The Joan of Arc campaign, scenarios 3,5 and 6 are perfect for unorthodox tactics. (Possible part 1/3)

I am a very low ELO player. Its hard for me to do micro managing as well as keep track of resources. That is why I always have to resort to using unorthodox methods. Here is how I beat the Joan of Arc campaign a year back:

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When I first started, I immediately took to building my docks and fortifying the starting island with palisade walls. I made several war ships and started controlling the river. I made sure my ships would patrol and make sure no enemy docks were built, putting me in control of the only route to my base. After that was done, I sent out several waves of cavalry units to take out the Burgundy. I believe it took roughly 3 transport ships worth of mostly knights (im that bad). Any units that survived were sent out to roam and locate the castles.

Around the time I had my own castle, I had depleted the 3 islands on my side of the river of resources. I sent a dozen villagers across the western part of the river to gather wood and secured them with several layers of walls as well as my warships. After making sure they wouldn't fully cut the forest and let in the Brit troops by building palisade in front of the last strip of trees separating the former Burgundy base and the villager landing site, I let them remain there to gather wood for the rest of the scenario. I would sell some of the wood to obtain other resources as well as stock up on gold.

In order to destroy the three castles, each time I used a transport ship full of petards as well as one with knights. The knights would distract enemy units while the petards made a hole in the wall and blew up the castle. The attacks would last less than two minutes, from the landing until the castles were downed.

After the first, leftmost castle was done, Fastolf appeared near the middle castle and would try and intercept any transport ships I sent their way. I sent out the war ships to take him out from the water. It took 30 minutes until he and his troops died.

Eventually, after like 6 hours, the scenario was won.

I will see if you guys like hearing the experiences of low ELO players, and if you do, will continue the series with the story of how I won the Siege of Paris scenario.