STRONGHOLD CRUSADER IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME WITH NO EXPLOITS - Excluding the cow only challenge

Hello There Ladies And Gentlemen. Today we are playing a classical RTS game called Stronghold Crusader HD. Many would say that this is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits however today I will be using the cow only challenge to demonstrate my favorite exploit with this classical stratergy game. So sit back relax and enjoy this funny montage!
This video is going to be packed with funny clips in a montage style of british humor!
If you enjoyed this then check out my other 100 stat man videos!
It is also rather similar to Robbaz , Valefisk and RT Game in style of content!
So sit back relax and enjoy this Stronghold Crusader /stronghold challenge!
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Title: STRONGHOLD CRUSADER IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME WITH NO EXPLOITS - Excluding the cow only challenge
#funny #montage #RTS

[@emptyforrest]

"i want a challenge in these games" -plays against the rat.

[@lemeres2478]

I am pretty sure the rats won the middle ages. They certainly had the highest kill count.

[@ABeardedSage]

Is the rat especially easy or something? This means nothing to most of us.

[@reculus2545]

ABeardedSage he is the second easiest enemy in the game.

[@nemou4985]

Yeah hes an absolute joke playing any game to be honest. A player can easily kill 4 of the strongest AIs, even I do it, and I suck.

[@s-saad7401]

@@reculus2545 rat's the easiest not second easiest

[@PTB_BE]

Daily reminder that warcrimes can be excused if you do it to aquire tea

[@adamcetinkent]

Your acquire lost the c, I assume because the yanks dropped t into it?

[@strikersub1814]

Australians will keep this in mind

[@PikachuLittle]

It’s not a war crime if nobody’s able to accuse you

[@astrayl]

That feels like the tag line of the British empire.

[@generalbacon7476]

what if your warcrime is dumping tea in the ocean?

[@collingraf606]

You are missing all the best exploits for this game!! 1. Use woodcutters posts instead of ox tethers, they only cost 3 wood and are 3x3 instead of 2x2. 2. You can move catapults or ballistae onto your walls by creating 2 gatehouses, move commanding them through the first one, and then closing the gatehouse on them during the brief period of time they are actually in the gatehouse. If the units are able to exit through another gatehouse, they will start moving across your walls towards it. Just give them the stop command when they are in your desired location and boom! Catapults on your walls. 3. If you have access to iron, you need nothing else! Build as many iron mines as you can, build plenty of houses, then turn your game speed down to 20 and super quickly toggle the 'sleep' button on your iron mines. The game will not disband all of the existing workers, but it will create a whole set of new ones, meaning your iron production sky-rockets. Sell iron and buy literally everything else you need. You can even do this exploit multiple times on the same buildings for better results, and there are other buildings you can do this to as well, like ox tethers. 4. Assassins will not scale walls and enemies will not attack walls if there is an opening that is 'relatively' close by. Meaning you can funnel the enemy very effectively into murder tunnels. Just place some crossbowmen, fire throwers, and shields on your walls and you can't lose to the AI. 5. Woodcutters. They are almost as strong as spearmen, they are free, they are infinite. Use the tactic above, then place a couple dozen woodcutters posts outside your castle, now you have an infinite stream of units that will slow down and deal some damage to any enemies making their way through your murder tunnel. Seriously though, mass woodcutters don't mess around. 6. (Mostly a multiplayer exploit) You can also make assassin-proof walls by building your castle with low walls then adding a second layer of crenellated walls. For some reason assassins cannot move between the two. 7. Ranged units target other ranged units first and you can dodge arrows. You can protect an entire attacking melee army with a single (horse) archer if you micro it well enough to dodge the incoming arrows. Less of an exploit, but if you want to win in general, fire is op. Use slaves or fire ballistae to light up an enemies base and then just watch the ensuing chaos (If they have wells or large water pots you will need to deal with those first, or make sure fire fighters don't have proper pathing to the source of the flames.) Also not really an exploit, but it is cheaper and generally more efficient to not produce any food at all and instead get everyone super drunk. The -8 popularity for No Rations gets offset by the +8 popularity for max tavern coverage. Again, not too much of an exploit, but if you need to field huge armies very quickly, get a ton of houses, then build a ton of Large Water Pots. Any time you need peasants to recruit into your army, just put the water pots to sleep and then wake them up when your army is full. If you don't do this you are just limited to creating armies of ~24 units at a time, which is inefficient.

[@doriankeyvan8917]

This is golden! 😄🙏 You forgot the "unlimited archers on a tower" trick though 😊

[@doriankeyvan8917]

And also:Just let them ballistas stop INSIDE the gate, wouldya! Makes them invincible as they should be ;)

[@collingraf606]

@@doriankeyvan8917 Oh interesting! I never tested stopping them inside the gate. I assumed that they wouldn't fire if the unit wasn't visible. Thanks for this one!

[@doriankeyvan8917]

@@collingraf606 Hehe they do and you can put as many inside as you want :) Thank you, too 😁

[@andyhighroller8217]

Yesssssssss

[@pigman876]

Stronghold crusader is a very good game, still enjoy playing it.

[@haegger666]

yep still playing it 2020 :)

[@roger5555ful]

Even if it's easy,it's not boring and still fun

[@Stewer1000]

@@roger5555ful im doing beer only challange.challanging but fun 😀

[@Maennlichkeitsbeauftragter]

@@Stewer1000 im doing the crusade again with no market. It’s absolutely crazy how I sometimes struggle against rats bc of lacking wood and another time I completely wipe a Saladin after 5-10mins. It’s a completely new game right now

[@ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas4123]

@@Maennlichkeitsbeauftragter “Wood stocks are too low sire”

[@lint9305]

As someone who actually played this a ton back in the day, I expected him to use the catapult's special action where they fire dead cow corpses at the enemy which functions as basically medieval chemical/biological warfare

[@Ekstrax]

He does do it twice at 17:00 :p

[@tugrulserhat]

Same here. From the title, I thought he was gonna build tons of cheese farms and spam the enemy with cows. I had no idea about this glitch after hundreds of hours spent playing this game :D

[@immortal6453]

I knew this exploit ...long long ago....i never fucking use it cuz it's boring....

[@dariusbruchental3404]

Quite honestly i was thinking about the same thing

[@ggdk2865]

Wait, it's not like that...? Why am I watching this then

[@pretzelbomb6105]

“Sir, the enemy has blockaded our gates!” “What’s their army look like?” “They haven’t got one, they’ve just posted cows in front of each gate.” “Those dastardly villains! Order the troops to attempt to bypass the cows.” “Not possible sir, the cows are very angry and moo threateningly at anyone who comes near.” “Very well, order the slingers to find a position and kill the cows.” “Sir, the slingers can’t get a good angle on the cows.” “Well, tell them to keep trying until they do. How’s our infrastructure faring unmanned?” “It’s all collapsed completely from disuse sir.” “To be expected, they’ve been unmanned for almost 2 seconds. Keep training new slingers until we open up the gates, I’ll survey the situation from the roof.” “Yes sir!”

[@wireshock4633]

Sounds about as silly as Blackadder.

[@thatonedude5357]

Wireshock I appreciate this far too much

[@LordComradeAnarchoCapitalus]

Sir! the cows won't die! they just keep on appearing out of nothing!

[@bfufhryrrhtjhxbdgkjgutitjh7877]

@@LordComradeAnarchoCapitalus "don't worry if we keep shooting it might finally die so we can go out"

[@briennerose2606]

"I'll survey the situation from the roof." amazing

[@mt-9320]

the man who says "wood needed" at a constant rate haunts my nightmares after all these years/

[@Idk-vc1og]

Wood needed

[@kiryuchan137]

If my future wife doesn't moan that in bed, I'm not getting married.

[@straydog8178]

Go play Stronghold Legends. He gets more words to say

[@Aletheia828]

Your army is approaching its maximum size O_o

[@ninja5672]

STONE NEEDED!

[@Wertsir]

"Age of Empires II was much more impressive" Age of Empires II didn't implement cows until The Forgotten expansion. Which came out _in_ _2013._ Stronghold Crusaders was 11 years ahead of it's time in terms of cow technology.

[@azh698]

Also, in aoe you can't throw them

[@cookiecaptain5006]

How could they not add cows to 2013 those monsters don't they know the power of cows

[@cookieking1996]

azh698 Bro that’s cow abuse

[@paulelderson934]

azh698 Yes you could, didn't you use the catapult cheat code?

[@retrogamer2503]

@@cookieking1996 You throw the corpses, not live cows or the corpses of freshly K I L L E D cows, but old dead cows, unless it was a joke from your side........?

[@Jihtito]

Spiff:*pauses the game* Also Spiff: And this is a game that can’t be paused.

[@Lucky_you_and_me]

Was looking for this comment

[@ZeLunatic]

TBH when I read the title I thought you were gonna catapult cows over the enemy walls. The truth was... a lot more surprising than that.

[@Quinge29871]

"(Fetchez la vache!)"

[@manupainkiller]

Me too, I was expecting him to do the same !

[@SharkfightersSH]

I supposed he'd do both. it would be a REAL cow only challenge and also it's a far known exploit. I still enjoy this relaxed and kinda smug commentary. Keep it going Spiff, it's awesome :D

[@jerrymartin7019]

Little did you know, he actually launched the cows ONTO the walls, not over them!

[@Hhhiii2233]

RUN AWAY

[@arbozaliyan]

Making the AI rage quit on you. That is the Spif way.

[@laimiskleinauskas3654]

xaxa i did the same but kept torturing them to get my 100 k scores a lot of years ago .. xD

[@joshnabours9102]

Yes!

[@k3rc4]

playing against rat is basically same as free build, it doesnt matter how much gold u give him, he is useless lol

[@MatthiasDrinksH20]

His castles are always like lanyrinths and he has so weak soldiers 😂😂

[@Quadrenaro]

You impudent upstart! The mighty de puc will brush you aside... As he would brush a fly from his arm.

[@paniojanlouisea.5453]

Yep totally useless

[@paniojanlouisea.5453]

@@MatthiasDrinksH20 he's always training spearmans And his always building a maze form bases

[@Quadrenaro]

Then suddenly 60 assassins.

[@robinschekkerman7251]

Who else thought he just recruited an entire army of cows and send them to the enemy?

[@alentjanestetico3014]

Robin Schekkerman I felt actually kind of disappointed when it turned out not to be the case.

[@robinschekkerman7251]

@@alentjanestetico3014 Nice to see that I'm not the only one.

[@ThePenguinDruid]

I had the exact same thought

[@stevenneiman9789]

Yeah. And he had the cow trebuchet, but he only used it twice and then just ditched it. Very disappointing.

[@Kakarot64.]

Having never played this game before I assumed he’d use the cows as cheap disposable swarm units to zerg rush everything to oblivion.

[@Parra1el_Divide]

"pure unadulterated HD graphics"... *Watching in 360p*

[@rbwbr]

Watching 144p from modem

[@The24thWight]

@@rbwbr Me To

[@Makverus]

@@rbwbr After he mentioned 144p cutscenes my video went to 144p,

[@Pincsi01]

Never heard of age of empires, but the stronghold games hold lots of child memories to me

[@darkzeronemesis497]

You’ve never heard of age of empires not even seen a glimpse of it 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@mr.f2p552]

"Here comes Bessie!"

[@sanctifiedsuccubus2562]

*"hOpe ThEY LiKE bEEf"*

[@Imran-yr6qh]

@@sanctifiedsuccubus2562 thats not in the game..

[@sanctifiedsuccubus2562]

@@Imran-yr6qh yes it is, it's a line spoken by the engineer when you launch a cow carcass. If you launch enough cows, eventually, you'll hear it.

[@Imran-yr6qh]

@@sanctifiedsuccubus2562 hmmm i browsed game files too. mustve missed it

[@sanctifiedsuccubus2562]

@@Imran-yr6qh I'm not joshin' ya, it's in there I promise. Just search up the voice lines on youtube or something, I'm sure there's some video that has it.

[@JustinY.]

"A perfectly balanced game, even with the cow only challenge" And Spiffing Brit Lied

[@MR_GPU]

Again

[@chriscormac231]

Dode you jist have nothing but time, holy shit

[@nomad2639]

Justin Y. I’m more surprised I was that quick on the draw.

[@wildkillerchimp8861]

*Are_you_sure_about_that.gif

[@harveytomos4959]

It Justin lmao

[@TheArklyte]

And good job on creating an illustrative example of how traffic jams affect economy. Though using Stronghold Crusaders instead of City Skylines to do so is a rather new one...

[@robjohnson583]

I used to play the Stronghold games religiously, I remain a huge fan of the Stronghold franchise to this day and hold it up there with the likes of Age of Empires.

[@markedfang]

"...20 assassins to keep him occupied in one on one combat..." HMMMMM.

[@azerakt5042]

I got 5 cups of tea and 7 coffee makers in the trash

[@mcfetronion3979]

the tea industry is the best industry.

[@kgxsparks9676]

I drank 000000000000000000000000000000000 cups of coffee and 10000000000000000000000000 cups of yorkshire tea

[@monikaplanner7735]

@Murat Fahrettin Uysal no

[@cptkakise6958]

Good lord no, I prefer Stronghold Extreme Edition ! *sips tea*

[@camdengoss6326]

*Laughs in British*

[@jessepinkman69420]

*Punches in Russia*

[@RealShail]

*Dies in Africa*

[@gottjager760]

*high in Chinese*

[@KevinUchihaOG]

I never understood the appeal of Extreme edition. It just seems kinds imbalanced, no?

[@brokenarrow7996]

I loved this game growing up...it's a classic

[@hanro50]

"Sleeping with the enemy will be a lovely little start" -spiff 2019

[@TheArklyte]

Can we get "out of context" compilation for 2018 first before we proceed?

[@NecrosAcolyte]

Ox carts don't move resources in general. They only move stone.

[@theblackdragon7321]

and Iron

[@n00fer]

@@theblackdragon7321 no they dont.. Iron workers move the finished ore.. Ox tethers only move stone

[@theblackdragon7321]

Shane Hounsell ah ok. Must have Mia remembered lol it’s been a while since I last played it

[@stanniesvb]

they do move iron but only from stronghold 2 and on

[@kesorangutan6170]

Shane Hounsell As far as I remember they move iron too.

[@krishnansubramoni7801]

Fun fact : more people have died as a result of cows, than sharks. Cows are legit deadly 😂, while sharks are practically harmless compared to how movies and games portray them.

[@piept4651]

"There is no pause function" was that sarcasm? game pauses while he opens the menu press p for pause lol

[@_Zuckeraffe_]

I think the point was that you can't do anything while paused.

[@420mralucard]

He means like in Tropico and the like where you can pause the timer but not the game, so you can build walls and make farms without having to worry about the AI attacking while you're not looking.

[@BadDayLp]

@@420mralucard Wasn`t the gerne called *Real-time* strategy?

[@ernestrider]

You can.

[@420mralucard]

@@BadDayLp Yes but it's hard to read a menu/skill tree/unit ability/ or even do a tutorial when the A.I. is attacking you. It's also hard to even figure out what's happening around your kingdom if you can't stop the game because there could be a problem halfway across the continent and you can't leave another part of the game alone to go look at it. You don't have multiple commanders like a real kingdom to split the burden, it's just you making all the moves so you need time to think and see your entire area without distractions.

[@darrenjacobson7456]

"What's for dinner mom?" "Deer meat." "Again!?" "Yes, we have to eat them before they stampede and kill us all."

[@caiussalajan5180]

The real cheese of this game: if you build enough churches/chapels, happy buildings (flowers, monuments) and give them alcohol (tea) you don't have to give them any food at all. Really, you will have 100 happiness and you can even tax them and there will be +1 happiness left. It is so much easier for them to enjoy the tea rather than eating. source: been playing this game for 10 years now

[@lightning0938]

But it's much easier to have them drunk and fat, then build max bad buildings, chopping block and burning stake. They move 50% faster, rather than 50% slower which is what good buildings cause. If you use wheat you'll never run out of food

[@TheCaptainRex]

@@lightning0938 Both you and the original poster are wrong.... First off, bad buildings give -50 to combat bonus for troops. You start OFF with bad buildings to boost production, then slowly move to good buildings as you gear up for war to get the +50 combat bonus.

[@caiussalajan5180]

@Mad Macronex I was only talking about the real cheese and the fact that by doing so the game becomes broken. (people surviving without any food at all)

[@oddpoppetesq.3467]

@@TheCaptainRex no. Good and bad building only effect worker speed. It has no effect over your combat troops, just check the in game information book, it lists it there...

[@TheCaptainRex]

@@oddpoppetesq.3467 You must have never played Stronghold because it most CERTAINLY does - it's LITERALLY in your scribes notes where you can check popularity, etc and you get a COMBAT BONUS to your troops either +50% or -50% (10% for each level of good/bad). Go look it up and do your research please =)

[@heimrath007]

Fun fact: Cambridge has a small population of free-roaming cows. On average, they kill about 1 tourist ever 10 years. Very OP.

[@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780]

they are deadly

[@alekssavic1154]

"The AI can't phone the police to come save them" clearly these AI haven't watched enough Monty Python. Also, this is definitely one of my favourite old games and I still play it on occasion.

[@DrZaius3141]

What's all this then?

[@notadog4762]

i really like how all the games he plays are so perfectly balanced and he must just have a great taste in games to always find ones with no exploits

[@KontroKat]

I don't usually drink tea but the more I watch Spiff the more I want to drink some. Brainwashing at its best.

[@BadDayLp]

Indeed. Just founded him, watched a few videos and now wanting a tea ffs

[@maciejhammer2681]

I switched to tea with milk instead of a regular slice of lemon because of spiff. He's colonised my drinking habits!

[@alexturcani3234]

Game Ranger was actually bundled with the HD version, which is interesting. It enables you to play this game, and many others in multi-player very easily. Although most of the players have either modems and wooden pc's or are toxic beyond the scales. Or don't speak English at all. Also, yes there is a pause function, it's... P... Ox's carry only stone from the quarry. Slaves can be killed even by the woodcutters, they are used to cause massive fires (depending on enemy's defenses) It's strange you managed to block the enemy gates, because normally you can't build near enemy units. And you also could've put the stations to sleep to save up on peasants.

[@mohammedabdelfattah7143]

Sleep stations in Stronghold crusader?

[@agihammerthief8953]

Hey, slaves aren't weak to wooden houses. The opposite, in fact!

[@MatthiasDrinksH20]

One Slave can Destroy an entire castle filled with houses and effectifely kill nearly every unit inside

[@trihermawan9553]

@@MatthiasDrinksH20 glass cannon in antiquity

[@siromanecvlogs8490]

What about "Cossacks is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits"?

[@AventuroPlays]

I'd pay to see THAT! ^_^ (Not literally)

[@tinchosabala]

I mean, every game is perfectly balanced without exploits if played by Spiffing.

[@benji45645]

What about American Conquest?

[@Sutorenja]

try to get cossacks 2 working on a modern pc

[@thundersoul6795]

Are there any real exploits tho? The biggest one I remember is just AI being confused half the time on island maps and not doing anything other than spit out armies and cannon formations until you come to them, then just half-orderly march into the 18th century grinder backed by warships.

[@andreipristavu8170]

Is any game safe from Spiffing? Obviously not, NO game is safe from the Tea Addict!

[@penguinator7453]

Tea makes you a god

[@enough-applause-3368]

Fallout 76 is safe because it's terrible and too broken you dont know what's base game and what's a glitch

[@acooltiger9726]

Empire at War

[@TemplarWolfie]

Empire Earth is "completely balanced" but in the favour of the AI! I have no idea how to break that game, but I wanna! 😂

[@footballeratilla]

That was damn funny and clever made me laugh hahaha

[@mrkommentator5906]

There actually is a 0retty big community but its mostly German and focused on fixing the game and not multi-player but there are discord servers full of guys whod like to battle you online

[@of7076]

Glad to see someone else still paying this in 2019, its my family game sice 2002, we connect over IP and play multiplayer at home.

[@professionalhater3348]

People still play it in 2020. Especially me. There's many.

[@SheepytheSleepySheep]

It’s funny I still to this day tell my gf “I win I win no one beats the pig” and she gets so confused 😂

[@Necro_fury]

my family has been playing Majesty gold edition if you know that game from time to time. We grew up with stronghold too, great stuff

[@doriankeyvan8917]

lucky basterd 😄

[@tuxydonth1]

Stronghold Crusader is my child hood.... And yes I still play it

[@KevinUchihaOG]

Stronghold Crusader and Heroes 3 are the only games from my childhood that i play atleast once a year.

[@bruti2251]

did u know there is a unoffical patch that fix a few problems with the game? is still in development, but already a masterpice

[@CertifiedNEETClassic]

Three crusading kingdoms: Meh. Deer reproducing at a high rate: *IT'S ALL OVER.*

[@section13mediabranch34]

have you seen the (reproduction) power of bunnies?

[@skeletonrowdie1768]

@@section13mediabranch34 can't block deer with cow aaaaaa

[@section13mediabranch34]

@@skeletonrowdie1768 I don't quite remember but stronghold was more stable then this. if there is a population problem a counter will appear on the edge of the screen telling how many more things can exists before it crash. maybe it's just on the editor.

[@Heroesflorian]

@@section13mediabranch34 Actually, this game (Crusader) wouldn't crash either when running into the unit limit (and in the editor, the same message appears as for SH1, telling you about XY mroe units that one can place). Let alone a starved-out AI usually just goes bankrupt after a while, unable to recruit more troops anyway... so the crash most certainly must have had other reasons.^^

[@section13mediabranch34]

@@Heroesflorian my computer's built in graphics processor must've been that old then.

[@lukeerickson8590]

Best exploit. Archers. Turn speed down. Get massive amounts of Archers and build one tower. Just one. Start sending small groups of Archers to stand on the tower and you can fill it with as many as you want as long as none of the Archers arrive while you're sending. Want 200 Archers on one tower perfectly fine

[@lukkkasz323]

You don't need to send small groups before they arrive, you can just hold shift for each group.

[@tyraelpl]

Sees: "114" Says: "eleven hundred and fourteen" What a thousand peasants between friends...

[@notadog4762]

huh im gonna bet 5 on the rats against the british

[@Riplee86]

@@thespiffingbrit Also, the "Rat" AI, if he does make walls, they are poorly laid out and resemble a rat maze. If you want high quality castle designs, fight the "Wolf". Multiple turrets and multiple layers of walls.

[@theblackdragon7321]

@@Riplee86 the wolf and the arib guy who calls you infidel all the time lmao

[@kooroshrostami27]

yes the Plaque is gonna exterminate them for sure

[@HansLemurson]

I'm shocked that you didn't use Cow Catapults to finish off the enemy with plague to continue the cow-theme for the episode.

[@Superboi7777]

17:00

[@rodeoisbest]

My favorite exploit of this game is to amass a huge army of archers, along with a ridiculous amount of ballista, then build a serpentine of walls with no gates for them to attempt to enter my castle by. their path-finding will naturally take the path of least resistance, so if you leave a small hole for them to enter through, even if they have to travel through a maze to get to it, they will not attack your walls(for the most part). So you just stack your archers on the wall, place your ballista at the end of a long straight stretch of the path in the walls so they cant be attacked by archers or enemy siege engines, then let them come forth! Do this until you build an absolutely magnificent force of heavy ground units, open up one hole in their wall, and send your army to easily defeat their king. You can also stack way more archers in singular areas such as on walls or in towers, by sending a full load up the stairs, then deleting the bottom step. this also prevents the enemy from scaling your walls(minus assassins) to kill said archers.

[@sirflori944]

I love how he absolutely exploits this game, builds trebuchets, but doesnt know to press "p" for pause

[@lordstronghold1729]

👍

[@rhobariv488]

he even didn't exploit that much. There was no instant or transport or overstacking work places. I was hoping for more from him

[@LNCRFT]

@@rhobariv488Well, I guess he wasn’t really aware of that.

[@L4sket]

*Picks weakest AI opponent* *Doesn't build castle after 1000 years* *Shocked Pickachu face*

[@thelunaticcultist5157]

AI: You need to move! Unit: The pathway does not exist! AI: YOU NEED TO MOVE! Unit: The pathway... DOES NOT EXIST! AI: *YOU NEED TO MOVE!!!!!!* Unit: THE PATHWAY DOES NOT EXI-

[@americana_incarnate1717]

And repeat for ever

[@ivan66755]

AI: "YOU DON'T EXIST ANYMORE!"

[@thelunaticcultist5157]

I was more thinking the game crashing but yeah sure!

[@thelunaticcultist5157]

Also I’ve never gotten this many likes! Thank you so much!!!!!!

[@Gouneas]

"I do enjoy starving some peasants" -Spiff 2019

[@jimbeam7636]

Well, you've done it now! I've been trying to figure out what game this was for like 3 years, thank you! I played it for all of a day back like 16 yrs ago.

[@Gormathius]

I never build chopping blocks. No axes is good axes, that’s my motto.

[@konobuzoggu239]

"pay me taxes, and fight in the front lines for me" the most american thing i've heard in a while

[@PANZERFAUST90]

except he's British....

[@Tox1cAshes]

You can pause with P Also yes I play this game against other people, there's still a community

[@NoNo-lt9bi]

Does thsi work in multiplayer?

[@Tox1cAshes]

@@NoNo-lt9bi no it does not

[@retrogamer2503]

@@NoNo-lt9bi Bruh how you supposed to pause the O T H E R player's game?

[@Nightis81]

Good God you're always so effing hilarious that even though I'm a partial quadriplegic and my abs don't work, you still manage to make me laugh so hard and so long I feel like my abs are cramping and hurt from all the laughter. Good stuff (Yorkshire TEA!) keep your flag high :D

[@sanitylogic4611]

Game Ranger holds the multiplayer side of Strongholds Crusaders HD. So if you want to play online, use Game Ranger.

[@DrAcula-fc1tj]

Stronghold Crusader was and still is one of my favorite games

[@povilasqw]

My favorite use of ox tether is to place it inside of enemy's castle, when he has fire balistas or fire throwers and make him burn his entire castle down (:

[@emilnovak5130]

There is also an exploit when you pause the game and deactivate a building (press zzz), reactivate then continue, you get +1 workforce, practically infinite production on zero footprint. Best game. 10/10

[@jackichane5218]

What about surrounding carrer with walls and ur cow things will automaticly get stone without needing to go to the carreer

[@weareone3923]

Right in the childhood feels 69/10, would make tea again

[@shaqman813]

I figured you would break Stronghold after you broke Age of Empires. Break Age of Mythology or Stronghold Legends next.

[@alvimpaulo]

isn't Age of Mythology just broken Age of Empires?

[@ericlahey7051]

Age of Mythology is easy to break, they AI will always look for an opening in your walls. Even if that opening happens to be maze surrounded by archers and towers

[@steved7777]

As soon as you said it's a resource i was already thinking about the good old "close the gates of your enemies castle with small buildings and starve them" cheese

[@scp2539]

you can get infinite archers into the towers by putting them into small groups and using ctrl # groupings to send them up into the tower. as long as theres room when the command is given you can keep sending troops into the tower. most i had in one tower was around 500 archers

[@adriankeeler]

Stumbled on the cow exploit back in the day, Magic.

[@ZeroKage69]

We called it 'oxen blockin' back in my day.

[@comradeconan5834]

It is possible to play online, but you need to use gameranger. Also I love your videos you cheeky brit.

[@cacs2201]

Basically the same as aoe2 eith voobly, right?

[@Voskarius]

@@cacs2201 true, but u can actually play aoe2 directly on steam. It does not work as well as voobly, but at least its more accessible to casual players

[@comradeconan5834]

Yeah something like that, basically an outside client through which you connect and such. What I don't get is though why they still haven't implemented steam chat and such ingame.

[@catboydale]

I still play via Game Ranger

[@comradeconan5834]

Yeah listen to the dragon, at least he's not high when writing youtube comments @SepherixTheDragon

[@dibidus6080]

The plural form of Ox is *Oxen* . Sorry I had to do it.

[@Humanoidable]

Thank you.

[@iamadrian-oo7bk]

the word "data" is plural, so you would say "my data are" the singular form of data is "datum"

[@dibidus6080]

@@iamadrian-oo7bk Some words don't have a singular form. Like the word "stuff".

[@PANZERFAUST90]

Yeah who doesn't know that?? I believe he also used deers as the plural for deer. wtf

[@PANZERFAUST90]

@@dibidus6080 That's because stuff is collective. It doesn't have a singular or a plural form.

[@GtsAntoni1]

I do have some modems knocking around actually. I’m old enough to remember being blown away by my 56k modem; it was quite the beast compared to my old 28.8k. Quake 2 MP never felt so good.

[@IljaR]

The moment when you watch an HD game in 144p....oooooo like nothing changed

[@tilakgupta9293]

No one plays it? You clearly haven't seen the gameranger community

[@thrashmetal2729]

I play this game 25 hours a day

[@Volvo_EG]

Just watch the German Community which made patches for the game to make it better

[@hmvollbanane1259]

Holy cow, an exploit I actually didn't know about and we did play that game to death back in the day at lan parties. Though we only ever knew about a similar exploit with woodcutters which would also make the ai delete all outside industry however they would attack those, more often than not with slaves which - given that most ais and the kalif especially plaster their entire base with tar fields - usually resulted in their entire base and army spontaneously combusting into one giant inferno

[@jhosioja]

Reminds me of how in the original Command & Conquer, the enemy AI would not be able to pathfind through fences, and it would not categorize fences as enemy structures, so if you didn't have any units within an enemy unit's view distance of the fence and there was no path around it, they would never go through it. This meant you could surround your base with fence and gradually increase the radius to slowly encompass the entire map, restricting the AI from expanding or even building more units.

[@GaladorLP]

The rat is such a weak ai, you could beat him with slaves only

[@andrewparnell5566]

Rat quotes. :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6KvonarlN1niNU

[@JimRFF]

I really like how the whole time he was in the 1v1 with the Rat, he kept waiting for it to build a good castle... I was just sitting there like "Oh Spiff... you poor fool..."

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

_"Oooh, double rations!"_

[@portalfan15]

23:08 “So I’m sending over a team of twenteen assassins” -Spiff 2019

[@Kerosiin]

Yeah, I crusade C - Cows R - aRe U - Under S - A - Appreciated D - E -

[@Jimboola]

How beautifully HD! 😍

[@kmlakafaster]

I love how you just keep refreshing those classics.

[@Butterheadzombie]

YAY! This is an absolutely fantastic ripper of a game, that I still play regularly to this day. I love Age of Empires, but something about the more intimate scale of creating a castle as opposed to an entire landmass is nice and cosy.

[@KevinUchihaOG]

+ i hate the Unit movement in AOE. It worked at the time. But everytime i start AOE in modern times i just get so frustrated by how the units moves. Compat is impossible to micro. Whilst in Stronghold it still holds up to modern standards.

[@11531337]

Story time: I used to live in the lovely countryside area known as Wensleydale (yes yes where the cheese comes from), and I walked to school through a couple of fields. One day I entered the top field, next to a lovely little church, and got to the stile to the second field. As I glanced up at the footpath ahead I spotted, at the end of the path.. two cows.. engaged in some very enthusiastic, ahem, "activities".. right in front of the final stile I needed to get past to get to school. I had to wait. I waited. They didn't seem to want to stop, obviously enjoying themselves more than I enjoy a nice warm cup of Yorkshire Tea Gold. Eventually I gave up and went home to sheepishly explain the situation to my Mum.

[@Banskypsychohacker]

I was hoping for a Stronghold : Crusader game to be exploited by you, m'Lord!

[@edwinlam4679]

Can't place that there, m'lord.

[@sixlbit6817]

normally i watch in 480 but those graphics makes me feel like i'm watching in 1440

[@alirezamohamadkhani]

Hey Spiff. big fan here. Great stuff! One other REDICULUS thing you can do with this game is that if you go against a bunch of enemies including a Chalif, you can put woodcutters hut or cow station INSIDE their castles and the lovely Chalif will burn their whole castle to the ground. You can win against 7 AIs this way as long as they have a Chalif. It's also possible if they make ballistas. those can also set fire to their own castle if they burn your 'insider' buildings. Also works with the arab fire throwers but they dont usually attack buildings, only the cow itself.

[@tarekomar54]

Brings back memories from when i was a kid playing this game on my old computer and just absolutely struggling to play

[@fabianglathe6131]

Yay! The game that introduced me to RTS, and it will always be my favorite, even if I suck at it

[@avianographer8156]

I'd love to see you do a "completely broken" video on Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.

[@duross101]

You're about the most entertaining thing to watch on KZbin. Love this stuff so much

[@bastis3439]

Had a cracked version as a kid. Later on i bought stronghold crusader extreme, which i still do enjoy playing every once in a while.

[@sarahadams5575]

I still play this game and I might have found one of the easiest and fastest ways to kill an enemy. Step 1: Set up granary and purchase a bunch of food immediately. Step 2: Buy a mercenary tent and purchase a bunch of assassins (relatively high health, quick speed, sneaky) Step 3: Bum rush all of your assassins to the enemy side and target enemy king before he can build walls and a large army. Step 4: Super quick win! Honestly this method is how I win most battles now lol. But you have to be super fast and find ways to make a bunch of money early on.

[@GeorgTheGr8]

Cows be like: *_Mooing noises_*

[@TheBiggestNate]

I started to panic at about the 3 minute mark. I felt like something was missing in my life. Then you reminded me I hadn't got my tea yet. That was a narrowly avoided disaster.

[@sanctifiedsuccubus2562]

I actually love the shit out of this game and I was stoked when I found a serious, somewhat professionally madd video about it. Thank you :D

[@CysicSystems]

I'd love to see you messing about with the EU4 AI.

[@bandino4726]

Holy crap 250k already?! I remember watching around 50k not too long ago. Good job spiff!

[@N00bsNxtDoor]

One of my first RTS games I played as a kid. I still play Stronghold Crusaders 2 and love making maps in the map editor, which is what i remember doing a lot when I played as a kid.

[@sha_663]

Anyone yet told him about quickly clicking idle/active on the wheat field, sendind additional workers to it, able to support 200+ bakeries from but 1 field? Heared he likes autoclicker.

[@osomister]

( spiff getting this on KZbin trending) Me: I'm so proud of this communi-TEA

[@l.-..l.l.--l.l]

This game is broken and lacking one key item that is required in any medieval crusading game Tea...

[@nathanjora7627]

Last Raven this game is perfectly balanced and possess the one key item that is required in any medieval crusading game Cheese.

[@l.-..l.l.--l.l]

@@nathanjora7627 oh damn you're right

[@anthonyclements4524]

No one: Spiff: NOW I CAN SIT BACK, RELAX, AND...

[@timbaleno9269]

I actually still love playing this game. I've had it for years and I always go back to it because it's still a lot of fun.