Quanna Castle (SHC Version)
By JustAVillager
This is The Stronghold Crusader Version of The Great Quanna Mega Castle!
Have you ever wanted to enjoy having a massive castle with everything absolutely maxed out in it, already built for you and ready to use? Have you ever wanted to relax by watching your peasants and workers do their daily work in your castle? Well in that case this map is made for you!
Creating this in Stronghold Crusader was much more challenging than i had expected. All the buildings in Stronghold Crusader are slower and a lot less efficient compared to Stronghold 2 (although I've set the fear factor rate to maximum cruelty to make them as efficient as possible), especially the hunter posts. And as a result, altthough the castle is big enough to fill out the entire area of a whole 400x400 map, it still cannot maintain maximum religion and ale coverage and even food for full rations.
And there seems to be an annoying glitch with the bakeries that makes the bakers randomly bug out and disappear, when they visit the stockpile to get flour. This happens to 40-50% of the bakers everytime and they'll have to respawn as an idle peasant and go through their entire cycle of: Spawning as a Peasant, Converting to a Baker, Going to Workplace, And going to get flour again, which all wastes a lot of time and makes the bakeries much less efficient than what they are supposed to be.
And as an overall result, although I've placed a massive amount of bakeries in the castle, they still aren't able to use all of the flour provided by the castle and deliver enough bread for full food rations. So if you set the rations on full, you'll eventually run out of bread and if you don't want that to happen, you'll have to set the rations on half.
I did my best and tried so hard to make the castle as perfect as possible, but I couldn't do any better. I'll update the file if any improvements were made on the map. But still, the castle is able to keep the Blessed people rate on above 25% and the Ale coverage rate above 50%. It can deliver all 4 types of food without any of them running out on Half Rations as well. it also produces tons of stone, iron, and weapons, and it has incredible security maintained by two-layer thick walls with water pools in between them, and a perfectly secure 2 layers gatehouse with all sorts of traps between them, and large towers in the corners with tons of archers as well.
Although the castle isn't as good as it was meant to be, i still really hope you enjoy it. If you have any suggestions for improvements or more importantly, If you have any solutions on how to fix that Bakers glitch, then feel free to comment below! Tnx again! :D
Hi!
I had the castle running for 10-15 minutes or so and I just couldn't reproduce the baker bug. Usually this happens when the worker tries to enter a building and it fails to, but here it's inexplicable.
Religion can be improved by spreading chapels all over the castle instead of building them in big batches, so you get better coverage. Priests in the southwest and southeast may have trouble reaching workers close to your campfire.
Thanks so much for testing out the map! I'll definitely try to spread the chapels and churches all over the castle in the next update as you've suggested. Thanks again!