Lord_Chris

That is one very good signature - the best of luck. I'll try and enter shortly too.

Nice idea. If we get a few more threads in this forum I'll consider a sticky for it. :)

Nothing definite yet, that is just a possibility. If anything is decided, then you'll be able to see it in the announcements (or competitions) forum.

I try to make villages my main source of industry, and each village is responsible for a particular area - but doesn't always work if there aren't many estates so I end up using my own estate - but this is very useful considering the lower limit of 108 (I think) of workers in SH2 compared to 128 (or something similar) in SHL.

I wouldn't say straight away, it will probably take a while. But who knows - the site may offer one for free in a contest at some point! You sound much more tolerable than me - I uninstall steam when not using SH3 - that's how much I hate it. I can't bear to have it hogging resource usage on my PC.

That's brilliant. I've cleaned up the test threads to avoid it from blocking up the forum for actual reports - the good news is that id hasn't come off your post count though! Thanks for helping :)

Great, it all works from my end too. All we're waiting for is Lord Vetka's reply as to whether or not it shows as new from his end. Thanks for reporting!

I've made a new post in the castle courthouse - you shouldn't be able to see it now. @ Lord Vetka: You should, can you still see what is new? EDIT: If someone could make one more post in there that would be great.

Interesting idea.... I'll have to have a go of that.

Leather armour is very easily made, but I mainly rely on other ways for gold. I also commandeer a load of estates in the game and use them for weapon production as well - this will help and in turn increase more gold. For those estates that have a source of iron I place an armoury and basically, an entire estate of armourer's workshops - I transport them back to my estate (often giving them to Charles of Tours when he's my ally :p) and sell them for gold. I'll go and download that I think! I love using villages instead of your own estates as well. Villages so easily provide things in mass that you don't want your own estate to produce (i.e. with me, Candles). Two or three villages means several items on mass, and luckily, unlike SHL you can place extra carter posts to send more than one shipment of goods to your estate, meaning more gold quicker.

I noticed on the screenshot above, that you must have clicked on the "new posts" link on the index page - if you go directly to the forum instead does it still show mine?

I actually disagree with that - I never make bread and in multiplayer I make about 20 thousand on gold (often more if Bradley doesn't kill me instantly :lol: ). I mainly rely on wood. At the start of the game I set up ten to fifteen saw pits and then wait for them to collect loads of wood - I built other buildings that I need such as the food ones, I build a lot of stone quarries or iron mines depending what is available on the map, several ox tether for each one and get up a massive industry. What probably helps with all this, is that I only ever place one stockpile - never more; when that gets full, I simply sell goods from it (due to the large amount of saw pits normally wood, stone or iron) which give me a load of gold - I then sell any excess armour (normally I place several armourer's workshops on a map as the production is sooooo slow compared to other industrial buildings. Out of all the weapons, I believe it's armour which sells at the highest price. I also rely heavily on estates for gold; they not only provide honour but a steady supply of gold also. I also build buildings such as the jousting field and travelling fair which increase popularity (along with my food) and then set my taxes to high, sometimes higher. I use a variety of ways to get gold!

What makes you so good on Stronghold Legends? How fast can you build up an army, and what do you do to create it that fast? What is your favourite strategy for taking out opponents?

And before I posted that thread you could only see your own?

I often buy a load of cheap mercenaries (such as Arabian Swordsmen) and I sell things to get a lot of gold to pay for them. Another favourite trick of mine is buying mass horse archers, which get killed easily by other archers - but in number they're great. I'm sure EaglePrince remembers from multiplayer when I bought more and more and more horse archers and kept them in different groups (at least that was my intent) At times (such as when I'm under attack without many troops available) I panic and buy a lot of the cheaper troops - so the answer to this question is probably a yes for me. But only when I'm desperate. Or, a good tactic would be to send them in to get destroyed and then send some swordsmen in after who will survive. In all fairness though, they don't take many archers to kill them. When I was playing multiplayer once, A load of slaves came charging to my castle and tried to go behind my castle, and I placed three or four archers and they basically all got killed - it was by the snake though (I think)

So you can see all threads before yours was created? (I have now created one in there)

It is certainly a downer, and if only people could be trusted it could be used - but in today's age, you have to assume that every user would do no good if proper restrictions aren't in place - and from what I've seen so far, a lot of guests have attempted just that. But bbcode is easier than HTML for those people who have no knowledge, and because bbcode is more widespread it's easier to remember.

You can view replies to your own topic if that's what you mean - but you can't (or shouldn't) be able to view other threads. Could you post another screenshot of the forum?

A much better explanation :)

You may use all forum bbcode site-wide (members area, downloads, downloads reviews & comments, forum). HTML is not allowed due to the security risk of allowing users to add HTML descriptions (such as the meta refresh tag which could redirect users to a malicious page - and that's just one example. With bbcode we can be sure that users are restricted and is a lot safer for guests and other users visiting the site. You can see more on the site faq here and the bbcode list is here of all the currently supported codes. We are trying to increase these, so if you have any suggestions please let us know :)

Correct. There are no topics allowed in the forum "site links" and that is why that is protected, and the castle courthouse is a place for reporting issues such as spam, double posting.etc so you can only view your own threads in that forum (hence why it's protected) Hope that clears it up a bit. Create a test thread in there if you like & it helps to clarify a bit more, I won't warn you just this once ;)

Some good shields!

Last month, the winners were myself and Charles of Tours for our "Coat of Arms / Crest / or other decorative Heraldry" themed contest. We have deliberated upon the following theme: Stronghold Crusader or Stronghold Crusader 2 related We have chosen to clarify with the following: Oh, and if you are considering joining in, it wouldn't hurt to drop in a note so I hurry along those "last minute" sort of people! :) The contest will run until the 20th of August, and after this date the voting will begin. But do remember... the longer you have your signature posted, the more people will notice it! Basic Rules: http://forums.stronghold-nation.com/topic/94-announcing-signature-of-the-month/ ** Voting ** @Lord_Chris @EaglePrince

Nice crests - very good variety there, thanks for sharing. :)

Yeah, I have to say I agree with that - even though I do love those white witches - they are really powerful in number - too powerful... Added in main ^^