Cultures

                       Hints from Sue

Food is often a number one priority early on. Build one farm and
put a farmer in it.  Once he gets his diploma, you'll be able to
build a mill. Change him into a miller and recruit an extra
farmer. When the miller becomes qualified, build a bakery, change
the miller into a baker, the farmer into a miller and bring in an
extra farmer. I usually try to have one farm, one mill and two
bakeries, each bakery and the mill also having carriers. Build a
well too. If you get low on leather, wood or stone, you will have
to build some extra buildings to enable you to get more of these.

I didn't bother building a school. I found the above method for
gradually moving people through the ranks worked well with all
professions.

Create as many initial marriages as you can. Then built a dwelling
tent for the married couples. Work out how many extra girls you
need to marry the remaining men. Get these and complete all the
marriages, building a dwelling tent for each. By now the food
situation (see above) should be ticking along nicely. If you
haven't already done so, build a woodcutter's, followed by a
carpenter's tent (aka joiner) and a clay worker's tent. Start
producing some extra boys only. By the time all this is done, you
can go straight to building three-family dwellings. Into each, put
two single men and a married couple. The woman will collect food
which all three men will eat.  It's a tough life, eh?

Then you can start demolishing the single dwelling tents, reuse
their resources and regain the land (eventually).

After this, produce children in the ratio of 1 girl to 3 boys
which will complete another house.

Remember to put people into houses near where they work.  You can
move them from house to house without problems as they change jobs
etc.

If your territory ends up very straggly, repeat the farm / mill /
well / two bakeries combo at the opposite side of the map. You'll
need at least eight workers to do it fully, leaving you with two
farmers, nine if you fill all the work places. Or you could just
try building an extra bakery if the farm and mill seem to be
producing enough.

Texas

This was the first taxing scenario. When the time comes for the
final battle against the Vinlanders, you'll need plenty of Archer
IIIs and Soldier IIIs.  Build two defence towers in the
approximate middle of the map, at a small gap between uncrossable
land.  Lure out some Vinlanders, then use the archers in the
towers to pick them off. Most of the Vinlanders are level 1 but
there's a lot of them.

When no more are emerging, to finally clear the Vinlanders, attack
their top right defence tower, then the one below it. Then
gradually pick off the others. You will need to destroy every
building and kill every Vinlander to win, even the women which I
thought was rather OTT.

















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