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Instructions
Left-click on your siege towers and battering rams once the mission starts. Right-click behind the main body of your pikemen and macemen to move them to a defensive position.
Left-click and select your crossbowmen. Right-click on the hill next to the main body of your army to the south of the main gate to move them into a covering position.
Select all of your pikemen and macemen. Mass them in front of your siege towers and battering rams. They will kill the Pig's men that issue from the main gate around the beginning of the battle.
Select all of your archers. Move them onto the hills to the west of the stronghold and order them to fire on the enemy archers stationed on the west wall. Keep the archers out of range of the enemies on the walls and the catapults.
Kill all of the enemy archers possible without moving your archers within range of return fire.
Move your archers to the southwest corner of the map after the west wall is more or less clear of enemies.
Move your archers to the small rise slightly northeast of your main force. This is in front of where your crossbowmen should be stationed. Hug the southern edge of the map to avoid catapult fire.
Order your archers to attack the men on the four southern towers on either side of the main gate.
Select approximately 1/3 of your spearmen and right-click on the moat to order them to begin filling it in with dirt. Many of them will die from the tar and pitch traps. Send more in to fill in the moat and attack the wall once the fires have receded.
Select your tunnelers and rams. Right-click on the main gate once the pikemen have created a wide patch of earth in front of the stronghold.
Select approximately 30 macemen. Send them through the breach created by the tunnelers and rams to mount the towers surrounding the first courtyard. Many will die from the second set of traps, but some will survive to clear the walls of enemy archers.
Wait for the fires to recede, then move your archers onto one of the enemy towers where they can begin shooting into the second courtyard.
Select your rams. Order them to attack the inner gate.
Select your ladder carriers and siege towers. Send them to strategic positions along the interior wall protecting the inner courtyard and the keep. Place one tower on either side of the gate and spread the ladders evenly along the rest of the wall.
Select half of your remaining macemen and send them up the left siege tower onto the battlements. Repeat this process with the remaining macemen and the right siege tower.
Order the first group of macemen left around the battlements to clear the remaining enemies. Send the second group around the right side to clear out any remaining archers.
Order half of your spearmen into the main courtyard around the keep. This will trigger the last set of traps.
Order all of your remaining forces to attack the keep and kill the Pig, located on top of the keep's tower.