We run away from the battle, we get a base and build a pair of Castles, thus being extremely secure from any further attacks given our advantageous high ground position. Now you need me you, stupid dumb treacherous lout. I did send Monks to the Island in case I lost patience. I beat the mission without putting Relics to the Imam's Monastery. After two minutes I find a Long Sword and a Knight and kill them. because of trees.Īnyway, I eventually murder all Saracen rebels, but I am yet to defeat Spanish, despite destroying their production. So the first time I lost rams to it, because I thought they would start hitting it (neither enemy has Murder Holes) and they were still unable to connect. The only obstacle on the way is Saracen Castle because it is smartly covered not only by palisade but also by trees. Then I build a ball of Conqs and start building some Rams and methodically murder my way through Toledo starting with Saracen economic base outside of the city to the east to get rid of both Saracen and Spanish traitorous scum. I defend my starting tents with the starting army until I build three Castles that secure the Motamid area and my base. I build some Fishing Ships but leave enough wood to build a TC. I visit Imam and go east to build a base there and pick up a humongous herd of sheep on the way. If you look closely, you can see that Missionary. So I quickly switched back to the enemy stance and killed him.As the map was cleared I went with him to the tournament grounds. Alfonso had a relic, so he had gold access. and then to my horror, his army trained a Missionary. Stupid traitorous scum came with me and his army switched to ally. Then I started to look for stragglers, found everyone including fishing ships, and rammed Alfonso's Castle. This Castle safely destroyed Alfonso's stuck Scorpions. Then I just destroyed his western set of towers and built a Castle to the Southwestern gate. if we disregard fishing ships in a lake that was fished out. Eventually, he was left with a single one that was chopping wood. Then I destroyed Alfonso by basically building a Castle in front of his base (Southeast gate, where Serfs have their small camp, I set up my base there) because that dumbass kept sending his villagers across its line of fire. I didn't remember it, but once I built a Market, Sancho's vision gave me the location of the Relics and Monastery in the western corner, which jump-started gold income quite nicely. Alfonso has very little when it comes to villagers, which is a recurring theme across the first three missions. After the tournament segment you get a gigantic starting army, and once you pick up all the Gaia units and Serfs (and their houses! Kinda important to escape pop block), you can just get going. Rather unremarkable mission in terms of gameplay.