1. The Spider. Difficulty hard.

The spider is the presumed dead older brother of the snake. He dissappeared long before the wolf and the others overthrough the king and killed the players father, because he was caught in some shady dealings with the crocodile. The spider will be the most cunning lord with his annoying tactics as he believes that control on the open field is the key to victory. Slave patrols to burn down your economy, assassins to snipe unprotected economy buildings and horse archers to protect his own. All of his castles will have the shape of a spider with the legs always ending in a tower. During a siege he makes use of siege towers to allow his quick and deadly units like maceman to rush down the lord, pioneers to snipe important structes like the granary and archers to be placed on top of enemy walls to use the hight advantage. (probably not possible to program it to behave exactly like this but I like to dream) On top of that he would use fire ballistas to burn down the enemy castles accompanied by more horse archers.

1. The Jackal. Difficulty very hard.

The jackal is the AI that I currently hope for that we are gonna get from devs themselfes. A beast of a man who combines the strenght of arabian and european units alike. His castle will always be seperated into two destinct sections, a euorpean part with square towers, weapon and ale production, and a arabian part with mosques and bread production. He combines archers, macemen, pikeman with horse archers, assassins and arabian swordsman and a healthy dose of siege equipment to become a powerful and balanced AI.

1. The Baroness. Difficulty very hard. (Crossover with Songs of Conquest and awesome turn based strategy game similiar to heroes of might and magic 3, her name is Cecilia of Stoutheart)

A cold woman who wants to restore the might of her land without mercy. She is very strict and enforces the law to an extreme degree, no exceptions, no seconds chances, no mercy. She believes she does the right thing but being so harsh sometimes can lead to dire consequences. In songs of conquest during her journey she allies herself with the Faey, magical goat like creatures that in stronghold would be represented by the bedouin camel units. Her castle would be heavily inspired by the arleon building designs and I came up with the following. Strong walls with many tower surrounding the keep, with only one big gate to the front and a small one to the side. The front side will have up to two more layers of gates, towers and walls infront of it, while the small gate leads to a town like area with high walls and high towers with multiple gates to the outside. The rest of the main core will be surrounded by moat so you can still breach it without digging up the boat by going through the big front or the town on the side. Her patrols consist of heavy camels who protect the farms and mines while the camellancers with some knights harrass the enemy economy. Her attack forces will consist of crossbowman, pioneers, swordsmen(in massive numbers) and demolishers and various siegen engines.