Talk:Lepanto/@comment-27263122-20171108050355

At the start of the scenario, don't use any villagers on the wonder. Instead, immediately throw 8 villagers on gold a bit to the left outside your base, and throw the other 8 on wood a bit north. Go to your TC and then throw 4 villagers on farms for now.

At your docks, research Galleon. That will use up whatever food you had left. Afterward, use the rest of the docks to churn out as many war galleys as they can (they eventually upgrade to Galleons anyway). Once your farms start getting food, churn out more villagers on those farms. Once those are filled, send a few more on lumber and you're good to go for resources.

With your available ships, gather up the demos, fire ships, and war galleys and get them ready for the initial assault. If you're good, you can beat them up without incurring too many losses. If you're bad, try your best to hold off until your galleons start getting built.

Use your initial Cannon Galleons to destroy the 2 towers nearest your base just south of your TC. Afterward, set them on defend or hold ground or whatever (you still want them to attack, just not chase) and then throw them to the far north on either side of the lone island (the two gaps there are entryways you'll eventually want to stopper with other ships).

Keep churning out those Galleons. Eventually, purple will send in transports filled to the brim with units. Block off all entry to your base with ships. The far south-west is actually not that bad, but you'll get swarmed in the far north and center. Use patrol if you don't have enough ships.

Eventually, the enemy will stop attacking you. If you're still alive, start researching Cannon Galleon and the elite version, then churn out a dozen or so of those. Once those are made, send them to the far south. If you're still a bit timid, research spies and aim for the towers and castles. Slowly make your way up and continue to destroy the enemy's base.

Some warning, Turkish bombard towers and bombard cannons have monstrous range. 8+5 for towers means if your ships are out of line, they could get targetted. Happens when you aim for one tower but are a bit too close to another.

Slowly destroy the base and then bring in a small army of galleons to destroy whatever leftover ships the enemy has. Sometime later, the enemy will want to rebuild their docks and any military buildings that were destroyed. You can either let them, or kill off their limited number of villagers and then continue your rampage. Maybe you even want to send in a team of paladins and siege to destroy their two siege workships hidden deep inside their base. Either way, your enemy is basically crippled by this point.