village typs and castle designs

[The Immortal]

i was wandering is any of the other village typs worth getting? is salt worth no productivity in a village? also any good ideas for castle designs and defensive stunts that turn the tides of a siege?

[Pollo_Tron]

yes

[RazingHel]

For defense - not really. Most players use either Highland or Lowland village types, the remainder occupy niche play-styles for the most part.

[Strategy Player]

A pitch village, forget which one makes that is a great one to have. Your parish needs pitch, you might use it for boiling pots in defense and everyone wants to trade for it. Also you need pitch for your oil smelters to use to pour over invaders heads. Castles are really just a line of great towers with something between them depending on your playstyle, killing pits, moats or walls. Google castle layouts and you will get hundreds of examples. Salt helps in banquets which earn you honour and level up, more research points and trading. Like Dekay said, not really useful for an entire village. The only good defense tip is to build all the way up to your white line and don't ever ever ever use wood for your castle.

http://help.strongholdkingdoms.com/index.php/Village_Table

[RazingHel]

Highland is a good pitch producer, you don't want a Marsh because it doesn't have any iron.