STRONG ECONOMY GUIDE - Stronghold Definitive Edition

[@MisiekRW]

Now a request for a military guide

[@lyxsyx8354]

Military guide. 1. You can't make units automatically, you have to make the weapons or buy them to be able to. Recruit. 2. In peace times in multiplayer, if your eco is strong or if your build order has a strong start? You can invest in bad things as bad things hurt a. The overall approval of your citizens and b. The effectivity of your units in combat( since combat is not allowed in PEACE time. You can use bad things now for the duration, then switch to good once you able to live off the surplus 3. You can stack units in towers indefinitely. If the tower is full( indicated,,), hold shift and click on the crenulated sides of the tower until you see a flag. Basically it is a waypoint bug. 4. Take note of pathing sequences of workers. All workshops(tanneries, armories etc.) Have workers who need to rest in between. So placing them close to stockpiles will greatly help. And finally, don't believe in big castles;)

[@theenlightenedone5429]

thats a cool feature they added allowing you to autosell supplies. also i never go past 60 or 70 for my population lol

[@brianscheel-ayers2741]

Love the video. Your placement of buildings is so good. First time you get paid or tad earlier if u sell off all your stuff make one brewery, and buy some hops. This will ensure a start to your ale other brewery's and inns later, even one running helps. Wheat farms are often attacked in pvp, with this in mind I would always keep auto sell on wheat way higher and stack that more than flour. Second note: You can set very big area aoe fire traps with wheat and very little pitch, like one. (Let it burn)

[@Deevidack]

How to avoid to get all this nice economy burned down in multiplayer? Happens to me all the time

[@R_5_D]

Ideally more spacing between buildings and wells I guess. But you don't always have the luxury of space in multiplayer. The best way is to simply not let that heathen enemy anywhere near you!

[@MACFANTASTICKYPESS]

since where AUTOBUY or AUTOSELL function is in the game wtf?? i dont have it there

[@stephenrichardson516]

Oh no you have changed the way you say wheat, that was my favourite thing

[@Pasha8204]

Или яблоки или хлеб не имеет значения, самое простое дерево- пики или арбалета и на продажу, сложнее и дороже железный рудник- мечи или латы и на продажу(зато бесконечно) Можно излишки хлеба продавать А ещë коровы-латы кожанные(бесконечно) или камень

[@Simon-pl2zi]

flour and bread creates awesome economy, way better than apples

[@raphaell4808]

is +4 food and sell more food but less taxes or +8 food and sell less food but gain more from taxes better?

[@aleksanderkawinski7366]

From what I remember that depends a bit on the difficulty level (at least in crusader) but selling food instead of taxes is better. Especially since there is autotrade in DE, you can just set autosell >100 units.

[@R_5_D]

@@aleksanderkawinski7366 I tend to set autotrade to sell at >240 bread. That way with one granary I don't hear the annoying "granary is full" message. I also like to autotrade excess wheat and flour so that I can spam as many farms and mills at possible without negatively impacting bread production while making a tidy profit. Doing this means multiple sources of income so you never need to worry about gold again.

[@raphaell4808]

@@R_5_D I do it at 220 or 200 even since market does not trade instantly - yes I know that from crusader - guess should do the same tests in definitive edition

[@lyxsyx8354]

+4 food is better. then get more taxes with ale which is another +4. and always surplus of every good you make/store, then set the autotrades.

[@Descanar1]

It’s extremely close but basically: Extra rations consumes fractionally more than 50% extra iirc, which causes inefficiency. Low taxes are the biggest marginal increase in tax rate. What this means is that if you have no other source of popularity, then double rations + mean taxes is best, followed by extra rations + average taxes, than normal rations + selling bread. However, best is to have ale to cover average taxes (ale is almost comically cheap, you can just buy it and skip the production chain, just ensure you have enough peasants per inn). Then just sell extra food rather than go to extra rations for the extra tax. But it’s super close tbh.

[@Atsmara-n5g]

why when i was playing there is no wheat farm

[@MrArgenius]

You forgot about the fear factor. And religion.

[@R_5_D]

Religion isn’t worth it in this situation. You would need to build so many due to the population size. You don’t get the popularity bonus for Church and Cathedral like in Crusader.

[@yazzuo7213]

​@@R_5_DSo you generally dont build churches in this game?

[@R_5_D]

@@yazzuo7213 no I don’t bother most of the time

[@РоманВандам-й7э]

Good job, congrats, you built a GULAG

[@lyxsyx8354]

looks more like a factory

[@rendullic]

What is wheat/ mill/ bakery ratio?

[@kykygambler]

depends on the distance and its not so hard to look up what u have in stockpile remaining to make adjustments.. wheat near stockpile can power up to 6/8 bakieries IIRC with mill (it's sick basically) while wheat farm far away will not achieve that this guide, while it's okayish, is far from optimal. e.g. building bakeries before u even have a mill ready lol

[@aleksanderkawinski7366]

Rule of thumb: 3 farms + 1 Mill + 8 Bakeries

[@abdallahnaf3779]

Did they fix the balance of horse archers?

[@mohamedhatem3694]

Horse archers were in stronghold crusader not stronghold, as they are arab units.

[@abdallahnaf3779]

@@mohamedhatem3694 oh ok

[@mcstriker478]

use ale coverage insted of food

[@BlueGlue1]

yeah that is what i was doing in stronghold crusader 20 years ago, sell bread cover with ale, build church and cathedral tax on -2 and spam ale, u can get way more money selling bread than taxing with it

[@ganjafarmer3202]

lern speaking :D

[@yazzuo7213]

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