Age of Mythology: Retold – Tips for Chinese Campaign 5 (Overcoming Fixations)

When the map starts, select the settlement by the docks.

The pillar has quite a bit of health, so you don’t have to hurry too much to destroy it.

Focus on getting water control, you wan’t to take over the pirate base.

The earlier you go, the better chances you have, since they start without
Watch Tower upgrade.

The pirate’s fleet in composed of Mengchongs, Louchauns and Chiwen.
The chiwen will be your biggest obstacle, so getting Heroic Fleet is recommended.

Once you have taken over the pirate’s base, move all your units and villagers to it.
The AI will not attack you while you are in there.
Forget about trying to hold the settlement in the main land.
Remember to build a temple in it, for you will get mythic units for free from time to time later.

When you age up, if you choose Rushou, you can use Fei Beasts to guarantee removing one of the siege weapons, I recommend doing so on the one in the far East. Remember to select the Fei Beasts as they spawn and send them to attack the siege weapon, or their poison alone won’t be enough.

Once the first weapon dies, you get given a Qinlong.
Use it and your fleet to destroy the West most siege weapon.
You will get a second Qinlong.
Then send both Qinlongs to the last siege weapon, remember to re-focus their attack on the siege weapon after they use their special ability.

When the 3rd weapon dies, the AI stops attacking the pillar and you no longer have a time limit.
Send the Yinglong you get to your new base.

Now that you are no longer in a timer, you can just farm resources in the pirate’s island.
If you go with Zhurong for the Mythic age and then save up resources to build a wonder, you can drop Blazing Prairie and Fei Beasts on Nüchou and she will die (Wonder age OP).

I recommend making lots of farms and using the god power to upgrade them, as the island is too small for market to generate a good amount of gold.

Alternatively,
You can make an army and take back the settlements.
There is a Bandit’s settlement to the East that you should take out if you are going this route, or they will send raiding parties together with Nüchou.

Nüchou’s raiding parties have a lot of myth units, so have some sages ready to deal with them.
Speaking of Sages, careful to not let enemy sages near Yinglong, for they can and WILL stun and copy it, I prefer leaving Yinglong at base making rain on the farms.

In any case, once you take over the island, you will be safe.
The AI might send a stray Zhuque or boat near it that got aggrod in patrol, but the dock area is easy to fortify.