Few years ago, I was in a bus and just randomly thought of Stronghold and said half loudly "wood needed" and the dude few seats from me said "stone needed". We looked at each other and I just added "M'lord?" to which he replied "Greetings, sire!" We laughed our asses off for quite few minutes while the rest of the passengers looked at us, visibly confused. We just went through all of the possible lines and had a lovely reminisce about one of the best games that men ever made, as you said, forever indented into our minds. May the wood be needed forever, m'lord.
This is so wonderfullly edited. Thank you. All the references, the coverage on the audio, lord personalities, and the perfect description of the art being cozy.
Stronghold Crusader itself is a bit weak unless you start with the original Stronghold 1. Because what it put down was a game with a campaign that felt like it had a good narrative and got you used to the gameplay while keeping you hooked with a fairly good story. That translates well to Sh: Crusader because you can get into the niche gameplay style more easily, since Crusader campaign was kind of bland and uninteresting. But yes, Crusader was much more polished and enjoyable to play in terms of just skirmishes.
Go play it, you'll lose a lot of hours in its charm. I recommend every mode, skirmish mode, open skirmishes, the campaign, the map editor and free building, all have something to offer.
A cozy video that really captures in words the feeling of the warmth of nostalgia. Great pacing & excellent visuals and vocals. You did good, nannerman.
Stronghold is a god of a game for the dialogue alone. I can remember so many of just the random things NPCs, units say. Here comes BESSIE! Ladders WEADY!! The armoury is full my lord! QUUUUUUUUUUUUUUICK...MARCH!
@@4nthr4xyeah it’s a mod. There are some great mods for Crusader. The unofficial Crusader patch should be the foundation for any player who plays the game. And then one can add mods on top.
10:32 Here's a tip how to beat Inferno very easily: when the game starts immediately buy leather armor and maces for about 20-30 macemen and rush the orange Caliph before he encloses his keep (I'm not sure how many macemen exactly are needed but you can experiment). If you struggle with that you can lower the game speed. Once you've sent them on their way, get about 20 engineers and buy a shitload of bows and crossbows/leather armor. Keep 6 engineers and get all the other ones to make shields. Place two square towers facing the yellow caliph - but place them close to his keep so that your archers can shoot basically everyone from your towers, and place one tower towards the blue caliph - again, place it as close to his keep as possible. Put a mangonel on each tower, and load them with archers, crossbowmen and shields (I put 4-5 shields on each tower). Shields on towers will make your archers far more durable, mangonels will keep wreaking havoc and due to the proximity of your towers to their keeps they will not be able to build economies but will just keep recruiting troops to replace dying ones until they go bankrupt. Don't bother building your economy, you will have enough starting food to last you throughout the entire mission and sell all non-essential starting resources (iron, pitch, ale, hops) so that you can keep pumping out more troops. Don't build a castle and walls around your keep, it's a waste of resources. Just place towers as close to the enemies (and as far from your keep) as possible and put a single wall block to each tower so that you can attach the stairs. Since it's a deathmatch you will have enough starting resources for 3 square towers. In early stage, if your tower is too close to the enemy and there's a possibility they will send heavy troops that cannot be neutralized fast enough onto your towers, once your archers and engineers have climbed the towers destroy the first step of the stairs so that enemy troops cannot climb up your towers.
@@Peppachini Let me know how it goes! One more thing: since the blue caliph is placed in the corner of the map, he will trap himself due to the layout of his castle! So you will only need to fend off early attacks, but once he has built his castle all of his peasants and troops will be unable to leave and you won't have to worry about him. Also, when doing an early game rush you can place a few gardens to get positive fear factor as it increases combat performance of your troops! If you don't build any hovels immediately you will need fewer gardens to get more fear factor bonus as your population will be small. I generally don't like building "nice things" as they reduce productivity, but sometimes when doing an early game rush I place a few gardens to get the combat bonus and once the rush is over I destroy them. Fear factor bonus can make a huge difference in such situations, there were a couple of cases where it was impossible to pull off a rush without a combat bonus from positive fear factor.
Crusader and Anno 1602 was like 80% of my childhood Edit: Crusader has a story mode, so to speak, although it's more like a lengths tutorial, so it's not played often and doesn't have a compelling narrative (although I learned a disturbing amount about the Crusades as a kid in Elementary) Also based Udwin enjoyer
thats another thing that I loved about stronghold crusader and especially Age of Empires 2. damn did I excel at things in history lessons when I already played that damn history (and then bombed out hardcore whenever something else came up because I prefered gaming over learning history ;D) will never forget the surprised reaction of that teacher when I suddenly was a top 3 student for a year and total shit otherwise ;D
Just got done watching the vid, Pepp. When you mentioned the graphics being "cozy" it reminded me of a video I saw on this similar topic (2D isometric perspective games) a short while ago. One of the reasons given was that the approach allowed the devs to put all manner of little details and greebles into the graphics which, if the game was in 3D, would cost significantly more processing power to run, because the details would have to render from every angle, whereas in the 2D it's just fixed. So for their time, games with this visual style could get away with very detailed game worlds without breaking the bank. Certainly for myself it's a big contributor to how pleasant games with this style from this era look, with all the little details and so much going on. Cozy is the right word for it.
That's why many games like this could compete for a long time when 3D-games were still new. (Rollercoaster Tycoon, Caesar 3, Sim City 4, Age of Empires 2, Anno 1602, ...)
Sprite-based/voxel-based graphics is just far too superior than low-poly 3D graphics of 2001-2005 back then. It also only required low specs PC. For example, C&C Red Alert/Yuri's Revenge (and Mental Omega) graphics is much more detailed than C&C Generals.
This is something i really really hope Firefly studios has come to realise as why the old games are so beloved and takes with them for their next installment. But if anyone should know about this though it really should be them
My dad loves the Stronghold series, one of the few videogames we share a great love for. I used to spend hours on the peace campaign in SH2, still go back to it every now and then. Absolute Classic, Great video!
Astonishingly well put together video. Your love for the game seeps through every line and every editing decision. I haven't played any RTSs for a long time and probably never will, but damn, if I hadn't enjoyed your video!
The fact that when you placed some buildings next to walls changed their appearance to use the wall as a lean-to was one of the tiny details that made me love this game so much. A game that really lets you ask 'What if i do this?' and always seems to have an answer.
Stronghold Crusader is one of my most favourite and precious games of all time. I've been playing close to 20 years now, on and off, skirmish mode and intermittent periods of dedicated crushing the crusader trails. I've lost count of many times I've completed them. I must have played for thousands of hours . And after the Unofficial Crusader Patch, you can tweak so many things, you can last a thousand more. If they release a SC Remake, but stay true to the 2D look and feel of the original, brother that would be my 2nd coming of Christ. Great video!
I love stronghold crusader - was a childhood game and I am actually replaying it now and doing the 2 warchest campaigns. Even all these years later its nice graphics amd gameplay are very relaxing and fun.
To this day, stronghold crusader is our go to game at family reunions. We mostly play co-op, throwing as many wolf’s as we can on the map, and sitting back and talking for an hour or two
Nice video. Well done, touched my heart. I just recently returned to Stronghold after many years. Bought Stronghold definitive edition and tried Stronghold Crusader Extreme. +1 from me!
Things I noticed in your footage I've never seen before: • different keep • numbers above "recruit unit" buttons in barracks an mercenary post (are those clickable for rally flags, or just an info for what button to press?) • different coloured horses for arabian mounted archers • different siege construction tents Is this a mod or a special of the warchest release?
Great video, it is well produced! Better than many video essays by people with 100k+ subscribers. Voice lines from the game are maybe slightly too loud. Like your humor, enough to be engaging without feeling forced or overbearing. Thought the Monty Python reference was hilarious. Would love some more stronghold content from you. Subbed
RTS games have been for me my childhood and every time i hear the songs of Age of mythology I get a wave nostalgia. Same goes for the voice lines of the monk in Stronghold Crusader and that game is by far one of my favs
This video was an absolute rush of nostalgia. I absolutely adored playing this one for countless hours, at a time when I was still just having fun learning game mechanics - like learning how pitch wasn't just there to make the ground black for fun, or watching what I thought was an impenetrable fortress get absolutely violated by The Wolf. Truly good times had!
My friend showed me Stronghold when I was in elementary school. I am 26 now and I still play it to this very day. I played every single stronghold game, yet Stronghold 1 and Crusader are still one of the best strategy games I have ever played.
This Video is awesome. I have been playing Stronghold Crusader since the Gold box with all the titles until Stronghold Legends and let me tell you: Crusader is the BEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED IN ALL MY 7 years!
I didn't fully grasp just how much this game meant to me until your review at the end, it was a formative experience for a girl with not a lot going on for her to be sure.
Played this since before I can remember, just got my friends into it recently. What a fucking banger game. We already say to each other, “wood needed sire” and it’s on the thumbnail, nailed.
I like the fact that you place your brewaries against the wall in the first mission against the Sultan. That was my favourite aspect of the game, where the buildings are stacked more neatly
Stronghold 2 is legitimately the greatest medieval castle sim ever made, there is no debate to be had about it. I've had some of my favourite and most joyous multiplayer experiences in SH2, because it's always unhinged carnage.
I remember thinking back then, you were either into stronghold and age or command and starcraft and i was the latter. I caught up on age of empires over the years but this video showed well what im still missing out on and how nostalgic the whole genre feels now.
AoE, Stronghold, and C&C (and to be fair Total War) defined my childhood like no other games. Always been more into RTS games than shooters to see some of these titles make a return right now is really nice. Personally I think Stronghold 2 was also really good (albeit the economic system being a bit more complex). But I hope they will make a Stronghold that - even with new graphics and whatnot - will inherit the spirit and core principles of the original games. Great video, 10/10.
Great video man. I searched for a video like this the other day and now I had you on my starting page. Stronghold is underrated, I think I will always be playing this game. Especially the DE gives me so much more content through the steam workshop. Funny that you mentioned udwin i started playing again because of him😂
I remember when I visited my Aunt back in 2003 and came to my cousin who played Stronghold Crusader and how it blew my mind when I saw a woodcuter taking some wood into stockpile where fletcher took it and made a bow which he put into armory. It was such a great time when I got my PC after a few years and was able to play it.
The reason that Castle Jam, specifically, has so many plays on Spotify is because it got added to an official Spotify "medieval vibes" playlist. So most of those plays are not people seeking it out for the Stronghold connection. Still excellent!
Before I’d even heard of it, I got this game at a flea market for $2. Probably the best value purchase of my entire life. This game is one of my all time favorites
Very nice video! Was fun going down memory lane with you all, Stronghold Crusader is a classic. On the note of classics, y'all ever play Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War?
I hope you make a video for Stronghold 2 too. Such an underrated game, and really the best of all of them if you're only in it for castle management. The amount and quality of voice lines for the NPC's is absolutely amazing, and I was very sad to see most of them was cut from Stronghold 3, even though some of the buildings is also present there. The soundtrack is also a blast. All the oldie goldies are there with many more medieval bangers.
I laughed SO hard from that Monty Pyhton refference.... the knight running to the castle to save the prince in the tower... i SERIOUSLY laughed and hit my leg with my hand :D :D
Shame on you for not talking about the ghostly voice anouncing that "The castle is complete" just joking, great nostalgia trip for my favorite RTS castle builder sim. And it amazed me that Lord Udwin is so well known outside of Germany :)
I'll never be bored of this game no matter what, Command and conquer along with Stronghold crusaders was truly one of the best if not the best of games
Stronghold (Crusader, for me) was THE game. I was a strategy game buff before, but something was always lacking...the moment my archers went INTO towers and ON walls, the game enthralled me. The moment cavalry archers started shooting WHILE moving, i was blown away... That was my favorite game. Saladin was the hardest to fight for me until i found out this "exploit": setting his camp on fire will mean you win most of the time because his camp is SO packed that he will never put out all the fire. And he rebuilds before the fire is out, so... You create a perpetual-fire camp. Until their economy collapses. And all troops that aren't on walls or keep die...it will make the battles trivial. Also past a certain point the warpath requires rushing some of the enemies to win...which kinda sucks because it becomes more about APM and trial and error than actual strategy... All this info resides rent-free in my brain after over 15 years of not playing the game...
100% describing all our dialogue as 'spicy chin wagging' going forward!
@@fireflyworlds I LOVE YOU.
(Also coop war trail ye? 👀)
Stronghold Crusader Remaster pretty please?
stronghold crusader definitive with like a billion missions please my lord
i dont care about missions. Make it good to play with friends!! Easy way to host multiplayer. Bigger maps better ai!!!
Stronghold's voicelines and soundtrack will forever live rent free in my head. This and Stronghold one are my childhood.
"you are weak an unfit to command an army" is the first thing my mind goes to lol
WOOOD NEEDED!!
@@matesdugima1166 Stone stocks are too low sire
those voices in spanish live indeed rent free in my head
Lord Udwin mentioned, praise Udwin
That Monty Python reference was absolutely genius.
Few years ago, I was in a bus and just randomly thought of Stronghold and said half loudly "wood needed" and the dude few seats from me said "stone needed". We looked at each other and I just added "M'lord?" to which he replied "Greetings, sire!"
We laughed our asses off for quite few minutes while the rest of the passengers looked at us, visibly confused.
We just went through all of the possible lines and had a lovely reminisce about one of the best games that men ever made, as you said, forever indented into our minds.
May the wood be needed forever, m'lord.
GREETINGS LORD SPIDERMAN
ye
cant forget LORD VADER !!!!
Oh my god you didn't mention
Why didn’t he mention BAR ????
Star wars galactic battlegrounds:clone campaigns:expanding fronts
tf does “cult” classic even mean?
@@thecoolbyzantine24it has a good group of followers who played the game even though it wasn't really mainstream.
@@thecoolbyzantine24 Supreme Commander FAF
B U F F O O N !
K N A V E !
@@Peppachini W E A S E L T U R D !
V A R L E T !
P E A S A N T !
O A F !
That’s holy grail reference with the knights was a good joke. Perfect setup and execution.
The soundtrack and voice acting in Stronghold is phenomenal. Robert Euvino did a great job.
Yeah as soon as I heard the music playing it instantly brought me back. The music and voice acting was so well-done.
This is so wonderfullly edited. Thank you. All the references, the coverage on the audio, lord personalities, and the perfect description of the art being cozy.
Made me feel nostalgia for a game I never played.. maybe I should try it!
Stronghold Crusader itself is a bit weak unless you start with the original Stronghold 1. Because what it put down was a game with a campaign that felt like it had a good narrative and got you used to the gameplay while keeping you hooked with a fairly good story.
That translates well to Sh: Crusader because you can get into the niche gameplay style more easily, since Crusader campaign was kind of bland and uninteresting.
But yes, Crusader was much more polished and enjoyable to play in terms of just skirmishes.
Go play it, you'll lose a lot of hours in its charm. I recommend every mode, skirmish mode, open skirmishes, the campaign, the map editor and free building, all have something to offer.
You can use the UCP (Unofficial Crusader Patch) with Stronghold Crusader to get enhanced AI and challenging (sometimes too much!) missions.
Yes! Be sure to do!
@@brambillafumagalli8122 yes, the WASD support and placing multiple siege weapons is sooo good
A cozy video that really captures in words the feeling of the warmth of nostalgia. Great pacing & excellent visuals and vocals. You did good, nannerman.
Cheers dude
Stronghold is a god of a game for the dialogue alone. I can remember so many of just the random things NPCs, units say.
Here comes BESSIE!
Ladders WEADY!!
The armoury is full my lord!
QUUUUUUUUUUUUUUICK...MARCH!
WE UH THE MACE MEN
@@berthold64 BASH EM LADS
Mangonel readeh sir
@@learninggodot Constructing SIIEGE equipment!
AL HEEESAAAANO SAREEEEEE (Arabian Horse unit)
AL SHAFARTO HADAAAAAH (Assasins)
MAWLAAAAAI (i cant remember their name)
I will never forget this game and the experiences it gave me
Please make more videos like this! Very well narrated and entertaining :)
OMFG, thanks for reenacting a monty python classic @8:20 ;D that was a good laugh when I finally got it.
6:16 I have not once in my life seen a keep like that in Stronghold Crusader 👀 dope
my thoughts exactly! How? Modded?
Goddam, what mod pls. This is sick
@@4nthr4xyeah it’s a mod. There are some great mods for Crusader. The unofficial Crusader patch should be the foundation for any player who plays the game. And then one can add mods on top.
I did some digging and found the mod! It's called Vanilla-Retraced.
10:32 Here's a tip how to beat Inferno very easily: when the game starts immediately buy leather armor and maces for about 20-30 macemen and rush the orange Caliph before he encloses his keep (I'm not sure how many macemen exactly are needed but you can experiment). If you struggle with that you can lower the game speed. Once you've sent them on their way, get about 20 engineers and buy a shitload of bows and crossbows/leather armor. Keep 6 engineers and get all the other ones to make shields. Place two square towers facing the yellow caliph - but place them close to his keep so that your archers can shoot basically everyone from your towers, and place one tower towards the blue caliph - again, place it as close to his keep as possible. Put a mangonel on each tower, and load them with archers, crossbowmen and shields (I put 4-5 shields on each tower). Shields on towers will make your archers far more durable, mangonels will keep wreaking havoc and due to the proximity of your towers to their keeps they will not be able to build economies but will just keep recruiting troops to replace dying ones until they go bankrupt. Don't bother building your economy, you will have enough starting food to last you throughout the entire mission and sell all non-essential starting resources (iron, pitch, ale, hops) so that you can keep pumping out more troops.
Don't build a castle and walls around your keep, it's a waste of resources. Just place towers as close to the enemies (and as far from your keep) as possible and put a single wall block to each tower so that you can attach the stairs. Since it's a deathmatch you will have enough starting resources for 3 square towers. In early stage, if your tower is too close to the enemy and there's a possibility they will send heavy troops that cannot be neutralized fast enough onto your towers, once your archers and engineers have climbed the towers destroy the first step of the stairs so that enemy troops cannot climb up your towers.
Well god damn… I’ll give it a try!
@@Peppachini Let me know how it goes!
One more thing: since the blue caliph is placed in the corner of the map, he will trap himself due to the layout of his castle! So you will only need to fend off early attacks, but once he has built his castle all of his peasants and troops will be unable to leave and you won't have to worry about him.
Also, when doing an early game rush you can place a few gardens to get positive fear factor as it increases combat performance of your troops! If you don't build any hovels immediately you will need fewer gardens to get more fear factor bonus as your population will be small. I generally don't like building "nice things" as they reduce productivity, but sometimes when doing an early game rush I place a few gardens to get the combat bonus and once the rush is over I destroy them. Fear factor bonus can make a huge difference in such situations, there were a couple of cases where it was impossible to pull off a rush without a combat bonus from positive fear factor.
@@Peppachini just wait till you get to stronghold crusader extremes hell trail! slave hordes!!
Posts / walktroughs like this are what made the gaming forums in the 2000s so amazing!
I'm not a huge fan of these tactics tbh, they cheapen the game and arguebly can make it too easy.
The people WORSHIP you, Sire.
Crusader and Anno 1602 was like 80% of my childhood
Edit: Crusader has a story mode, so to speak, although it's more like a lengths tutorial, so it's not played often and doesn't have a compelling narrative (although I learned a disturbing amount about the Crusades as a kid in Elementary)
Also based Udwin enjoyer
thats another thing that I loved about stronghold crusader and especially Age of Empires 2.
damn did I excel at things in history lessons when I already played that damn history (and then bombed out hardcore whenever something else came up because I prefered gaming over learning history ;D)
will never forget the surprised reaction of that teacher when I suddenly was a top 3 student for a year and total shit otherwise ;D
Udwin 💪
Just got done watching the vid, Pepp. When you mentioned the graphics being "cozy" it reminded me of a video I saw on this similar topic (2D isometric perspective games) a short while ago. One of the reasons given was that the approach allowed the devs to put all manner of little details and greebles into the graphics which, if the game was in 3D, would cost significantly more processing power to run, because the details would have to render from every angle, whereas in the 2D it's just fixed. So for their time, games with this visual style could get away with very detailed game worlds without breaking the bank. Certainly for myself it's a big contributor to how pleasant games with this style from this era look, with all the little details and so much going on. Cozy is the right word for it.
That's why many games like this could compete for a long time when 3D-games were still new.
(Rollercoaster Tycoon, Caesar 3, Sim City 4, Age of Empires 2, Anno 1602, ...)
Sprite-based/voxel-based graphics is just far too superior than low-poly 3D graphics of 2001-2005 back then. It also only required low specs PC. For example, C&C Red Alert/Yuri's Revenge (and Mental Omega) graphics is much more detailed than C&C Generals.
This is something i really really hope Firefly studios has come to realise as why the old games are so beloved and takes with them for their next installment. But if anyone should know about this though it really should be them
Great video, Top notch narrating, wonderful editing, excellent humor. Please do more
Cheers M'lord
My dad loves the Stronghold series, one of the few videogames we share a great love for. I used to spend hours on the peace campaign in SH2, still go back to it every now and then. Absolute Classic, Great video!
This hits right in the childhood.
Astonishingly well put together video. Your love for the game seeps through every line and every editing decision. I haven't played any RTSs for a long time and probably never will, but damn, if I hadn't enjoyed your video!
Appreciate you watching, and the kind words :)
The fact that when you placed some buildings next to walls changed their appearance to use the wall as a lean-to was one of the tiny details that made me love this game so much.
A game that really lets you ask 'What if i do this?' and always seems to have an answer.
Wow you managed it, that I feel calm and peaceful watching a review on one of my favourite games. So cozy. Thanks :)
Very good Video mate, brought me back to my childhood 20 years ago. Well done man keep it up!
Stronghold Crusader is one of my most favourite and precious games of all time. I've been playing close to 20 years now, on and off, skirmish mode and intermittent periods of dedicated crushing the crusader trails. I've lost count of many times I've completed them. I must have played for thousands of hours . And after the Unofficial Crusader Patch, you can tweak so many things, you can last a thousand more.
If they release a SC Remake, but stay true to the 2D look and feel of the original, brother that would be my 2nd coming of Christ.
Great video!
Thank you for a such lovely nostalgic video! You did a great job really.
I love stronghold crusader - was a childhood game and I am actually replaying it now and doing the 2 warchest campaigns. Even all these years later its nice graphics amd gameplay are very relaxing and fun.
Great vid Pepp. Castles was my first PC game so Stronghold Crusader blew my mind when it came out. We are on our wheeey!
this brought back so many childhood memories I forgot I ever had
To this day, stronghold crusader is our go to game at family reunions. We mostly play co-op, throwing as many wolf’s as we can on the map, and sitting back and talking for an hour or two
I keep coming back to this game. It is so good and still holds up.
Nice video. Well done, touched my heart. I just recently returned to Stronghold after many years. Bought Stronghold definitive edition and tried Stronghold Crusader Extreme.
+1 from me!
Boomschlang. What a blast from the past.
Microsoft Intellimouse > Razer Boomslang, come at me.
This is my all time favorite game and i dont believe ill ever be able to play it again...
Thanks for the video. It was very nostalgic 😃
Thank you for watching :) I hope you get a chance to play it again!
What a video.
Such a great showcase of this amazing franchise.
Can't wait for more of your videos, please keep going!
It's 2am I have work tomorrow and I am watching. A video in CZcams about a game of my childhood which I already completed 30 times or more. Worthit!
I don't know why YT decided to recommend Stronghold videos but I love it 10/10
"Greetings Lord Spiderman" just made me laugh out loud in public.
What a phenomenal game and what a phenomenal video. And you love to hear the accent come out :D
Things I noticed in your footage I've never seen before:
• different keep
• numbers above "recruit unit" buttons in barracks an mercenary post (are those clickable for rally flags, or just an info for what button to press?)
• different coloured horses for arabian mounted archers
• different siege construction tents
Is this a mod or a special of the warchest release?
For some of the footage I do have Unofficial Crusader Patch running, should have mentioned it, my bad. Well worth a look, easy to install too.
This legendary masterpiece deserves definitive edition for now! One of the best RTS games ever!
Great video, it is well produced! Better than many video essays by people with 100k+ subscribers. Voice lines from the game are maybe slightly too loud. Like your humor, enough to be engaging without feeling forced or overbearing. Thought the Monty Python reference was hilarious. Would love some more stronghold content from you. Subbed
Thanks for the feedback :) glad you enjoyed.
RTS games have been for me my childhood and every time i hear the songs of Age of mythology I get a wave nostalgia. Same goes for the voice lines of the monk in Stronghold Crusader and that game is by far one of my favs
This video was an absolute rush of nostalgia. I absolutely adored playing this one for countless hours, at a time when I was still just having fun learning game mechanics - like learning how pitch wasn't just there to make the ground black for fun, or watching what I thought was an impenetrable fortress get absolutely violated by The Wolf. Truly good times had!
Fun fact, fire was added to the first stronghold a couple weeks before they launched the game!
Your popularity, is rising!
People are coming to the castle
My friend showed me Stronghold when I was in elementary school. I am 26 now and I still play it to this very day. I played every single stronghold game, yet Stronghold 1 and Crusader are still one of the best strategy games I have ever played.
The reference to Monty Python and the holy grail was impeccable. I was seeing the gameplay and the movie at the same time.
great video, not only interesting but funny, I played both games and I think you captured the essence of them well.
Thanks :)
That review is made exactly the day I born. And now I am enjoying stronghold
This Video is awesome. I have been playing Stronghold Crusader since the Gold box with all the titles until Stronghold Legends and let me tell you: Crusader is the BEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED IN ALL MY 7 years!
Fantastic!
Excellent work. Really appreciate the rundown. Was thinking of getting the game so this really helped.
I didn't fully grasp just how much this game meant to me until your review at the end, it was a formative experience for a girl with not a lot going on for her to be sure.
This dude, decided to come back after 4 years of absence, i respect that kind of determination.
Played this since before I can remember, just got my friends into it recently. What a fucking banger game. We already say to each other, “wood needed sire” and it’s on the thumbnail, nailed.
Thank you for the content slop
I like the fact that you place your brewaries against the wall in the first mission against the Sultan. That was my favourite aspect of the game, where the buildings are stacked more neatly
The music in Crusader is just so good. Especially tracks like Sandal Maker or Caravan!
one of my favorite games as a kid, thanks for the vid mate, so much nostalgia!
Stronghold will live rent free in my head, forever!
Stronghold 2 is legitimately the greatest medieval castle sim ever made, there is no debate to be had about it. I've had some of my favourite and most joyous multiplayer experiences in SH2, because it's always unhinged carnage.
Also, GOLD IS FLOWING INTO THE TREASURY MY LIEGE
Nice Norf F.C. reference with the Millwall supporters, the resemblance between the Tango man and the maceman is uncanny.
I remember thinking back then, you were either into stronghold and age or command and starcraft and i was the latter. I caught up on age of empires over the years but this video showed well what im still missing out on and how nostalgic the whole genre feels now.
beautiful homage, game of my childhood
"lovely Welsh accents"
I came looking for a gordie frothing at the mouth but sadly none to be found
Not a Gordie but it did leave a twitch in my eye haha
I actually adore this video. Well done.
Thanks for watching :)
I hope this game resurrects once more. Great video by the way 👍
AoE, Stronghold, and C&C (and to be fair Total War) defined my childhood like no other games. Always been more into RTS games than shooters to see some of these titles make a return right now is really nice. Personally I think Stronghold 2 was also really good (albeit the economic system being a bit more complex). But I hope they will make a Stronghold that - even with new graphics and whatnot - will inherit the spirit and core principles of the original games. Great video, 10/10.
That monty python bit with the Swordsman made me cackle dude that was gold.
Another truly magnificent video from the talented Mr. Pepp.
Fantastic video - great work lad
Great video man. I searched for a video like this the other day and now I had you on my starting page.
Stronghold is underrated, I think I will always be playing this game. Especially the DE gives me so much more content through the steam workshop.
Funny that you mentioned udwin i started playing again because of him😂
the best voice tracks and soundtracks of any game ever, GOATed beyond compare.
Great video I was shocked to see that you don't have at least 100k subs because of the quality of ur vids keep it up
Thanks man :)
Great video
@@Stuka1NCOMING amen 🙏
I remember when I visited my Aunt back in 2003 and came to my cousin who played Stronghold Crusader and how it blew my mind when I saw a woodcuter taking some wood into stockpile where fletcher took it and made a bow which he put into armory. It was such a great time when I got my PC after a few years and was able to play it.
This was one of the first games I ever played, alongside Heroes of Might and Magic. Castle Jam and 'wood needed' are the soundtrack of my childhood...
Great review of a fantastic game. Keep up the good works man.
The reason that Castle Jam, specifically, has so many plays on Spotify is because it got added to an official Spotify "medieval vibes" playlist. So most of those plays are not people seeking it out for the Stronghold connection. Still excellent!
This was a great video. It felt very authentic.
Before I’d even heard of it, I got this game at a flea market for $2.
Probably the best value purchase of my entire life. This game is one of my all time favorites
Very nice video! Was fun going down memory lane with you all, Stronghold Crusader is a classic. On the note of classics, y'all ever play Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War?
Blow the horn, bang the drum! The Pig is coming to town!
A MESSAGE FROM THE WOLF - "Arrrrrg this video is bussin frfr, no cap"
Since the thumbnails said Wood Needed, my mind read the title as "Stronghold Crusader is a Timberless Classic"
I hope you make a video for Stronghold 2 too.
Such an underrated game, and really the best of all of them if you're only in it for castle management.
The amount and quality of voice lines for the NPC's is absolutely amazing, and I was very sad to see most of them was cut from Stronghold 3, even though some of the buildings is also present there. The soundtrack is also a blast. All the oldie goldies are there with many more medieval bangers.
I laughed SO hard from that Monty Pyhton refference.... the knight running to the castle to save the prince in the tower... i SERIOUSLY laughed and hit my leg with my hand :D :D
aaaadn then got dissapointed there was No refference while they shoot the COW :D :D
My teenadge years right there. I was 15 when I played this, I'm 35 now and still playing. :)
Stronghold player with an MGS Pfp. We got a person of culture over here 😎
Shame on you for not talking about the ghostly voice anouncing that "The castle is complete"
just joking, great nostalgia trip for my favorite RTS castle builder sim. And it amazed me that Lord Udwin is so well known outside of Germany :)
Oh, the nostalgia! This was the first rts that I played without using cheats. This and Red Alert 2.
Fantastic video mate! Here's hoping that the algorithm recognizes that as well!
I'll never be bored of this game no matter what, Command and conquer along with Stronghold crusaders was truly one of the best if not the best of games
0:15 Im upset you didnt mention X-com 1994, playing Open X-com right now.
Brings me all the way back to the Middle Ages
Stronghold (Crusader, for me) was THE game. I was a strategy game buff before, but something was always lacking...the moment my archers went INTO towers and ON walls, the game enthralled me. The moment cavalry archers started shooting WHILE moving, i was blown away... That was my favorite game.
Saladin was the hardest to fight for me until i found out this "exploit": setting his camp on fire will mean you win most of the time because his camp is SO packed that he will never put out all the fire. And he rebuilds before the fire is out, so... You create a perpetual-fire camp. Until their economy collapses. And all troops that aren't on walls or keep die...it will make the battles trivial.
Also past a certain point the warpath requires rushing some of the enemies to win...which kinda sucks because it becomes more about APM and trial and error than actual strategy...
All this info resides rent-free in my brain after over 15 years of not playing the game...