EaglePrince

I am pretty sure that that's exactly what Chris meant by observer - to be the third, neutral, player. :)

Yes, we will be using GameRanger. I'm glad to hear that, although I would like it more if you joined our fights. :) I've also never used it before, so it will be something new to me too. :)

It's about my brother laptop, but he's away now, so I will be unable to try it any time soon. Still, in the end we concluded that Empire Earth may not be able to run on smaller screen laptop, and we got that as a fact. Still, I should try what you suggested when possible, thanks. :) I'm not sure if I have tried that before, but even if I did, I could try again.

I do hope someone would join us. :) Right now I am not at home, but if you don't make a gaming event until this evening, I certainly will. :)

Great! :) Sunday, usual time: 19:00 by Central European timezone, which is 20:00 in Moscow.

That is good to hear! Btw, what do you think about Sunday? Now when I taught a little, I think it would suit me better.

I think weekend would be good, I could find some time I think. :) Also, regarding some Steam page, I was thinking about that, but we would definitely be able to post about it in Steam discussions, here, at Stronghold Nation, and I could let people know about it at Slavic Warlords as well.

This is nice to hear. :) I understand, but still, even though it does not always work, I do remember how there was an option on older phones to dial someone by saying his/her name. This wasn't much reliable, but it works much better nowadays. Even when it doesn't work, we do need to consider that sometimes not even human can understand what another person said - which name, and sometimes my brother wants to ask me "hey, you know that song 'nananana'", and I have no idea what song that is - even when that is a song by one of my favorite bands. :) But who knows, maybe some day machine gets better in this thing than a man can be. :)

We did play on Sunday I think, but I am unsure if we streamed the game. I think that we only played it.

I don't have a smartphone, but would it recognize the song after my "na-na-na-na", like when I know the melody, but I don't know the lyrics? :D Or one needs to sing it, or one actually has to play a part of the song recorded from ratio, tv, etc? Just to add, any of those is pretty useful, but I am interested to know. :)

I just coming back here, as the new season of Game of Thrones is on the TV. I realize that there are many fans of the series (and the books, but I haven't found time to read them), so I just wanted to let you know the following. If there is any character that you like, and whose face you would like to use in Crusader, all you need is to tell. Also, if there is a specific image you would like to be used, you can show it here to me. :) I believe that I will be creating some of them on my own too, but if there is something you would like to get, just tell, as there are lots of interesting characters. :)

I'm just joking, but I found an opportunity to use this meme, and I couldn't miss it. :D

Sorry to hear that. Still, I do have to say that you have brought it close to perfection. :) Of course, there are things which you would like to do some time, but from perspective of a player, it is a great mod already, and one wouldn't change a thing there right now. :) Thanks you for bringing us this mod! :)

This sounds pretty good, looking forward to pay another visit to that castle. :) PS: I hope this time you will have some more of "less useful" troops. By this I mean on troops such as spearmen, macemen, etc... which are not much strong, but which are pretty useful when trying to confront small enemy troops outside the castle. Those small battles were interesting in out last siege, I hope to see more of them. :)

Lord Stronghold only wanted to remind us about this matter, and indeed there is a possibility that someone wanted to do something with that, and that he didn't find the time back then. There is me for example, I still have something to do for Stronghold Europe, the Crusader mod which I really like, but I just can't back together with myself these days. :| On the other hand, there are moments I give a rest, and I could spend that time doing something good for the community. :)

I have noticed this problem with Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD (same applies to Stronghold HD and Stronghold Crusader HD), and I managed to solve the issue. Luckily I had two PC's, and on one of them I didn't have this issue. PROBLEM WITH NO PICTURE, BUT SOUND ON If you have a graphic card which allows you to have larger resolution than your monitor does, you will have a problem - you will hear the sound, but you will only see the black screen. In my case I was able to see the black screen and a message from my monitor which said "out of range". I assume that this meant that resolution got set to higher than my monitor could display. SOLUTION: I downloads Crusader and Crusader Extreme on another computer which doesn't have this issue. It also set resolution to highest possible, but not too high like it was the case on the first PC. Then I changed the resolution to 1024x768, I let Steam upload the new settings to the cloud, and then I ran the game from my first PC. It downloaded the new settings from the cloud, and everything worked well then.

Well, you are right, in cases when the wall has too many edges I think... Then the siege tower needs to be attached to a straight wall segment. But when the wall is straight like it was the case with mine - my castle was rectangular, siege tower should easy attach to wall when all buildings are clear. Anyway, even if it is possible to attach siege tower when there is a building nearby, I can say for sure that you will more easily attach it when those building are destroyed. :)

I agree, although we could allow throwing cows into the castle walls, but we don't have to. It is indeed more interesting like this, then having cows thrown all over the map. :) Regarding the siege towers, I do know about that issue, but I didn't want to tell you while we were fighting. :) You need to send few more troops in front of the siege towers, so they could bring down any buildings near the wall, otherwise siege towers won't attack to the walls. I was expecting your knights to do the job, and so I was waiting for you on my walls and with pikemen and spearmen. :) I have found out about this playing Crusader skirmish maps, as I also like attacking with siege towers, and those allow you to put down the opponent with troops and less effort. When I was attacking Saladin one time same happened to me, and then I realized I need to destroy the buildings, although those were houses, not farms, so it was easier to conclude. Later I saw that same apply to farms neat castle walls. Btw, I think that you are able to attach the tower to a gatehouse as well. :)

Your posts are indeed educating. :)

I am one of those who has always been in struggle with this - router and modem... Thanks for telling the difference. Still, I do have a question. :) I have only one device in my room from which I get internet - I can connect two PC's (or laptops) to it by cable, I can connect two of those devices for watching TV (IPTV that is I think), and I can also turn on my own wireless network though it (correct me if I am wrong in anything). Does that mean that in this "router" I have two devices in fact: router and modem, or the modem is somewhere further? :)

So I just came back to say that the two of us played our game. First we tested his map The Round Table V which shall be edited a little after our game. For that reason I shall remove the link above, and the map will be downloadable as soon as Lord Banshee edits it. We also played Infinity Island map 1v1 which was pretty interesting. This time we called it even, although Lord Banshee was more successful in this war. I was the first one who tried to attack, but after that attack he drove me away, after what I lost control over my iron mines. He also besieged my castle, but I managed to survive his attacks. After I was out of iron, I decided to produce spears instead of pikes, which showed to be pretty useful in later fights. One more thing I should tell is that today we fought without throwing cows.

Right now I suspect that it was because my keyboard used to be English United States International, while after this I chose English US. Maybe it's something else, but I suspect that this has something to do...

Now I tried it, but it only gives description how to manage with languages: how to add new language to keyboard, how to change default language, etc... Unfortunately it says nothing about this issue when I type a combination of symbols and when I get one symbol - this is something like autocorrect, or I don't know... But it indeed has something to do with languages, I just don't get it. :what: ADDITION: So it appears that I can type normally once again. :) What exactly did I do to change that - I have no idea, but what matters is that it works now the way I want it to. Lord Chris's reply certainly did help. :)