Talk:The Final Fortress/@comment-175.142.149.199-20181229161051

Offence is the key to this scenario. Don't give the Chinese any time to start their infinite spam.

Get on stone asap so you can put a castle on the west flank. Then boom and wait by your twin castles for the vanguards to attack. Train some rattan archers so that both sides have lots of ranged cover.

The east Ming vanguard will attack first at around minute 15. Crush them. This will leave their entire base undefended. Set three or four trebutchets in a good position guarded by your units, and clean the entire base out.

The west Ming vanguard attacks next. Crush them. Then move in and treb their base down. They have a lot of towers and at least two castles on cliffs. Advance slowly. There will be little to no resistance.

Basically let the vanguards foolishly advance on both sides into castle fire, then mop up their unprotected bases while killing the units recruited out of it one by one.

By minute 25, both vanguards should be vanquished. Advance again. Take all the new gold and stone piles. You are flanking Dong Do from two sides now. Build tons of forward buildings, as well as another two castles. Dong Do will never get the chance to attack. Between minute 30 and 40, you'll start trebbing the whole fortress.

Elite battle elephants + Elite rattan archers + Imperial skirmishers should be your army comp of choice, so you can hold the line while trebbing down Ming buildings. You need a lot of trebs, roughly 8-10 on each side. You can go for castles, or bbt, or production buildings. It doesn't matter. Before 50 minutes, the scenario is won, with Ming's base reduced to shreds, and the Chinese army also completely beaten.