Stronghold Legends - In game glitch, merlin glitch

(Click on image above to see floating merlin glitch)

SUMMARY OF GAME:

During this online King of the Hill game, I was playing against two T.E.E. Clan members. During the economy building, I noticed that one of the T.E.E. clan members had placed spear men on an empty estate allowing him to take that estate as his when peace time was over. Big cheat. This is the kind of map cheats you have to find on the map preview before the game starts. I failed to notice the extra little dots my enemy's adjacent estate prior to gameplay. Anyways I beat them both of course, but I kept on asking them why the cheated. One of the clan members exclaimed " You have a flying merlin!". I looked around in the map and noticed merlin foating in the air as if he was wielding anti-gravity sandals. Well I disbanded Merlin faster then one can say 'merlin sandals'. That is still no excuse why this T.E.E. member pre-made a map with spear men on one estate. Anyways, this glitch happened when the TEE member used bats against merlin, sending him flying in the air. Merlin just decided to stay up in the air for some reason.

SUMMARY OF GLITCH:

Merlin in air is the result from Merlin being on top of a seige tower while being hit by bats. The glitch happens more often when you try to move Merlin just before he is hit by bats or Percival. This glitch can also happen to ice queen when knocked of seige towers. I presume that this glitch is more dominate in the slow moving ice queen, sorcerer and Merlin because when you move them just before they get hit, the program has to process their movements slower that the reaction time of the percival blast. Who knows. I never was able to perfect this glitch nor understand it. So far, it only works on Percival, the Sorcerer, and Ice Queen.

NOTE: I tryed to take the picture above the best I can, I even did it in sky view. Depth perception is a little off in Stronghold Legends some times, but you can clearly see Merlin floating in air.

Stronghold Legends - Arthur Defense of the Month

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Done by elite 7xt clan member Salvation, this defense was excellent. Notice the smaller archer towers in front of the bigger towers. This was done to protect the bigger archer towers from catapult or trebuchet projectiles.

Stronghold Legends - Pro Game Tutorial

In any multiplayer SHL game, its important to note that seige towers are pivotal to the success of any type of game. In essense, multiplayer games are just seige tower wars. The game above is a perfect example on how to conduct a pro army in a way to beat anyone. The two players in the above skirmish are one of the best in the game. When you fight a death match game, you need to stick to the formula: 12 crossbowmen on 6 towers (called groups). You can add 10 archers for better range, but crossbowmen must be used. Before you begin taking a middle estate, circle, or establish yourself in front of opponents castle, you need at least 3-6 groups. Never stop making groups.

Stronghold legends - King Of The Kill strategy

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS KING OF THE HILL MAP
(To add this map to your multiplayer library, add this file to maps folder. Click on Stronghold Legends folder >>Click on maps>>then add the .slm file to the map folder)

King Of The Hill Strategy

This game was between the best ranked players in Stronghold Legends: Rush (Uaes clan), Holyspirit (Uaes clan), Beast (XT clan) and me King Henry. Notice the small space in middle that was occupied by many crossbowmen, pikemen, seige equipment and special troops. Many times in King of the hill battles, percival will gain an edge in game by blowing away troops that are compacted in small stone circle. To over come this, you need to simply use pikemen and crossbowmen only. When pikemen and crossbowmen are blown away by percival, the sorcerer, or ice queen, they get back up with only moderate damage. If you use mace men or archers, they will instantly die. I have listed the best units to use in King of the Hill multiplayer battles in detail:

• Seige towers - The general rule is 6 towers per 12 crossbowmen. if your playing a game with no rules, then you must also have crossbowmen on ground to avoid being knocked off tall seige towers by bats. Crossbowmen that are knocked off towers will sustain much more damage then if they were on the ground. If enemy has taken over circle, and your not able to gather troops fast enough send a few unoccupied seige towers to middle. This will freeze the King of the hill clock and buy you time to organize an attack.
  
• Fire ballista (Ice) -You need fire ballista under cats to kill enemy's approaching special troop (Merlin, Percival, Ice queen, Sorcerer...)
• Pike men - Pike men need to be in middle while being surrounded by siege towers. Pike men will sustain moderate injuries while being blasted by Percival, Ice queen, Sorcerer or Merlin.
• Catapults- Catapults will knock down a whole row of soldiers, and you can also alternate the frequency in which the catapults fire (e.g. while ones reloading have the other fire to create a continuous stream of rocks being hurled at approaching enemy). make sure to cover catapults with cats. If you look at image above, you will see that stone archer towers are placed in front of circle. In this case use catapults to destroy stairs connected to towers to render tower useless.
• Trebuchets (Arthur)- You can toggle trebuchets with cows and hurl the diseased carcasses in the pathway of oncoming enemy troops. This may be an obvious component to any king of the hill battle but nevertheless an important factor that can turn the tide of a game.
• Stake Hurlers (Evil)- Stake Hurlers are excellent in range and rendering massive damage to enemy troops. The main advantage to stake hurlers is the ability to destroy enemy siege equipment relatively fast compared to fire ballista, trebuchets or catapults.
• Special troops (Ice queen, Merlin, Sorcerer, Percival...)-Do not put ice queen in siege tower with a no rules game.
• Ice queen will die instantly, when knocked off siege tower. Instead have her walk briskly to middle under cats.
• Percival will occasionally overshoot its special causing no damage to targeted enemy troops. To over come this in King of the Hill battles, you must always aim his special a little before troops and never directly on stone towers. Always point Percival's special on open ground and never on siege equipment or stone.
• Merlin's special will kill anyone it its path, also his lightning bolts will kill a maximum of 24 archers after the second strike. Keep Merlin under cats and seige towers. The towers will cover Merlin completely so enemy will not know he is approaching. Use about 12 towers and 6 cats to have Merlin sneak into stone circle to use his special. If your playing a low settings king of the hill with no fly, then put Merlin in 6 seige towers. Merlin is very important in low settings no fly games. Merlin can clear 50 archers in matter of minutes.
  
• Sorcerer is best used against enemy siege equipment. If your playing against an evil, then you can trick its sorcerer into burning his own flammable wooden seige equipment. Just use mace men to run towards enemy's siege equipment and if enemy sorcerer is near he will burn his own seige equipment!
  

NOTE: You can hide any special troop with about 12 seige towers and 6 cats. Approaching special troops are always targeted by enemy.

Stronghold Legends - Merlins great advantage

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Merlin has a great advantage over many things in Stronghold legends. The main advantage that Merlin has that is especially advantageous is the ability to kill archers with two strikes. This was a game bettween an LOD ezchi, 7xt promethius, and me King henry. Look as merlin strikes seige tower again after killing 24 archers.

Stronghold Legends - Best economy updated

This economy was taught to me by the elite 7xt clans member ; 7xtMurder. This is a standard economy for any pro stronghold player. Notice the ale house, pantry, church, and market place all in one spot...you need to auto buy bread, candle sticks, honorary food, and wood. Then you proceed in making an economy like one shown above.

Stronghold Legends Clan listings - UAES, 7xt, LAG, TEE, LIT and LOD clans

The Best clans in stronghold legends are as follows:

• The UAES clan (United All Evils)
• 7xt Clan with different ranks starting is 3xt then middle rank is 4lt with finally the 7xt rank is the highest most elite and respected rank in Stronghold
• L.O.D Clan (Lords of Death) The LOD clan is one of the best in stronghold
  
• L.I.T. The LIT clan is the smallest in stronghold
  
• T.E.E. clan, Don't know much about TEE clan, but it is a small clan any information on this clan please post as comment
• The LAG clan (Ligue Anarchique Guerriere)

These are the Stronghold Legends official clans, if anyone knows of any other clans, or would like to create one please post it here as a comment.