Beat the game. Just build civilian housing which makes you money and use that money to build farms/lumber mills etc, then upgrade the civilian housing to earn more money and use that money when you buy the market to trade for more goods to use to upgrade your buildings. This is the only way I've been able to start the game and not get crushed. Completed the game in 122 days.
Good game, a bit slow for my liking. Took me a good few hours to complete. Only real thing is I believe the monsters should be stronger to balance it out, they had very little bearing on the game till I got one that could hit 10.
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