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A fan site for Firefly Studios' series of Stronghold games: Stronghold 1, Stronghold Crusader, Stronghold Warchest, Stronghold 2, Stronghold Legends and now Stronghold Crusader Extreme! We have walkthroughs, image galleries, play-tested maps, patches, music, utilities, informative forums, tutorials and much more! The exclusive SHK SH2 AI-Editor has been released. Become a member (free) to enjoy all the benefits of the site, including private messaging, online games and access to our downloads areas and forums. Click here to find out more (if you are having problems registering click here for help). Key to Icons:  Stronghold 2  Stronghold Crusader  Stronghold 1 |
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Update! Lord Michael's Walkthroughs for 
Although not immediately apparent, your maps can be used as a canvas on to which you can paint! This tutorial shows you how to take a picture of your choice and imprint it on to your map to create some cool minimap (also known as "radar map") art... 
This tutorial provides a quick introduction to the settings screen that appears when you play a Kingmaker map in Stronghold 2. We'll cover player identification, player setup options, alliances, starting conditions, map selection, text chat and also provide a table that shows the effect on starting goods for each rank in comparison to the human/computer balance setting so you can create your perfect Kingmaker mission...
Not got your Stronghold 2 manual handy? Fear not! In this article we list all the keyboard shortcuts including several that aren't in the manual! 
This reference guide shows all the resources stored in each storage location along with information on ranks, production, consumption, trading and transportation...
Ranks, a highly influential gameplay feature introduced by Stronghold 2, control which buildings a your Lord can place as well as which troops he can recruit in Kingmaker maps (including Multiplayer). This tutorial provides a detailed breakdown of what each promotion will cost you (in terms of honor) as well as summarising the advantages, disadvantages, military status and map makers tips for each rank... 
Honor is a major gameplay element introduced in Stronghold 2. Honor is required in order to buy promotions, recruit certain troops, buy estates and even complete some mission objectives. This tutorial explains the new honor sustem, how to gain honor and how to use the honor you gain...
In this tutorial we'll take a closer look at the camp ground to see what our peasants are up to and find out how to use the population torus to our best advantage. We'll also take a look at how the peasants get their names and how to change their name, how to get females to do mens jobs and even have lesbian weddings!
Have you ever played a game for three years, read the manuals countless times and then one day suddenly realised that there is a great feature that you've never used and can't work out why? Imagine the perplexed look on my face when my brain finally reminded me of the undo feature that works in-game and also in the map editor...
Have you ever wanted to make a map where all the workers are already working from the start? Or would you like to be able to do some unusual things in your map, like place permanent siege tents? Then read on and find out how you can convert your saved games back in to editable maps and use them in the map editor!
When it comes to precision map making, the ability to view zone connections and path linkage is one of the most poweful tools provided by the map editor. In this tutorial we'll show you how to get a whole new perspective on your maps with no less than 9 different ways to visualise them!
Game speed is generally considered to be a subject as dry as dust, but it is vitally important to game play and can mean the difference between life and death. Just ask your troops. Push the game speed too high and it drastically reduces thinking time and exposes your personnel to undue risk. Slide it too low, however, and the experience, certainly on Stronghold, has been compared (perhaps rather unkindly) to watching paint dry. Read on to find out everything about game speeds...
In this short tutorial, we'll look at one of the least used but most powerful features of the map editor - its ability to quickly change map type. Here we can convert single player to multi-player, invasion to siege, etc., and allow map making tricks from different types of map to be combined in to a single map!
