Talk:Bapheus/@comment-38749670-20200207141005

I like this map a lot. Fun without being too bothersome.

Four enemies, one which can turn into an ally. One permanent ally for all sides.

Head toward the middle and you'll take charge of some vills and houses. Build one TC and begin an economy. Aim for at least a second TC and then rush to take in res. Stone is very nice and important in the long run.

When you're given the option to ally with someone, I chose green because of their easy access to the lake. They also have a lot of stone and gold around their base for the taking.

Yellow is simple enough; some cavalry and elite jannisaries to protect your trebs and you can easily punch into the city. Keep cavalry archers aside for later when you enter the city and destroy the TC inside; there's another TC to the north-west of it which you can have your cavalry archers camp around and kill villagers with.

Simple enough to enter and destroy military buildings. Their cavalry aren't very tough and they don't have much else to worry you with.

Most dangerous is Teal with their constant raids using infantry, paladins, and trebs. The trebs are very annoying but you can just target those and just have a few castles take care of the other units. Invading them is even easier than yellow; they don't build troops very quickly and thus are very susceptible once the initial forces are taken care of. Their trebs may be some threat to your own, but overall not a problem.

Obviously, staying on the defensive is an option, but you'll find Teal's raids becoming more and more annoying. Yellow's cavalry are very soft and squishy so a castle easily handles them. Teal's trebs are especially annoying though and looking away may result in find 4-6 trebs battering your town.

Blue is surprisingly very easy. They only build a few forces when raiding and those raids aren't much of a threat. Compared to teal's siege they are just boring and a few castle blocking choke points to your town easily handles them.

My suggestion is to attack Blue's northern base first, the one closest to Teal. Once that base is destroyed you'll find Orange landing there. Destroy their military units and they will resign; the villagers they have go another way and build a base right behind you, but destroying their military quickly has them resign before anything is actually built. Quite the cheat...

When attacking Blue, take advantage of green's access to the lake with galleons and cannon galleons. 15+2 ranged elite cannon galleons is basically cheating against Blue's meagre navy and defenses.