Talk:Barbarossa's March/@comment-76.66.130.116-20200102151134

After the Dec 17 update this scenario became stupid easy. Green no longer patrols so you can slowly make your way to Gallipoli and use the four ships to sneak into Constantinople's lower dock and throw paladins at their wonder. Do this before you even go close to constantinople and it's only when you land that they change to enemy. You can tank the castle's arrow-fire with paladins and make the short trip to the wonder. Constantinople takes 0 damage and you can just heal up with monks or at their castle.

Since green doesn't patrol and none of the enemies react heavily when under attack, you can use your new navy to clear out most of the ships around constantinople. Land across from Constantinople for easy mode, or across Gallipoli for hard mode. Anyway, you can also sneak around south of gallipoli for those axe-men + treb which is easy with there only being demolition and fire ships around that area so low line-of-sight. The bombard tower may be trouble but so long as you can micro one unit around their shots you can get your new units safely.

Then it's even easier getting across the desert. Enemies DO NOT react when your trebs attack buildings, so take advantage of that to snipe castles and towers. Then use your overwhelming forces to destroy the pitiful armies camped there. Bombard cannons are the only real foes for your siege but they are rare and easy to kill with paladins.

Ridiculously easy. Before the update I had to spam monks on the patroling ships to destroy them early or slowly drag one or two land units away, kill them, then wait for enemy to ride into an ambush. Now it's just snipe and roll over.