0:00 Intro 0:11 Tip 1 Woodcutters FTW 0:29 Tip 2 Drown your peasants with ale 0:45 Tip 3 Crossbowmen FTW 1:01 Tip 4 Hotkeys for lazybones 1:18 Tip 5 The power of Jesus compels you 1:40 Tip 6 Trust me I'm an engineer 1:58 Tip 7 UCP the MVP
Some cheesy tips: 1. Put siege shields on your towers, this makes your ranged units borderline immortal 2. Not finishing your castle and leaving a single hole forces the AI to send it's army to this exact hole ignoring your walls. On some maps digging a moat and placing few towers in this moat hole tends to be the perfect defence, because as long as there's an entrance into your castle - they won't dig up the moat 3. Rushing is not only a viable strat, but also makes some hard missions way easier. Fastest way to rush is to place mercenary camp, place rally point for assassins near the keep of enemy lord you want to rush and just spam hire assassins. For some reason assassins walk way faster towards rally point compared to their normal movement speed and you only need to tell them to attack when they get to enemy keep Though, these make the game way easier, but at least they're not as exploitative of the game as other stuff (like multiple workers for 1 building, fast workers, instant resource delivery, blocking AI's castle, blocking your big tower with watch towers so arrows almost never hit your units etc.)
1. additional to shield on towers, build a few apothecaries close to towers make your ranged units truly immortal 2. place fire thrower on high towers near the hole/corridor(of death) and they can BURN a 1000 men army 3. macemen may be better
@@lonesomealeks4206 1. Keep in mind that this is UCP-exclusive feature 2. OP stuff, was a total lifesaver on some modded war trail missions in Extreme without magic bar 3. Sometimes they're better if you need a little bit more tankyness, but they're definitely not faster than assassins for rushing, because they don't get increased movement speed towards rally point
pro tip for people just starting out, its a bit cheaty, but it is 100% part of the game and isnt exactly an external cheat or anything....In the settings, change game speed down to the lowest, get your basic town set up, granary, market, stockpile spots and lumber yards, mines etc and once thats all set up, put the speed back up. Because if you have it on the highest speed, and spend a few minutes looking at what you can build and trying to decide what to build and where to put it, you'll look over at the ai and they'll have remodelled london within 3 minutes, unless its the rat, who likes to remodell modern day margate.
1:00 Extra tips on the hotkeys: Pressing the L key for "Lord" the camera will instantly get you to where your Lord is, which, unless you move your lord elsewhere, it's always the Keep, so that way you avoid having to scroll too much. A way of doing fast scrolling is by using the minimap next to the scribe, if you want to see a certain part of the map that is very far away, just click several times on the direction you want to go, it's a swift way to explore the whole map in just seconds. If you're on a mission where you and your ally are very close (example Mission 68: "We're Surrounded!") you can send your lord into your ally's keep, and use the ally's towers as your primary defense, don't leave your own keep unguarded though, the AI will still try to target your production buildings nearby!
I feel like except for the monks and shields, these tips mainly apply for the first few missions where you start with a great map and many resources. For the harder missions I would recommened some of the following things: 1 If possible always dig a moat. Preferably on the furthest place possible. The advantages are that these can be placed farther away than walls so you can secured more land to work with. Furthermore if you dont fully close of your base they will never dig them up, where walls can be hit by an random catapult shot. It is also cheaper than having to buy stone. 2 It is almost never a good idea to fully close of your base. The AI always goes through that entrance so it helps you to direct the attack to a favourable spot for you. And only needing 1 fortified position if there are multiple opponents 3 Know if your opponents team make catapults if they do you gonna need atleast 1 square tower for ballista or mangonel. If not the high cheap tower is the best option. You can get as many troops on to there as you want if you place a piece of wall next to it and place multiple units on that one piece. The people in these towers are very hard to hit. 4 Often you have no acces to stone and iron, but you can make farms. Taxes with Inn's food and churces is a much faster way too build up your economie than with crossbow production. ( dont use the monuments for happiness since this slowers production) 5 A fast way to increase total population if you rely on taxes is to build the big wells. They are the cheapest ( woodcutters can work but they often go for that tree near the enemy base later on). 6 If starting with low gold, many enemies and not great access to stone. Buy bows out of the barracks it is so much more cost efficient against non arabiac sword man (not population efficient ofcourse) . If the opponent is a mix , 10-15 bowman, 5 crossbow man and 5 shields is a quite effective. 7 If you have descided to not fully close of your base, you can often make a zigzag path with the moat and 1-3 safe against archer fire throwers can make a huge diffrence against large groups of melee units. 8 If you have an ally consider building some towers with mangonels for them at better places, since even AI's like the wolf build bad castles Some more quistionable tips: 1 The larger arabic economies and sometimes the wolf will burn on forever once you get them on fire. Which really speeds up the game if they have like 20k+ gold. 2 slaves are really weak to arrow fire so just before them let a few macemen walk continiously moving them left to right forward. This will focus all arrows on them while also them not getting hit. 3 If you block of there gates so that the cant leave the base with ox card or woodcutter. They will delete all production buildings they dont have access too 4 If their base is on a hill with cliffs around it you can often place a trebuchet directly to the cliff that is almost impossible to hit by ranged units. 5 If a tower with mangonel on top of it is in ruins instead of destroyed they wont rebuild it so it is much better to keep it that way. 6 If you let catapult focus fire on an area instead of an object. The stone can fly further. This means theoreticly you can destroy a tower out of mangonel range , but only ~5% is gonna hit.
Easiest way to beat opponent AI in the campaign missions - start mission, see where the opponent place his barracks or mercenary post. Restart mission, put speed to lowest, place a building (any building except woodcutter or ox tether) on that spot. Do it fast as you only have 5-10 seconds before getting the "too close to enemy to build" message. Now when the barracks building spot is blocked, the AI Lord for some reason won't bother build it on another spot or use his starting troops to destroy the blocking building, which leave him with no ability to produce troops throughout the game and thus very easy to defeat.
NPC's can't decide to build stuff in other places outside of resource harvesting buildings like lumberjacks/quarry. Basically they have specific castle presets that they choose for a specific match and they replicate it. So if they can't place some buildings/walls around this specific point - they never will. Though, they can build on top of trees and some of your buildings (they surely can build on top of your mules sometimes).
I wish they remaster this game and have a new Crusader trails with 100+ levels , have some with a good strategic defense against 8+ other AIs , and remove the unit cap entirely . Love yo videos .
How to create a stock of people for army porpuses: 1. spam large pot water 2. each pot water holds 3 recruits 3. cost 100 gold 4. if you have 10 of them basically you have 30 people reserves 5. the use? if your tired of waiting people waiting to buffer, select one of the large pots and press the "Z" icon to "not available" now you have an army of reserves
if you're really stuck in a map on the trail... 1. IMO you can win every map with european archers and arab swordsmen. just make a few big square towers around your buildings and fill them up with archers. there's really no unit that can beat 400 archers. and archers are the cheapest units to train. and you can sell your extra arrows for gold. if you wanna finish off your enemies quickly you can use ballistas and mangonels break down their castle and then move in with the archers and swordsmen to finish. 2. use mangonels to destroy enemy granaries. if you do it a couple of times the enemy will lose population and try to destroy his walls and towers to pay for food.
You forgot macemen. You can rush most of all missions with macemen. Thes got almost the highest walking speed, same attack as swordsmen, can dig moat and can tank a few arrows and crossbow bolts. The MVP of Crusader, since they run all the time instead of only the last few steps like in Stronghold Deluxe. Huge Buff.
thank you for your insights. Could you please make a video about sell food or double ration with higher tax comparison when want to relocate granaries? I'm regularly facing this situation when transforming to bread production. If it's possible? Thank you 😊
Installing UCP is best but for those who didn't know what to check. Here it is: AIC: Xander10 AIV: Tatha Increase Maximum Armies: (Alternative 3) or (Vanilla 60) Of course don't forget to fix all the bugs. I Hope This is Helpful.
I guess Monks would be cost effective the more you build. Build just twenty and they cost 60 gold per unit (10 base cost plus 1000 for Cathedral) but cost 30 gold if you build 50 and 20 gold if you build 100. I still haven't gotten around to adding them to my strategies yet tho.
Any UCP user here? I'm really want to play the trail again but I don't know what to do with the UCP in terms of Castles and AI aggression. What do you guys use?
Evrey's Improved + Krarilotus Agressive AI seems to be the hardest combo for trail on my experience and Tatha's castles are good for large open custom maps (they're too large for majority of war trail maps). Though, I recommend playing around army size/with each attack (increase the values) and aggression delay settings (make them attack ASAP), plus there's other minor settings I don't remember that can make the AI way harder than vanilla. Plus, if you disable magic bar for Extreme version of the game - it's war trail becomes REALLY challenging. Some missions become winnable only via pre-planned rushing and tons of tries. So far this was the toughest Crusader experience for me. With these settings I wasn't even able to beat Big One (enemies hire so many units they literally steal your unit limit and you just don't have enough to attack) and some of the other missions become really tough.
If all else fails at the start of the mission sell all your goods and weapon and use all your gold to buy assasin. Now enjoy destroying enemy in less than 10 minutes.
Hi Jeff, you investigate about Stronghold Crusader. Do you know whether opponents have a certain rule on who to attack in for instance a 4 vs 4 game. This always seems to be a little bit random to me what they are doing
Are there hot keys for building siege weapons with engineers? Find it is my most annoying part of the game having to click every single shield/catapult
Yeah you actually can, but every player on the lobby must have the exact same UCP configs! And there's also the bootstrap mod which is made for online play
Sorry I probably missed it This is the latest version "1.41" and I bought the game from steam! I also have UCP installed: th-cam.com/video/fpOD3BKe3VY/w-d-xo.html
wtf did I just read This game is as harmless as it gets my dude, your reasoning has to be the stupidest one I've seen so far If you're looking to hate a game for religious reasons Stronghold isn't the game for you, you can try Diablo 4! It's pretty fresh too
0:00 Intro
0:11 Tip 1 Woodcutters FTW
0:29 Tip 2 Drown your peasants with ale
0:45 Tip 3 Crossbowmen FTW
1:01 Tip 4 Hotkeys for lazybones
1:18 Tip 5 The power of Jesus compels you
1:40 Tip 6 Trust me I'm an engineer
1:58 Tip 7 UCP the MVP
Step 1: Make impenetrable tunnel entry wall.
Step 2: Make 500 horse archers.
always works haha
Step 1: Get 16000 gold
Step 2: Get 200 horse archers
Step 3: Choose who to kill first
Step 4: Claim that chicken back :)
Some cheesy tips:
1. Put siege shields on your towers, this makes your ranged units borderline immortal
2. Not finishing your castle and leaving a single hole forces the AI to send it's army to this exact hole ignoring your walls. On some maps digging a moat and placing few towers in this moat hole tends to be the perfect defence, because as long as there's an entrance into your castle - they won't dig up the moat
3. Rushing is not only a viable strat, but also makes some hard missions way easier. Fastest way to rush is to place mercenary camp, place rally point for assassins near the keep of enemy lord you want to rush and just spam hire assassins. For some reason assassins walk way faster towards rally point compared to their normal movement speed and you only need to tell them to attack when they get to enemy keep
Though, these make the game way easier, but at least they're not as exploitative of the game as other stuff (like multiple workers for 1 building, fast workers, instant resource delivery, blocking AI's castle, blocking your big tower with watch towers so arrows almost never hit your units etc.)
1. additional to shield on towers, build a few apothecaries close to towers make your ranged units truly immortal
2. place fire thrower on high towers near the hole/corridor(of death) and they can BURN a 1000 men army
3. macemen may be better
@@lonesomealeks4206 1. Keep in mind that this is UCP-exclusive feature
2. OP stuff, was a total lifesaver on some modded war trail missions in Extreme without magic bar
3. Sometimes they're better if you need a little bit more tankyness, but they're definitely not faster than assassins for rushing, because they don't get increased movement speed towards rally point
#8 make 100 catapults
Don't forget with ucp installed
Mine is Fire Balista
@@vertujoe2886what does ucp do please explain🙏
@@leonzeee7573fixes bugs, adds new cool features.
Install it and see for yourself.
You can choose what to install.
running spearmen are awesome.
@@leonzeee7573 ucp is unofficial community patchs, which includes bugfixes, rebalances, and some modernized control.
pro tip for people just starting out, its a bit cheaty, but it is 100% part of the game and isnt exactly an external cheat or anything....In the settings, change game speed down to the lowest, get your basic town set up, granary, market, stockpile spots and lumber yards, mines etc and once thats all set up, put the speed back up. Because if you have it on the highest speed, and spend a few minutes looking at what you can build and trying to decide what to build and where to put it, you'll look over at the ai and they'll have remodelled london within 3 minutes, unless its the rat, who likes to remodell modern day margate.
Hahaha so true🤣🤣
1:00 Extra tips on the hotkeys:
Pressing the L key for "Lord" the camera will instantly get you to where your Lord is, which, unless you move your lord elsewhere, it's always the Keep, so that way you avoid having to scroll too much.
A way of doing fast scrolling is by using the minimap next to the scribe, if you want to see a certain part of the map that is very far away, just click several times on the direction you want to go, it's a swift way to explore the whole map in just seconds.
If you're on a mission where you and your ally are very close (example Mission 68: "We're Surrounded!") you can send your lord into your ally's keep, and use the ally's towers as your primary defense, don't leave your own keep unguarded though, the AI will still try to target your production buildings nearby!
I'd just press H, it centers the camera on your keep!
@@Jefflenious Oh so that's the hotkey for the keep! I knew there was one but I couldn't remember which one it was!
I feel like except for the monks and shields, these tips mainly apply for the first few missions where you start with a great map and many resources.
For the harder missions I would recommened some of the following things:
1 If possible always dig a moat. Preferably on the furthest place possible.
The advantages are that these can be placed farther away than walls so you can secured more land to work with. Furthermore if you dont fully close of your base they will never dig them up, where walls can be hit by an random catapult shot. It is also cheaper than having to buy stone.
2 It is almost never a good idea to fully close of your base. The AI always goes through that entrance so it helps you to direct the attack to a favourable spot for you. And only needing 1 fortified position if there are multiple opponents
3 Know if your opponents team make catapults if they do you gonna need atleast 1 square tower for ballista or mangonel. If not the high cheap tower is the best option. You can get as many troops on to there as you want if you place a piece of wall next to it and place multiple units on that one piece. The people in these towers are very hard to hit.
4 Often you have no acces to stone and iron, but you can make farms. Taxes with Inn's food and churces is a much faster way too build up your economie than with crossbow production. ( dont use the monuments for happiness since this slowers production)
5 A fast way to increase total population if you rely on taxes is to build the big wells. They are the cheapest ( woodcutters can work but they often go for that tree near the enemy base later on).
6 If starting with low gold, many enemies and not great access to stone. Buy bows out of the barracks it is so much more cost efficient against non arabiac sword man (not population efficient ofcourse) . If the opponent is a mix , 10-15 bowman, 5 crossbow man and 5 shields is a quite effective.
7 If you have descided to not fully close of your base, you can often make a zigzag path with the moat and 1-3 safe against archer fire throwers can make a huge diffrence against large groups of melee units.
8 If you have an ally consider building some towers with mangonels for them at better places, since even AI's like the wolf build bad castles
Some more quistionable tips:
1 The larger arabic economies and sometimes the wolf will burn on forever once you get them on fire. Which really speeds up the game if they have like 20k+ gold.
2 slaves are really weak to arrow fire so just before them let a few macemen walk continiously moving them left to right forward. This will focus all arrows on them while also them not getting hit.
3 If you block of there gates so that the cant leave the base with ox card or woodcutter. They will delete all production buildings they dont have access too
4 If their base is on a hill with cliffs around it you can often place a trebuchet directly to the cliff that is almost impossible to hit by ranged units.
5 If a tower with mangonel on top of it is in ruins instead of destroyed they wont rebuild it so it is much better to keep it that way.
6 If you let catapult focus fire on an area instead of an object. The stone can fly further. This means theoreticly you can destroy a tower out of mangonel range , but only ~5% is gonna hit.
Easiest way to beat opponent AI in the campaign missions - start mission, see where the opponent place his barracks or mercenary post. Restart mission, put speed to lowest, place a building (any building except woodcutter or ox tether) on that spot. Do it fast as you only have 5-10 seconds before getting the "too close to enemy to build" message. Now when the barracks building spot is blocked, the AI Lord for some reason won't bother build it on another spot or use his starting troops to destroy the blocking building, which leave him with no ability to produce troops throughout the game and thus very easy to defeat.
NPC's can't decide to build stuff in other places outside of resource harvesting buildings like lumberjacks/quarry.
Basically they have specific castle presets that they choose for a specific match and they replicate it. So if they can't place some buildings/walls around this specific point - they never will. Though, they can build on top of trees and some of your buildings (they surely can build on top of your mules sometimes).
Thanks for reminding me, that's a nice video idea! (If you don't mind)
while ofc this works - but it beats the whole purpose of the game (you could consider this as a cheat code).
how TF can you enjoy the game playing like that? :D
When i first got this game 15+ years ago I couldn't even beat 1 pig. I just beat 3 at once. Thanks, man, you're amazing 👏
hey man i love your vids keep up the good work btw i love stronghold crusader xd
I wish they remaster this game and have a new Crusader trails with 100+ levels , have some with a good strategic defense against 8+ other AIs , and remove the unit cap entirely .
Love yo videos .
How to create a stock of people for army porpuses:
1. spam large pot water
2. each pot water holds 3 recruits
3. cost 100 gold
4. if you have 10 of them basically you have 30 people reserves
5. the use? if your tired of waiting people waiting to buffer, select one of the large pots and press the "Z" icon to "not available" now you have an army of reserves
One of my favourite: Send your lord to your ally’s castle.
"Enclosing" the keep without actually enclosing the keep lol
if you're really stuck in a map on the trail...
1. IMO you can win every map with european archers and arab swordsmen. just make a few big square towers around your buildings and fill them up with archers. there's really no unit that can beat 400 archers. and archers are the cheapest units to train. and you can sell your extra arrows for gold. if you wanna finish off your enemies quickly you can use ballistas and mangonels break down their castle and then move in with the archers and swordsmen to finish.
2. use mangonels to destroy enemy granaries. if you do it a couple of times the enemy will lose population and try to destroy his walls and towers to pay for food.
You forgot macemen. You can rush most of all missions with macemen.
Thes got almost the highest walking speed, same attack as swordsmen, can dig moat and can tank a few arrows and crossbow bolts. The MVP of Crusader, since they run all the time instead of only the last few steps like in Stronghold Deluxe. Huge Buff.
thank you for your insights.
Could you please make a video about sell food or double ration with higher tax comparison when want to relocate granaries? I'm regularly facing this situation when transforming to bread production. If it's possible? Thank you 😊
Well I did make a similar video before!
th-cam.com/video/7FPRvKhluGQ/w-d-xo.html
Finally new masterpiece came.💖😘
WOOD NEEDED!
I don't use portable shields or more than five catapults cause I don't like feeling like I'm cheating
#9 Make as many horse archers as you can.
Horse archers are for online, crossbowmen usually hit harder against bots! Unless it's something like rat or snake ofc
@@Jefflenious Horse archers and catapults of course
At first i thought you killed Richard with catapults in the last part of the video :D
Installing UCP is best but for those who didn't know what to check. Here it is:
AIC: Xander10
AIV: Tatha
Increase Maximum Armies: (Alternative 3) or (Vanilla 60)
Of course don't forget to fix all the bugs. I Hope This is Helpful.
Not only UCP is more enjoyable, but difficult increase marking bots actually decent opponents
What does it exactly do?
@@josephcro2138 make AI more competent
Horse archers + Macemen for Blitzkriegs
Which program do you use for voice?
Tip 1: have a finger of steel to spam those unit recruits
I guess Monks would be cost effective the more you build. Build just twenty and they cost 60 gold per unit (10 base cost plus 1000 for Cathedral) but cost 30 gold if you build 50 and 20 gold if you build 100. I still haven't gotten around to adding them to my strategies yet tho.
There should have been one final line:
"And always remember: Catapults are broken. Use them with caution!"
Any UCP user here? I'm really want to play the trail again but I don't know what to do with the UCP in terms of Castles and AI aggression. What do you guys use?
Evrey's Improved + Krarilotus Agressive AI seems to be the hardest combo for trail on my experience and Tatha's castles are good for large open custom maps (they're too large for majority of war trail maps).
Though, I recommend playing around army size/with each attack (increase the values) and aggression delay settings (make them attack ASAP), plus there's other minor settings I don't remember that can make the AI way harder than vanilla.
Plus, if you disable magic bar for Extreme version of the game - it's war trail becomes REALLY challenging. Some missions become winnable only via pre-planned rushing and tons of tries.
So far this was the toughest Crusader experience for me. With these settings I wasn't even able to beat Big One (enemies hire so many units they literally steal your unit limit and you just don't have enough to attack) and some of the other missions become really tough.
Has anyone tried beating the trails only using Arabian units?
And with ucp you don't have to scroll or use arrow keys
You can use wasd too
UCP now officialy supported HEHEHE less gooo
another one, dig moats instead of walls if you can, it's cheaper and more durable but obviously takes more time to build.
#8 Watch Jefflenious
put ox on enemy base to drive them crazy
If all else fails at the start of the mission sell all your goods and weapon and use all your gold to buy assasin. Now enjoy destroying enemy in less than 10 minutes.
Hi Jeff, you investigate about Stronghold Crusader. Do you know whether opponents have a certain rule on who to attack in for instance a 4 vs 4 game. This always seems to be a little bit random to me what they are doing
How to get better at SC
1. Make Horse Archer
what hotkey for game speed?
how did you order your enginers to biuld so much with out klicking them again?
UCP.
@Flixus98 is this a mod?
Are there hot keys for building siege weapons with engineers? Find it is my most annoying part of the game having to click every single shield/catapult
No but you can use this:
th-cam.com/video/fpOD3BKe3VY/w-d-xo.html
awesome! thank you :
sorry,how can i install ucp bro?
unofficialcrusaderpatch.github.io/getting-started.html
Follow the instructions!
But can you play online with UCP?
Yeah you actually can, but every player on the lobby must have the exact same UCP configs!
And there's also the bootstrap mod which is made for online play
@@Jefflenious I would love to see a video instruction on that one
A typo in the title my dude
Fixed, nice spotting!
ive beaten this game when I was 14, but can't with 23 years old
Modern education...
Use Bagabuse Sleping apple farm to become extremly rich.
i keep asking you how to get this stronghold crusader HD version you don't reply
Sorry I probably missed it
This is the latest version "1.41" and I bought the game from steam!
I also have UCP installed: th-cam.com/video/fpOD3BKe3VY/w-d-xo.html
Easy become north korean president then you are good to go 😂
Edit:I use ucp😂
VoiceOver is AI
Make macrman then rush.
What's UCP: th-cam.com/video/fpOD3BKe3VY/w-d-xo.html
Muslim Alert ⚠ please. This game is totally against Muslim. Because Bismillah was written at bottom of panel.Please uninstall it.and also share it.😢
wtf did I just read
This game is as harmless as it gets my dude, your reasoning has to be the stupidest one I've seen so far
If you're looking to hate a game for religious reasons Stronghold isn't the game for you, you can try Diablo 4! It's pretty fresh too