Talk:Estado da India/@comment-27263122-20170310235701

This was a very fun mission. Biggest tip, destroy that Cannon Galleon! If you don't, then expect a swarm of cannons just bombarding your city.

Defeating the pirates is better than helping them. The resources are very nice, plus you can use the open island for bonus wood and a few feitorias if wanted. Remember to defend it if you don't have sea control.

I used the tips of Skirmishers + Halberdiers until I managed to get a lot of gold and stone. Then, with two feitorias boosting me, I built an army of gunpowder siege and just stormed my way through. After you get gold, you'll find yourself making Cavaliers instead as they are faster at taking down thw weak archers. Keep them away from the elephants though.

A cannon galleon army is pretty much necessary. Use them to take out initial docks (which is pretty good res) and then periodically come back and raid the newly built docks for easy res. Keep a few Galleons or the Portugese Unique Ships around to help. Or if you're better than me, fireships (I like range).

Also, stone becomes the easiest res to horde, so I also spammed castles wherever I could. Watch out for enemy siege and elephants though; castle arrows are near useless against them. Mostly, you'd use the castle for red's weaker cavalry and infantry.

Hand Cannoneers are nice, but not as strong against all of these cavalry/siege. Best to go Halberdiers/Cavalry instead.

Food is hard to get, honestly. I had 6 digits of gold and wood, but only 4 digits of food, so I was finding myself making more gold-expensive units instead...