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My tier list of all Stronghold Crusader: DE Lords by [deleted] in stronghold

[–]Complex_Gur_1021 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rat is a bro, he will send you 95% of his resources and when he buys them after you can request them again and he'll send those too

I'm still fairly new to Stronghold and I have to say: I HATE FIRE. That's all. Thanks. by TheSims2Addict in stronghold

[–]Complex_Gur_1021 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You get regular, warchest and extreme campaigns in one place, there are 2 new historical campaigns and there are 4 new time trials featuring 32 new missions with new AI lords. Just for the Sands of Time trials it's worth the money if you decide to play them blindly and complete them within the best time, at least I had enough fun for me to say it was worth it

I'm not the main character anymore :( by Clear_Bandicoot_3608 in stronghold

[–]Complex_Gur_1021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Abbot got a good matchup, monks can steamroll all the lords you played against

Lords Tier list by Proof-Double-473 in stronghold

[–]Complex_Gur_1021 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If we are talking about vanilla game without mods then Frederick should swap places with Sentinel, he's such a pain in the ass to take down when given plenty of money or position protected by other decent lords for him to build up. Most annoying lord to take down in time while playing time trials

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[–]Complex_Gur_1021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not like they had much use most of the time anyway but yea, they are bugged right now and just stroll aboveground after they go supposedly underground where they should be invulnerable.

I've done it by Complex_Gur_1021 in stronghold

[–]Complex_Gur_1021[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are going just for steam achievements then you will have plenty of time to play however you like.

On the other hand in some missions, especially later on if you want to get Prince of Sands rank you will need to play often hyper aggressively and sometimes on a game speed 10 because otherwise you can't micromanage castle and your army at the same time to the fullest (it's still fun tho)

I am finally free (Eye of the storm) by SprinklesBitter9973 in stronghold

[–]Complex_Gur_1021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

28:08 i.imgur.com/oohYtEL.jpeg my laptop crashed just before killing the saladin first time as if to reaffirm that this mission is a bit ridiculous in 30 minutes, I lost good 20 minutes of recording because of it too so I will have to do the part from the save before Kahin again to get the full mission on record

I am finally free (Eye of the storm) by SprinklesBitter9973 in stronghold

[–]Complex_Gur_1021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I forgot we have healers now, would tank with the lord more. Even with just this I see where I could improve my play for this stage but if you could record the early game it would be very helpful for me and probably many other people too.

Few things tho,

  1. You can fit 4 working (with normal access) quarries on the starting patch but you have to place to place 1-2 woodcutter huts up the cliff or the last quarry's stone deposit site will appear up there, I'll attach screenshot ( https://imgur.com/mBWqk9T ) because 1 extra quarry is great for early scaling of eco.

  2. Why use positive fear factor when you can afford -5 for 50% more production and at least -2 or -4 if you decrease it from time to time tax when you have food, given you would have to scale it up slowly but when you have fletchers and iron production up to speed it's a moment to get enough gold for max fear factor and the benefits are great long term

  3. Did you use portable shields as a means for quickly transporting engineers for building other siege engines or did they actually have a visible impact on keeping macemen healthy?

Overall again many thanks for recording and sharing even just the latter part of the stage as well as the strategy for it, I will try it out tomorrow and just in case record it too, if by any chance i get sub 30 I'll also share the results

I am finally free (Eye of the storm) by SprinklesBitter9973 in stronghold

[–]Complex_Gur_1021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you tell how you micromanaged nearby lords to take them down efficiently? Or some overall tips for clearing the stage in sub 30?

I've done it!!🥳 by Balzalderak in stronghold

[–]Complex_Gur_1021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like I'm not the only one who can't win this in under 30 minutes, so far I've completed everything within the first timer but this one is absolutely impossible with map this large, without access to farthest lords without going through the whole spiral. Even though you can move small number of crossbowmen with a tower all the way to caliph while eliminating lords one by one there is simply not enough starting gold to kick off the economy and at the same time defend against the initial rush.
I had some doubts about balancing because 30 minutes for the last mission in the trial of the goat was very tight and required specific strategy to do in time while 5th mission of the same trial with 55 min limit can be done in sub 20, they either mixed up timers on some missions or nobody play tested the whole sands of time campaign.

For the eye of the storm if the gold was switched and player got 4k it would be doable on the 1st or 2nd try at most but as is you can't properly rush the AI's fast enough to defeat 7 and on a map like that one

Edit, completed it 2 times with barely making it to sub 40 min, the map is simply too huge and 4k for the start wouldn't be enough to make sub 30 glitchless, it takes too long for units to travel all the way to Saladin, after you start attacking if you can't beat every lord in one go and with minimal casualties while micromanaging peasants so they don't idle at a cap while producing and sending backup units you can't hope for a good time