The Settlers III/Egyptian mission 7

In this map the victory condition is to habitate islands A, B and C. See the mission briefing for more details.

Set up a basic settlement
Quickly build up a small settlement on the easternmost island consisting of
 * 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
 * one large residence (you need a lot of pioneers for this level)
 * Landing Dock

Wait for the iron smelter and tool smith to get occupied, then build
 * Ship builder

Make some more hammers and other tools. Remember to feed your miners.

Hold back the enemy

 * Build a transport ship

Fill up your transport ship with all the soldiers you have (even take down the towers on your other islands, you won't need them). Send the transport to the center island and gather them all into one small army before attacking. Now only take the tower that is closest to the north/center of the island and place two bowmen into the tower. Place the remaining army a bit away from the conquered tower so they won't start fighting by themselves. This step is to make sure they don't get a foothold on the island, that would make it hard for you.

Transporting stuff and creating a second settlement

 * Build a trade ship

At this point in the game, create a route for the trade ship between your dock and the center island (I thought there had to be two docks for there to be a route, but that's not right. You only need one dock and you can send the ship to any destination reachable by sea).


 * Select the dock.
 * Place the dock(start of route) near the landing dock.
 * Now click the destination (package icon) and select a piece of land on the center island that is close to the easternmost shore of that island.

A red line should appear between the islands. If not, try again!


 * Send over a lot of pioneers to the center island and start taking land near the easternmost shore.
 * Convert at least 10-20 of these pioneers back to carriers!

Now they can pick up tools if the tools are shipped to a piece of land that you own (if not, you need to take that land with your pioneers first)

From here on you probably get the idea. You need to build a barracks and should start producing weapons. Most of the enemies can be taken out by the weapons stashed at the beach North-West on the island.

You also need to take some land on the two northern islands, but thats the same procedure as explained above (bar the soldiers). (I didn't need to take all the land on these islands to get "You've won")

Quick summary
Send all soldiers to the island and take their outernmost tower. Defend, but do not attack yet. Send all your pioneers to the main island, take the land, convert them to carriers, then create a barracks and a healers tent on the island - you're ready for the main attack.