Persian Strategy
At the begining, que off 15 villagers from your town center. Select the first villager, while holding shift, put 6 castles around your town center (making sure you have enough room for houses inbetween). Select the second vilager and put him on a house immediatly. Now, take the third vilager, and start filling in the gaps with either houses or stables. Your 4th vilager should be out now. Use this vilager to build on the castles or houses that have not been started on yet. Make sure to fill in all the gaps as soon as possible so your enemy can not get inside. By this time, you should have acouple more vilagers, and your houses should be completed. Make sure each castle has one villager on it. The rest should be working on one castle, making sure it gets up before the enemy comes. As each castle is completed, que 10 elephants out of each (60 in total). Now, if all goes well, you should have around 10-15 villagers by the time your castles are up.

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