You'll get a special April's Fool day greeting at the menu screen on April 1.
Best castle
Go to the map editor and create a map. Refer to page 53 in the instruction manual. You can make your castle and it will not cost anything. You can also make an army in the panel with the two swords crossing each other. Also in the crossing swords panel, you can make siege equipment.
Change greeting voice
Change your name to any that starts with the word Megalord. The "Greetings sire" dialogue will be replaced with another one saying "Greetings Megalord".
Easy money
Acquire 1,000 gold and enough wood in order to place a monastery. Place the monastery, then press P to pause game play. Click on the rubber tool in the lower left part of the screen as many times as desired. You will get 1,000 gold each time you click it, and the monastery will not disappear until you press P again to resume the game.
Easy resources
Use the following trick when you are low on supplies and need to build things (especially when you do not have a market). Press P to pause game play, then put a building that needs supplies of what you want (for example, wood, stone, or gold; use a siege camp for gold). Place it anywhere. The building will not disappear -- you can keep "delete" clicking until you have as many supplies of wood, gold, and stone as desired. When you resume the game, check your stockpile (or before) to make sure that you actually deleted it. Note: You wil; not the benefit of this on all levels, as some do not have the building of gold or stone you can delete. Also, if you have a market and can build something that costs gold to build, you can use this trick and buy things you need, like food.
Fourth of July Easter Egg
On the Fourth of July, instead of the normal greeting, the guy says "Happy Fourth of July, my Lord".
Get rid of gong no labour
Just place the gong pit under the piece of gong you wish to delete. Then when it's fallen through the hole delete the gong pit. You have not lost any rescources because you did it quickly.
Happy New Year
If you play this game on New Year's Day, the peasant will say, "Happy New Year, My Lord."
Lord Yoshi
Enter your lords name as "Yoshi" (without quotes); and when you start the game, instead of the regular greeting, it will say "greetings Lord Yoshi".
Making a nice peacful village
First,go to the picture with the village people on it,click it,and make a new save (if you have another save dont delete it just start a new one) when you start,place the food hut in the top lefthand corner,place the apple farms (aleast 3) all around it then put the wood cutters by some trees, when you set the huts for the people to live in dont go psyco, only place huts when every one in you town is happy,you have enough food and if you have room. room is the key to that whole mode. Good luck fellow stronghold 2 players!
Potty Humor
Enter your lords name as Flying Poo and then when you start the game, instead of the regular greeting, it will say "Greetings...FLYING POOOOO!!!"
Smart Aleck Greeting
Enter your lords name as Fertile01 and then when you start the game, instead of the regular greeting, it will say "Greetings Fertile01, or whatever the hell your name is!"
StarWars Humor
Enter your lords name as Lord Vader and when you start the game, instead of the regular greeting, it will say "Greetings Lord Vader; Obi Won has taught you well, but you are not a jedi yet..."
Various Steam Achievements
Complete the indicated task to unlock the achievement.
Achievement
How to unlock
A.I. Is No Match for I
Win 200 Skirmish Games Vs. A.I.
Architect of the Year Award
Place at least one of every building type in the game.
Band of Others
Recruit all Mercenary Camp troops in a game.
Because Good Is Dumb
Complete the Evil path.
Computer Tamer
Win ten Skirmish Games vs. A.I.
Conquestador
Complete the Conquest Trail.
Death From Over There
Win a Skirmish or Multiplayer Game, Recruiting only Ranged Troops.
Do the crime, do the time
Use Every Punishment Building in a Game.
Dung Battle
Collect thousand Gong.
Elite Meat
Accumulate 250 Royal Food in one game.
For Your Health!
Consume thousand in one game. (It's cleaner than the water)
Golden Rule
Accumulate 10,000 Gold in one game.
Good Lord!
Complete the Good path.
Guess Who's On Our Side?
Win a Skirmish or Multiplayer Game, Recruiting only Monks.
Heirs Apparent
The Lord Gets Married!
I Had This On CD-ROM!!
Win fifty Multiplayer Games.
I Have No Equals and Don't Play the Sequels
Win 200 Multiplayer Games!
Just Charge It
Win a Skirmish or Multiplayer Game, Recruiting only Melee Troops.
Larder Lover
Accumulate 1,000 Granary Food in one game.
Let Us Eat Cake
Build 25 Royal Food Buildings in one game.
Locally Grown
Build fifty staple food Farm Buildings in one game.
Lord Conquerer
Win ten Multiplayer Games.
Lupus Minimus
Kill fifty Wolves in one game.
Meat and Greet
Hold hundred Feasts.
My Kingdom Makes Me Hoarse
Your Lord Dies.
No Country for Old A.I.
Win fifty Skirmish Games vs. A.I.
Overengineering
Recruit all Siege Equipment in a game.
Overstudious Understudy
Attend hundred Plays.
Party Like It's 999
Hold the Largest Feast Size.
Policy Wonk
Complete the Sim Campaign.
Rat Kablooie
Kill 10,000 Rats.
Role Call
Recruit all Barracks troops in a game.
Saturday Knight
Attend hundred Jousting Tournaments.
Walk on water
Place two sets of wooden stairs so that they face away from each other near the water. The troops can then enter the water and walk across it to the next land mass, but from there they will be unable to walk back across the water.
