Can you beat Mission 50 with ENGINEERS only - Stronghold Crusader

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Published on June 19, 2021 6:25:30 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoDpqTIFvu8

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Stronghold: Crusader (2002)

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Beating mission 50 with engineers only, I'm only allowed to train engineers and use siege weapons to play this mission, also I can use my starting units.

Strategy: So as always I try to block every path except the front path to make sure I get attacked from that side, enemy lords start bombarding you with catapults and mangonels so it's important to deal with them early on. For that we send a few ballistas to the west to take out Wolf's mangonel tower and also snipe any catapults nearby. Saladin doesn't get his mangonel until it's too late so no need to worry about that early on. Our first goal is to clear all the trees so the AIs don't send their woodcutters towards us (Woodcutters are ignored by ballistas for some reasons so this becomes important) once we dealt with that we carefully try to push forward and destroy all mines and quarries with our lord (Need to be careful because sometimes they can be set on fire and kill lots of our units). Once we take that position we start mining more stone and speed up the game until Pig is defeated and the rest of the mission becomes really easy since fire ballistas are really good on large numbers.

Unofficial Crusader Patch: https://github.com/UnofficialCrusaderPatch/UnofficialCrusaderPatch

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