🏰 Checkpoint Complete: The Stronghold Chronicles Begin
Title: Mission 1 - "Gathering the Army" Game: Stronghold (2001 HD Edition) Date Played: April 2, 2025 ⚔️ Welcome to Checkpoint Complete Every kingdom starts somewhere. For this inaugural post of Checkpoint Complete , I’m heading back to the fields and forests of Stronghold (2001) , the game that taught me the brutal beauty of castle management and peasant micromanagement. I’ll be logging my entire journey—mission by mission, battle by battle—across the entire Stronghold series. This is less a strategy guide, more a travelogue through time and timber. So sharpen your pitchforks, stock the granary , and prepare the fletchers . Let’s get into it. 🧱 Mission 1: "Gathering the Army" This one’s short and sweet—almost deceptively so. The goal? Build up food and wood supplies to train 20 soldiers and kickstart the campaign. No enemies. No danger. Just the quiet rustle of forests and the clank of busy villagers. "I forgot how simple Stronghold is at the beginnin...