Lord_Chris

Hi guys, I'm pleased to announce the site upgrade has been a success. Our forum is now running a new software which has many more features available to it. All your posts and information should be here fine, but if there are any issues please do let me know. A word of warning that anyone who visits the main site will be unable to login for the moment, this is due to an authentication issue I'm working on. But you can still access it as a guest. I've taken this opportunity to change a lot about how the site is configured. To start with, we've done away with the 'New members' group. These were members who had made less than five posts on the site, and had a large number of restrictions placed on them, such as not being able to post links, not view profiles and not use the PM. I'm pleased to say that with the new software, we have been able to reduce the relevant restrictions down to a small number of posts made per user account instead of hindering all users as potential spammers. We also now have a notifications system. You can choose how you want to be notified of topics, posts, PMs...., i.e. you can choose to receive a notification on the site, or receive an email, or get both. You can do that here. There's a lot of potential notification settings, so I'd recommend taking a minute to make sure it's right for you. You can also "follow" other users now. To do this, head over to a user's profile and click the "follow" button. This will notify you of any new content by that user. I've already gone ahead and followed some of you to keep up with what you're doing :) Status updates: On your profile, you can now post status updates. A nice way of keeping in touch with your followers, who can reply to your messages etc. To enable status updates, head over to your profile, click on the "edit profile" button, and then enable them from that screen. Clubs. This is a nice functionality which allow you guys to have more control over what goes on in the community. Clubs are essentially social groups where you can run your own forums on there about things, in addition to the main forums we have. So you might decide to create a History club, or a club dedicated to a certain game mod or something else entirely different. I've already gone ahead and setup a one for the Stronghold 2 LOTR Mod as an example. Login through Steam. You can now login to the site via Steam. We'll be adding more integrations such as Facebook soon. Tapatalk integration. This one is aimed primarily to stop @EaglePrince from nagging ;) ;) I'm pleased to announce that the forum officially supports integration with Tapatalk now. Two-factor authentication. Those of you who are more "security conscious" will be pleased to know you can now authenticate your account using Google Authenticator. Have a look around, get to know the new forum! Looking forward to hearing what you all have to say :)

Sorry for the slow reply to this, I've been snowed under lately with other tasks and haven't had as much time to spend on the forum as I would've liked. I like your castle in the Treachery mission. That's something I used to do a lot, especially in Kingmaker maps- I always used to build walls around my settlement. To me, it just makes sense because you keep all of your buildings protected and population safe... although I don't think it was developed with this decision in mind really, as enemy troops will come to your Castle but are unable to attack your buildings, just sitting there until killed. Thank you for the detailed response too on how you did things! It's written really journalistic :) How would you like to write it up a walkthrough or two for the site walkthroughs section? :) It seems you've done a pretty good job in learning how to complete these missions well, and a hard earned congratulations is in order after all that work! Have you ever tried the Conquest Trail? That's a pretty nice addition to Stronghold 2 as well and is different to other campaign modes because you're just sieging or defending castles. I recently attempted this again and I have to say, it hasn't lost its challenging side ......

On Thursday (2/6/2020) the site will be down for a scheduled upgrade to the forum. Since this upgrade is large and affects the functioning of the entire website, the main site will also be unavailable for the duration of this upgrade. I apologise for any inconvenience this might cause. From around 11 AM BST the site will be taken offline, which I expect will take most of Thursday and possibly into Friday as well, depending on how long things take to upgrade. Once the upgrade is completed we will have a newer, fresher forum interface with much improved functionality. Looking forward to seeing you all again on the other side- thanks everyone!

Just moments ago on IGN's Summer of Gaming 2020 event, Firefly Studios announced that the latest instalment in the series, Stronghold Warlords, would be released on the 29th September 2020. The new game in the series focusses on Medieval Asia and the Far East, including China, Japan and even the Mongols. Recruit, upgrade and command in-game 'Warlords' as you take Stronghold to a new level and battle across the Far East! You can click here to watch the official multiplayer and launch date reveal trailer.

This topic was created back in 2015. A change of site policy has recently occurred in March 2020 after a small influx of similar files, which the Moderation team deemed unethical and banned them from the site. I was unaware this topic still existed and had forgotten about it, but thank you for bringing my attention to it. I've removed all links to the download and now in line with the new site policy this topic will also be closed. In regards to your query about the PM system, I've gone through each user group and balanced things out, so you should be able to use it now. It was originally disabled to prevent any abuse by new members ( I'm sorry for the inconvenience about the PM system, but its intentions were to prevent any discussions against the site rules. We have had members in the past who have abused the PM system to their advantage as a way of evading detection by Moderators.

Thanks for your interest in posting on our forum @wobbli. Unfortunately as this topic is referring to a software modification which injects code into the game as it is playing (essentially a Trainer), and therefore is contrary to the site rules, we cannot permit this topic on the site. I'm therefore going to close it, but if you have any questions on the site rules feel free to shoot me a PM.

Sorry about that. I just updated that page the other day and it must?ve produced that error. I?ve fixed it now.

Just a quick note to let you guys know that I've uploaded some of the preview images of Stronghold Warlords to our gallery today. Warlords looks like an excellent game, you can check them out here.

I'm aware that things have seemed quite slow recently here when in reality, members just haven't been able to witness the work constantly going on behind the scenes. I've recently fixed & optimised a whole load of issues, including: Fixed Issue with Polls on the homepage not showing current results Added many more history sections on the main site Fixed pagination issue when viewing personal messages Fixed issue submitting new downloads Optimised and compressed a whole load of images to save your bandwidth and data usage Updated site carousel on the homepage Updated legal policies and terms of use Updated site privacy policy Updated site rules Updated site about page Added a new search feature for the gallery Added a new feature to search for all historical castles Added a new search feature to search through all historical articles Added new walkthroughs and saved games for the Stronghold 2 Peace Campaign Fixed error when viewing staff team page Updated Community FAQ Your admin team and in particular @Crusader1307 have done an outstanding job in continuing to run the site in light of all these issues, to them we owe a great deal of gratitude. More updates to the site will be coming in the next few months well, including some bigger and more exciting site changes. Your admin team will keep everyone up to date on this, in the meantime send me a PM of any outstanding issues and I'll get them fixed ASAP. Thanks everyone!

Noted. This is a most peculiar error and one I can only attribute to the regex when parsing posts. I'll have a look into this and see what's gone wrong. Rest assured that nothing like this has ever happened before, so it is a new error. Issue fixed. It was a censoring issue.

Noted. This is a most peculiar error and one I can only attribute to the regex when parsing posts. I'll have a look into this and see what's gone wrong. Rest assured that nothing like this has ever happened before, so it is a new error.

Hey Paul! I recently completed the Stronghold Legends campaigns again too. I'd forgotten how much I'd missed those games again. Older games are always the best :D You know me too well hahaha. That's a fantastic idea! I will do exactly that :) I'll look forward to hearing from you Paul with some of those printouts! Been a while since we've had any SH1 articles, so these would go down really well I think- with full credits going to SHK, of course :)

Thanks, which post was it?

Welcome @Korsfarer Mogens, The staff have already made clear our policy and the fact we'd love to have more of your maps here, so I don't have anything more to add on that point. :) I simply wanted to state that the reason you were unable to post links was as a protection against spammy new members. You need to reach a threshold of 5 posts to be able to post links. I was going to promote you just now but have realised you've since passed the threshold and can post links anyway. Looking forward to seeing more of your maps uploaded soon :)

Should be fixed now.

Thanks, fixed.

Hi @ImTheFrostbite, Unfortunately tagging someone doesn't provide them with any notification like on Facebook. It's simply a way of highlighting names in a thread. To do this, you use the user tags: [member=Lord_Chris[/user] produces [user]Lord_Chris] YOu can find a full list of all BBCode here.

This sounds fantastic! You'll have to let me know when it's done so I can play it :) It's been a very long time now since I played a game of Crusader 2. Looking forward to it!

Hi @Spy I've fixed your link, thanks for sharing. I've also promoted you so you can post links in future- that's just protection against spammy new members. Welcome! You are always more than welcome to submit a file to us here as well for us to host, as that way players will be able to download without needing to provide any personal information :) I've tried downloading, but unfortunately I can't seem to get it working (Windows 8.1). Can you provide a step by step guide of how to use this file exactly?

That's an excellent idea about the additional link. I've added it in now :) As far as the server error goes in Chrome (which is very strange I agree), do you have any idea what the actual error was? This could be very important in helping me fix this ongoing issue.

Thank you! You can do so here: https://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/submit/ :)

Hi @JuGGerNaunT, this is a very neat download! Could we upload it to the downloads section on our own site?

Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look at this for you. In the meantime, does it work if you try now? Also I removed the extra links as in subforums. Unless I've misunderstood what you meant- could you post a screenshot so I can compare between themes?

Typical, the last point it could fail on! I've fixed this now & verified that it's working. I sincerely apologise for the delay in you being able to upload your file!

Welcome to the Nation! We have a growing resource section on Stronghold every day, you will not be disappointed :) Make sure you take the time to drop in on the History Thread by our resident historian [user]crusader1307]- if you like Stronghold, you will love some of the articles that are in there! We really do have some quality content on the site. I'm sorry to hear you've had such a bad experience with Stronghold Heaven. I'm afraid I personally also had a similar experience with submitting files, which is ironically how I created Stronghold Nation in the first place. As far as submitting a download goes, I think you have already found it but you can do so here: https://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/submit/ Let me know how it goes!