stronghold crusader extreme free download full version

Although by no means a green recruit to PC strategy gaming, your humble correspondent got his arse kicked quite thoroughly by the very first battle in the campaign in the space of about two minutes. Stronghold Crusader Extreme also deserves its 'Extreme' name not only due to the huge number of units unleashed, but also because it's extremely hard. It's not exactly a nod to realism, but these powers live up to their billing by providing you with brand new tactical options in tight situations. The simplest power, using only a small chunk of the bar, is a volley of arrows - but spend more of your bar and you could summon reinforcements instantly to a besieged area, or bombard an enemy building with catapulted rocks. A bar down the right side of the screen gradually fills up as you play, and you can use a certain amount of this bar to unleash various tactical powers on your enemy. The final really big change that fans of the original Stronghold games will notice is the overhaul of tactical powers. Moreover, you'll now have up to 16 AI players on each map - the maximum in the original game being eight - so the war will have many more fronts for you to consider.

Rather than just managing your main castle and surrounding town, you'll now need to keep an eye on the production of those outposts - they provide another source of troops for the battlefield, and defending your own while capturing the enemy's will be a major tactical element in each engagement. In order to facilitate the production of such huge armies, the game also adds a large number of outposts to each map.

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