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Part 4: Prison Break!

brief narrative: After Matthew returned from Scotland, he tried give the traitor Edwin up to the Bishop and King of England. Instead of seeing reason, the Bishop and King sided with Edwin against Matthew! Clearly this plot is deeper than we thought. Matthew must now escape Edwin's dungeon and claim his castle from the inside!

Mission Description:
This mission is mostly like a siege however, you get troops and bonuses for completing objectives along the way.
Each color troop represents a different garrison group. you may unlock more troops by clearing all the troops of a given color. Killing all of a certain color will also make the next group hostile to you! The order things should be cleared is as follows: orange, green, purple, blue and pink, then Edwin. The following bonuses can be obtained: going to the monastery gives you monk allies, clearing the bank guard (blue) will give you 1000 gold to buy mercenaries, and clearing the lower city barracks will give you access to more troops and siege equipment.

Audio files available on dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/xerncvx1gvw98cwtjg97z/AJP9LikhhwBcXbZgQPG680Y?rlkey=je1icw4aw1m3ye87zqkv2nhcx&st=6fjmytt4&dl=0

and Nexus mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/stronghold2/mods/17

Hints:

1. Use your lord! Matthew is a powerful combatant and can eat a lot of arrow fire before going down.

2. Keep track of the hostility order as you move along, once you kill all the guards of one color the next group will be hostile and start shooting you.

3. Understand the targeting mechanics of missile units, if you run your archers in range of theirs, your archers will be targeted ahead of other units. Mantlets are also given at a few critical moments to protect your troops as they assault archer positions.

4. Once you kill all of the pink troops Edwin's AI turns on. You can use the catapults given here to quickly destroy the barracks before he can recruit troops.

5. The western bridge is the easiest way into the upper city, you should take that path with your assault.

6. Time up your assault with the Bull so that you split arrow fire in the upper city.

7. The back of the keep is a blind spot to Edwin's archers, If you don't have enough melee units to kill Edwin outright, you can keep ranged troops in the back of the keep to finish the job.