Im having problems in Very Hard to complete this mission. On Normal you have enough units to start a suicidal frontal siege without problems.
Im the kind of guy who only get satisfied when I beat the game on the hardest difficult.
Im starting to doubt if its really possible to complete this mission on Very Hard for many reasons. You are not only almost outnumbered but you have to deal with the fact that you are the attacker and more than a half of your available units to attack are weak (aka. spearmans and archers).
From my experience, each xbow man on a tower outnumbers you in 3 units of the same type.
From my hundreds different approaches, I managed to breach into the enemy castle loosing only 3 macemans, used fill the moat and half of my xbow and archers, used to clear 3 towers.
The problem starts when I run into the walls. The enemy xbow just quickly annihilate all my units. I can hardly climb on the towers that half of my units are dead.
If only I had one or two shields or change the ram, laddermans and tunnelers for two or three xbow man I think we could have a better chance.
FYI, on my Stronghold 1.2 I start with:
16 Archers
69 Spearmans
18 Macemans
6 Crossbowmen
6 Laddermen
5 Tunnelers
1 Ram
Miss 3 Archers and 4 engineers from the Strategy Guide.
I had to keep going by completing this mission on Hard only.
[This message has been edited by Lord Panda (edited 06-17-2009 @ 01:18 PM).]