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Yeah, and don't forget about the necessity to have a lot of unit production structures just to be successful StarCraft games in general. That's what RTS has become, an APM duel.

Stronghold is an excellent game, though it can be challenging at times, the key is to understand how the economy works. The economy is all about having storage and population space for resources, weapons, and the peasant population, managing resource collection and taxation of the peasantry, and managing production chains for bread, ale, and weapons. Try the economic campaign and missions to learn how to build a prosperous economy, the real key to the game. If it had skirmish like Stronghold Crusader, Stronghold 2, and Stronghold Legends, I probably wouldn't play the others besides Crusader much. Okay, so the graphics are bad, but what do you expect from a 2D game from 2001? Stronghold 3, which is out in October, looks to be the best in the series. Stronghold Kingdoms looks great, I am playing the beta, and like what I am seeing; comparing it to Evony is a fair assessment, and I believe it is a better game.

The Ottomans weren't the first to use cannons, they are just famous for using perhaps the largest bombard, a type of cannon, in history during the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Hello Lion, welcome, I recently found my way here too.

And of course I wouldn't know about "Stamina" yet, seeing as how I have only played a handful of times since I found the game a few days ago.

2. Replanting isn't tedious micromanagement, it prevents tedious micromanagement, a reseed farm cue like in AoK would be a good idea. 4. The flaming arrow for flare sounds like a good idea. 8. Those things are already available to the Romans. 10. Historical Campaigns are planned. 11. I suspect it goes back to what edwardlongshanks said to 3. 12. Rams are available to some factions. 14. Stamina is planned, mentioned in another thread.