Meanwhile I’m suffering over here on normal...

@razorback0z

4 жыл бұрын

Same lol. I quote Joe Rogan "You see some people and then you realise there are levels to everything."

@Angrymonkey2489

4 жыл бұрын

The two attacks with the 9 macemen can be hard to defend. Let alone, the 6 swordsmen are a nightmare.

@99jean88

3 жыл бұрын

The noob trick is to not build walls, but spam towers over the hill.

@qwert314oderwat

2 жыл бұрын

All you need is a strong economy

@edwardyoon6296

Жыл бұрын

This mission can be quite challenging even on easy. After all, the factors that make it hard (closely jammed attacks, swordsmen with no crossmen to counter) exist in all levels, just differing in numbers

269 archers later and i can confirm that there's no need for crossbows in this mission ^^

This is still one of my favorite maps in the game. First, you get to see how powerful the Wolf's swordsmen are and a force not to mess with. Second, you have to build your castle and weapons by scratch. No cheesing the market for easy weapons. Smart move by the developers. And third, the crossbow design on those pages were proven useful. A great introduction. The way the game handles this is excellent, making it a hard yet fair challenge. However, all his missions later become too easy and the Wolf becomes a joke. *The Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth* This mission hands you too much -- a perfect economy, too much to sell and too much gold. And it's easy to defend the castle. Hell, even getting the flawless victory was easy. It was the only letdown.

@LordBalder

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, making you fight swordsmen with archers was a very good way to introduce the wolf and adding the crossbow tech mid mission to show you how to deal with them helped a lot!

@Angrymonkey2489

3 жыл бұрын

@@fanatic124 No WAY you could have lost on easy. You start with 10 Archers and 10 Spearmen. The Snake's troops send like 2 Archers and 2 Macemen, twice. If I recall, the Wolf sends out a Swordsman. The Lord with the help of your Spearmen can take him on. If you meant losing on Normal mode, then.... Yeeeeh, I understand. The difficulty is actually up there.

@Angrymonkey2489

3 жыл бұрын

@@fanatic124 Did you miss the tutorial and the rest of the game? I imagine you jumped into First Blood. LOL

@TricksterPoi

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps it is akin to the plot, remember the lord just sacked the Snake's moolah and at that point gain enough support to fight against the Wolf in near equal footing.

Dude! And I thought I'm good at this. You're the man. This game is so awesome.

It doesn't look "very hard" when you do it...

Your strategy is insane. Congratulations!!

@LordBalder

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much :-)

These videos need to be on Netflix !!!

I have just finished this mission in 0% losses (luckily the easier one - the rats last stand is still with causalites, all another rats mission done this day with 0% :-) ). I used different strategy. I separated my castle from the storage yard, so I can easily cover the keep with strong layers of stone wall. Enemy was not able to dig through them. This is good strategy in missions where attack are not so frequent (you cant recruit any workers during siege) and enemy sends most melee troops with low numbers of shooters and siege weapons.

I miss you Lord Balder senpai

Im here bec this mission is giving me an headache. And I thought myself im an expert of this game.

good ol simple times.

Nice work, now here's a challenge for you..... first blood, very hard, only allowed 2 hovels (peasant population not to exceed 28), all archers (no crossbow), no marketplace and 0 losses. Very doable and easy if you play your cards right

@LordBalder

3 жыл бұрын

Good thing that I am not really impressed by challenges, otherwise I would try to do it with 12 peasants ^^

Placing buildings with a gap... somebody played too much stronghold 2.

My guy sends like 30 archers and 15 brigands and its over for you

Why do you always build the houses and farms with 1 block space? Why not build 4 bakerys in a block?

@LordBalder

3 жыл бұрын

Most of the time, its just what looks the nicest to me at that time. I do have single blocks, 1x2, 2x2 and even 2x3 blocks, so there is no real pattern. Sometimes however, your bakers might have a shorter way to the granary and back depending on which side of their house they enter, so you may influence that by building single houses instead of blocks.

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you make it look easy

@LordBalder

7 ай бұрын

Oh yes, but the funny thing is, that I work very hard to make it look like that ^^

Good grief, i keep building a gianormous economy, using the market a lot, and failing all the time. You dont even click much and just does it. Lol

Very good walkthrough, I was thinking about doing the same, but then I found your vids and I thought like I am not sure I can do better:) I have been trying to come up with a lot of things to improve my game and I thought I was the only one knowing about these 'things', but most of them I see back in your vids. There is one thing though, which I dont see and would like your opinion about if you dont mind. Its about improving your gold rate. Isn't it better to keep the rations on 'normal' (instead of double rations) and sell of the éxtra' food you make in the marketplace. This in combination with small taxes (-2) should make more gold according to my calculations. What do you think?

@LordBalder

8 жыл бұрын

+Maxic188 Thanks, I was trying to do as good as possible, but that should not keep you from doing your own walkthrough. I would very like to see another skilled player with different strategies and maybe learn something new! As for your question, I have read, that there is no difference between selling food and getting taxes as long as stay between low (-2) and mean (-8) taxes. This means, you should be able to somehow maintain low taxes and as long you do not go higher than mean taxes, it does not matter what you do with the food. Ale coverage was also completely ignored by me in this one. I kept it quite minimalistic until the crossbow production and still finished with 3.3k gold in the end ;-)

@Maxic188

8 жыл бұрын

+Lord Balder I will think about it:). In the meanwhile I will keep on playing the missions on very hard. I find myself finding little improvements every time even though I already played this game so much.

@Maxic188

8 жыл бұрын

+Lord Balder About the goldrate: this what I got Normal rations: 0.6 food/minute/pop --> 4.8~ food/hovel/minute Double rations: 1.2 food/minute/pop Gold Taxes (-2) = total pop/2 every 20 seconds Gold Taxes (-8) = total pop every 20 seconds So lets say you got a population of 20. Using the tax system (mean taxes) you get 20 gold x 3 = 60 gold every minute. If you sell your extra food and use low taxes, you get Low taxes = 20/2 x 3 = 30 gold every minute The extra food you sell is 0.6 x 20 = 12 you can sell food for 4 a piece, making it 12 x 4 = 48 gold Gives 78 gold every minute You do need to compensate for the low taxes though. I usually grow some hops for that. And to be a bit fair, I got this data with a stopwatch and assumed a lineair relation between 'population' & 'food', so in all honesty my calculations could be completely off.

@LordBalder

8 жыл бұрын

+Maxic188 Wow, you really put some effort into that! There has been someone before you who did the same calculations and I simply trusted his results. Here is the link: stronghold.heavengames.com/strategy/popul2 From that results: - The ratio of low taxes to necessary food is better that selling food, so you should always get low taxes before selling food. - When you go from low to mean, this ratio gets lower and evens out, so your excess food of normal rations is worth the possible taxes. - After that, up to cruel taxes, the ratio gets lower again, which means you get less money by taxes than you would by selling the extra food, so you should sell instead of taxing higher. This is quite the result that you got, with the exception, that he tried to compensate the big bonus of the low taxes by looking at the differences between the taxes. Besides that, I also did some calculations myself using bribes as a source of income. Because of the huge bonus of low taxes and the popularity bonus of no taxes, you can make money by having low taxes for 1 month and no taxes for 2 months. This ratio gets even better when you use bribes because of the low costs of +2 from higher bribes in comparison to the gain of low taxes. So whenever you need to bribe your people use the highest bribe since it has the best popularity/cost ratio.

@Maxic188

8 жыл бұрын

+Lord Balder Yeah switching between no tax and low tax is a smart way to make some extra money. I am usually lazy to play so perfect :P Did you know about switching switching the stockpile to another place for smaller walk distance for your wood/resources? I haven't see you do that in your vids. Also mission 6 'the rats proposal' can be completed on very hard without using any troops and killing all troops of the enemy. You should try that when you got some free time. It's really funny. (if you don't know how yet: I will leave this puzzle for you)

Trying this in the remaster demo, I can't get past hard difficulty!

@LordBalder

10 ай бұрын

Why not? What happens? Those 30 archers at the Wolfs attack looked pretty reliable...

@suryaya441

10 ай бұрын

@@LordBalder i haven't tried it yet, I'll give it a go

@suryaya441

10 ай бұрын

@@LordBalder It worked beautifully, thanks.

@LordBalder

10 ай бұрын

Awesome, well done! :-D

fucking annoying mission it took me 1 hour to complete.. and i was watching your walkthrough lol pff