Talk:The Mountain Siege/@comment-31462314-20190712042204

Even on Standard this scenario was tough as nails. First time I had to learn a couple of hotkeys so I could finy my military buildings in time, considering this is a mixed ally+me base. The strategy that worked for me was having a villager build tons of houses to keep your pop cap up and while he's doing that, filling up the towers OUTSIDE the walls with archers. This buys you some time before the enemy reaches your walls. A cheap strategy would be to build buildings instead of walls to block entrances but I did not do that. Ming was really tough, quickly upgrading to trebuchets. You really need to boom with as many villagers as possible to get the resources necessary to be able to sent surplus military units east and clear the path off ming patrols as thats actually the mission objective. Dont focus too much attention on the cluster** going on in the western part of the fortress. As soon as you run out of gold you need to get your miners out to the deposits outside the walls your scouts should have located, its the only way you can keep generating those elephants needed to clear the path east. .