So it's easy to see why FireFly is rereleasing one of the older games in the series rather than a newer one. Then the series fell apart as it transitioned to 3D, with games that were often bug-laden and unpolished. It's a solid formula, and there's a reason why the first two Stronghold games sold more than a million copies worldwide. Though+more+extreme+in+some+ways,+this+is+still+a+six-year+old+game+and+it+shows. Thankfully, you can have bowyers turn lumber into bows, blacksmiths hammer iron into swords and armor, tanners to turn your cows into leather armor, and you can use all of these weapons and equipment to outfit peasants to fight. There are quite a number of economic chains, and each mission basically challenges you to develop your land quickly and efficiently in order to brace for an oncoming assault of enemy forces. The chains are a bit more complex than that, though, as you'll need to build a mill to process the grain into flour, and then a bakery to turn the flour to bread, for example.
Building hunters' posts in the woods provides venison, planting wheat in the fields means that grain can be harvested, woodcutter huts let the tree killers get to work, and so on. You play as the lord of a medieval castle and its surrounding lands, and your job is to develop the complex economic chains that provide food, weapons, and goods for your people. In case you've never played one, Stronghold games are economic strategy games of a sort.
