The game features two single-player campaigns complete with dynamic events such as tornadoes, and locust swarms. Your objective is simple: dominate the battlefield and emerge as the greatest Lord by managing your desert economy and gaining control of oases. You will play as a brutal Crusader Knight (Richard the Lionheart), or an Arabic freedom fighter (the Sultan of Syria). The game is set in the year 1189 in the deserts of the Middle East. Stronghold Crusader 2 is a real-time strategy/ simulation game developed and published by FireFly Studios, and is the sequel to the original castle simulator, Stronghold Crusader.