DarkSchneider
King
I finally got through the defense scenario. As I suspected, round 20 was just a repeat of all of the other rounds combined. Having played through it all, I have a number of concrete tips that should help everyone pass it.
1) You can space you cities out so you can build 10 (I've heard 11, but can see no way to do this.) Make sure your first city is as far forward as possible.
2) Most of the later part of the tech tree is useless. This is because the cost of the units rises dramatically as their costs go up. To get a single rocketman, you have to pay around 2k to research the tech, and then another 2560 to get the unit itself.
3) However, the beginning techs: scouts, trebuchets, catapults, riders and macemen are all essential for victory.
4) At the beginning of every round you should always build as many cities as you can. You should purchase the scout tech as early as you can, and build enough scouts so that you can see all of the map. This isn't very costly, since scouts start at 10 each, and it pays off in that you are guarenteed to get all 5 goodie huts each round before they are trampled by the enemy.
5) Whenever an enemy unit is spawned, it always makes a beeline for the first city you placed, that's why that city is so important. You should be able to identify a number of squares on the map that the AI will never use, and you can put your ranged units there. If the fastest path to your city is 18 turns, whichever path the computer chooses must be 18 turns.
6) Never attack suicide granadiers with your melee troops. Your melee units will always be killed. You can attack a stack with a grenadier in it, as long as it's not the defending unit. Never defend against a samurai unit, all of your units next to the defending unit will be killed or seriously wounded.
7) It's important to get some promoted macemen. Getting a maceman with March and Woodsman III is killer. You should also get at least two riders with the blitz promotion.
8) You don't actually have to have defenders on your towns at all. I placed a single forest warrior to protect my first city and he never fought at all. At the beginning of the game you should purchase your first town and one of each of the units available.
Well that's it, I think that's enough to win it. Happy hunting.
1) You can space you cities out so you can build 10 (I've heard 11, but can see no way to do this.) Make sure your first city is as far forward as possible.
2) Most of the later part of the tech tree is useless. This is because the cost of the units rises dramatically as their costs go up. To get a single rocketman, you have to pay around 2k to research the tech, and then another 2560 to get the unit itself.
3) However, the beginning techs: scouts, trebuchets, catapults, riders and macemen are all essential for victory.
4) At the beginning of every round you should always build as many cities as you can. You should purchase the scout tech as early as you can, and build enough scouts so that you can see all of the map. This isn't very costly, since scouts start at 10 each, and it pays off in that you are guarenteed to get all 5 goodie huts each round before they are trampled by the enemy.
5) Whenever an enemy unit is spawned, it always makes a beeline for the first city you placed, that's why that city is so important. You should be able to identify a number of squares on the map that the AI will never use, and you can put your ranged units there. If the fastest path to your city is 18 turns, whichever path the computer chooses must be 18 turns.
6) Never attack suicide granadiers with your melee troops. Your melee units will always be killed. You can attack a stack with a grenadier in it, as long as it's not the defending unit. Never defend against a samurai unit, all of your units next to the defending unit will be killed or seriously wounded.
7) It's important to get some promoted macemen. Getting a maceman with March and Woodsman III is killer. You should also get at least two riders with the blitz promotion.
8) You don't actually have to have defenders on your towns at all. I placed a single forest warrior to protect my first city and he never fought at all. At the beginning of the game you should purchase your first town and one of each of the units available.
Well that's it, I think that's enough to win it. Happy hunting.