Smashing castles down must have been bloody great. Look, ignore the horror of medival warfare, the starvation of sieges, the chaos of battle with poor communication. Pull back from the awfulness and it was essentially about blowing up somebody else's carefully constructed Lego. Finding the largest possible rocks to throw at your enemy's walls, inventing ever more ingenious ways to apply blunt force to a reinforced door. Plus: elves actually existed back then.
The Stronghold series and particularly its incoming iteration Crusader 2 are all about that (except the elves, for some reason). In the run up to the delayed release on September 23rd, Firefly Studios have been showing off the various AI characters who will command the opposing forces in its singleplayer skirmish and campaign modes.
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