Best Stephen III Builds (Talent Tree | Skill Order | Best Pairing) In Rise of Kingdoms

Are you planning to or already running Stephen III in Rise of Kingdoms in one of your marches and want to see how you should invest the talent points, what equipment works best and what other commanders you should pair with? Well, then you’re in the right place, below you will find answer to each one of those questions and this will help you make your Stephen III perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.

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Skill Order

Best Troops

Ranged siege is the name of the game with him and all there is actually in terms of troops types

Best Commander Pairing for Stephen III

Babur as one of the more universal pairings here makes perfectly sense (See full build here).

Gonzalo de Cordoba is practically an amazing pair but you will very likely if you’re here to read more about ranged siege pairings, already paired with Gajah Mada and that is a pairing I wouldn’t really rip apart (See full build here).

Gajah Mada works as well as pairing, but again for the same reason as Gonzalo why do take that great pairing apart… (See full build here).

Find out more about the most useful commander pairings here.

Best Equipment Forge Order

In terms of equipment, here’s what I recommend to use as the route for Stephen III. There are different builds for wherever you are right now, from beginner to veteran:

Best Talent Tree Builds For Stephen III

Below you will find the talent tree builds for Stephen III that make sense when running as the primary commander in any march in Rise of Kingdoms. Please also refer to the description below each talent tree as I explain a general route on how you should spend your talents there + some additional background for each talent build that I very likely will appreciate.

I have seen quite some interesting approaches for ranged siege but honestly after the first dust of the excitement settled, this is the only way his talents actually make sense

Best Formation + Armaments

Formation and Armaments are supposed to work perfectly with your commanders kit or you will find yourself very quickly in a disadvantage on the battlefield – and with so many variations it can be tough to stay on top. Here is what the works best in today’s meta:

Conclusion

I hope this guide for building Stephen III helped you investing without wasting much time and resources. If you liked it or you further questions (or maybe also annnotations that you believe should be added here in this guide), please don’t hesitate to post them below in the commen section. Thanks for reading and have a great day and see you out in the kingdoms.