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.