Stronghold: Warlords
Release Date: March 9, 2021
Strategy, economic, RTS, the middle ages, ancient history, online, war strategy, co-op, China, Japan, multiplayer, singleplayer, internet
Another full-fledged installment of Stronghold, a popular strategy game series developed by FireFly since 2001. As always, the game takes us to medieval times, and allows us to assume the role of a lord with a small castle and a poor village at his command. Our job is to grow the area to become a powerful domain.
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Videos and Screens
[2:33] Stronghold: Warlords launch trailer
[6:56] Stronghold: Warlords E3 2019 trailer
Gamepressure Review
Stronghold: Warlords
Stronghold: Warlords allows you to bare-witness the tumultuous history of the Eastern Asian continent, depicting wars of the fearsome Mongol Horde, among others. The game is terribly engrossing, offering diverse missions and even some decisions to make.
Gamerweb.pl: 7.5 / 10 by Kasjan Nowak
This is not the best strategy in the last several months, I will easily find a few better ones, but I can consider the return of the Stronghold successful.
PC Gamer: 67 / 100 by Robert Zak
A decent if generic strategy game that lacks the big personality and siegecraft of earlier entries.
Wccftech: 7 / 10 by Chris Wray
Stronghold Warlords is a decent strategy game. While the city-building and sieging truly let the game shine, the slow and sluggish pace between these can truly drag it down. The new diplomacy and warlords system adds something to the series and makes for a welcome change, but it's impossible not to think of this as a game that feels and plays like a strategy game from 20 years ago, for better and for worse.
The main pros of the game
- Graphics and Aesthetic: Many users praised the game's graphics, noting that the stylistic choice effectively represents Feudal Asia.
- New Mechanics: The introduction of Warlords adds an extra layer of strategy, allowing players to capture and manage provinces, which is seen as a significant improvement over previous titles.
- Classic Gameplay: The game retains the core elements of the Stronghold series, such as castle building and resource management, which fans appreciate.
- Fun Factor: Despite its flaws, many players found the game enjoyable and worth playing, especially for fans of the franchise.
- Resource Management: Users noted that the game includes resource management mechanics similar to Stronghold 2, which adds depth to gameplay.
The main cons of the game
- Bugs and Crashes: A recurring theme in the reviews is the presence of bugs, frequent crashes, and issues with autosaving, making the game frustrating for many players.
- AI Issues: The AI was criticized for being unpredictable and illogical, leading to disappointing gameplay experiences.
- Diplomacy System: The diplomacy system was mentioned as frustrating, contributing to the overall negative experience for some users.
- Performance Issues: Players reported that the game is poorly optimized, causing high CPU temperatures and performance drops.
- Limited Content: Many users expressed disappointment with the lack of unique factions, maps, and new gameplay elements, suggesting that the game feels like a reskin of older titles.
The features or elements that are missing from the game according to users
- More Unique Factions: Users desire a greater variety of factions with distinct units and buildings, rather than a single "Asian" faction that shares assets.
- Improved AI: There is a call for better AI that makes more strategic decisions and behaves logically during gameplay.
- More Maps and Lords: Players noted that the game lacks sufficient maps and playable lords, which limits replayability and variety.
- Better Diplomacy Mechanics: Suggestions for improvements to the diplomacy system were mentioned, as it was seen as a source of frustration.
- Enhanced Customization: Users expressed a desire for more flexibility in building designs and castle layouts, feeling that the current grid system is outdated.
Summary
- Overall, while Stronghold: Warlords has its enjoyable aspects and maintains the essence of the series, it suffers from significant technical issues and a lack of depth that leaves some fans wanting more.
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GAMERS Score
Average score from 217 votes. 370 players anticipated the game.
Stronghold: Warlords Description
Stronghold: Warlords is another part of the popular real-time strategy series Stronghold. The game was developed by FireFly Studios, the team taking care of the series.
Plot
Stronghold: Warlords takes us to the Far East. The action of this game starts in the 3rd century B.C. and ends several centuries later, in the 16th century A.D. In the game appear such nations as imperial China, Japan ruled by shoguns, Mongolian nomads and tribes inhabiting the area of present-day Vietnam.
Gameplay
While playing Stronghold: Warlords we observe the action from a top-down view, but we can control the camera to a large extent. During the game we construct new buildings, work on developing technology, recruit units in order to lead them to fight against the enemy forces. In some missions we also gradually expand our fortress. Our army includes not only infantry soldiers (such as Mongolian archers or disciplined samurai) and horsemen, but also a variety of siege machines, useful mainly during the conquest of enemy strongholds; these include the fire lance, siege towers and flaming oxen.
And don't forget to meet the needs of the inhabitants - if we want farmers, woodcutters, miners and craftsmen to do their jobs properly (and pay their taxes), we need to provide them with a bit of entertainment... or scare them off. Of course, you also have to pay constant attention to the abundance of our treasury, so as not to be left without funds at the worst moment.
The biggest novelty are the title warlords, who control individual regions. After defeating and subjugating them, they provide us with various bonuses (such as the ability to produce unique goods), can support in battle or provide additional troops. We manage the rulers by issuing edicts, but we need special points generated over time (the rate of collecting them is influenced by the buildings of diplomatic character). Leaders can also be improved using the same resource.
Stronghold: Warlords features 3D graphics maintained in a colourful, somewhat cartoonish style.
Multiplayer
The core of the game Stronghold: Warlords are story campaigns. Besides, single battles and multiplayer mode are waiting for testing. Game offers also short tutorial.
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Stronghold: Warlords Summary
Platforms:
PC / Windows
Developer: Firefly Studios
Publisher: Firefly Studios
Age restrictions: 16+
Stronghold: Warlords System Requirements
PC / Windows
Minimum: Intel Core i5-3330 3.0 GHz, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 680 / Radeon HD 7970 or better, 6 GB HDD, Windows 7/8/10
Recommended: Intel Core i7-3770 3.4 GHz, 16 GB RAM, graphic card 4 GB GeForce GTX 970 / Radeon R9 290 or better, 6 GB HDD, Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
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