Stronghold HD

I owned this on PC -ended up deleting it. I loved Age of Empires and thought this could be somewhat similar. At first, I wasn't disappointed -it wasn't AoE but it was cool -sadly, it didn't last. Pros: - Moats are cool - Varied campaign - "Different" but OK controls (compared to AoE) Cons: - Some really annoying units -I cringed whenever I had to select them and hear their annoying voices beckoning you. I'm not exaggerating. Then they'd be really incompetent. - Your stronghold will fall in literally two minutes if the game decides you have taken too long to win a non-timed scenario (read below). It's infuriating to build a large, imposing fortress to see it fall in an instant. The game has unit combat but the focus is in creating strongholds -castles, walls, towers and moats, which I liked. I managed to defeat a couple of lords, then the game stopped being fun: this mission required you to survive until getting a certain amount of gold. I managed to build an impressive fortress with a large moat, while hoarding gold (which you spend to build most important things) and keeping my enemies at bay. Then, being close to my goal, an unstoppable wave of enemies arrived -and I mean it: by sheer numbers they razed my fortress, with my feeble attempts at repairing wiping out my large stock of gold with no noticeable effect on the slaughter. Tried again -this time I didn't save as much gold but built what I thought was a better fortress, same result: wiped in an instant. Tried a few times more, but it was always the same: no matter what I did, how much time I'd spent beforehand fortificating or trying to rush to the gold goal, that last wave (the opposing Lord would say something like "This is the end!") would kill me in two or three minutes, and my first defeat was the closest I'd ever be at winning. I don't know what was the triggering condition in this supposedly open mission, and after several attempts taking about an hour each I frankly stopped caring.

I was thrilled to get my hands on this, yet there are reasons behind my rating. First, why do I have to choose between a combat and economic based game? I was under the impression this game included both at the same time. I read tons of reviews and no mention of that. Very limited feeling gameplay. I thought the point was to build up to a point where battle could happen. Here you start off with castles, unless you want the campaign, which is slow to say the least and there is only one battle campaign. Graphics were excellent. Sound was very good. There seemed to be a decent variety of units. Still this is nothing like Age of Empires, Warcraft, or anything I was hoping for where you can start from humble begins and build up (upgrade to strongholds from keeps, then to castles). this game actually did not make much sense to me. A skirmish is pointless, I want the entire experience. Strictly conomic seems boring when there are castles and swordsmen all over the advertisement. I feel like I got conned out of 5.99. = 1 star !

Has a pkg file for macs. Asks admin rights, pressing on "read license" does nothing, game does not install. Why is this not a dmg?

Did not enjoy the game. I could not keep the villagers fed and so never accomplished anything. Building farms, etc could not keep them from starving lol.

I was wondering if i buy one copy of Stronghold and Crusader HD will they be able to install, work and play online on multiple PC's ? Or do i need to buy one copy of the game for each PC im planning to install it on? Because i was thinking of sharing it with friends so we can play online.