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Mission 19:A Date with History(1249 A.D.)
19.A Date with History
Lord Mausser
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Wolf,Duc Volpe
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Walkthrough:19. A Date with History
Finally, after all these battles waging unfair wars against superior odds, you FINALLY get a proper duel. Sure, it's against the Wolf: one of the most challenging AI in the game. But hey, at least there's only one of him! Unless the map has some kind of gimmick like 'no stone' you should be perfectly fi-...
...what's that? He has 40,000 gold? And I have 3,000? Oh crap. This one is gonna be hard folks.
3000 is a little more than we're used to, having been stuck at 2000 for so many fights. Good thing is it let's us get going a little faster. Loading up the map we see a little bit of stone and iron nearby, some helpful grassland right above us, trees all about and even several hordes of deer.
I start with the Trading Post, Stockpile, Granary (set to half rations for now), hovels, an apple farm, a couple dairy farms, and wheat farms where I can squeeze them. I build several woodcutters around the grassland so I can tap them for farming later. Meanwhile, though we usually don't have the option, there are a TON of deer running around, which can multiply into headache levels unless you do some population control.
With this array of food assuming we're drawing all four types enough, the food variety and no taxes will keep our popularity neutral until we can afford full rations. Now, onto production. Cram 2-3 quarries into the nearby rock bed, and iron mines nearby as well. It won't be much, but it will be something. You might as well build your mills and bakeries now, since we start the game with a bit of wheat. Now onto defense.
Most challenges I recommend getting up defenses before infrastructure, but since the Wolf isn't much of a poker (and if he used his gold well he could kill us in a moment's notice), we can give it a bit of time. Normally I rely on gatehouses for safety or square towers for siege and height, but the problem is even when we extend our towers as far as they can go, that nearly doesn't provide enough reach to all of our resources, so this is what we'll do instead.
Run a thin strip of wall down your southern edge in a straight line. You want it to be a couple squares farther back than you physically can. Add stairs to one end, then sentry towers dotting the wall, with space left over for a couple square towers later. Voila, all your archers can get to these towers, about five each, and enjoy maximum range to rain death on a lot of would-be threats. We have a problem though. Except for a few errant waves of bowmen and horse archers, the Wolf LOVES heavy units, like pikes and swordsmen. That means to keep ourselves safe from full-scale buttwreck we need some ballistas and crossbows. Lots and lots of crossbows.
