Praetorians - HD Remaster

Praetorians - HD Remaster

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Mizohican Aug 27, 2021 @ 4:47am
Stuck at "War Within The Mountains" level
Yeah, I'm not a good player. I'm stuck at "War Within The Mountains" level for many days now, even on "easy" mode. I keep replaying and I keep losing. To be honest, I hate the levels where we have to keep defending immediately as soon as the game starts. I enjoy playing casually at my own slow pace. Is there any way I can bypass this level so I can play the next campaigns? Any save game files I can use to unlock the next one? Please help. Sorry for the lame post.
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FrostButt Irelia Aug 27, 2021 @ 4:23pm 
I can help you with this mission. From the start, make 2-3 additional archers and make around 5-6 towers on your right side of your starting position (where the forest is and where barbarians and legionnaires usually come). Place towers on the hill and on the lower access. Put archers in there and even some auxiliary infantry if needed (they can still throw rocks). Then add 2 legionnaires in the forest and put them on hold. Just use them when needed, add a centurion for bonuses + healer.

Once you filled your towers, make sure to put remaining archers on that same hill where towers are, just up front pass the woods. They will shot the enemy from the above and help you a lot against horses.

Now you secured the right side which will get hit hard by ground infantry.
The left side can be defended by your allies but don't let them do all the work. Your praetorians should be on this side of the map. Put them in the forest with centurion and healer and use them to quickly catch horses and archers. Your horse units should also be on that side of the map to help kill the archers. If you don't aggro troops there automatically, they might overwhelm your allies, so be sure to bait them into your praetorians.

At the beginning, the enemy adds a lot of archers on the left front (where the huge water pool is), so this is when your archers from the hill come to play. They are safe from everything except ground units that can pass forest. In that case, your legionnaires come to play.

Once you survive the first way and the hard way of the right side (yeah there's gonna be some huge praetorians wave with barbarians coming on that right side, thus we made so many towers). Then you are safe, build praetorians as soon as you can after 4-5 archers made. Also slingershots can be worth your time, but praetorians will be needed for soaking up the damage while your archers finish the enemy off. Your spearmen can also be placed up on the hill (on the right side) so when enemy troops rush, they come straight to the pike formation which hits very hard.

When the allies (rebelled generals) come to help you. Come to them with some reasonable forces as they might get trapped by the pompey's army if you take them at the wrong time. If that happens, sacrifice the troops but make sure their generals get to safety. Once both generals come --> you win. You don't have to take their base out at all.

Note, your allies can also take those rebelled units, so be sure that they do not take them as the ally tends to be slow with the general movement.

If you're playing on the easy, you can straight rush to the green's base (the right side) and kill all enemy troop + set fire on their town. Once one of those towns are down by fire most likely, you win no matter what.

This is the strategy for hard difficulty and this is one of my favorite missions. Very hard and interesting. Good luck!
Mizohican Aug 27, 2021 @ 11:22pm 
Ohhhh thank you sooo much for such a detailed strategy solution. I will try it out definitely. Much appreciated!
FrostButt Irelia Aug 29, 2021 @ 11:34am 
Originally posted by Mizohican:
Ohhhh thank you sooo much for such a detailed strategy solution. I will try it out definitely. Much appreciated!
So how did it go?
Chatur Sep 9, 2021 @ 7:23pm 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLOqJlwqGH8&t=102s here, watch this video.
Guy is the best praetorians player ever to walk among us.
FrostButt Irelia Sep 10, 2021 @ 3:07am 
Originally posted by Kharcha:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLOqJlwqGH8&t=102s here, watch this video.
Guy is the best praetorians player ever to walk among us.

These tactics work as well, mine explanation is from another youtube guy or it was a guide on the internet... cannot remember. All in all, it should work just fine. I prefer building towers tho.
Mizohican Sep 10, 2021 @ 7:38am 
Originally posted by FrostButt Irelia:
So how did it go?

I haven't had the time to get into it again because of work, but the first thing I'll do when I play it again is to follow your strategy, thanks again for it.

Originally posted by Kharcha:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLOqJlwqGH8&t=102s here, watch this video.
Guy is the best praetorians player ever to walk among us.

Thank you.
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