Talk:The Final Fortress/@comment-74.59.79.73-20191216182127

In DE, moderate difficulty, the behavior described above (such as blue not attacking until after 30 minutes) is false.

I won initial battle with minimal casualties, (165-ish pop over 150) sent most of that army east to fend off Cyan attack on that side while walling up (wood palissade) from gold pile west to favor a "under my castle" engagement. As soon as this wave is defeated, I sent most of the army excluding 10 rattans west to fend off the attack there. I used the L shape stone wall + castle strategy and the castle was up just in time for the wave. On the east front, built my 2nd castle just outside tower range, popped 2 trebs on that side + 5 rattans + 5 skirms. That 20 man+2trebs+2monks were sufficient to slowly grind (set on stand ground patrol) that east side, killing the slow flow of cavaliers, light cavs, scorpion that were produced on that side.

Now for the west side....

That first wave of cyan was a decent one, but clean it and I invested on 4 trebs on that side (2 initially, then 2 later on) to clean both guard towers and initial castle at the valley entrance, but as the 2nd tower went down blue attacked! That wasn't supposed to happened.. my initial force was pushed back underneath castle as cyan kept reinforcing blue. Oh well, popped 3 barracks, 2 archery range, 2 stable and began trash wars. Halbs+imp skirms+light cav+whatever gold you have left for rattans. Eventually, you will gain momentum back to clean cyan valley. My economy was in fairly good shape, but wood and gold were low when blue attacked. As mentionned, the east side was quiet. Never got attacked there after initial wave, so the 2-treb party clean the whole side by itself.

When Cyan resigned, the rest was easy, BBC+MassRattans+trash+castledrop was a good combo to clean his base.