Tips??

[captain lost]

Hey, FNG here..I need some tips, did the tutorial..well one of them anyway then decided to try a skirm..I noticed the AI builds up their castle rapidly, and in a good formation from what it seems...

Castle building tips please??? Castle building seems pretty skill based, and i'm not very well so far :P. What's a good mix of wood camps/farms at start? How do you know which you should build more of?

Any tips are welcome, thanks everyone!

[Luthien]

concentrate on building up bread production,

Best one imo.

[discombobulated1]

im a noob to stronghold add me if u want some multiplayer practice

[Sandiko]

get some macemen as well a lot of them are devastating to the ai in force with their charge ability you only need a forge and iron they are great units

[discombobulated1]

if you set the barracks or any other waypoint to the top of a tower you fit more troops up there alot more

[KnockedCoffee]

Honestly, don't focus on a big pretty gate and walls covering everything, focus on that later if you have the luxury of the rescources and time. And always make sure your castle is no bigger than it's host. I'm not fantastic, but if you can find a choke point, set up a wall to run along, a grand tower, a brazier, and as many godamn mercenary archers and oil pot throwers you can fit up there. Set up a market, sell EVERYTHING not neccersairy, esspecially iron (Hire all mercernaries) give your people Inn's and enough booze to max the rations, bring up food rations as much as possible, and tax them as much as possible while retaining a flow of people coming in to use as mercs. Focus on archers in towers (As many as possible) and once you feel like you have way more than necersairy up there... add 10 more to each tower just to be safe. Now, start a steady flow of foot soldiers (Also mercs) add some seige camps, maybe now an inner keep, and you should be pretty ok as long as you don't waste men and money on little skirmishes. Win with one glorious stroke of the dong that is a tactical seige