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Retro Game Walkthroughs For
"Stronghold Crusader"
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Retro Game Walkthroughs for Stronghold Crusader (PC Games)
Submitted By: algae
What can i say about Stronghold - GREAT game, but you just need to work out how to play it, so im gonna tell you a few of the basics - i hope you find this interesting and helpfull !!!

1) To get your castle off to a good start, first you need to gather food, and create popularity. To get food, i would first of all try and find a decent place where there are lots of deer or camels ( but not lions or tigers which you cannot eat, but if you are not careful the will eat you ! ) and build a hunters post. In a few seconds the hunter and his dog should appear, and then you are ready to start collecting food. Your hunter will automatically start to hunt down deer, and when he kills one he will take it back to his post. There he will strip off all the skin, pour the blood out ( nice ) and then preserve it. He will then take it to the Granary for your people to consume it. This whole process will take about 3 - 5 minutes, so you need quite a few hunters to get a good amount of food to your people.
But there are other ways to get and produce food like building apple farms, bakeries and wheat farms which does not rely on other people getting the food, but your farm producing it which can be both handy and bad at the same time ! When you build any sort of farm, the crops, trees etc... should grow in about 30 seconds, and when ripe your farmer will pick it and take it to the Granary. But buildings like bakeries are different. To make bread, you will of cause need flour to do so, and you will get the flour from a windmill, from a wheat farm !

e.g - Granary - Bread - Bakery - Flour - Windmill - Wheat - Wheat farm

So to make bread it takes a long time, and there is a production line
involved.

2) Popularity is one of the key things in the game, so it is essential you have it ! To gain it you must carry out some of these tasks -

- Be nice to your people and treat them with respect !

- Dont put the tax limits up to high !

- DO NOT build any torture structures unless you have too ( owwww ! ) !

- Give your people generous rations of food !

- And do not put your people out of work !!!!!

Popularity is how your people feel about you and how loyal they are ! If you build lots of gardens, houses, granaries and farms the you acting as a nice Lord.

But if you build lots of torture stuctures, cesspits or not many farms then you are acting ruthless !

Also if you dont have high tax limits, then your people will adore you !!!!

I hope you have found this walkthrough helpfull and usefull and I will proberly do another on how to attack and defend a base well !!!

( see you later ! )










Submitted By: algae
AN OVERVIEW ON YOUR ENEMIES’ TACTICS, STRATEGIES AND MANOEUVRES

AND SOME TIPS ON USING YOUR MEN TO THEIR BEST EFFECT


THE ENEMIES

1) THE RAT - Definitely the weakest of all eight opponents, as the rat lacks knowledge of both the desert's economy and battle tactics. As the rat deploys useless armies who have no defence to the deadly arrow volleys, his men can be slaughtered without hand-to-hand combat.

You will usually find that the rat also struggles economically off the field, with his usual lack of care over his funds. Running out of resources and money is as deadly as laying siege on the mightiest castle, because without these vital components in your castle masterpiece, you will most certainly perish as does the rat.

2) THE SNAKE - Whilst lacking the same skills as the rat, the snake is formally better in battle. The snake widely uses his archers in both defensive and aggressive matters, which can prove a problem for some of his rivals.

His economics, like the rat, are nothing to write home about, as he treats his people roughly (a big mistake), but manages his resources and money better than the rat.

As he is a more defensive character, like the archers, he builds reasonably good castles (defence-wise).

3) THE PIG - Some might call him greedy some will call him a bully or thug.

His skills lie equally in both defence and attack, and he also engages in battle with sensible armies. These are composed of more aggressive units like the macemen, with the defensive units - such as the crossbow men - diluting his presence of troops on the field.

Thus, his armies can prove hard to defeat, as he does not oblige in using metal armoured troops in battle, but uses the lighter troops protected with leather amour, e.g. crossbowmen and macemen.

To overcome his attacks, I would greatly consider using the mighty siege weapons that are available to you, such as the mounted catapult and ballista. Some siege weapons, however, are designed for use on the field, among these the fire ballista is probably the most effective. Piercing leather armour is no easy job, but one tactic is to unite your separate troops attacks into one deadly blow.

4) THE SULTAN - This Arabian economist is not a great warrior but his extensive knowledge of the desert is his deadly weapon against his rivals. He knows how to treat his people, as his warriors are known to be extremely faithful. Managing finances and resources are one of the Sultan's strong points, because resources (if used properly) are capable of forging great armies with which enemies are crushed.

Sheer military combat will provoke much disturbance in the Sultan’s plans, as an early attack can quickly defeat any economist, but if you leave it too late, then it is likely you will have to face up to a mighty castle.

If you let any opponent grow in both resources and wealth, they will easily be able to produce resistance; this is especially true for the Sultan.

5) THE CALIPH - This assassin is a great user of stealth in the field, not enjoying heavy combat. Espionage and sabotage are his tactics. An appalling economist, like the rat, it is his combat which redeems him.

As you will probably have discovered from this walkthrough, each character has their own personality traits, use of strategies and tactics, and most personally used unit. In the Caliph’s case, he often uses his deadly yet stealthy assassins. These units are capable of going unseen by their enemies for a short time, which is extremely useful for sneaking among archers’ line-of-fire, without being shot at. Their deadly scimitar swords can easily cut through unarmed units e.g. archers and spearmean. You must be aware, however, that once you give away your position by means of attack, you cannot regain your concealment.

So you must plan your attacks with care, if you treat an attack carelessly then it is likely to result in your assassins' murder. So by using your assassins for the right purpose, you can bring any castle to its knees. If you use archers to eliminate some of the castles’ defenders, then you would be in with an almost definite chance of winning. As assassins are not immune to attacks, they will eventually fall in battle, so using them in heavy battle would not be to your advantage.

6 ) THE WOLF – His ability to combine tactics with strategy is of phenomenal value to him, whilst he faces his adversaries. He is a war-hardened, experienced solider whose skills in engaging quickly and efficiently, in brute force, should not go unnoticed. He will widely put to use his swordsmen, in both the defence of his castle, and the seizing of other castles. As he is experienced in swordsmanship, he understands fully the methods of rank-to-rank fighting; once in a battle, control is at once seized by him.

As with so many of the warrior-type characters, he is unable to run a castle efficiently. He can build awe-inspiring fortresses with ease, which withstand the fearsome weaponry of the desert. Although this does not guarantee him popularity with his peasants.

Treating your peasants well is a vital skill for castle success, and if you abuse your follower’s needs, you will soon have a popularity battle on your hands! A castle is as good as defeated if the inhabitants despise their kingdom, so working with them and fulfilling their needs (even when it seems hard at times with insufficient funds, and lack of food) will be highly rewarding to you.

Engaging in heavy combat with this fearful opponent, is not a wise idea. His weak points lie, as I have said, in his growing popularity problems. You can add to his problems by means of cutting off his food supply, which will put him at even greater peril with his people. Sabotaging a castle’s mineral supplies, such as the various farms, quarries, iron mines (buildings which are likely to be out of the castle’s walls), result in a lack of resources, preventing him from building other structures. This is useful for bringing the castle’s economy down, which is a deadly tactic to use in the desert. If the castle loses its peasants, as opposed to lack of food etc, it will not be able to recruit new soliders in the heat of battle. The castle will then be prone to conquer.

7) RICHARD THE LIONHEART – This historic figure always likes to have a good fight and therefore proves to be a terrifying opponent. In Stronghold Crusader you will find, that as you play through the ‘Crusader Trial’, Richard the Lionheart is normally your faithful, yet grave ally. He tends to be more willing to help you attack one of your adversaries, which can prove extremely useful when trying to take down a powerful lord.

He will deploy mixtures of Arabian and European troops - a powerful combination. Using your troops to cover each other in battle, i.e. the distance-firing Arabian archers, to cover the shorter-range, yet deadly crossbow men; is of great value. One of the Lionheart’s most commonly used tactics, is that of intrusion and siege. He makes impressive use of catapults in tearing a castle’s walls down, and its hordes of troops within.

Fighting against this character is a tough challenge. You want him to fight alongside you, rather than against you.

8) SALADIN – The most powerful Lord in all of the Arabian lands, Saladin is a born economist and warrior. His power in the economy reflects upon his image on the battlefield, as he is a very strategic thinker. He is a extremely dangerous and formidable enemy, as he can satisfy his troops and people with ease.

He engages sensibly in battle with well-deployed troops protecting weaker ones, a very clever yet simple tactic. The backbone of his inspiring army is the horse archer, who is capable of both shooting and riding at the same time. They run circles around the slow, opposing troops whilst their plagues of arrows rain down on the unlucky culprits. They also surround castles, picking off the archers and other defenders. Once that is done, the more powerful units can finish the Lord off. However, when the horse archers are thrown into close combat they are certainly at loss. Using them wisely, like the mighty Saladin, will bring great strength to your armies.

I hope my walkthrough has proved useful to you in covering both the basic and more advanced skills, enabling you to defeat your enemies and run your own castle efficiently and successfully.

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