Hi there, we're playing Stronghold Kingdoms again, on the tablet.
In our last video we had a look at some of the basic features, now we're going to dig
a little deeper and have a look at some of the more advanced stuff for your veteran players out there.
We're going to have a look at how to manage your village a bit more, build up your castle,
and have a look at how we've changed the UI to better suit playing on a mobile or tablet.
So without further ado, let's get cracking.
As I mentioned, we reworked the UI and the menu system in the game to make it a little
more conducive on the tablet or phone.
One thing I wanted to highlight in particular is the politics button and this is how you
can see the Glory Race.
See how all the houses are doing.
We made it nice and easy, you can just swipe through and see them and you can see the number
of factions, the number of members, their current Glory score and you can just go ahead,
tap on one of those, see the member factions, tap on one of those, see who's in the faction.
So it's all there and it's all pretty easy to navigate and see what's going on.
So if we come out of that, back to the main screen, if we have a look here on the top left,
we've got this new menu and there's a lot of stuff in here, so I'm just going
to pick out a couple of bits just to show you how it works.
We've got a new updated avatar editor, so here you can essentially do the same thing as before.
Choose different categories, different items, so let's go ahead and give him some new boots.
Not a fan of the grey, so let's jazz it up with a bit of red.
There you go.
And once you're happy, yeah there's a bit of colour there, that's nice, we're going to save that.
Done.
Again, pretty straight forward.
We've also now got the reports and they're sort of listed in one long list.
I have gone straight in to see how our battle went against the local Bandit Camp.
As you can see here we've got 'View result', 'View battle' and we're going to go skip to the results.
The defender won.
Not entirely surprising, we didn't send a whole load of troops there, but you can see it all displayed there.
Let's have a look at something that should be pretty familiar to you guys, it's the world map.
Essentially the same thing as the PC version.
Obviously now we've got the zooming in and the swiping about as you'd expect on a tablet.
We've also got this tiny little home button here.
If we just tap that, it zooms us in and we can see what's going on around the village.
Something we know you all love is scouting for resources, we've got to get those apples.
Let's just have a quick look at how that works.
Tapped on it, got this little popup here.
If we hit 'Scout' we can see how long it's going to take, what we stand to gain.
We can choose how many scouts to send.
In this village, we've just got the one, so that simplifies things a bit.
Straight from here we hit the 'Go' button, the scout is dispatched and he's off on his way.
Attacking works in a pretty similar way, so again we've got this Bandit Camp here and just tap on that.
Again, we're not going to bother scouting this one, just going to dive straight into the attack.
So hit that and here we've got the attacking map with our options for troops at the bottom here.
Let's go ahead and check in a few archers there.
Not the biggest attack, but we'll give it a go.
Just hit 'Attack', we get this popup telling us how long it's going to take.
Just hit 'Go' and they're off on their merry way.
And you can see them there, travelling across the map.
Now let's go and have a look at our village.
Pretty busy as you can see.
Lots of animals roaming around, lots of industry, all that good stuff.
So we'll have a little look at, and this is covered a bit in the tutorial,
just going to show you the building again.
We've got the little build button here to bring up our options.
I fancy being a little bit decadent and holding a banquet.
Let's go for metalware.
This is quite a packed village.
As you can see it's checking to see if we can place it.
Possibly not room for this, so maybe we're being a little bit ambitious here.
Let's just cancel that, there we go.
Back to 'Build', 'Banquet' and let's go for a Hunter's Hut.
That's a little bit more low key.
There we go, fits right there, we place that and that's it.
It's building.
We've already got some bits and pieces ready and waiting for a banquet, so let's open that.
As you can see here, it's telling us which kinds of banquets we can hold,
how much we're going to use for each banquet.
It's all there, you can swipe through to see what your options are.
We've got some venison there, some furniture and some clothes.
All the makings of a fine banquet, so we'll go ahead and hold that.
There we go, straight away you can see how much honour you've got.
We've got some venison and some furniture left over, so let's go ahead and use those,
a bit more honour.
It's not the grandest banquet ever, but all helps.
There wo go, another 20 honour.
All nice and laid out, you can see exactly what's going on.
We know you all love your strategy cards.
Let's open up that part of the menu, have a look and see how they work on the tablet.
Immediately, we can see a whole bunch of them there, see what you've got at your disposal.
All this is in one place.
But obviously there's quite a wide variety So we've got the filters along the top there
Let's have a look, go to Special.
Let's say we wanted to add some merchants to the village.
Tap on the card.
One thing worth noting here, is we've streamlined it a bit
so you've got the ability to play a card,
buy another instance of that card with Card Points,
or, cash it in for more Card Points, it's all in the same place there.
I'm going to go ahead and play that now.
Yeah, four merchants, four merchants, yep, eight merchants in total.
Let's find something that I've got a lot of. This next one.
There we go.
We don't need thirteen woodsmanship cards. Let's go ahead and tap 'Cash in'
That's gone down. Again. Again
There we go, we've cashed in six cards.
You can see that on the top right there. Now when we come out of this it prompts us.
So there we go we've got 6 cards to cash in, for a grand total of 30 sweet Card Points.
So yeah, I'm happy with that.
Hit 'OK', and there we go, Card Points.
Next I wanna' have a quick look at the castle.
Again, something that should be familiar to you.
And highlight how we've adapted this screen to make it work better on a tablet.
So pretty standard castle layout, some walls, some towers, some archers.
I think I'd like a little more defense though so we'll just have a quick look at how that works.
We've got the modify button down here and we can go ahead and tap on 'Defenses'.
And again we've got our options layed out here and we can go ahead and scroll through.
Clearly need to do a bit more research and more work in the parish capital there.
For now, let's go ahead and keep it modest and build ourselves a small tower.
You see that's come up now and then you can drag it around.
Actually, let's put it right here in the corner.
So I can go ahead and place and then I'll do another one.
Let's go for a look out tower this time. A bit of variety.
So again, 'Place'.
Now we've got the walls tool here, so you can see we've got walls, we've also got moats in here.
They're basically walls but made of water.
Here we go, so stone wall
Okay, so now I want it starting here and we'll have it stretching along to our guard house, like that.
Again, if we want to make it a bit thicker, we use that icon there.
And once we're happy with the placement and the size of it again, hit 'Place', and that's in.
We'll just go back. So once you're happy with all the changes you've made, hit 'Save'.
And, yeah, they set to work building it
In addition to a couple of extra towers we probably want a couple more archers in there.
Let's go to 'Modify' again, this time you do 'Army'.
And again similarly to how you place them when you are attacking, we tap the ones we want.
They will appear.
Not the most affective placement but it'll do for now.
Again, we've placed them.
Actually just one thing worth noting there
you can see at the bottom there your troop capacity and how close you are to filling it.
Which is always good to know.
So yeah, we'll go back, save, and there we go, those extra few archers are in place
There we go, slightly more solid defence now, ready to take on all incomers.
So there you go, I hope you enjoyed that look at some of the more advanced features
in Kingdoms Mobile, coming soon to iOS and Android.
In fact I'm going back to my desk after this to crack onto that end.
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