GUIDE · SOUTHERN EUROPE
Sicilians Strategy
Sicilians: Choose a Donjon or Serjeant opening for pressure, or use the economy to prepare a safer boom. Serjeants and Donjons create a distinctive forward-production plan; add conventional units as counters require.
Overview
Sicilians: Choose a Donjon or Serjeant opening for pressure, or use the economy to prepare a safer boom. Serjeants and Donjons create a distinctive forward-production plan; add conventional units as counters require.
Opening decision and first timing
The starting stone makes an early Donjon plan possible, but the first forward site must threaten a useful resource and have safe builders. A defensive Donjon can instead cover home gathering while a normal economy grows. Reduced bonus damage improves land units in some matchups; it does not make them immune to a massed counter.
Composition, counters, and transition
Serjeants can build Donjons and hold positions, so use them to turn a successful push into controlled ground. Faster fortification construction helps a Castle or Town Center claim an area when the escort is already there. First Crusade is a commitment to an existing infrastructure plan; avoid researching it merely because it is available if food, upgrades, or defensive coverage are missing.
Opening priorities
Choose a Donjon or Serjeant opening for pressure, or use the economy to prepare a safer boom.
Core army
Serjeants and Donjons create a distinctive forward-production plan; add conventional units as counters require.
Technology & transition
Turn successful map pressure into Castle Age expansion and unique technologies.
Watch for
A Donjon rush uses Villagers and resources away from the economy; avoid repeating it when the first position is contained.
- Also known as
- Sicilians/Strategy
- Focus
- Civilization opening and matchup plan
- Signature / category
- Strategy guide
- Release / context
- Lords of the West
- Region
- Southern Europe
- Classification
- Civilization plans