To counter these you can do multiple things.

It can reach 100 and if it drops below 50 you are losing peasants as they are leaving your stronghold (Higher satisfaction means faster immigration). Basically higher taxes mean that the people dislike you (Nothing has changed sine that times -). This is a fitting transition to the tax and satisfaction system. Of cause more peasants mean more food consumption. The two disadvantages are less available space and that more peasants are needed in the production chain. However these need also a mill and a bakery to produce bread (2 farms and 1 mill are enough to supply 4-6 bakeries). Dairy farms also deliver leather for leather armor but the most effective are wheat farms. These need food and so you must build farms or hunters posts. Of cause you need peasants to do the work. Stronger / better units need more or different buildings. For example: To get archers you need a woodcutter hut (wood), barracks (recruiting), armory (storage for weapons) and a fletchers workshop (produces bows or crossbows). Wood and stone are for buildings and deference structures while wood is also used for weapons together with iron. Basically you harvest resources, build buildings and structures. You can test it but the game does a good job teaching you the mechanics (more and more is unlocked later in the game). The gameplay mechanics are interwoven and well thought out. In most mission you develop a Stronghold and defending it against enemy troops while in a few missions you have to capture the enemy Stronghold yourself (The later are painful and hated by many players). Gameplay: It is mission based and you see a map of England between mission showing who rules the different shires(Linear story). You start in a remote shire with the weakened resistance. It is the mission to retake the land, free the king by acquiring enough ransom money and stop the usurpers. The player-characters father was loyal to the king and lured in a deadly trap. This was a good opportunity for 4 nobles to usurp the power. Story setup: The King was captured at war in a foreign country and is hold hostage there. It has a well balanced economic and military system and quite an addictive gameplay. Story A real time strategy game set in medieval England. A real time strategy game set in medieval England.

Stronghold 3 review 2015