Treachery | Learning Campaign - Saladin Stronghold: Crusader II Guide

Win:

• Time passed : 20 days
• No enemy unit remaining

Lose:

• Your Lord dies

Another survival-like mission - or, to be more precise, a mission to keep your Lord alive. You will have access to two new units - Whirling Dervishes and Oil Pot Throwers. All the information you need about them can be found in the "Units" section of this guide.

Proper placement of towers, archers, pitch ditches, as well as man traps will allow you to storm through this mission with ease.

Begin this mission by building several Wood Camps - given their low cost, it's worth to build about 10 of them. Build them just by the bridge, near the Stockpile - your woodcutters will have a relatively short walk to their workplace, and you won't block the oasis. Afterwards, build 3-4 Apple Orchards, 2-3 Sheep Farms and 2-3 Dairy Farms in the oasis, as close to the Granary as possible. Build additional Stone Quarries and make sure that they have at least 2 Ox Tethers near them. Build a couple of Candler's Workshops - Mosque is already pre-built, so you will get the religion popularity benefit as soon as you start the production of candles. Don't forget about Hovels if you need more peasants.

After you've finished your expansion (or you are waiting for wood delivery), use your troops to destroy all the ruins inside your castle - especially the ones that are blocking the entrances in your walls. Try to patch all the holes in your walls, build gates if needed, and, what is most important, construct as many towers as possible, be it Watch or Grand Towers (the latter choice is better, but way more expensive). Naturally, mount the walls and towers with Arabian Archers. You should hire several Whirling Dervishes and Horse Archers to be able to destroy the enemy siege equipment before it reaches your walls. Also, don't forget to finish the wall near your Stone Quarries, to prevent the enemy from destroying them.

Remember, that you can also set up Pitch Ditches, as well as Man Traps - you should read about both of those constructions in the "Buildings" section of this guide. Set layers of traps around your castle, build and mount towers with your archers, hire more Whirling Dervishes and Horse Archers and you should have no problems with this mission.