strong hold is a game set medievial times and basically you have to build castles and attack the enemy or wait for the enemy to come for you its a bit like age of empires really

the characters

in stronghold there are many different characters which are:

archers, which are you guessed it like archers. (they can also fill in moats)

crossbow men, are basicaly archers but they have a crossbow insted of a long bow

spear men, these pepople have very sharp spears which can kill the enemy very easily but they are not very well armourd and so they can be killed easily as well. (they can also knock down walls and dig and fill in moats.)

pikemen, these are basically the same as spearmen exept they have a pike and battle armour they cannot fill in moats but they can knock down walls and kill people quicker than spearmen.

macemen, these units has big maces (big metal ball with loads of spikes on them) they can dig and fill in moats and knock down walls and kill people in one swipe of there mace.

swordsmen, these are elite foot soldiers they can kill anything in there path with 1 swoop of there sword they are the slowest unit but when there get to there target consider them gone so dont bother trying to save them swordsmen are also the hardest to kill

knights: this is the best unit in the game they can do anything very fast move very fast you name it they will do it appart from filling in moats and climbing walls (note: you can only make knights if you have stables)

tunnelers, are basicially tunnelers they gig into the ground and crawl under the enemys wall and colapse it by setting alight to the structure that holds up that wall or tower almoast instantly but if they are hit whilst tunneling they will die straight away and they cannot tunnel under a moat.

laddermen, these units will almoast be killed instanty they have no armour or wepon they only have ladders which they prop up against a wall so that soldiers can cliumb up them
they cannot deploy the ladder if there are walls that are cronculated (cant spell it correctly)
and they will die if there ladder is broken by spearmen

engineers, these units can build all siege equippment and can control siege equippment to
and also tip boling oil the emeny to melt them very efective against swordsmen

black monks, these units are like spearmen and pike men crossed together also very mysterious

loard, he is the most important character in the game he is a deadly fighter and rules over all the characters he is you.

lady, she is the lords wife

jester, he makes people happy and rasies you population

woodcutter, he cuts down trees for wood for the stockpile

hunters, they hunt dear for meat and they can also shoot arrows at the enemy if attacked

farmers, they grow various crops and take them to the stockpile

peasants, these people wait for jobs

stone masons, they make and get stone out of the ground for buildings

iron miners, they get iron for producing swords and armour

pitch diggers, they dig pitch for boiling oil

millers, they mill flower ready for baking

brewer, brews bear for pubs

inkeeper, gets bear from stockpile and takes it to the pub

fletcher, makes bows and crossbows

armorer, makes armour

blacksmith, makes swords and maces

poleturner, makes spears and pikes

tanner, makes lether armour for crossbow men

priest, blesses the population

healer, heals indured units

buildings

stronghold

wooden gate

small stone gate

large gate

drawbridge

wooden platform

turret

armory

wodden barracks

stone barracks

engineer guild

killing pit

oil smelter

these are just some of the buildings

the game is really easy to learn and is also very addictive i would recomend this game to anybody who likes age of empire type games.