And firefly was to lazy to design equivalent buildings for the Arabs which kinda sucks. When I played as an Arab my castle looked pretty empty because I didn't like to build breweries or produce European weapons since it was contradictory. Really wished for firefly to patch this issue but instead they gave us crappy SHC2.
I always preferred the Arabian Lord because you get extra Archers. If you play Crusader Mode the European starting troops are better though in my opinion. Knights and Swordsman are insane early on and also the European Lord gets style points for his Cape and badass Axe lol
I remember setting my identity to the Arabic Lord because Arabian archers cost 75 gold to produce so on normal/no handicap settings I'd be starting with an amount of archers worth 450 gold. I didn't know if they were better or worse, I just knew they were more expensive, and I liked getting expensive units for free.
Wow, I had no idea videos are still being made about this game. My cousin and I used to play this when we were around 6-8 years old. We still play frequently to this day actually, 14 years later lol. Happy to see Crusader still has a following. Love the video btw
Glad that there is someone who makes SC content. I was interested in chess in the beginning because of the medieval theme of the chess pieces and I like medieval kingdom theme games like SC. Maybe make a video about the Jester next? I am wondering if is there any hidden fact about that guy. I just watched a video that he can fight and destroy a catapult🤣
Just gonna say I love your channel and the stuff you make, I recently found SC in my files and now I'm playing it for like 24/7! The game is soooo addicting and it's nice to see someone who still makes content of a 20 y/o game. Oh and this makes me want to switch up my play style since I've been playing with the EU lord from the start lol
on crusade mode i take the europeanlord all day. You can immediately launch an attack on nearby enemies and if you let your lord go with the troops you can vanquish 1 or 2 foes right from start. accompany them with a few crossbowmen you buy from starting ressources and clear the path for the melee units so theyy only have to deal with the lord, you may be able to kill another 1 or 2 enemies already in early game, gaining their ressources so you dont fall bacl too far for middle and late game. if a lord, 15 swordsmen and 6 knights rush towards you, those extra archers aint gonna help
I prefer the European lord because of the spearmen. They are much more effective at taking down enemy buildings that they place on your stone/iron/grass. And also having European archers helps a lot with rushing a moat defence if you need it
I agree that in normal mode arabian lord are better, but I want to add one thing for crusader's duel: moats!! If you put a duel between arab and european lord, eu lord will be able to setup moats using their archers while the arab cannot. This will be huge as you can defend yourself from any flanks or even block arab swordmans entirely. As long as you have spare archers, you can fill up the moat later. Of course this strategy is useless in a game where both of them can build up their economy first, but this strategy makes me think that on crusader mode and all in type situation, european is better
Dont forget early game moat digging power, on some of trail maps its really important Arabian lords get only few slaves... Sure they are cheap but you never get free peasant to make a lot of them
Ive been thinking we should have a rule if youre an Arabian lord you can only use Arabian barracks. And if youre a crusader lord you use the basic troops only. Siege engines remain the same. Although there are no Arabian engineers? I usually use basic troops because crossbowmen are op so I'm a crusader lord. I'd play both just depends on how I feel.
Awesome video! I love your channel and your work is fantastic. Also, I've always wondered how Lords like Saladin and The Emir can spam their units, considering how expensive they are to recruit. Is there an economic trick to playing Arabian style or do they have hidden buffs?
@@onedova2298 Very true. Matched with the Caliph's usage of negative pop factor and that's solid for how he runs things. Very annoying Lord to play against for sure
Ok so i randomly play this 20 year old game today after like a ton of years without touching it. And i ponder this question and look it up on YT, only to find a 9 HOUR OLD VIDEO? Wtf
I usually prefer crusader units but man, ya Arabian lord starts are way better. Defense is the most important thing in game and its not hard to buy some monks which blow both starting melee units out of the water in defense. The Arabian archers are so worth is.
Since i prefer Turtle strategy, i prefer Arabian lord for better defence in early stage...and by making two lookout towers attached to my keep help me in early defences , specially agains slave raids and early skirmishes...
It would awesome for Stronghold Crusader if we could only use European/Crusader units when we play as Crusader Lord and we can only use Arabian units when we play as Arabic Lord. And units between both sides must be well balanced 👍👍👍
Of course man, the Arab Muslim lord is always the best With a free good start unit Arab Archers for suitable defense, some free slave for burning you're unprepared enemies or disband them for extra worker or extra manpower so you don't need waiting peasant for coming to your castle
i haven't played this game in years so correct me if i am wrong, dont european archers have longer range, i always preferred them as a kid because i thought they had longer range and looked cooler
Like Arabian lord He spawns with 3 Arabian archers in -2 deathmatch unless the crusader lord spawns with 2 archers only The Arabian lord can spawn with slaves which can dig more faster and it is faster than sprearmen spearmen actually useless furthermore can ruin the economy on your opponent so quick and the Arabian archer I think it is more better the the Regular archer in much more ways The crusader lord had an advantage with crusader match but still Arabian is the best
what's the difference between stronghold crusader and stronghold crusader HD. because i have the same game but there is no HD writing after stronghold crusader name. and by the way i don't have more resolution option after 1080. is there any other version of crusader that can provide me more resolution? i have downloaded my game from ocean of games website and there was only this version.
Will make a video about it soon, but it's basically the skirmish match settings, you can give the computers or the human players more advantage! The 5 options above "Normal match, Crusader match and Deathmatch settings"
It's supposed to be an insult towards that turkish thing/person! Because they stole "The Maiden" song and copyright claim your videos if you play the song in your videos!
There's no such option in the game, but there is a slightly complicated way to do this stronghold.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forum/display.cgi?action=ct&f=4,3481,300,all Read the answers here!
Arabian units are better. Build some fire ballistas. Put some fire arrows and fire throwers and you have an impenetrable castle that not even the Wolf can breach.
With the ucp though...Well I made myself some balanced start troops so all Lords get 1500 or 7500 gold worth of troops in normal/crusader. Player I just picked for half an AIs start gold worth. Could even add Arabians to Europeans if I really wanted but yeah. Still limited it for lord type at least unless it's sheriff or snake.
No matter which lord i play, whether it's Crusader or Arabic lord my unit comp will remain the same ＨＯＲＳＥ ＡＲＣＨＥＲ ＳＰＡＭ Somebody oughta make a Mongol lord mod asap
I suggest that make a vedio about playing this game in android and i can send you good gameplays in phone and i have patched exe that was someone sended to me. thanks 🫂🫀
@@Jefflenious how play on phone? 1. in android device download exagear strateges apk and having game file in android 2 put game file in exagear file 3 open exagear and run the game ´=exagear is emulator
In the past I always played like an Arabian lord since I was too lazy to build armoury and workshops.
Same, I also thought assassins are REALLY COOL when I was a kid!
@@Jefflenious Lol same and they are not even that good, i mean they not bad but there are way better units in game
And firefly was to lazy to design equivalent buildings for the Arabs which kinda sucks. When I played as an Arab my castle looked pretty empty because I didn't like to build breweries or produce European weapons since it was contradictory.
Really wished for firefly to patch this issue but instead they gave us crappy SHC2.
@@Jefflenious hahaha 😂
@@germanwolf9212 The most criminal about it is no minarets or mosques or anything
I always preferred the Arabian Lord because you get extra Archers. If you play Crusader Mode the European starting troops are better though in my opinion. Knights and Swordsman are insane early on and also the European Lord gets style points for his Cape and badass Axe lol
I remember setting my identity to the Arabic Lord because Arabian archers cost 75 gold to produce so on normal/no handicap settings I'd be starting with an amount of archers worth 450 gold. I didn't know if they were better or worse, I just knew they were more expensive, and I liked getting expensive units for free.
It's funny to watch Sultan on +2 adv on crusader match, the amount of slingers he gets don't even fit in his circle shape castle
Wow, I had no idea videos are still being made about this game. My cousin and I used to play this when we were around 6-8 years old. We still play frequently to this day actually, 14 years later lol. Happy to see Crusader still has a following. Love the video btw
Glad that there is someone who makes SC content. I was interested in chess in the beginning because of the medieval theme of the chess pieces and I like medieval kingdom theme games like SC.
Maybe make a video about the Jester next? I am wondering if is there any hidden fact about that guy. I just watched a video that he can fight and destroy a catapult🤣
Hell yeah brother
Just gonna say I love your channel and the stuff you make, I recently found SC in my files and now I'm playing it for like 24/7! The game is soooo addicting and it's nice to see someone who still makes content of a 20 y/o game. Oh and this makes me want to switch up my play style since I've been playing with the EU lord from the start lol
Hell yeah! Scimitar all the way! Curved swords! Curved! Curvy like my women
Wise man once said^
Except Europeans also had curved swords.
Did you hear about those warriors from Hammerfell? They have curved swords. Curved. Swords.
on crusade mode i take the europeanlord all day. You can immediately launch an attack on nearby enemies and if you let your lord go with the troops you can vanquish 1 or 2 foes right from start. accompany them with a few crossbowmen you buy from starting ressources and clear the path for the melee units so theyy only have to deal with the lord, you may be able to kill another 1 or 2 enemies already in early game, gaining their ressources so you dont fall bacl too far for middle and late game. if a lord, 15 swordsmen and 6 knights rush towards you, those extra archers aint gonna help
I prefer the European lord because of the spearmen. They are much more effective at taking down enemy buildings that they place on your stone/iron/grass. And also having European archers helps a lot with rushing a moat defence if you need it
I agree that in normal mode arabian lord are better, but I want to add one thing for crusader's duel: moats!!
If you put a duel between arab and european lord, eu lord will be able to setup moats using their archers while the arab cannot. This will be huge as you can defend yourself from any flanks or even block arab swordmans entirely. As long as you have spare archers, you can fill up the moat later.
Of course this strategy is useless in a game where both of them can build up their economy first, but this strategy makes me think that on crusader mode and all in type situation, european is better
To be fair, slaves are dirt-cheap and can dig moats just fine. You can get like a hundred of them even if you have very limited amount of money
Dont forget early game moat digging power, on some of trail maps its really important
Arabian lords get only few slaves... Sure they are cheap but you never get free peasant to make a lot of them
I usually go with a Crusader Lord, but I tend to have a diverse array of troops under my banner at any given point
Ive been thinking we should have a rule if youre an Arabian lord you can only use Arabian barracks. And if youre a crusader lord you use the basic troops only. Siege engines remain the same. Although there are no Arabian engineers? I usually use basic troops because crossbowmen are op so I'm a crusader lord. I'd play both just depends on how I feel.
You can use the UCP to get the Arabian voice pack for the engineer... Just in case you don't know
@@kemalachmadzulkarnain3418 noted I saw the Arabian voice video and I noticed Arabian engineer voices I was like whaaa?
In that case arabian lords would be better because horse archers
I would only allow horse archers for the Europeans as Turcopoles
I mostly play as an Arabian Lord for better starting archers. But the armies I make are, most of the time, composed of mainly European troops!
I play as crusader/european lord because he looks cool in my opinion
Extra firepower not just from archers but slaves too!
Huuuh...
I didn't know "The Maiden" was copyrighted until now
It's my second favourite ost right after "Castlejam"
Arabian lord wins because slaves are really good to ruin someone's day, and always remember
Watch your back knight
Watch
Your
Back
And dont forget to " fight a little harder "
Awesome video! I love your channel and your work is fantastic. Also, I've always wondered how Lords like Saladin and The Emir can spam their units, considering how expensive they are to recruit. Is there an economic trick to playing Arabian style or do they have hidden buffs?
I saw Calif buy and sell iron. And kept requesting for iron.
@@onedova2298 Very true. Matched with the Caliph's usage of negative pop factor and that's solid for how he runs things. Very annoying Lord to play against for sure
Saladin and Emir both have massive bread productions! That's how they can afford their armies
@@Jefflenious Thank you!!
Ok so i randomly play this 20 year old game today after like a ton of years without touching it. And i ponder this question and look it up on YT, only to find a 9 HOUR OLD VIDEO? Wtf
Fate
I usually prefer crusader units but man, ya Arabian lord starts are way better. Defense is the most important thing in game and its not hard to buy some monks which blow both starting melee units out of the water in defense. The Arabian archers are so worth is.
with normal setup, arabians have better offense aswell imo. slaves setting buildings on fire usualy has better results than few pikemen imo
I prefer the Arabian Lord not because of the troops advantage, but because it kinda looks cooler.
Since i prefer Turtle strategy, i prefer Arabian lord for better defence in early stage...and by making two lookout towers attached to my keep help me in early defences , specially agains slave raids and early skirmishes...
It would awesome for Stronghold Crusader if we could only use European/Crusader units when we play as Crusader Lord and we can only use Arabian units when we play as Arabic Lord. And units between both sides must be well balanced 👍👍👍
And frankish mercenary for arabian loard
@@ArariaKAgelessTraveller bedouin mercenaries would be better.
And turcople mercenaries for crusader lords.
best game while growing up no contest
Anyone 2022 🥺
This game is pure nostalgia
Please upload regular battle match
2024
2028
Of course man, the Arab Muslim lord is always the best
With a free good start unit Arab Archers for suitable defense, some free slave for burning you're unprepared enemies or disband them for extra worker or extra manpower so you don't need waiting peasant for coming to your castle
very useful. thank you.
Kalau saya setengahnya, Pasukan Arab untuk bertahan dan melindungi raja, dan Pasukan Eropa untuk menyerang termasuk Pembuat Kendaraan
i haven't played this game in years so correct me if i am wrong, dont european archers have longer range, i always preferred them as a kid because i thought they had longer range and looked cooler
Like Arabian lord
He spawns with 3 Arabian archers in -2 deathmatch unless the crusader lord spawns with 2 archers only
The Arabian lord can spawn with slaves which can dig more faster and it is faster than sprearmen spearmen actually useless furthermore can ruin the economy on your opponent so quick and the Arabian archer I think it is more better the the Regular archer in much more ways
The crusader lord had an advantage with crusader match but still Arabian is the best
I pick crusader lord just so I can destroy my ally's farms with the spearmen and place my own stuff
i always preferred the arabian lord because he looks cool
Arabian Lord, of course! More style points. 😎
what's the difference between stronghold crusader and stronghold crusader HD.
because i have the same game but there is no HD writing after stronghold crusader name. and by the way i don't have more resolution option after 1080. is there any other version of crusader that can provide me more resolution?
i have downloaded my game from ocean of games website and there was only this version.
HD version gives you new lords and new challenges map
I prefer European lord but use Arabian units for first defense (assassin & horse archer) like Wolf units 😎
where can i get wooden gatehouses and towers?
Arabian lord shows advantage 6 troops in -2 advantage is actually insane. Arabian archers are stronger than the normal archers. Arabian lord wins
I always choose Crusader lord for my main man J. Christ
How to beat mission 78 saladin alone?
Start Series on Strong hold extreme
Honestly it didn't even need to be this complicated - Which would you rather be swinging around, an awkward Axe or a cool ass Scimitar?
Do u play crusader HD or normal? If u are playing hd where did u download your from?
Hi, I got the HD version yesterday, you can get it on Steam
By the way sllah Al din is not Arabian, he is kurdish, and i prefer him more than others
What do you mean by advantage +2 and -2 and such?
Will make a video about it soon, but it's basically the skirmish match settings, you can give the computers or the human players more advantage!
The 5 options above "Normal match, Crusader match and Deathmatch settings"
I thought you were iranian, what's about the turkish text at the end lololol
It's supposed to be an insult towards that turkish thing/person! Because they stole "The Maiden" song and copyright claim your videos if you play the song in your videos!
Where are you from?
Lemme grab my helmet and dive in the comments
Muslim Leader would be a better call. Nice video.👍
How do you get an Arabian lord in a custom match
Go to settings and click on "set up identity" option. You can write your name and choose your lord type and flag
@@shironee_2384 I mean like in a custom scenario where you can build whatever you want and make as much units as you want
There's no such option in the game, but there is a slightly complicated way to do this
stronghold.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forum/display.cgi?action=ct&f=4,3481,300,all
Read the answers here!
@@Jefflenious thanks
Arabian units are better. Build some fire ballistas. Put some fire arrows and fire throwers and you have an impenetrable castle that not even the Wolf can breach.
knight for early raids. no counnter.
Slaves with fire are much more useful
Nah. European archers can dig moat, while Arabic - can't.
True, but the slaves are only 5 gold a piece and they can
@@magnisturktgull8770 true, but they're few of them from the start
But you get more of them (in exhange for spearmen lol) and they are more expensive, faster attacking and with more HP.
Easiest pick of my life.
😉👌 semoga nular ke video saya penontonnya bang
With the ucp though...Well I made myself some balanced start troops so all Lords get 1500 or 7500 gold worth of troops in normal/crusader. Player I just picked for half an AIs start gold worth. Could even add Arabians to Europeans if I really wanted but yeah. Still limited it for lord type at least unless it's sheriff or snake.
Always Arabian Lord cuz im Arabian man :)
Amruuka yaa maulay
arabian lord looks nicer, the end.
Childhood is when you idolize the European Lord.
The adulthood is when you realize the Arabian Lord makes more sense.
We live in a medieval era society...
I like the Arab lord
i love u so much
I choose Arabian lord because I'm muslim :D
No matter which lord i play, whether it's Crusader or Arabic lord my unit comp will remain the same
ＨＯＲＳＥ ＡＲＣＨＥＲ ＳＰＡＭ
Somebody oughta make a Mongol lord mod asap
Im Christ so i Take european one 🗿🗿🗿🗿✝️✝️✝️✝️
Arab all the way. Even slaves are more useful than spearmen...
Mantap ni rekomendasi buat @orbwink
I suggest that make a vedio about playing this game in android and i can send you good gameplays in phone and i have patched exe that was someone sended to me. thanks 🫂🫀
I actually don't know how to play this on phone
@@Jefflenious i play on phone i can till you anything you need also make a vedio about it very nice🫂
@@Jefflenious how play on phone?
1. in android device download exagear strateges apk and having game file in android
2 put game file in exagear file
3 open exagear and run the game
´=exagear is emulator