Talk:Cyprus/@comment-31462314-20190620050049

Yet another Forgotten Empires map bugged to hell in a handbasket. But you can still win without cheating. Here are some tips:

1) When tasked to destroy Messina's Warehouses, just load up your 4 battering rams with pikemen to make them faster, breach the gate and then only destroy the warehouses along the coast.

2) One bug I could not find a workaround is the whole "load 50 units onto your transport ships before setting sail". You see, first of all, you barely get any resources to create that many units. If you used tactic 1), you should still have enough surplus troops left to not depend on creating a lot more tho. Make sure to create at least 1 scout cavalry since you will need him to explore Cyprus.

Second of all, even if you do fill all transport ships and then click on Tancred's castle to set sail, you get caught in a storm and then can recover only 4 of your 5 transports, of which 1 is empty and quest-related. So essentially your invasion of Cyprus happens with 30 of 50 troops and you don't get more than 3 battering rams.

3) When trying to find your ships, that quest will only close if you find all your ships. If some get sunk because Cyprus and Limassol are your enemies, then this quest wont finish as it needs to have a certain number of ships to trigger.

4) To complete 3) properly, you should therefore set your stance to enemy with these two factions, and then explore the map with your galeon, galley and fire ships. That way any enemy ships you intercept can be sunk without you losing your own ships. Search around and collect as many ships as possible BEFORE heading to the north-eastern coast of Cyprus to trigger your sister's empty boat quest progression since thats where the enemy ships will most likely be. Also, avoit tower and castle fire.

5) Now comes the tough part. You need to capture 2 castles by bringing Richard the Lionheart next to them for them to automatically convert. Thats the easy part. The hard part is managing this with 30 lousy castle age troops against an Imperial Age Limassol on steroids.

Here's how to accomplish the impossible: First, the location of the castles. One is to the north, inside a walled enclosure protected by a gate from the rest of the city, and another gate leading outside the city. The 2nd castle is at the southern end of Limassol. The best way to achieve this impossible feat is to travel all the way north to the map and breach the gate there with your three rams. This will (as usual also) trigger citywide recruitment, but now you gotta be fast. Once you are through, move Richard to the castle to gain control of it. At this point you will already start getting swarmed by troops, but this means the enclosure gate will be open, you you can slip Richard through and into the city without having to breach this gate with your rams as well.

Now zig-zag Richard through the streets and get him to the southern castle ASAP, he can only take a few ballistics enabled volleys before he dies, so you have to maneuver him well but you can then manage to gain control of the 2nd castle and once you do, the whole city converts including all spawned military units which means you now also have an army to defend against Komnenos' raids from the West.

Rest of the map was pretty easy, Anne and Komnenos are holed up in one of the 3 castles of Nicosia, when you conquer the city and your trebuchets destroy their castle, try not to kill your sister and she will change color once all castles are destroyed while Comnenos gets captured i.e. disappears.