grevls

I have just been doing the Europe campaign. It is a bit of a race to get to the first batch of Gold. It is on the northern middle part of the Alps. Just keep building military buildings upwards. There's not a huge amount and you need to get there before the yellows. This should be enough to expand your empire to a decent size and hold off any enemy attacks.

The other races that get Gold is Purple, Red and Black. Purples get the most but it doesn't last long. If you want a piece of it you'll have to invade and defeat them quickly.

The rest of the Gold gets exhausted before you really get a chance to get at it.

I did discover, however, that there is a decent deposit of Gold in the northern most area of Scotland. There is also some iron and coal deposits across England. This will require you to push through the yellow team to get there.

You do not have to build a ship to get to Britain. There is a very small bit of land linking it to France.

Just use your map to head in vaguely the right direction.

There is nothing on Ireland except sheep. No rocks, no trees, just sheep. I don't know if thats meant to be some kind of joke!?

Anyway I found the best way once you've got your first batch of Gold is to make sure you keep hold of it, exhaust the mines and then slow play it until you can push to Britain.

I defeated the enemies in the following order: Purple, Red, Black, Yellow, Green.

I hope this helps. I had been searching all over the net for tips and gold locations for Europe and found nothing, so I hope this of some use to someone.

I only rediscovered this game recently and I can't stop playing it. Just the right balance of strategy and fun!