Easy "A Ship That Doesn't Sink...
	Easy "All for Rurik" Trophy...
	Easy "Edward Needs Those" Trop...
	Easy "NO LIFE IS WORTH SAVING"...
	Easy "Under Mieszko's Banner" ...
	Easy "Vienna's Finest Armor" T...
	How to Capture a Village...
	Stockpiled food...
	Strategy Tips...
	Various Trophies...
	Village types...

In the fourth mission of Ulf Ironbeard's campaign After capturing the final village your ally will apear. He's got a fleet of twelve ships and you need to make sure at least eight of them survive. Be fast and destroy the catapults before they sink the ships.

You will need to cap all villages in a mission of Rurik's campaign.

You need to produce five catapults before the night comes in Edward's campaign. This means you need to collect enough resources and build a blacksmith to research catapults as fast as possible.

You need to kill a total of two thousand peasants. One of the Devs stated any peasant on the map that gets killed counts towards this. Peasants in enemy base (standing near buildings, extinguishing buildings, reapairng/building) also count to this trophy.

This one is rewarded for capturing the village Kopytko in Mieszko's campaign.

You have to collect some armor pieces in a mission of Rudolf's campaign.

To capture a village, first command your squads to set it on fire, then occupy it to take it over (both actions are reflected by the status bar above the village's main building). Villages can have four levels of defense: no defense, brown, silver and gold - all reflected by the outline of village's status bar. The higher the defense, the more troops are needed to take it over, and more soldiers might die while they capture the village.Take notice, that capturing stops upon enemy soldiers entering the village.

If you have more squads than your villages food production can support, then you will start to lose stockpiled food. When you run out of stockpiled food your squads will starve. If your squads are starving, then your squads will be defeated in fights you should have won. When training squads keep in mind the increased food upkeep.

Do what you can to avoid starving. You can strike at enemy food production to starve him. Starving will put a player at a large disadvantage.

Try taking a village with food production.
Factions may have techs that reduce upkeep, or boost food production.
Factions may have have prayers that reduce upkeep or boost production.
Make sure your village farms are producing food.
You can disband some of your excess squads.

The viking upkeep reduction tech is basically required for the vikings as the game progresses. The saxons and germans upkeep reduction is useful but not required. While the slavs should frequently use the upkeep prayer. Both the vikings and slavs have a production boost tech. This boosts your production for your base, and can be useful but not amazing.

Tip 1
Units are precious, especially one with upgrades. If the combat looks like it's going the wrong way, consider retreating your units to rest and resupply. Losing experience and armor will hurt your war effort. Conversely, it's a good idea to have fast units in reserve to run down retreating enemies (in keeping with the traditions of the period).

Tip 2
Beyond the basic natural features and impassable obstacles, the game also adds another wrinkle: Units can hide in bushes, high grass, or forests, allowing them to attack the enemy at an optimal moment. More importantly, ranged units will remain invisible, even while attacking, as long as the enemy isn't in direct contact.

Tip 3
Attacking an enemy from the back, flank or charging at him, grants you extra damage and lowers the enemy morale even before the actual fight begins. It can give you a significant advantage.

Tip 4
An outnumbered unit also suffers significant morale loss.

Tip 5
Friendly fire is a big morale loss for your own units.

Complete the following tasks to unlock PlayStation 4 trophy rewards.

Trophy	How to unlock
A Ship That Doesn't Sink (Silver)	Help at least 8 drakkars survive in the mission 'The Last Impediment'.
All for Rurik (Silver)	Capture and hold all the villages in the mission 'Battle on Two Fronts'.
Blitzkrieg (Silver)	Finish the 'Battle of Lidzbark' in less than 25 minutes.
Boleslav the Brave (Silver)	Complete Boleslav I the Brave's campaign.
Church of misery (Bronze)	Find out what happened to the villagers in the mission 'Battle Of The River Bug'.
Commander Veteran (Bronze)	Recruit each type of unit in the game at least once.
Deadliest Warrior (Platinum)	Obtain all other trophies.
Dunstan's Revenge (Silver)	Kill Harald Hardrada in less than 5 minutes in 'Before They Find Out'.
Edward and Godwin (Silver)	Complete Edward the Confessor's campaign.
Edward Needs Those (Bronze)	Deliver 5+ catapults before night-time in the mission 'Wells Under Siege'.
Elite Marksman (Bronze)	Defend Lubawa using only ranged units in the mission 'Battle Of Lubawa'.
Firestarter (Bronze)	Start a match in Multiplayer or Skirmish against any opponent.
Goodfella (Bronze)	Kill every bandit and save all the villagers in 'The Knights Of The Cross'.
Harold's Guerilla Warriors (Silver)	Completed Harold II Godwinson's campaign.
Indisputable (Silver)	Win a Multiplayer match or Skirmish in less than 8 minutes.
It's a TRAP! (Bronze)	Detect and destroy five enemy traps.
Konrad von Thierberg (Silver)	Complete the Teutonic Order campaign.
Lindisfarne Riches (Silver)	Complete Ulf Ironbeard's campaign.
Lost Ones (Bronze)	Replenish a squad ten times.
Mieszko (Silver)	Complete Mieszko I's campaign.
NO LIFE IS WORTH SAVING... (Gold)	Kill 2000 peasants.
Not on my watch! (Bronze)	Destroy all the enemy ships in the mission 'Fearsome Mercenaries'.
Off the Course (Bronze)	Complete the mission 'Off The Course'.
Rudolf of Habsburg (Silver)	Complete Rudolf I's campaign.
Rurik's Reign (Silver)	Complete Rurik's campaign.
Squad Proficiency (Bronze)	Specialize ten squads.
Squad Veterancy (Bronze)	Unlock veterancy on any unit ten times.
Teutonic Meticulousness (Bronze)	Capture all the villages in the mission 'Battle Of Christburg'.
The Rest Is History (Gold)	Complete all the campaigns of the Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Germans and Slavs.
Through Defenses (Bronze)	Destroy a village with Gold defense.
Time to Work (Bronze)	Send peasants to work at a resource point 50 times.
Trap Sweeper (Bronze)	Disarm all the traps without being detected in the mission 'The Night Hunters'.
Uber Micro (Gold)	Win a match against an AI on Insane difficulty.
Under Mieszko's Banner (Bronze)	Capture the village of Kopytko in mission 'The Battle Of Cedynia'.
Untouchable (Bronze)	Defeat an entire enemy squad with only ranged attacks.
Vienna's Finest Armor (Bronze)	Pick up all the armors in the mission 'The Siege Of Vienna'.
War Veteran (Gold)	Defeat each type of unit in the game at least once.
Who is there? (Bronze)	Sneak into the enemy base undetected in the mission 'Siege Of Niemcza'.

Villages come in three types: bronze, silver and gold. Each village will provide a combination of food, wood and iron. All villages are not equal. When you are taking a village, especially at the start of the game. It is important to send enough squads to take them. You can tell the strength of each village-neutral, allied, or enemy-by looking at the frame color around the village health bar.

Average number of squads required to take an unfortified village:
Bronze Village - 1 Squad, Silver Village - 2 Squads, Gold Village - 3 Squads

Exception, viking blacksmiths can upgrade building HP, Viking villages can be harder to take.

Once you control a village be sure to send the villagers back to work. This can be done by directly clicking the village on the battlefield, or by the buttons in the lower right side. It is important to always keep your villages producing.