Mountain Temple

Mountain Temple is the fourth mission of the Yamato Empire of the Rising Sun campaign.

Scenario Instructions
''The war with the Izumo is coming to a climax. Your raids and captures have partially demoralized their people and weakened their rulers. You are close to crushing their armies and bringing them under Yamato rule. Destroy the Izumo Temple on their sacred mountain and build a Yamato Temple there. There may be Kibi clan forces supporting the Izumo. The Kibi must be pushed out of the way if they interfere with your attack.''

Objectives

 * Destroy Izumo Temple.
 * Build Temple where Izumo Temple once stood.

Strategy
You are Yamato (Blue), and there are three enemy teams: the brown Kibi, the yellow Kibi, and the red Izumo (all Shang).

You start in the Stone Age with nothing but a Town Center, a few Villagers, and two Watch Towers. Those towers will protect you as you build up a base.

Train some more Villagers, gather food and wood, and age up as soon as possible. Fishing will be a waste of time, as there's too little fish on the map, but the island to the west holds quite a lot of food if you get Villagers there - there's also gold and wood to pay for your expansion.

As soon as you age up, build an Archery Range and train Bowmen. Kill the yellow town's clubmen and Villagers, and take their resources. Building a Tower on the eastern bank will stop the brown Izumo from landing soldiers there - or at least warn you when they do.

As quickly as possible, reach the Bronze Age, and train a few War Galleys and some Cavalry and Stone Throwers to take the Kibi island. The quicker you move, the more of their resources will be left. Destroy their towers, and run down their archers with your cavalry.

Once the brown Kibi are destroyed, you can relax a bit. The Izumo have no Villagers, and won't be any better than they were when the game started - but you can train new units as long as your resources last.

Ready an attack. Stone Throwers for their towers, Cavalry against siege units and archers. A Priest will let you avoid losing any unit in the charge. The Temple is at the far north. Kill the Priests, destroy the Temple, and build a new one.