Stronghold HD - Invasions - Island Warfare [very hard]

Welcome to my Stronghold Walkthrough. I will finish every mission on very hard, as fast as possible and with perfect score. Enjoy :-)

This was probably the hardest mission I have ever played so far. I needed a lot of luck and had to micromanage my wounded archers to safety almost the entire mission to make sure everybody survives. The strategy should be stable enough to win without the micromanagement, though you might lose up to 30 archers in the last wave alone and maybe even the outer ring...

I tried to defeat each wave before the next one arrived in order to repair my defenses and give the computer enough "space" to send the complete army in respect to the sprite limit of 1500. Unfortunately, I wasn't fast enough in defeating the third wave so the macemen and swordsmen of the fourth wave were blocked... At least, I got the opportunity to kill the swordsmen of the third wave ;-)

Finally, there are two other main approaches that I deliberately did not use to make it as fair as possible for the AI. The first one is using lots of mangonels to shoot at the signpost and kill most of the army before they even start to attack. The second one is building only a wall between the keep and the signpost without any gates or towers reachable for the enemy troops. This confuses the AI so much that it attacks only in small waves which can be defeated easily.

Mission name in other languages (EN / DE / FR / ESP) for better search results and for being found by non native speakers:
Island warfare / Inselkrieg / Bataille navale / Armamento en la isla