Melee Ranking of all Military Units | Stronghold Crusader

The ranking of all military units based on their melee capabilitys (except the lord. He is clearly the strongest, but I focused on all troops you are able to recruit in the game).

[@mustafakadhum3100]

This game will never die

[@Aurichalcam]

One time I was under attack by Arabian Horse Archers. They were galloping along harassing my archers, when they rode right into a woodcutter. I thought the woodcutter was screwed but he took down like 5 out of the 8 horse archers before dying. RIP woodcutter, a true hero of Christ

[@daavdavila17]

What a fucking history bro xddd

[@ПетрВрангель-т8п]

DEUS VULT!

[@ahmedazr5526]

Hahaha

[@christiangaming-fy6rv]

I woulda built a church and some shrines/monuments in honour of the woodcutter hahaha

[@LordVader1094]

@@Canned_Knight None came, also cope and seethe.

[@xMacieX]

Rank 0 , hidden winner: lumberjacks.

[@seiwa5203]

Hunter 0.1

[@birisuandrei2866]

@@seiwa5203 Jester Rank 0.01

[@maxmeier1965]

Lul😂😂

[@stevejohnson6593]

@@birisuandrei2866 *Jester has joined the crudades on your side*

[@Pryglo]

from now i will replace spearmans with tunnelers xD

[@tastybekonn]

tunnelers have weak defense but great power. I won thanks to them in one of the last missions in stronghold 1.Wolf attacked but most of my arm died so I rapidly bought tunnelers and they won with wolf's knights.

[@kanzakiwildan2356]

i will attack an AI with tunneler now XD

[@tastybekonn]

K but remember that you need many of them

[@viktorlundkvist2096]

i remember a few years back i was bored so i decided to storm with tunnlers (can't remember which AI) took me bout 340 tunnlers to actually win the fight, but it was fun. tunnlers only, nothing else xd

[@MrPathorn]

But they are expensive...

[@kris10iseatingsnacks]

I have thousands of hours on this game and I literally never thought about using the tunnelers as melee warriors before. That's really cool, thanks.

[@jack86]

me too. i only use defense: crosbowman, balista, shield, fire thrower offense: catapult, horse archer, shield, asassins

[@Javi360flip]

Good job keeping the community alive!!

[@rdinetainmoun5549]

The blue swordsman has a tendency to dab at his enemies shortly before their deaths... as we have previously seen in the video about pits.

[@MilkerName]

Fun fact! Armor - It takes 4 times as many *Archer arrows* to kill a Swordsman than a Pikeman. (200 vs. 50) Health - It takes twice as many *Ballista bolts* to kill a Pikeman than a Swordsman. (8 vs. 4)

[@wuxy4169]

is that a fire ballista or a tower ballista?

[@apalagi9124]

@@wuxy4169 fire balista

[@zgstudiogames3206]

Fun fact It takes 12 shots to kill a Swordsman with Crossbowman. It takes 17 shots to kill a Pikeman with Crossbowman. It takes 8 shots to kill a Knigh with a Crossbowman.

[@miloradlukic9277]

i thought i was only creature on this planet that bothered with these stats, i think swordsman can survive more wooden pit traps though

[@tamaskosa3283]

The archer arrows vs Armor is only true in Original Stronghold. In Crusader the Archer arrows are way more effective

[@porknsteak]

I just started playing this game again. I'm glad I found this channel

[@mafyatekin]

This was one of my favorite channels on yt. But my man Udwin stopped creating content for this channel. If only I knew German

[@IDONTGETTHEPOINT]

What about the peasants that are able to defend themselves like the lumberjacks and the hunters?

[@jeremymanikin1496]

IDONTGETTHEPOINT He sad hes gonna make a Video on that too

[@bvd_vlvd]

Blacksmith with a sword is probably like a swordsman without health lol. I'll never forget when my friend's woodcutter killed a swordsman. We were laughing for fifteen minutes 😂😂

[@IDONTGETTHEPOINT]

Jeremy Manikin a separate video? I didn't know that. Thank you.

[@jeremymanikin1496]

IDONTGETTHEPOINT No Problem

[@RaiShaFIN]

They aren't military troops. This video only talks about troops you can command. (except your lord of course)

[@jasv49]

You spend so much extra resources on the Knights and they end up weaker than the Swordsmen :(

[@NonLethalGhost]

JazzMan Yes, but they are way faster and better during rushing and attacking the walls, most swordsmen will die out before reaching it.

[@Altair_MY]

Gotta pay for the speed 😉

[@Volcano4981]

Again, its speed is what sets the Knight apart. Remember though, that you still need the Stables to horse them, so you won't be able to field many of them anyway. They're best used for surprise attacks on siege equipment and such, or closing in on archers, rather than as frontline troops like Swordsmen.

[@thattonnatoguywithafez8246]

In original if i remember they were used to kill of trebuchets and other siege equipment and just mainly for harrasing.

[@flaviusstilicho1239]

JazzMan 1 vs 1 wins the swordman, but in 50 vs 50 wins the Knight.

[@lorrdy7640]

Kleiner Tipp. Wenn du bei den Kämpfen immer eine 3. Fraktion genommen hattest, könntest du die HP beider Truppen gleichzeitig beobachten.

[@corentinc.948]

Kann man Unser König Seine HP auch wiederstellen, oder nicht?

[@PawelosPW]

nice Grreetings from Poland

[@PNKoci]

Pawelos PW Poland? This religion country? Jp2gmd!

[@PawelosPW]

I love Jesus, and he loves u

[@PNKoci]

Pawelos PW xD

[@PawelosPW]

=) Don't hate

[@PNKoci]

Pawelos PW xD Free xD Tak kurwa i aborcje zakazać xD Narzucać innym swoje wymysły.

[@Beowulf-eg2li]

monks are the best defensive melee units imo, for 10g (and, well, a 1k gold investment for a cathedral, for +2 happiness might i add) you can spam the shit out of them and set them onto aggressive mode and keep them in key defensive locations if you can manage to keep them protected from ranged attacks on the approach, they can be deadly when you're on the assault

[@MrPathorn]

You need to do some test on the time to kill same unit. Because Pikeman is just very tough but low damage. Black monks would kill things faster than Pikeman.

[@agihammerthief8953]

On the other hand, pikemen take longer to kill, buying your ranged units more time to shoot the enemies full of arrows or just delaying their advance.

[@milanpospisil8024]

And also stack enemy unit in one place, which is very good for fire and very bad if you want to defend yourself in the keep...

[@marcin123G]

Pikemen are the most resistant in the game, I remember I tested all of this when I was like 12 yrs old, I think it took like 13 crossbow bolts to kill 1 pikeman, 11 to kill a swordsman

[@milanpospisil8024]

But archers could defeat pikemen much more easily than swordsmen. Overall, they are tough, not so much slow, can dig moat...excellent unit for siege.

[@MrSquadallah]

I also believe that pikemen are the only unit in the game that can survive one spike trap, they die on second one.

[@combat-greyhound565]

Irgendwie Traurig, dass die Arabischen Bogenschützen im Nahkampf stärker sind als die Berittenen mit Säbel und Schlachtross, sowie Armbrustschützen mit für die Zeit recht anständiger Rüstung :D

[@jeremymanikin1496]

Combat-Greyhound ich habe mal getestet Lanzenträger besiegen die Arabischen Bogenschützen aber die Berittenen sind mit den Lanzenträgern gleich auf weiß auch nicht warum das so ist xD

[@Ok4y94]

stimmt logik ist da nich immer zu erkennen, aber balancetechnisch is das gut so. finde berittene nämlich verdammt stark und wenn man klug ist kommen die ja nie in den nahkampf

[@combat-greyhound565]

Im Endeffekt zählt bei Stronghold überwiegend eh nur ein Faktor: Masse :D

[@f.l.3978]

@@combat-greyhound565 naja nicht wirklich. Du kannst einen übermächtigen Gegner auch mit viel weniger Truppen und Belagerungsgeräten besiegen. Du musst halt nur fallen stellen, so das der Gegner sich nicht wehren kann

[@xTheOriginalAce]

@@f.l.3978 die meisten Karten habe nur offenes Feld Wirklich fallen stellen kann man da nicht

[@SkowronV]

You can also put lumberjack right after spearman or even tunneler. Nevermind, looks like spearman is actually slightly stronger than lumberjack, also lumberjack is probably as strong as smith.

[@agbrenv]

when I played I remember lumberjacks/woodcutters being able to kill a Spearman 1 on 1, also 1 dog can kill an Archer in melee

[@krzysztoflange7484]

There should be hidden buff for pikemens and spearmens for fighting cavalry. Also its quite stupid that knight is losing to single swordsman.

[@lordlegends1275]

Mach doch mal ein Video in dem du zeigst wie stark die Holzfäller (evtl auch noch barde und alles an Bevölkerung sonst was angreifen kannst) sind? PS: Wie lange hast du gebraucht das alles auszuprobieren?

[@kotzpenner]

Glaube die einzigen Zivilisten die kämpfen können sind Holzfäller, Steinmetze und Ochsentreiber und Jäger aber die gibt es kaum zu bauen.

[@xTheOriginalAce]

kotzpenner Ich glaube der Schmied greift auch noch an wenn er eine Waffe zur Waffenkammer bringt, bin mir aber nicht sicher

[@kotzpenner]

Ja stimmt. Er greift mit dem Hammer an.

[@lordlegends1275]

kotzpenner barde kann auch noch angreifen

[@kotzpenner]

Stimmt der greift mit der Rassel an lol

[@DMartinov]

Music helps make this video even better, damn we have to give props for the soundtrack as well!

[@moldycarrot9267]

Cool to see people actually play this game. This clip doesn't take cost effectiveness into account. Pikemen and macemen are for example potentially more effective as they are easily massed.

[@KashifKhan-pm4yf]

Well I think melee rankings may differ for some cases likely for knights vs pikeman , pikemans are quite a punch against knights , if you might have consider it .....

[@SkowronV]

And lord is probably able to beat them all at once.

[@SSProgamer]

Nope, Lord would definetly fail. :)

[@Volcano4981]

Five (probably even 4) Swordsmen are actually able to kill a Lord. So with all of these in the list, probably not even close.

[@SkowronV]

Exactly 4 swordsmans can kill Lord, if they will attack pretty much at the same time.

[@SkowronV]

If not at once, then one by one for sure.

[@MrAbgeBrandt]

Interestingly, only in Crusader. In the original, two or three swordsmen or three to four macemen could easily kill a lord. The lord could also be shot down by missile troops within half a minute as opposed to the 10 it takes in SHC.

[@TheThugnificant]

Only ever played the original Stronghold but i didn't know Tunnelers were stronger than spearmen.

[@xanders8100]

Didn't expect the tunneler to be so tough

[@genraltrooper1322]

fun fact: the arapian swords man has same voice line from swords man

[@lauchgamers4920]

Hilfe Udwin! Wir sind von Amerikaner umzingelt 😂

[@LastOneAlive96]

Kannst du bitte mal ein Fernkämpfer-Ranking machen? Darin könntest du zeigen welche am weitesten und schnellsten schießen. Auch wäre ein Video toll in dem du zeigst wie viele Schüsse die Nahkampfeinheiten von jedem Fernkampftyp aushalten.

[@FahadxTPlays8020]

This game will never die NEVER EVER

[@stewtm]

Wow, surprises me how bad the Pikemen have proven themselves. Always thought they were stronger.

[@daveyturu]

They are more for delaying

[@Volcano4981]

They are actually far more effective in the sequels - to the point where the only stronger units are Swordsmen and Knights. For instance, an SH Legends Pikeman beats an average Maceman with about 30% HP left from what I remember, and even are a match for Shield Maidens and Saxon Mercenaries. Of course, their best use is as a meatshield for your archers to shoot at those tasty enemy troops.

[@salt_97]

Pikemen aren't really damaging. They have massive HP, they're defensive more than offensive.

[@salt_97]

Volcano4981 well that's because SH Legends doesn't have as many strong melee infantry as Crusader has. Remove the Assassin and Arabian Swordsmen and Pikemen become 4th easily. They weren't buffed, they just don't have as much competition.

[@flaviusstilicho1239]

StewTM Pikemen are perfect moat diggers when you attack an enemy since they can actually dig without dying like the flies because they can take mor arrows to the chest than a Voodoo puppet needles.

[@NIGHTBLOOM1]

Now i know arabian bows are better than crossbow and archers thanks udwin

[@zombieunicorn1]

I'm just shocked macemen beat pikemen.

[@EsEsfandyari]

I believe your colour is always stronger than enemy

[@BrownCameraman29]

if that ASSASIN was Altair I think that knight will death in just 4 minute

[@proximityclockworkx1572]

In AC games, the older ones, have a very easy combat system. You just spam counters and win. The enemy comes at you 1 by 1. That's why Altair can win, cuz of the broken counters/parrys. Not to mention, in the first AC you can enter and exit combat, and abuse that to instantly kill enemies. You don't have that easy combat in stronghold.

[@leokonrath379]

amazing video man. other amazin video

[@Aatell764]

I used to make hoards of slingers and rush the keep to quickly get rid of a Lord who was too close for comfort. Assassin's do well for that too but usually your slingers will survive and you can throw them back on your keep they do strangely well against swordsmen with their slings.

[@beetroot7486]

Technically speaking, a stone thrown from a sling will do much more damage (blunt force trauma) to armored units while arrows will just get deflected (with plate mail of course).

[@Aatell764]

@@beetroot7486 You are correct, I just take joy in working steel

[@vieri031]

Does Monks have some special abilities? Or they just only cheap melee unit ?

[@hagamapama]

Cheap melee unit is a pretty special ability. But their big advantage is that you can field them in large numbers and they have reasonably high melee DPS. Their building also raises religion happiness, so there's that as well.

[@proximityclockworkx1572]

They see assassins from a greater distance than most troops.

[@lordjakob7052]

this is now 5 years ago but cant engineers Do melee damage too ?

[@lordbutters1574]

Good Video! But doesn't get idle/standing units a defense boost?

[@MackAlton]

i feel like pike man are the most unused

[@jeffersonlayne1350]

Rly? Stronghold videos in 2018?

[@jeremymanikin1496]

Crazy SKULL Yes rly xD

[@MuhammadFadhilJufri]

Well i still played that as well

[@ribsgrowback8459]

Its the best game ever!!!

[@LoneWolf-vu6qy]

A knight losing to a swordsmen just seems off to me.

[@akmalkhan6592]

you didnt check that an assassin can kill a knight.

[@alanaksan6662]

Hello from indonesia

[@TheIndogamer]

Salam dari Indonesia juga abang

[@raidarthegunwizard4520]

Halo

[@Psycholas]

the spikemen have a high armor to protect them from the arrows like the crossbowmen and any other archer

[@aphisittbuahom318]

I test spearman vs horse archer with melee battle spearman lose.

[@alphamale3087]

When it comes to long range, Crossbowman will destroy all those archers.

[@feynstein1004]

Lol what you smokin bro? Archers have longer range than Crossbowmen

[@alphamale3087]

@@feynstein1004 if they both can reach each other of course. I am talking about the damage

[@ashabussurur4532]

i dont think so, because you forgot each troops defense point, assassins is supposed to have higher damage than arabian swordmen (maybe highest among all, idk), but alas he has a very puny defense

[@haudium69]

Du hast den Holzfäller vergessen😂

[@EdoSynysterfan]

Swordsmen are the coolest and the strongest, also their italian dubbing is cool af

[@hasanboxing9954]

I Love That Thank You Man

[@frabre1810]

No sense video... some units have armors and put to face unarmored ones

[@lucascampos4131]

Knights should be stronger then Swordman, they are quite expensive and hard to make.

[@wolfpackgrand6391]

well in reality, pikeman are counter for cavalry so they'd probably win in that fight

[@YasserAlhawary]

Good job

[@Cannibalizer93]

macemen/crossbowmen/bowmen was my favorite combo

[@HardcoreJohnny]

Yes, this could be indeed the most effective way for attacking.

[@MackAlton]

i feel like your test isn't accurate... because you didn't reset their health.. the guy was half dead from the fight before?

[@CryberShot]

You must add the king

[@Back4Fungame]

I guess macemen are the melee unit, which is best considering all factors

[@lordudwin7174]

If all factors are included, Pikemen are the most versitile units because of their extreme defensive capabilitys (especially against crossbows, ballistas and fire). Additionally, their damage against buildings and walls ist extraordinary high. Macemen are excellent, if you want to have the speed advantage. Pikemen are the best for every other role. They even have a hidden bonus damage against armored units, which will be topic of an extra video one day ^^

[@Back4Fungame]

@@lordudwin7174 Looking forward to that video

[@indracatraarccipasa5770]

Pikeman is weaker than maceman?

[@MrAsjobeN]

What about woodchopper?

[@lobakputih202]

How to get this games? i miss this game so much...!

[@BAJF93]

Forgot about the lord.

[@tekof9105]

How did you changed your In-Game Avatar with your own? Can I do it on steam version ?

[@poryg5350]

Tekof Yes. In the game folder there's a file called faces.bmp (or png?). Open it and enjoy yourself.

[@tekof9105]

Richard Urbane I will try it thx a lot man

[@tekof9105]

i cant find this file help me plz

[@tekof9105]

there is only Maps Saves crusader.cfg skmasters2.dat

[@poryg5350]

Tekof In that case you can use the search function in your file explorer. If it doesn't find it in it, maybe it's because you have both crusader and crusader extreme. But it is in one of these, in fact should be in crusader.

[@usamahussain4461]

Stronghold Crusader 2?

[@TimewastiusMaximus]

How are pikes worse than maces? Good lord lmao

[@Fotel]

to this day I can't understand why they made spearman so SO WEAK. He can't even run. They are totally useless.

[@TheDroopyBear]

Horse archer is all-rounder.

[@anaslores3771]

map name?

[@komar2288]

Where is "Kopacz"

[@sammlerfreudevanhdrdh1414]

Warum sind die Schwertkämpfer besser als die Ritter? Was hatt sich Stronghold dabei nur gedacht ^^?

[@paultetzi5443]

SAMMLERFREUDE van HDR/DH in der Realität würde das zwar wenig Sinn ergeben aber um das Gleichgewicht zwischen den Einheiten zu bewahren schon. Außerdem sind Ritter nur ein wenig schwächer aber viele male schneller und damit im gesamten Spiel die effektivste Einheit neben den Fehrkämpfer.

[@HardcoreJohnny]

Doch das hat schon Sinn. Wenn eine Horde Ritter in eine ebenso große Horde Schwertkämpfer rennt, verlieren die Ritter klar. Die Ritter haben nur dann einen Vorteil, wenn sie Schwertkämpfern im Galopp eine mitgeben können, oder in den Rücken der Schwertkämpfer rennen, da aber beides hier nicht simuliert wird, ist das so korrekt.

[@checkcommentsfirst3335]

SonOfDephts nein nein... es gab sogar Sprichwörter wie: 1 Reiter = 1000 Mann

[@seb0rn739]

Damit sie nicht op sind. Wären sie zusätzlich zu ihrer Geschwindigkeit noch so stark wie Schwertkämpfer, wären sie zu stark.

[@SkyForceOne2]

@@checkcommentsfirst3335 ernsthaft? Du machst das an nem Sprichwort fest!? xD

[@Captainhexpaine]

In greater numbers assasssins can crush all melee units an army of 500 assaassins against 500 knights or Arab swordsman the assassins win majority of the time.

[@maxmustermuller4765]

Da fehlen die Kampfhunde.

[@kleinfeicht]

Pikemen still in my opinion best unit

[@unknown0soldier]

so what about dogs? and lions? xD

[@orzyszindustries]

Knights are actually pretty good just use their mobility

[@deaansugee]

Hmm... Could you do a video showing how many of each unit is roughly enough to kill a player strength lord? Like, are 5 swordsmen enough? How about 10 macemen? 20 spearmen? You get the idea.

[@tobiasm5579]

Holzfäller müssen aber noch getestet werden 😂😂😂

[@ishidakurosaki1194]

Greetings from Poland ; )

[@morgannoor1494]

no wonder swordsmen won because they wear heavy armor give them more hit points but they are slow and so weak against Ranged units and flame

[@proximityclockworkx1572]

Everything is weak against flame.

[@tifo13nightfury70]

i don't remember well but i think pikemen beats assassin's

[@Rufgaudas]

Rank0 - Lord

[@HyenA806]

TOO EZ FOR MY BOI WOODCUTTER

[@mahdiaryaeibakhshayesh9361]

from iran : nice vid :)

[@nikoszkariofilisz8300]

Where is the King? :) He beats everyone bro :D

[@deniskalocsai8857]

50 templar knight vs arab 50 knight

[@yoeagreen_dark9449]

But fire thrower kill archer by his melee power .

[@Wichteleintv]

Es ist doch total hirnrissig, dass der Schwertkämpfer stärker ist als der Ritter. Er müsste gleich stark sein oder der Ritter stärker. Aber es hat mich schon überrascht. Auch bei anderen Einheiten.

[@JayConnor1989]

Warum hirnrissig? Der Ritter hat den Mobilitätsvorteil, außerdem ist es nur historisch korrekt, dass ein Ritter gegen einen Fußsoldaten im 1 gegen 1 verliert, da der Ritter auf einer Stelle stehen bleibt. Einzige Verwendung für mich waren die Ritter nur um Sklaven oder Bogenschützen abzufangen, aber das funktioniert auch nur mäßig

[@Wichteleintv]

Er bleibt im Spiel stehen. Aber ein Reiter hat einen Kampfvorteil gegenüber einem Fußsoldaten. Die erhöhte Position macht Schläge effektiver und bei einem Angriff mit Geschwindigkeit des Pferdes sind die Schläge ebenso stärker. Darum gab es doch schwer gepanzerte Kavallerie. Im Spiel Mount and Blade wird das ganz gut dargestellt, dass man in Bewegung mehr Schaden verursacht.

[@неболаја]

must b a mistake, assassins r way stronger than arab swords...

[@lordudwin7174]

They are faster, but in terms of raw melee power, arab swords are better. Arab swords beat assassins in a duel and they are better against most units. But there is an exception: Assassins have a hidden bonus damage against knights and european swordsman. Against those two, assassins perform better than arab swords.

[@wolfi4458]

Ich fänd es geiler wenn man so im allgemein das vergleicht und nicht nur die Nahkampfstärke

[@radugaming6115]

It looks like age of empires 1

[@tayyabmanzoor1757]

I always think knights are better than swordsman.

[@kacperjurek1847]

Bullshit Monk can beat Assasin

[@Leo.23232]

This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen regarding this game. All units deal specific damage to different units and therefore counter different units. Some units like pikemen are not meant to beat people in a 1v1 fight and are meant to be the tankiest unit in the game, while other like macemen are meant to be glass cannons. And units like spearmen are obviously weaker individually, as they can be built the fastest and are cheaper, so realistically come in greater numbers.

[@hachi1750]

what abt a lumberjack?

[@lordudwin7174]

It's not a military unit, but the lumberjacks are almost as strong as Spearmen. In this ranging they would be between Arabian Bows and Spearmen. Maybe I will make a video about all civilians and workers with melee abilities (even the jester deals damage... but thats very hard to notice :D)

[@Aurichalcam]

I didn’t know the Jester dealt damage. I thought they just had a death wish as I watch them walk from my keep all the way to the enemy castle to tease my swordsman as they storm the keep

[@maxmustermuller4765]

Rank 0: Lord

[@achmadzainy1769]

15.5 woodcutter. He can survive against 2 slave alone. Hahahahahh

[@mranonymous8125]

2 Überraschungen 🤔

[@caditu9573]

Assassin can kill knight

[@ImranAli-kb7id]

Knights are stronger than swordsman And maceman are better than assassins