The Winter Update as well as The Sergeant & The Lioness DLC are out NOW!

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition – Winter Update & DLC Trailer

Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition’s Winter free update has delivered fresh custom content tools for creating your own CPU lords, castles and trails!

This new Winter update continues the trend of featuring both free and paid DLC content. The free content consists of a fresh co-op campaign for you to wage war with a friend, a new pack of unique maps to leave your mark on, and last but far from least, an external custom Lord and Castle Editor which gives players the freedom to create their own custom CPU opponents, scenarios, and castles! Hopefully those vocal players who yearn for an even greater challenge will finally meet their match against powerful enemies of their own design.

The paid DLC meanwhile will introduce two distinct CPU Lords in the form of The Sergeant and The Lioness, each with specialised tactics and military goals, along with a 9-mission skirmish trail – The Trail of the Cobra – to push players to reach new strategic heights.

This tutorial will take you on a tour of these new editors and guide you through the necessary steps to crafting the custom Stronghold Crusader experience of your dreams.

The ‘Castle & CPU Lord Editor’ lets you design your perfect custom lord and their fearsome fortress – and even edit the stats and castles of existing lords, too. After updating the game, you can find this tool via the Steam Library! The ‘Custom Trail Maker’ is part of the base game, and you can find it in the Map Editor! Devise challenging skirmish trails of up to 50 missions, and share them with your friends to test their mettle.

You’ll need to download the brand new base-game update for Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition first, and then launch the game to check you’re on the latest version. You’ll also need to restart Crusader: DE after using the ‘Castle & CPU Lord Editor’, so Steam can sync your custom CPUs and castles to the game.