|
|
  |
16 - The Desert Hunters
|
| Author |
File Description |
| Kester |
Posted on 10/28/04 @ 12:00 AM (updated 11/03/04)
 Mission 16 - The Desert Hunters
This mission pits the Human Lord against both Saladin "The Wise" and Saladin "The Just". You start off with 2000 gold, and your opponents each start off with 4000. Gameplay starts in 1355.
I tried various strategies for a quick victory, and none of them worked. Here are some of the things I tried: quickly building a small force and advancing on either of the enemies; trying to hinder the enemies' production with combinations of pikemen, macemen, Arabian horsemen, archers, and slaves; building perimeter towers around my keep and quarries to hold off attacks, rather than walling in the keep (in order to have more stone to sell). None of these worked!
Here is what finally did work:
I began by buying enough wood to place the following: the granary, 4 woodcutters, 3 quarries with 2 oxen each, an iron mine, the marketplace, 2 apple farms, one wheat farm, a hops farm, a bakery, brewery and inn, the mercenary post, the barracks and armory.
Next I quickly walled in the keep, also encompassing the stone and iron areas for protection. As wood production got underway, I added as many more quarries and iron mines as would fit, then started weapon production. I crenelated the walls around the keep, and lined them with archers and crossbowmen with braziers.
I then added one square tower adjacent to the walls, as well as two round towers and a lookout tower further out. I put ballistae on the round towers and archers on the other towers. The towers placed further from the wall prevented the enemy catapults from reaching my walls, and cut down on a lot of time that I had previously spent rebuilding the walls.
For the next few game years I concentrated on building up my forces. In previous attempts I'd tried marching on the enemy with what I thought was a full army, only to be demolished. So when I finally marched on Saladin "The Just", my army had about 40 each of pikemen, Arabian knights, knights, as well as an assortment of archers and horse archers. Sheer numbers allowed my army to breach the gate and overrun the keep. Saladin "The Just" was killed in February 1363.
I then regrouped my forces, and spent several more game years building them up. When I finally marched on Saladin "The Wise" I had 637 units and about 300 gold. It seems like overkill, but trust me, it wasn't! In several prior attempts, I tried with fewer numbers and lost. Saladin, meanwhile, had a mere 145 military units, but 80,000 gold to instantly replace any that were lost.
The army I compiled before the final assault had the following: 33 archers, 106 macemen, 57 crossbowmen, 43 pikemen, 51 knights, 64 engineers, 20 laddermen, 3 rams, 4 siege towers, 6 catapults, 17 Arabian archers, 10 slaves, 8 assassins, 46 horse archers, 154 Arabian knights and 13 flamethrowers.
I approached from the west, first with catapults to tear down the walls and towers. Next came a contingent of macement (along with the rams) to take down the gate. Be sure to have the rest of the army in place to immediately follow them inside once the gate is down - the quarries are protected on the other side of the keep, so Saladin will immediately rebuild them if you wait too long. Once the gate was down, I directed all forces to attack Saladin, and he finally died in July 1370.
This is a long mission - I'm afraid I couldn't find any shortcuts! There was a great feeling of satisfaction at the end, however, due in part to having built up a highly efficient economy to support my war efforts.
Good luck with this one!
|
| Pages: [1] 2 3 » Last » | | Author | Comments & Reviews ( All | Comments Only | Reviews Only ) |
|---|
| player45999 |
Posted on 03/22/05 @ 12:00 AM |
| hippibashr |
Posted on 09/13/05 @ 04:53 AM
This works for at least the Southwest Saladin; take a couple fire ballista and set fire to his stone production...the fire spreads pretty quickly and he keeps rebuilding which only spreads the fire more. This is only how I finally finished him, I don't know how well it works as the main strategy. |
| billybillbobob |
Posted on 10/15/05 @ 03:36 PM |
| Darth_Vader1_4 |
Posted on 12/29/05 @ 12:17 PM
If you can build about 15 Trebushes and continualy destroy the enemys defense eventualy he will run out of stone to build walls and you can then sistematicly destoy some vital buildings.
After the walls are done you can do a couple of things, either constantly destroy the granary witch will deny him of reinforcements, or just set his buildings on fire. |
| threesix |
Posted on 01/10/06 @ 04:23 PM |
| philip5000 |
Posted on 02/01/06 @ 11:06 PM
[Edited on 02/01/06 @ 11:08 PM]
|
| stratter |
Posted on 02/09/06 @ 10:03 PM
|
| LordEX |
Posted on 05/10/06 @ 09:40 PM
|
| crusader5673 |
Posted on 06/30/06 @ 04:58 PM [Edited on 07/01/06 @ 01:40 AM]
|
| AdariousMist |
Posted on 07/17/06 @ 02:27 PM
Get your walls up as fast as possible and make them thick. A one layer wall will be destroyed in seconds by them in their initial raids.
One of the more annoying parts to this particular level was not far into the game (at 35 speed). Initially they'll send a group or two of horse archers. However, after that ... they send multiple groups of mixed units that are fairly large ... one after the next for 2 to 4 waves. It was that point that they kept wiping my progress out.
In the end I survived that set of sieges, and wiped out Saladin 'the just' without much trouble. Saladin 'the wise', however, proved to be far more difficult. I took in an army of 110 arab archers, 140 pikemen, 80 macemen, 100 assassins, 75 crossbowmen, 6 catapults, and 6 fire ballistas. They were crushed as he had upwards of 100k gold to spend on consistent backup. The assassins were taken by fire throwers that the archers couldn't get to within the keep mob.
What I ended up doing was reloading and using that army as a distraction while I sent 260 assassins in (allowing them to group outside the west wall first) ... and kept on telling them to focus on Saladin. About 160 were burned dead, the rest got up there and wiped him out, including the fire throwers
[Edited on 07/17/06 @ 02:28 PM]
|
| Pages: [1] 2 3 » Last » |
HGDL v0.8.2 |
| Statistics |
| Downloads: | 1,369 |
| Favorites: [] | 0 |
| Size: | 694.98 KB |
| Added: | 10/28/04 |
| Updated: | 11/03/04 |
|
