EaglePrince

Nice battle report, my lord. :) Speaking of way how we build our castle - yes, it always depends of our mood, whether we want to play a relaxed game, or we simply want to fight. :) Also, in essence, I still do similar thing as you did this time - first I build defenses towards the enemy, that is on the side where I am most likely to be attacked. After I build defenses there, then I would enclose the castle. Enclosing the castle is not my primary goal here, it is also a matter of aesthetics or a principle... Well, to be more precise, in singleplayer it is like that, but in multiplayer I enclose the castle as soon as possible, as with human opponent you never know what's next they're going to do. :)

You did great there I see. :) Good job, and I see while attacking Saladin you took no risk. Thanks for the screenshots, that way we can see a little bit more how you fought. I see you like wall up yourself, I usually build a "complete castle" - just like an AI lord would. I mean, I don't make only walls in front of my castle, I build it around the keep. And, of course, just keep us posted, we here like Stronghold games, and we like to speaking about that topic, and here about battles others fought. :)

Glad to see another Stronghold knights come here. :) You may not know me, or remember me, from there, as I came there relatively late considering that the game is from 2001. I starting spending some time on places like these since 2009. or even some time later. Sure, no problem, in fact, that's exactly what I had in mind, and I believe that it will suit me just fine - I'd be chilling in my castle while you do all the fight. :) In fact, I could try limiting myself only to training archers, spearmen and constructing catapults - that way I could be able to help you in defense, help in your attacks, and send you some goods and gold, while it would be really hard for me to kill an opponent. Nice avatar though! :D

Welcome to Stronghold Nation, Frankel! I see fun times are upon you. :) Oh, also, now it came to me - if there is any mission you find interesting to play with someone, let me know. I would find it interesting to join a mission with you - you to fight on the same position where you are in the Crusader Trail mission, and your opponents as well, while I would be somewhere aside with my small castle as a support. I could send you some goods and gold to help you, or even some troops into your defense, though I think it would be more interesting not to help you in attacks. :) By the way, I'm guessing that you meant on Stronghold Knights when you said "the old site"? :)

Thanks for these explanations. I didn't know about those two offline modes how you described it. Very useful. :)

Thanks! Yes, it does help, and even though those stores are from US, some of them are certainly in Europe as well. I think there is Walmart in Germany, and from there shipping shouldn't be a problem. :)

Well, that would also be interesting, though it would be even better if we had fog of war in this game. Regarding January, I think that most of us have the same issue, we can't tell anything for sure. :)

Even though I won't be able to fight side by side with you, I am looking forward to read your battle reports. :)

I agree about the screenshots. And yes, the map seems really good, too bad I wasn't able to fight with you, my fellow lords. :)

I am sorry guys, it turned out I won't be able to play on December 17, I will have to stay at the university longer than I taught... :( I mean, normally I would come home around six o'clock (Central European time zone), but this time I will have to stay there at least until eight... I am sorry, guys.

I won't be able to join because of work, but I came here for another matter. :) It is interesting to see how you Russians tend to speak English similarly as we (from Serbia) would do. :D In English it is topic - what we call tema (????) in our language, so I believe it is not a coincidence that you chose to say "theme" instead of "topic" or "tread". :) Also, I don't say that you shouldn't have said "theme", I'm just saying I find it interesting what word you chose.

It is fixed, thanks, Chris. :) Sure, no problem. :)

Indeed, and if only others could see your fancy lord, that would be even greater. :)

This seems really good. Count me in. I may not be able to test the map quickly because of my work, but I try to do it, and I would find that quite enjoyable. :)

We shall see about that, but even if no ones else joins it will be fun. :) By the way, we could play Forest Realm map I made if you want. http://stronghold2.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=2424 You can download it from here as well. http://www.stronghold-nation.com/downloads/category/stronghold-2/kingmaker/ @Lord_Chris, when I try to see the description I get a page with this message:

Sure, I have already sent you one personal message here at Stronghold Nation. :) Well, I could play around 19:00 by Central European timezone. What about others? Is someone going to be able to join us? :)

Thanks, Chris. :) We shall see about maximum number of catapults yet. In my opinion a player can defend from catapult attack relatively easily by using mangonels - if he has enough stone in the stockpile that is... I indeed managed to defend from bunch of catapults, in some battles I myself taught I won't make it, but in the end I did it. Catapults themselves don't hurt you so much, the problem is when the opponent manages to raid your workers - that's when catapults become a problem. For example, Banshee, I hope you remember that war with Nigel - what costed me my lords life the fact that you raided my stone quarries. Nigel was also doing his part in the north, I needed more wood when his archers started killing my woodcutters there. :)

Oh yeah, we should test that. :D My castle wouldn't fall before six catapults. :D:cool:

I agree with what you say about buying weapons. If we put a limit to to number of catapults and trebuchets, then players may have some more gold that they cannot spend. Regarding catapults limit, what do you say about this: 4 trebuchets or 6 catapults, depending of what the player uses? It would be in fact: maximum of engineers employed on those engines would be 12. I think it would be better, as trebuchets have greater ranger, though this could seem confusing to anyone new... :) Your rule is simpler to tell, and that is also important. :)

I agree with Nigel, those borders for castle walls and towers are great idea. This way players need to build "real" castles, and not to simply attach their walls to edge of the map, or something like that. :) ADDITION: I have only one thing that might bother some of us, and it is how you make no rush time. You forbid to build barracks, but I think it is better to allow that. For example, someone may want to put their barracks inside the castle, and that cannot be done in any moment - you depend of those workers who walk their. I think it would be better to allow building barracks, and maybe even troops, but they shouldn't be allowed to leave the castle. That last thing about training troops before no rush period ends - both ways are good: building troops before the period ends and building troops only after it ends, both seem good to me. And throwing tools? Are those catapults and trebuchets? Don't you think we should allow more of them? Remember those battles with we had when you had some trouble besieging my castle with trebuchets, I defended with mangonels on my towers? :)

I can tell you that you can contribute more than you think, as there are lots of map makers here. They all like having some feedback after they publish their maps, and often they need map testers. For example, if one makes a scenario, you can test it before it is submitted here to the downloads central. This way really great scenarios are made, but you also have fun. Besides that, you share your opinion about each version of the scenario with the creator, and this way you contribute a lot as the final version of the scenario depends of you as well. :) By the way, you said Saturday, but in the heading there is December 11th (and that's Friday). On which day would it be? I may be able to jump in on Friday evening maybe, but I'm going to have a lot of work this weekend. :( I stand with Lord Banshee, if you didn't have fun with Crusader 1 in multiplayer, you might find Stronghold 1 really interesting. Economy is slower in Stronghold 1, so it takes more time to build an army, and if you make a mistake and lose a lot of troops in a battle, you could be in a real trouble. :) On the other hand, I agree with what you say about Crusader 1 in multiplayer when it comes to those "pro" players. They just seek for most efficient way to win, and in my opinion that king of playing started to be only because of wanting to be the best, which is terribly wrong attitude - at least we can't argue with that when it comes to games. That's why I'm here, that's one of the reasons... While playing on GameRanger I was also visiting Stronghold Heaven and Stronghold Knights. With those guys from Stronghold Knights I had lots of interesting games - not caring who will win, or if map is perfectly balanced, etc... Later Stronghold Knights went down, but then Stronghold Nation came to be, and here we are again. :)

Wow, I didn't notice that at first, brate. :D I hope we will stand side by side in some of Stronghold Nation gaming events. :)

Welcome to Stronghold Nation! :) I am happy to see another fan of Stronghold joining the community. :)

Oh, no, you should have taken this announcement away, now Micha saw it, and there is no chance for us to win. :D I'm just kidding about this one, of course. :)

Any of those two. :) We checked stores in our city, and we haven't found a tablet or 2 in 1 device she would like. She wants a Windows device that she could use for work and carry with herself easily. Besides that she a Windows tablet for her father, which would have a SIM card slot, so he could surf the internet. He could use an Android tablet as well, but he prefers Windows as he already has Windows 8 laptop. I hope if there are stores in which we could search tablets that they have in offer, and order one that would suit her needs (and one that would suit her fathers needs). So, those would be two gadgets, just to be clear. :) Do you know any of those kind of shops?