Stronghold HD - Invasions - Who Is Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf [very hard] 

I also considered building on the right side but then decided against it. The distance to wood and stone was too far for my taste and I had to rebuild everything on the left side after the first knights attack... I guess the palisades are a good idea to atleast distract the enemy troops from destroying the economy!

Next I will try to beat this mission without walls, traps, crossbowmen and moats on very hard. Im curious if it is even possible. Im thining about only workable strategy - I hope they like beef :-)

Thanks for the nice comments, I really appreciate them! :-)

Yeah, on Very Hard the invasion is so massive that it straight up won't spawn the Engineers or the AI when it sets up the siege engines can't build it due to unit limit, so the siege engines aren't deployed which makes defending massively easier since you won't have a dozen trebuchets knocking down your walls.

Also, its easy to exploit the map by placing a tower full of xbows near both spawn posts. But no need to cheat. On hard i ended the mission with 200 xbows and 120 swordsmen snd 60000 gold, just be ause i could. I plastered the iron deposits with mines and made all the swordsmen i needed. And had a population of 400 lol.

I used the fade transition and synced the recruitment of the first 3 and last 3 crossbowmen to make it look like a continuous recording. When you focus on my moat digging archers you can easily see the cut though.

Lord Balder yeah I notice it now! :3

¡Vos si que sos un orgullo nacional capo! O7 Dios te bendiga n_n

Hehe, it was the last invasion and my peasants deserved to be happy after all they went through :-D

I think its because there were too many units on the map. It also happened in Mission 20 and I have seen it in other videos too...

they waste all the gold, that's the reason

I don't know, they always just sit there instead of building siege equipment... I have seen the same behavior in other Let's Plays of this mission too, so it must be something in the map settings...

I faced this problem too. I think there's a limit to amount of siege equipment AI can build. If the limit is overcome then AI just wont build any, I tested it in custom siege map. However, I cant tell the precise numbers.

too many trees in the way guess

@@tamirbaydasov9928 I concur, believe the AI has limited supplies which he seemed to used up all on the first wave. Weird considering it's very hard difficulty and the Wolf has tons of troops. So the problem is siege weren't given enough materials, otherwise why even have those builders on the last wave or the game bugged out reaching some kind of cap limit. I don't think it's a bug so I would say the siege ran out of materials. As you know when they build siege they have limited number of shots until they run out becoming useless. That materials also applies to building said siege weapons so you could say the first wave used all the materials and there weren't enough to build anything on the last wave. I'm guessing it's a developer's mistake forgetting to increase materials.

Ho usato la magia del video editing ;-)

@@LordBalder peccato speravo ci fosse qualcosina perché ogni volta mi si spacca il mouse a premere in continuo😄

I cleared the path to my keep to make the Wolfs swordsmen charge at me in one big final attack instead of several small waves. This made his last attack a little bit more exciting and saved about 2 years of ingame time!

With so much gold in the beginning and long waiting times before the attacks, you probably have many options to win here. I think fires would be a good alternative or lots of swordsmen stacked nicely at a defensive position!

Well let's see it then. No crossbows. These try hards always have to use fire and xbows to win

@@teacopem Not the same mission but I finished this mission without crossbow: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8o-fM6UnKA0.html

Check this out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rFMyhOujPNI.html

@@teacopem ''try hards'' lmaoo, what a loser. Crossbowmen exist for a reason, so you can use them you dumba$$.

Crossbowmen, archers are almost useles vs Pike and swordsmen

Xbowmrn are embarrassing and a disgrace to use in max like a non skilled playrr

You should add no market to make it interesting, otherwise you can just buy what you need. My first thought were 100 swordsmen stacked nicely in a fortress (i even found a video with that strategy), but 100 archers with a huge moat will probably work, too...

You're just a moron. You probably didn't even finish this game on easy, loser.

да, есть такое

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