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.

Stronghold Legends Patch 1.2

If you haven't already, you can download Stronghold Legends Patch here:

Download Stronghold Patch 1.2 here

Patch includes:

1. GUI enhancements
2. This update adds a map transfer system
3. Control improvements
4. gameplay and editor tweaks
5. bug fixes
6. And more....

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stronghold legends crack

• How do you make Merlin run like a knight?
• How do you make one archer kill 100 giants?

Well I have the answer for you today. In this tutorial I will teach you how to alter / crack the Stronghold Legends file so you can make troops of even peasants much faster or powerful. In this crack you will be altering a comma seperated values file that is in the form of an excel spreadsheet.
What you need: Microsoft Excel - If you don't already have this its okay you can download a trial version of excel for free for 30 days.

Method:

1. Look for stronghold legends icon on your desktop and right click on it
2. When pop up menu comes up, click on 'OPEN FILE LOCATION'
   
3. Scroll down until you see a file named 'SH Legends Data' file
4. Open the file and alter the numbers inside file to manipulate unit characteristics

Warning!: This does not work in online multiplayer mode. Using this cheat in multiplayer mode will result in you being immediately kicked out of current game.

Click on image above to see what the file looks like

Stronghold legends EPIC BATTLE......

This battle was between inarguable the two best players in stronghold legends, Promethius and Murder. Both are in an elite clan (the XT clan).

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.

Stronghold Glitch Cheat

Supposedly there is a glitch cheat that only works with snake map, but I am assuming it works with all default stronghold maps. The cheat works only if your ice and you have to build an engineer to dig an enemy moat only if he spent over 5k building it. You have him dig and it supposed to burn his entire moat but it kills all of your soldiers as well. I am going to try this cheat in the near future, but really who builds over 5k of moats in the snake map? Well please, someone try this and comment if this works or not, I am going to try it and film it in the near future.

Best economy in stronghold

Best Stronghold Economy CLICK TO ENLARGE

This economy won this months best economy award! Wholly spirit was the player and he achieved a great economy in very little time, with very little castle space. I have played wholly spirit twice only, and so far is the only player online that can even compare to me. Even though I have never played him one on one, I am sure that I would still beat him because he has one flaw, he doesn't produce honor and puts to much emphasis on money. With minimal honor troops I could wipe out all his mace men and pike men.

Stronghold Defense of the month - Great defense on map

Great stronghold defense CLICK TO ENLARGE

This has to be one of the best defenses I have seen in stronghold. It looks pretty but has its major flaws. All crossbowmen are in one spot, making it easy for Percival knock down (I actually did this against this player about five times), But this defense it has great aesthetic value. More of a form over function type defense.

Here are some great tips when making a defense whether your Arthur, Evil or Ice.

• Make sure moat gives a lot of separation between archers and enemy to prevent Percival from knocking them down. This is also good, since it lets enemy walk a bit before reaching gatehouse, letting archers attack for a longer period of time.
  
• Of course, make sure moat covers all castle wall to prevent, creepers, ladders, or any other seige equipment landing on walls.
• Make a pathway that follows a line of archers so when enemy finally reaches gatehouse, his troops are almost dead.
  
• Always, and I mean always, keep either Merlin, Ice queen, Or sorcerer just shy from the gatehouse so that this special troop can kill all giants, knights or any troops that gang up on the gatehouse. This is an especially important defensive strategy against Ice's Frost Giants.

Stronghold Legends Cheats - Using the Cheat engine

To learn how to use this cheat engine to do simple money hacks here is a comprehensive youtube tutorial in high definition:




If you need a cheat engine for stronghold legends hacks, and to do many stronghold legends cheats then download it here:

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NOTE: The money cheat done in the cheat engine, does not work in multiplayer. When the cheat is done in multiplayer, you are kicked out to the menu screen after a few minutes. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that no one uses cheats in multiplayer mode because it is unfair and unethical.

Interesting Defense - Stronghold

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Very interesting and powerful defense. I would like someone to try to seige that defense! Ice is the best in defense while king arthur first in offense. This defense with a king arthur team mate, will make an invincible pair.

If anyone has a picture of a better defense then please send it to kinggrasmick@gmail.com!

Crazy stronghold hack! Giants walk on water!

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This is an online multiplayer hack, where giants will walk on water! I was looking for opponents honor statues which were on an island. You can also see a live video on youtube of me using this hack! In this hack, you can use any troop to walk on water, I used giants since they look a lot better on water. There is a specific way to do this hack, but mostly its just taking advantage of a glitch in the computer. Practice sending your frost giants to a specific location that would be more convenient if they crossed the water. Sometimes the glitch happens that way sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes spearmen can do the cheat easier with the help of enemies percival.

Well please comment, and you can submit any of your stronghold photos or screen shots to kinggrasmick@gmail.com.

Famous Dragon Cheat, and map hack! - Stronghold Legends

This cheat is a lot easier than the Merlin hack, and I will explain how to do it. First of all, this is a map hack for online multiplayer play. I wouldn't suggest using it consistently because it might become annoying to other players, but its a fun way to impress online players into thinking you have a secret hack.

This is how you do the cheat or map hack:

1. Go into map editor
2. Load one of your favorite maps
3. Click on troops icon, then make at least 40 dragons and hide them in your castle
4. Host a multiplayer game with no peace time
5. Then rush opponent with dragons and have fun!

HINT: Always check enemy maps if they have an advantage like more honor statues or pre made iron mines.

Okay I know, this is a newbie cheat, but its still very very fun!

Stronghold legends Game stats - Best players

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These are currently, the best players on Stronghold. I was on a team with King Heath, and we won of course. Notice I don't have the least amount of gold, but the most glory points and honor. I put more emphasis on honor than gold in a game, since 100 spear men don't stand a chance against honor troops. IF YOU HAVE ANY SCREEN SHOTS of stats, send them to kinggrasmick@gmail.com, and I will be sure to post them here.

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Con's of Stronghold Cracked version:

• May come with viruses that will ruin your computer!
• A stronghold crack will have many glitches in them making it unplayable
• Its illegal

Trust me, you don't want to download a stronghold crack. About 95% of Stronghold legends cracks contain viruses that will seriously ruin your computer. Its not worth it, especially when amazon is selling used copies (the real thing not the crack) for as cheap as 5 dollars sometimes. Check on the current price at amazon.com or just follow the link at bottom:

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Free Stronghold Legends Demo download

This is a stronghold demo that is completely free, keep in mind cracked versions of this are illegal and don't always work. This demo is free, and is an exciting demo! The Demo really gives you a full feel on what stronghold is like.

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• Download size : (340 Mb)
• Download Contains : Full Skirmish level, a tutorial all of which is playable from three positions in three difficulty levels.

NOTE: This is a large download (340 Mb) so it might take awhile for dial up modems.

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Stronghold Legends hack explained!

MY STRONGHOLD HACK VIDEO : Merlin taking on 100 of giants!

Merlin is running at lightning speed taking on 100 of giants. Crazy hack that makes merlin invincible!


This is the famous cheat, that darkcrusaders on youtube only was able to do. He said in his description that no one will be able to do this hack but him. WELL I DID IT! And it was relatively easy to do this cheat.

What can you gain from this crazy stronghold legends cheat?

• Unlimited power from any troops based on a number system
• King arthur can defeat 100's of giants
• You can move extremely fast, and adjust the way you run based on a number system basically meaning that there is no limits!
• Actually make catapults roll fast as knights!!

I personally have used merlin to defeat a king flawlessly without getting hurt, and you can see that video here : Click here to see video of stronghold merlin hack, where merlin kills king in 45 seconds and runs faster than horse mounted knights, crazy cheat!

406 knights ready to fight - Stronghold legends

I made 406 knights ready to fight! Even though these type of knights are ineffective in offense, they can be a great defensive barrier to all who try to approach. Click on the picture and you will notice that there is a weird symbol for where the money value should be. This is a cheat. I had more money than the computer could read, actually an infinite amount of money!

Stronghold walkthrough

I offer walkthrough advice and hints in stronghold for whomever needs the help. If you have a particular question about one of the trails or missions in stronghold legends, then leave comment about what you need help in. I will answer with detailed stronghold walkthrough information and hints! Please be specific on what you need help with, I will answer with walkthrough advices as well as screenshots. I can also answer questions about certain stronghold hints and strategies in online play as well. All questions about walkthroughs should be in the form of a comment for this post only. Click on the comment link and post your stronghold legends walkthrough request!

stronghold legends maps

There are a variety of stronghold map scenarios for multiplayer such as economic war, capture the flag, death match, and king of the hill. Downloading and editing maps can be fun, but keep in mind excessive werewolf camps or outlaw camps will make the game lag considerably. Note that when downloading a map for the first time, you need to check opponents set up to see if they have added extra honor statues, iron mines or resources which is a common cheat. I have caught many players doing this that claim they are unbeatable in stronghold legends. HINT: When downloading maps, check to see if opponent has added extra honor statues or extra resources that would of gave him an extra edge over you. Map cheats are the biggest amateur cheat!

Using Map editor:

The main way in downloading new maps for your collection, is joining multi player games. When you play a map, the map is automatically saved under your map collection unless you already have it. You can take exsisting maps and edit them to your liking. This is done in map editor. Stronghold Legends offers a really great graphical user interface for editing functions such as raising and lowering land, adding troops, adding resources and more!



This has happened before, an opponent almost beat me, and I was really intrigued by how he was able to over power my 200 + mounted knights. Not only was he able to do this, but come back with 100's of giants as if he had unlimited honor. The players name was le ' invincible or something close to that (was french). I later took the map in map editor to pre make iron mines for a fast multi player game. Then, I seen that my opponent had 40 more honor statues than me! What a noob. So remember to check stronghold maps! This is a very famous cheat! Don't let the noobs win!

Seige Equipment - King Arthur - Stronghold Legends

SIEGE EQUIPMENT DEFINED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Battering ram, laddermen, enchanted orb, trebuchet, cat, siege tower / seige tower, and manlets.


King Arthur Seige Equipment Advantages / disadvantages:

Battering Ram: This seige item is used to knock down your enemies gatehouse. This siege item is weak against knights and very ineffective, but can be used to distract enemy while you prepare for a wave of attack. You can also use this seige item as extra protection from enemy archers.

Laddermen: Used climb over enemy walls. Completely ineffective if enemy has moats placed in front of castle. HINT: Even though an enemy might have a full moat, you can still use laddermen if the moat is narrow, or if the enemy didn't completely cover castle with moat. Once you manage to land ladders on castle wall, place mace men on gatehouse to take control of it.

Enchanted Orb: Delivers a massive iron ball that will knock down any unit in its path. After orb has stopped rolling, it explodes injuring nearby opponents. An amazing seige item. Orbs can easily be destroyed by enemy knights or mace men. You can also use enchanted orbs to destroy enemy walls.

Trebuchet: Trebuchets are the most powerful seige item for King Arthur. you can hurl rocks from a great distance which will destroy enemies castle. A common rule in online play is not to use trebs because it adds such an uneven twist to the game.

Cat: Used to protect archers, catapults, crossbowmen or any other unit from opposing archers or any other projectiles.

Seige tower: Mount archers or crossbowmen in this seige tower to increase their range.

Manlets: A low level protection against enemy archers. Manlets are most popular with king of the hill scenario in online stronghold legends play. You can encircle a group of knights with manlets to protect against enemy archers.

King Arthurs Enchanted Orbs - Stronghold Legends

Major advantage / hint with enchanted orbs against gatehouse:


Was playing this opponent for four grueling hours until I finally broke through his primary defense. My secondary strategy was to use 33 orbs to knock down gatehouse around keep. I used orbs because a single shot from these babies can knock down a gate house completely and instantly.
HINT: Use orbs to instantly knock down gatehouse, it is risky since you can lose all your orbs from enemy archers. Its very important to click on line formation to prevent orbs from destroying themselves.

King Arthur's Knights - strengths and weaknesses - Stronghold Legends

Arthurian Knights names are listed From left to right: Merlin, Gawain, Percival, Gareth, Galahad, Lancelot, Bedivere.

King Arthurs Knights of the Round Table Strengths and Weaknesses:

Merlin: Merlin's Major strength lies in his special attack. His special function commands a lightning ball that devastates anything in its path. I have killed 100's of giants at my gatehouse this way along with the help of knights that were enchanted under Lancelot's special. Merlin also shoots lightening bolts that are weak, but will damage a single unit considerably. HINT: Hide Merlin behind the gatehouse but far enough to avoid the Ice Queen's special which will kill Merlin instantly along with nearby archers. When giants are attacking, move Merlin closer to use special, but wait until all giants are crowded at gatehouse. You can also put Merlin in a siege tower to increase his defensive stance.

Gawain: Uses a shield as a special to protect archers or troops digging moats. HINT: You can also use Gawain to block catapults from destroying your castle.

Percival: Uses a Powerful punch to knock down anyone in his path. HINT: The enemy often can see you approaching with percival, and they might send troops to destroy him ahead of time. So put Percival in a seige tower which will partially conceal him. Move seige tower in a good position against enemy, and strike when enemy least expects it!

Gareth: Reveals enemy traps.

Galahad: Heals nearby troops.

Lancelot: Adds extra attack power to nearby troops. HINT: Using this special on archers will double their attack strength!

Bedivere: His special takes down enemy walls.

Don't forget to comment!

King Arthur Seige - Stronghold Legends

Full siege against opponents (2 vs 1) Notice the glowing archers, I used one of the knights of the round table's special. Doing this is very effective, especially if you use this Arthurian knight's special on your defensive towers.

Evil with Ice's defense cheat? - Stronghold Legend

Interested defense, how does he have ice's freeze defense? Well i can't complain I was Arthur during the game and had fire drakes. The answer is, that you pre build these in the map editor tool.

Crazy Defense: Stronghold Legends

Some German guy playing me at 4:00am, and had this crazy defense. He had about 300 archers on top that I took out with Percival. He later changed the rules so I couldn't use Percival, but I still beat him. Nice defense though.

Best defense - Stronghold Legends

One of my best defenses, had more than 200 archers and crossbowmen. Notice the upper level wall mounted logs, the fall all the way down do bottom to kill giants. I have killed 100+ giants this way with the help of merlins special. Don't forget to leave comments!

Arthur Strategy - Stronghold Legends

I don't care what any one says, but in stronghold legends, King Arthur is the best in multiplayer. It will take an advanced player to master the skills of King Arthur but it is worthwhile.

Defensive Strengths of King Arthur

• Wall mounted Mongols
• Rolling Logs
• Bucket of tar that will fall over on enemies
• Moat

HINT #1: Hide Merlin behind gatehouse and use his special to kill opponents giants if he chooses to spam them and send them to your castle.

2/4 stars in defense

Offensive Strengths of King Arthur

• Knights of the Round table - use them! The Arthurian Knights will give you a special edge against all opponents
  
• Trebuchets
• Unique siege equipment

4/4 stars in offense