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45 - Sandstorm
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Stratego |
Posted on 10/28/04 @ 12:00 AM (updated 02/18/05)
Mission 45 - Sandstorm
4 opponents: Sultan Abdul, Sultan Ahmed, Sultan Mustapha, Sultan Hashim
Starting capital for player: 3000 gold, high amount of resources, low number of units
Starting capital for each opponent: 40000 gold
The four enemy characters of the Sultan cut out the production of siege equipment, so that you can concentrate on an initial defence by archers. Moreover, the four Sultans altogether are defensively minded, so that you will get a lot of time until they launch the first attacks.
In the beginning, of this mission erect the following buildings: 1 granary, 5 stockpile elements, 2 apple orchards, 1 dairy farm, 4 woodcutters, 4 huts, 2 quarries and 4 ox tethers, and 1 market place. Then you must buy more wood continuing the further expansion of your settlement: 4 iron mines, two or three pitch rigs, 1 barracks, 1 armoury, 6 fletchers (4 crossbows – 2 bows!), 1 brewery, 2 inns (high taxes!) and 1 engineers guild.
After these preparations of your basic structure, you have to secure your position by a simple wall to enclose your keep, completely! Later on, after the first stones have reached in your stockpile, you should strengthen your wall by crenellations. Add four wall stairs and build in one big gatehouse and at least two squared towers on each corner of your castle. Afterwards, go to the market, sell all your pitch, the grain, and iron for the purchase of leather arms. Immediately recruit all available archers and crossbowmen and send them up on the northern walls, the gatehouse, and the towers. Until the Sultans will attack, you should have a defensive garrison of about 30-40 archers standing by. For a stronger protection, it’s always helpful to dig moats around your castle. You can use different units for this job like macemen, archers, slaves, or engineers, whoever seems to be qualified subjectively. I also placed pitch ditches in front of my castle as a deadly firetrap against the hostile attacking troops.
Continue recruiting more archers and crossbowmen – I guess, 70 of them placed on your walls should give you the security to repel all concentrated enemy assaults, even by four opponents at the same time!
Now is the time to muster a “small” army of about 80-100 archers and crossbowmen for your offensive. Go east with these forces accompanied by about 15 engineers and start your siege with the assistance of 3 or 4 trebuchets placed in front of the long and sandy dunes leading straight across the map (by the way, don’t forget using shields!) Beware of those sleeping lions in the little wood nearby! In the meantime, recruit about 40 swordsmen in selling iron and stones for purchasing armours and swords. Order this group of crusaders towards the eastern Sultan Hashim, where your archers and crossbowmen are advancing closer to the Sultan’s Castle, so that he will be prevented from repairing any destroyed walls and gates. This is the right moment for your swordsmen to take the castle by storm. Fetch reinforcements and eliminate the remaining Sultans by applying the same (or similar) strategy, that shoul work at any case! Enjoy and good luck!
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smellyweasel |
Posted on 06/08/10 @ 12:31 AM
I had a lot of fun with this level.
I started building a basic economy, and watched what each of the sultans did. Once I was up and running and well fortified, I still was not attacked. I also noticed that Sultan Hashim did not really build up his defenses.
Since each sultan had 40000 gold, I decide that I would restart and try to rush Hashim. I used my initial 4000, sold all of my stone, iron and pitch, and invested in mace men, archers and rushed to the far right.
I had to first kill the lions, but it was relatively straight-forward to move the archers up, and kill the slingers in the keep. The only thing to be aware of are the fire-throwers.
After I defeated Hashim, I had 10000 gold to work with and started to build my keep and economy. The only challenge with this tactic was that the other sultans had started to send out their first wave of arabic swordsman and archers. I created about 20 crossbow men to defend my keep.
After this I was able to take my time, have tons of gold, and build huge armies to dominate.
This is one of my favorite levels so far. |
Lord Blobby |
Posted on 02/05/12 @ 12:41 AM
Easy one.
Rush the 2 lords in the NW with macemen, 1 at a time taking out the nearest one first. You get 10,000 after the first one to build more macemen. I used 50 on the first two and had enough cash to use about 100-200 on the next two. Rinse and repeat for every lord, it gets easy once the 2nd one is down. Remember to destroy any merc posts, a couple of the sultans stupidly put them outside their castle walls. I find it handy to split your macemen into 2 groups as they are particularly stupid when it comes to fire - they run straight through it and burn themselves up... |
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