Talk:Unconditional Loyalty/@comment-27263122-20180319181701

I hate this map sooo much. Hard killed so much time...

Hints? Urgh... I want some hints myself...

Rebels are monsters. Destroying their outlying bases early on is smart, but then you'll find them using all sorts of ways to get at you. Either they'll storm through the city and through either of the three gates (if you somehow have the gates unlocked/broken through), or they'll swarm the west side of the map. It isn't even a small swarm as they send elephants, two-handed swordsmen, onagers, battering rams, and skirmishers. The most annoying is when there are onagers and skirmishers there, since the skirmishers have small range and fire from in front of the onager and block your castle arrows from taking down the onager early enough.

Since Rebels are also Malay, they're better later on than early. You'll find swarms hitting you, and it doesn't help that Rakrian is patrolling between bases and being overall annoying.

Take out Rakrian early if you don't want much trouble. Destroy the production bases using whatever, since their troops don't really care about you much. Only issue is the straggler Trowulan in the city with their siege and arbalests.

While a trash war with Two-handed Swordsman is fun, you'll find them limited against the AI rebel. A better player than me wouldn't be in so much trouble, but since I was sending them against the onagers... but yea. Those siege rip through the fragile two-handed like wheat.

Food is easy to get though. You'll have 2 ponds on your side of the map. Simply build 2 docks at each, then spam fishing ships and fishing traps. Trust me when I say this is both fast and efficient. Even in a trash war I was surplus in food.

Trade with Arya will be very important if you want good siege on hand. Luckily you'll have a good portion of the map to yourself, so it isn't really an issue of making routes. I basically stopped lumbering after getting these two systems up. Stone is damn limited, as usual.