Honestly, they struggle against fast moving targets and when you're making catapults I assume you already have a nice army behind them so they don't get ran over It's just they put so much pressure on the opponent and no other unit can do that

@@Jefflenious But they also need nice micro-managment.

but they are usefull because they can throw a cow and if the Enemy are Idle and you don't have Cheese Farm that have a cow, you can make them shoot the enemy by Throwing Rock at Them and directly hit the Enemy.

Knights are solid but it can be dangerous because if you make a ton of knights and half get killed by catapults, the player with the knights is out more gold thus making the counter an inefficient investment. Lol idk what I’m talking about, did that even make sense?

Don't forget horse archers

they're broken af they can't be touched by siege weapons. I lost my 40 fire balistas because of them,

@@greatveemon2 but they are usefull if you want any Support from Civillian, but they must Walk into the Enemy so they can attack them, Remember they can only Handle weak Enemy like Archer, Spearmen, and Tunneler.

Ofc. Katapults are made of wood after all. You can counter woodcutters by using non wood units.

30? Rookie numbers.

@@Phoenix-qv9hg *_LOL_*

I onlt use knights , everyman in my army has been knighted

You can always counter even more catapults with even even more catapults

I never bothered useing them but holy vrap 10 gold a piece

I agree! Slingers are hands down the best anti-rush defence. Cheap and no extra weapon costs, deal okay damage, 2-shotting slaves, they have okay survivability and melee performance and can even rain down rocks on and pose a mild threat to armoured foes in a pinch. Pretty much the only way to end a sizeable group of them is having archers around that early on, and you can simply back them up with a small elite detachment of archers of your own and maybe a shield or two.

If it's a small area like your stone quarries or your farms then stacking 35 slingers on a lookout tower is the cheapest and most efficient way. If you need to cover more ground/resources, use the lookout tower but with archers.

or just any archer type except crossbowmen

Catapult is a tank therfore need a support So. N

@ze they will be dead long before they reach catapults if player has decent amount of them and if he is skilled enough to use them. The only thing that counters catapults is just more catapults

assassins would probably be good counters or knights, on castle defence mangonels are a good counter aswell as long as you have like 20+ on towers.

@@TM0TP Nah nothing stops catapults, as long as they have someone who knows how to use them, also your towers will all get deleted in 2 seconds

@@beardsntools yes catapults has counters they counter themselves lol. and yea if you have over 100 catapults then indeed there is no counter.

Yeah. Knights are not exactly for direct combat, but for raids, counter raids and hit&run tactics.

Actually is better have mangonels on towers. For example in mission big one is more effective use mangonels (about 3 is enough 5 is better) also in lot of missions where bigger attacks come from one direction. I prefer mangonels.

@@PstruhovaAsistentka Mangonels are also great at annoying AIs when their castles are close to yours. Destroying the enemy's granary every couple minutes? *chefs kiss*

Seriously dude, this channel makes me play stronghold again after 6 years

How have you not Played Stronghold yet

but they weak ngl, if they are in Straight line, they can be Takedown with any Archer.

Abbot send me around 1,000+ Monks vs 200 swords men and half of the monks if not were dead. Horse arches eat monks like a caveman that hasn't eaten in 100 years. I'm pretty sure if 1000 monks vs 1000 swords men sword men always win. Strongest melee.

@@kareem5653 no, swordsmen won't win, because monks deal bonus damage to armored units and has more damage, and also faster attack speed. Those monks can just stack and the swordsmen will be swept.

@@kareem5653 reason you won against abbot is because he always have max negative fear factor which makes his monks so much more weaker.

Catapults can be countered with archers and tower ballistas... Actually the real broken is horse archer and tower ballistas... Horse archer in large group with high morale can counter knights and swordsman

@@ExilerZero Unless your opponent doesn't know what he is doing or only has few of them, no you can't take out catapults with anything other than more catapults. Your tower ballistas will be deleted with all your buildings in 2-3 shots and all your ground units will be dead when your opponent rolls in with hundreds of catapults.

Yeah, cheap and faster... Maybe combine with portabel Shield is good against the archer...

Usually I utilise same tactic for clear towers and walls defences, but if enemy stronghold is crowded with foes and machines you get decimated and the costs to replenish your forces is onerous

@@abccba5125 Not if you make your horse archers zigzag constantly. But I don't even do that anymore because it's too cheesy.

Slingers.

Happy new year!

Does highly depend on their distance to the stockpiles, but I can try to make one!

U are never going to play only catapults. Its alwas catapults+horsearchers+shields. Its a unit that never comes alone. But you are right in terms of one unit againist one unit

I don't agree with my statement

Don't think so, my viewers aren't interested and I don't like the 3D games that much either. But there will be some video every once in a while!

Yeah tower ballistas and even the ground ones are supposed to counter them, and they do well when there's only a few of them Against a swarm of catapults though nothing can stop them except catapults or a bunch of units charging at them

Well

They can absorb the range attack if they're close enough, and they can actually tank A LOT of arrows

That's a good way to... They enough faster

Yeah, me too... If 1Vs1 they still failed... But, that's not the point, right...?

Yeah they are technically a counter, don't think they're cost efficient though

@@Jefflenious well, more cost efficient than knights, knights have less hp and deal less dmg xD (and cost extra stables...)

Tunnelers are best used as quickly-recruited spearmen. They are stronger than the latter and cost +-1gold more per unit.

@@corentinc.948 they´re also faster right?

@@RiceaxeGaming Tunnelers are more cost-effective during battles: 0# higher atk and higher HP; 1# They cannot climb ladders, but they destroy 1 wall tile completely at the cost of 1 tunneler = more cost-efficient VS: About 5 to 10 spearmen are lost when climbing ladders. 3# Tunnelers cannot dig moats, but pikemen do. And are very effective in conflict situations. 4# keep your spearmen {+- 10; costly slave} to dig your moat safely @home I personally... Use slaves {Arabian Lord} in the beginning, despite being European IRL, because they are great moat diggers. When attacking, Pikemen are great in bigger numbers {40} due to archers. They also dig out moats and climb ladders + take several hits from Lords!!! 6# Once the moats are dug out, spearmen get reused by me as cheap moving meat shields to hold off bigger melee armies {make archers even more useful}. 7# If I cannot build pikemen, nor knights - I use spearmen in groups of +-15 at the minimum, because they let you play 'a more active role' during battles, than "just watching archers pick off enemies". CONCLUSION: 8# Use tunnelers to use as tunnelers, or as "spearmen" in great quantities, without all the hassle needed of having to make one.

tunnelers are such OP meele units

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