If your having a difficult time completing a level,
try the following tips.
Try building the basic castle needs, such as a Marketplace, Mercenary
Post, Granary, Stockpiles, and Industry Buildings, then save there.
It is easier to start at that point, in case your placement of
some walls or towers do not work well.
Pause game play whenever you can to save time. It is very important
to build faster than the enemy.
Keep your money making resources (Food, Rocks, Iron, Pitch, or
Weapons) protected, or put walls around them to keep them safe.
Capitalize on them whenever you can.
Create layers of walls around or in front of important towers
and other targets that the enemy likes to knock down.
Horse archers are very useful in this game, especially when aggressing
enemy castles with Mongonels to help put big holes in enemy walls
and a few swordsman as guard dogs.
By immediately placing a group of Woodmans Huts around a enemy
base, then putting them to sleep, you will block the area and
prevent him from building Barracks or a Mercenary Camp. It costs
a lot of Wood, but it means they cannot make any troops and therefore
very easy to defeat. Note: This does not work on the pig.
When attacking a castle, concentrate on the enemy Barracks. Once
destroyed, try to block it from being rebuilt by placing troops
over its remains. Again, it makes the enemy easier to defeat without
it producing more troops.
The Ballista is good at holding positions far from the security
of your home base. Get a group of about eight built, with approximately
twenty Archers and stick a couple Trebuchets in the middle of
them. The Trebuchets can attack the enemy castle well protected.
If needed, you can always take the six Engineers from them to
make three more Ballista when the enemy counterattacks. Ballista
are also great at taking out enemy troops on the castle walls,
especially fire throwers.
On several levels there is very little farm land, but you always
find at least one resource available (Stone or Iron). Concentrate
on the mining and sell it at the market for Food.
Have both Archers and Crossbowmen on Towers (five each) for a
good defense. Add a Ballista on the Tower to make it better as
they have a huge range and can even hit attacking Trebuchets.
To protect farms, etc. outside your walls, build a Tower and a
Gate next to each other. This allows you to put Archers in and
have them protected from enemy soldiers entering the Tower. You