TSK Coop Mission 9 Remake r6720
Currently I am playing the multiplayer campaign (coöp) of The Shattered Kingdom (Remake r6720) with a friend of mine. The missions are quiet hard, as the scripts of the AI has been improved a thousand times. After a hard battle with the barbarians at mission 8, we are now stuck at mission 9. You know, the map in singleplayer in which purple can be beaten by starving them out as you can go sneak into their camp and destroy their McDonalds and IKEA's? But now, you are directly encircled with his massive armies and towers - so that seems a no go to us.
Even though you have more space compared to the initial singleplayer map, this coop mission seems impossible due the never ending attacks of purple decimating your army to bits and beginning all over again. Approximateley after 50 minutes they start the attacks with 10 minutes between them. The first attacks are not that hard as they only attack you from the east. Later on, they will attack from both sides (the east and northwest).
Our attempt at beating this mission is numerous. We usually try to lure the enemy into a narrow gap between the goldveins and the mountains at the east, so we can shoot his fearsome Knights with crossbowmen and hold the line with pikemen. It pays off most times. But meh, his backup force is huge so he can refill his frontlines in a whim so we never really can push through. And a sneak attack from the back is near impossible, due the standing army north of the mountain of Gold - the overseers such as they are.
Plus, the player located at Location 1 does not have the ability to built a market, whereas player 2 at Location 5 does. As player 1 runs out of gold over time, player 2 can built vineyards and can trade wine for gold/coal like a real Eastern merchant. So what's the haps with that?
Does someone know a tactic for this mission, a gollumly secret to our painful attempt to find a way to destroy our foes? Please let us know, good community of KaM.
High regards,
Lady Daenerys