Hey folks,
I've just completed the stand-alone economic mission, Calanais!
It's something of a grind - you cannot grow or buy food apart from hops and ale, and there are no trees. You are constantly assailed by bandits. Your only economic recourse is to sell stone, keep your peasants drunk and religious, and tax them. The aim is to gain (and maintain for a period) a large population (118 at normal difficulty).
The early stages of the game in particular are tricky. The bandits will
in Stronghold 1