Whats the best stronghold game

[Mr.Monk]

Hi,

Each Stronghold game was different in many aspects. What are the Pro/Cons of each one?
Whats the best Stronghold game in your opinion?

For me:

Stronghold 1 : Old classic, great campaign and story-line . Can't say much bad about it

Crusader1 : Hard 50 mission campaign, that took real endurance to master, played it for a long time, horse archers were overpowered though imo

Stronghold 2 : Cool 3D stuff, but for me was too complex ( economy), the campaign was great though

Stronghold 3: Loved the design/artwork ( animations of the storyline), but especially in multiplayer hard laggs / crashes / buggs + the placement of buildings was limited,

Stronghold Crusader2: Captures great elements from Crusader1, added some cool new units, economy is much simpler, maybe too simple, honour system missing, story-line of the campaign was absent, i loved the animations and drawings from stronghold 3,
has seen some optimization but still stability ( crashes/laggs) still present

[igi.tanas]

Stronghold crusader 1 is very good, but not balanced game.
So sc2 is definitely best.

[Hanz Swan]

Stronghold 2 was the best for me.

[Medve]

Stronghold 1 was the best. Stronghold 3 was terrible!

I really like to see a Stronghold Legends 2.

[Baron]

1/Crusader, without a doubt. 2 gets an honourable mention for trying to advance the series, even if it wasn't very successful at it.

Originally posted by igi.tanas:

Stronghold crusader 1 is very good, but not balanced game.
So sc2 is definitely best.

Crossbowmen/war wagons and 360 noscope men. Wow. So balanced.

[Mr.Monk]

Good Point Baron, i get bored by this crossbow + wagon strategy so easyyy. I experimented with different troop-combinations and it works too. Its a lot of fun. But unfortunatly most people just use the wagons all the time.

[igi.tanas]

Actually crossbowman + portable shields are better than wagons. Wagons are for cleaning up the towers.

[igi.tanas]

You can also play only swordsman, that is fun.

[igi.tanas]

Buy crossbowman are 75% of players army, so it is boring a little bit + when it's lagging.
Anyway sc2 is my favourite game.

[igi.tanas]

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[Jade]

Stronghold 1 and Stronghold Crusader 1 is the best

[Micha!]

Stronghold 1 because of campaign,
Stronghold 2 was nice because of more buildings,
Crusader was very nice (sadly no real story),
Stronghold Crusader 2 has a nice graphic and I like the unit types (specials like pikeman stance) sadly to much bugs/crashes,no moats and feeling (like clicking on persons and they tell something or walking peasants (woman, childs,..)

Stronghold Legends was awesome too. I liked the fantasy parts alot and the heroes.

Overall I had the most fun on Stronghold with its campaign and sieges and on Stronghold Crusader with it's skirmish.

[Joe Coffee]

I thought SH2 was boss. I'm glad to see SH1 HD is available, currently, at < $6USD.

[Bravo]

My favorit was playing stronghold Legends.
The variation possibilities were best in the game.
There were many clans with the best gamblers from different countries. I miss that with crusader 2. Unfortunately shl had one drawback - many bugs.

[AlexMBrennan]

Sadly, the earlier games are still miles better. Giving slaves the ability to smash castle walls destroys much of the atmosphere, and it also helps if the developers could be bothered to finish the game (if you can't finish the game then you should at least remove references to unimplemented content like moats and the barbican from the manual)

[igi.tanas]

That is the funny fact. Even though slaves have pikeaxe for destroying the wall they don't use it for fight.