The Night Falls

The player begins with a base camp in Hungary, to the west. The player's immediate goal is to campaign along the SW corridor of the map, sweeping out blue. Blue (Turkish Raiders) has four small bases along a river, ending with a seaside port. Fortunately, the player starts off with insane amounts of resources, so spam knights, crossbowmen, and swordsmen.

Before defeating blue, however, use your allotted resources to research armor/weapon upgrades at your blacksmith too. As soon as you defeat blue, your resources are taken away, and any troops you have are all that you get, so be sure to max out your population limit too.

After blue is defeated, the player should make their way back to their old base. Along the way, stop in at purple's old base, and defeat the garrison there, which will cede that whole fort to Hungary (green).

From here, head to gray's town center, where the player will be given their permanent base. Hold off on crossing the bridge to attack cyan and orange. Instead, the player should build up their base and resources, as well as reinforcing green's nearby base.

The player has optional objectives, which they would be highly obliged to take: the nearby craftsman (a gray Teutonic Knight) offers a great deal for the player (imperial age upgrades for 2,000 food and gold, making the Castle Age limit a moot point), and Italian mercenaries (yellow, to the player's NE) offers Genoese Crossbowmen and infantry for gold (clicking on the archery range and barracks, respectively). It's advised to build up to the max population limit (200) before buying Italian mercenaries, so as to have a larger assault force.

Cyan and orange by now will have been hammering away at both the player and Hungary (in some cases, triggers will not trip - this editor found that by not crossing the bridge, cyan and orange did not attack), so when the player is ready counter-attack. Cyan's base is straight across the river, guarded by towers and plenty of cavalry. Use trebuchets from the craftsman to take down towers and castles, Genoese Crossbowmen as overwatch, and cav/inf to screen and destroy.

Orange is directly east of cyan's main base (cyan has a smaller fort just north of orange, destroying it will finish them off). Once again, towers (including a bombard tower) will be standing in your way, with a castle on the other side of the river. Defeating orange and cyan will end the scenario.