Talk:The Breath of the Dragon/@comment-2620:CC:8000:1007:0:0:0:AD73-20190718155600

My personal experience:

0. It might be useful to delete Dracula right at the beginning to take a look at the whole map. Well this is quasi-cheating.

1. Use the pause function(default F3 key) often. This helps multitasking a lot.

2. The outcome of the initial combat matters a lot, preserve as many units as you can, especially hand cannoneers, they are very useful in the initial defense after you take control of the castle.

3. Tips for the inital combat: enemy troop layout: cavalry front, cannoneers middle, artillery and skirmishers tail. Therefore my deployment was: cannoneers, pikemen and hussars for the cavalry, crossbowmen and cavalry archers behind the trees(so they won't face melee units), huskarls for the artillery and skirmishers.

4. It seems that your primary enemy has no autonomous economy, so defeating its 4 minions should be the priority. They are defeated by destroying their castle or TC, all of which are within range of cannon galleons, so for me this war was won in the river.

5. Once the castle is taken, do 3 things: 1. send 3 villagers to that small island and fill it up with walls. 2. send all your hussars and cavalry archers to the yellow base and prepare to sacrifice them all there, the goal is to kill as many villagers as possible. That's why I tried to save as many units as possible from the initial combat. (Note: yellow enemy has TC so eventually they'll get their villagers back, but you've delayed them enough. Your surprise attack will definitely be outnumbered by yellow enemy's defense forces, but they'll be attacking you later in the game anyway. I used Dracula to lure them within range of city's defense buildings and use remaining infantry to finish them off.) 3. a group of huskarls for the defense tower that's shooting at your lumber camp.

6. Get to castle age as soon as possible, meanwhile try to build 10 galleys. Upgrade them as good as you can. They are useful defenses against naval and land attacks. Once you have a castle your defenses will be pretty solid. Now get to imperial age quickly.

7. By the time you get to imperial age, the enemy should be building a wonder now, luckily the construction site is not far from the river, although there's a castle defending it. Research chemistry and build cannon galleons, then you know what to do.