To be honest, I have never ever successfully completed this mission. Every time I play this mission, I die. I'm the one burnt, raped and pillaged by the barbarians and their giant axes.
*Despite it being totally bugged - like seriously, the wood is just sitting there begging to be picked up, but no, the serfs have voted for a boycott, democratic dumbasses - and with a bit of an exploit (thanks to youtube) I've finally finished this mission.
By setting out the buildings, the enemy are funneled into my kill zones. Leaving the labourers there also means that half of them stop and try to whack them, even though they can't, meaning they are easy pickings for my archers.
All up, only 3 axemen died. You can try to attack the enemy with your leftovers but you will die (there are lots of enemies on guard). Better to stay alive for a while.
When they finally attack you again like 1 hour later, beat off their attack and then press home one of your own.
Hopefully they're depleted enough for you break through.
The top brown guys didn't attack me in the interim so I lured them out for some fun. There are shits loads of them, though.
For barbarians they are quite well defended and armed. They have more iron soldiers than I do. That said, they die pretty quickly if you bring enough archers.
My favourite one of all time, though conversely, one that always seem to be bugged, in this mission you actually get an allied town that attacks the enemy. Sounds great!
Except for the fact that the AI sucks at path finding, leading to swarms of militia attacking in single file. Woo hoo.
The village to your north churns out militia quite fast, use them to your advantage.
The enemy is about to swarm across the bridge at you. You should be able to beat them with a few fighting men left over. Anything more than 0 left will do.
Get rid of their garrison by baiting them straight into your ally's hoards of militia. There are 2 groups of pikemen, 1 of swordsmen and 1 of crossbowmen.
A battle with armourned soldiers versus militia is surprisingly one sided. To the militia (thanks to your archers).
Burn the usual buildings down once your archers have destroyed the watch towers.
There are more to them on top of the mountain. Hopefully your ally whittles them down a few. Support their first attack with your left over troops. Together you should be able to wipe out the crossbowmen.
Build a big town. You have lots of space and resources so it should be pretty easy. You don't need to go overboard with weapons and armour, only about 40 or so men can take the rest of the blue base out.
Use pikemen/lancers supported by crossbowmen, who are the most damaging unit in the game, according to my manual. Strange, I would have thought the Knights were the best.
By setting out the buildings, the enemy are funneled into my kill zones. Leaving the labourers there also means that half of them stop and try to whack them, even though they can't, meaning they are easy pickings for my archers.
All up, only 3 axemen died. You can try to attack the enemy with your leftovers but you will die (there are lots of enemies on guard). Better to stay alive for a while.
When they finally attack you again like 1 hour later, beat off their attack and then press home one of your own.
