I did that when I designed my "perfect castle". But after fighting the Pig a couple of times and seeing that fear aided in production as much as happiness did (to a certain extent, I think extreme happiness and food allows you to milk rediculous taxes), but I figured out that I could basically max out food production with apple orchards, mine the shit out of really valueable stuff, and then exploit the hell out of the market essentially leaving me without a need to tax the people. Instead I made their very existence a living nightmare and built up armies of pikemen with a super productive labour force with minimal upkeep. Not spearmen, pikemen.. With macemen so many sieged weapons I literally demolished a castle to the point the only thing left in a recognizable state was the keep itself since I couldn't destroy it. If I could, I'd have buried the lord inside. For the most part, this strat utterly destroyed pretty much everything because they were decent at both offense and defense (better at D) as long as they were in narrow places. Macemen did the rest. Plus I basically got to be vlad the impaler. While apples I think had the best food output for minimal effort, I think people ate them faster, so they aren't good in a protracted siege, but apart from skimish, I generally don't play pvp in the game, so long sieges leading to starvation didn't really happen. But yes. Stronghold was an awesome game. It was great coming directly off of Red Alert 2 to it, and then to Tiberium Sun. Ah yes.... The decade of RTS. Forged my entire outlook on gaming no doubt.
I always thought it's called "The Fall" - only this time with more shoulderpads and less hanky panky. I mean, they're the "Fallen", right? They have to fall from somewhere. Although, if somebody blows up a planet beneath you, you do technically fall, I suppose. And then Spoiler - CAPTIN HEY CAPTIN - WHAT - THE PLANET BLEW UP SOME DUDES FELL - … - CAPTIN??? - FUCK THOSE GUYS
Man it kills me to see the same mistake again and again. The most populated race gets the first load of weaps and cosmetic variants while the dying Eldar and Orks races get put into the "coming soon" bracket. Meanwhile Warlocks, Dark Reapers and Striking Scorpions have O cosmetics (and shrine variance), Banshees hair looks like sonic the hedgehog, Dire Avenger shrine symbol looks like it was drawn on with crayons, all Fire Dragons gem stones are grey or just the standard orange (wtf?) and Eldar are running around in leotards/spandex suits. Should we not be trying to encourage population into the barren wastelands known as the Eldar and Ork player base/queues? Suppose you cant have a Rhana Dandra without Eldar so that is a plus
