Easy way to beat Mission 41 (Thunder Hill) - Stronghold Crusader HD

This was a very interesting approach. Really never thought about the moat digging in that way because the troops would instantly get sniped by the Arab archers. However the rest of the setup is similar. Moving the stockpile elsewhere seems to be the only way to do this mission properly tbh. In my case, I took advantage of the keep being indestructible to put two square towers behind it and a small staircase behind them so any troops and workers could just go to the backside via the towers (I did dig a small line around the campside to force troops and workers to go back). At first the two were equipped with balistas to snipe the catapults. As for food I simply put a handful of apple orchards enclosed with small walls and a gatehouse. Protecting the granary and the orchards from the slave waves. As for troops it was a mixture of shields on towers, crossbowmen and Arab archers for defense. After I gathered enough stone and gold, I simply spammed catapults and whatnot. I also used mangonels at a slightly closer range to blue Caliph to force it to spend money on rebuilding over and over.

You can easily win the mission buy getting 40 or 45 maceman and rushing Richard. You also place two sqare towers in front of the keep to protect you from caliph. When you kill Richard you get about 8k or 9k gold which is enough to buy a lot of crossbows to defend yourself while building economy. Richard keeps one part of the castle open just enough to rush in.

Glad to see someone creating videos about this gem. Still playing it up to this day. I did modded the game with popular GMB mod and unofficial patch, so I wonder if I can beat the trail now - should try simply beating it, its been a long time

The biggest pain was defo the catapults in this one, with aggressive AI at least, so avoiding walls and towers is defo a good idea. I'd often make a maze with low wall then just draw moat around it and destroy the wall, gives much finer control 😄

Oh man I can recall being stuck on this mission like 17 years ago))

I have never beat crusader and I got stuck on this missing 15 years ago :*

i took this map with the biggest cheese possible that works on pretty much all tight starts: game speed to 20, build as many horse archers early as possible and some assassins, then take your lord to the closest caliph to kill his archers and bait out his swordsmen. alternatively (but kind of cheating) just block the AIs gatehouse with ox/woodcutters lol

How to make engineers in one click like that ?

Ahh Finally Met A Champ 🏆

Hi friends. are there any groups where matches are held for this game? I would like to participate

My strats was killing the caliph in the beginning with some assassin + good things (+25 damage bonus) and take his money, the rest just spam tower with balista and crossbow

that was clean

I love your gameplay, can you doo stronghold from beginning mission? Cuase your video just jumping around mission 😅

As soon as you start talking you'll have my and probably thousands of subs!

please tell me how do you build catapults and shields with one click??? you don't click on the building selection panel every time. do you have mods installed?

How to create a lot of fire ballista quickly

Please tell me HOW DO YOU RESPAWN YOUR UNITS AT EVERYWHERE PLEASE TELL ME BTW love you U R A Legend

Slowing the game down on SPEED 10 makes every mission super easy. No challenge that way!

@18:00 how can you spamming making portable shield like that..?

I try 5 times to creating moat, but they dont let me to finish.. archer from blue calips hits my slave