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 MISSION NUMBER 29 – RIVERS OF BLOOD
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This mission puts you up against 4 Rats, the Pig and Sultan Abdul. The Rats and the Pig are allied. You have 10,000 gold, a good quantity of starting goods and an excellent position, although iron looks to be in very short supply.
Extend the stockpile (6 squares) in the direction of the campfire, and place a granary, market, engineers’ guild, mercenary post and one hovel on the left of the keep. Site three round towers adjoining the rear of the keep and place two ballistae and one mangonel. Recruit 6 engineers to man the tower equipment. Recruit 30 Arabian bows and 6 fire throwers at the mercenary post and get them to the end towers. Manually target the mangonel at the orange Rat’s settlement.
Recruit 12 engineers and place 6 fire ballistae just to the left of your towers. Target them at the orange Rat’s weapons buildings in turn. Place 4 woodcutters, get your spearmen to destroy enemy farms on the nearby arable land and replace them with one hops farm, two wheat farms, one dairy farm and three apple orchards. Place a brewery, an inn and a mill.
When wood arrives, place two hovels and three bakeries. Recruit 30 horse archers and get them to patrol between your right-hand tower and the farming area. Sell your pitch and iron. Site a second inn (buy in wood as required) and raise your taxes to –8. Continue to recruit horse archers and Arabian bows.
Place two quarries and 6 oxen. Sell all stone and site 6 fire ballistae on the right-hand side of the towers. Target them at the black Rat’s weapons buildings. Place two more bakeries, a second granary and a hovel and put the granary on “double rations”. Raise taxes to –16.
Now build up an offensive army of Arabian swordsmen, fire ballistae, horse archers and siege equipment. Take out the 4 Rats in turn before tackling Sultan Abdul and the Pig.
Congratulations! You’ve beaten all the opponents without placing an armoury, barracks or weapons buildings.
If required, a file save of the early part of this mission is available for download (look under Crusader Saved Games). It was played with the 1.1 patch installed and in accordance with this walkthrough.
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