Stronghold 1 Matches

GG - Didn't see it too much since I had to go eat food but it looked like they were practicing for the upcoming tournament.

This was a close KoTH match on Karak using Limited Rules and Hard Settings. Rusher was playing with a handicap since he was unable to produce catapults or trebuchets, which made it much harder for him to deal with towers and siege pressure. Bradly took the middle keep first but Rusher eventually pushed back with shields and crossbows and retook it. Bradly kept being a real pain with tunnelers, constantly disrupting Rusher and preventing him from comfortably holding the middle. After some back and forth, Rusher finally held the keep for a while and brought the timer down. Then Swix entered the fight and started putting heavy pressure on the middle with mass trebuchets and scattered traps. Rusher tried an interesting shielded knight flank, running around to wipe out Swix’s trebs. It worked for a while, but Swix recovered quickly. Swix also had tower positioning: one tower was hitting the middle KoTH keep, while another helped defend his trebs and nearby base area. The game kept swinging back and forth until Rusher made one final big push with swordsmen, pikemen, knights, archers, and crossbowmen. He barely held the middle keep long enough to win. wp gg

gg

Interesting match with a lot going on from all sides. Stanas pushed a tower up front with mass crossbowmen on it and managed to hold the keep for a while, but it eventually got sieged down. Ferni tried to build a strong mixed army with swordsmen, shields, crossbowmen, spearmen, and a massive catapult force of around 25-30 catapults. Mates countered well with macemen, running them around the swordsmen and destroying the catapults before they could do too much damage. In the end, Mates held the KoTH keep for longer and secured the victory.

Not a real game. Just practice. But I sort of won

Swix went mostly with a pike and crossbow army, while Zero pushed his towers forward and also got crossbows up. Eventually, Swix did the same, and the game turned into a fight over tower sieging and middle control. Bradly went for an archer and tunneler army. It ended up being a very close game, but Zero managed to win. Swix had a real chance to take it, but he sent his remaining large pike army too far into the middle KoTH keep, which ended up costing him. GG.