11 Advanced exercises

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Advanced elephant hunting

See if you can kill the elephant with 4 villagers without taking any hits. Repeat with just one villager. (Yes, one savvy villager can take down an elephant without taking a single hit.)

Next build the storage pit 8 squares from the elephant. Try to bring the elephant as close as possible before you kill it.

Next, build a house before you start hunting the elephant. Hit H, C before you attack the elephant and hit H, C every time you hear the birth announcement. Try to repeat your success (it is much harder to hunt when you are being interrupted with H, C's.)

Fast speed

When you are able to reach the bronze age in fifteen minutes on normal speed try it at fast speed. You will find that many of the problems you used to have are back. But, as you get used to the faster speed you will re-learn which aspects of the game are the most important. Then, when you come back to normal speed you will find that now you have time to think a bit.