![]() The inclusion of fully 3D-rendered graphics allowed Stronghold 2 to include tower interiors as battlegrounds for units, and the ability to go observe castle inhabitants very closely, which is useful for the new features of waste and rat management. Estates are semi-independent villages (without castle fortifications) that produce their own goods that owners can send via cart to their castle or allies. One addition to the original Stronghold is the inclusion of estates that players can "buy" with their accumulated honor (gained by popularity, holding feasts, dances, jousting, etc.). Military units are directly controlled individually or in groups, sometimes quite large with sieges or battles involving many hundreds on each side. Available peasants automatically choose jobs whenever a building requires one, so player micromanagement is minimal players mostly set up the various buildings in an efficient way while providing safety for their peasants. With their available resources, players place buildings or features, including many different kinds of food production, industry, civil, or military buildings and defences. In the game, players take on the role of a lord who rules over a medieval castle. A number of new characters were also introduced. ![]() Other changes include new military and peace campaigns and the addition of crime and punishment, allowing players to torture unruly peasants. ![]() The game engine was enhanced over the original Stronghold to provide full 3-dimensional graphics. It is the sequel to Stronghold, released in 2001, also by Firefly Studios. Officials could not confirm the report.Stronghold 2 is a real time strategy computer game released in April 2005 in which the player develops a stronghold in the Middle Ages. Local sources said on Sunday that Abdel-Ra’ouf al-Dahab, the local leader of Ansar al-Sharia, and a number of Saudi members of the group were killed in the strike. drone struck al Qaeda targets in al-Manasseh on Friday, killing at least three people, tribal sources said. Houthi officials made no comment, but the group’s television station said Houthi fighters and their allies have “reached the home of the leader of the criminal gangs” in al-Manasseh, referring to Ansar al-Sharia.Ī U.S. One tribal leader said the Houthis exploited old rivalries between two wings of one of the main tribes in the area, the al-Dahab tribe, and managed to enter the area. ![]() But Hadi considers Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) as the main threat facing the country. Until now the Yemeni army had avoided supporting the Houthis in their advance on al Qaeda. “The Houthis are advancing to control the rest of Qaifa (tribal) areas and the night could see even more violent confrontations,” the tribal official, who declined to be named, told Reuters by telephone.įighting has flared in several provinces, alarming neighbour Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter. The northern-based Houthis established themselves as power brokers in Yemen last month by capturing Sanaa against scant resistance from the administration of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, angering al Qaeda and Sunni Muslim tribal allies.Īnother tribal source said heavy fighting was underway in the Khobza area, another stronghold held by Ansar al-Sharia and its allies, in al-Baydah. “But because it is dark and due to the continuing clashes, we were unable to retrieve all the victims,” he told Reuters, adding that dozens of families had fled the fighting.Īnsar al-Sharia said its fighters and those of allied tribesmen, along with civilians, had evacuated the al-Manasseh area, one of its main southern strongholds, under pressure from army strikes without suffering any casualties. “Around 10 civilians were killed and a number were injured, including women and children,” one tribal source said. ![]()
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