Talk:The Lion and the Demon/@comment-2607:FEA8:7A20:D5:BCF5:AB3E:2873:9A11-20191224201412

DE edition, won this by running them out of gold then killing them all without the wonder.

Start with castles one by the coast with archers garri'ed will handle light blue. you may need to kill random bombard ships if the ai attacks the castle right. I put another castle near the right entrance of the base. The ramps down are good chokepoint for the castle to shoot at em. I did have to rebuild this castle cause of long range seige thats fine. Have your Mamelukes respond to any long ranged attack on your defensive castles. Trade ships with purple, and there is an island with gold on it will keep our income steady.

Upgrade your mamelukes fully mass up mamelukes and a few trebs attack grey. In DE if you attack one they'll all come to help. be prepared for red's scorpions and greys onager's they can shred threw your army.

Your goal in attacking grey to elimate their means to rebuild, itll be hard the ai will rebuild things as fast as you can kill it. Kill the towncenter, castle, and siege work shop then you're free to try to kill as many villagers as you can. There is a gold patch south of grey. Secure it, and start sending workers there asap even if your base isnt mined out.

Blue/Red now will spam you constantly, (red is more annoying) focus killing scorpions try to treb down their town center if your allowed to advance if you cant its ok. Just poke them now and then to thin out their #'s. You'll eventually notice villagers traveling all over the place this means gold is mined out. Find the last gold patch drop a castle on it and start advancing with mameluke / trebs. Once your at this phase its just the matter of doing enough damage to make them resign.