Stronghold HD - Military Campaign 9 - The Rats Last Stand [very hard]

Welcome to my Stronghold Walkthrough. I will finish every mission on very hard, as fast as possible and with perfect score. Enjoy :-)
Mission name in other languages (EN / DE / FR / ESP / RUS) for better search results and for being found by non native speakers:
The Rats last stand / Das Ende der Ratte / Dernière résistance du Rat / El último puesto de la Rata / Прикончить крысу

[@Aleera616]

When I was a little girl I beat this without walkthroughs on very hard and now I am almost 30 and I struggle so much lol. Thank you for this, even eight years later this helps a lot. I'm off now, further embarrassing my ten year old self

[@LordBalder]

Hehe, good luck to you then! ^^

[@G0K4Rx527]

True - same.

[@corentinc.948]

The reason is: as a kid, you were very creative. And as an adult... You managed to fit into a mold, society gave you => you've lost your creativity in the process.

[@skraaaaz]

As a kid i really loved the voices done in this game.

[@justinwang3294]

Hmmm.. Didn't notice that for every enemy lord you defeat, the victory screen will have a prominent part of them on the feast table. Nice Touch!

[@Angrymonkey2489]

Except the wolf. I don't know why they didn't show you anything

[@christophergilliam2328]

Cause he fell down a tower.

[@TricksterPoi]

It made sense since it is a victory celebration that one of the lords got killed. Although the wolf doesn't had since we didn't killed him.

[@Angrymonkey2489]

@@christophergilliam2328 Stronghold 3. *coughs*

[@Rovalowy]

I've told myself I will NOT look up walktroughs of that game and finish it at least on hard, but... *that mission* It broke me. Couldn't finish it even on normal, like 8 tries later, I WONT play on easy. I guess there is alot for me in case of thinking outside the box to learn.. Wish me luck xd I will beat this childhood game of mine! And btw. Good job dude, that was impressive. Really.

[@LordBalder]

Thanks! Good luck, the challenging missions are still ahead :-D

[@erhanmustafov1513]

i done it in normal but in very hard didnt impressive :)

[@BlindGardener]

I know I´m late but it helped me to slow the game down while building and speeding it up once everything was running.

[@Santouryu3]

@@erhanmustafov1513 1st wave is super easy even on very hard mode since the Pig didn't bring any archers, so I brought mine up close to the Pig's Engineers which disable them the ability to build catapults while retreat back to the twin towers I've built and delete the stairs so that Spearmen can't reach them. Plus, Laddermen are program to set ladders at the heart of the base while the twin towers are separate from the keep. :P

[@erhanmustafov1513]

@@Santouryu3 thanks for the advice in hard I made it but will try in very hard soon

[@brevyansingollo1411]

You trapped the kids in the middle of the water lol xD 6:19

[@Angrymonkey2489]

Good. Those kids get in the way of your construction anyways.

[@martinrichter6488]

looks that easy and i tried 10 games in a row an other strategy and failed well ty mate

[@isokessu]

I played this through as a kid and now as an adult I'm completely stuck and I set the language to portuguese and I don't understand a word

[@MegaHalofan11]

@@isokessu I tried and they keep destroying my granary. I had to build a tower in front of it and train a lot of archers to destroy the catapults. Tho' they destroyed the granary again losing my popularity, I managed to win by training as many spearmen as I could and finished the rest of the enemy.

[@Damortus3]

Thank you so much. This is my most hated map and you killed it - this method is great.

[@kiet1010]

I feel like he got really lucky cuz the catapults non-functional due to loss of engineers. I put all my archers at the tower and still all them catapults were functional and they hit me hard!

[@mrboogie9220]

Wow, really nice and smart plays here!

[@KbCbGrave]

Holy **** You can destroy your own moat?

[@TheFreak111]

This was exactly my response, I was like "WTF you can do that?!?".

[@venomm4563]

Well duuh? I thought everyone knew about it

[@crystalfunky]

sophisticated, thanks!

[@innerlight7018]

That's..... good!

[@FURakso]

You can also as well destroy and sell everything, buy 50 bows, buy archers and put them on keep, then dig moat whole around. If You focus You can even pass this one as well as all the other missions 0 loss for max score by disband units before death on low gs.

[@LordBalder]

Yes, I saw that strategy on your channel (can't find the video anymore, though...). It was a bit too functional for my taste but it did indeed work!

[@FURakso]

That's nice You renember. Hahaha Well, yeah I've hidden it beacuse the quality was awful af. Crap video. Sadly I don't have the gear for record without lags multiplayer games, otherwise I lose them. :( I hidden it like a year-two ago or so. Respect for renember that. hehe I'm thinking about doing an Any% speedrun on hardest difficulty If I ever upgrade my gear. ;) Also Deathless run.

[@LordBalder]

Sounds great, I always like to see the more experienced players play some missions, especially the harder ones :-)

[@FURakso]

@@LordBalder I don't consider myself more experienced at singleplayer then You. I've just notice one mission I do better and no loss = max score if focus. :) I've even learned a new bug out of one of your recent vids if I'm right, but that's cuz I nearly didn't played singleplayer at all and online there is no "turn back building" option, so I've never been jerking over it. I'm pretty sure I know way more bugs then You and I'm better economically(my video is old and laggy, so don't mind it. I'm actually playing by far way way faster and better when it's required with some ca$h, peasants behavior manipulation and placement tricks to get in top possible gold and exploit early on spamming apple farms strat than common players would do etc.). Still I'm yet unsure if those things would give me an advantage on a speedrun at all, as the "more bugs I might know" I guess aren't really too much speed related to, and economy doesn't really matter for the reason of how the missions are constructed - You don't need to build perfect, just right kk. I'ma I'll try a run on very hard diff tho. lol Cheers and good luck beating _ur own?_ record still? I guess?

[@FURakso]

By the way If You'd like to look for improvement or learn some cool stuff in the overall is there a way I could contact You privately? Steam, skype, gameranger or something? My steam is: steamcommunity.com/id/6955818. My skype is: rakso.casts69 and my gameranger is: Rakso, and it's ID is: 6955818 I see You still playing this one, so might be better to pass knowledge I'm thinking, couch on multiplayer or as well just chat. See You!

[@mustangunique3214]

noone noticed how the archers left 2 poor kids inside the moat? ahahaha

[@CrowOnTheWall]

Coming back to the game for the first time in, hell, like 18 years. Is there any reason to be dropping hovels inside your walls instead of stacking them far from your main castle?(like in ASOIAF how Winterfell has the winter town well outside its walls) It feels like it just clutters up an already limited workspace in most missions.

[@LordBalder]

I did not want them to get destroyed during the attacks. For the same reason, I deleted my quarries: so that my peasants could retreat to the safety of my castle and I could recover some of the would which otherwise would have been lost :-)

[@user-ww2lc1yo9c]

so you did not bother building any weapons at all

[@ahmedabdelhameedabdelhamee3871]

bro can u give me the link to download the game pls ?

[@juanpabloweber9029]

Why destroy the quarries?

[@LordBalder]

Juan Pablo Weber If I do not destroy them, they would have been destroyed by the rats troops. So instead, I get some wood back and my workers can retreat to the safety of my castle :-)

[@TheWolfspirit1991]

I always use them to lure enemy troops,so my archers can give some shots.

[@heavenbright2342]

Because he is a careful Lord!

[@marekbartek3800]

Ez mission on very hard

[@fandenovelas777]

yEAH THIS RAT Castle is shit u need to replace all of that and dig moat

[@ehellsword2]

This mission is bs.