Journey to distant Arabian lands renowned for brave warriors and fearsome weaponry in Stronghold Crusader HD. The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Crusader throws you into historic battles from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and ov...
Journey to distant Arabian lands renowned for brave warriors and fearsome weaponry in Stronghold Crusader HD. The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Crusader throws you into historic battles from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Relive the historic Crusades as Richard the Lionheart and the Saladin, Sultan of Syria. Lead a determined group of Crusaders, forged by centuries of barbaric warfare, amidst the haze of the desert heat then fight for your freedom as the mighty Saladin.
Stronghold Crusader HD features several campaigns documenting the First, Second and Third Crusades, as well as conflicts within the individual Crusader states. Battles such as Nicea, Heraclea, siege of Antioch, Krak des Chevaliers and the Siege of Jerusalem all feature, as do the Crusader Trails from the Stronghold Warchest and Stronghold Crusader Extreme.
With new high resolution graphics you have more control over your soldiers than ever before. The new HD battlefield view allows you to zoom out and play in real-time, with the whole map on one screen. Advance on the castle gates while flanking the enemy from behind, feign retreat and lead your foe into a deadly trap or just sit back and watch the destruction unfold.
Both Stronghold Crusader and Stronghold Crusader Extreme are included in Stronghold Crusader HD. Extreme plays exactly like the original Stronghold Crusader, only with a few additions. The unit cap has been increased from 1000 to a staggering 10,000 troops, special Tactical Powers such as the Arrow Volley can be used and new buildings make their appearance alongside the Crusader Extreme skirmish trail.
Join the Crusaders or the Saladin’s forces in four historical campaigns.
Design and build your desert fortress complete with new siege engines and castle defenses.
Fight through 100 unique skirmish missions, each more challenging than the last.
Command new units with unique abilities, such as the stealthy Assassin and nimble Horse Archer.
View the entire battlefield on a single screen with support for new HD resolutions.
Play the original game on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10 with added compatibility.
Classic Stronghold Crusader (Windows & Mac) is included as bonus goodie.
Goodies
manual (79 pages)
mini game
bonus characters
soundtrack
HD wallpaper
Classic Stronghold Crusader (Windows)
Classic Stronghold Crusader (Mac)
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Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
Recommended system requirements:
Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
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If you're new to strategy game.
You should try this one.
Because there are many difference ways to handle your economy while war with other lords.
Not the only one like other games.
You can build more than 10000 soldiers without lag and the game itself has Map Editor too. ;D
A rather unique game, it has no obvious competition in combining base building and RTS. Its flaws are frustrating, but overall it’s a good game.
The graphics have been improved, but there are no graphics options – you just chose the resolution
Its RTS elements are generally frustrating:
There appears to be no auto attack button. The best I could get was to set my units up to patrol an area. This is an absolute pain – it means you must nanny your attacking units.
Your units won’t do anything to defend themselves either – they are utterly brainless. Your units will happily sit under missile fire. They have terrible attack prioritise – all melee troops tend to favour destroying walls over destroying anything else. Ranged units will focus on killing peasants over killing enemies attacking them. Worse, they will focus on killing the lord, a task for which they are rubbish at or killing the enemy, resulting in you bringing a mass of archers and then losing them because they stood there not targeting the enemy.
Siege weapons forget their range – every so often they will stop attacking and require a manual reminder.
Siege weapons won’t defend themselves, siege weapons won’t target enemy buildings – even if they rebuild it. This can be frustrating when you use siege to bring a critical wall/tower down. If the enemy rebuilds it, you have to then re-task units to destroy it.
Engineers sometimes just exit the siege engine for no reason.
A lot of the numbers are never explained – how much food do your peasants need, etc, which leads to a lot of guess work.
All of this makes the combat and base management frustrating and off putting.
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