lord.Ä«uild vegetable fields, then create a quarry and a buffalo harness. Then pick up the moment, hire about 30-40 archers and use them to attack enemy archers on a stone wall. When ready, cross the river and capture the fifth general. Gold will be needed to hire all the same archers and axes. Two consulates should be enough to provide yourself with enough diplomacy points. Continue to hire archers and axes, capture other commanders to the left and right of the first. Then build a consulate and send a letter to the commander for the supply of gold. Do not forget to build rice fields, at least one more workshop and a couple of sawmills. As soon as you conquer the first fortress, be sure to place archers on top. They can attack enemies from afar, which means you can conquer almost all commanders without significant losses. In general, archers work wonders at this location.
You can download a saved game of this mission here in the downloads section.As soon as you hire 5 archers and axes each, you can capture the nearest fortress of the commander. Apart from that, just charge at the keep, and you'll easily capture it! But remember - the less enemy troops you kill, the more you will have at the start of the next mission! However, you could also send your stake hurlers in further and take the enemy stake hurlers out - this would greatly reduce the casualties that you experience. Next, time your cross from the wall so that the patrolling macemen do not attack your troops. These will help to make sure your laddermen don't get picked off. And almost instantly, send your archers into the wall along with your spearmen. Now, send all your laddermen in towards the corner you cleared out along with your siege tower. Once they've been killed, send them back - you'll need them for the next mission. Next, send your stake hurlers further forward and take out all the troops on the wall to the far left. Don't send them to the second location first, or they will take the lazy way out of cutting the corner and get killed by the troops on the castle walls. Once they have been killed, send your troops directly to the left of where you are to the trees, and then straight up the map. So the question is now, where to attack that will cost the least amount of lives? Well, that part is simple as well! At the start of the mission, send your archers to the left of your cats and wait for several moments - several enemy archers are patrolling exactly where you need to be, and you can kill them before they get in range otherwise several of your spearmen will die (at least).
And there are two bonusesĀ achieved by not killing enemies when it isn't needed firstly, you save troops, but secondly, at the start of the second mission, you are any enemy troops are automatically converted to your own troops. You need to take the castle in this mission - and it's rather easy to destroy it and take it - however, before you go diving in killing enemies you don't need to - all you need to do is capture the village hall at the top of the hill. Number of starting Troops: 65 Archers, 61 Men-At-Arms, 10 Laddermen, 6 Stake Hurlers, 3 Cats, 2 Manlets, 1 Siege Tower