Stronghold Mission Carving A Path In 2 Minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- A quick guide for those who are STILL having a serious problem with this mission and just wanna get it over with as soon as possible..
This guide was primarily made for someone who reached out to me and asked for my help.
Just in case anyone is feeling particularly stubborn about beating this on hard - which, having done it, I totally don't think is worth it - if you move SMALL group of crossbowmen up to that little hill with the rock, just north of the area your troops start in, you can inch them forward and (if you're careful) wittle down the enemy ranged fire without them being able to shoot back. Do that enough so that you can break into the first wall. As long as you can get your ranged guys on the walls too it gets easier but it still sucks and takes forever. It's a broken level in an otherwise fun game, just use this guy's strat and beat it on easy haha.
Thats the whole point of the video lol i made this uuh "guide" video so people can skip this agonising mission as fast as possible.
Also after i finish worms reloaded, worms clan wars, guns gore cannoli 1 and 2, im gonna make another stronghold video which is more of a did you know vid instead of a guide since the rest of the missions are pretty straight forward.
There’s another cursed unobvios way - to clean all the right side of the castle as you said - by crossbows, then start digging moat from right top mountains by spearmen (they will survive rare shots from central towers), then send ladder-men to the inner part wall (you will get the access to 4-5 wall segments right near the mountain), send macemen up the wall to clean up all inner part and then crossbowmen to mid towers to clean up the outer part (the one closer to mission start point). By this you will avoid fighting with pikemans. Btw spend about 30 tries to find out stable tactic 😔
@@laooglee 🤘 good to know
I cleared the four left towers before storming the castle, but it's precise and tedious. When that's done, beating it on hard is easy.
This mission is a nightmare
oh come on.. its not THAT hard
@@slyfoxbraixen48 I played it a long time ago. Still remember the struggle
@@cptsparrow5520 In my opinion: the end of the pig is much more difficult … 😵💫
@@slyfoxbraixen48 I still cant beat it 10 years the first time I played it, the balance is just utter bullshit in this mission.
tried the sneaky way with clearing the range units with my range units and your rush in approach (on easy btw) and none of them worked and then there is this dumb time limit for some unknown reason.
@@overdev1993 I first played this mission when i was uuuh probably 8-9 years old. Ill be 26 this September. It only took me 10 tries max to clear it. Also believe it or not, the version i had on my pc was buuuuuullshit as the time limit was even shorter.
Are you 100% sure youve used the EXACT same tactics and maneuvers i did?
Very well done. Nice to see a Play through that does a straightforward frontal attack all at once
Yeah i hate it too when im looking for a super quick guide on a game like lets say all the doom eternal collectibles and upgrades or how to oneshot every foe in punchout wii or uuh the location of every skull in halo masterchief collection and it has a 10 minute intro like "HEY GUYS!! WHAT UP!? ITS YA BOY! XGAMERX69!! TODAY IMMA SHOW YOU YO HOW TO GET 20 KILLS IN A SINGLE ESCAPE FROM TARKOV RAID WITH JUST THE CROWBAR, BUT BEFORE WE GET STARTED WITH THE VIDEO, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE IF YOU HAVENT LIKED YET AND CLICK THE NOTIFICATIONS ON! OH AND SURPRISE SURPRISE I HAVE NEW HOODIES IN MY MERCH STORE AND..." just start the fucking gameplay ffs!! And its even more annoying how they intentionally take forever to do even the simplest of tasks, because as if we give a shit about their USUALLY dogshit commentary when in actuality theyre just prolonging the video to reach the 10 minute mark minimum for the sake of ad revenue or worst case scenario 20+ minutes to have even more ads in their video.
Well, it won't work on hard and very hard (devs really messed up the balance in this mission).
Narrator: Fight your way ...
Sly Fox Baixen: Say no more!
Works great on medium difficulty too, many thanks!
well played Sir.
Alright, I did it. Very hard, 62% troops lost. It may sound ridiculous, but one guy is enough to dig up the moat. Then send in your mace guys to take care of the archers/crossbowmen. Then send your own ones in and kill the rest.
I like it when Spearmen attack the Queen.
Assumably thats our ex so fuck her too for sucking pig dick lol
@@slyfoxbraixen48 lol
was struggling with it for 2 or 3 days straight, but well i wanna play through the campaign on very hard entirely. the game is 20 years old now lul
Play any mission on very hard, but this one.. its a means of torture
@@slyfoxbraixen48 yep, as i said, it took me 3 days 😂
@@slyfoxbraixen48 ah yeah, the same mission comes later again, so there is even more 'fun' to be had
@@mirrorimage2866 im pretty sure "carving a path" is the ONLY limited time seige mission in the main campaign.
Also my previous comment about NOT playing this mission on very hard, was more of a caution/warning towards other daring players who wanna play all the missions on very hard like you. Its just not worth the agony and rage lol.
@@slyfoxbraixen48 🙈
yep, i exist 🥳😂
yeah other missions are more fun. i am doing the one where there is no timelimit on right now tho, and i find it much more borring, since you can just kill everything very slowly. there is no strategy needed at all, this is legit one i DO considder skipping.
btw: debating which sort of mission could or should be skipped or which one is better designed in this 20 years old game is probably the most meaningful thing i have done in a while 😂🐰🐥
Amazing
Well played, Sir. Definitely shows that a straightforward Frontal Attack can Work, If every detail is planned carefully and every step is executed precisely.
Edit: But i do have to ask: Why didnt the enemies use their fire pits?
I can only assume its RNG. You could say its a diamond run lol
@@slyfoxbraixen48 well quite lucky then lol. Initially i thought they didnt use them because You didnt send enough troops or the archers would use the pits Just for the spearmen. I might try that Mission too this Week. Lets See If i geht lucky too
@@slyfoxbraixen48 I assumed the reason you did it on easy is since AI doesn't use fire pits on easy so you could speedrun it.
I tried to play it on hard and wanted to rip my arms off . I guess its just not wort it xD
never will, never has been
It's really not haha.
So many good men died that day
Because it was a do or die raid. Your men were being chased by the pig's men. Id rather test my luck than to be captured by that fat bastard only to be castrated and be tortured to death.
just i finish this mission on medium difficulty and i feel myself hero lol
easy = enough said
normal = challenger
hard = manly man
very hard = masochist
@@slyfoxbraixen48 very hard = masochist speedrunners
This map gives me whip-lash. The previous missions are trivial by comparison and do nothing to prepare you for this.
To think the non steam version of the game was made easier by accident as all the spikefall traps and a few of the pitch fire traps were yours and not the Pig's
@@slyfoxbraixen48 I didn't even notice pitfalls or pitch traps on the map (Steam version). Just did it for the FIRST time using the tactic where you take out the foremost archer towers one by one all your own archers and that worked. Tried it your way but I'm just not quick enough on the draw.
@@dionbridger5944 Pitfalls are on the top side where the moat is and the pitch traps are around the far lower side. In the video i attacked directly from the front, bypassing any chances of encountering these traps.
Also if youre not quick enough, just lower the game speed in the options or use cheat engine to halve the game speed and then revert everything once youre done with said mission. I often play the game on max speed.
I think on easy this mission is about as hard as some earlier missions on very hard. I just did it on normal where they take away like half of your mace guys. I just barely made it with save scumming. I'm not gonna try hard now. Maybe the ladder guys or tunnel diggers are useful, but I didn't use them.
DONT!! Beating this mission on normal is a god damn luxury itself. If stronghold 2001 had steam achievements beating each mission on normal or higher, this mission would have the least unlocks and im talking 0.10% rate at best.
Regardless though, congrats on beating this agonising stage on normal
@@slyfoxbraixen48 Honestly it wasn't that hard, but thanks for the praise. I've beaten Stronghold on very hard before, the only exceptions being the two pig castle missions, I think. So I remembered seeing someone else painstakingly place archers one by one. Then I got the idea of attacking the lower left side and the rest was doable, albeit tedious. I've gotta try hard ...
@@slyfoxbraixen48 Alright, did it. August 1223, 81% of troops lost. I mostly cleared out the four towers on the lower left side before storming the castle, which took about half the time you have. From what I gather, your archers/crossbowmen have four levels of distance to the enemies. 1) They're too far away to attack. 2) They can attack, but they miss like 99% of the time. 3) They miss maybe 80% of the time. 4) They are close enough to aggro the enemies. Number 3 is what you want, but it's only one tile wide, so you need to position them individually. Then you can kill them without losing your own guys. But the leftmost tower is a bit special because the cliff makes attacking weird. When those four towers are empty, it's easy.
Dude, how did you zoom in?
If i remember correctly, holding the right mouse button and then moving your cursor to the magnifying glass will zoom in/out. Also the hotkey should be Z by default i think
@@slyfoxbraixen48 yeah, but itll make zoom out, i am asking because i play on 1920*1080 and it a little bit far for me i cant see my units, so i just curious how he zoom in or mb he was zoom out from the start and just use Z button to make standard view
@@oleksandr1459 I think thats based on your TV/monitor and also the resolution of your game. If theres visual options in the game, why not fiddle with the resolutions? Maybe youll find one that matches? Had the same issue with Stronghold 2 until i found the proper resolution to play in
I always attacked the damn gate and always lost 99% of the troops.
Didnt we all? I first beat this mission when i was 7. I knew 0 english and all i did was fuck around and find out to beat the whole game, but damn imagine my confusion when the time ended and instead of winning, i lost.. i wanted to punch my 50kg screen which would definitely result in breaking my fingers lol
@@slyfoxbraixen48 I remember this mission on my first try thinking it would be easy on EASY. And yet Easy means you have more troops. But you still lose them all.
Now do it again on very hard mode :D
"Insert angry video game nerd quotes" Id rather put my balls in a crocodile's mouth while shoving my head up a unicorn's asshole! This stage is made only for the motherfuckest of motherfuckers lol.
But for real now, jokes aside i dont think i can pull this off on the steam version, but ill give it a try after i am done with dead rising 3.
Oh yeah i stream almost daily on my discord between 3-15 hours depending on the day (i work 13 hours daily) so if you wanna come over and make fun of me while i try to 100% dead rising 3, ill be happy to invite you in lol
@@slyfoxbraixen48 hahah yeah the the two pig siege missions are an absolute pain in the butt on very hard mode, even for veterans :D
I mean there is no NORMAL way to beat those missions on very hard. You just HAVE to take down the archers+crossbowmen firstone by one with those specific spots on the map where you can hit them but they cant hit you.... and THEN you can advance and STILL need to be careful.
I wonder if the developers pla
@@NostaleFreak96 ever played metal gear solid 3 on european extreme difficulty? Kojima himself said he wanted a difficulty that would make you cry, but at the same heighten your skills in case you replay the game.
Soldier of fortune 2 on brutal (the name of the game is literally the name of the hardest difficulty) you can lose your entire kevlar vest to a burst of 5.56mm ammo which kinda makes sense if you think about it as a IIIA kevlar with around 36 layers of kevlar can stop max 6 5.56x45mm (.223) fmj ball ammo, but ONLY if the hits are scattered (2 upper torso, 2 mid torso and 2 lower torso/stomach). After that, you might as well toss it away, because youll be lucky if it resists at least one SP, HP, JHP or even an SJHP.
Playstation 1 spiderman 2 on hard you die if struck by 2 melee hits from grunts during 3rd person stages, but during 3rd person overview stages, you take 50% increased dmg to the point where youll instadie or live with 1hp. What was it with companies back in the day making melee the strangest shit ever? Spidey can sustain 5 .50 caliber rounds from a machinegun, 20+ hits from a thompson or 3 hits from a antimaterial antimatter plasma laser cannon, but a slap with a gun only takes 1 or 2 hits??
The campaigns of every age of empires game, the bots are ALWAYS cheating and its super clear if you use the cheats MARCO and POLO.
Doom and wolfenstein games (also max payne 3) one life difficulty which made me wanna kill myself. I HAVE managed to beat all of them, but at the cost of my sanity.
Digimon survive which came out quite recently, on hard a lvl10 hostile digimon can obliterate your lvl50 which makes no sense, BUT difficulty is optional for 100% so why bother? The slight increase in drops and exp are not worth your trouble and ive beaten it on hard on all 4 endings.
Mario and luigi RPG 2 (superstars gba) has tanuki goombas very early in the game and will BEAT YOUR ASS!! They attack you from 1 to 4 times and if you fail to dodge, theres a 65% chance youll get stunned with NO SUBSEQUENCY PENALTY which means you can get stunned 4 consecutive times by one enemy and since you fight them 2 or 3 at a time for each encounter, theyll bully the fuck outta you and did i mention at such early in the game youll need to land over 20 successful hits to take out at least one, but they can kill you with only 1 or 2 hits?? What the fuck was going through Shigeru Miyamoto's mind when he was testing this game? Did he seriously expect kids aged 3+ to beat this part as easily as a grown ass man?
I can keep going, but you get the idea lol. Regardless, all the games ive referenced are still great and aged like a whale's carcass meaning it will take years for them to be looked at as shitty games.
@@NostaleFreak96 nope... insufficient troops... reached half way before giving up
Well, I did. I beat it on all four difficulties and had to change my strategy a little each time.
Which stronghold is this
Stronghold 2001
Easy difficulty
@@zaynaly3682 Definitely "easy"
This is literally impossible, no word of advice or video tutorial has worked and following this verbatim is not working. You are shot down too quickly to make it past the second wall, plain and simple. This level is what killed the military campaign for me but I can't expect much from a 23 year old game.
And honestly it's not the level itself that pisses me off the most but the smartass comments.
1) Did you or did you NOT do the exact same moves as i did?
-Make all your units aggressive (tap the clenched fist)
-Move crossbowers
-Move macemen (flailers) to dig
-Move archers
-Inch the battering ram close
-Both archers and crossbowers will be prioritised by the enemy, giving your macemen an easier time to dig
-Send your ram to breach the outer walls
-Quickly gather your macemen to charge in when the gates fall to kill off the pikemen or else say bye bye to your ram
-Dont stop, send your macemen to scale the walls to kill the remaining archers or crossbowers while at the same pace send your ram to breach the inner walls
-Select your idling army in the back and send them through the outer walls
-If you still have macemen left, send them through to kill as many as they can before they die, but quickly send your spearmen behind them to support them
-I was very rusty when i made the video so i couldnt quickly split my army to cover more ground, plus im playing on max game speed
2) if you still cant do it, do yourself a favor and add me on steam (fytogili) and discord so that i may stream it for you and explain it step by step. The reason i dont talk in my vids is, because my mic is mid quality and im also autistic. I have aspengers, i stagger a lot while i talk or i talk stupidly fast like XQC. Its annoying so i prefer to just not talk
Also you wont be the first nor the last person to add me for assistance, whether be it Stronghold, original COD6MW2 and COD8MW3, Sniper Elite 4, Sniper Elite 5 and more.
Also what version are you playing? A non-steam version, the HD (director's cut) version on steam or the recently released remastered?
Easy mode xD
I made a hard mode too. 132 minutes killing Snake with only hunters