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20 - The Saracen
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| Kester |
Posted on 10/28/04 @ 12:00 AM (updated 11/14/04)
 Mission 20 - The Saracen
In this mission the Human Lord joins forces with Richard Lionheart against three versions of the Caliph: The Scorpion, The Jackal, and The Camel. You begin with 2000 gold, and the computer lords each start with 8000 gold.
This is not a fast game, as you start with a severe monetary disadvantage. Unlike some other skirmishes, building up a good economy and a happy populace will be important in this mission. Begin with placing apple farms on the available land, even before placing the granary, or the computer lords will take the space. If they do, send your spearmen over to destroy their farms. Next place your granary, two quarries and ox tethers, marketplace, barracks, armory and mercenary post.
Enclose your keep by building walls on the edge of the rivers, to block off the enemy. On the side near The Camel, make the wall about 3 tiles deep. On the side near Richard Lionheart, build a gatehouse.
Add an inn, chapels, iron mines, additional quarries (across the river in Lionheart's land), two fletchers (for crossbows), a blacksmith (to make maces), a tanner, dairy farms, wheat farms, mill and bakeries as resources become available to pay for them.
Once your economy is stable, begin building catapults and direct them towards The Camel. At first this mission can seem quite daunting, because all three of the caliphs immediately begin building castles with a lot of towers. However, once their gold is spent, they don't seem to have very good ways of replenishing it. For example, the only caliph with a quarry is The Scorpion. Once you begin knocking down their towers and walls, it becomes fairly easy to attack. Just be sure to have enough forces built up first, as each of the caliphs concentrates all of their own forces right on their keeps. When I attacked The Camel I had about 80 macemen, 30 Arabian swordsmen, and 20 crossbowmen. I had flung several cows prior to the attack, and that helped to kill off some of his forces. Gameplay began in 0 A.D., and The Camel died in February of year 12.
A note on Richard Lionheart: Just as I was conquering The Camel, Lionheart fell to The Jackal. I had given him every assistance he asked for, while he gave me nothing the few times I requested his help. His main purpose in this mission seems to be to occupy the attentions of The Jackal and The Scorpion until you have time to take out The Camel.
After The Camel is gone, build up your forces again, concentrating on macemen and crossbowmen. Again, let catapults do the preliminary work against The Jackal. Set several to attack from where Lionheart's castle used to be. Also send catalpults to the little island in the center to take out the fire ballista that lies between the two enemy castles. Otherwise, your advancing forces will be destroyed by fire when you finally march on The Jackal. When I attacked The Jackal, I had about 100 macemen, 20 Arabian swordsmen, and 20 crossbowmen. He finally fell in May of year 19.
Use the same strategy to take out the final enemy, The Scorpion. Try to get one of the catapults close enough to take out the quarry, or his castle will be rebuilt as soon as you can knock it down. This time, after knocking down all the towers and killing the milling peasants with diseased cows, I sent in about 20 crossbowmen to pick off the forces huddled on the keep. The Scorpion's army was down to about 40 when I attacked with my 80 or so macemen, and 20 Arabian swordsmen. The Scorpion finally died in January of year 28.
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| holding strong |
Posted on 11/07/04 @ 12:00 AM |
| philip5000 |
Posted on 02/06/06 @ 03:51 AM [Edited on 02/06/06 @ 03:51 AM]
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| AdariousMist |
Posted on 07/21/06 @ 02:14 PM
At the game speed of 20, I placed farms, granary, merc post, 1 wood cutter, and merc post. I hired 24 assassins and went after 'The Jackal'. I made sure they went straight for him (not peasants or troops) ... and got him yellow lined. Then I hired and sent 15 more which finished him off. This left me with no gold, but with Richard with some breathing space. As soon as I could, I hired 24 arab archers and 2 fire throwers for the top of my keep.
Next, I got stone production going, and as soon as enough was available, built a square tower on my side of the river, towards 'the jackal' .. and used wall to wall any area between it and the rocks in. This seemed to prevent his attacks with slaves/archer groups on my keep.
Next, as food was getting low, I sold off some stone and bought bread. Using the same resource I bought a engineer guild, 2 catapults and 1 treb. Between the 2, I knocked out the Jackal's towers that were within range of my farms. I rebuilt a few apple farms, a hops farm and a wheat farm...using woodcutters to clear space if necessary. Meanwhile I continued to take out most of the Jackal's towers (destroying his merc guild every time he rebuilt). Finally, when his towers were gone, I hired 30 assassins and nailed him.
This is when I focused more on food/economic production, preparing to attack the Scorpion. I didn't however need to, as Richard did that just shortly after.[Edited on 07/21/06 @ 02:15 PM]
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duc of castles
(id: Duc of Castles) |
Posted on 04/04/07 @ 04:02 PM
Bye,
Duc |
| Birowizard |
Posted on 05/26/07 @ 11:33 AM
However, I never needed seige, but relied on good old horse archers, pikemen and crossbowmen to make it through. Actually, that's a fib: I used mangonels on top of the towers nearest to the Caliphs on either side, and they did such a good job i really didn't even need to do anything but walk in and finish each of them off with a few pikemen. (I managed to build three towers on each side). This was also the first skirmish in which I felt compelled to try out fire ballistae, and they proved exceptionally effective, if used in groups of 2 or 3. They put paid to the 2 nearest Caliphs very quickly, since they have no economy, and very little means with which to replace their wood supplies. (Assuming you have patrolling horse archers on agressive - they kill everything!)
not a very trying map at all, but good fun to watch the Caliphs bluster about getting my army away from their lands!
Cheers! Birowizard |
| Venomrider |
Posted on 01/15/08 @ 09:00 AM
I started with the usual setup of my base woodcutters,granary etc.After that I placed 2 quarries and made 3 oxen tethers next to them and bought 30 stone and errected a tower and mangonel to fire on the camel while I set 5 slingers to defend lionheart's iron mines for his swords,it was about this time that caliph used fire ballistae to kill my farmers and smash their farms (wheat) and he had almost broken past my 2 layer wall at the ford nearest my farmland (placed at start)but i got 2 assasins to silence those noisy and troublesome ballistas and got caliph to light his own base on fire with his own pitch ditch.Next thin I did was out another mangonel tower over near the scorpion's base which wore him down to nothng just like the camel wh was now dirt poor and had 0 popularity :.)----the only thing I had to do now was get 6 catapults and tear down the jackal's towers and I inished them all with swordsmen.
Easy mission,hope you guys had fun on it,I most certainly did after an annoying level like greek fire. |
| ibballin |
Posted on 12/22/09 @ 05:54 AM
2. Always supply and reinforce Richard with everything you have.
3. Command him to attack the Caliphs when he can. |
| The Hungarian |
Posted on 02/19/10 @ 06:33 PM |
| KingRobert |
Posted on 08/12/10 @ 01:28 PM |
ericgolf
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Posted on 09/08/11 @ 06:48 AM
http://stronghold.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=7027
Maybe his way is another good way to win? |
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