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Pick a different village stronghold kingdoms12/25/2022 The game incorporates much more building and "community managing" than a traditional RTS, yet allows for a more intense combat experience than city builders have featured in the past. Set in medieval Europe, players establish settlements, build and manage castles and engage in siege warfare. Stronghold is a unique cross between city builders such as Caesar III or Sim City and a RTS in the tradition of Command & Conquer and Age of Empires. Kristen Bowditch Manufacturer's Description All in all, this is definitely more than the sum of its ramparts. The castles are a work of art and you can even get your spearmen to build moats so that you can go for that classic medieval edifice look. And there are some really nice animations (burning buildings and rabbit mutilation aside). The camera is not strictly 3-D, you can view the castle from either, north, south, east or west and to make sure that you can get rid of those annoying chinks in you wall which are hidden behind trees. The developers have added some really great elements and (whisper this) look like they have thought about how people play an RTS and tried to eliminate those frustrating fundamentals that drive you to using the CD as a coaster. You can't mine gold you make it by taxing your peasants and trading your surplus supplies and build such edifices as churches, weaponsmiths, employ soldiers for your army and install a fire brigade.ĭespite the apparent complexity this is a remarkably intuitive game to play. If you want to make bread you need to grow wheat, get it milled into flour and then build some bakeries to make the bread. The economic aspect of the game owes more than a little to city-building sims such as Caesar and Pharaoh and follows a pretty standard RTS resource management formula. In Stronghold your adversary will come ready and armed with ladders and siege engines and will know how to use them. The idea is to build a keep, towers and battlements, which you can use to your strategic advantage and defend against the enemy's forces. But your castle is the central focus and must be defended at all costs. You are a young Knight whose father has been murdered whilst trying to reunite the kingdom. The combat mission is the most story-based of the game elements. The game is set at the height of the feudal system in England there are two missions to play through, the story-based combat mission, or the standalone economic mission. Basically it's a siege sim with some combat and Age of Empires -style resource management thrown in. For those of you who want the splendour of the Dark Ages with none of the side effects-scurvy, the Black Death, being burnt at the stake, etc.-then Stronghold might just be the answer.
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