Wynette

Hi everyone, I guess it is time to introduce myself properly ! Some nostalgia made e register on this forum because I saw y little brother (who is 11) playing stronghold and I was like : "oh god, I miss old times" So, my real name is Arthur, I'm french, 20 years old, I've always been good with all scientific stuff and I'm studying engineering in a really good french school (I'm currently doing a stupid boring internship, but it will be soon finished :D) My stronghold's nickname is Wynette, because it sounds fun in french (they all think I'm a lady which is very amusing), I first played Stronghold 1 when I was very yound, 8 I think, and I really loved this. Later, I started to play a bit of every strongholds, and I got "trained" by a "pro" player of stronghold legends, so I had my favourite one ! Then I entered a great community of gamers trying to find the best economies/strategies for this game, I joined several clans, and then built up mine called "Wyn" (I had other nicknames before, I'm not that selfish :)). Then, I started Stronghold Kingdoms on day 30 of World 1 under the name of Polire, and I loved that game ! I was a scottish player of House 19 for those who remember beginnings of the game. I was clan leader of a faction Called KoS for King of Scotland which stayed first faction in the game for like 2 years, and I even got King like one month :D?(maybe less I'm not sure anymore). So again, I'm not sure anyone played it, but I fought all the wars between former H19 players and H17, and it was really really great :) I'm glad to have registered in this forum, I'm really happy to see there are still some stronghold active fans ! It's great what you guys are doing here ! I love this game ! Wynette

Well, I guess you're a great player of sh2, we just chose different games :) Well, I don't know about sh2, but in shl when you can only save some space by building apple orchards in a certain order, otherwise you will have empty spots between each one :D Just give it a try, launch a game, build an apple orchard and try to build 4 others on both sides of your first one, it will only work on two sides :)

Well, here is a bonus tip : When your castle is in the left, build your apples from left to right and from bottom to top When your castle is in the right, build your apples from right to left and from top to bottom When your castle is in the bottom, build your apples from left to right and from top to bottom When your castle is in the top, build your castle from right to left and from bottom to top

Well, I guess this is somewhere I might have something to say since I used to play this game a lot. At first : Economy. Let's say there are high settings 5 or 10 minutes peace time, but you could adapt this economy as soon as you start rank 9 or 10. So :? -If there are iron mines, build stockpile close to them -build granary and put it +8 -build royal food and buy 20 of each foods then put it +20 -Church, buy 40 candles and put it +4 -Inn, buy 30 beers and put it +4 -Then put -16 taxes (you'll reach 100 happiness with low population +5 bonus) -Build Market -Autobuy 300 wood, buy 20 stone, autosell 1 iron, autosell 1 hops, autobuy 5 candles, autobuy 5 beers, sell flour wheat -Autobuy 8 bread -Autobuy 3 of all units for royal food? -Build armory (that's why you bought 20 stone) Then you start building eco -Build 15 houses (it's the max) -Build all iron you can -Build 5/6 cheese, 6 apples, 6 meats near granary -Build 8 stones (correponding to 24 paesants, you'll turn it off at the end of peacetime) Then all your villagers left must be used -You can make 10 candelers near stockpile so that you won't have to autobuy it -Build a lot of apples, you get a lot of gold from selling them and they are coming faster than meat or cheese -If apples start beeing too far from granary, build hops ! -Of course, put oxes but it doesnt use any villager -Autobuy 25 bows, xbows, maces ! With this done fast enough and 10 minutes peacetime, you'll get 1k hnr starting from 0, and legends players know that hnr is really usefull (of course, I mean with artu since you can't build church and bread with other races, so you'll get less hnr) The gold you'll get depends on how many iron you have. With 34 iron slots (there are 34 iron slots on most maps), you'll reach betwenn 19k and 24k depending on how fast you are and how good your placement is. If there are no iron slots (which is often the case on realistic maps), then you should try to make a bread eco, and this eco is really no longer the best you could make. Do not forget to turn off the stones !!! Defense : I'll just tell one tip, you can build wall starting from the corner of your keep, then the ennemy won't be able to go through it without completely destroying your wall. I don't know how to tell it clearly so I'll post a screenshot someday if I have time. Attack : I'll just focus on artu vs artu fighting, since I'm not as good with other races. So, build the table and get Merlin, Percival, and Gawain. Build siege camp in front of your wall, and build groups of 6 to 9 siege towers and put groups of 10 to 15 xbows on these groups. Use one group for Merlin You'll realise that Merlin is really very very strong against xbows, so try to focus ennemy Merlin with your percival Use gawain + maces to destroy enney towers Bonus tip : use your king power, it's so strong ! just protect him ! Well, there is really a lot more to say here, about angle shots, tower formation, how to use maces when ennemy xbows focus towers, trebs, dragon, etc... but I'm not really sure anyone is interested lol :D?so send me a private message if you wanna know something, or if you wanna some evil/ice tips (which way less interested since good players never finish evil/ice games, it's almost always a draw) By the way, I'm sorry if my english is not always understandable, this is really specific vocabulary and I haven't used it for a very long time now, I' sure someone will be able to correct my mistakes?:D

Well still no family, just hard working you know :D Yeah I guess so !

Well that would be great. I got plenty of time this week and then I guess I'll be too busy :/

Well, I used to visit Stronghold Legends userboard, which was the forum of SHL community :) I also prefered other strongholds, I guess SHL is a strange game, I just had the chance to meet someone really friendly who taught me the game, and there are really interesting things you can do with the market economy (I dont know if it exists in other Stronghold even though I played all of them ?), and the siege towers, and we had a great community, so I got pretty good at it and it was really fun. The fact is, we just all got older and we had no time for playing anymore, and nobody kept connecting to the forum. So it's great you guys kept this alive ! :D

Wow, it's nice seeing there's still an active stronghold community :)?It makes me miss old times lol. Actually, I'm quiet busy too, my gamer life is over, but maybe we'll have time someday, would be great !? Maybe one of the guys who like SHL more would be able to tell me if any old SHL players still plays, I'd love to talk with some of them, I haven't talked too for 5 years now..

Hi, Being an old player of Stronghold Legends, I realised it is still possible to play it with Gameranger. So I was wondering if any good player was interested in a game ? Wynette