Guide

Guide by silent_hero

This is a basic tutorial/guide to becoming good at stronghold multiplayer, follow these steps and you may find succes!:] also don’t be afraid to experiment and to find your own strategy type.

1st step: Build marketplace and granary:

 

2nd step: Set rations to +8 and taxes to -8, then build 1 apple farm and 6 woodcutters:

 

3rd step: Sell iron and stone, and move your stockpile here:

 

4th step: Spend all you gold for wood, and build 5 hovels:

 

5th step: Buil many applefarms (20 should be enough for a start)

 

6th step: sell apples, buy wood, build more woodcutters and more apple farms.

 

7th step: always remember to sell apples, keep trading, now you should �have enough gold to start weapon production, build fletchers and �poleturners as shown below:

 

8th step: Remember to keep selling apples and expanding your production, try to take over opponent’s hills:

 

9th step: When you are rich enough start smelting iron, and train more advanced troops like pikemen, macemen or knights.

Good game!

 

Units

Spearmen are basic units, they are very cheap and fast to train, fairly strong against knights but weak against, macemen.

 

1 Pct. Spearmen crushed by macemen.

 

Macemen are strong against spearmen and pikemen, but will be cut down like butter by knights 2 Pct.

 

2 Pct. Macemen being cut by knights.

 

Pikemen are weak against macemen, but strong against knights 3 Pct.

 

3 Pct. Pikemen holding their ground.

 

Swordsmen are strong agains everyone, but are very slow, so…

 

4 Pct. Crossbowmen destroying swordsmen.