Stronghold HD - Economics Missions - Coast Castle [very hard]

Welcome to my Stronghold Walkthrough. I will finish every mission on very hard, as fast as possible and with a decent highscore. Enjoy :-) This is one of the two missions (There be Witches being the second) which made me wonder if I could win on very hard at all since you have little time to gather lots of ressources. But as you can see, I eventually found a working strategy and was even able to finish with some spare time. Some hints if you want to give it a try yourself: - Get a huge population to get the requested gold by taxes. Thanks to the continuous traveling fair bonus, you can have mean taxes and no rations without popularity penalty. - There will be thieves in the first years so don&focus on food at the beginning. It will just be stolen and your peasants don&need it anyway. - Be careful with the amount of wheat in your storage. Once you hit 20, your crops will be wiped out by a pestilence, that&why I was focusing on selling wheat a lot. If you have hops farms, you have to be careful, too! - Use my cheesy storage placement to get a good income of wood. You can delay replacing it even longer to get more wood, just make sure it&one the right spot when the wheat/stone/iron is about to be stored. Mission name in other languages (EN / DE / FR / ESP) for better search results and for being found by non native speakers: Coast castle / Kuestenschloss / Château côtier / Castillo en la costa