Talk:The Story of Our Founders/@comment-27263122-20180317000237

Easy map since Mongols and Singhasari have their own little grudge down below, leaving you to easily build up. Plus, lots of res and stuff to take advantage of.

Some hints:

1: Build a dock early on, then get around 5 War Galleys. Send them down along the river, past a few Singhasari towers until you see a bunch of Singsahari villagers mining gold near a shoring point. Plant your war galleys there on defensive and just let them harass/kill the villagers. It'll hinder Singsahari somewhat, and you can even start an invasion from that direction while also mining more gold. Who doesn't want more gold?

2: Building a castle around the time when the Mongols are about to destroy Singhasari is a good way to hinder them when they turn. Mongol troops are fragile, and building cheap Karambit Warriors to counter the random rams is simple. Build the castle at the entryway to the Mongol's main base, which is south-east of the first Mongol TC you'll see.

3: Before destroying the Mongols, make sure you take down their towers (the ones giving pop limit). If you dont, and suddenly intake all of them, you may get glitched and only earn the equivalent of 1 tower's worth of pop rather than whatever you should have. For example, I suddenly gained 3 towers, but only had a bonus of 5 pop limit. That meant I had a max of 115 rather than the proper 125.

4: The castle blocking method works extremely well with Kediri. Put one some distance from their walls/towers, then let them suicide on your arrows. You can even build a second castle later on for greater ease and less Castle HP loss.

5: Wall off the trade route of Kidiri's trade carts. That or build some towers to kill them as they pass. You'll find Kidiri fall from sending Elephants + Archers + Skirmishers to simply sending skirmishers.

6: Malay near water is the best. One or two docks + fishing boats + infinite food fish traps = efficient. Ditch those farms and ditch the lumberjacks. You only need a fleet of fishing boats and a bunch of mines and you'll build a massive Elephant army before you know it.