EaglePrince

One thing I wanted to ask... Do you think it was ok that I was aiming at your army using my catapults and trebuchets? We do approve mangonels, trebuchets - I guess they are ok too, but somehow I felt bad when I was killing your army with catapults, only it was too late, as both of us began to do that. I mean, catapults do have better rate of fire, so a larger group of catapults can devastate an army. I think that we should allow trebuchets hitting on troops deliberately, but catapults on troops - I guess we shouldn't allow that. Trebuchets have smaller rate of fire, and they cannot be moved once they've been placed, but if you feel like both of those shouldn't be allowed, then I would agree, as it is not much natural. Also, it is something that players in Crusader 1 use - build around 30 catapults, but I don't like using that tactic. Today I was using similar tactic - but I approved it to myself by "here we have less gold then we do in Crusader 1, so it won't do that much harm"... I'd like to hear others opinions.

I like the map, you made it very well! It is well balanced map, and it was exciting to fight on it, as there is enough space where one could move his army. Like in our battle the two can fight in the middle, in the north-east, or in the south-west. That is why I especially like how you made that lake in south-east. I am sorry for going away so fast after the game was over, I was hungry like hell. :) Regarding the war itself. :) After the peace time was over we started to gather our troops in front of our castles. As Lord Banshee had more crossbowmen outside his castle, I decided to build few trebuchets to shoot rock on his army. This helped me a little, and we were struggling there for a while. Some time later I decided to more north, to attack some of his buildings east of his castle. I was destroying his quarries, and his stables. He was using the same tactic against me too - he was also using his catapults against my troops. After a while I retreated from there, and I decided to gather my troops in the middle again, so I could destroy his economy buildings in front of his castle - he had workshops there. Now I had some more gold, and I had constructed catapults instead of trebuchets, so I could move them. Some time later I made some trebuchets too, so I could destroy his iron mines across the lake in hill - I was successful in this task. Then it seems that I had weakened Lord Banshee, and I noticed I had enough pikemen to attack his castle using siege towers, but I wanted to collect some more troops. I trained some more swordsmen, and I was able to train more then 100 spearmen - they would definitely be useful in this situation, although in the end I didn't use all those spears. I attacked him. I move siege towers forward, I ordered my troops to march towards his castle, including my troops in south-east. Luckily for me, lots of my troops had managed to climb Lord Banshees walls before he set his castle to fire. He still had crossbowmen on the walls, and the pikemen which climbed there managed to kill them. He had some more troops too - he had many swordsmen outside his castle, but luckily for me, he was unable to get them into the castle because of fire. I waited for fire to calm, and then I slayed his lord.. :) This was a great game, but no less then any other game we played with Lord Banshee. :)

That was my idea too! :D Also, I did write "Stronghold Nation gaming event" at Steam Discussions, but I didn't put that into description at Stronghold Heaven, as I was worried that could be considered as advertising, but if tobikanne121, he will see that this is a Stronghold Nation gaming event. :)

I hope we will find the forth player too. We could play any four player map from your from your VK page. Now when I mentioned it, I have noticed that you have put the link to the VK page on your profile. You could do the same with your signature if you want. That way people will more easily notice it. It is in Russian, but if someone can't handle a little bit of Russian he surely can translate the page using Google Translate or Bing Translate for example. :)

A friend from Stronghold Heaven said he would like to join our fight tomorrow. His username is tobikanne121.

Oh boy, that would be an epic fight! :D It would be something worth living for! :D

If we play a 2v2 game on a 2v2 map, I hope to see Lord Chris by my side. :)

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. :)