Talk:York/@comment-65.28.183.104-20190625071944

This is almost hard not to win by acquiring 50,000 gold given both the gold from captured relics and from razing enemy buildings.

The easiest way I found to win this is to land on the Isle of Man and start my base there. I quickly proceed to gather 8-12 or so villagers then ship them north to the tree-covered islands in the far north and let them harvest the wood. I also focus on gathering stone to build castles to sink both invaders and War Galley raids.

Once I reach the Imperial Age (usually 25-35 minutes in game time) I begin to train Berserks in bulk, along with Trebs as well as some Elite Skirmishers, Monks and Transport ships. While waiting for units to finish training, I complete my base then wait for my navy to arrive.

Once the navy arrives (and my population becomes 240/200), I research the upgrades for my navy and proceed to destroy all costal buildings in Scotland (Strathclyde) in range, then bring my navy to my base to repair it.

Once repaired, I set out and take out the costal facilities of northern Ireland (Ui Neill), then land Trebs supported by my navy to take out the castles. I then go south and take out Munster in the same way.

By the time I take out the three Celtic kingdoms, I have researched Spies, have over 25,000 gold and 3 relics with perhaps, at most, 50 casualties and nearly 700 kills. I simply go to raid Wessex given the proximity of it's monasteries to the coast and its largely weak defenses save for in the East, gaining gold and relics in the process, hitting the cap and winning.

I did once try to conquer my enemies, however that game, saved and continued multiple times, lasted some 8 game hours in length and resulted in me having to buy a lot of stone at the market in order to not reach the 50,000 gold limit. I destroyed everyone but Mercia and Northumbria and had minimal casualties, less than 100, given the ability to use hit-and-run tactics with my navy, use it to wipe out costal defenders and structures save castles and see my enemies with Spies.

I will note though that when trying to conquer, I got bad lag, lag that I did not have when doing Honfoglalas, as this map has all seven enemies with population caps over 100, economies and militaries which takes up a LOT of memory.