Stronghold

File:Stronghold-out.png

Stronghold Town seen on the adventure map.

The stronghold town is a neutral alignment town type with barbarian and battle mage hero classes. Stronghold towns are built by alliances of tribes. Armies composed of stronghold-based units have a balanced mix of ranged and hand-to-hand attackers. With the inclusion of the stronger units, these armies are particularly well-equipped to deal with attacks on other towns.

Structures

Stronghold Town seen from inside

Stonghold Specific Buildings

• Ballista Yard
• Freelancer's Guild
• Mess Hall
• Escape Tunnel
• Hall of Valhalla
• Warlords' Monument (Grail building)

Creature Dwellings

• Goblin Barracks
• Wolf Pen
• Orc Tower
• Ogre Fort
• Cliff Nest
• Cyclops Cave
• Behemoth Lair

Heroes

Template:Herotable Template:Herotablerow Stronghold |} List of all heroes

Creatures

Template:Creaturetable Template:Creaturetablerow Stronghold |} List of all creatures

Additional Information

• Alignment: Neutral
• Native Terrain: Rough

Pros

• Hero classes. Battle Mage is one of the most balanced classes in the game with a host of useful specials. Barbarians are the best fighter class available, expect attack ratings to rise fast and keep on rising. With great specials like Offense, a high-level Barbarian is a tough opponent.
• Escape Tunnel: it´s great to be able to retreat from a siege so you don´t lose your best hero this way.
• Cyclopes and Cyclops Kings can attack castle walls with their ranged attack. This is a vastly underestimated special that can tip the scale in an attacking force´s favor very quickly, especially when combined with a fast initiative-giving unit and Haste (Expert level for best effect). High Morale (to enable multiple shots) is also extra useful for them (the spell for this is Mirth) and if you have the room in your army, every additional stack gives additional shots at the wall! A stack of 1 Cyclops King 'sieges' as good as a stack of 1000 would.
• Ancient behemoths win a 1vs1 against most 7'th level creatures.

Cons

• Slow units, the fastest is the Thunderbird with a Speed of 11. Ancient Behemoths has 9.
• Magic, Mage Guild is limited to level 3.
• Only one flying unit, namely the Thunderbird.
• Cyclops and Behemoth lairs both require a lot of crystal to build. This competition makes it hard to have them both out in the earlier times - you have to choose between one of them, while both are useful.

Town Costs

["Basic" includes Citadel, Castle & any prerequisites:
"Upgrades" also includes prerequisites]

Resource	Basic	Upgrades	All
	28700	28000	91200
	60	47	157
	70	47	157
	30	20	60
	0	5	15
	0	0	10
	0	0	10
Troop cost/week:		24530 2

Template:Town creatures

Fully built Stronghold, as seen on the adventure map Fully built Stronghold, as seen on the adventure map. (HotA)	Towns
	Castle
	Rampart
	Tower
	Inferno
	Necropolis
	Dungeon
	Stronghold
	Fortress
	Conflux
	Cove
	Factory