Stuck on Island 2

[TimelordSnowy]

So I beat Island 1 but when I get to island 2 there is..nothing..absolutly nothing. the first merc camp is past the portals..So now the only people I got are the 4 archers that hopped on my boat somehow, the 2 or 3 builders that pushed it to the dock, and the two peasants by the campfire when I started. I not sure what to do now. pretty sure peasants cant rech the kiingdom before night wiht how far the camps are(I barely made it back and Im on a freaking horse) so I just..dont know what to do now. I thought this would be fun after playing classic but now its just frustrating right now :(

[5 AM]

Well why didn’t you bring your 2 knights with you to the second island?

[TimelordSnowy]

Because I didn’t have any? You can’t make knights on island 1...and Ididn’t know you could bring people till after I sailed and I’m still not sure HOW to even do that.

[Ruyven]

Aw that sucks! There's still a chance peasants might be able to make it, especially after a blood moon because then you get one night with no attacks.
Or you can go find the map piece, unlock it for 2 gold and sacrifice your king. Or just restart, I guess.

I didn't even know that could happen on island 2, that's pretty harsh.

[LOLiver]

Same thing happened to me. Peasants were too far away to reach it back to my town before the monsters got them, even with a full day of walking. I just had to start the island again until I randomly got a map with good enough resources.

[MRTN17]

Something similar happened to me: I started right between a homeless camp and a shrine. Didn't want to destroy the camp, cause the second one was far away behind two portals. I was overrun pretty fast that game.

Another time there was a portal very close to my castle and my hunters kept walking to it and suicide. Had to destroy it asap with knights

The island setting is random generated, which makes the game re-playable for me.

If unlucky, just restart on island 1 and always bring a full boat with knights, archers, a bag of coins and even a hermit if you find one. This way you can steamroll through it.

[Taylan]

Maps generate randomly and sometimes you get a really bad one, sometimes a really good one.

Try my strategy though:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/496300/discussions/1/1621724915779338390/

It doesn't make that big of a difference whether you brought knights with you from the previous map or not, because you make money ridiculously fast and get 4 knights pretty soon and don't really need any more. Even a single knight squad can take down a portal, and you'll be taking them down one by one anyway to approach the dock.

[TimelordSnowy]

I still dont understand how you would bring knights from island 1 when you can not access them because the upgrade statue is not on that Island but it does not matter much anymore. I decided to refund the thing and get a game that is far more enjoyable to me. But thanks for attemtping to help anyway. much appreciated.

[Korsolk]

Even though this post is about a year old, I'd like to add my experience with island 2.

I had a very bad start over and over again. The vagrant camp was far behind the portal, no chance to survive. After four or five restarts I finally had good conditions. One vagrant camp was still very far away and I could only recruit new villagers after blood moon there, but on the other side was a camp in a better range. Still not very close, but it worked out.
It was also important to have a farmers place close to my starting point. I build it within the first two days to have enough money until the end of the game.

So the second island really needs the good starting conditions, imagine how happy I was to step on the boat in the end. It took me 22 days to complete island 2, four more than for island 1.

[Garfeld Lasaga]

Originally posted by TimelordSnowy:

So I beat Island 1 but when I get to island 2 there is..nothing..absolutly nothing. the first merc camp is past the portals..So now the only people I got are the 4 archers that hopped on my boat somehow, the 2 or 3 builders that pushed it to the dock, and the two peasants by the campfire when I started. I not sure what to do now. pretty sure peasants cant rech the kiingdom before night wiht how far the camps are(I barely made it back and Im on a freaking horse) so I just..dont know what to do now. I thought this would be fun after playing classic but now its just frustrating right now :(

You can 10 day speed run island 1. also you could try sending them out straight after a blood moon, at still night also if that camp is there you could try rebuilding the boat and then sending the archers on it which would kind of guard the peasants whilst on the boat...