Props to the 4 villagers who stuck to rebuild the castle with no food and getting constantly taxed

Those first 4 guys u taxed hard are literally the investor 💀

Your grandson: "Tell me a story" You: Long long ago, there was a small desert village... People were making bows day and night...

So how did it come, the best crossbows were actually made in the desert? Well, long time ago, a European adventurer named Jefflenious came to the holy land in seek of glory. However the peace treaties at the time forbid him venturing out of the kingdom of Jerusalem. He had to settle down in nearby the desert, with nothing but a few Arabian trade caravans coming by. He used his last money, to buy wood from them and construct a shelter. With the remaining wood, he crafted some crossbows in hope of selling them for some food to the caravans. Because crossbows were rare in this region, they sold very well. But food was also rare and Jefflenious bought ale instead, as it could satisfy his thirst and hunger at the same time. The tales of a crossbow building eremite living of ale spread quickly and other craftsmen came to his shelter and asked to aid him. A village formed and the exchange of knowledge quickly led to a guild of highly skilled craftsmen. Thus the desert crossbows became famous.

Just goes to show how well thought out and balanced this game is. Such a classic.

The crossbow selling tactics never cease to amaze me xD

I remember playing Stronghold 2 without cutting down a single tree, wanting to preserve the forests. The war campain was really economicly harder that way

When there is no food on the map, I usually go for religion and positive fear factor. You get positive popularity and don't have to bother with food/ale. You get worse production, but stronger military.

A true classic :) I remember having done something similar in the past, except it was freebuild mode and I just spawned some bandits and invasions at some point. Booming up to a million gold also went considerably faster than one would think, but it always has this certain fascination about it, creating something, some thriving castle, from nothing but dust and sand.

Just fell in love with this game one more time... So lovely and beautiful to make everything from nothing...

Dude watching your videos has really helped me be a better player, i wouldn't dare play online or anything but ive made it pretty far through the crusader trails! As a kid i thought it was impossible! Im running into trouble now but im leaps and bounds ahead of where i was thanks to you, thanks for putting in the work!

First i think you Will buy Ale and do some taxes

The advisor is taking a shit through a large portion of this whole challenge. ;)

All credits to those 4 gigachads.

finding this channel was one of the best things that ever happened to me lately...fr

The OG Stronghold OST is just beautiful.

I've forgotten how much the soundtrack to this game slaps

Local lord summons army from nowhere by engaging in trade arbitrage

looking at this video was like WHAT THE HELL he mades everything from nothing i cant believe this..... i thought it is imposible anf here we are you are absolutely Amazing Mate....

Once you have a merchant you dont need any further starting recources, because you can make money through taxation (I recommend +7/-2 in turn). Takes a while though.

I think I'm gonna go back to Stronghold at some point. It was so great game!

You can also have your grain industry on one side and the wood industry on the other side of stock pile for more efficiency

What do you mean by "shouldn't be too hard" it looks insane

Cool challenge, I would have never thought of something like that

Adding mangonels, moat, traps, maybe pitch to the enemy defenses could have made it more challenging.

you open my minds about economy

Well done!

Quick question: Does it matter where you build the inn? I mean if you build it further away from the stockpile does it affect how quick it serves the ale?

I use this economy style on some of the resource starved map on the trails. :) Smart!

One of the questions I never knew I actually really have to know the answer for.

wow cool, i never thought of that before

without the patch this would not be possible because the market usually costs 5 wood

I didn't know that last 4 peasent will never leave you

I would base my economy on positive fear factor and religion

What's Ucp? I was wondering how you got the marketplace when the marketplace costs 5 wood... Then the video description says it's free with Ucp, but what's Ucp?

The version of this game in my computer requires wood to build the market

Very nice ! like that much !

absolute legend

How did you construct the first building (the store) without wood

If you have at least 5 wood you can get very rich in this game even in bare dessert

Do this again, only this time have the enemy ai attacking you. Thats a real challenge I think.

one of the beast games ever built

THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR FOR THIS VIDEO. INCOMPARABLE!! SIMPLY WOW! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Good, but can you do it on a foggy night in Stoke against six wolves?

This is why craftmanship is more rewarding

W to the devs for actually making a way to bounce back. ❤

Instructive!

Hey, can you do a video on braziers? I wonder whether they actually provide bonus damage or not, since it's free to make.

as long as the enemy is not harassing you at the beginning all you need is patience xD

yeah I figured out this strategy and with starting gold of just 2000, you can defend yourself in any mission against no matter how many opponents, just build an armory and three archeries, spend the rest of gold on 40 bows and spawn archers. To make more money and archers produce bows with 2 and one use to produce crossbows to sell for money(switch as needed). to defend yourself against all catapults and melee units build a square tower with a balista a gate with drawbridge and wall plus moat around everything You get a really compact castle that's easy to defend. Barracks, stone barracks, trader and enginer's are built outside behind the castle and a moat around them to prevent anyone from destroying them. Also build 5 gallows to have them produce two bows/crossbows at once for same amount of wood. Later you should build more square towers near the castle or far away, if enemy is within reach of the towers with purchased stone to house archers and additional balistas or catapults if you are want to trash the ai castle while waiting for gold. Also build a 4th archery to speed up crossbow production when you are not spawning troops and block it off with wall when you are. Once you have defences up all you do is purchase wood and sell crossbows, when you reach 10k gold, then you shut off the 4th archery to get a peasant and then you just keep spawning horse archers, assassins catapults and balistas until you run out of money, then you are all set to attack so you destroy the gallows and replace them with gardens to give your troops a boost when sieging. It's easy if you don't wanna bother with maintaining popularity, economy and building an actual castle, but it takes a while

markets used to cost wood. i can see you are useing UCP and turned off the costs for markets. in the vanilla game this wouldnt have been possible

question, did you put stronghold 1 music in the video, or do you have a mode that adds original stronghold 1 music into stronghold crusader? I'm asking cause i think stronghold 1 music is much better than stronghold crusader music

How you place the market place with no wood? Somehow you still managed to place it when cost 5 wood.

The Lord just disappeared. lol

Wow indeed a genius

The power of the trade :P

How to you playing custom scenario with People generating ? Can you tell me please

Can we SC fans try somehow make bigger maps? It must be possible changing its limit somewhere in game files or tweak the engine.

next up: "Can You Beat Emir in an Empty Map?"

I boom my custom castle builders out of nothing. There's something fascinating about watching a stronghold built from scratch.

I never tried it out myself, but I heard that wells always have workers on them, no matter your popularity. if that's true, you could've spammed a bunch of those to collect more taxes

Crowdfunded startup company

Props to the military industrial complex, carrying the entire economy.

hey could you put a download link for this map? i'd like to try it myself!

Wait, how come that you could place the market without any wood?

Quick question, how did he build many of the same type of seige equipment in juz 1 click? I always select the type I wan, let's say shield, then I click the location, then shield agn, then location agn, then shield agn, and location agn, it gets stupid when it comes to 20 shields or 20 catapults 🙃🙃

fun play, great music choice xD why u put inn so far?

anyone knows the music name in the background?

How did you build granary and merchandise post without any resources? After you got those two, the rest is eazy

You could max fear to fasten the gold making progress.

brilliant

Peasants: We built this city... We built this city on rock and roll!

How can I make a siege machine without selecting it again?

1 trick: you can jump from 0 - 49 popularity to 75. in 0 - 49 you will always have 3 peasants just make army ( slaves ) from those peasants... you will directly jump to 75 pop

can anyone tell me how he makes the shied like that instead of having to click 1 by 1

what is that background music called?

i did not know that was even possible

oh cool, i did the same challenge but i used highly scared population to make shittons of expensive bread out of flour and kept them happy with faith and additional rations i was surprised that it can sustain itself but i know that selling thousands of pieces of bread is much better than any taxation

How you set shields without press on them?

You use ucp patch but you can do it without that just waiting with gold and build cathedrall recruting monks who need only gold. If enemy wont have moat. You can win easly.

in vanilla the tradepost cost 5 wood...so there it´s impossible

church+cathedral+max happiness = no need for food.

can u tell me how to getr peasents in custem senerios

Просто ВАУ!))

I have an idea... How many ballista shoots does it take to kill a lord?

where can I find the music??

you can skip your popularity to 75, when its very low when you recruit someone . that helps sometimes.

the best survival game

When u do max payment. And build 2 crossbow makers, next better is religion 250 gold. Next food

how you build marketplace without wood?

why not using negative fear facto to make early economy faster

Good Ol Ale

TIL it takes more than one piece of wood to make a bow. I always thought it was just wood = 1 bow. I didn't know it was multiple trips, and I have played for more than a decade on and off.

Wonderful

How did he make the market in the first place?

What was your problem with the original game music?!

In this time of fear When prayer so often proves in vain Hope seems like the summer bird Too swiftly flown away Yet now I'm standing here My hearts so full, I can't explain Seeking faith and speakin' words I never thought I'd say There can be miracles When you believe (When you believe) Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill (Mmm) Who knows what miracles you can achieve? (You can achieve) When you believe, somehow you will You will when you believe.

Impressive

How he set market and granary 😅😅 but keep it up😊

Damm u are great