

Using siege units protected by your main army, destroy the enemy your ally will turn against you (I don't know if you can stop this by sticking an army in their base before you destroy the other guy first as the objectives suggest.) If you can't, using trebuchets to siege his castle methodically will still work wonders. Send your armies up along the eastern edge of the map and reestablish a foothold here by the forests that you're going to want to cut down I ended up building a set of military buildings here for quicker reinforcements. Building another watch tower on the island and keeping a villager or two around to repair them is pretty much all you need to defend your base here. Once you've cleared out the south, you can reestablish your economic base here, but be aware that resources are scarce on this map so you're probably going to make heavy use of your market resource trading. Trade with your neighbor to the west as much as you can while you can spoilers, he's going to turn against you eventually. You can't really save all your outlying areas from attack, so I chose to focus on the south, taking my troops across it and combing the desert, destroying the encampments. You'll start this mission under almost constant attack.

Despite what the objectives say, you don't actually have to destroy the mills. garrison your troops inside of battering rams to get them across the bridge safely, and then use the rams to destroy the buildings, supported by your other units. Once you've gathered everyone, begin your assaults make sure to rotate out damaged enemies, and use your priests to convert some enemies as well as keeping everyone healed (make sure you do your best to keep them alive!)Īfter you've destroyed the bases, you'll finally be put in control of a base, with the goal of destroying the enemy military production buildings. Your goal is to destroy a series of outposts, but you're going to want to skip around past all of them and gather up the reinforcements from every cranny of the map by bringing the hero unit to them. Micro away units taking serious damage to keep them alive, and then have everyone heal up. Stick to the far side of the bridge by the monk when the enemies shortly come to assault you that way you'll be able to bottle them up. This one has you start with a small group of men. The Francisco de Almeida Campaign is a series of five missions with you playing as the Portuguese.
