Stronghold Legends - Pro Defense

When playing stronghold, and there are low settings it is very important to learn how to make a pro castle wall, one that cannot be seiged as easily, and one that is inexpensive to make. Take a lot at the picture below, notice that the walls that are connected to the gatehouse are connected in a way so that ladder men cannot access the gatehouse. The gatehouse, even though connected, is connected in a way so mace men cannot take control of gatehouse.

Stronghold Legends SKY VIEW (quick look) tutorial

Sky view. Notice dragons off to distance.

In Stronghold Legends you can see an entirely different view by just holding down ALT and using middle mouse button to move. During this mode you can see the sky and be eye level with troops. You have to enable this in the options menu before you start a game. This is a great way to experience stronghold, especially if your taking screenshots or making videos.

HOW ITS DONE:

1. Start Stronghold Legends as usual
2. In main menu, click on options
3. In options menu, Click on gameplay
4. Make sure 'Allow quick look' is checked

*To use this feature, during gameplay you need to press down alt while pressing down middle mouse key.

Stronghold legends cheats - Kings fight on water

During online play, two kings managed to take advantage of one of many stronghold legends cheats and fight each other on water. In this cheat, seige equipment was used to take advantage of a glitch.

Stronghold Walk On Water cheat

During an online game, Dark emperor was kind enough to show me a crazy cheat. In this cheat he used siege equipment to make spear men and kings to walk on water. The picture above is an illustration of the cheat.

Stronghold Legends - Common mistake explained

As you can see, Dark Emperor took advantage of opponents lack of different troops in this King of the Hill game.Opponent should of made mace men to kill sorcerer before he got in range. Click to enlarge picture and you will see that the opponent is pleading for Dark Emperor not to use his sorcerer.

First of all I would like to congratulate Dark Emperor for making this move, but from this we can clearly see how dynamically strategic a full army comprised of mace men, knights, unmounted knights can be. NEVER attack with an army solely comprised of umounted knights or pikemen. Even though these slow moving unit factions are slow, they provide a great defensive barrier for spearmen, archers, or crossbowmen.

Here is a list of advantages / disadvantages of slow moving factions (pikemen and unmounted knights)

PIKEMEN / UNMOUNTED KNIGHTS:

Advantage:

• Resilient to a percival blast, even though percival might blow these troops straight to the ground, they get up with only moderate damage.
• Make a great barrier in front of archers, and crossbowmen
• Able to kill creepers
• Making pikemen doesn't require honor
  

Disadvantage:

• Slow moving, and enemies faster troops can get past them with ease
• Cost a lot to produce

King Of The Hill - Epic battle - Play of the month

During this specific KOTH, I was playing for hours against legend and we all were at a stale mate until legend was named the victor. Look at the screen shot of this percival blast.

If anyone has any screenshots please send them to kinggrasmick@gmail.com and I will evaluate them to be added to next months pick.

Stronghold legends - Best economy tutorial

Here is a picture of a perfect tax based economy that always produces more money than anyone in multiplayer.

The best economy in stronghold legends would be a taxed based economy. There is a minimum amount of resources you have to make to even out popularity after you set taxes to -16.

Here is what you need for an incredible economy that produces a massive amount of money:

1. Make at least 14 hop farms
2. Make 14 breweries
3. Make 14 Chanlders
4. DON'T use stone quarries unless its for a short period of time during peacetime (stone quarries take up too many peasants)
5. 27 iron mines if applicable
6. 4 of each food type except for bread

Now, after you completed these, build ale house, church and set rations to double. You can click on keep then little book to see how much popularity you producing versus negative popularity. Your taxes should be set at -16.

HINT: Also make sure your market place is selling all items over 100 to minimize the possiblity of your stockpile getting full.