How to Become Best Top Player in Stronghold Kingdoms
This guide will help you to become one of the best and strongest players in Stronghold Kingdoms. In this guide we will touch upon the different aspects of the game that can make or break your in game strategies. If you have found these Stronghold Kingdoms tips helpful, for sure to check out our other Awesome helpful Stronghold Kingdoms guides.
The Power of Research for Stronghold Kingdoms
Stronghold Kingdoms Research is the most important thing that can make or break you game play. Plan early in the path of your research is essential to become the best player in the game. Without planning ahead in your research, you will end up spending millions of gold at later stages to make up for the differences. You can check out my complete Stronghold Kingdoms research tree table for details about each of the in game available research.
Really take the time to study the effects of each research, plan how you want to spend the points. If possible, put points into philosophy as soon as your Stronghold Kingdoms rank unlocks it. Philosophy will lower the cost of all of your future research and thus pays for itself almost immediately. Then, you will need to conserve your points to determine a path of development that suits your strategy and game play style. Continue to read on to my Stronghold Kingdoms build to success in the next paragraph for different types of path that you can potentially take to become the best in game.
Pick Your Stronghold Kingdoms Build
Your Stronghold Kingdom building strategy is mainly based on your pick of research points as well as the strategy that you want to focus on. These stronghold Kingdoms building strategy can be mainly categorized into the following divisions: Farmer, Banqueter, Robber baron, Monker, Scouter, AI killer/ military, and lastly trader. Because the research and village building is quite limited and become exponentially harder later in the game, it is essential for you to pick a path and style of playing.
In terms of the research, the bottom line is that you should master the entire research tree that tailors to your build, instead of being a jack of all trades. Once you have masted a specific build, you can then work on the others to make you stronger with a sub build. For example, you can start focusing on everything that relates to farming, then start working on trader research trees to take advantage of all the extra resources that you can gain from farming.
All About Timing and Ranking Process
Based on the type of Stronghold Kingdoms research build that you are focusing on, each with different Stronghold Kingdoms rank up timing and research timing. The basic is that you should not rank up until you have used all of your research points. By carefully timing the time when you finish building, ranking, and other actions in the game, the careful planning will surely lead you to be the best player in Stronghold Kingdoms.
Optimize Your Stronghold Kingdoms Village
Because your land is a limited resource in the village, you will spend time to optimize the building placement of your village. It is even more true towards the later part of the game, you will gradually take out the lower level buildings that provide you with weaker resources, as well as buildings that are not optimized with Stronghold Researches. By optimizing the land use, density, and type of your Stronghold Kingdom village buildings you can generate more resources and operate the taxes at higher efficiency and capability. You will have to optimize different village factors such as food and resource production, as well as taxation versus popularity (honor gain).
Trade, Trade, and Trade
You can either win or lose when it comes to trading. To trade to win, you will almost always trade your Stronghold Kingdoms resources at a profit. Have some mental values that you assign each of the resources, just like in real world, you can gain profit when you buy low and sell high. This is especially true in Stronghold Kingdoms, you can net profit when you sell high and buy low for the different resources. Another way for you to win at trading is to fully optimize yourself for one of the resources, and sell your surpluses for the other resources that you are weak in. Because the research production bonus are usually overlapped by multiple skill trees, this makes production specialization very important to trading.
By constantly trading to win additional gold and resources, you will be able to advance faster and become top of the player as a strong merchant in Stronghold Kingdoms.
Be Diplomatic and Win
Diplomacy (real player diplomacy, not the research diplomacy) is key to success in the game. You cannot win if you are constantly getting hammered from opposing players (in most cases). Therefore, it is to your own personal best benefit if you can keep a good relationship from those around you. Create Win-Win relationship with your Stronghold Kingdom neighbors, setup alliances with the nearby houses. By being diplomatic in game, you have more chances of building yourself up to withstand attacks from other players. Your goal is to continue building, advancing, and winning to achieve your own personal Stronghold Kingdom goals.
Do Not Be Afraid to Lead
This is one level more advance than simply being diplomatic. There will come a time where you will have to lead other players in game to achieve your own game play agenda. When the time is right, you will have to lead the players in your parish and country to fight off enemy attacks. Do not be afraid to become a leader in Stronghold Kingdoms to achieve the various goals that you have.
Farm Inactive Players
Sometimes you can tell when players have gone inactive, at this time you can attack them to earn the various resources that you need. This require keen observation in the game for you to realize and notice the player’s villages around you in game.
Play as a Part of the Team or Parish
Sometimes instead of leading the group, you can instead play as a team player. Try to help others and get others to help you. It is a part of playing the Stronghold Kingdoms game diplomatically.
Cash Play with Strategy Cards
Lastly, you can always purchase additional Strategy cards to help you further in game process faster.
Stronghold Kingdoms Guide Index by Gamelytic
Research Technology Tree Manual
General Guides
Village Guide and FAQ
Basic Research Tutorial
Popularity
Rank and Honor
How to Become Best Top Player
Parish
Comprehensive Vassal and Liege Lord
Faith, Monk and Religion
Resource Related
Gold Making Guide
Beginner’s Guide to Resources and Points
Trading and Merchant
Military Related
Military Troops and All Units
Offense and Defense Combat