The Caliph/Strategies (SHC)

The Caliph builds one of the most distinctive castles: a long and rectangular structure with a lot of lookout towers on the walls. These lookout towers, as well as providing a good vantage point for his archers, act as a screen making it harder for enemy missile troops to target the keep or interior of his castle. He likes defending with fire: pitch ditches surround his outer walls and Arabian bowmen are stationed in his towers, who will ignite it with the slightest provocation. Fire Ballistae are placed near his outer walls. The Caliph also mans towers with boiling oil to support his Arabian fire throwers.
Sometimes, usually only when he has the space, as well as his main wall, the Caliph also builds an outer low wall. This is to provide additional defence, while the lowness of the wall allows his defensive fire ballistae behind the low wall to still be effective, and to be harder for enemies to destroy with melee troops.
The Caliph tends to run a simple economy with limited effectiveness that is mostly dependent on utilizing negative fear factor and building breweries in order to counteract negative popularity. While he is fond of building many pitch rigs, his gathering is usually limited by most maps. He also builds a few quarries and iron mines. The Caliph's food production is covered entirely by apple farms.
On the battlefield, the Caliph uses a variety of offensive and defensive tactics. He is notable for harassing the enemy from the very beginning by sending hordes of slaves, which seek out farms and quarries to burn down. When attacking, he uses horse archers, Arabian archers and Arabian swordsmen supported by up to three fire ballistae, with additional slaves, if his enemy has a moat. He is quite aggressive. When he does have the finances, the Caliph sends catapults and fire ballistae after one another to demolish any hostile buildings in sight or to fire at tower walls and their garrisons.
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