Talk:The Old Tiger/@comment-123.16.145.100-20180125182630

On hard difficulty, it is too hard to slay down Malay, Vietnamese and Portuguese before Bayinnaung's mediation. I set game speed to slow and used a lot of F3 (pause), also save regularly!

- Sea group: Unload all units from boats to the sandy beach, set them to defense position (or stand ground), use 2 bombard canons to destroy nearby castles (and military buildings if possible, this group is safe because all enemies chase your heroes, save before attacking!).

- Land group: Use chebuchets to attack castles before each Bayinnaung's meditation, destroy military buildings while your monk heals your units.

- The 3rd Buddhist Temple is where two groups should meet, and your enemies start sending more dangerous units. Leave some units to protect Bayinnaung, send all others to your camp. Once Bayinnaung completes his 4th mediation, all enemies will attack.

- Upgrade Elite Elephant, Blacksmith and University techs, buy Elephants, Trebuchets and spam Elite Skirmishers as the tutorial said, but I did not upgrade dock units, just tower and building armor (I feel it's too hard to micro-manage both group and in my game, Portuguese did not produce more Cannon Galleon).

- The bloody battle outside Vietnamese south gate, at first I pushed my whole army into the city and I had to load again. The next time I set unit guard near the gate, while trebuchets destroy castles and military buildings as many as possible.

- F3 to pause, convert incoming elephants, kill enemy's trebuchets with your bombard cannons.

- When Malay (inside the city) surrender, the Rakhine (Malay, outside the city) also quit? At this point your navy are free from danger, but it's pointless to build Canon Galleons now.