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Step 6 - Grush and Island Strategies

Step 6 (The in-betweens)

There are several things you will learn over time ill point out now which you can do to help you win,

- Wall off long peninsulas in stone,

- If you have 2 islands connected by a small piece of land stone wall it and scout the island which ur base resides on, cutting down the chance of being landed.

- If your island is big and has loads of open land in the middle out post the big areas, with town watch outposts will cover a lot of fog.

- If you are close to an enemy and have aggressive drop a 5th dock and put another 3-4 vils on wood and delay all your berry/deer/farmers for that amount of vils, also get a blacksmith sooner and Fletching.

Step 7 (Going Castle age)

Now up to castle age your berry/deer will probably run out. So take the villagers, put an extra 3 on gold, if you don't have at least 8 farms drop enough to cover your tc and an extra one in castle age. Assuming you have all 6 fishing boats left, if not drop 10. Put the remaining vils on wood with a 3rd wood camp and if you don't have drop a 5th/6th dock depending on your situation. Research Horse Collar in the mill in preparation for more farms in castle

Step 8 (In Castle)

If you've done well up to this point this will be easier from now on, Feudal/Dark is the worst on islands. When you reach Castle age get Bodkin Arrow (+2 range on galleys etc in blacksmith), War Galley (in docks), Bow Saw (in wood camp), queue a villager and keep pumping ships, also drop a new TC on wood. At this point with 2 Tc's to manage, 6 docks, a Navy and an econ its up to you what to do next. If you take your enemy off sea, killed his docks etc, surround his isle, annoy his econ, help your ally and either land or boom to imp. 3 tc's are enough to go imp and more later on, although if castle age is drawn out u can drop more. A very very useful upgrade to get if u have spare res and a big navy is Ballistics in the University, getting this in early Castle and save you a lot of res and win you a lot of battles with less ships.

Now that you can Grush its time to learn Team Strats