Mneed help on Assaulting Castle

[jackliu239]

To me this is the most frustrating thing in MTW, I mean I have to wait for so long for cannons to breach walls and all the while waiting there for enemy to shooting at me. And When I'm approaching castle I took even more causalities.

Anyway I'm having real trouble in Historical Camping, of the 100-year war playing as French on the second mission, in which I have to attack a heavily defended English castle. I tried 3 times and all which I lost. So if anyone has played this level and win could you please give me some tips, and if anyone has the save replay file of this war, it could be better.

Thank in advance

[tombom]

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If you mean Loire Valley, this is probably the historical battle with the most threads to its name. Or maybe that one is Orleans... Difficult to remember. I can't really help as I'm not good at battles and haven't tried this one yet.

[jackliu239]

Yes Loire Valley, and I'm also having problem of battle of Arce under Saladin. The two army are so close together and every time when it starts the Knight of Templar cuts my army to pieces instantly.

[tombom]

Someone said they had uploaded a replay of Acre recently... I'll try and find it. Loire Valley threads should be quite easy to find if you search, although they probably won't be... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[octavian]

alright, Acre i cant help you with, its been months since i played it. however, waiting for the walls to be breached is not nessasary, if you look underneath your little radar screen, you will see a little hour glass, slide it to the right to speed things up, slide it back to slow it down again.

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[TonkaToys]

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With the assualt of the castle as Joan of Arc, according to a thread somewhere else, you should aim to breach the rear wall first (the wall furthest from Joan) as this is the only point at which the inner and outer rings join.
Keep assaulting the front to distract the English, but once you get through at the back you can rush your guys in and win... without worrying too much about the majority of English at the front of the castle.

I did it the hard way (before reading these posts)... by concentrating all my forces on one side but using diversionary attacks on the other side to draw the English away. Once inside the outer ring, I then had to fight my way into the inner ring... hard work.

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