Stronghold Crusader Walkthrough for PC Games Game Name: Stronghold Crusader Format: 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 ! )