Start on Island 2, see what hermit you get - if its the baker, build the boat and finish the level, Bring your knights and the baker with you.
-Go to Island 3 with, preferably, a full bag of gold.
If island 3 has the Ballista Tower Hermit and the archer statue, AND 3 Refugee camps, You are in the clear, so to speak.
1) As Soon As Possible pick a direction with a stream, and start clearing trees.
You want 7-10 Farmers (Scythebearers) farming for at least 15 days, so the faster the better on making them.
Make sure to clear some trees out in front of your walls so your archers can hunt rabbits for extra income.
2) Once you get your Main Building upgraded to 4, the Treasurer will spawn at your base. Give him any extra Gold you have, As he has infinite gold storage, and you do not want to be dropping coins in the river cause your bag is full.
-Build Up a Nice Gold Stash in your main base because Winter Never Ends, effectively making your income per day 0 coins for 60% of the playthrough, so you will need stored coins.
3) Make Sure you build a tower to level 3 to turn into the bakery asap, Its extremely helpful, cutting down travel time for the player, per day by 90%. And you are going to need A LOT of archers.
4) Defense
Pick a Spot with a Tower behind a Tall Stone Wall for your ballistas, One on each side will be good enough.
Do Not Buy Catapults. I Realized the Big Spawner enemies can grab the catapult rocks and hurl them at your front line, murdering people.
Do Not Build Normal Towers, as the flyers in the game Will eat the archers out of them with ease.
- They also eat the builder out of ballista towers, but losing a few builders over the course of 20-30 days is wayyyy different than one flyer eating 3 archers a night.
5) Attacking Portals
I destroyed the two portals inbetween me and the dock, just in case I had to boogy at some point, But I dont think it was necessary.
- I would free up whatever side the archer statue is on so you can freely add money to it any time of day.
I read somewhere you can attack the cliff portal to stop enemies from spawning for days at a time, but you end up losing a few archers when you do that and its not worth the people.
6) Survivng Til the End
a) If you run of of bread at the bakery, buy more. All game.
b) When winter hits, fields can not be worked, after an amount of days your scythebearers will drop their scythes. They can now be converted into more archers!
c) In Winter you Must only spend money on three things.
- Archer Statue Buff Must be On Always.
- However many archers you have, thats not enough, keep recruiting people, everyday.
- Buy More Bows, Cause you want more archers.
7) The End?
It will take a few tries, but I did not have the Wall Buff Statue, a good horse, catapults, knight towers, etc.
With The Rain of Pain a million archers sprays over that wall, I may not have needed the ballista towers either.
The Last 20-30 Days of playing these were my actions -
Day Start -
Grab a bag full of Gold from Treasurer.
Walk to bakery, catch first wave of villagers before they eat my bread.
Buy more Bread.
Walk over to Bow Rack, Replace bows new villagers just grabbed.
Walk to Archer Statue - Return it to full power.
(If you took forever [almost 2 days] you can sometimes get a 4 gold discount bumping the statue power level from almost 1 to 3)
Walk back to other wall to watch the nights greed wave attack me.
Repeat -
Goodluck, took me a few attempts to get it down too dw ;D