Stronghold HD ► Mission 7: Breaking the Siege - Campaign Gameplay

[@GamerZakh]

Things getting a little tricky but it's no Mission 15. Get Stronghold (or any other game) on GOG using this referral link to support: af.gog.com/en/game/stronghold?as=1715648857 Thank you!

[@JuanMolino]

Right where i'm stuck... Did you manage to beat the 15th mission ?

[@GamerZakh]

Only on Easy, might be able to do it on Normal, but couldn't on Hard.

[@milanpospisil8024]

I played most on the mission on very hard diffuculty, but Mission 15 is far the most diffucult, even the last mission is easier because there is time to shoot the towers on distance with enormous amount of time.

[@GamerZakh]

One step at a time haha.

[@afgncap]

Don't always listen to people giving you exact buildings ratios, these numbers are more for balanced multiplayer maps. You don't get your resources instantly and they need to get to the stockpile first. For example on this map, the placement of farm has to be pretty inefficient and it takes quite a long time for a farmer to get to the stockpile. In such situation you'll see how one mill is idle most of the time even with 4 farms. When you built the second one there was already no wheat to process, so now both are even more starved for resources. Rather than using exact buildings ratios just watch your stockpile for a bit, if you have high surplus of some mid-production chain resources, just build more to process them.

[@JuanMolino]

Exactly, the second mill was useless, you werent even stockpiling weat This is basics god damnit ! :P

[@GamerZakh]

Yeah, I get a better sense of building numbers over time, though at this early stage I was just following advice. Realised the ideal numbers only work if everything is next to each other.

[@Unni_Havas]

For bread. IF everything is close together 3 farms can produce enough for 1 mill and 12 bakeries. In this mission you placed the farms far away from the stockpile wich means those 4 produce less than 3 close. So you don't need and extra mill.

[@Escap1st7]

Don't cut out your fails from stream if you failed please (from future videos)... Love this series.. It's unique watching you play this game. You give a different vibe. Can't wait for the rest!

[@GamerZakh]

You'll love mission 15 then haha. I'll leave the fails in.

[@deusvulture5183]

25:22 that feel when deer assault the city gates

[@Napolegnom]

You could have saved yourself some trouble by putting your spearmen into "defensive" mode (the Shield Icon). Whenever there is a ladder placed against the wall they stand on or near, they try to rush to that part of the wall to kick the ladder down.

[@GamerZakh]

Ah cool, not too familiar with how the stances changes behaviour yet.

[@Unni_Havas]

Place wheat farms as close to the gate as possible to maximise wheat pr farm/worker. Put on a whole bunch of ox-.tethers because 1 pr stone cutter is nowhere near enough with such a long distance. Do NOT build another mill unless wheat is starting to clutter in your stockpile. Wich it will never do with the setup you have, because those 4 farms are so far away, they produce less than half of what they should. Replayed this on hard just now. I lost only 4% of my troops, so this can be done a LOT better, with a little more planning on placement and build order. I also had lots of food and lots of gold.

[@George2001k]

You shouldn't put so many stone masons, you need more on carts, the buildings are almost full.

[@GamerZakh]

You're correct. I didn't realise how it was piling up at the quarry.

[@birisuandrei2866]

Lol, yeahhh he doesn't really look at the stockpile.

[@milanpospisil8024]

All Right, I have just watching your Pharaoh missions and now I see that you are playing my another beloved game and right now :) Great :-)

[@junker154]

This mission always broke me as a kid but I never had the idea to slow time down. Even now, after being fairly experienced in the game, this mission still gives me trouble.

[@tomt.8387]

I would like to see some fails. It would make watching these more complete, we've all had our lord die at one point or another, unless we were playing on easy anyway...

[@GamerZakh]

I'll keep the fails, though mission 15 might be a bit too much failing.

[@Unni_Havas]

Decided to play this again when watching this. Total score 19900 with 1% troops lost. An improvement form my previous best with 5% troops lost.

[@danialholt4174]

"Is that wood?'" "Is that a bakery?" "Are they making bread?" "Is that a wall?" "Can I put a farm there?" "Are those spear men?" "How do you like my hair?" Geezuz Christ.

[@GamerZakh]

Is this a comment?

[@birisuandrei2866]

Loool, yeah it's like he forgot everything he learned into the previous missions, it was indeed painful to watch, and the people giving poor advice didn't help.

[@Griexxt]

When the quarry is so far from the stockpile it may be a good idea to place another couple of ox tethers rather than building another quarry.

[@GamerZakh]

That is a good idea.

[@Sleelan]

I love your channel, but man do you sometimes give me a bad case of the backseat gamer rage. *stockpile full of flour, granary empty, only 1 bakery built* "Hmm, how about we place another mill?" *both quarries idle due to stone overflow* "Let's place a third quarry*

[@GamerZakh]

Haha yes I'm still really bad at judging the supply chain at this point. I slowly get better over the next few missions.

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

Destroys Weapons workshops for no reason. God, we're doomed..

[@6hughmungus9]

A good way to balance the mill/bakery/wheat farm ratio is to aim for just enough mills where there is a small amount of wheat in reserve but not stacking up, and just enough bakeries to do the same with the flour from the mills. For instance you just needed to add more wheat farms and bakeries rather than that extra mill.

[@GamerZakh]

Ah cool. Yeah I'm still trying to get a sense of how all the facilities work together. In something like Pharaoh, I just feel if I need more clay pits or pottery workshops.

[@6hughmungus9]

GamerZakh Yeah Stronghold can be similar to Pharaoh or Caesar during the campaign when all the resources are spread around the map. The exact ratios are more for multiplayer maps where everyone starts with a bunch of resources close to their keep. Another tip to keep in mind is if you have a large amount of one resource but only a small amount of another, or if it's across the map and very inefficient to aquire, you can mass on the close resource and then sell the excess in the market to provide money to buy the inefficient or absent resource. This works best with crops like hops (can be turned into ale and sold for a high price) or wheat (extra mill + a few extra wheat farms = lots of extra flour) or with iron or stone as both can be sold for a good price in their raw state or you can create a blacksmith and produce maces/swords later on. This technique takes a bit more user management in order to keep selling and buying the goods you need, but it can be very helpful in situations where you aren't able to rebuild your castle/army fast enough or feed your people.

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

did anyone ever tell him in this ..stream ? that its how long the houses existed that decides how they look in stronghold..aka ''just smacked down'' = its a dam straw hovel..what you'd expect you litery yelled at a few serfs to move there or get whiped ^^..sort of... now that + time = nicer..nicer..and nicer..living space almsot as if the more time the family gets the more they dare improve ther living conditions ;)

[@supersusiesalmon1162]

Traslate in english please: Tienes que poner muchos bueyes de tiro para recoger toda la piedra. No te sirve de nada poner canteras si el transporte no es optimo, lo ideal es que las piedras almacenadas en las canteras sean las mínimas posibles. Los piqueros tienen que estar abajo del muro. Son los que pinchan a los que portan las escaleras y los que destruyen las máquinas de asedio, de esa forma te puedes centrar en matar con los arqueros a los arqueros y piqueros enemigos. Tenerlos en el muro sin protección hará que los enemigos los maten sin motivo. Haz dos fábricas de arcos por una de picas, ya que las picas se construyen más fácilmente, y no tengas miedo de construir muchas armas, siempre hacen falta. Con un molino es más que suficiente, céntrate en hacer muchas panaderias. Y una vez tengas la comida bajo control subes raciones a cambio de subir impuestos. En el momento de que te llegue la batalla necesitarás efectivos y para eso debes tener las arcas llenas.

[@benjaminkuhn2878]

How can you stuck at this level? ^^ I did it when i was 12 years old, and it was easy ;-)

[@benjaminkuhn2878]

in this mission you can actually do something really funny and build a wall, with stepps on eather side to put the enemy spearmen in a deathtrap..

[@GamerZakh]

I didn't get stuck, I beat it in half an hour. That death trap is a nice idea though haha. Might try it.

[@JuanMolino]

I bet you did this mission in normal difficulty when you were 12. It's not the case here

[@hatchahi]

Truly, hard is easy in this game. Very hard seems like a normal.

[@GamerZakh]

Until mission 15 and 18, which I couldn't beat at all without dropping difficulty.

[@hatchahi]

Yes, generally, game favors the defenders. Also, some of the later castle defense type missions can provide some challenge, 17 for example, although I haven't played them below very hard in ages, so I may be mistaken. 18 on the other hand is just pure absurd, I don't think you can win it without cheap exploits.

[@George2001k]

Can someone pls tell me how to play this game on windows 7? Just bought it but it keeps crashing.

[@GamerZakh]

You got it off Steam? It should just run fine. I'm on Windows 10 and there are no issues.

[@George2001k]

GamerZaki did got it off steam, but it crashes as soon as I try to start it. It's sad.

[@GamerZakh]

Hmm, sometimes it's a version error. If reinstalling on Steam doesn't fix it, you can try refund that and get the GOG version to see if it works.

[@SisterPatGoad]

YOUR SPEED WAYYY TOO SLOW!!!

[@megabuller]

Play Stronghold2 :)

[@GamerZakh]

I might before Warlords releases.

[@kelemvour]

Do we get to see 8 thru 14??

[@GamerZakh]

Definitely, I'm putting up about 2-3 a week onto KZbin. It hurts the channel to upload too quickly. For some reason, large dumps of content work better on Twitch it seems.

[@kelemvour]

I wondered because you have mission 15 between 6 and 7...

[@GamerZakh]

Well I don't have mission 15 on KZbin, that's just where I am on the Twitch live streams. I've played 8-14 on Twitch and I've actually played 16 too. Mission 15 isn't between 6 and 7 here on KZbin.

[@kelemvour]

It shows up here in the playlist....

[@GamerZakh]

Ah that's a mistake, but that's just the announcement video. It's only a 32 second long announcement that I was streaming it on Twitch. I'll remove it from the playlist soon, it was auto added and I didn't notice. EDIT: For reference it's this kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqmri2asqbubnMU

[@huanggeorge9592]

You look almost boil lol

[@GamerZakh]

You mean my face looks red? Haha

[@huanggeorge9592]

dam i mean bald ...

[@GamerZakh]

Oh! It's because of the haircut, it grows back over the next few episodes or you can check some more recent recordings on the channel.

[@LucasZunigaP]

Omg your resources administration is horrible Do you think you can play this game again in a better manner???? you can improve your game skills :)