Age of Empires II: The Conquerors/Noryang Point

This is not actually a walkthrough, just some helpful info.

The map is quite realistic and includes the southern part of Korea and the western part of Japan. So a look on a real map will help you to orientate yourself.

Don't put any villagers on stone, you will hardly need any during the game, it is quite possible to win without using a single stone. Also don't put too many on gold (just 4 or so), you will rather run out of wood or food, so concentrate on those two ressources. For that reason also, think twice for what to spend ressources. No need for any tech that benefits land units, and also techs for ships are not really needed if you take care of your initial fleet and avoid losing too many ships.

The towers around the wonder will fend off most of the Cannon Galleons, but you should collect all your ships and wipe them out, including the ships that are waiting just outside the visible area off the eastern coast. When you are done, you don't need to care for that coast anymore, the attacks will concentrate on the area where your two harbors are and the south coast (on a real map that's roughly the coast between Suncheon and Pohang).

Keep your ships healthy by repairing them (all of them are more advanced than what you can build initially), especially keep an eye on your two Cannon Galleons. Building a few fire ships may be a good idea. When you have defeated the initial batch of enemy ships, you will have a short pause before the next attacks, here you can and should start razing harbours already, but watch enemy towers and castles. If you wait, they will start sending transport ships with Samurais after about 10 minutes. But each only holds 5 Samurais, so ringing the town bell should be enough so the towers can dispose of them.

Meanwhile you can take care of the Japanese Raiders in the north. Develop Chemistry, so you can build a cannon, and add a few knights to defend the cannon, this small army should be enough to defeat them. They only have a castle, a siege shop and three towers, two of which you don't need to take care of. Follow the road to the north across the bridge. When you are done, retreat to your town or delete the rest of the units, if you run into the population limit already, those land units are relatively useless from now on.

You will also find a transport ship there, use it to bring one knight on the other side of the river and ride towards the castles, actually a bit further than the flag, down to the beach, there you will find the turtle ships (two elite ones and the extra strong admiral unit that will heal itself over time), which are a very welcome reinforcement. This is only possible at about 8 minutes into the game (message "find the admiral"), before that the gate will be locked, but it is advisable not to lose time, so to have the knight wait in front of the gate is not a bad idea.

The Japanese Navy will have no villagers and no town center, so they will not build up again anything you destroy. Just raze the harbors and you are pretty much done. Be aware that two harbors are a bit hidden in bays, in the western end of Japan, you have to sail around completely to find another harbor (on a real map that would be the Ariake bay), and another is behind a ford a bit further east (in real life that place would be around the town of Ube).

Also you can send a transport ship towards the west to the Chinese island to collect the Elite Chu Ko Nu and the Cannons, these will help in razing Japan completely, but actually you can do without. Mind that those 20 units will be added to you army, so max out your meagre population limit of 75 before with villagers and ships (any leftover knights are pretty much useless by now).

As you will be fighting on several front simultaneously, use the pause button often and micromanage all your units properly. All should be doing something all the time.