Don't get worried when you can't find your
towers - you don't have any, at least not a the beginning. You only have some pioneers,
soldiers, priests, thieves, geologists and a few cannons. The
easiest approach here is to send your cannons ahead and fire on the towers. Use your
troops to protect your cannons. If everything goes well, you be able to destroy all the
towers without conquering them. You can then take the territory with your pioneers and get
on with some settling.
You will find all of the necessary basic building materials in the
storage areas, that is, where they were, or hidden in the woods. Get started at once
producing enough wood and stone. On the mountain nearby you will find coal and iron ore
(see map). Remember to keep your miners fed with enough fish.
In order to promote your soldiers, you will have to expand your
territory to incorporate the small areas of swampland in the north. Use your pioneers for
this. Then you can get started producing manna.
From this point you have three possibilities for
continuing.
The first possibility is "the more, the merrier". You
just recruit as many soldiers as you can and get them all promoted to their highest rank.
Increasing their fighting strength will be difficult. Gold can only be found in a few
small areas which are also difficult to reach.
The second possibility makes use
of the sulfur deposits available. You can build a couple cannons which you can use to deal
with the majority of the enemy towers and then you can capture the rest of the territory
using your pioneers.
The third possibility is a combination of the first
two along with the use of the tactic of surprise. You send almost all the cannons you
produce as well as some 80 - 100 soldiers (the majority swordsmen and spearmen) through
the middle.
The remaining troops are then divided between the two other ways.
Now it becomes a matter of the proper coordination. First, only 3
large towers along the middle way are destroyed. Shortly before this, you should make
sporadic attacks at the other two passages. In most cases all of the enemy troops will
then rush to the buildings being attacked (there could be exceptions).
Now you can clear the way with cannons
and leave only three towers around the gong halls standing (they should not be right next
to eachother, otherwise the entire area will not be covered; ideally the north, southwest
and southeast).
All that remains is capturing these towers.
Whether the last possibility works or not depends on the
coordination of the troops sometimes. It is the most difficult but at the same time the
fastest variant.
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