Stronghold

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

Stronghold 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

Stronghold Specific Buildings

• Ballista Yard (no First Aid Tent (Rampart,Fortress,Necropolis), but Ammo cart (like Inferno, Tower), and ballistas (like Castle, Dungeon, Conflux)
• Freelancer's Guild (sell creatures for resources)
• Mess Hall (+8 Goblin growth, horde building)
• Escape Tunnel (flee on siege, unique to Stronghold)
• Hall of Valhalla (attack skill +1 for visiting hero) (like Dungeon town Battle Scholar Academy (akin to the adventure map learning stone) or the Fortress Cage of Warlords (+1 defense skill for visiting hero) or Wall of Knowledge (+1 knowledge one time for visiting hero) at Tower towns or Order of Fire (one time bonus of +1 spell power for visiting hero) at Inferno towns)
• Warlords' Monument (Grail building, the usual +5000 gold per day, +50% creature growth and a whopping +20 attack when sieged with a defending garrison hero)

Creature Dwellings

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

Heroes

Stronghold
Barbarians
Yog
Gurnisson
Jabarkas
Shiva
Gretchin
Krellion
Crag Hack
Tyraxor
Boragus
Kilgor
Battle Mages
Gird
Vey Vey
Dessa
Terek
Zubin
Gundula
Oris
Saurug
Towns

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

Creatures

Stronghold creatures
Level 1
Goblin
Hobgoblin
Level 2
Wolf Rider
Wolf Raider
Level 3
Orc
Orc Chieftain
Level 4
Ogre
Ogre Mage
Level 5
Roc
Thunderbird
Level 6
Cyclops
Cyclops King
Level 7
Behemoth
Ancient Behemoth
Towns

Name	Town	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special
Goblin  Goblin		1	4	2	1	2	5	5	15	60	40
Hobgoblin  Hobgoblin		1+	5	3	1	2	5	7	15	78	50
Wolf Rider  Wolf Rider		2	7	5	2	4	10	6	9	130	100
Wolf Raider  Wolf Raider		2+	8	5	3	4	10	8	9	203	140		Double attack
Orc  Orc		3	8	4	2	5	15	4	7	192	150		Ranged (12 shots)
Orc Chieftain  Orc Chieftain		3+	8	4	2	5	20	5	7	240	165		Ranged (24 shots)
Ogre  Ogre		4	13	7	6	12	40	4	4	416	300
Ogre Mage  Ogre Mage		4+	13	7	6	12	60	5	4	672	400		Cast Bloodlust x3
Roc  Roc		5	13	11	11	15	60	7	3	1027	600		Flying
Thunderbird  Thunderbird		5+	13	11	11	15	60	11	3	1106	700		Flying, Lightning strike
Cyclops  Cyclops		6	15	12	16	20	70	6	2	1266	750		Ranged (16 shots), Can attack siege walls
Cyclops King  Cyclops King		6+	17	13	16	20	70	8	2	1443	1100		Ranged (24 shots), Can attack siege walls
Behemoth  Behemoth		7	17	17	30	50	160	6	1	3162	1500		Defense -40% to enemy target
Ancient Behemoth  Ancient Behemoth		7+	19	19	30	50	300	9	1	6168	3000	1	Defense -80% to enemy target

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