Lepanto too quick and too easy?

[Silver]

Was the map always this simple? Build a wonder, defend it, win.

You have a huge coastal city and just need to start booming with villagers tilling all the fields and mining the gold and wall up the coast and garrison the non-bombard towers with archers and youre basically impregnable.

I took my starting fleet as soon as I had upgraded them to dry dock galeons with bracers and used the heavy demolition ships to destroy the ottoman fleet's fast fire ships, used my fast fire ships to sink their cannon galeons, and kept my galeons near the coast to sink incoming transport ships. I used my own cannon galeons to knock down the turkish bombard towers and once you send the gold to the greeks they periodically send you a ton of resources so the earlier you tribute that 800 gold, the more the benefits.

Only made 4 cavaliers cause a bunch of crossbowmen and janissaries landed one time on the north shore where my villagers were farming and they outranged the range of my town center, but in hindsight knights would have been enough.

To make the map interesting you should not have been allowed to build additional stone walls and gates. Palisades would have offered temporary respite, but would have put more focus on using your fleet to defend your shores.

[Quarantined_villager]

Difficulty?

[Fat Gamin']

I remember playing it on the CD version back in the early 2000s and it was always insanely hard because they'd drop so many units, but on the lowest difficulty they pretty much don't even attack, IF they even drop units on your island, they don't do much, on the middle difficulty it works much better. It's hard to say if it's been made easier or if ti's just the AI changes and maybe some difficulty changes.

[Zuko]

The achievement was extremely difficult for me, it took a lot of attempts/saves/resaves.

[Silver]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Quarantined_villager:

Difficulty?

i play all my missions on moderate and have found some to be really tough. In Lepanto the first 15 minutes required some save scumming to get the strategy right of sinking the ottoman fleet that begins harassing your north shore while having some of your fleet survive the encounter. After that it is just smooth sailing, i.e. taking care of the periodic scripted transport ship arrivals. But by the time the ottomans send another fleet towards your wonder, your towers surrounding it should be stocked and waiting and there's also enough room for a castle on the cliff.