Tactics for the Stronghold.

In terms of interface, TE is definitely better.
For example, neutral creatures can lose morale and ruin all your plans.

Maybe someone enables this option for tournament games, but I, for example, have never played with neutral morale disabled. And I also often play without creature experience and without taxes... Of the fundamentally new features of TE, in regular games, the bank and balance improvements are mainly used. And things like disabling morale and the greying stack of neutral creatures, creature upgrades, taxes, etc., are not something anyone is forced to use. Just so everyone knows, there is a huge menu with settings inside TE (in the game itself) where you can disable 99% of the new features and save these settings to a file. For example, you can discuss the rules and create such a file for your portal and use it in games; this is convenient.

PS I've added screenshots of the settings to the message so you can see how many options there are.

Another question is that even some fans of TE complain that utopias now play too big a role. Because it is impossible to get boots of levitation or other similar items in TE.

That's not true; if someone can't live without these sea artifacts, it is possible to get them; you just need to allow them in the settings (or rather, not forbid them)!
But in general, is this a bad thing? :smile32: Do you think it's fair that one player gets boots of levitation/captain's hat/fish in a utopia, while another gets a sword of justice?

Regarding the tactics of playing as barbarians, I personally prefer to always go for behemoths and a Castle in the first week, and buy them all in the second week, and then it doesn't matter what I build. If I can't get behemoths, then I think life is meaningless :) But I must say that playing on 160%, I don't even remember when I last failed to get behemoths in the first week.