HELP!! (Resident Evil 4 Ch 3-1 spoilers)

[That Guy]

PLEASE please please help me!!!!!! i'm playing Resident Evil 4 and I was playing it quite a lot for the rate I usually play games until a couple of weeks ago. Anyway I got to Chapter 3-1 and now I'm stuck.

Basically I'm at the castle and use the rifle on those 2 guys patrolling above and then get to the catapult. So I get Ashley to wait and go ahead to that room where the guys were patrolling then call here back so she doesn't die from the fire from the catapults.

Then the next step is to go up more steps to another place where catapults are being fired. Now if I leave Ashley behind people take her away and I fail. If I take here with me I fail because she dies from the fire. If I leave her in that room and then call her to me afterwards they still fire and I once again fail. I've yet to be stuck in this game and was loving it until this bit.

What do I do? Please God help.

[That Guy]

OK so i used the rifle to kill some catapultists but theres still some firing at me and I thought i'd got them all. I want to kill things. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Sooj]

I can't remember that chapter perfectly but next to the people with the catapults there should be gas canasters, shoot them and they all should die, keep Ashley hidden at all time though in the little hut and then in the little tower bit futher one (hopefully I'm thinking about the bit your talking about :p)

[That Guy]

Thanks for your help. God, really think I was better off with my Dreamcast. Can't think of alot I've really enjoyed on my Cube. I always get so annoyed :-(

[monkeyDluffy]

as long as you keep her out of sight she should be ok, I took her down into where the cannon is ( a set of stairs on your left) and left her there, I think they got her once but I just ran down and killed them and left her again and finished killing the rest via the red barrels etc. Just put her in a place it takes them a while to get to one of their exits/red doors (which is the door you come in at the start of this section I think), this will give you enough time to go save her from most points in this section if needed.

[That Guy]

I've got ashley sorted now and managed to get rid of 3 of the catapults, but one fires at me when i try and get to the bit in the middle i'm supposed to get to. I just can't get to them to snipe them cus they fire at me. :'-(

[Dante]

At the castle catapults area tell Ashley to stay where she is at that time and move a little forward attracting the monks. You can take them out with the handgun while they're coming down or use the sniper rifle to take them out from a distance.
For the coming area make sure first that Ashley is still standing where you left her and not following you since she can easily get killed here.

Move a little forward and you'll notice catapult fire coming down
from the heavens.
Its not that hard to dodge the fires as you can easily run past
them to avoid the blast, head forward and quickly climb the spiral
staircase in front of you. If you want to fancy yourself another
spinel check the fountain where the first fire hit. Once you got
it, start dashing to where the original monks were and head into
one of the rooms which has a big cannon inside it. This is a safe
spot for the time being so call Ashley over here. Dont worry about
her since the monks won't attack her if she's alone. Its Leon they
want to kill so badly.

When Ashley is with Leon once again, tell her to wait besides the
cannon again, once Ashley is safe and sound, head back out and go
through the courtyard again, turn towards the west side and quickly
dash under the little path here, you will be able to spot that red
robed monk from here and an explosive barrel thats not so far from
him can also be spotted. You now have to shoot this barrel and once
you do that the entire catapult thing will go kaboom. Do the same
thing for the other catapults that are firing at you.

Now once that is done, take the stairs up but immediately head back
down the same stairs, no im not an idiot, once you run up the stairs
a set of monks will come in from the entrance of this area and will
head straight for where you stored Ashley just a little while ago
but since you turned back quickly you will be able to safely take
them out before they are anywhere near Ashley. If you want to save
some ammo then run along the monks when they're going across the
courtyard and they'll probably be caught by a catapult fire or two.

Now that Ashley is safe once again, take the stairs up and we have
to take out the remaining catapults here, if you have the rifle
with you then its a definite plus point, the catapults have barrels
next to them which you need to shoot in order to dispose of them.
When all is done there will probably be 2 final catapults left near
the exit of this area, one of them will have a barrel next to it so
that one is easily diposed of, the other one however is a little
tricky since there's no barrel, you'll have to take out the person
operating the catapult. To do that you need to quickly head to the
eastern area and take out the guy from behind the shelter like area
and hopefully hit him quickly enough. Rifle should be your gun here.

If you want to proceed further then take note of the crank and use
it, and keep turning it by pressing the A button until the cannon
finally rises, use the cannon to blast a fire and the exit will
emerge for you to err.. exit. Before exiting you can find a gold
bangle on the southern side of this place.

Go through the opened path now and take the red door inside.

You will now come into a cramped area of the castle, you will find
a box of handgun ammo on top of the table here, take the platinum
sword from the plate on the wall, then you should tell Ashley to
stay right next to this area, while you proceed further, take the
stairs up and trick the cultists into coming down behind you and
take them out while they're on the stairs. That wasn't so hard.

Once you've killed these three monks, head back down and bring
Ashley back up with you, but as soon as your up turn around and
start shooting at the monks who are approaching behind you as soon
as you can, this ambush is a little hard to get through. The best
thing to use here is the shotgun but be aware of popping their
heads off since these monks are also equipped with dangerous Los
plagas like the villagers were, once you have taken all these out
look down the stairs and you will spot the red monk standing there
waiting for you, we'll just play it safe and its much easier to
take him out from here using the sniper rifle and some good head
shots. Once the red monk is dead, head to the plate on the second
floor area and take the gold sword from here, replace it with the
platinum sword and put the gold sword in the place of the platinum
one, and the door ahead shall unlock. Take the money that the red
guy drops since its a lot.