FFA Monday Ep 12 | 8 Random AIs | Stronghold Crusader

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Published on February 21, 2023 5:30:00 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GuAyGISQrE

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Stronghold: Crusader (2002)

Duration: 19:19

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Stronghold Crusader AI Battle: Free For All

Link to Crusader Pilaw's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@crusaderpilaw/videos

Link to installation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PsYB_bYOnk&t=0s

AI Lore:

Bär (Bear): One of the totem AIs. Obviously inspired by the first four AI Lords rat to wolf. The bear was once the son of a simple woodcutter. One day when he returned from the forest he had to see that a wild bear who walked into a trap, furious with pain, killed his whole family. The young boy took his axe and killed the animal in reverse, since then wearing its fur around his shoulders. He joined the army of the wolf and soon became his apprentice. But on some point realized that his masters ways are too far from his own moral, so he left the wolf.

Inquisitor: The Inquisitor once was a simple abbot in the lands of DePuce. He always was cruel though. As a child he had to whiteness his parents getting burned alive. To not go crazy his young mind decided that the murder on his parents had to be just, what cruel world would it otherwise be? So he fled himself into a fanatic believe in god.
When the rat starts ruling his fathers lands everything goes to chaos - because the rat sucks at dealing with bandits and stuff. The Inquisitor sees a chance to rise and founds a fraternity, imposing gods rights stricter than ever.

Skorpion (scorpion): He is the bastard of the caliph. When the caliphs wife found out about him she tried to get him killed by hiring an assassin. Somehow the scorpion survived though and not his blood was spilled that night, but that of the assassin. His father the caliph told him "you can keep what you kill", handing him name and rank of the man he killed and thus making him the leader of the assassin order a few years later.

Raubritter (Robber Knight): He was the oldest son of a nobleman. He tended to use his fathers gold for fighting and betting in tournaments though and one day his father had enough and disinherited him. He was so furious that he left his family and started to rent his sword to anyone who was willing to pay him. He thinks a lot about himself, but actually is just brutal. One day the pig heard about him and the men he gathered around him and fulfilled his greatest wish - and dubbed him knight.

Emira (Emira): The other arabian lords betrayed her when fighting the invading crusaders with saladin, because they saw a chance to get rid of her - they didn't like that a woman was ruling a princedom. She was able to escape though and made a pact with lionheart, who had troubles securing his supply lines at that point. She offered him her harbor and return asked for some of his men to be able to defend her birthright against those evil arabin lords.

Efendi (Efendi): The sultans uncle. He is a bit crazy. Like sultan he has siege turrets and uses them to storm enemy walls with his slingers, and then fire them down from their own walls. His defense is quite strong, but only when he gets attacked from the front.

Schnecke (Snail): She was the only child of a rich merchant back in Europe. Her mother died giving birth to her but her father didn't want to marry again. He cared a lot about her, and so she had the privilege to grow up not having to deal with the shit women usually had to deal with during that time. But then her father lost tons of money, two of his ships sunk and he made a multitude of bad investments. The only way he saw himself not losing everything was by marrying his daughter - to the snake. The snails character changed due to that treason. She tried to kill her husband with poison, but obviously failed against the master manipulator. She got locked up in prison and was only able to flee, because a knight fell in love with her and freed her. This knight is actually part of her starting troops.
The snail is self-sufficient, she doesn't need any farms, quarries, iron mines, but she does use a few woodcutters which are part of her castle though.

Hyäne (Hyena): He was an orphan and grew up learning that he was worth nothing. At some point he was able to fight his way back up, joining some mercenaries. He was never the strongest or the fastest - but the most enduring. When others failed to walk any further he hold on, and when others got tired he kept fighting. Eventually his way up ended as one of Saladin's Generals. He even fell in love and had a son - who both got killed when the Crusaders took back Akkon. He didn't know anything else but revenge from that point on, his mind turned to the dark side from that point you could say. Especially when Saladin signed the contract of Jaffa. He hates every European being - so much that he is willing to use their own weapons against them. The Crusaders fear him and call him "The Demon From The Hills" for his ferocious fighting style.

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