One last point: put some swordsmen in the towers and in the gatehouse to defend your archers. Pitch can reduce a force of 70 man at arms to nothing in some seconds. I played matches where pitch was the decisive factor between victory and defeat. Your enemy could have a much large army than yours, but if they pass by you pitch and you shoot some fire arrows in then, they will all burn and the flames will spread trough anything nearby. You should put pitch around the castle, and this is one of the best defenses you could have. Make sure to put some archers in these towers.Īnd by now your keep is almost done. Round towers are stronger than other and support more soldiers, and siege engines as well, but we will talk about that latter. Build some round towers in the corners of the castle. Now, contract some mercenary archers and put them up in the gatehouse, and put a brazier so they can shoot fire arrows in your enemies.
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You will receive a message saying that the keep is enclosed, and if you don’t hear it, see if you don’t have some crack in your walls by where your enemies can pass. Surround your principal structures with walls – like the granary, the stronghold and the market – and put one large gatehouse. In order to build this last type of wall, you need to get a solid wall first, and you should build high walls and use the lower ones for other purposes. You have three types of walls to build: the low walls, the high walls and the walls with battlements.
Build a market too, in case you need to buy something. Go to places where you found trees and put some woodcutters there. Make sure you are well defended early in the start of the game, because more aggressive players will send assassins to kill your lord when you are still very weak and without a true army. Expand your stockpile and build quarries and iron mines, and houses too because you will need villagers to work. Build a granary and a mercenary post and recruit some assassins or swordsmen to protect your lord.
The oasis are an important part of Stronghold: Crusader, because they are the only farmable terrain in the game. You start with a couple of archers and spearmen, so you should put then up in the stronghold to defend your lord, and start searching for oasis and minerals. So the priority is securing your lord the fastest possible. This lord is the central figure of the game, and if he dies, you lose the game. You start the game with a basic stronghold, some villagers and your lord.