Those were hard times, but Lord Banshee retreated at some moment, and if I got that right, he had to do that, as his popularity went low, and he had no recruits. Then I faced some large sieges, but somehow I managed to survive. He was using macemen which were moving faster, so I wasn't able to do the same to him that effectively. Still, from now on I had no stable, and perhaps that was one of my mistakes - I did have some more gold now, but what do I have from gold, when my army is easy target to his trebuchets. Nevertheless, I did manage to take back control of my lands, and to rebuild what was lost, and I did what I needed to do earlier - to send some more troops further from my castle, to defend my remote buildings. If I was able to build some stables it would be much different, but I was able to build only one, which wasn't enough.Īfter I saw my attacks failed I retreated to my castle, but then Lord Banshee start raiding my villagers - he destroyed one stable I had, he was destroying my quarries, and he was destroying my houses and inns that were far from my castle walls. I didn't give up swordsmen, and they were easy targets for Lord Banshee's trebuchets throwing cows on my army. I was better organized than in the previous was we fought, but that just wasn't enough.

Still, I lacked few things while attacking him. Also, like they say - attack is the best defense. I did realize that this way we could let Nigel become strong, but if I spend some more resources fighting Nigel, then Banshee would attack me soon, and I would be weaker. My plan was to attack early, and I chose to attack Lord Banshee as he was the stronger one. I was the first one to march into an attack, as I had some army, and I also had some gold - around 2000 gold, which was enough for building trebuchets. Some time later my defensive structures were taking a little bit more space, so I had to sacrifice some wheat farms, but I managed to place them on other locations, which were not easy to find. Here we were able to build some more economy buildings - I had three iron mines, three stone mines, and my castle was on low ground, so I was able to feed my people with bread, and to give them some ale. We played Lord Banshee's map Delta, it's one more map pretty difficult for running economy, as each of us has limited space, and therefore we needed to use that space wisely. I just came here to bring you my battle report.

Stronghold 3 review 2015