Stronghold 2

The Stronghold 2 is a real-time strategy game which takes you to Middle-Age Europe. There are plenty of options and levels in the game. Some of them are peaceful and others are more war-time. Stronghold 2 describes in a very unique way the life of the lord in his castle.

My impressions of the game:

Stronghold 2 has very good grapihcs with amazing details. In every level you don't have time to rest and there are always unpleasent events keep happening. Contrary to other games you have to create weapon in order to train soldiers. But mercenary needs only the gold. In this game archery units cannot do any harm to buildings only to soldiers. You can setup different kinds of pitfalls for your enemy. You can buy free zones in the villages.

Tips and tricks:

Instead of surrounding the village with the wooden wall I'd recommend to use stone.

Build towers in the wall and send archers to defend the town.

Make sure you have enough soldiers of any kind on the wall not to miss assassins or thieves.

Always try to keep your population high and act immediately to rise it in case of any problems.

Decrease taxes if you have enough money.

You can see the official site

http://www.2kgames.com/stronghold2/

You can see screenshots

here

Age Of Empires 3

Age of Empires 3 is a classic real-time strategy game. The period shown in the game is from 16Th to 18Th century in colonial America. You need to choose from eight homecities (Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, Holland, Russia, Germany and Turkey) to play with their colonies.

My impression from this game:

The game is done with much of investment. The graphics are very nice. The missions are well thought and interesting. The story is intriguing. I liked that in the series there's ability to use editor to create your own levels. Each country has its own kind of units and buildings.

And now the time is for a few tips:

1. How do I start in a free play? I send two workers to gold, two others to collect food and three for collecting the wood. The one worker stands by. Then I begin to build two houses and one market. On next stage I start to train workers. When the resources are available I will train six workers. While doing this I explore territory with explorer and start to collect treasures. I keep on exploring until I have enough resources to upgrade for colonial age. When I am in the colonial age I build baraks and stable.

You can buy the game here or try the demo

http://www.ageofempires3.com/age3/

You can see my photos from this game

Here

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I like to play computer games and mostly strategy games. I have many strategy games and good experience in them. I will share with you my tips and and post reviews. I will post videos and photos about games.




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