The Dark Age:

This is probably the most important stage of the game. Screw up during the dark age and youll most
likely lose the game. This being said, its pretty hard to screw up once you get used to it.

1. As soon as the game starts, queue up four villagers in your Town centre. Select your three initial
villagers and build a house with them.
2. Now, we need to find sheep as soon as possible. Use your scout to explore in circles around your
Town centre, If you have nearby berry bushed, send your villagers there temporarily. Otherwise,
use your villagers to explore.
3. As soon as you find sheep, bring them under your Town centre and harvest them. Dont forget to
keep creating villagers. Your Town centre should ALWAYS be producing villagers or researches.
4. Villagers 1 to 6 should go in to sheep. Once your seventh villager pops out of the Town centre,
build three houses with him. Once he/shes finished building the houses, send him into wood.
5. The next two villagers should also go into wood. Start by cutting down the trees that are near your
Town centre. We wont build a lumber camp for quite some time.
6. We now have a population of ten. Once scout, 6 villagers in food and 3 in wood. If you can, create
an extra villager and send him in food, but if youre short on food, research loom.
7. Keep pumping out villagers and sending them in food until you reach a population of 20, youll
then have 1 scout, 3 in wood and 16 in food. At some point around the 10th villagers usually,
youll want to lure two boars. Also, if you have access to deer or shore fish, use it! Once your
boars/sheep/deer are depleted, send four of your hunters into wood. Your other villagers should
go collect food from the berry bushes.
8. Once you reach a population of 20, continue creating villagers, but send them into wood. Create a
lumber camp near the closest forest.
9. As soon as you reach 25 pop, advance to the feudal age.

The Feudal Age

1. While youre advancing to the feudal age, build a few houses (3-4) and a barracks. If youve
already found the enemy town, then you might want to build the barrack near his town.
2. As soon as you reach feudal age, research Double Bit Axe and queue up a villager. This villager
will go into food.
3. Now, create four villagers that youll send into gold. Well need a decent amount of gold to get to
castle age, and well want to have enough to create knights.
4. If you dont already have a barracks near the enemy town, build one. Once finished, build an
archery range and a stable.
5. Once youre at 30 population (1 scout, 4 gold miners, 12 woodcutters 13 in food), create another
villager and send him into food. Then, create four villagers and send them into wood. Next,
research wheelbarrow.
6. Youll also want to build a few houses for your quickly expanding population
7. While this is all happening, youll want to start creating a few skirmishers of men-at-arms to
harass the enemy. I recommend you build a tower near his gold mine or lumber camp. Dont
overdo it though, we want to get to the castle age as quickly as possible.
8. When the wheelbarrow research finishes, you should be able to advance to the Castle age. If you
decided to go really aggressive on the enemy, then you might not have enough resources. If
youre close, simply wait it out. Otherwise, continue pumping out villagers and sending them to
your most needed resources.
9. While advancing to the Castle age, youll want to continue harassing the enemy and building
houses, but make sure to keep a good stockpile of wood (around 500). Youre gonna need it!

The Castle Age (and beyond)

1. Once you reach the Castle age, research Bow Saw and queue up some more villagers. Send
these into wood.
2. Using a few woodcutters, pop down a new Town centre. This, with knights, is the main reason we
advanced to the castle age so quickly.
3. Create some knights in your stable (which should be near the enemy base) and use these knights
to raid the computers lumber and mining camps.
4. Continue harassing and creating villagers (assign them to the most needed resource) and youre
well on the way to victory! When you think the enemy is weak enough, start creating rams to bring
down his towers/Town centre(s). He should surrender quickly enough.