Reviewer! (Older game review)

This time i talk about Stronghold Crusader!
This game is absolutely addictive! I just can't stop playing it once i start. It's that good.

The game puts you in medieval ages with knights and castles.
It's an RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game, in which you can build castles, harvest resources, make great armies and of course you can plan your assaults on the enemies. There are 2 campaign trails you can play. They're called Crusader Trail 1 & 2. There is also an option for skirmish battles if you want to test out your opponents in a 1v1 battle. At the every start of a battle you get a keep (In skirmish battles it's usually a small house-like keep, but in a campaign it can be more castle-like) and one stockpile tile, where your workers can drop off resources, and they actually show there, so you can see what you have and how much. You can always make more stockpile tiles (up to a maximum of 10).
You also get some starting resources like gold, stone, wood and food. You can make loads of different structures to gather resources like Stone Quarry for stone, Woodcutter's Hut for lumber, Iron Mine for iron... etc. You can also produce food with Apple Farm, Diary Farm, Wheat Farm (wheat can be milled in a Mill to make flour which is used to bake bread), Hops Farm (hops is used to make ale in a Brewery which is used by Inns to make your people happier!). You can also build Hunter's Huts so they can hunt animals for food, but not every map has animals on it. As you can see, you must keep your people happy or they will leave your castle, in which case your buildings will stop producing goods. There are many ways to make your people happy and you will see them once you play the game.
On the other side, where the peaceful things stop, war begins! Once you settle your castles' defenses and goods, you must train an army to defeat your opponents. You can hire mercenaries or build your troops the old fashioned way by making weapons and armors. It's your choice!
The game also has an expansion, which is called "Stronghold Crusader Extreme" in which all of the warfare is brought to a new level by allowing players and computer opponents to make more units (up to a massive proportions) and allowing them to "cast" special abilities once some time has passed.
So, get the game now and you will find yourself experiencing lots and lots of fun, and i'm speaking from my own experience!
Best regards!
Miroslav