It allows you to bend the game's ridiculously punishing AI to your will. Use it to practice your castle designs. Use it to finally kill the Pig with a single, humiliating punch. Or just use it to watch 1,000 archers fire at a lone cow.

Have you used this trainer before? Do you know of a better one for the Steam version? Sound off in the comments below—just don’t bring any pitch.

If you are a veteran lord who just wants to build a massive castle without being zerg-rushed by 500 Arabian swordsmen in the first ten minutes, this tool is your cheat code to sanity. For the uninitiated, this is a third-party memory modifier designed specifically for version 1.4.1 of Stronghold Crusader Extreme (the “E” usually stands for the European/English executable). It runs alongside your game and allows you to toggle god-mode features with a single keystroke.