

In its basics, it is a good old Stronghold game we all know and love, but one of the key new elements are titular Warlords. Hard to siege, offers various army options.Stronghold: Warlords is the newest game in the series of popular real-time strategy games coming from FireFly Studios, with a focus on a region of Southeast Asia, during the era of Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shogun commanders. Easy to siege, offers various mounted army options.Īdept at gunpowder and siege. Hard to siege, offers various upgrades to his castle.Īdept at mounted combat. Easy to siege, offers various raw material shipments.Īdept at constructing fortifications. Allows the construction of a siege camp and various army options.Īdept at industries. Easy to siege, offers various benefits related to gold and diplomacy.Īdept at siege warfare.

Easy to siege, offers various food shipments.Īdept at estate management. Easy to siege, offers various basic resource shipments.Īdept at food production. Twelve is available in the base game, with an additional 6 warlords coming from DLCs.Īdept at basic industries. There is a total of 18 different warlords available. Influence also decays over time, forcing players to regularly invest more into it in order to preserve diplomatic control. Different warlords require varying amounts of influence to take over.Ĭonverting diplomacy into influence can be set to auto on a Warlord's panel, which will always select the 20/10 option. When a Warlord's influence threshold has been met, a player can demand obedience from the Warlord and they will be granted his ownership after a capture bar has been completely filled. Players must wait a little while after they got influence. This involves spending diplomacy points on their panel in order to gain influence (20/10, or 50/20). It is also possible to take a Warlord by diplomatic influence. Keeping a steady garrison around a Warlord's barricades is a good idea in case a diplomatic takeover is a possibility. After enough time has passed, the Warlord becomes under control.Ī Warlord's lord are comparable to the player's in strength, excelling in single troop combat, but can become quickly overwhelmed even by a handful of melee troops. This is done by "killing" their lord - forcing them to kneel -, and standing close to him for a few seconds. It is possible to take a Warlord by military force. It should be noted that Warlords can never be crippled economically or militarily, namely they can always have the preset relief forces/attack groups ready, as well as they can always provide the resource shipments requested.Ĭontrolling warlords Capture by force In order to use these options, players must generate and spend diplomacy points.

