Cheats & Mission 15 - Stronghold Forum (2024)

You don't have to cheat, and you may have to do a little more work than shown here (pikemen will probably attack your ram), but it's doable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xesc91pTE

To address your initial question, I don't know of any cheats for Stronghold unfortunately. And yes I agree, this mission is absurdly difficult.

What I can say is that I've beat it on very hard, but it takes a lot of time with speed kept at the minimum setting and a lot of saving. I have a large number of files dedicated to this level alone.

Although I don't have cheats, I can give you some general hints at least. You have to distract the archers on the wall by running yours back and forth on the lowest game speed while you fill the moat. It takes an absurd amount of patience. Dig the moat on the left side of the castle and knock down the tower on that side that connects the two parts of the castle and you'll have access to the whole place. I'm not sure if that's the Northeast side of the castle that people are talking about, but the left side is where I broke in. The main thing really is just the patience, although, yeah, it's really frustrating >_<.

I suppose that if you like I could just send you a save file where the level is almost done. That might work.

EDIT: After looking at those save files, I apparently broke in through the front. Regardless, I have the perfect save file for you if you'd like it.

[This message has been edited by Timballisto (edited 12-27-2012 @ 11:10 PM).]

Dig the moat in front of the gate house, then remove your engineers from the ram and command the ram to attack the gate house. The enemy archers won't shoot at the ram anymore as it doesn't have any engineers in it.

I know this is a bug exploit but I will state that for the record this mission can be done without exploits and I did so on my first play through of the campaign.

Wonderful, thanks to the both of you.

The ram can still move and attack without its engineers? Truly, this game is full of surprises :P

I may give that a shot, but if you could toss me your save file, Timballisto, I'd be enormously grateful. Maybe upload it to MediaFire or similar, if you could, and post a link here for the use of others with the same frustration?

-DOOMBRINGER-

"DOOMBRINGER, make a parking space IMMEDIATELY!"
"DOOMBRINGER declares it to be SO!"
"DOOMBRINGER, I command you to lay siege to THE ISS!"

You, sir or madam, are a legend. Now to work out how I go about using this. I shall report back with further gratitude if I manage it.

EDIT: Ok no, I'm stumped. Excuse my ignorance, but the link doesn't lead anywhere and trying to save it doesn't seem to work either. What am I missing?

[This message has been edited by jamoseke (edited 01-05-2013 @ 10:31 AM).]

It doesn't? Ugh. Okay, I will see if I can't work this out. Failing that I could just upload it here like you mentioned earlier. I'll let you know what happens either way.

What actually happens when you try to download it? Do you get a blank browser window? A 404 error page? Something else?

[This message has been edited by Timballisto (edited 01-05-2013 @ 02:53 PM).]

Better send it via mail. We don't want any other players be tented to play by "shortcuts", if you know what I mean.

jamoseke, welcome to SHH. I've been watching your thread. Your situation is similar to many players across the world. If you find using cheats fun, then you missed having a good hard win for a long time, because that's the ultimate gaming feeling and no cheat can fake that.
Just keep it in mind as a friendly advice: You can cheat games, but it won't help life. Improve your gaming attitude by avoiding cheats, and you will become more confident in everyday life. The secret of success is: Try something and if it doesn't work then change your perspective. Works every time.

Have a good stay and enjoy Stronghold

[This message has been edited by Lord_of_Hell (edited 01-06-2013 @ 05:36 PM).]

Well, clicking the link gets me a "Oops! Google Chrome could not find the page" error.

Right-clicking it and hitting "save link as" results in downloading a blank txt file, unless I change the extension to .sav as you suggested. I tried putting the .sav file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Stronghold\saves

Which I assume is where it goes. I can't find it when loading saves within the game though, I only have a single save in my list, and it seems to be one of mine. I haven't mucked about with save files much in the past though, could be I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks for the welcome and the advice, Lord_of_Hell, but I hope you won't think less of me if I respectfully disregard it. This is a game, and a broken one at that. In the circumstances, I think of a cheat or a handy save file that fixes a broken mission as a helpful patch, and I can't see any harm in granting others access to it.

Anyone who values honour more than fun is welcome to do it the hard way, and I wish them godspeed. For myself, I can only watch my archers fire directly into the ground for so long. I haven't noticed my failure to complete Stronghold crippling my confidence or daily life as of yet, but I'll let you know if I should crack under the strain

Korsfarer Mogens

Thanks, but I'm not going to be replaying this over and over, like I said. I'm sick of the mission and I'd like a way to get past it, that's all.

[This message has been edited by jamoseke (edited 01-07-2013 @ 11:03 AM).]

Alright, if you're willing I can just email it to you. Where should I send it?

Finally sent it, check your email. Good luck.

Well, this thread contains several tips and links to walkthroughs from kind and knowledgeable players such as yourself. I'm afraid I'm hardly in a position to post one myself, but there are a sticky and several other threads on the subject. All in all I'd say this thread is a pretty good resource for those stuck on this mission.

I don't really see why one avenue of help should be censored in favour of another (I take the view that how people choose to derive fun from their single-player games is up to the individual) but it is of course your forum to moderate and not mine. I thank you for leaving my link intact.