Playability: There's alot of green around your castle, but you don't need to do anything, because everything is already made. I give it myself a 2.5 :p
Balance: its flat and easy to control
Creativity: I like it, instead of grass ground there's a stone ground :p.
Map Design: Its quik made, exept the castle, that took me 2 hours (with the stone floors).
Story/Instructions: Defend yourself against the infidel, and collect 500 iron. It will take some years for the infidel to arrive, so use your time to get defence with alot of macemen and crossbowmen.
Hopefully you will like this map :)
PS.:
This is my first map, didn't copy anyone, I'm Dutch, I'm 14 years old and I'm open for comment.
EDIT: This is for Stronghold Crusader, not normal Stronghodl, sorry.
Thank you for the post, I will make better maps, My 3 map is coming soon in 'Stronghold: Invasions' and is called:
'Revenge of the Duc's'
You start with 60 archers on the wooden walls and 20 archers that are protection your stockpile.
You really need to be quik with troops, because Duc de Puce is coming with 100 archers & 100 spearmen...
When the map comes out, I will give more information ;)