I’ve had some interesting fights involving assassins and Templars because…well who doesn’t like that combination. While you can try all those tactics in the campaign it’s best to try them in Skirmish where you can put yourself up against any AI opponent on any of the maps available.

Its tactics like these that you need to learn when heading into the online multiplayer. It spread disease into the enemy’s population weakening them unless they have an apothecary to cure it. While being completely random, launching diseased animals into actually serves a tactical advantage for the one that launched it. It also has the special ability to launch lions, donkeys, cows, or a sack of camel heads (really!) at enemy forces or fortresses. Each units has its own special abilities like the trebuchet which normally launches projectiles at areas of the map farther than other catapults. There are 11 scenarios across 3 campaigns and for those that pre-ordered Stronghold Crusader 2 you get both the Delivering Justice and Freedom Fighters that add another four scenarios for those that are more single player oriented.īefore you head online its key to learn and master each of the 25 plus units that make up your forces. Players can choose to hope right into the learning campaigns to get a feel on how Crusader 2 functions before heading onto the multiplayer. The story this time around you will fight with or against the brutish might of Richard the Lionheart or the strategically defensive Saladin during the Crusades. Crusader 2 still offers the same great yet upgraded gameplay as the original though it shifts its focus on the more online multiplayer scene that the gaming world has been migrating to over the last few years. As someone that doesn’t play these kinds of games online very often, Crusaders’ mainly single-player experience was perfect at the time.

It’s been 12 years since I last played a Stronghold title with the release of the original Crusaders which I really enjoyed for its historical single-player campaigns through the Crusades. Well building them of course and with the release of Stronghold Crusader 2 you can do just that. I’ve played everything from StarCraft to Age of Mythology and C&C over the years including the ultimate in castle building, the Stronghold franchise.

This is surprising due to the fact that I’m not really good at them.

There’s always something about the Real Time Strategy genre that keeps drawing in every time.

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