The enemy trebuchet may knock a few holes in your walls, and if you are daring you may sortie out and get them before they give you a headache.Ĭongratulations! You are victorious, and are closer to becoming Evil (insert obligatory "mwahahaha"). The attack will come from both the south and the east, so make sure both sides have adequate pitch.īelow is depicted what your final castle should look like. Buy pitch before the final attack if you haven't built any more pitch rigs, 75 is more than enough. When your walls start to overflow with troops, place archers on the cliff and spearmen in and around the keep. With proper direction of fire (haha - I'm so punny), you should take down the enemy siege tower and catapults without taking any damage. This is where the next attack will fall, with a heavy contingent of enemy pikemen and swordsmen. Place some defenses along the southern wall. If you have more than 400 wood, 200 stone, or 100 pitch then you should sell some. You don't need to place any pitch for the first attack (which will come from the right side), but you may lose some cats and the orb launcher near the lower part of the gatehouse. You should start to be running low on food by now, so buy 50 meat if you're in the single-digits. Sell your starting iron and buy 400 wood to build 4 poleturners and 4 fletchers. Send your lord to the keep with the pikemen.ĭistribute your archers in the 3 towers and your men-at-arms along the walls. Your stake hurlers should go on the cliff, with the mantlets in front of them. Rush any other troops outside the walls inside. Keep the orb launchers in position and place your cats in front of them. Send some men-at-arms up to the ladders to kick 'em over, unless you want a bunch of macemen scurrying into your castle like ants. If you used your siege tower during the last mission, it should have automatically disappeared. Place the armory near the stockpile for efficient weapon production, and the barracks at a strategic place along the wall. Then put down 2 woodcutters and 1 pitch rig.īuy enough wood to place 4 hovels to the far left mountain pass, as well as 2 apple orchards and 3 chicken farms near the granary. There is no way to gather iron in this mission so don't worry about that. If you pay attention to your armory, you shouldn't have to worry about a lack of troops.īuild your stockpile between the wood, pitch, and stone. I did this when I saw where the enemy attacks were coming from so I could quickly place pitch and oil tippers. Number of starting Troops: Survivors from previous mission.Īssuming you have a decade of Stronghold experience (or read this guide) and play on Easy, this mission should be Easy! The key is to slide the speed down to 10 during the early troop movements and building placements. Starting Resources: 4500 gold, 10 meat, 10 apples, 10 cheese, 10 bread, 250 wood, 40 stone, 5 iron, 80 pitchĪvailable Buildings: Wall, Stairwell, Gatehouse, Basic Tower, Barracks, Armory, Siege Camp, Brazier, Pitch, Oil Tipper, Man Trap, Hovel, Market, Granary, Dairy Farm, Apple Orchard, Chicken Farm, Stockpile, Woodcutter, Quarry, Ox tether, Pitch rig, Poleturner, Fletcher Win: No enemies left on map (survive invasions).