you get free troops for building it and having one forces enemies to attack the castle first instead of directly in your undefended peasant town.ĭ.) don't trust any AI players anywhere near you. It's generally a bad idea to attack a province without at least leaving a wooden castle (palisade being the cheapest) to defend it. See farming for more specific information.Ĭ.) You need a good castle to defend your land. If you ensure that you have at least one year's worth of food reserve per province you'll be very well off. If you don't pay attention and try to blast through, chances are unless you are incredibly lucky you will lose.ī.) Start with the food supply. Auto-calculating battles, playing with advanced farming off, using the slider to assign work rather than placing individual peasants, not watching the tax rate or how much reserve food you have.
If you do the following things you will be successful:Ī.) Don't get greedy/impatient/mindless. So the general idea of the game is of course to win by destroying the competition, but how to do that is a matter of practice and mastery, and just a bit of luck.
