EaglePrince

Too bad to hear that... :( Well, maybe players could effect on them to make this for Stronghold 2 before doing another game, or something like that? I'm not putting any hope into that, but I'm just saying an idea. I believe that it would be an easy task for them.

Wow, now I see why Tokamaps told yesterday that I still have the time. :) Congratulations to both of you, guys. :) Unfortunately I did want to try it yesterday, but I was reading until late, and I was tired.

Hi. Can you tell does Firefly still work on Stronghold Crusader 2? I haven't played it recently, so that's why I ask. It's not that I have some issues with the game and now I come here crying "what the hell", or something like that. :) I just wanted to know if they still work on this one, or if they have moved on on other projects? It's been a while since the latest DLC was released, since November 2015, so that's one reason why I asked myself this. Another reason why I ask this is that I was thinking how many of us would love to have improved Stronghold 2 multiplayer! We would all love to be able to play Stronghold 2 multiplayer games with AI lords, and it would also be great if they enabled saving a multiplayer game. Maybe we could try to appeal to Firefly to make this possible. There is Stronghold 2 AI Manager which did this for 1.3.1 version, now none of us is able to the the same thing on their own, but who would be more competent to make this possible but Firefly? :) If you ask me, I would be fine with that if they sell it as a DLC, so if the host has this option all of us could enjoy it; or it could be another way as well. Chris, sorry if this should have been posted if Stronghold 2 subforum.

Hi, I may have asked something like this before, but I haven't found that on the forum, so in that case sorry for asking one same question again. I was thinking about buying Stronghold Collection from Steam, although I do already have Stronghold 1 and Stronghold Crusader 1 which I got as gifts after getting Stronghold 3 and Stronghold Crusader 2, but before I do that I want to ask this first. Does Stronghold 2 on Steam behave the same as Stronghold 1 and Crusader 1 on Steam? By that I mean on the fact that I am able to run Stronghold 1 and Crusader 1 without launching Steam, and I don't have the Steam overlay while playing those two (no matter if the Steam is running or not). Does it work the same way with Stronghold 2, and now when we mention Stronghold 2 - does it work the same way with Stronghold Legends too? This would make me playing Stronghold 2 with my family easier.

Glad to hear you two made it, though I won't make it to do it this evening... :( Still, I will try it later some time to see how I could have done. :)

It does look really interesting. I will have a closer look some time later. :)

Thanks for this great tutorial, and it does look really good in the end. :)

Thanks, Crusader. :) And thanks Chris, from what I've seen from mobile out looks great. :)

OK, I will ask everyone again later in a week. :)

No problem about that. :) By the way, maybe we could see when to make another gaming event? For Nigel it is better if we could play on working days, for me and Tokamaps weekends and working days work fine, so we can see if we could play on a working day. 21:00 is also a time that may fit all of us. When would you be able to play? :)

So in the end only Nigel and I played 1v1 game. It was interesting. Even though Nigel started badly we managed to compensate it somehow - I bought an estate close to him, so he could get it, and use it to develop faster. I had stronger economy in the end, so I just left my defensive troops in my castle, while I took those offensive troops and sent them upon Nigel's walls. He managed to survive the first attack with 50-60 swordsmen and about ten of my knights. Later after that I trained more knights, and I after fighting with his troops on the wall and inside his castle my knights managed to kill his lord. He was resisting very well, though I have feeling that in this game we both enjoyed not just the fighting part, but also the part in which we were developing our economies and building out defenses, and expending out territories too. :) Unfortunately we didn't make it to play with Tokamaps. I am sorry about that, we were trying to find a good map for us to play, though the first idea was to play Dolina Odmetnika. Tokamaps had other suggestions, he also tried editing one of his maps, but sadly it just took us too much time and in the end Tokamaps didn't stay with us to play, as he has an exam tomorrow. I am sure it would be even more fun with Tokamaps. I should also add, it's not that we only spent time on choosing a map, we also spent some more time because during all those trying something seemed to messed up with my game. As a temporarily solution Nigel and I later player one of the Firefly's maps. After that I tried moving those maps from the folder, and then it worked well. In fact, I also tried that before the game with Nigel, but I mistakenly did that with maps for Stronghold 1, as I was in hurry. :( Maybe it was something about maps, maybe it was something about the cache, we don't know, but it worked later... Tokamaps, I am sorry we didn't make it to play all together. I am looking forward for out next opportunity to play, but we need to take care of one thing. :) We need to deal what map to play before the game starts - while we make the event, here in this tread. This way we can save our time, it would be perfect if we were able to play those two hours instead of looking for maps and solving problems we could have dealt with before. :) I'd gladly play any of your maps, only those things need to get ready before we want to start the game. There can always be some unexpected issues, but if we plan everything else on time, then those issues would hopefully be solved sooner, and we would have more time to play. :) Don't get me wrong, I just want to say that we all needed to be better organized, and that will be the case in future - just like when we played the previous game. :) We knew what map we want to play, we noticed later that the game was crashing for some reason, then you remembered that it was about a mod you installed, and even with some time spent on this we had enough time for a glorious war. :)

We're still choosing the map, it is likely that we won't choose it until 21:00, so come if you can. Look into the PM I sent you right now. :)

That's the case with me, and then I find those games in which I barely survive and win the most fun. :D

You wouldn't be slowing me down, 21:00 would work for me as well, I only don't know about others.

When would you be able to come? Maybe we could shift it to 21:00 for example, if others agree?

Thanks. :) I would certainly like that. I had that in mind yesterday - to submit it as an article, but it was too late and I had to wake up early this morning. Do I submit it, or you will do all the work? :)

That is unfortunate. Still, if one wants to play a challenging game he could refrain from training knights on his own. :) Thanks for reply. :)

I'm glad to hear that. :) I hope we meet again on battle field. :)

I failed there miserably. :D He definitely knew better all important details about units in Stronghold 2. I learned a lot during this game. :)

I have made this short tutorial about how to make a minimap for Stronghold 2. Here is shown how one can do it with Fraps and Gimp, but once one sees how to do it with Gimp - they could do it in similar way using any other image manipulation program. 1. Download and install Fraps. It's a free program by which you can easily make screenshots in any game. Before the next step attention to what key is dedicated for you to make a screenshot with Fraps. In my case it's Print Screen key, as it was easiest one for me to remember. 2. Run Fraps, and then run Stronghold 2, and go to kingmaker game, and find your map. 3. Put yourself in one estate to the left, and then put yourself in another estate to the right. 4. Leave Stronghold 2. 5. Download and install Gimp, it's also a free program, and this one is used for image manipulation. It offers a lot more then you need right now actually. ;) 5. In Fraps you have the View button by which you can open the folder where your Fraps screenshots are stored. Open that folder, open Gimp, and drag those two screenshots into Gimp. Note: Gimp may open a little slow, but be patient, once it's open everything runs smoothly. :) 6. Use the cropping tool to crop the minimap from one image, and the other. You can use Control & Mouse Wheel to zoom in and out, so you can do crop it perfectly. Once you select the area you want to crop double-click it to do the cropping. You can use the Mouse Wheel Button too to move around while cropping. 7. Use rectangle select tool too select one side of one of those minimaps, copy it (Control + C), and paste it (Control + V) into another one. Then you drag it in the right position; you can also use the arrow keys for that. 8. Go to File/Export As..., go to Select File Type (By extension) to choose PNG or JPG. I prefer JPG, as it loads faster on webpages. Name your minimap as you will, export it into the folder you want, and that's it. And this is the result.

Tomorrow at 20:00 by Central European timeline. Here's the event I've created for this game. http://forums.stronghold-nation.com/post/10141/#p10141 Nigel and I intended to play on my map this time. I should remind you that the map wasn't made unbalanced, but it is for fun. You could also record it if you want. :)

Hopefully, somebody else could join us as well. :)

Indeed a great video. :) By the way, I was speaking with Nigel, he would be able to play tomorrow evening. Maybe you could join as well. I haven't created the event yet though. :)

But the is no way to disable some troops no matter the rank?

I will download it some time later. By the way, you could submit it to Stronghold Nation download central. This way it would be right where people would be looking for it. :)