The Breath of the Dragon (Dracula 3rd mission)

[r0fl_b0b]

Okay, I'm not sure if I just suck or what, but I cannot do anything. I get to the city, take over everything, then I just get pommeled over and over again. Yellow seems to have endless waves of Elite Magyar Huzsars; green isn't much of an issue; teal and orange kinda just show up; grey is a pain and builds a wonder. I'm playing on Standard difficulty and I cannot imagine that it was meant to be this relentless. Even when I go after Yellow with my fully upgraded Halbs, I barely win. I'm not sure if this is poor strategy on my part but I'm really questioning if this mission isn't just bugged or something. Even watching gameplays of it the map I'm on has slight variations to it's layout, so was there an update that messed with the campaigns recently?

Just at a complete and utter loss.

[76561198001454185]

I think it is bugged. It's just too much. You just keep getting attacked from all sides. Non-stop.
I believe you're supposed to attack the towns to hinder the main enemy, but how the hell are you supposed to pull that off when you're barely able to defend yourself?!

I'm playing on hard instead, but it's nowhere near the level of other missions. I must've played it like 40 times and gotten close to the wonder like twice. And that is without even touching it.

And yeah, I watched one or two gameplays and noticed the same thing about the map. They're different from when I play myself. Maybe they did mess it up somehow in the past 6-12 months.

Is there a way to contact the devs/mods/whatever?

[Yorok]

I reported this thread under this mod - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1407316176
Maybe it could also be fixed

[Knarf]

Ran into this today and struggled mightily. Finally looked at it with the "marco" and "polo" cheats. Discovered that there are only TWO villagers for the Darstor Turks building the wonder. So I reloaded the game, built about a dozen ships and killed the villagers. Lost eight ships, but they have no more villagers to finish building the wonder.

[mejercit]

I finished this mission.

My strategy is based on the HD edition on standard difficulty, and assumes you have already captured the town on the Danube.

Make sure to build up 13 lumberjacks and 13 food producers. Build a barracks and stables, as well as some spearmen and skirms to back up your existing forces. Make sure to explore the area around the town. If you find a mine, assign four villagers to it.

Go to Castle Age as soon as you have the required producers and the 800 food and 200 gold. As Castle Age is being researched, build some galleys and two transports.

Upon reaching castle age, continue on villager production and building the Castle Age buldings in the main base (Monastery, Siege Workshop, University). Make sure to research careening (to expand transport ship capacity).

Gray will build a Wonder, so there is a time limit. You will first need to strike at the cyan town southwest of (Rahova). To take cyan, you will need at least three battering rams and three galleys. Board the battering rams, some skirms, one monk, troops from your original forces 9especially any surviving hand cannoneers), and a villager,. and have the transport unload them on the south bank just northeast of cyan.

The galleys should provide cover fire for your landing force, and cyan will attack you mostly with archers. Have the villager build military buildings as your forward base, and have the battering rams take out the defenses of cyan, with the other troops backing them up. As you are attacking cyan, recruit troops in your forward base to replenish any that have falln, and make sure to research technologies as resources become available, especially the infantry upgrade technologies as the Slavs are an infantry civ.

Once cyan falls, it will change its dplomacy to Ally and you do likewise. It will tribnute you a huge amount of resources, and this should give you the respurces to rteach Imperial Age and construct a casdtle at your forward base (if you have not done so already.)

Now is the time to prepare for taking on grey. Build at least three trebuchets, three onagers 9researching the tech, obviously) and lots of Boyars and recruit enough troops to reach thepop cap of 150, and make sure to research Druzhina and Siege engineers. BNy this time, Wonder construction by grauy shoukl;d be underway. Make your way to the gray fortress, using the siege weapons to attack the gates and towers while drawing the gray troops to clash with your forces, while researching technologies. Eventually, you will raze your way to striking range of the Wonder, and use the trebuchets and rams to destroy it. After destroying the Wonder, destroy the rest of the base and gray will fall.

The other towns are much weaker, and you can easily taken them on with your attack force, though of course you will have to transport your troops back to the north side of the Danube once you have taken the south bank.

[ziplock9000]

This was really hard, I had to cheat unfortunately.