Hi Lori.
On the first couple of maps, goblins will always come from the top and
sides, so it's better to place your buildings at the middle bottom and if
you want to use towers, put them towards the edges, walls aren't needed just
for goblins they come into play later on.
To be honest though if your stratogy of making soldiers and knights is good
enough you shouldn't need towers.
Myself, the stratogy I always play to is to start with a view to creating
knights. So I first build the tavern and storehouse next to each other, the
lumber yard on the closest bit of forest and the stone quarry on the nearest
bit of stone.
I usually begin with meat and vegitable production and houses, and don't
worry about bread until I've got more population, and because mining takes
time I build the mine and smithy early so that I can start making knights.
the important thing with castaways however I've found is not to be static.
You want to build a building? wEll reassign all your people (bar the cook),
to builder. You only need a doctor when someone is actually injured, and
sinse the doctor's secondary job of tailer isn't useful until you have yarn
to weave into cloth, there is no point having her/him stand around idle.
You don't need a miner metalergist and a smith, just two out of three
usually will do sinse the smith can smelt and the metaligerist can mine.
Unless you need wood in a hurry, a carpenter can moonlight as a lumberjack.
This is one reason I love castaways, it's all about changing your stratogy
and assignments according to what your doing, and if you can do this to
maximize your population you can hae more than enough soldiers and knights
to keep the goblins in check, so long as your not building really close to
the edge of the map.
hth.
dark.
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