Stronghold Mission 15 (Carving a Path) walkthrough/guide

Easy way to clear the castle on normal difficulty with no glitches/cheats. Please like/subscribe if it helped you.

[limsma]

Great help mate, you just helped me overcome a childhood trauma.

[danylbekhoucha]

The last mission of the campaign for many. Thank you for the guide.

[True_Blood_]

I survived with 1 crossbowman who only had 1 health left...thanks for this video! Have no idea how I passed this level 15 years ago without knowledge from the internet.

[spicydoge]

After all those f'ing years I've finally beaten the mission. Thank you so much for the guide

[lagoonguy]

this has been a really tough one for me to finish, thanks for the walkthrough.

[yubietubie]

Stronghold was one of the first computer games I ever played, me and my mom were never able to get passed this level.

Now I’m 20 and I still have a very hard time getting passed this level. I’ve only done it a few times one I started playing again a few years ago. The first time I did it I was like YUSSS!”

[Liam-ydcb]

I actually had to download the savegame from Stronghold Heaven to get through this mission when I was a kid. Thanks for getting me through this.

[idtapthat]

still seems hard. what were they thinking when creating this level?

[keithwatson]

I had the same ideas as you, what I never considered was making use of the hills for my archers. Glad to see i'm not the only one who thought the diggers and ladder men were a waste of time .Cheers

[georgekorynta]

As Tim van Der Heiden said - I finally overcame my childhood trauma and finally on my way to finish this game. :) Thanks for help.

[infinityactually]

6:17 I had the same problem with that tower. (Steam version) When I proceeded to ignore the remaining crossbowmen and dig in the moat, they managed to whittle down my spearmen down to a point where I didnt have enough to finish the mission.

However I tried a tactic today where I placed my crossbowmen near the rock formation at the beginning and fire at the rightmost tower from a safe distance, then proceeded to move towards the leftmost tower with all my ranged units and worked my way to the right like you say in this video.

I managed to save enough archers to help protect the ram and eventually won the siege 👍

[Eslamm]

It is very challenging Mission i'm playing it after 10 years of this video in the new version Stronghold definitive edition. Same fun!, Thank you for this video

[NinjaSushi]

Why did I never think to take the archers out first... ERMERGURD!!

[nitish]

When I played it 20 years ago I managed to do it by myself but now I had to look up this tutorial, the game has not aged a day .

[aaronhopkins]

I've played this game so many times and I've always had trouble with this mission. Thanks so much for the walk through

[elizabethmiller]

Thanks so much. I tried using archers first a few times but didn't follow through after I guess and kept dying. watched a few others walkthrough videos as well and yours was the one that did the trick. Thanks so much :)

[chlbrn]

Thanks, finally finished this level finished. It is so annoying because when spear men filling the moat, they don't stay in place and continue filling up. Some times they wonder around and get self killed without even making step further. If this game had a better path finding system, some of the levels wouldn't be so annoying.

[grimgrimmett]

i tried for 4 hours to do this one and about 20 other vids and nothing worked but this one got me past it. thats a like and a sub for you :)

[HunterOfDarkness]

Thanks to the vid I finally managed to beat this damn mission, it still took me a few tries though. Funny thing is, my last attempt still progressed further but I still ended up losing all my spearmen, macemen and the ram. I didn't use Tunnelers or the Laddermen as shown in your vid and all the enemy had were 2 Crossbowmen and an Archer in the tower next to the 2nd GH left...so as a last minute panic and desperate move, I sent in the laddermen to the wall as a distraction while I used the Tunnelers to dig next to the tower. 4 survived and took the tower down and those few tunnelers that were left I told to attack and they won too lol
What a pain, but with a bit of last minute luck it's done :D

[greedygreggor]

Thank you for this guide; I playedthe original Stronghold 20 years ago and remember getting really stuck here and also on level 18. Ive just used these tactics on Stronghold defininitive and it worked really well :) thanks again