Starting gold has been changed from 2000 to 1500 units. Consequently, the AI lords will create smaller castles and economies, and it might be imperative that you do the same.

Spearmen now move faster, so they are finally viable. Moreover, the game pushes every lords to use spearmen as everyone obtains spears as starting resources.

Now it is possible to train both the plate armor swordsman (european swordsman) and the chainmail armor swordsman (my reskin of the former arab swordsman). (This is optional but recommended)

Now it is possible to build wooden walls (a reskin I made for gallows), similarly to what happened in Stronghold 1. AI Lords will implement it in their castles alongside stone walls for further defense.

AI Lords are meant to have a specific strenght or specialty in order to make all of them challenging one way or another.