Food Rations | Key elements of gameplay Stronghold: Crusader II Guide

Food rations window.

Food is one of the most important resources in the game, given its huge impact on the popularity rate in your kingdom. Depending on the size of rations you decide to set, the influence of food will be different:

• 0 rations: -30 to popularity
• 1/4 rations: - 20 to popularity
• 1/2 rations: -10 to popularity
• Normal rations: no influence on the popularity
• Double rations: +15 to popularity
• Triple rations: + 25 to popularity
• Quadruple rations: +35 to popularity
• Quintuple rations: +50 to popularity

Food rations settings have an impact on the speed of food consumption. If your people consume 50 pieces of food in 'normal' rations, they will consume 100 in double, 150 in triple, and 25 pieces in 1/2 a day. Depending on the abundance of food in your Granary you can influence the level of effect it has on the popularity - if you have a huge surplus of food, instead of selling it on the market, you can just increase the rations (the bigger the popularity, the less time you need to wait for a new peasant).

Additionally, the amount of food types also influences your popularity. This looks like this:

• 1 food type: no influence on the popularity
• 2 food types: +4 to popularity
• 3 food types: +9 to popularity
• 4 food types: +15 to popularity

It means, that sometimes it's more beneficial to decrease the size of rations when you are instead able to get a bonus for food diversity - it will significantly decrease the food consumption, the influence on the popularity will be similar, and the food surplus can be sold on the market.