THE STRONGHOLD

Stronghold towns are built by alliances of tribes and are frequented by the Barbarian and Battle Mage hero types. Armies composed of Stronghold-based units have a balanced mix of ranged and hand-to-hand attackers. With the inclusion of the stronger units, these armies are particularly well-equipped to deal with attacks on other towns.

The stronghold is the old barbarian town type, but it has been shaken up considerably. It starts out weak, but it does have some particularly strong mid to late game units. It is very weak in magic, but has some very useful special buildings. Most notably, stronghold towns can have an escape tunnel, which allows garrisoned heroes to flee or surrender. The heroes for this town type have the game's best attack skill, but are poor in magic ability. Players of this town must strike out and conquer towns with better magic, while fielding armies of high level stronghold creatures as soon as possible.


HALLS


TOWN
 


MAGE GUILD


Stronghold special buildings allow you to buy ballistas and ammo carts. The Hall of Valhalla also gives each hero a permanent +1 to attack. This town doesn't have great siege defense - it is the only town type without a castle moat - but it does have the very useful escape tunnel, which lets you flee or surrender from siege battles (other towns have no option to flee during town defense). They can also sell troops for money at the Freelancer's guild. Their resource silo provides +1 wood and +1 ore.


BLACKSMITH
The Ammo Cart war machine may be purchased from the Stronghold blacksmith.
STRUCTURE COST REQUIREMENTS
1000 Gold
+5 Wood		 Village Hall


BALLISTA YARD
This upgrade to the blacksmith allows for the purchase of the Ballista war machine.
STRUCTURE COST REQUIREMENTS
1000 Gold
+5 Wood		 Blacksmith


FREELANCER'S GUILD
You may trade creatures for resources at the Freelancer’s Guild.
STRUCTURE COST REQUIREMENTS
1000 Gold Marketplace


RESOURCE SILO
This upgrade to the marketplace provides 1 Wood and 1 Ore per day.
STRUCTURE COST REQUIREMENTS
5000 Gold
+5 Ore		 Marketplace


ESCAPE TUNNEL
This upgrade to the castle allows heroes and their armies to surrender or flee during siege battles.
STRUCTURE COST REQUIREMENTS
2000 Gold
+5 Ore
+5 Wood		 Fort


HALL OF VALHALLA
Visiting heroes receive a permanent +1 to their Attack skill from the Hall of Valhalla.
STRUCTURE COST REQUIREMENTS
1000 Gold Fort


MESS HALL
+8 Goblin Barracks production.
STRUCTURE COST REQUIREMENTS
1000 Gold Goblin Barracks


WARLORD'S MONUMENT
The stronghold grail building is the Warlord's Monument, which increases weekly creature generation by +50 percent, adds 5000 gold per day, and increases the attack strength of your garrison hero by +20 when defending against a siege.



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