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How to Keep Your Population in the Game Stronghold

"Stronghold" is a real-time strategy, game casting its players as medieval warlords who must expand their territory to accommodate their citizens, while also protecting them from the dangerous influences of hunger and the wild. Citizens are essential to any functioning empire, providing free labor to gather resources, training to supplement your armies and building your instruments of war.

Instructions

- 1
  Choose a spot to build your fortress and social machinery that is protected by natural features, such as water, mountains or high ground. If this location has only a couple of entrance and exit routes, enemies are easily held off while your citizens escape to a strong fortification or remote area.
- 2
  Order citizens to construct hovels before all else. Hovels "train" citizens to replenish your ranks if disaster strikes early in a level.
- 3
  Construct hunting posts around the perimeter of your settlement, leaving room for more valuable (and expensive) buildings closer to your fortress. Place a granary in this "inner circle," but keep the distance between it and your hunting posts relatively short so that your hunters are expedient. Without this infrastructure, your citizens will starve.
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  Build walls to surround your settlement to block off entrance routes and to surround remote resource centers like woodcutters and wheat farms. Malicious wolves and foreign invaders will ravage your citizens and structures if they have access to them.
- 5
  Train citizens into bowmen and situate them in watchtowers to watch over your walls.

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