Lord_Chris

Have you tried looking at the .uni files? They contain at least from my investigations lists of all the files needed to load the model correctly. You can open them in Notepad++, or use the Granny Viewer 2 software: https://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/62-adding-units-from-stronghold-legends-into-stronghold-2

Interesting thought @ Sir Windows ….. Would there be any other changes which would make your mod better? Ie other aspects of the game you’d like to customise which haven’t yet been found?

This looks amazing! I definitely need to give it a try 🙂

Maybe something to consider in future in case any mods become available

Just seeing what interest there is on the site to play a Legends multiplayer game?

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There’s always time to make new ones 😉 I was going to myself actually but only ever started work on an Ice Queen.

This message is for @ Spy - collectively as a team I believe we have found out what the 4 map files you have found refer to. I will send you a PM with some more information over the next day or two and it would be good to work with you on this if interested.

I used to love the Ice faction but ended up using evil more throughout the summer this year. The problem as @ Asophix has already described, is that Evil is just too powerful especially on Stake Hurlers and bats and there is just almost nothing you can do against them especially in groups. Bats can destroy almost any defence in seconds while stake hurlers in groups, large groups especially create choke points or make it almost impossible for any army to bypass particularly behind cats. Unless bats are used - but the one game in particular I am thinking of, did not use fantasy units so in this case it was brutal. I’ll see if I can find the recording and upload it to YouTube. I don’t find Werewolves too powerful but maybe that’s because I’ve never been on the receiving end of them in large numbers. I do tend to use them a lot myself though. Frost giants are too strong against normal units but an easy counter discovered by Asophix is to use Knights who take care of them in seconds. In numbers there is basically no stopping them. I had a game recently where as soon as PT ended, he send a bunch of Frost giants over, dismantled my two walls and got into my castle. I still won, but I could easily have lost after that. Another exploit or hack I’ve seen on ice is to recruit mass white witches, send them straight to the enemy lord and basically end the game. Percival’s power is very disproportionate too in my view causing way more damage than need be. It wipes out a whole bunch of troops at a time. The sorcerer is by far the most powerful special unit (Merlin, Ice Queen, Sorcerer) just based in his special attack. It basically destroys large swathes of armies in seconds. Arthur is useless to me or at least I never learned to play this faction well. When I was younger pretty much everything wiped it out, maybe it could be different now but I just don’t like it because the game mechanics feel off to me and there are just no fantasy troops. The other hack as well, to sure if this is related to Arthur or not but sieging towers (Lookout towers specifically here) cause troops to be thrown out of the tower. It is not fair and should not be happening. Stake hurlers can also attack troops in towers which seems like cheating because you just create a bunch of stake hurlers and take them out from afar. Trebuchets are overpowered compared to catapults and quickly cause a lot of damage from estates as an example, if you are playing on a small map with estates over a mountain for instance, it’s easy to fire trees over the mountain and wipe out all the enemy buildings with little comeback. They are a nuisance and should either be disabled or made available to all factions. I also think a new game skirmish option to this effect may be useful. One common request I see (or rather a demand) from multiplayer players is of “no fly “ - meaning no aerial units. I personally don’t have an issue with this and find it tends to be the wrong type of people who request this (ie the people who were never going to win anyway and try to stop other players having fun in the process because they don’t know how to handle aerial units). One such case was the first time I saw the white witch trick used, in retribution to a dragon attack or some other attack I made. My only concern with aerial units is bat attacks in mass because they are so difficult to defend from, although there is a hack where for some reason crossbowmen in siege towers appear more immune and more easily shoot them down. In towers this is not the case. Dragons seem ineffective on estates once you place several wells. My favourite dragon is the Ice Dragon, I personally find the others are not effective at doing anything or very little at least. The evil dragon is also useless often getting killed without inflicting damage or very little. The damage is not effective enough, though granted it is cheaper than the other two, but I’m cheaper because it is worse. My concern with Bedivere is that his ability is too wide ranging, ie it has the possibility to tackle multiple layers of wall at once which I don’t think should be the case. But compared to Percival and other units from other factions this is a minor problem. I’m currently in Edinburgh this week but I will reply properly later.

Featured. I should give it a go 😃

For the first time ever yesterday, I played my first Capture the Flag game, but it didn’t really go to plan……. This was followed up by a second game with the same person a few minutes later. I was disappointed to say I didn’t even get a chance to use the Werewolf Launcher this time! Has anyone else ever played Capture the Flag and if so what did you think of it? Personally I found it far too easy and was disappointed it was kind of a baked down version of Deathmatch.