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Castellan smashed his gauntlet on the table. “He fights like a serpent. Bite the tail, and he spits venom in your face.” Sir Roderick returned with news: Zhao was building a Mangonel —a traction catapult lighter than the Crusader’s trebuchet, but faster. Worse, the Warlord had tapped an underground spring. His rice was regrowing.

In the desolate badlands where the River Jordan’s ghost once flowed, two lords prepared for annihilation. On one side, the iron-wrought keep of , a veteran of the first Crusader wars. On the other, the bamboo-and-jade fortress of Sun Tzu’s heir , Warlord Zhao, whose ancestors had never lost a siege in the Celestial Kingdoms.

“Enough,” Castellan growled. “Assemble the .”

So he did the unthinkable. He abandoned his own fortress. stronghold crusader 2 vs warlords

“Let the Crusader build his cathedral of rock,” Zhao smiled. “We will water it with his tears.” Castellan’s first attack was methodical. A trebuchet flung barrels of burning pitch at Zhao’s northern rice field. The flames turned green to black. Zhao’s peasants fled. Castellan grunted approval. “He will starve before he storms my gate.”

Castellan’s scout saw the movement. “My lord! The Warlord flees!”

Lord Castellan and Warlord Zhao stood across the ruined oasis. For a long moment, they said nothing. Then Zhao offered his canteen. Castellan smashed his gauntlet on the table

They had been summoned here by a mad sultan’s riddle: “Whoever holds the Oasis of Broken Chains by the next blood moon may carve a new kingdom from the ruins of the old.” Lord Castellan did not believe in elegance. He believed in quarries. Within hours, his serfs had stripped a hillside bare. His keep rose square, grey, and brutal—a fist of stone thrust into the sand. Three stockpiles groaned with bread, ale, and iron-tipped arrows. On the walls, crossbowmen stood like stone saints, silent and patient. His economy was a blunt instrument: more wood → more pitch → more fire. He assigned a knight —Sir Roderick, scarred and devout—to ride the eastern ridge and deny Zhao any iron.

For one terrible hour, Castellan’s keep was breached.

He smiled. “Let him run. Then take his empty castle.” Zhao reached the oasis first. His soldiers drank deep. The sultan’s gift—a chest of Thunder Crash Bombs —was his. Worse, the Warlord had tapped an underground spring

Zhao laughed—a broken, desperate sound. “All this. For dust.” The sultan’s envoy arrived at noon. He declared both lords victors. Neither had held the oasis at the exact moment of the blood moon—Castellan was in Zhao’s keep, Zhao was unconscious by the water. So the prize was split: Greek Fire for the Crusader, Thunder Crash Bombs for the Warlord.

From hidden cisterns, liquid fire poured down the inner walls. The Monkey Warriors shrieked. Two died in the moat. The rest retreated. Zhao’s assault broke. Zhao knew he could not take the keep. But he did not need to. The oasis was neutral ground. If he reached it first, the sultan’s gift would let him burn the Crusader’s towers from a mile away.

But the bombs were useless. And the Greek Fire? It was salt water.