Impossible?

[GarbageCollector]

Holy crap. I'm not going to pretend like I was super good at the first one, but I can't get off the ground at all in this game. I'm stuck at like mission 1 to 3 on every single trail, and it always goes the same way. Decent speed at the start, then boom. Completely empty of resources. Market built but no gold, no wood, food's not enough or peasants aren't enough, walls aren't finished (good lord the stone price at the market is brutal), and any thought of any sort of pre-emptive strike or counterattack even is WAY out of reach. I can't even turtle, which I despise in all RTS.

I don't even think it's the typical problem of being too slow. I have bad actions per minute, but I'm not losing from tunnel-vision, it just feels like the stuff just isn't there. Am I approaching this totally wrong? What's the first thing you guys that are successful build up? Do you make a tiny square wall with most of your stuff outside, or use the terrain, or build no wall at the start? I don't think I've ever felt this hopeless on a game. It's not even frustrating, it's like rubick's cube monotony of just losing with no chance. Which sucks, because I absolutely loved the first one, where I could at least win the 4v1 rats and 1v1 pig missions and stuff.

[Mr.Monk]

you don't need to build a market at the start...you can buy/sell over the stockpile manually......the market costs 500g and u should build it very much later in the game.....so basically in this game u need to get ur taxes up as fast as possible so u got gold coming into your treasury....build in that order...

1) Put your granary on 1/2 ratio at the start and make some wood-cutters ( anywhere from 30-60 woodcutter..u need a lot since buildings cost a lot of wood)

2) Instead of food production...focus on beer/ candles so u can raise taxes rather fast

3) always check AI they are only good at the start when they can surprise u....after a while they are easy to handle...so u gotta make a tower in a critical position with archers on top .....just keep recruiting some archer at the start...later u can produce crossbows

[GarbageCollector]

Originally posted by Ni66er:

you don't need to build a market at the start...you can buy/sell over the stockpile manually......

Bruh.

[GarbageCollector]

You're the man.

[Woudo]

Originally posted by smokytehbear:

. I can't even turtle, which I despise in all RTS.

You might as well stop playing now, dude.

All but the first few skirmish trails are at least 1v4's. The final level is literally a 1v7 against every single AI in the game. Turtling is a requirement.

[GarbageCollector]

Well there's nothing wrong with using a castle. I'm talking about playing tower defense until you have 200 swordsmen then stomping all at once, 30 minutes into the game. Idk, not far enough into the trails to know for sure if anything else is a viable strategy, but we'll see.