These personalities can interact with the player, build their own castles and lead attacks against each other.įreebuild from Stronghold makes a recurrence, offering a peaceful cast building mode for those unwilling to fight. Skirmish can be played against not only humans, but new computer opponents as well! Eight different AI characters are featured, who can be confronted in a series of missions in the Skirmish Trail, or a new customizable Custom Skirmish mode. The Kings' Crusade campaign reminisces the invasion of three Crusader kings, while the Crusader States campaign illustrates the ever continuous infighting of the Crusader landlords. The player can command the Crusader forces in the First Crusade, or face the invaders in Saladin's campaign, fighting battles and participating in sieges. The universe of Crusader shifts away from England to the arid lands of Little Asia and the deserts of Arabia.įour historic trails are available for revisiting the Crusades of the 10th to 12th centuries. Crusader provides a lot of new content with additional campaigns, units and gameplay modes. Don't missunderstand me, I like the new Warlords much but I'm playing SH2 much more.The medieval mixture of city building and real-time strategy of Stronghold continues with Stronghold Crusader. I am playing this series since 2001 and after SH2 and Legends the dream stopped. etc.īack to the roots and not pushing this series to its dead end. Please! Bring the Wuselfaktor back with more kids, more peasants, rats, hunters and deers, bunnyhopping and flying meatballs, wolfs, cows etc. Make a cinematic campaign again with Lords we all dream beeing them and not some faceless morons tell us what we already know. If you like history, then show us your love with improvements like monks writing a book of history and give us players some historynotes we can read and fill our empty brains - ingame. Improve the maps - bigger, better, badass! Give your opponents a face, not dumbass warlords no one gives a sh. Let the LORDS rule again - let them eat some unhealty shi., swing the legs at some silly dancepartys or go to church with his fellows and prey to all the gold and ladys he can get. Split your team, let simon take the lead again, use the engine and all the cool new stuff and mechanics (without this useless diplomacy and warlords system) and do the only right thing:

Does stronghold 3 have skirmish