With the Red fleet being sunk, crushed, destroyed, wiped off the surface of the- Well, anyway, the time is ripe for an invasion of the island itself.
To prevent any further ships from being produced I bombarded the wharf already. In order to conquer the island entirely, I have to destroy all the marketplaces and towers on it. Fortunately, some of them are situated nicely in reach of my ship's cannons and thus I already began to decimate them after breaching holes into the island's fortification walls.
Since I also did not want to waste too much or my army on eliminating my enemy's one, I postponed my setting foot on the craved soil and rather lured the opposing land units towards the shore where my ships could open fire on them. (Guess who won.)
After the area was clear thanks to the use of my unfair and not very honourable tactics, I finally landed my troops and sent them to destroy as many marketplaces and cannon towers as possible.
Sadly the latter tend to be quite costly when taking and I ended up with most of my soldiers having fallen to their spherical iron projectiles, forcing me to postpone the rest of the invasion until I had trained enough fresh troops again. They had nonetheless done a good job and after the fall of the targeted facilities the land surrounding them automatically deserted, although on one occasion the enemy had rebuilt a tower.
In the meantime I had to witness my main island's alcohol depot rapidly depleting, forcing me to temporarily build two more vineyards on my main island.
This was later followed by another, and yet a fourth newly erected plantation on Delirium. Fortunately I will be able to tear down these unpleasantly situated ones as soon as I have taken the red island and am finally granted its vast, untended, and fertile ground.
After taking care of that matter, I had my ships destroy the rebuilt tower, which yielded the desired effect.
I also found another marketplace I could easily shoot upon with my fleet, which I promptly did. By now a sizeable enough number of new soldiers had finished training and equipment, allowing me to penetrate deeper and to launch a second wave of attack. But this will be something for the next update!
To prevent any further ships from being produced I bombarded the wharf already. In order to conquer the island entirely, I have to destroy all the marketplaces and towers on it. Fortunately, some of them are situated nicely in reach of my ship's cannons and thus I already began to decimate them after breaching holes into the island's fortification walls.
Since I also did not want to waste too much or my army on eliminating my enemy's one, I postponed my setting foot on the craved soil and rather lured the opposing land units towards the shore where my ships could open fire on them. (Guess who won.)
After the area was clear thanks to the use of my unfair and not very honourable tactics, I finally landed my troops and sent them to destroy as many marketplaces and cannon towers as possible.
Sadly the latter tend to be quite costly when taking and I ended up with most of my soldiers having fallen to their spherical iron projectiles, forcing me to postpone the rest of the invasion until I had trained enough fresh troops again. They had nonetheless done a good job and after the fall of the targeted facilities the land surrounding them automatically deserted, although on one occasion the enemy had rebuilt a tower.
In the meantime I had to witness my main island's alcohol depot rapidly depleting, forcing me to temporarily build two more vineyards on my main island.
This was later followed by another, and yet a fourth newly erected plantation on Delirium. Fortunately I will be able to tear down these unpleasantly situated ones as soon as I have taken the red island and am finally granted its vast, untended, and fertile ground.
After taking care of that matter, I had my ships destroy the rebuilt tower, which yielded the desired effect.
I also found another marketplace I could easily shoot upon with my fleet, which I promptly did. By now a sizeable enough number of new soldiers had finished training and equipment, allowing me to penetrate deeper and to launch a second wave of attack. But this will be something for the next update!
