Fires

[dericmanzi]

What the hell is the point of the fires in this game? You can quite literally have a well next to every single building in your city and in an instant half your city can catch on fire and burn to ashes. No amount of wells can save you from that and I'm playing on easy mode FFS.

[stenliis]

If the building is set on fire, every adjacent building is also instantly set on fire.
Buildings that are space 1, 2 tiles apart can also catch fire, but it is not instant.
So it is recommended place building at least 3 tiles apart.

You can use well to put the fire down, but it only makes sense for granary, armoury and expensive weapons production buildings.
Any other buildings on fire should be deleted asap, because you get part of resource back and fire can not spread.

NOTE:
- tree can also catch and spread fire
- pitch ditch can be used start and spread a fire
- Engineer with oil pot can be used to start a fire

[Joe Coffee]

You know what was fun about stronghold crusader 2? The haybale carts. On a skirmish 1V1 map with bots, I'd love whittling away everything til only the enemy's keep and their lord was left. Then I'd create about 5 haybale carts and roll them to the keep. Being the consummate cheater the AI was, even though it had zero resources, zero food, zero morale, and presumably zero gold (because its economy was blitzed into oblivion), the AI would cheat up a few bowmen to deal with the haybales literally at their doorstep. Whelp, big mistake, as soon as they attacked one haybale, it went up in flames and it spread to the others, soon engulfing all the NPC's villagers sitting at the nearby campfire. And their screams of pain, anguish, weeping, and gnashing of teeth was an absolute joy to listen to as they were killed by fire.

[Sunday Driver]

Originally posted by The Jerker:

You know what was fun about stronghold crusader 2? The haybale carts. On a skirmish 1V1 map with bots, I'd love whittling away everything til only the enemy's keep and their lord was left. Then I'd create about 5 haybale carts and roll them to the keep. Being the consummate cheater the AI was, even though it had zero resources, zero food, zero morale, and presumably zero gold (because its economy was blitzed into oblivion), the AI would cheat up a few bowmen to deal with the haybales literally at their doorstep. Whelp, big mistake, as soon as they attacked one haybale, it went up in flames and it spread to the others, soon engulfing all the NPC's villagers sitting at the nearby campfire. And their screams of pain, anguish, weeping, and gnashing of teeth was an absolute joy to listen to as they were killed by fire.

This is why I sleep strapped and with my doors double locked and bolted.