EaglePrince

Yeah, that's what I meant. :D Well I don't know, but I still think that I should improve my English more. :D I'm glad to see you coming by from time to time. :) Maybe we will get rid of those obligations some day, and be able even to play at least few good multiplayer games. ;) What is also good for me - I have a new GPU, and I am finally able to play Stronghold 3 and Crusader 2 smoothly. Now the time is the only issue, but at least I can see others from my family happily playing their games. :)

Same here, pretty busy, but all well. :) Glad to hear it's better at you (sorry if this sounds stupid in English, but you get what I mean :) ).

Hehe, I haven't found some time to have a look at the map, but I really doubted that his map could turn out not to be great. :D Not a chance - even if he used the mouse with his foot! :D

It's a good thing you shared this with us. That's great to hear. Only I wasn't following things about Stronghold Legends Steam Edition. Is it out yet, and they they say what exactly are they going to bring with this update. Now what you said here concerns me a little, as we were hoping to have AI lords in multiplayer games, and Stronghold Legends already has this option, ad that could imply that Firefly is not going to bring AI lords in multiplayer to Stronghold 2. I hope it's not going to be only about some achievements, or something like that. Still looking forward to it. :)

Not much time to read everything, but only to jump in. Sorry if I miss the point. :) Charles, did you ask your question because of this? And are you able to play games at GameRanger even though you get this message? If yes, I'd say to you to ignore the problem, I've been trying a lot of stuff with my router, and nothing helped - I folder some "step by step" tutorials how to do it, but GameRanger keeps saying this message. Also, it gives this message only when there are more computers connected on that network (on that router). True, if there weren't this message I could join a game more quickly, but it still doesn't stop me from playing, and I think that it actually causes no lag. :)

I agree with you, Chris, plus you would have to buy it on Steam along with other games from the Stronghold Collection (which is 20 euro for SH1, SHC, SH2 and SHL). That's great to hear, Nigel! :)

There was another video by them as well. I haven't watched it, but in this video it seems that they confirmed there will be Stronghold 2 Steam Edition as well, but it will come late this year, or some time later. I hope they will add at least of the features we were asking for. :)

Good new, everyone! Firefly has announced today that they will release Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition. I hope Stronghold 2: Steam Edition is the next thing from Firefly, and if that is going to be the case, I'm going to be like shut up and take my money. :)

This is going to be a lovely challenge, I hope we will try some if these maps in multiplayer as well, that would be awesome. I'm only not sure about those bridges, I hope that those bridges don't have to be the only way from one lord to another. Otherwise, AI lords would be destroying them as far as I know.

Thanks, Chris, I will try it now. Also, regarding the topic I created and which you regarded as a spam (with full right of course)... I am sorry about that, I though I also wrote you to delete it, but it appears that I did not. I was sure that I did that, but I don't see that in my messages there, so I don't know... I apologize for that. I hope you know that I wouldn't post spam messages intentionally.

Hi! Whenever I try to post a message at Stronghold Nation forum I get a server error. This is the exact message I get: In addition to that, i was able to create a new tread, and to reply to that same tread, if whenever I tried to reply to any other tread, I got the error message. For example, I should be able to reply in this tread, but I've been unable to post a reply in history tread since yesterday.

I know this is off topic, but that map really looks great! Is it a Firefly's map, or a user made one? It looks like really enjoyable to play - even if you get defeated in the end. :p

Great to hear that. Today we'll have it for great gameplay, and another time we will have the final version with landscape and with great gameplay. :)

I'm not sure if I understood your message correctly. I'm not sure if you are going to make a four player Colosseum map or not.:-) But yeah, if it's going to be only Nigel and me, then we wouldn't need a four player map right now. Unless you would like to join us as well! And of course, from what I've seen, even your "quick maps" look great.:-)

I guess we got too excited that we forgot that you haven't made the four player Colosseum map yet. :)

I'm OK with 14:00 GMT (which would be 15:00 by Central European Timezone).

I'm up for it. :)

Interesting, so you had the first Colosseum multiplayer game! :) Glad to hear you had some great time - I also hope we will be able to play this in four, or something like that. :)

Now need for that, you can press P on your keyboard to unpause the game, and then the game starts without stockpile being placed.

Thanks, Chris. :)

I agree with Chris! And once again, what you did now is great, I am pretty sure that something like this has no one done before.

That is great to hear! Those buildings could be put in some corners, and you could make them look like small villages in forest or something like that. Regarding siege equipment, I believe that we share the opinion that this type of map is better without them. You could make some small fortifications if it is possible to train laddermen, and then they would be the only unit which could help us in conquering a castle estate.

Wow, this is great! I usually don't like Colosseum type of maps, but this is great. Would that be possible to make a large map like this? I fear it is not, but even it is not the case - it works great, and I believe it could work well with up to four players. Plus, you made it with awesome landscape! Maybe some more stuff could be done, such as being able to produce weapons in villages or something like that. I believe that on this type of map in the end we will all turn to mercenary units mostly. Of course, I would love to play games like this even this way, it seams awesome!

Well, now I saw your time, you made it in 1226, so our times are pretty similar, you did great too. :) Another thing I used, and it seems that you did not, are war dogs. They were really efficient against crossbowmen which would be way harder to kill otherwise. Only, as far as I remember, after war dogs are used the player needs to kill the dogs on their own as they would go on attacking villagers. At least that's how I think it works in skirmish games if I am not mistaken? In this scenario they worked differently - after the attackers are killed they come back into their cages, and there they stay until the next attack. This way they seem way more useful. Did you know about this?

Here's my entry.