For the first time ever , Stronghold: Warlords allows you to recruit, upgrade, and command AI overlords on the battlefield in the form of in-game "Warlords." Each warlord under your command increases your strategic skills with unique perks, traits, and skills that can be upgraded. Let them work for your industry by strengthening borders, forging weapons, or teaming up in a flanking attack! Each campaign mission, skirmish, and multiplayer battle means a new set of warlords to command and a whole new way to play Stronghold. Stronghold: Warlords , the next chapter in Firefly Studios' real-time strategy series, is the first game to recreate the castle economy in East Asia. In Warlords, players take command of Mongol hordes, imperial warriors, and members of the samurai clan as they siege Japanese castles and fortified Chinese cities. Besiege historic warlords using new gunpowder-powered siege weapons and classic units in 31 campaign missions, multiplayer, skirmish, and free-build modes. Features CONQUER AND COMMAND Warlords on the battlefield as you unlock more powerful castles, armies, and abilities. EXPERIENCE HISTORICAL CAMPAIGNS from the third century BC in China to the rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the rise of the Mongol Empire. RECRUIT NEW UNITS , including Imperial Fire Lancers, Disciplined Samurai, Mongolian Horse Archers, and Deadly Ninjas. DESTROY YOUR ENEMIES with the arrival of Gunpowder and new siege weapons such as the Hwacha Arrow Launcher, Siege Tower, and Fire Oxen! BECOME THE GREATEST LORD through fear or awe using a range of medieval entertainments, taxes, and torture.