- 1). Choose a spot to build your fortress and social machinery that is protected by natural features, such as water, mountains or high ground. If this location has only a couple of entrance and exit routes, enemies are easily held off while your citizens escape to a strong fortification or remote area.
- 2). Order citizens to construct hovels before all else. Hovels "train" citizens to replenish your ranks if disaster strikes early in a level.
- 3). Construct hunting posts around the perimeter of your settlement, leaving room for more valuable (and expensive) buildings closer to your fortress. Place a granary in this "inner circle," but keep the distance between it and your hunting posts relatively short so that your hunters are expedient. Without this infrastructure, your citizens will starve.
- 4). Build walls to surround your settlement to block off entrance routes and to surround remote resource centers like woodcutters and wheat farms. Malicious wolves and foreign invaders will ravage your citizens and structures if they have access to them.
- 5). Train citizens into bowmen and situate them in watchtowers to watch over your walls.
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