I was reading the main news on website and there was an interesting part: firefly is going to work on next installment of stronghold series..It's a realy great new guys..However i've some questions for firefly and i hope they will answer to me:

1)Which epoch you'll choose for the next stronghold ? Will it be set in medieval times?

2) Why not a game set in the ancient rome ,with romans, greeks, carthaginians and barbarians? The sieges were not a prerogative of medieval times.There were more and more sieges in the ancient times..(the sieges of "city-state" in the ancient Greece; the Siege of Alesia, the siege of "MASADA" etc)..
It would be great play in a different epoch.

3) Wich engine will be used? Will it be a simply upgrade of previous engine ( stronghold 2 engine) or it will be something new?

Thanks a lot foryout attention.

Well why not make this my first post on the new forum. Ive been a part of stronghold since the release of number one. It totally fit my preference in gameing so now after what 10 years, im excited and waiting just like you for the third installment. I am not affiliated with the firefly studio games but perhaps my answers to your questions will bring more to the postings.
Answers for you.
1. Im sure the Game will resume the theme of Strongholds 1 and 2. Why? Because stronghold is unique in its own way, and thats the medieval theme. Instead of touching loosly with each different, culture if you will, they've developed a masterpiece that goes deeper into the medieval theme than i have seen in most other games.

2. Again, would you rather have a game set loosly on 5 different areas, where its so simple or drawn out that theres no character within the theme. Or, would you ratehr they find some new area within the origonal and express it in its own way. Example, the plagues this historicly was a huge piece of the medieval times. So what if in the new game you must add in the possibilty of mass population extinction or abandonment cause of a plague, it would change the game.

3. As for the game engine. Idk much about them or what they do but im sure a newer verion of the previous will be added, what would be the point of an entire new game with the same old game face.



so yeah this im sure will be huge in the comming months as they research and develope a stronghold 3. Welll just have to wait. As for me and my personal feelings,
I just hope they allow alot more population, and develop a day night cycle. Allowig for a more in depth battle world, Night raids, Snow and Rain changing the interaction of the armies. AS far as the economics go, id like to see more. just more, new buildings new important pices of this ever growing puzle.

Well they should make it like Stronghold 2 with better grafik new gameplay no fantasy stuff and a good Balancing with diff races to play like on Stronghold legends.

I think Stronghold 3 should be set in later medieval times, right at the advent of the cannon. Perhaps a player could do an upgrade to obtain a cannon, but of course it will be hard to maintain and long reload time. But with great power of course.

Maybe a combination of areas, such as a desert theme like Crusader, alongside a European theme.

I'm also thinking different types of weather. Rain could slow down troops, snow could make them less powerful, and perhaps slowly drain hitpoints until they make a fire.

I'll think of other stuff later.

Na dude,!!! no guns or cannons, this will kill the unique stronghold style and btw would it be like Cossaks or Age of empire.

They should combinate Stronghold 2 and Stronghold Crusader and some stuff from Legends.

New Grafik, Gameplay like Crusader (maybe a bit better) and Some Spezial knights like Lanzelot on SHL, no magic or course but some Spezial units that give for example: Your Archers a higher Range or he gives your knights more speed or power. Such things would make it more strategy and very more intresting.

Yeah definitly no magic, SHL kinda annoyed me, took so much away from the game in general as a medieval setup. Cannons i could only see reason for if and only if they develope a sea like battle, which like said before starts to get close to age of empires. But the weather and day night change would be so cool. At night your peseants wont produce goods so yull have that period of the timescale for your stocked goods to run low, giving the econmic struggle a more intimate place in the game, I for one alwasy have enough food within minutes of starting the round. Night would also allow for more criminal activities such as thiefing and arsin. Weather would be nice for a random event deal, rains destroy crops, no harvest, drought.

Yes weather changing would be kool very,Or Day or Night changing.

Well iam on Stronghold Legends one of the top 5 experts players and i can tell you the magic is no big deal to handel.It´s easy you just need to know how.

For Example: If you place Archers with crossbows combinatet you can shoot down easy bats.

The Wizard´s : Merlin, Firewizard and IceQueen are easy to take out with maceman or you use just Sir Percevile on one of them and they are dead ^^

Well on that point is Legends much more strategy cuse its not so easy to kill a enemi

yeah i can see that as being the point of legends, I just wasnt impressed with it. Im so used to the straight forward clean cut game.

Im wondering if the lads at firefly would read these forums.

Well its allways deppends on the player vs you play.

I normally get only top 20 players but they are sometimes easy too kill too ...

I wish Legends would be more popular but i think its cuse firefly dont bring out a new patch to clean the damm bugs on Legends....

A new Sh would be great.
The most important thing for me is the multiplayer part.
In the mp should be 2 Chat Rooms, a clan system and a ladder.