Julius999 writes: I think the key to scenario 4 is to use three rather cheap tactics.
1. Spam military buildings everywhere. It allows you to turn your income into soldiers more quickly, but most importantly it markedly slows down the enemy.
2. I recall that it is better to let the enemy capture the beach but then recapture it soon afterwards rather than try to hold out until you lose all your troops. The reason is that once the beach is captured the enemies move on to the town. They vacate the beach, allowing you to storm in with a dozen cavalry and recapture it easily. Meanwhile the town is fairly favourable territory to fight them. Losing the beaches is only a bad thing if you don't have the capacity to get them back quickly.
3. You can use your navy to destroy most of the first wave of transports.
1. Spam military buildings everywhere. It allows you to turn your income into soldiers more quickly, but most importantly it markedly slows down the enemy.
2. I recall that it is better to let the enemy capture the beach but then recapture it soon afterwards rather than try to hold out until you lose all your troops. The reason is that once the beach is captured the enemies move on to the town. They vacate the beach, allowing you to storm in with a dozen cavalry and recapture it easily. Meanwhile the town is fairly favourable territory to fight them. Losing the beaches is only a bad thing if you don't have the capacity to get them back quickly.
3. You can use your navy to destroy most of the first wave of transports.