Stronghold

Stronghold is a 'historic real-time strategy (RTS)' game developed by Firefly Studios, and released October 2001. While the game focuses primarily on conquest and expansion through military pursuits, Stronghold does provide space for economic strategy and development: there is both an economic and a military campaign to be played and both are discussed in the game manual. The game takes place in Medieval Britain around the time of AD 1066, though, since there is sometimes no time limit, scenarios can continue to hundreds of years beyond this date.

As well as earning many favorable reviews from reviewers such as PCGamer and GameSpy (see Reception section), the game continues to boast a large community, who edit and create various material through the in-game Map Editor/Scenario Creator.

Partly due to the above, the game spawned five sequels: Stronghold Crusader, Stronghold 2, Stronghold Legends, Stronghold Crusader Extreme and Stronghold 3 and several compilation packages.

Note: Stronghold is no longer available new but may still be purchased used, or downloaded online.

Units Military Civilian Characters

Buildings Castle Military Defenses Civilian

Single Player Skirmish Campaigns

Multi-Player Connections Skirmish Economic

Trailer

Requirements

• Operating System: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
• Processor: 550 MHz+
• Memory: 128 MB
• Hard Drive: 750 MB (for full install)
• Screen Resolution: 800x600 or above
• Video: 4MB DirectX 7.0 Compatible
• Sound: DirectX 7.0 Compatible
• CD ROM: 8x Speed*
• Modem: 56k for Internet Play (recommend ADSL)

Files

• Patch v1.2 from Take2

External Links

• Stronghold Knights
• Stronghold Wikipedia

|} |} |} |}