Thread 2094972

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>>2094972 (OP)
Looks like shit

>>2094974
nope, looks alright. Won't pay for the same game though... what, five times now? They're not Todd and Stronghold ain't Skyrim.

>>2094974
dont be so negative, it hurts your beauty

>>2094972 (OP)
is it fun

I completely forgot this board even exist. I'll pick up the game after work, hopefully the new campaign and the new lords are good. At least the multiplayer won't hopefuly be a pain in the ass to set up

>>2095032
>At least the multiplayer won't hopefuly be a pain in the ass to set up
yeah its cozy already played some coop with me mate

>Can change your color now
10/10

>>2094974
It does look like shit, doesn't it

New units are hopelessly overpowered and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. Old mercenary units are completely pointless now, and from the old Stronghold roster only crossbowmen make any sense to recruit, even if only for defending.

>>2095000
Yes! Been plaiyng the new timed skirmish trail and I thought the timer would be annoying, but it actually keeps me trying the same missions again to optimise my play

It honestly looks terrible.
It looks worse than the stronghold remaster.
What happened here? The artstyle is all weird looking.

>>2095636
yeah, they fucked up the color palette big time. Funnily enough, the old version looks more realistic than the new one because of that fuck up.

Remaster looks way too cartoony.

>>2094972 (OP)
>>2094976
>>2095636
Warcraft 3 Reforged tier

>>2095628
>>2095636
>>2095812
>>2095825
>>2095828

kill weebs behead weebs piss on weebs graves

>>2095636
What retard put all that shit around their stockpile wtf

kekw

>>2096149
> some kike looking cunt asking for personal details

What did they mean by this?

>>2096149
oy vey

>dumbass streamer tries stronghold
>his friend is like "do not go to the lobby, there is questionable content there"
>the questionable content:

>>2096058
Good morning saar

>>2096599
kekw

>>2096583
I just used my protonmail for that.

It's been fun so far, but I have to relearn the entire game. Knight spamming still seems to be still OP at least

>>2096815
>Knight spamming
>OP
oh boy...

>>2095628
>>2096058
but they're right, it looks like shit

Looks like AI art. It's too soft looking and lacks definition.

>>2096149
>>2096798
go back to /v/ you raped bitch

>>2096839
shut up weeb we dont care about you here.

Anyone up for some coop this fine weekend?

>>2097310
a message, from the snake:

>>2097485
A MESSAGE FROM THE RAT
Maps have been drawn. Plans.... have been made. No one will escape your PATHETIC settlement

>play crusader online for the first time
>find out you can call your opponent "weasel turd"
they really don't make 'em like this anymore

is this better than the 3d crusader? i found the game speed and some of the units animations so odd

Am I supposed to be playing the campaign, the skirmish trails, or just plain skirmishes?
What is the main mode (no i am not playing PVP)

>Definitive Edition
>Enhanced Edition
>Complete Edition
All fucking scams

Why does it look so blurry compared to the stronghold remaster?

I love these little fuckers like you wouldnt belive

>>2097786
only way to preserve original artstyle without having lowres jagged edges

>Eunuch is the best unit 1v1
Is this an attempt at subtle pro-troon propaganda?

>>2097755
settle down, grandpa

Does this game have sieges and stuff? I love battles from the siege of gondor, helmsdeep and stuff where I protect a fortress or a town or maybe try to take one down with my army.

Is this game good for noobs that haven't touched the genre before?

>>2097755
You forgot extreme edition. They've made one good game they came back to re release every few years because all the sequels were shit and bombed.

>>2097533
Thou art an artless greasy tallow-catch

>cant use formations, have to move units as a big blob
2025 everyone, cant even add a fucking simple QOL change. LET ME DRAG MY UNITS OUT INTO A LINE
LET ME ATTACK MOVE

>>2097925
>Does this game have sieges and stuff? I love battles from the siege of gondor, helmsdeep and stuff where I protect a fortress or a town or maybe try to take one down with my army.
It's almost entirely sieges.
>Is this game good for noobs that haven't touched the genre before?
Yes.

>>2097885
>Axe wounded troon is still a testosterone roid monster.
B-based?

>>2097562
100x better
Night and day difference

Is there really no one who wants to play some coop?

>>2098928
Multiplayer is broken and didn't work lol
Go play the original on hamachi

>>2098928
im up for it, dude, give me your steam fren code.

>>2094972 (OP)
Few thoughts on new AI lords

>Nomad
Low tier. Recruits Bedouin units exclusively, and not the more expensive ones. Quite aggresive, attacks early on, but never with enough troops to actually inflict any lasting damage as long as you're ready. The most interesting thing about him are his castles, or, more precisely the fact that he doesn't build castles. What he does is he puts walls here and there, but leaves massive openings in places where you'd expect a tower or a gate. I suppose it's in line with his nomad gimmick, but that dooms him to low tier, only slightly better than the Sultan. I also think he doesn't build wells
>Jewel
Richard Lionheart with some Bedouin units to spicy things up. Not much to say about her, really. Her castles are bit bigger than Richard's.
>Sentinel
The Pig or the "small castle" variant of the Wolf, depending on the map. Relies on European units, but also recruits Bedouin destroyers and medics. His castles are cross shaped, and they look really cool, but other than that, not groundbreaking in any way. Competent, not quite the Wolf or Frederick, but definetely on par with the Pig, if not better
>Kahin
Mixes and matches Bedouin and Arab units (mostly the archers). Plently of chapels and gallows around her castles, which are build with short walls. She's bit like the Caliph, but without swiftness and brutality to justify building very light defenses. Still, firmly mid tier. The most interesting lords from the new batch

The devs are clearly running out of ideas, as there's not much more you can do with Stronghold AI lords without giving them crippling gimmicks. Four more lords will be released this years, but I don't see it.

>>2099018
The main issue about the lords is the shitty limited AI. I wish they could implement a tool so players can make proper AI lords.

Right now, im playing the belvoir castle delaying tactics mission, and shit is brutal, i dont know how the fuck approach it, there is no time to build anything and the 2 attacks are kinda stupidly hard.

>>2099136
Oh, i won, but i think i had to cheese it by making a hole in my wall.

>>2099142
I put like 4-5 circle towers around the walls with ballistas and started spamming xbows and archers

>>2094972 (OP)
I think games like no option for diplomacy and that dark fantasy they are billions clone pretty much made this siege defence RTS genre obsolete for me

>>2099159
No time for spam, nor for build 5 towers with ballistas. I rushed it and all i could get for the first battle was 5 swordmen + 3 ballistas in square towers + 2 xbows.

>>2099046
You're in luck.

>>2097836
Put 100 of these guys on your walls and the only thing you have to worry about are siege engines, but only if AI is smart enough not to bring engineers into shooting range

>>2094972 (OP)
Looks soulless and shit but more importantly, what does it offer the free HD upgrade that came after original? Does it offer some automation maybe to minimise the micro? I mean its 2k25. Why would I pick this up owning already HD versions?
>>2095636
Man this looks horrible, surely you can switch to original graphics in this demaster?

>>2099142
>>2099196
did you crank up the sharpness by 1000% or something? why does it look so different from the official screenshots?

>>2099274
from what i have seen you can finally recruit more than one unit at a time and auto sell/buy stuff from the market which is a genius tier qol addition

Okay, i caved in and bought it.
It's actually way better than i thought. The screenshots don't do it justice. It looks much better ingame plus all the QOL features are actually fantastic.

t. actual crusader lord

>>2099676
The remaster is crap, multiplayer is broken, and all the known bugs and shitty AI behavior are still there.

>>2100013
bot post

>>2100055
bot post

>>2098995
you first

>>2100603
you first

>>2100630
are you a euro? not gonna play with lagmericans

>>2100013
>all the known bugs and shitty AI behavior are still there
Jesus Christ be praised!

>100K sales in two weeks
Yeah we're so back.
Sucks that I can't train Bedouin units in the original Crusader trail though.

I'm having fun with this

Devs refused to cooperate with UCP devs. Its joever, they will not deliver proper AI in our lifetime

>>2101296
Roadmap says they plan to let everyone make their own AI lords

what speed setting is everyone playing at?

>>2101377
70 is sexo.

>>2101296
Sad, the UCP is way better than this slop. All AI habe so much more spice in the UCP and their lategame scaling is wild. Auto trading is nice though and I never want to play without it ever again.

>>2101545
autotrading is going to make the game way too easy

buildings are on fire, sire!

>>2101792
did you screw with it or is that how it looks in-game?
it just looks *too* smooth.

>>2101796
wdym? its footage straight from the game

Starting doing the coop trails with one of my friends. Pretty fun.

>>2101712
>too easy
Against the current bots autotrading surely makes the game way to easy - once you understand how OP crossbows, beer and bread are, the game is easymode anyways and no more pain in the ass micro management for those economic chains makes it so much a
simpler. No more need for any kind of farmland. However: if you had the UCP AIs with their steriod maxxed scaling , concentrating an micromanaging battle instead of pressing M and smashing your mouse to get rid of stones would be much more fun. Also in PVP the autotraung really helps.

What I'd really love to see, would be troops being affected not only by fear factor but also requiring food and maybe money for some units. Imagine the food and ale bonusses would also affect your troops strength, with certain OP troops requiring more food than others. This would balance the exonomic vs military aspects of the game much better and catapult spam could be limited like this

>>2094972 (OP)
>>2094974
looks like soulless ass

Autotrade broke the game. You can autobuy 1 bread, and put double rations on for virtually free 8+ without food supply.

>>2102094
>No more need for any kind of farmland
how do you get the base ingredients for bread and bear then?

>>2102296
soulful bugs like these is why we love stronghold

>>2102179
The screenshots don't do it justice. I noticed ingame it looks pretty much exactly like the original. Execept for knights, they look like shit for some reason.

>>2102296
Once your population is above 60, buying the incredients for ale and bread will refinance their value. Just set up 1 mill, 8 bakeries, 3 breweries and 2 Inns and set the autotraider to always have at least one wheat and hop on stock and the tax income will refinance the wheat. Thats it. Buy wood, transform it into corssbows, than sell the crossbows. Thats how you profit in the game. Simple as - always works. Population 58, buy wheat and hops, set up breweries and Inns, set up 1 mill and 8 backeries, Granary on -4, Ale +8, taxes -4 while buying wood and selling crossbows is how you 'break' the game.

spearchuckers op?

>>2102766
All the Bedouin units are absurdly overpowered

>Can't figure out how autotrading works because I'm retarded so I'm still manually selling everything when the stockpile starts to fill up like a troglodyte
I move the slider and nothing happens please help me.

>>2103034
here is a video on the subject for troglodytes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UURRBRALGY

Why did they never release "Stronghold Japan"?
The weebs would have loved it.

>>2103838
Japanese castles were mostly earthworks. Probably much harder to simulate in a fun way.

I can't stop playing. This game is one of the comfiest RTS games ever made.

>>2103838
more like why cant we got a stronghold with eu middle east asia and meso america factions

Refunded it after I saw non existent multiplayer.

>>2094972 (OP)
DE doesn't retain any of the difficulty. You can go ahead and buy the better original for cheap on GOG. It is more fun.

>>2103838
they called it Warlords

>>2104292
bot post

>>2104292
What are you talking about? The game is incredibly difficult. The new missions are borderline impossible.

>>2104861
>The game is incredibly difficult. The new missions are borderline impossible.
Its not, the AI is so stupid and it has some game breaking bugs like the 1 bread/ale auto buy exploit.

>>2104916
t. brown ESL

>>2094972 (OP)
>two decades later
>knights still don't attack while moving to match the horse archer

>>2104861
Don't bother, some retards buy games with the intent of finding exploits and bugs to make things easy, and then complain about it publicly.

They think that in doing so others will see them and think
>wow he found all those exploits and bugs? he's so smart

whats the appeal of playing these stronghold games in single player? trials suck and skirmish also sucks

>>2104991
you suck

>>2104991
trails is fun in a long journey way. I tried to beat the maps as quick as possible in terms of game years and that kind of grind actually felt like you were on a grueling crusade with how shitty some of the maps were if you didn't know the tricks.

Dang, just finished the historical campaigns. What a grueling experience that was.

>>2101377
Depends on how much I am fucking up in the moment

Any tips for the extreme trail? Getting overwhelmed quickly by the outpost spam.

>>2105072
use the magic powers from Stronghold Extreme to kill them asap :)

>send dickpic to girl
>she replies "not enough wood, m'lord"

>>2102296
>>2104916
Can you elaborate? Wouldn't you still pay for it? How is it free?

>>2094972 (OP)

How to finish campaigns:

1. Horse archers
2. Horse archers
3. Horse archers

They actually do more damage than regular archers, though not as much as crossbowmen, of course. About 100 or so are enough to kill even swordsmen in due time. Always keep them moving. Move them perpendicular to or away from enemy arrows. Don't spam click when moving them, they pause shooting when you click.

>>2105658
This game does a pretty good job of showing how broken horse archers were.

>>2105658
>>2105660
skirmishers mulch them pretty hard

Surely they will now keep using this engine for future games instead of going back to the 3d shit, right?

>>2105675
anon, they are using unreal engine for the next version of stronghold...

>>2105571
She is asking for more pictures you retard.

>>2103591
Thanks for the vid. Turns out I was accidentally turning it off with one extra mouse click. Blessings on your Crusades, friend.

>>2105651
Because of how the game works. If you have 1 bread, your peasants will not starve, increasing the ration size only increases the rate of food depletion ticks, but if you have 1 unit of food it will by default go to 0 and not decrease your population until the next tick (you will always have 1 unit of food regardless due to autobuying) so you will only consume 1 unit of food per check instead of whatever you would normally consume if you had more. Same with ale.

>>2105914
it should be really easy to fix this bug, but the team has proved over and over again they are an incompetent bunch of niggers.

>>2105914
it will actually go down over time. you either have to reduce taxes to 6 or get +1 from some other source

>>2105658
1.Movable shields
2.Crossbows
You're gay

My thoughts:

Auto trader, build over peasants, recruit multiple at once are huge qol update

Enemies are fun. More distinct and memorable than half of the second batch of enemies (like frederick, philipp, sheriff). Though I find sentinel's voice/character design doesnt fit the game

I don't think those huge ass maps work for this game (at least single player)

Walking distance has a huge impact on economy. Now AI lords not only build only one or two quarries now they're 5 times as ineffective because the are half across the map

In original crusader I played mostly in zoomed in mode - here in zoomed out (due to map size) and the design just doesn't work well zoomed out

90 speed is too slow if your troops take ages to move across the map

New troops are fun

Conclusion: firefly should have had updated crusader hd with auto trade/recruit multiple; close shop and release the code so modders can make crusader great again

>>2106109
>90
adhd niggas be crazy, i play on 60 at most

>>2106056
shields cannot onto walls/towers anymore

>>2106116
I change it up depending on what's happening.
>50 is my default where I normally keep it
>But, 10 at the very start so I can think and place my buildings without having to rush, especially on small maps where some land or resources are scarce and the AI just slaps buildings down on top of them at light speed
>Also, 90 when defences are set and I'm just trying to let gold and resources pile up and no major battles are happening

So many maps where there's just no point setting up an economy, especially in extreme trials

Once again i am asking for euro coop players

i hate normalfags so much
you are the reason we are in a cultural dark ages rn
its exactly the same game (worse if its also on unity like the previous one) as the one that already was working perfectly fine, yet you will only check something old if its sold to you a second time

>>2106909
stfu you dumb contrarian, i still have my physical copy of crusader but the remaster is objectively nicer to play with all the qol changes

>>2106918
there are no qol changes needed in stronghold, its a self sufficient game.
Placing buildings on top of children and drunkards would have been nice but they didnt address that im sure.
While porting on unity for no fucking reason they removed the terraforming ability from their previous "remaster" where you could flatten the elevation by placing walls and then a tower on top, and their new campaign was complete trash. You are a sucker.

>>2105658
what if i tell you that you can cripple most AI's by placing a free (you have to remove all the rest first) lumberjack in front of their main gate. Or you could in the original at least.

>>2106940
you could also make them ignite their own castle this way

>>2105658
catapult spam is more fun
and have a chance of going horribly wrong too

>>2106933
>Placing buildings on top of children and drunkards would have been nice but they didnt address that im sure

source? Seriously, are you lying?

>>2106933
>Placing buildings on top of children and drunkards would have been nice but they didnt address that im sure.
but you can do that
since you did not play the game this will be the last (you)

>>2107071
it is better thoughbeit

i want this game so much but im saving moneys

>>2104304
I didn't even notice that they made a new game, how is it like?

>>2107071
>idiots will still buy it

As long as retards keep buying, they will keep doing it

>>2107929
I stopped buying their games long ago, but mixed on steam

Just glad I can change my color without mods now.

>>2108199
That's a picture of crusader hd version though?

>>2108309
That's DE you fucktard. Look at the swordsmen.

>>2108311
faggot behavior

>>2108329
I will fuck you in the ass like a arabian swordsman.

you seem agitated for some reason

>>2108311
>>2108330

>>2108386
>Enjoy
No, but it is what it is.

>>2108330
why do you fuck men in the ass, anon?

>2108386
>tranime

>>2109013
anime weebsite

>>2109010
There's nothing more manly. It is the true display of masculinity. Making someone your bitch.

>>2099212
They're selling DLC for this old game? How fucking shameless can you be? Is it not enough you charged people for the same game 50 times already?

>Fixed the auto-trade / food exploit
OH NO NO NO

>>2103034
>>2105770
I did that too and had to look up that guide

>>2109556
fug i am a shitter and relied heavily on that

Can the people crying over UCP tell me what they are missing specifically? Never played it.

>>2099248
>Giving tactical advice
This game was solved long ago, if you just want to win you can ignore most of the units, only use horse archers with shields, catapults, assassins, knights if you have the money and rarely macemen. Crossbowmen are useless because you can just spam 30 catapults in one single spot and destroy any building very quickly (for that matter, you can easily kill entire armies with catapults effortlessly). Or spam horse archers with shields since they're cheaper you can always outnumber the crossbowmen, there's no reason to ever use them (unless you're playing for fun).

i solved the game

>>2110366
bump

>>2094972 (OP)
buy an ad

So is every fight in the Extreme Trial literally just spamming Rock Throw and Gold Printer until you win?

>>2111439
thats how i played it

Mission 18 of the extreme trail was pretty funny. 19 was very difficult.
The ending of the crusade is kino.
>>>/wsg/5941288

what is your favorite unit/voiceline?

>>2113684
Move you dogs! - Maceman.

And AI voicelines, the pig, i love that ugly bastard.

>>2113684
>great use of our time, lord
https://youtu.be/jL1OOOOMQdQ?list=PLtStx0VRuZq21mIjC9ykuCdyEIG2Kxejx&t=23

>>2114789
ok but the ai still doesn't play the game so 100% of the challenge is scripted unit spawns

>>2115720
>but the ai still doesn't play the game
what did he mean by this

The new female lords are atrociously bad.

>>2114789
I am confused? Is the Canary meant to have leprosy? Is this some weird genderbent Baldwin IV?

>>2119118
looks more like the pox no?

>>2114789
>>2119118
>>2119229
Place your bets on what kind of character she will be.
So far we have
>jewel aka strong grrrl power
>kunthin aka kill all men

>>2114789
>economic campaign
has that always been a thing? i never could get into stronghold because i hated the combat, but i really liked everything i saw from the economy, even the fact that you have to produce weapons for the troops.
if i were to go and pick up stronghold right now, is there any way i can only play the economic aspect (like scenarios or campaigns) or do i have to wait for this update?

>>2119325
i'm going with quirk chungus
screencap this

>>2119329
sh1 has an eco campaign out of the box iirc but crusader will only have one after the next update

>>2119357
coolio, thanks

The Sheriff is a Historically accurate Anglo.

>>2120884
fr

I like fighting the Abbot, mostly because its fun to turn fat monks into porcupines.
Those monks are quite bad, but they kill walls surprisingly fast.

>>2128115
Monks have the highest dps in the game.

>>2094972 (OP)
There is some guy on youtube, rolling 7 hard AIs with just cavalry archers and assassins, that it? game solved?

>>2128419
no because you need trillions to fund that strat which is not always viable or possible

>>2119118
looks like a teenager with acne to me

>>2128115
Too bad you only need to destroy his cathedral to cripple him, as he's often too poor to build another one. Still, not bad for low/middle tier AI lord

>>2115720
I'm sure having 30 different AIs spamming horse archers and catapults would be fun

Anyone up for some friendly coop?
(no americans)

>>2128642
They actually fixed some of the bugs but there was an uproar and they reverted the fixes.

>devs do something
>rts niggers riot
>devs do nothing
>rts niggers riot
Really can't win with you faggots

Already spent hundreds of hours playing it in my childhood so not buying it but im glad that new memes are being made about it

this is a god tier top quality shitpost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmutyrc2os4&list=RDFmutyrc2os4&start_radio=1

>>2132929
Why? Do you think if you replay games you have played before you get arrested by the fun police?

The video is dope though.

>>2132935
i feel ive already spent enough time on it and cant squeeze any more joy out of it, got better things to do than hear the caliph scream INFIDEL at me for the 1000th time

>>2132937
INFIDEL

>food is dwindling sire
>It really isn't
send him to the stockade

>>2095636
>hills stand out from the flat terrain
>iron mines blend into the iron so they're fucking camouflaged
>vegetation looks plain worse somehow
Other than that it's fine I guess.
Not buying regardless. I don't buy sòymakes.

>>2096812
Literally what difference does it make?

>>2134770
Nothing, you just get a cool new lord sprite that can be used in multiplayer.

>>2134768
the screenshots are really weird. everything posted here looks like ass but ingame it looks just like the original

>>2134916
I meant protonmail. What does using protonmail change

>>2135090
>make proton alias
>send mail
>delete alias
>never get any mail from firecuck ever again

New patch added lots of keybinds which are very nice and useful.
Still working on binding everything.

the original still looks better

>>2139075
The Original looked like this? What game have I been playing these last 20-ish years!?

>>2097755
I enjoyed Stronghold 2

>>2140303
It was ok if you didn't get stuck in a dung death spiral.

>>2138500
Did they fix firebalistas?

>>2105658
This is why I don't like Crusader. Too much broken shit.
Also it's all ugly deserts instead of pretty woodlands.

>>2147561
I just can't get over the ugly yellow. The original game is so much comfier

>>2147561
He's talking out of his ass tho. 100 horse archers aren't enough to take out couple of towers with archers (the critical mass is around 150-250) and for ~10000 gold you could just as easily bring a shitload more of arabic or even regular archers or just bruteforce it with maceman or monks. The real bastard brings mobile shields with his horsemen and keeps them stationary since they do only half their damage while still. Painful as fuck to deal with unless you have a full battery of like 12+ tower mangonels. Also the new heavy camels are significantly better at this.

>>2147277
What the hell am I supposed to take from this subhuman toilet water gobbledygook?

The people LOATHE you sire.

>>2094972 (OP)
I quite like it honestly. The new graphics are hit or miss and it was a pain in the ass to get used to the revamped controls but autosell and mass recruitment are just that convenient.

>>2147351
Yes!

>>2147940
wdym, the new hotkeys make the game 200% better on top of mass rec and autosell
honestly turning out to be a really good remaster

>>2148346
First the new beech trees and the new arabic lords, especially the female ones are painful to look at. The people that did voice acting for them should be stoned to death. The controls? The "modern" scheme switches your mouse buttons around.

>>2148504
modern is objectively better but if you don't like you don't have to use it. what exactly are you complaining about here?
i will admit the new lords (female ones especially) are garbage

>>2148960
I'm not complaining anon. I'm saying it was a pain in the ass for me since I'm conditioned to the old system.

where is the update????

I DID IT SISTERS!

>>2153677
Me too. ~20 years ago :)

>>2153677
nice, how long did it take you?

>>2153826
about 50 hours I think, this game gets incredibly repetive since pretty much every game is either
>rush ai with troops bought with starting money
or
>turtle until you have about 200 horse archers and then crush the ai

the new sands of time trials they added are brutally hard so might take a while until I complete those

>>2155235
>brutally hard
I mean kinda. You just need to learn the new lords.

>>2155235
>turtle until you have about 200 horse archers and then crush the ai
this is exactly why i play stronghold but the new time trials dont really allow you to do this which i find upsetting
t. boomer

>>2155382
Sure they do. How the hell do you suppose I beat them?

>>2156902
>>2155382
I just setup one of these within the first two minutes and add a block of 6-8 balista towers in the main approach. Archers instead of crossbows if they like spamming nomads and light camels. Couple of ambushers here and there. The cost is from 1000g and 40ish stone to 4-5k gold if you want some ambushers, xbows over archers and to get the churches going. Import wheat, autosell excess bread, go max dread for spectacular profit and swarm him with assassins or whatever 10-15 minutes in.

>>2156922
That is just cheesing the game. If you use mazes to beat the game, you didn't beat the game.

>>2156987
I prefer bread but cheese is fine too. Leather armor is basically free money.

Also, that's discount isle cheese spread at best.

>>2096599
A jewish yoke
on muttoid neck

Nomad has to be the best ai lord they ever made, the absolute gigachad doesn't give a shit about economy or castle building and just starts rushing with skirmisher forcing the player to cheese harder and harder on every new sands of time trial

>>2156922
did you crank up the sharpness to 1000%?

>>2157392
He is an interesting lord for sure. I like how he peppers the inside of his "castle" with the murder hole traps.

>>2094974
fpbp

I have all the other versions of this game. Is this one worth buying then?

>>2157417
yes, the qol improvements are def. worth it

>>2157417
Yes. Old games copied exactly as they were with qol options and some new content in the old style for the more hardcore fans
This is probably the objectively best remaster ever made and all criticism boils down to "muh pointy knees would not fuck"

>>2157417
Just pirate brother.

>>2157403
Nope. I play with a 3rd party overlay to make it less sharp but that doesn't translate into screencaps.

>>2157764
it's 20 bucks for a legit fantastic remaster, "brother"

>>2157977
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I trigger you by misgendering you or do you find my reply to that anon who specifically asked whether it's worth rebuying the same game they released dozen times already but now with AI upscaling, poz and admittedly some nice but minor qol?

Meds pal.

>>2158006
>making an image just to reply
holy seethe lmao

>>2158009
...you know you're browsing an imageboard, right? Now if you want to pull your head out of your ass and have a normal conversation I don't mind. Firefly hasn't made a decent let alone a good game in decades now, original stronghold had as many as 15 goddamn separate (re)releases counting original crusader, 5 of them being remasters of one description or another. A freemium browser version, a separate freemium online only version and another 6-7 being compilations, minor mission/lord packs and even bundles and combinations of previous releases. All same game with a palette swap at best. You really going to say with a straight face that's a company worth supporting in any capacity?

Worth it on sale?

>>2156987
>static defences
>IN MY STATIC DEFENCE GAME!?!?!?!

>use starting gold to buy 15-20 crossbow men
There, now the ai will never be able to beat you and you can build up your horse archer horde in peace

>>2158210
t. never played the game

>>2158464
Ĺiterally just beat the last sands of time though, sucks to suck scrub

>>2158210
This. Maybe some archers as well if you have multiple nomads on the maps for the slaves and light camels not fucking with your bakeries.

>oh the game just started
>time to attack with 100 skirmishers
t. nomad

at last it's done and let me just say one thing
I HATE THE NOMAD I HATE THE NOMAD I HATE THE NOMAD I HATE THE NOMAD I HATE THE NOMAD I HATE THE NOMAD I HATE THE NOMAD I HATE THE NOMAD I HATE THE NOMAD

>>2159249
skill issue

>>2159249
Loved these trials, while other remakes usually remove or change content this one actually adds tons.
You can do the co-op trial with ai lord as a partner and it's probably even harder than sands of time

I acquired this game, but i will not touch it until the AI improves.

>>2159267
i mean its nice you can play them with an ai but having a friend to play with would be nice...

>>2159293
You'll get starting position with no resources surrounded by 5 nomads

>>2159590
And? That nigga is hard countered by basic ass archers.

>>2160920
skirms trade really well with archers

>>2160938
Why are you trading shots on the ground? Get like 50 of them on a tower and laugh as they pepper 80% of them before they get to chuck their spear. Works well against light camels too.

>>2160948
how do you have 50 archers on big towers at the start of the game when 5 nomads rush you with 30 skirms each and you have no starting gold or res?

>>2160957
Because that's not going to happen and you're exaggerating? You'll start with *at least* 1k gold and a bit of wood and stone. Get a market, flip the stone, buy wheat > flour > bread. Flip bread into more wheat and gold for a profit. Mirco handle the tax so you're in the black but still have some income. Between the starting 1k, the bread profit and the tax you should have enough for ~20-30 archers (about 3k gold) some 2-3 minutes in. By 5-10 minutes in you should have enough for 35 stone for your first square tower, a church and a cath so managing tax is easier than ever. Continually increase your archer count even by increments of 1-2.
Alternative if you're really that scared of early rush you can get a bunch of slingers and a handful of horse archers. Both of those will mulch any nomad raids. And that's if you literally have NO resources available including farmable land or iron nearby.

Nomad is annoying because of his cancer camels making a beeline towards your granary but he has zero metal armor so no xbows needed, he makes no siege units so no balista needed, he has no archers so firethrowers and slingers are viable and he has no notion of surrounding his keep so you can invest in some armored arab swords or whatever and rush him if you're playing one of those 5k starting money maps. The resources you get from his defeat will pay for that investment on their own.

>>2160957
2k which is the minimum starting gold buys you 15 crossbowmen or 40 bowmen

>>2161066
I think it's closer to 1720 for 40 archers or 1545 for 15 crossbows counting recruitment cost and buying gear off the market (+15 stone for the barracks you usually start with) so you could squeeze even more than that.

Sands of time trials made me realize just how inefficient making food is, ONE(1) fucking brewerery and hops farm is enough for 120 people

Oy Vey! How will I ever deal with this man?!

>>2162805
you obviously have a billion horse archers just offscreen
stop being disingenuous

>>2163010
>he doesn't recognize ballista bolts

>>2163021
thats actually on me, shamefur dispray

>>2163130
Are you going to perform sudoku when you realize those are tower ballistas?

Why are there 3 different versions of each game? Which one should I get?

>>2095486
I just turned it off.
>uff you're supposed to rush it l33t eeeeeshports alta!!!1
Don't care. I like making a pretty castle and playing with my food.

>>2163791
Gog version if you can't handle tumblr coopting the studio, new versions if you want a smoother experience with the new qol bells and whistles.

>>2163799
but then how will you get the cheeeevos?

>>2164207
...you actually care for that crap? You buyfags are silly.

>>2094974
Kek

Where is the fucking autumn patch????

>>2102094
The game has alwats been simple when comparing the industry investment of bakeries vs 3/4 apple farms

>>2102094
Crossbows are only good versus metal armor and arabic archers straight up beat them even vs mail units like arabic swords. Beer sucks ass since it nerfs your productivity and it's one hops for one keg vs one flour for 5 bread per cycle. Where it's at is selling bread and religion.

>>2097940
>They've made one good game they came back to re release every few years because all the sequels were shit and bombed.
The company is probably ran by retards.
All they have to do is just take Crusader and reskin it into a Rome or Diadochi era style with it's own Stronghold 1 style campaign and some new mechanics and it would 100% sell well.
The switch to 3D made their games look like low budget shovelware and they play as such.

The autumn update is finally here!
https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/20373049/

>>2173800
2 days late

okay so tried this shit for the first time but...Why are maps so fucking tiny?? I selected the biggest skirmish for 8 players and I can literally target the enemy from my spawn stronghold

crocs are crazy strong especially in the eco campaign
they chomp through spearmen easily

>fire every fucking minute
economic campaign is pure fucking cancer

>>2173911
Try using swords to move across it or don't move your stockpile to that iron patch in the other corner and you'll change your mind real quick

I call it the 'cock and balls' castle layout

>>2182490
why?

>>2182877
First you're going to call me a dick for building it and then you'll say balls trying to take it.

>>2182490
>>2182913
Where is your castle?

>>2182918
I imagine you can see it...

>>2182923
https://files.catbox.moe/5lc6mf.ogg

>>2183109
I'm not interested in hearing you moan anon but thanks for the offer.

>>2183145
just click on it you dork

>>2183195
No.

>>2183109
>>2183224
>>2183145
It's just the genie saying "Where is your castle?" in a mocking tone.

>>2184143
*laughs behind over 9000 bakeries*

>>2099018
So I've tried more AI lords

>Canary
What if the Rat wasn't a joke character but a low tier AI? You may be attacked by 100 spearmen instead of 20, and she uses the killing pits, which will get you the first time you're playing against her, but otherwise she's barely a threat
>the Trader
What if the Sultan was somewhat competent? He's a lot like Emir, focuses on economy, but still fields a sizeable army, and of course he relies on Bedouin units. Also points for actually putting ballistae on towers
>the Crocodile
I like his personality but other than that he's the Snake, but instead of Arab units he recruits Bedouin. Lightly defended castles, modest economy, nothing to write home about

Personally I'm waiting for something on a par with the Wolf or Saladin, so far we're getting low tier and mid tier lords

>>2185950
The only AI that put me out of my comfort zone was one of the goatfuckers from the warchest I believe. The one that spams a gorillion assassins.

>>2185950
wolf has a nice castle but otherwise he is very tame
the most annoying are the arab guys with a gorillion towers and moats

What keybinds do you guys use?
>shift+1-5 towers
>ctrl+qwert build recruitment buildings
>qwert select recruitment buildings
>z build stairs
>x build wall
>c build crenelated wall
>v build smol wall

>>2185950
Saladin and Wolf are both pretty mid though, it takes forever for them to attack and they do it in too small numbers to ever matter
Nomad is the best ai lord by far because he rushes

>>2186314
M for market is pretty much it

>>2094975
How will they otherwise keep generating money when every sequel game sucks

You know this might be more cost effective than horse archers + assassins

>>2186339
>Nomad is the best ai lord by far because he rushes
Come on, that's the only thing he has, without it he'd be firmly in the lowest tier with the Rat and the Sultan

>>2186520
What is with this retarded level of sharpness?

>>2187776
Dunno. Can't reduce it in options or anything. What, your game isn't eye shredding?

>>2094972 (OP)
>>2094976
poop

>>2186520
look at >>2094976
there is something wrong with your game

Still no one wanting to play coop?