For units such as archers, terrain advantage reigns supreme, and placing them within the fortifications of your newly built castle will give them the ability to rain down hell on your enemies before they can even touch you. Combat has numerous unique qualities that the player can experiment with. While building your economy you will be constantly under attack by the game’s AI and the establishment of defenses is a must. In order to maximize food production your storehouse must be near an oasis, if you want to maximize wood production you need to be near a forest, resources such as stone and iron must also be juggled in these economies where travel time is a crucial factor. Since resources can only be gathered from designated points which are often very distant from one another, the player is forced to make decisions about what resources should be prioritized and what resources should be ignored. In order to optimize the production of bread there needs to be a minimal supply line in the entire process. In order to make bread a peasant needs to take wheat from the farm to the stockhouse, a miller is then responsible for picking up the wheat and converting it into flour which is once again returned to the stockhouse, the flour is then picked up by a baker and turned into bread and finally turned into a granary. These processes take time and the amount of time they take is dependent on the distance of resource producing and resource consuming buildings from the stockpile. Resources such as hops, wheat, and flour need to be dropped off or picked up by peasants. Resources can only be gathered from designated points and all resources that your units gather must inevitably be turned into your stockpile, the problem with the stockpile is that oftentimes you can only have one. This economic micro-management needs to all happen while also mounting defenses against a constant assault by the AI which is almost immediate, and while warding yourself against lightning storms and locust swarms which have a tendency of making your villagers unhappy and setting your buildings on fire.Įconomic micromanagement is not as simple as dropping a chain of buildings and hoping for the best, it is one of the most challenging aspects of the game. As a lord you are tasked with maintaining a population and keeping them content, if the happiness of your fiefdom drops below a certain level so does the population, and with it your labor force and army supply. SC2 is a real-time strategy game, or RTS, which requires the player to juggle numerous elements around them in order to build a powerful economy. Players find themselves returning to the deserts and oases that pepper modern day Israel in order to fight the forces of Saladin and his followers during the Third Crusade. Raiding cavalry that excels against infantry.Stronghold Crusader 2 is the sequel to the highly acclaimed Stronghold Crusader which was released in 2002 by firefly studios. Light infantry unit that can deal area damage. Short-ranged unit, lobs pots of Greek Fire in an area.įragile support unit, restores units' health in an area. Support unit, provides slaves a defense aura. It is hard to destroy, as well as it can spread flames as it may catch fire.įragile unit, used for lighting up buildings. The mercenary post is built of wood, but costs gold to build. Most units are much more expensive than their European counterparts, however.
Mercenaries cost only gold and a peasant to hire, they need neither weapons nor armour to equip. The mercenary post allows to recruit Arabian units with a wide range of unconventional tools and tactics.
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