🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi Folks:

I am really frustrated with the level where you are supposed to trash 2 
orc clans that rallied against the rule of Doomhammer (level 12, the 
first game in Act 4, orc campaign).

It is a mixed naval domination/ground siege campaign, and oil is 
the key.  I keep getting trounced and wonder what I am doing wrong.  

Initially, I  have enough ogres and catapults to wipe out orcs on 3 islands 
next to my agricultural base.  In this way I take 2 gold mines (110,000 gold 
or so) and three forests.  I set up 2 townhalls and 1 lumber mill and start 
harvesting/mining like crazy.  I try to get about 20 peasants going.  
This strategy enables me to make enough catapults to sink all enemy ships 
that come by my islands, but it sucks once I start to build up my naval 
empire.  If I try to set up an oil platform to the north of my island, 
something like 10 enemy ships come at it, and it's gone.  At this moment 
I only have 700 or so units of oil, so it's a suicide to build a lonely 
destroyer.  If I set up an oil platform to the east, it takes forever to get 
oil, and enemy orcs attack anyway.  Without oil, I cannot get any ships built.

Are there any strategy hints for this level?  I'd hate to cheat when it's 
so close.  E-mail advice is appreciated.

Ruslan Karapatnitski
MBA/MIM Program (ASU-Thunderbird)