SergiuHellDragoonHQ i want to know how CHANGE type of military with keyboard then collect them in same point How??? Really, i want know this tips,, please!!
@@radomirdragojevic4996 just check Is there are enough living space for peasants, if not build howels and also check popularity and don't let it decrease lower than 50 To increase your popularity, you can increase ur food rations and lower your tax, it makes peasants to come more faster👍
@@hussainkhann47 They have enough of everything. In the comming month on +14,hovels stays on 52/82 and new peasants comming rlly slow don't know why is that. Food is on max ratio. Every minute one free peasant.
I just finished this mission it took me 7 hours!! Finally finished the whole game! Couldn't get past the first 10 levels when i was 9 but 19 years later i have finished it!
Same, first time i played this amazing gamr i was 7 and had no freakin idea what to do😆 it took me 5 hours to ramp up my economy and defence, lets see how long the attacks need😐
+Runolist Velebitski Then again the very first Stronghold wasnt nearly as hard as Crusader. The introduction of limited building ground for farms etc. really rebalanced the game
xPyrielx The pure gold unit thing made it more interesting in my opinion because it was a mostly different set of troops that you could hire there (apart from the archers)
xPyrielx But it allows you to sustain an army in an enviroment where you have no ressources like wood or iron. It makes a whole lot more scenarios possible in the end.
that the voice saying stuff in stronghold is making a joke from you when he you are 7th lord.. (you can even hear it that "irony" :D ) .. basicly he meant that you wont find anything similarly in nowadays games.. not even so good strategy as Crusader was ..thanks for that HD remake so i can play it even in 2018
I actually laughed at this mission after I tried my "Death Valley" tactic. I made 2 towers and a 15 long 2 space narrow tunnel with flame throwers on the walls and stairs at the end to bait the AI to go after my archers/xbows on the towers. It was fun watching them burn to a crisp.
With your help of how to set up the castle I was able to beat this, it took me nine and a half hours but I finally did it. Thank you so much for helping me become a better Crusader player and letting me enjoy one of my favorite childhood games in a deeper way, love the videos man.
Total possible number of units is divided by number of players. The more players, the less units each can have. Kill AI players and you get a rise in max of about 120 units per kill i think.
Just wanna sasy THANKYOU to Sergiu and other RUclipsrs for making these videos. Stronghold was my favourite game as a child, i'd grown up watching woodcutters do his thing and the old fletcher wobble around. Now at 28 years old I've got this game again and actually kicking ass at building castles and decent eco and army thanks to Sergiu!!
Yea its actually bullshit - too OP with horse archers - nothing except pitch cant kill them - unplayable in multiplayer. I never used shields or any other ''bug'' which are in these games - i even know one that you will win against every bot player even against 7x Wolfs and anything like this 40 k gold vs 3 k etc.. even with 100 k vs 1 k gold would win . But you dont need that. In this map its easy rush orange - get 7 k of gold and easy to build defense - but it was actually smart dig water to get stone. But that just shows how bots are stupid and cant even dig :(
you just can rush nizar with with the pig units 45 of them with +5 good stuff and the king send to nizar king as arrow blocker till the pig units are there and smash him down then you have tons of gold and its much easyer
do shield and use beer to keep people happen sell 100% of the food or you can dude beer + food and taxs....you get more money with beer+selling food...but beer let them eat and charge taxs you dont have to do as much for micromanagement
By the way have you ever considered buying loads of wood and buildings bunches of fletchers? With fear rating of 3 the fletchers always drop off 2 crossbows instead of 1 and with church+cathedral and buying some hops for beer you can keep the plebs happy even with no food! This lead to a simply awesome economy for me and the only production was 1 hop farm. Your portable shield on towers idea is brilliant btw.
@@szarekhthesilent2047 But you lose 2x production. More so - you don`t produce 1 unit of crossbows in normal time because they go and watch flowers grow.
@@wizinjsh that's ok if your opponent dies before he can built any forts, economy or units. And then you use his gold to murderrush the next one. By "goldsoldiers" I meant mercenaries. you don't need weapons for them. only gold.
This and Rome total war are my favorite games I used to play on my computer! I’m thinking of getting back into playing again. These games never get old!
@@levone8958 i even heard i was the eight greatest lord which is even more humilating. it was like this ''you are the-- ''laughs'' eight! ''laughs'' greatest ''laughs'' lord. but i do not remember if it exists or not i believe so lol
This level is by far the hardest level in SC, the others being level 33 and 41 but I’m on my third try and finally won it! 12,000 enemy killed in 4.40 hours. Nizar was first to fall, followed by Caliph, Emir, Wolf, Lionheart and finally Wazir. Some context about your situation:- You’ve only got space for ONE farm, 1-2 iron mines and 1-2 quarries (tip: protect your lonely iron mine and quarry with your life! A handful of trees in your base and that’s it! With 3k compared to all your enemies 40k, you’re up for a Long, Long battle! Here’s what did NOT work:- 1. Rushing the Nizar with only 35-45 macemen, even with my Lord involved. Nizar builds too many units and those invisible assassins which make quick work out of your macemen. 2. Enclosing myself in with moats and walls. The enemies just camps out at their base as well and goes eco crazy, easily amassing over 60k gold each and will release hell over you the moment you open up either entrance for you to get out of your base to attack. 3. Losing control of my meagre quarry and iron production. Following number 2, the moment I opened up that area I lost control over it and had to back up my moat + defences and was out of rock and stone for the rest of the game. I had to rely on buying wood (cuz my trees were all used up) and turning them into crossbows and selling them. It was too slow and time consuming, I couldn’t keep up with the losses I was incurring at this point and I had already been playing for 3 hours. 4. Using my usual attack strategy of mass horse archers, assassins and catapults and going from the main route. You’re going to be caught in the crossfire between 2-3 sides of enemies at the same time because of how they are situated conveniently next to each other (and defending each other). Wolfs mangonels and Ballistas will wreck havoc on your troops while you’re trying to attack either the caliph or the Nizar, plus there’ll be too many troops coming towards you there. Here’s what worked (for me so far):- 1. Selling almost everything I had right in the start, making two hovels, granary, marketplace, two armouries, barracks and making 50 macemen and rushing Nizar. It’s barely enough to take him out. I only had 9 macemen return and they were immediately sent to dig my moat next to my quarry and iron mine. With the 9k that came in from the Nizar, I immediately recruited 20 archers and 20 crossbowman and sent them up the KEEP (I had no time to even to send them up a tower!!) followed by 20 horse archers and 20 Arabian bowman to provide some cover while I sent my initial defence force up the first tower!! Once I beat the initial attacks (which comes freaking fast), I built a similar defence to Sergiu, and I was good defensively. 2. Balancing defensive and offensive troops, and using fire ballistas One of the most annoying thing you’re going to face in this level if you’ve survived Long enough to build an Attack force is the words “Your army has reached it’s maximum size”, which means that you cannot produce any more units to Attack with than the ones you have already produced. This means you would need to have a delicate balance between defensive forces and saving enough troops for an effective attack force. I’ve found fire ballistas to be one of the most effective defensive (Against armoured units) and offensive (Against ranged units on towers) force. I had about 8-10 fire ballistas guarding my main entrance and another 8 guarding my iron mine / quarry together with a tower there. A couple of towers filled with the above units and your base is solidly defended. Each of my towers had an average of 15-20 archers, 15-20 crossbowmen and 8 shields. 3. A minimalistic economy You’re only going to have space for 1 farm for the most of the game. Only once the Nizar and the Caliph was gone did I build up to 12 wheat farms down south and even then the peasants kept getting sniped from the wolf/lionheart etc. I chose hops as my 1 farm in my base and chose to forgo food production. My immediate build when my rush was over was two inns and two breweries and 1-2 more hovels, 1 quarry and 2 iron mines, 5-6 woodcutter huts and a bunch of fletcher workshops producing crossbows as wood and gold would allow me (eventually 8 of them). I exchanged them with 4 swords and 4 armour workshops when I was out wood. When my inns were running I immediately put tax up to -8, then when food was completely gone I cut taxes out. When I had enough troops for defence I saved money to buy Churches, cathedral and chapels (from the sales of my little iron and crossbows). I had to use my stone to repair my towers during catapult attacks when I would be a little late to select my ballistas on my towers to manually attack enemy catapults (this is probably the most idiotic thing about the game). Once I had religion up to +8/9 (1 cathedral, 2 Churches, 2-3 chapels) I continued taxes on -8 as I had no more food. When I finally had wheat and food going only then did I increase my population to 90 and had -12 taxes at the end of the game. Tip:- remember to constantly check your defences, and take out enemy trebuchets, catapults and fire ballistas immediately when you see them by manually selecting your own ballistas on your towers to fire upon them (I had 4 towers on my main defensive front - 3 with ballistas and 1 mangonel - targeting the wazir and effectively suppressing him throughout the game so far). Failure to take down an enemy catapult can result in your tower falling and the entire troop stationed on that tower’s health drop by half instantly (plus you would have to spend another 35-40 stone to build a new tower, a luxury difficult to afford in this level! Also be careful not to let enemy fire ballistas snipe your troops one by one on the tower. For some reason your stupid tower ballistas love to shoot everything else before shooting the enemy’s siege equipment! Manually aim aim aim! Thoughts:- I found if absolutely necessary to rush one Lord in the beginning. Failure to do so would mean constant harassment by Caliph’s slaves, which for some reason in this level LOVES to fill up your moats and burn your 1-2 quarry / iron mines, significantly reducing your chances of building an army WHILE the Nizar sends in hoards of Assassins up your towers (and destroying all your troops on the towers) or sneak into your base to wreck havoc to your economy. All this is happening while your troops are busy handling the mass amounts of heavily armoured units from Wolf, Lionheart and Emir and horse archers from Wazir. With the Nizar gone, at least the threat of assassins sneaking into your base or up your towers is gone. Final comment:- this was by far the most challenging level in the game and quite rightly reflects the heartbeat of the game. Every strategy in the book had to be used (no cheating of course, I’m Glad to say I never cheated in any of the levels). All units are basically being thrown at you in large numbers and you’ve got to run on basically 1 farm, 1 quarry, 1-2 iron and just a handful of trees for a good 1-2 hours of the game at least!! Frustrating, nerve-wrecking, finger-clicking crazy, non-stop action and non-stop focus required... I won’t ever play this level again but I’m so Glad I’ve finished it, after starting this game close to 20 years ago! (Back then I could hardly get past level 2!!) Great game!!
So looks like it's impossible to win this mission without letting an open way to the Lord. If I close everything then in 2 minutes I have an entire freaking army approaching my stone production and that's the end of the story then.
I was surprised by how resistant pikemen are even to crossbow bolts. They are harder to deal with than swordsmen. The others were easily killed by my crossbowmen, but those bastards always broke through.
Well done! Your Stronghold Crusader vids motivate me to play the missions, and ive become way better at this game the last two weeks. Maybe I will Win the next time I play against my Brothers. Thank you for making those vids 😃
Hey man after 8 years just wanted to say i hope you're doing fine and I'm really happy that i found your channel just scrolling your videos have a nice day man i appreciate your efforts🙏
Change the strategies..Only you need is 10 -15 crossbowmens in early stage of the game with watch towers. Make the stone production faster. Invest all money to crossbowmens. Make 10 watch towers with 50 crossbowmens. then you are totally protected. You can peacefully make your army in your backyard to attack others while crossbowmens killing attacking troops. 50 of them will destroy any army.
That's the idea,I didn't want to stop them.If I where to block that pat,they would attack me from the side where I produced stone.By letting them to freely enter my castle,they left my stone production alone and fell exactly into my trap. :)
That fucking map makes me feel so cramped. Like, i want to go out in the open field and lay down on the ground with my limbs spread. Just to get over this claustrophobic feeling....
i love how everyone always has to place the stockpile perfectly aligned and the market close to the stockpile (to make transporting goods quicker right). I think it would break me if I saw someone doing it differently.
I dealt with the wolf like this - I destroyed the 3 towers with mangonels from a safe distance from the south using trabuchets, then I moved my troops closer to his walls and used a battering ram to quickly drill a hole trough his walls at the spot with iron ore - he didn't dig a moat there so my swordsmen could easily pass and enter his castle, destroyed his barracks, but he survived with like 1% health, because he menaged to burn most of my swordsmen with engineers placed on his keep anyway, he never rebuilt his barracks for some reason, so I repeated the same process again, got 14 000 gold from him and suddenly, it all got much easier - I bought everythin I needed to destroy Lionheart and Emir (and Wazir, whose economy was ruined because I was constantly burning his bakeries from the very beginning) haha, this mission took me about 6 hours, but I only played on 40 speed and sometimes even slower
Because of your videos, I've reloaded my Stronghold games (1,Crusader and 3). And playing them like a boss - but still suck without cheating!! LOL Great vids...
along time ago i had play this game, now i have just download the game again to play it again (after i saw ur video, it seem look easy), now i have reach level 80 to beat (currently i have play this level more than 5 hours, and ofcourse alot of "match restart" to build defending area, but until now i have just kill 1 opponent.... so there is 6 opponent left. so i save it for future play..).... thank for the walkthrough... i enjoy playing this game
Abusing the shields surely makes everything easier. Too easy if you ask me, but thats just my opinion. I wouldnt recommend the shield spam in multiplayer, it just makes everything kinda lame.
this mission... is just too op compared to other missions. there are NO resources at all (if you consider that iron and stone supply that cant even be walled from fire balistaes properly).
There's wood and space. You can build crossbow makers and sell the crossbows for money. You also make profit, if you buy the wood and sell crossbows. You can add some religion for taxes on top of that and it's very easy, once you have the defense up. I even beat it with ucp mod, wich makes it way harder. (AI Attack with more units and faster, have way stronger castles and arab swordsman can eat double the amount of crossbow hits.) You also have to make beer instead of food, because one hopfarm can support more people than one grain farm. I usually dig a maze-moat infront of my tower, so the enemy units need longer to walk into my base. With a few fire thrower's, even the tanky units die then.
oh this brings back times of me watching my dad play this in 2006 he also plays today and plays the same as always. he beaten the game alot of times and never gets bored of it. he got me to play the game too haha
I think developer who make maps for second company (30 maps) little idiot, because all 29 maps so easy for play, always much resources and money in the begining. But this nightmare 30 map, why so stupid idea make unbelievable finish. Nice begining man, very nice strategy.
My favorite childhood strategy game!! İt's always make me happy seeing people playing on these days!! İf you burn that hostile stone quarry you can burn plenty of enemy attacks mate!! İt's really helpful
On this last level today. Wow. Toughest on the games. You are very good, good to watch. I’m 3 hours in and just killed second enemy. Few hours to go now I have access to more farmland and stone/mines. Great game and on too crusader 2 after. Warlords coming soon too 👍🤲🏻
Yeah.The 30 level is a real nightmare.I spent 12 hours to complete this and used 4 saves with different options. My strategy was close to your but were differences - i used two towers in the front and almost always speed to 90 (I didn't use other sources of funds, because it was a little difficult to defend them). Anyway it was interesting to watch your long way to victory.Thaks, sorry for poor english and greetings from Ukraine.
I finished this map after playing about five days 3 hours of playing daily. This is a really hard map. I never used shields. I sometimes got very angry with the game. There were times I thought nothing would work. In the end today, I could finish all of them. I can't tell how happy I was. I felt great to win without any hacks. First, I attacked to the orange very fast and killed him. Then try to defend and use the sources. Emir Omar is the most annoying one, the blue one. He will attack without break. But the richest one is surprisingly the black one. I got 26k gold from him. Whatever, played this in 2020 and finished all. 🙂
when i was a kid playing this game i only used archer and i always got super scared when the enemy shouted and attack you with a massive force of armour infantry, now when i replay the game i realize the strongbowmen is OP and will eat everything for lunch 🤣🤣
Tips for this mission: - Build a moat around the stone quarry but make sure the keep isn't enclosed or the enemy will just dig it up (Fastest route to your keep) - Build siege towers (At least 3) and use ballista to take out enemy siege weapons - Have about 50 crossbowmen and 15-20 shields on the towers - Build a winding moat in front of the towers so the enemy will have farther to travel all the while being showered by the crossbowmen - Take out Nizar (Closest to the stone) using shields, horse archers, fire ballista and trebuchets (Trebuchets are vital for taking out the enemy tower archers)
That doesn't work. The AI can always build, unless your troops are standing directly on the file they want to build on. They just have a small cooldown for building something, that was destroyed.
You can do that trick, put Wood cutter in near enemy building then enemy Will destroy it...with some spesific habit like Caliph , they Will burn it so fire Will spread to surrounding building
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SergiuHellDragoonHQ i want to know how CHANGE type of military with keyboard then collect them in same point
How??? Really, i want know this tips,, please!!
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In all my years playing this game I have never thought of putting shield guys on the towers :-/
Same. I feel stupid now ^^
Same so dtupid:D
Yea I thought they're useless :/ Know about them since a few months now but DAAAAAMMN are they strong!
RIGHT?! I love how we're all in the same boat here! They never told you that you could put them in towers in the tutorial!
Bobcat Brown I started with them while i started online games...
Anyone in 2020?!!
Played this game at childhood and still feels the thrill of those missions
Me too !
Coldown for available peasants goes very very slow and i have all green and good. Is that normal, what to do?
@@radomirdragojevic4996 just check Is there are enough living space for peasants, if not build howels and also check popularity and don't let it decrease lower than 50
To increase your popularity, you can increase ur food rations and lower your tax, it makes peasants to come more faster👍
@@hussainkhann47 They have enough of everything. In the comming month on +14,hovels stays on 52/82 and new peasants comming rlly slow don't know why is that. Food is on max ratio. Every minute one free peasant.
@@radomirdragojevic4996 Don't know.. when I played that, even if the coming month is +4, the peasants will arrive once for two seconds..
Lionheart is such a bro , even when you face him he's friendly. Bravely done !
Calife is best ally
Still remember when my dad complete this mission. I was so happy for him.
I just finished this mission it took me 7 hours!! Finally finished the whole game! Couldn't get past the first 10 levels when i was 9 but 19 years later i have finished it!
Same, first time i played this amazing gamr i was 7 and had no freakin idea what to do😆 it took me 5 hours to ramp up my economy and defence, lets see how long the attacks need😐
I remember very first Stronghold didn't let you build anything before you build granary "Site your granary Sire" :-)
+Runolist Velebitski Then again the very first Stronghold wasnt nearly as hard as Crusader. The introduction of limited building ground for farms etc. really rebalanced the game
+wilhelmrk In one way you are right. But introducing units for pure gold fucked up other things in my opinion. This changed gameplay dramatically.
xPyrielx The pure gold unit thing made it more interesting in my opinion because it was a mostly different set of troops that you could hire there (apart from the archers)
+wilhelmrk Units are well designed but the fact that they can be aquired for only gold, makes basic ones obsolote in some scenarios, which is bad.
xPyrielx But it allows you to sustain an army in an enviroment where you have no ressources like wood or iron. It makes a whole lot more scenarios possible in the end.
12:55
he is like that one uruk hai with the flame in LotR, battle of Helms Deep, that one Legolas couldnt bring down
CONSTRUCTING SIEGE EQUIPMENT
Bartman cool :D
Bartman yea
MANNING SIEGE EQUIPMENT
CONSTRRRRUCTINNG SIEEEEGE EQUI'MENT
Shield ready
13:10 that slave was carrying the olympic flame i swear
you're a legend
ruclips.net/video/WrsC1Hm30ug/видео.html always reminds me with this seen
The last mission - a place where you can try all the tactics and none of them wins
Haha I know right? This last level took me hours!!!
You are.. uh... the seventh.. greatest (?) Lord.
haha they don't make games like that anymore xD
what u mean
that the voice saying stuff in stronghold is making a joke from you when he you are 7th lord.. (you can even hear it that "irony" :D ) .. basicly he meant that you wont find anything similarly in nowadays games.. not even so good strategy as Crusader was ..thanks for that HD remake so i can play it even in 2018
Yeah I miss those voices. Games like duke nukem, dota, unreal tournament, and stronghold :D
Sarcasm at it's best
I actually laughed at this mission after I tried my "Death Valley" tactic. I made 2 towers and a 15 long 2 space narrow tunnel with flame throwers on the walls and stairs at the end to bait the AI to go after my archers/xbows on the towers. It was fun watching them burn to a crisp.
With your help of how to set up the castle I was able to beat this, it took me nine and a half hours but I finally did it. Thank you so much for helping me become a better Crusader player and letting me enjoy one of my favorite childhood games in a deeper way, love the videos man.
I hate when computer says YOUR ARMY IS REACHING YOUR MAXIMUM SIZE 😒
Feel the power 😂😂
@@paradoxop4637 watch it crumble !
Its because he had little house built so less popularity its because of that i believe
Total possible number of units is divided by number of players. The more players, the less units each can have. Kill AI players and you get a rise in max of about 120 units per kill i think.
It's a rout!
i dont think anybody will read this but bec of ur vids i came back to stronhold. was my 1st game and i started with 7.... ty
Im still playin this game .LOL
just ended warchest, AGAIN. played first 50 tons of times.
Just wanna sasy THANKYOU to Sergiu and other RUclipsrs for making these videos. Stronghold was my favourite game as a child, i'd grown up watching woodcutters do his thing and the old fletcher wobble around. Now at 28 years old I've got this game again and actually kicking ass at building castles and decent eco and army thanks to Sergiu!!
Never thought shiels were THAT usefull D:
shields = OP AF
Yea its actually bullshit - too OP with horse archers - nothing except pitch cant kill them - unplayable in multiplayer. I never used shields or any other ''bug'' which are in these games - i even know one that you will win against every bot player even against 7x Wolfs and anything like this 40 k gold vs 3 k etc.. even with 100 k vs 1 k gold would win . But you dont need that. In this map its easy rush orange - get 7 k of gold and easy to build defense - but it was actually smart dig water to get stone. But that just shows how bots are stupid and cant even dig :(
I haven't seen this game in ages. An absolute classic, great video.
The only mission I've never beaten and never thought about using those shields. Really good job.
Thank you :)
+nikeboy995 wtf he did it
for me this mission is not the hardest in stronghold crusader
you just can rush nizar with with the pig units 45 of them with +5 good stuff and the king send to nizar king as arrow blocker till the pig units are there and smash him down then you have tons of gold and its much easyer
do shield and use beer to keep people happen sell 100% of the food or you can dude beer + food and taxs....you get more money with beer+selling food...but beer let them eat and charge taxs you dont have to do as much for micromanagement
Still playing in 2019 my favorite king is Saladin the wise.
Best game
Krists Riekstiņš mankind’s crowning achievement
Mehdi Ji Yea i still play this game u can add me on steam Kirkov47 to play together multiplayer
Everyone knows the rat s the best king
And the king i hate the most is caliph.
He's always burn everything. My farm, my house, my mines.
Man, this is insane mission.
João Gabriel Santos agreed my eyes became red as blood doing this sucker
@@professorboltzmann5709 holy shit totally can relate
By the way have you ever considered buying loads of wood and buildings bunches of fletchers? With fear rating of 3 the fletchers always drop off 2 crossbows instead of 1 and with church+cathedral and buying some hops for beer you can keep the plebs happy even with no food! This lead to a simply awesome economy for me and the only production was 1 hop farm. Your portable shield on towers idea is brilliant btw.
Interesting strategy.
I will give it a shot.
reverse the fear rating and you won't even need the hops. the just spam goldsoldiers...^^
Noice strategyy
@@szarekhthesilent2047 But you lose 2x production. More so - you don`t produce 1 unit of crossbows in normal time because they go and watch flowers grow.
@@wizinjsh that's ok if your opponent dies before he can built any forts, economy or units. And then you use his gold to murderrush the next one.
By "goldsoldiers" I meant mercenaries. you don't need weapons for them. only gold.
Man u are the biggest player of Stronghold Crusader of all times!! I really admire u and your videos!! Congratulations!
Thank you. :)
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This and Rome total war are my favorite games I used to play on my computer! I’m thinking of getting back into playing again. These games never get old!
Same!
old games always better then new crusader games
you are the, uh, seventh... greatest... lord.. lol, first time hearing that
Sadly for me I have heard it more than one time : (
@@levone8958 i even heard i was the eight greatest lord which is even more humilating. it was like this ''you are the-- ''laughs'' eight! ''laughs'' greatest ''laughs'' lord. but i do not remember if it exists or not i believe so lol
This level is by far the hardest level in SC, the others being level 33 and 41 but I’m on my third try and finally won it! 12,000 enemy killed in 4.40 hours. Nizar was first to fall, followed by Caliph, Emir, Wolf, Lionheart and finally Wazir.
Some context about your situation:- You’ve only got space for ONE farm, 1-2 iron mines and 1-2 quarries (tip: protect your lonely iron mine and quarry with your life! A handful of trees in your base and that’s it! With 3k compared to all your enemies 40k, you’re up for a Long, Long battle!
Here’s what did NOT work:-
1. Rushing the Nizar with only 35-45 macemen, even with my Lord involved. Nizar builds too many units and those invisible assassins which make quick work out of your macemen.
2. Enclosing myself in with moats and walls. The enemies just camps out at their base as well and goes eco crazy, easily amassing over 60k gold each and will release hell over you the moment you open up either entrance for you to get out of your base to attack.
3. Losing control of my meagre quarry and iron production. Following number 2, the moment I opened up that area I lost control over it and had to back up my moat + defences and was out of rock and stone for the rest of the game. I had to rely on buying wood (cuz my trees were all used up) and turning them into crossbows and selling them. It was too slow and time consuming, I couldn’t keep up with the losses I was incurring at this point and I had already been playing for 3 hours.
4. Using my usual attack strategy of mass horse archers, assassins and catapults and going from the main route. You’re going to be caught in the crossfire between 2-3 sides of enemies at the same time because of how they are situated conveniently next to each other (and defending each other). Wolfs mangonels and Ballistas will wreck havoc on your troops while you’re trying to attack either the caliph or the Nizar, plus there’ll be too many troops coming towards you there.
Here’s what worked (for me so far):-
1. Selling almost everything I had right in the start, making two hovels, granary, marketplace, two armouries, barracks and making 50 macemen and rushing Nizar. It’s barely enough to take him out. I only had 9 macemen return and they were immediately sent to dig my moat next to my quarry and iron mine. With the 9k that came in from the Nizar, I immediately recruited 20 archers and 20 crossbowman and sent them up the KEEP (I had no time to even to send them up a tower!!) followed by 20 horse archers and 20 Arabian bowman to provide some cover while I sent my initial defence force up the first tower!! Once I beat the initial attacks (which comes freaking fast), I built a similar defence to Sergiu, and I was good defensively.
2. Balancing defensive and offensive troops, and using fire ballistas
One of the most annoying thing you’re going to face in this level if you’ve survived Long enough to build an Attack force is the words “Your army has reached it’s maximum size”, which means that you cannot produce any more units to Attack with than the ones you have already produced. This means you would need to have a delicate balance between defensive forces and saving enough troops for an effective attack force. I’ve found fire ballistas to be one of the most effective defensive (Against armoured units) and offensive (Against ranged units on towers) force. I had about 8-10 fire ballistas guarding my main entrance and another 8 guarding my iron mine / quarry together with a tower there. A couple of towers filled with the above units and your base is solidly defended. Each of my towers had an average of 15-20 archers, 15-20 crossbowmen and 8 shields.
3. A minimalistic economy
You’re only going to have space for 1 farm for the most of the game. Only once the Nizar and the Caliph was gone did I build up to 12 wheat farms down south and even then the peasants kept getting sniped from the wolf/lionheart etc. I chose hops as my 1 farm in my base and chose to forgo food production. My immediate build when my rush was over was two inns and two breweries and 1-2 more hovels, 1 quarry and 2 iron mines, 5-6 woodcutter huts and a bunch of fletcher workshops producing crossbows as wood and gold would allow me (eventually 8 of them). I exchanged them with 4 swords and 4 armour workshops when I was out wood. When my inns were running I immediately put tax up to -8, then when food was completely gone I cut taxes out. When I had enough troops for defence I saved money to buy Churches, cathedral and chapels (from the sales of my little iron and crossbows). I had to use my stone to repair my towers during catapult attacks when I would be a little late to select my ballistas on my towers to manually attack enemy catapults (this is probably the most idiotic thing about the game). Once I had religion up to +8/9 (1 cathedral, 2 Churches, 2-3 chapels) I continued taxes on -8 as I had no more food. When I finally had wheat and food going only then did I increase my population to 90 and had -12 taxes at the end of the game.
Tip:- remember to constantly check your defences, and take out enemy trebuchets, catapults and fire ballistas immediately when you see them by manually selecting your own ballistas on your towers to fire upon them (I had 4 towers on my main defensive front - 3 with ballistas and 1 mangonel - targeting the wazir and effectively suppressing him throughout the game so far). Failure to take down an enemy catapult can result in your tower falling and the entire troop stationed on that tower’s health drop by half instantly (plus you would have to spend another 35-40 stone to build a new tower, a luxury difficult to afford in this level! Also be careful not to let enemy fire ballistas snipe your troops one by one on the tower. For some reason your stupid tower ballistas love to shoot everything else before shooting the enemy’s siege equipment! Manually aim aim aim!
Thoughts:- I found if absolutely necessary to rush one Lord in the beginning. Failure to do so would mean constant harassment by Caliph’s slaves, which for some reason in this level LOVES to fill up your moats and burn your 1-2 quarry / iron mines, significantly reducing your chances of building an army WHILE the Nizar sends in hoards of Assassins up your towers (and destroying all your troops on the towers) or sneak into your base to wreck havoc to your economy. All this is happening while your troops are busy handling the mass amounts of heavily armoured units from Wolf, Lionheart and Emir and horse archers from Wazir. With the Nizar gone, at least the threat of assassins sneaking into your base or up your towers is gone.
Final comment:- this was by far the most challenging level in the game and quite rightly reflects the heartbeat of the game. Every strategy in the book had to be used (no cheating of course, I’m Glad to say I never cheated in any of the levels). All units are basically being thrown at you in large numbers and you’ve got to run on basically 1 farm, 1 quarry, 1-2 iron and just a handful of trees for a good 1-2 hours of the game at least!! Frustrating, nerve-wrecking, finger-clicking crazy, non-stop action and non-stop focus required... I won’t ever play this level again but I’m so Glad I’ve finished it, after starting this game close to 20 years ago! (Back then I could hardly get past level 2!!) Great game!!
This is super helpful! Thanks for sharing these tips :)
I always let the enemy towers in the 'crumble' state. That way computer can't use them and he doesn't evem destroy them..
Yes, there are some tricks in the game like putting 100 archers in a highest tower etc..
the best trick is the ox tether one Xd
@@wacoffin lmao, that's for coward
Crumble state mean?? How can be do that?
@@teguhsetiawan9579 i agree lol
Hahaha! Owned by Wolf at 3:09:30 xD
that was quite embarasing to watch xD
So looks like it's impossible to win this mission without letting an open way to the Lord. If I close everything then in 2 minutes I have an entire freaking army approaching my stone production and that's the end of the story then.
usually is a good idea to let an open way to the castle so you can create death zones
I closed everything lol took me forever thought it was impossible
i closed everything and still managed to win. but it took like 6h of gameplay
I led an open path straight to my king and filled it with death pits and guards.
The nostalgia is killing me 😭😭
me too man
just download it man :) I got it few days ago in my pc like after 15 year lol
These games make a strong mind it's not like Battlefield or Call of Duty
I was surprised by how resistant pikemen are even to crossbow bolts. They are harder to deal with than swordsmen. The others were easily killed by my crossbowmen, but those bastards always broke through.
2021: I still playing this game.
Anyone?
yeah. i just finished all 80 mission :D
@@notis188 then the Crusader Extreme can come 😉
Same here
Bro, im in 2024
@@sofwanash GOAT
2017 and the best stronghold gamer on youtube :3 (thank you)
Hopefully I will be able to make some more Stronghold Crusader Multiplayer videos. :)
Well done! Your Stronghold Crusader vids motivate me to play the missions, and ive become way better at this game the last two weeks. Maybe I will Win the next time I play against my Brothers. Thank you for making those vids 😃
I have completed this mission 1 week ago. At the end, there were more than 24000 soldiers dead in the statistics review.... Hahahaha
I spent 10 hours for this mission, well done man, youre the legend!!!
10 hours 🤯 you must be playing with indecision
TIL engineers can put shields on tower :o
Hey man after 8 years just wanted to say i hope you're doing fine and I'm really happy that i found your channel just scrolling your videos have a nice day man i appreciate your efforts🙏
wow dude, almost 3.5h
congrats!
i love this game (2k h in my life)
Change the strategies..Only you need is 10 -15 crossbowmens in early stage of the game with watch towers. Make the stone production faster. Invest all money to crossbowmens. Make 10 watch towers with 50 crossbowmens. then you are totally protected. You can peacefully make your army in your backyard to attack others while crossbowmens killing attacking troops. 50 of them will destroy any army.
i became 10 years older after doing this shit
GG guys! One of my favorite games when I was a kid, and finally beat it.
That's the idea,I didn't want to stop them.If I where to block that pat,they would attack me from the side where I produced stone.By letting them to freely enter my castle,they left my stone production alone and fell exactly into my trap. :)
That fucking map makes me feel so cramped. Like, i want to go out in the open field and lay down on the ground with my limbs spread. Just to get over this claustrophobic feeling....
haha same feels
i love how everyone always has to place the stockpile perfectly aligned and the market close to the stockpile (to make transporting goods quicker right). I think it would break me if I saw someone doing it differently.
I don't place a granary I do the no food tactic where the pleb survives on Ale and faith with a bunch of galleys
I put the market right behind the keep.
@@debutant1277 why would you use faith? Ale 100%. 30-40x crossbow makers and mission completed.
Ooh god, You're one of the best people i saw playing on Strongholds. Continue your videos!
just got the game again and still amazing! Enjoyed the content. never saw it in the day haha/ thx serg
agree~
A message from the Lionheart:''We're in short supply of the following provisions, can you supply them?''
After I finish the entire Stronghold Crusader,including the Historical Campaigns. :)
I dealt with the wolf like this - I destroyed the 3 towers with mangonels from a safe distance from the south using trabuchets, then I moved my troops closer to his walls and used a battering ram to quickly drill a hole trough his walls at the spot with iron ore - he didn't dig a moat there so my swordsmen could easily pass and enter his castle, destroyed his barracks, but he survived with like 1% health, because he menaged to burn most of my swordsmen with engineers placed on his keep
anyway, he never rebuilt his barracks for some reason, so I repeated the same process again, got 14 000 gold from him and suddenly, it all got much easier - I bought everythin I needed to destroy Lionheart and Emir (and Wazir, whose economy was ruined because I was constantly burning his bakeries from the very beginning)
haha, this mission took me about 6 hours, but I only played on 40 speed and sometimes even slower
Because of your videos, I've reloaded my Stronghold games (1,Crusader and 3). And playing them like a boss - but still suck without cheating!! LOL Great vids...
I am very happy to hear that and thank you! :)
can i know where to download stronghold crusader full version?
Nicole Cheng
You can buy it on Steam. :P
Nicole Cheng Or Torrent download for free!!
***** That's correct, but be mindful that some don't contain all files needed to run the game; especially if the original accounts are from Steam!
took me like 6-7 hours! great playing man!
me 4 hours couldn't stop swearing after finishing it
Made me nostalgic.
I can honestly say
This mission is extremely hard but at the same time its so much fun to play
Nice gaming skills btw mate and thanks for the video 👍
when will he realise that he have no granary
+Ionesi Andrei never :D
along time ago i had play this game, now i have just download the game again to play it again (after i saw ur video, it seem look easy), now i have reach level 80 to beat (currently i have play this level more than 5 hours, and ofcourse alot of "match restart" to build defending area, but until now i have just kill 1 opponent.... so there is 6 opponent left. so i save it for future play..).... thank for the walkthrough... i enjoy playing this game
me too, it wont boring for me~
Abusing the shields surely makes everything easier. Too easy if you ask me, but thats just my opinion. I wouldnt recommend the shield spam in multiplayer, it just makes everything kinda lame.
i cant believe that i watch the whole video.. good job dude!! really really tough
Seriously, this video makes me tired, but anything you've done is great... (y)
Hamzah Fansuri Thank you! :)
childhood game , playing this game in 2022 .
stuck at this mission
The last time i finished this mission i had like 24.000 kills and 2.000 deaths lol
Your intro is one of the few on youtube that I like. its really nice.
Thank you ***** . :)
SergiuHellDragoonHQ well it does feel unique and cool.
this mission... is just too op compared to other missions. there are NO resources at all (if you consider that iron and stone supply that cant even be walled from fire balistaes properly).
There's wood and space. You can build crossbow makers and sell the crossbows for money. You also make profit, if you buy the wood and sell crossbows.
You can add some religion for taxes on top of that and it's very easy, once you have the defense up.
I even beat it with ucp mod, wich makes it way harder. (AI Attack with more units and faster, have way stronger castles and arab swordsman can eat double the amount of crossbow hits.)
You also have to make beer instead of food, because one hopfarm can support more people than one grain farm.
I usually dig a maze-moat infront of my tower, so the enemy units need longer to walk into my base.
With a few fire thrower's, even the tanky units die then.
oh this brings back times of me watching my dad play this in 2006 he also plays today and plays the same as always. he beaten the game alot of times and never gets bored of it. he got me to play the game too haha
I think developer who make maps for second company (30 maps) little idiot, because all 29 maps so easy for play, always much resources and money in the begining. But this nightmare 30 map, why so stupid idea make unbelievable finish.
Nice begining man, very nice strategy.
True story man!
bad strategy he won only because played easy mod
wirti94 Easy mod, what do you mean?? In this game you can not regulate difficult of the game.
My favorite childhood strategy game!! İt's always make me happy seeing people playing on these days!! İf you burn that hostile stone quarry you can burn plenty of enemy attacks mate!! İt's really helpful
best game for always
On this last level today. Wow. Toughest on the games. You are very good, good to watch. I’m 3 hours in and just killed second enemy. Few hours to go now I have access to more farmland and stone/mines. Great game and on too crusader 2 after. Warlords coming soon too 👍🤲🏻
Yeah.The 30 level is a real nightmare.I spent 12 hours to complete this and used 4 saves with different options.
My strategy was close to your but were differences - i used two towers in the front and almost always speed to 90 (I didn't use other sources of funds, because it was a little difficult to defend them).
Anyway it was interesting to watch your long way to victory.Thaks, sorry for poor english and greetings from Ukraine.
this mission has improved my iq at least +50 point
This is the first time I have seen the final mission and being completed. I only made it half way before I grew up and had commitments.
this dude really play a game nearly 4 hours and record it then put it on youtube wtf man
Its stronghold man not bullshit like other games
*_Ty 4 upload bro...watched all vids!_*
Any one in 2022 in ramadan
I played this game as a kid religiously. Absolutely loved this game.
19:34 you keep messing with the water and walls if you just put soem archer (reg ones) on you main 3 towers you wouldnt need that
Thank you and yes. :)
Damn man u really are great player:)) i love stronghold crusader but age of empire 3 is my favorite game,
Jak ja chyba z 2k h mam w tej grze już xD
no. age of empires 3 też spoko gierka widze teraz na yt
I finished this map after playing about five days 3 hours of playing daily. This is a really hard map. I never used shields. I sometimes got very angry with the game. There were times I thought nothing would work. In the end today, I could finish all of them. I can't tell how happy I was. I felt great to win without any hacks. First, I attacked to the orange very fast and killed him. Then try to defend and use the sources. Emir Omar is the most annoying one, the blue one. He will attack without break. But the richest one is surprisingly the black one. I got 26k gold from him. Whatever, played this in 2020 and finished all. 🙂
when i was a kid playing this game i only used archer and i always got super scared when the enemy shouted and attack you with a massive force of armour infantry, now when i replay the game i realize the strongbowmen is OP and will eat everything for lunch 🤣🤣
Well played dude. all the time i played i underestimated those shields but now i think they are pretty OP^^
will we play it on android ....i wish we can do it ...........
Bhatti. its possible you can play this game on Android.
Tips for this mission:
- Build a moat around the stone quarry but make sure the keep isn't enclosed or the enemy will just dig it up (Fastest route to your keep)
- Build siege towers (At least 3) and use ballista to take out enemy siege weapons
- Have about 50 crossbowmen and 15-20 shields on the towers
- Build a winding moat in front of the towers so the enemy will have farther to travel all the while being showered by the crossbowmen
- Take out Nizar (Closest to the stone) using shields, horse archers, fire ballista and trebuchets (Trebuchets are vital for taking out the enemy tower archers)
You are the seventh gayest Lord.
2:37:52
This is *RUN!*
This is *RUN!*
This is *RUN!*
This is *RUN them through!*
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I suppose this guy dosnt know if his units were a bit closer to the enemy walls the wolf wouldnt be able replace them
That doesn't work. The AI can always build, unless your troops are standing directly on the file they want to build on.
They just have a small cooldown for building something, that was destroyed.
damn thats really nicely done, sir! what a lovely move at early game... thanks for that idea, i loved that 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
How he setting his game speed so slow triggered me the most
you are king for this game GG
agree~
Damn, those crossbowmen are annoying.
Gk they have cute voice though
Superbbbbb effort watched whole video. Loved it.
nice strategy bro . love your style
This map is def the hardest - got 78 from 80 right now!! with your vid i might get it
The year 2020 the gameplay 2013 youtube recommendations.... glorious
No one :...
Caliph : put an apple farmer in enemy territory
You can do that trick, put Wood cutter in near enemy building then enemy Will destroy it...with some spesific habit like Caliph , they Will burn it so fire Will spread to surrounding building