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Goodman and the others went to have a drink in their favourite spot next to the window overlooking some of the gardens. It wasn't long before Goodman noticed a servant rushing from the outside maze towards the nearest stairwell in what appeared to be a frantic rush. Nothing more was thought until a few minutes later when another servant entered and came straight to Goodman, whispering in his ear "My lord, his lordship requests your presence immediately, please follow me." Goodman nodded to the servant so as not to give away the reason he was leaving, then signalled to the others he would be back soon. He hastily followed the servant. They went through a part of the castle where Goodman had never been before, venturing up and down several corridors which all looked the same, before eventually arriving at the familiar scene of the Duke's quarters. On entering the room, the Duke was in the centre with servants attending to his armour and Sir Richard was also in attendance along with one other man Goodman did not know talking to Sir Richard. The two looked up at Goodman, who gave the Duke a half-puzzled look almost wondering what was happening, but after a second or so, the Duke spoke with clear urgency in his voice. "Section 34a of the gardens is under attack by a large force of Imperial Wolverine guard, by a man supposedly named 'Viscount Armundus'"

Those are generally the games I'm referring to, although games like Cossacks, I'm stunned actually work. I couldn't get that to even install on Windows 7. Haven't read the rest of your post yet, but from this my guess is that it's a case of the drivers not being recognised. So your Acer must be plugged in with an Ethernet cable to access the router? If so, this is definitely driver-related, I had the exact same problem. You'll need to get the wireless communication driver if this is the case. If this is not the problem, could you explain what now is happening? I'm a bit confused with all the different explanations :D Also - regarding the GameRanger router error, I have the exact same problem, it's nothing to worry about. All it means is that a very small percentage of players (less than 5% I believe) will not be able to connect with you when you try to play online.

Your challenge is: Reconstruct a typical Crusader State Castle from The Kingdom of Edessa in the Stronghold Crusader editor Information: Structure requires some skill with regards to water bisecting Castle. Some Trees. Heavy use of sand. Instead of wooden Palisades "Lowering Wall" Trick must be used. Useful resources Building Difficulty: 3 (Out of possible 10) Landscape Difficulty: 6 http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/236-stronghold-crusader-editor-overview http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/235-stronghold-1-editor-overview Note: Your entry must be attached to this topic by Midnight on Saturday to be counted in this challenge (3/9/16 23:59). If no entry is attached (via .zip. then your entry will not be counted! The results will be revealed on Sunday. Good luck everyone!

I had a very similar issue, only a lot more serious when I downgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 8 on my Acer Aspire E5-773-579L. It appears although you can "explore without limits", you can only do this if you keep the item in exactly the same way it was when you purchased it (from my experience with this). In my case, no supported drivers were available for Windows 8 and I lost all access to the internet. My video driver crashes sporadically, my wireless sometimes now turns on and off at random, and I have received a regular number of BSODs, apparently for random reasons. I always assume that the vast majority of them are because of my graphics driver crashing, though I can't ever prove it. Luckily for me, the Windows 10 drivers for the same product worked, in a fashion, as I explained. Updating the drivers could have caused an issue or maybe more, from my first-hand experience, and from what I've seen, Windows 10 is extremely unstable. It's crashed, corrupted and destroyed the data on someone's SSD who I know, it updates randomly as it chooses, and it sends out thousands of connections to the Microsoft servers even after you disable this in privacy settings. I've also seen cases where even though specific drivers are supported by Windows 10, and are listed as being so, they will not work with the produce, no matter what. Slightly going off topic now from what the original topic was for (and I thought of this because you mentioned SHC), but if you're using Windows 10, you will now lose all access to playing a lot of old games, they will not work on Windows 10. Full stop. Just outright will not work, and there is no fix. This is to blame: https://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/september-2015-windows-updates-kb3086255-breaks-many-games/ If you're running another version of Windows which is lower (e.g. 8.1, 8, 7 .etc.), then you can use the fix available in the article. But on Windows 10, it cannot be fixed at all. Here is an interesting question - did it work with the old drivers (after the Windows 10 upgrade), before you updated them to the newer version? Does your computer have any difficulty connecting to the internet at all, or any wireless communication in any format, or is it purely LAN that it will not work on. Also, have you tried In regards to HomeGroups, they usually are in separate HomeGroups, though if you had them in the same before the upgrade, perhaps this has been mishandled by Windows 10, which wouldn't surprise me at all. GameRanger does not connect over LAN, and connects over the internet, I believe, in all circumstances. This is very likely why you can connect here. In addition to the checks above, could you also take a look in device manager, and check for missing divers? I think it's highly probable you're either missing a driver of some kind, or Windows 10 has "gone buggy" again, and not recognised a valid driver you have.

Last chance to get your entry in!

I'm also disappointed we got no entries for this. :( But ... you could make a map, and upload it to the downloads section- I'm sure I'm no the only one who would love that :D

Your challenge is: Design a new opponent in Stronghold Legends named "Lord Theodoric" to replace an opponent of your choice. You should include a skinned DDS file and Lord (including Weapons), Avatar, Crest, Skirmish Opponent Image and include your new Lord in the game's loading screen. Upload to our download section/gallery once complete. Useful resources http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/203-editing-dds-files http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/207-customising-load-screens Note: Your entry must be attached to this topic by Midnight on Saturday to be counted in this challenge (29/8/16 23:59). If no entry is attached (via .zip. then your entry will not be counted! The results will be revealed on Sunday. Good luck everyone!

I hope that they do, this is a great achievement. I already have Stronghold Legends though, so I see little point in me getting it. I will be very disappointed if they only release the updates on Steam and do not give them to players who already own the game.

Your challenge for this week is: Create a replica of the city of Osgiliath from The Lord of The Rings in the Stronghold 2 editor. The map should also be scripted so that the player must defend it from Ork attacks and survive every one with limited supplies Useful resources http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/39-how-to-make-ruins http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/186-a-map-editor-tutorial http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/77-triggers-and-events-overview http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/1-map-editor-overview http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/239-making-hidden-pathways Note: Your entry must be attached to this topic by Midnight on Saturday to be counted in this challenge (20/8/16 23:59). If no entry is attached (via .zip. then your entry will not be counted! The results will be revealed on Sunday. Good luck everyone!

They don't have to be the only way, but try to vary it as much as you can.

With numerous things to do this this week, unfortunately I forgot to post this challenge. You'll get until next Saturday to completely his challenge for that reason. I do apologise. Your challenge is: Create a Skirmish map with 3-4 castle sites on high ground with bridges and stairs in the Stronghold Crusader editor. Make it exciting to play and hard to defeat at least two AI positions! Useful resources http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/236-stronghold-crusader-editor-overview http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/235-stronghold-1-editor-overview Note: Your entry must be attached to this topic by Midnight on Saturday to be counted in this challenge (20/8/16 23:59). If no entry is attached (via .zip. then your entry will not be counted! The results will be revealed on Sunday. Good luck everyone!

While I understand why you attempted to "test", and I do know that in normal circumstances, you wouldn't post it, you shouldn't have done this. There was an announcement out at the time that we were having issues with emails, and you had just posted this topic asking for help. That should have been up to a moderator to test. That was a pre-generated auto-moderation action to add that reply and move it to the Lion Tooth Dungeon.

This was as a result of the email issue; emails weren't working so when the forum attempted to send the subscription emails for the topic you were replying to it couldn't. This issue has been fixed now.

Thanks @Monstertomete for the template map you posted to. I've linkified your link, and promoted your account so you should have full privileges now. Welcome! =)

Congratulations @EaglePrince on winning by 1221! You have been added to the draw for this week. =)

Your challenge is: Reconstruct Bolsover Castle (1155) in the Stronghold 1 editor. Information: Located in Derbyshire, England. No Water, Trees or Bushes. Variable layers elevated land. Requires unique use of Map Editor provided buildings and Eye-Candy. Useful resources Building Difficulty: 9 (Out of possible 10) Landscape Difficulty: 5 http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/235-stronghold-1-editor-overview Note: Your entry must be attached to this topic by Midnight on Saturday to be counted in this challenge (6/8/16 23:59). If no entry is attached (via .zip. then your entry will not be counted! The results will be revealed on Sunday. Good luck everyone!

This is a great idea! It would be great if you could upload them to the downloads section so we could "officially" put them on display. :)

There was forwarding in place for old URLs for a period of time, but I removed this eventually. I don't see any benefit in adding forwarding for this; although it is only a single line it's to fix a problem with an external site. I think you should get in touch with technicians at HeavenGames and ask them to fix the problem. Whether it will actually be fixed though, or if you do get a reply, is a different matter.

That's a problem with the Stronghold Heaven forum rather than the site. It's not paring the URL properly.

I've never experienced this error before. Could you provide me with an example of some sort?

Your challenge for this week is: Complete @Lord Vetka's map "A king's game" in the quickest possible time. Useful resources http://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/file/367-a-kings-game/ Please save as close to the end as possible, and upload your saved game in your .zip file here Note: Your entry must be attached to this topic by Midnight on Saturday to be counted in this challenge (23/7/16 23:59). If no entry is attached (via .zip) then your entry will not be counted! The results will be revealed on Sunday. Good luck everyone!

Yes, congratulations! It's good to see you've done so well :)

This is your last chance to get your entry in for this contest! Make sure that you have managed to guarantee yourself a place in the draw!

Very sorry to hear about this, it's terrible, very, very sad. My thoughts are with his friends and family during this extremely difficult time.

Your challenge is: Re-create the Peveril Castle (1086) in the Stronghold 1 editor, and script a civilian storyline for your map. The best will win! Information: Located in Castleton, England. No Water, Some Trees and Bushes. Useful resources Building Difficulty: 4 (Out of possible 10) Landscape Difficulty: 9 http://www.stronghold-nation.com/article/235-stronghold-1-editor-overview Note: Your entry must be attached to this topic by Midnight on Saturday to be counted in this challenge (16/7/16 23:59). If no entry is attached (via .zip. then your entry will not be counted! The results will be revealed on Sunday. Good luck everyone!