Talk:The Lion and the Demon/@comment-78.30.126.225-20170203134432

So, it's a common opinion that this mission is one of the hardest scenarios overall, but I don't think it's this difficult. you just need to build up the base and spend the initial resources on buying upgrades. All the units enemy sends are Elite Mameluke food, only thing that's actually treatening are onagers since you need to ride up to them to take them out. Paladin dies instantly to massed Mameluke. Bombards and trebs too. Teutonic Knights are tougher to take down becasue of immense melee armor, but they're TK so they'll never do any damage to you. At the end of the mission I was just selling excess stone and bought some food to replenish Mameluke forces, but once you pass that treshold of units (I built one additional castle in the front, forgetting you have one in the back) you can chill and enjoy microing them to wreck templar shit. Never occured to me that you can get out of your city and raid the upcoming enemy waves (especially all the siege), but I guess it can be done.

Very satisfying mission to beat.