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Stronghold 2 Preview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2005-01-19 00:03:00.0


Also over at GameSpot this evening is a preview on Firefly Studios' upcoming strategy title, Stronghold 2. Here's a bit on the nobility rankings:

You can also use honor points to promote yourself to the next level of nobility. This means you can go from being a freeman to a yeoman, or perhaps from a squire to a knight. There are multiple levels of nobility in the game, culminating in duke, earl, and king. Every new rank of nobility unlocks new kinds of structures that you can build or more-powerful military units that you can recruit. One thing that promotions won't do, however, is instantly promote all your military units to the next rank. While you'll be able to build new units, all your existing units will remain the same when you're promoted, which eliminates one of the tactics in most real-time strategy games of suddenly transforming an obsolete force into a cutting-edge one.

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