Talk:The Lion and the Demon/@comment-1.125.48.131-20170215131631

Obviously there are a few ways to win this one. I concentrated on spamming fishing ships and gold mining mostly so that I could keep replenishing Elite Mamelukes and Heavy Camels, as they are far more important than spamming castles. It was important to keep the attacks away from the city walls for as long as possible (the constant barrage of siege weapons will cut through them like butter and once they're breached, it goes downhill fast), so at the start I gated the three cliff openings and built a triple wall in the SE corner passage. Use the guard's warnings to send out parties to intercept and take down enemy seige weapons before they have got to your city walls - massed Mams and Cams are very effective against most enemy units, except (as previously mentioned) Tuetonic Knights and maybe Longbowmen but these can be left for your towers and castle anyway.

After a few minutes, I started building the Wonder next to the southern castle in place of the blacksmith - this gives you a little more time if they breach the city and the castle will deal with any Genoese ships. A reasonably difficult mission (if you don't opt for the island strategy) but very rewarding when you win.