Talk:Battles of Tarain/@comment-65.28.183.104-20190815004126

This is a very interesting scenario where several things can be either avoided or used to your advantage.

After the initial battle, in which I took control of the Archers, I proceeded to build several castles on the East side of the battlefield and train an army of Elephant Archers, Camels, Monks and Trebs. I also built structures over the spawn points of the War Elephants and Cavaliers spawned in order to keep them from filling up population space.

Economicall speaking, I created my settlement just to the southeast of the Battlefield, near where the berry bushes are. I trained villagers until I had 30 and began to instantly gather stone, food and gold. I took 8 villagers and brought them to the northern parts of Tarain. I built lumber camps there to let them gather wood in safety. I also took Prithviraj with them to kill any wolves or bears and to keep him safe.

With resources coming in, I advanced to the IA and built a few ships to destroy the navy of Bathinda and its docks. I then proceeded to train a transport ship, then destroyed my dock and ships. I took the ship with the villager to the southwesternmost part of the river where one can land and built a dock there. After training a dozen trade cogs, I sent them to Tarain's dock to get a constant flow of gold.

I played defensively until I had a massive army, some 80 elephant archers, 50 Imperial Camels, 25 Monks and 15 Trebs, albeit only having the monks FU. I then began to convert Elite War Elephants and Paladins as they attacked my wall of castles, adding them to my ranks. As I increased the size of my army, I upgraded all of my units and sent out raiding parties of Imperial Camels to Bathinda to cut off its water supply and destroy its market.

With Bathinda weakened, I took my Elephant Archers to it and destroyed everything save for its castle. I then brought them back and garrisoned them and my Imperial Camels in my castles. Sending forth the converted Paladins and a couple trebs, I destroyed the castle and triggered the Night Attack. With the units all garrisoned, I placed groups of monks around one castle and converted the units, letting them out one-by-one until I moved onto the next castle, all without loosing a unit. I repeated that until I converted back all of my army that swapped sides from the Night Attack.

By now I had enough gold to research spies, did so, and sent some 200 soldiers against Ghori. Although he trains halberdiers, I overwhelmed him with sheer strength of numbers.