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Stronghold: Crusader (2002)

Duration: 4:20:25

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Another game, which I quite enjoyed in the past, but now I can see some flaws - like no hotkeys for stuff.

My main idea was to do all missions in one video, but youtube only allows videos 12 hours long and for that it would require a lot of rushing, which I don't enjoy ... mostly. So only 10 Crusader Trails per video.

Okay rules - I cannot save, save my allies, if possible and no gamebreaking bugs - like killing enemy eco with woodcutters/ox .... I also wanted to avoid mendling with game speed, but at the end, I remove that rule, because I sometimes wanna enjoy rushing my enemies or having easy time to setup my base

At this point, I gave up on pure vanilla game, I don't wanna break my fingers when I spam siege units, so I start using community patch for extra speedy game and easier spam for siege


Timestamps
0:00 - Nobles vs Scoundrecks
5:50 - Natural Defences
52:09 - Circle of Enemies
1:14:53 - Unholy Matrimony
1:47:25 - Mirage with Reinforcements
2:10:30 - Snaking Stream Rematch
2:28:25 - Wall of Death
3:00:07 - Saladin Alone
3:37:43 - Whirling Death
4:10:16 - The Big One



My Thoughts
Once again, I recommend watching this at 2x speed.



Trails
Nobles vs Scoundrecks - Rush mission, moving on
Natural Defences - Now this is really something, we are in the middle, mostly surrounded and even in the hole. This is pretty hard mission, but I enjoyed solving it
Circle of Enemies - We have one cannon fodder, only one way in our base and resources ... ye it's super easy
Unholy Matrimony - One of the more difficult missions. Resources are mostly in possesion of our enemies and I have to babysit my allies, so they don't die. Rush one side and life will be much easier.
Mirage with Reinforcements - Rush Nizar and then taky it slow
Snaking Stream Rematch - This is the first time we have Wolf as ally and you can really see that he's super strong, but he cannot win on his own (I tried that), so rush few enemies.
Wall of Death - This one is really slow. You basically have nothing, so it's pretty hard to get some income. So defend until you have army and then crush your enemies. Careful - enemies likes fire ballistas
Saladin Alone - I was trying something new here. Long story short, trail is easy, because Saladin will buy you so much time, so you can easily prepare for anything
Whirling Death - Rush a little and then make eco. Kinda same thing over and over
The Big One - Here comes the big boy. I really wanted to do this normally. But in my first attempt I discovered very annoying bug with "phantom engineers", which basically locked my army at only 80 pop, which would take forever to break someone like Wolf. So I just rushed them in new manner. This mission looks very hard, but it's also scripted - enemies will always build same castles and buildings in same positions. I can abuse that easily. I blocked almost all buildings, which are needed to produce units. Enemies with a lot of cash and no cash are easily killed. Just watch and learn.



Final Words on DLC Trails
I was starting to get bored by this game. It's really not good idea to play this in one go. Kinda sad that DLC characters are not present that much ... it's just Emir, Nizar and Wazir all the time. Guys like Philiph or Sherriff are rare. Also idk why in The Big One, half of the characters are from vanilla game ... I guess they just suck most of the time. Well whatever, it's done.



Next time Warcraft 3 Mods Blood Elves/Forsaken

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