The Settlers III/Asian mission 6

The victory for this map is complete control of the whole map.

Set up a basic settlement
Quickly build up a small settlement on the main island
 * stonecutter, woodcutter, forester and sawmill
 * a couple of fisherman huts
 * coal and iron mines

Having built the above, set the coal and iron mines to eat fish using the distribution of goods menu. Then continue building
 * Iron smelter
 * Tool smith
 * A medium residence (you need a lot of pioneers for this level)
 * Ship builder and Landing Dock.

It's vital to get started on the uninhabitated island to the West of the main island as soon as possible. Expand quickly South until there's enough room on the Western coast to build these two buildings.

Make some more tools. Remember to feed your miners.

Food and manna production
It will take some time to get production up to an acceptable level on this map. Make sure good trade routes are established between the main island and the Western island. Transfer a large group (20+) of pioneers to the Western island using a Transport ship. Make sure you send over 8 hammers, shovels and 4 of everything else early. When the pioneers have made a large enough land, build a stonemason, some woodcutters and a sawmill immediately to get local procduction up and going. Then make the island produce all your food needs and manna (rice wine). Send all the bread and meat produced here over to the main island for your coal and iron miners, then gradually reset the fish distribution to only gold mine again. As the wine distillery needs a steady supply of coal to operate, you may decide to place the distilleries and small temples on the Western island. Doing so will get you started earlier with promoting soldiers, which is important. So although there's little coal to find on the Western island, I recommend you keep manna production there. If necessary send coal from main island regularly to support the production.

Create a stronghold
As soon as possible (at the bend just South of the first swamp on the main island), place a stronghold consisting of a castle and a large guardhouse. This will serve as a defending point until your army is large enough to proceed. Build a barracs near here and prepare for waves of enemies. It's a good idea to produce a lot of bowmen and put them up in the towers of your castle and guard houses as early as possible.

(Work in progress)