Stronghold Kingdoms News

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This week we debut our brand new series, Firefly Studios' Online Round-Up! Featuring the latest news on our two MMO strategy titles Stronghold Kingdoms and Romans: Age of Caesar.



So whether you're on the hunt for new countries to dominate in the Lord-eat-Lord world of Kingdoms or want to be among the first to see exclusive screenshots of our co-op city builder, this is your first port of call for staying up to date on any announcements, news and feature updates across both titles and platforms.



Strap in as Nick takes you through what we have planned for Stronghold Kingdoms in early 2019 and provides a first look at Romans: AoC as the first wave of Alpha tests help us refine the game for release.

Want More?

1. Play Romans: Age of Caesar early by pre-registering for the Alpha.
   
2. Check out our Romans: Age of Caesar playlist on YouTube to learn more about the game.
   

A brand-new world map is coming to Stronghold Kingdoms in one week! Ready your troops and march east on your path to our first fully realised Asian game world with the upcoming release of China 1. Centred around the vibrant Middle Kingdom, China 1 features detailed maps of six real-life countries including China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Mongolia and Taiwan. China 1 launches in one week on March 7th at 3pm GMT!

Which new throne have YOU set your eyes on?



To celebrate the upcoming launch of China 1 and kick-start your exploration of Central Asia, we are giving away the following prizes to 50 lucky Stronghold Kingdoms players:

• 10 Random Card Packs
  
• 5 Super Random Packs
  
• 5 Ultimate Random Packs
  
• 1 Premium Token (30-Day)
  

To enter simply follow the news post instructions on our official website

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This week Firefly co-founders Simon Bradbury and Eric Ouellette shed light on the origins and future of our newly-announced online city builder! Tracing their professional roots back to past studios and a certain roman city sim that started it all, Simon and Eric discuss how all roads have led to Romans. Having coded, designed, produced, composed music and created art for all three entries in the classic Caesar series, many of Firefly’s current staff and collaborators are mining this rich strategy heritage for our new MMO. Add this to Firefly’s experience developing CivCity: Rome and you have the perfect team to take this classic gameplay online in Romans: Age of Caesar!



Developed by a new internal team, Romans: Age of Caesar is our spiritual successor to Stronghold Kingdoms and a completely new strategic challenge for fans of Firefly Studios games. We’ll be levelling up the city builder with Romans by introducing shared roman cities and a single world map on which all players can trade, battle barbarians and explore the empire! Governors will work together to share resources and defeat common threats as they contribute toward the prosperity of their central city. With each new city built players will be able to explore further out, discover new resources and restore the empire to its former glory.



Planned for PC and mobile with full cross-platform play, Romans: Age of Caesar is scheduled to release later this year.

Want More?

1. Play Romans: Age of Caesar early by pre-registering for the Alpha.
   
2. Check out our Romans: Age of Caesar playlist on YouTube to learn more about the game.
   

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We have just announced Romans: Age of Caesar, a co-operative grand strategy MMO and spiritual successor to our online castle builder! Pre-registration for the game’s first closed Alpha is now open, with our announcement trailer revealing Romans to prospective governors worldwide.



Building on the unique MMO design of Stronghold Kingdoms, Romans is an online co-op city builder with thousands of players working together to rebuild Rome. The result is a shared world builder that returns to the classic Roman setting designer Simon Bradbury and producer Eric Ouellette made their name with before founding Firefly Studios in 1999.



In Romans players must rebuild the empire as they share resources, re-establish trade routes and protect their cities from barbarian invasion. Experience classic city builder gameplay online across on an entire continent as you build, trade and fight together with 15 other players in each city. Revive the republic and restore the Roman Empire to its former glory!



Planned for both PC and mobile with full cross-platform play, Romans: Age of Caesar is scheduled to release later this year.

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Christmas may be over but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy cheap castle sieges!

To celebrate the launch of Steam's third Lunar Sale we've created a sequel to last year's hit Lunar Sale video! Things get dark and our Marketing Manager may never be the same again, but you'll want to stay to the end to find out just what happens to this brave soul. Watch as he comes face to face with a truth no one can handle... Playing classic discounted Stronghold titles one last time.

Happy Lunar New Year! In case you hadn't already realised the Stronghold series is currently on sale on Steam. Get up to 90% off Stronghold titles with 50% off the new Steam Edition of Stronghold 2 and a whopping 80% off fan favourite Stronghold Crusader HD:

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