Talk:The Breath of the Dragon/@comment-2804:7F4:C294:2F0A:38E0:BE4E:C4FB:FD6B-20190605063006

It is winnable without exploits. It does require some sick multitasking skills though. Since I don't have them I set the speed down to normal (always play on fast, but this one is just overwhelming). Playing on hard btw.

The key is getting ahold of the water. Start working on that from the start. Obviously, walling your backyard (mills' area) is the first priority. As long as that area is always safe you'll be able to boom later. Sending a hussar/light to the passes towards green and yellow to receive their sheeps and cows, and placing Drac/any horsemen near your lumber to prevent that annoying tower drop are the other early-game musts. Soon yellow attacks, but by then you should be already walled. (Perhaps leave that pass near your castle open so you can direct their first attack there and win the battle because they come in slow.) Wall the bridge to delay grey too.

Get to Castle Age ASAP. Focus on those galleys. Land focus should be placed on Hussars, since it's a big map, you got a full blacksmith for cav and this "infantary civ" has practically 0 infantary bonuses until you research that ridicolously expensive thing on Imperial. Get some TCs too, don't be afraid to go outside to get resources!! Very important.

As soon as you get a stable economy, send a horde to green/yellow to destroy their stone/lumber camps until you get that message. Regarding the water, I lost my docks at some point, despite winning initial battles. Tried to rebuild down the river, up the river, both times crushed. So I decided to use my new stone, built 2 castles between the bridge and the original TC and those provided cover for me to build 4 docks. That's when I got control of the water again. After that it ain't hard. Get some BCs, kill the castle and docks, and start trying to reach the wonder. It's tricky because their BTs range is the same as your BCs. At this point you should transporting hussars to take that bitch down. (you're gonna need a lot)

Some general rules: save with a new name at some checkpoints of your preference, when I say wall I mean make some gates here and there, always keep a good amount of hussars in the castles near the bridge to slay the incoming bombard cannons, destroying green and yellow's castles makes them give up and give you resources (same for orange and blue's TCs, keep drac at the original castle and make that fucker NEVER leave, and again: water water water.

Sorry it came out long, but I wanted to give it back since reading these comments helped myself a lot.