Talk:Ruins of Empires/@comment-31462314-20190628131407

If you choose to aid Muhammad, the map is quite tough since you won't get any villagers to start an economy until you have destroyed the red castle. But since you cannot build or find a Siege Workshop, the only siege units you will have is one bombard cannon and a war elephant that can be found somewhere in the middle of the map. The best strategy is to clear all swahili villages from bantu forces, then bringing muhammad to the flags to gain additional soldiers, and to only after this take on Kilwa. Because in terms of economy, you can keep gaining food by building fishing ships and gain gold by trading with far away Mombasa ports, but you need wood and you cannot get it without villagers except buying them from the market for lots of gold.