I agree that the game is become more playable and I am glad for that. I bought this for my son, who loves the stronghold series but have been holding off giving it to him. Maybe it is ready now.

But, some bugs/issues I have found while playing through the military campaign:

1. Troops do not attack. Quite often they just stand there dying without returning fire or charging and attacking. Quite frustrating to find 20 - 30 troops have been killed by a couple of archers.

2. When you tell a group of soldiers to attack, if that person dies, they stop moving and don't attack any other troops in that group. We need a way to say attack an army rather than individual soldier. If you click on the area to make them move, the archers run up and then engage in hand to hand.

3. When attacking an army inside the enemy castle, the archers will start attacking people before troops. Not good when they are supposed to be supporting the advance.

4. Wall construction is very flawed. Hard to add to walls, easiest way is to delete them and rebuild. Also I find you build a wall and a gap remains near a wall. Never know until the enemy walks through it.

5. I find it very hard or impossible to add towers or gates. There seems to be very few places you can put them.

6. Troops on the walls get stuck or can't move to certain locations. I have also selected a tower or wall (step icon is showing) and they march off outside the castle.

7. Game will often load with wall sections missing. They will only reappear if attacked. While missing troops cannot cross them.

8. I understand what you are trying to achieve with the new wall features but they don't work anywhere near as well as stronghold 2. Please bring back multilevel walls, or the ability to branch walls.

9.It seems very hard to actually place buildings, (barracks for example) against or as part of the wall.

10. Bears and wolves will end up killing half the population before troops can deal with them. They will also end up killing many of the troops. They are too tough and why don't villages defend themselves? This is an issue in campaigns when it takes a while to rebuild population. The only way I can find to deal with it is preempt their arrival to minimize any damage.

11. A catapults range seems very short and why can archers kill them so easily? Maybe let them kill the engineers and leave the equipment there to be reused by assigning new engineers?

12. Troop speed needs to be adjusted if they are selected as a group. i.e. archers don't run ahead and stay behind spear man, or the engineers with arrow shields (can't remember their name at the moment) stay ahead of the troops. It all seems to become a mess at the moment when they move as a group.

13. I agree on the food production either being too low or consumption too high. Too much space can be required for food production on maps where space is at a premium.

14. I also feel the sell/buy value for raw materials to be missmatched. Timber and stone is very low where food seems to be very high.

15. Can we have the ability to remove trees. Wall or building placement or completion can be lost due to a tree object. Also maybe give the ability to reshape land if require to complete walls, as would happen in a real situation.

Though, thank you for the game so far and hopefully you will deliver a game to better stronghold 2. Please remember that this is about strongholds and the game is about castle building.

thanks
Richard