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. Stronghold represent Krewlod.

Stronghold's native terrain is rough.

Structures

Stonghold Specific Buildings

• Ballista Yard
• Freelancer's Guild (Unique Stronghold building, allows you to sell troops for resources)
• Mess Hall (Goblin horde building, +8/week)
• Escape Tunnel (unique Stronghold building, allows defending heroes to retreat during a siege)
• Hall of Valhalla (+1 Attack to visiting hero)
• Warlords' Monument (Grail building, +20 Attack to defending hero)

Stronghold creature dwellings:

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

Stronghold Town seen from inside

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

Heroes

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Creatures

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

Strategy

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 well as a stack of 1,000 (and twice as well as a stack of Cyclops).
• Ancient behemoths win a 1vs1 against most 7'th level creatures.
• Crag Hack is one of the best Heroes in the game, at later stages, he will deal incredible amounts of damage thanks to his Offense specialty.
• Least expensive town as far as weekly troop cost is concerned for gold, though the Rampart town will often have a better economy in general by making use of the Dwarven Treasury.

Cons

• Slow units, the fastest is the Thunderbird with a Speed of 11. Ancient Behemoth 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 very useful.