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Still, it's nothing compared to Stronghold 3 night battles... :P Right now I have won a campaign mission where I had to capture a castle during the night; so I was moving through areas further from the castle, and I was avoiding file in the wood near which I would be spotted. :) In fact, it is just like Stronghold with fog of war with exception that you can see enemy buildings - only you can't see troops. But, I do realize this is not the subject now, I am glad to know that we are able to play Crusader 2 in night mode even though there is no option called that way. :cool:

I'm glad you made it to solve it! Indeed, as of now, if one starts fighting against you during the night, he's going to have a bad time. :)

Maybe it is not night as night, maybe it's just something about graphics? I mean, maybe whole picture is darker, so it looks like it's night? I do realize this is most likely pretty stupid suggestion though :D , and I believe that it's more likely to be something else. Still, I will try to see some stuff in my game this evening - after I get some my work done. :)

Thanks, Nigel. :) Wow, now you reminded me of that great movie, I remember how I was watching it is a kid. I am unsure when I watched it, but that was the time when I started watching my first movies, and I was amazed by this one, I think I was about 7-9 years old. :) We got the tape from some videoteka (that how we called in in Serbian, a place where one is able to get few movies, and return it after some time; just like library, but this was for movies. There are few of those left nowadays, how are they called in English?). I know this is off topic, but I am replaying the music now, I will have to watch the movie again as well. :D Yes, about that attack, you are right about that. If everything went smoothly it wouldn't be that good... :) Also those few swordsmen of Shah that made it to reach my stone quarries top destroy them, we could say the same thing about that I guess as well. Hmm, and now when you mentioned cropping the video, yes, I do know how to do that. I could just cut out those parts after I build up my economy, and when I prepare my new troops for another assault; that would make the video even more interesting. I could also put 1492: Conquest of Paradise Theme ? Vangelis in the background, I'm not sure how to do it using this converter I use, but I am pretty sure I could do that as well. :) By the way, this is another great music from another great movie. :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3cXcS49D64

This does sound interesting. :)

I meant to ask what exactly those adventures are? What exactly does one do when he plays this game? I don't remember this from Stronghold Knights so I am unsure.

That does make some more sense to me now. :) Regarding Bandicam, if one uses free version of Bandicam, he can resume the record after those ten minutes are over, and then to merge those several recordings together. I know there would be a gap of few seconds though...

Hey, it's great to see you here! Welcome to Stronghold Nation, community much similar to Stronghold Knight by its hospitality. :) I am sure you're going to like this place where we like to spend some of out time. :) I'm also hoping to see you on some battle field during one of our gaming events here.

Well, one thing I did forget about when I was giving the answer to Vetka's question. I was playing in the lowest resolution which would fit my monitor, so that is another reason why does my 40 minutes long video takes 1.03 GB (now I checked it) while in AVI format, and 586 MB after converting to mp4 format. Still, if you are used to play in higher resolutions, then you can go to Video\Settings (under Format), and under Size you can choose Half Size, or any size you want. You may also go to Presets within Video and under Format, and choose an option that could fit your needs, such as YouTube (480p). This is about Bandicam by the way.

Well, that doesn't sound so great to me, but I hope that they were expecting that players who have low popularity will lose population anyway - due to fire or being killed by enemy troops... But one can easily see that they wanted to make this game as easy as possible to play - at least that is my impression. I do realize that, but... you know me well... :D I am a stubborn man at some moments, you just need to let me to my headbanging on my own, and then I will learn. :D Just kidding, this with houses is indeed a good reason not to build granary, stockpile, the economy, and houses the way I did. :) It works pretty well to me (Wondershare), only after installation it will install Wondershare player as well, which I uninstall immediately after installing the converter. But it's free! :)

This one is 586MB, or at least that is how much it is after I converted it to mp4 format. For that I used Wondershare Video converter. The original avi file was nearly 1GB. Yes, I do realize that about efficiency here, but I'm still learning stuff here. I do realize that is more efficient to put it closer to farms, but still I just like to build a castle around my stone keep, and for that reason my stockpile is always close to the stone keep, and the granary is somewhere near as well. I believe that with Wondershare Video converter (which is free) one can also crop some parts of the video (at least to crop the beginning part and ending part of the video), and also to merge several videos into one. Wouldn't villagers leave the castle that way? Or they would leave the castle, but if you have enough peasants around the campfire, you still can give them smaller taxes before you start missing workers? I was always looking at popularity to be positive while I don't have entire housing capacity filled for example, and after I do have that, I leave popularity to be around -3, which would grow up to positive numbers as soon as I build another house, or I train some soldiers.

Thanks! I will also have a look at it, and if I find something, I will let you know. :)

Thanks, Mathew! :) In my first attack on the Rat I messed up some stuff, and I lost my archers foolishly - I messed up with the commands, and I send archers to front - in front of the swordsmen, so I retreated that time. In the next attack I did it right! Also, I chose a different but similar tactic with Shah - I attacked with rams, swordsmen and archers. The two of rams brought down the gate fairy quickly, and I entered the castle. I faced little resistance there. :) Shah was bringing me more damage than the Rat - when I wasn't on watch, while Rats attacks were too weak to do any harm; still, Rat was stronger when he was defending himself. That was my impression at least. :) Also, same thing crossed my mind as well - do I put that thing from the beginning, or from when the game starts. In the end I did it this way. Do you know is there a way to do it on Youtube somehow? To crop that part of the video, or to mark that part of the video somehow? I just need to know if it is possible, if it is, I will figure it out I guess. :)

Hey, guys, this is my first video I created ever, and now I'm sharing it with you guys. :) It is Stronghold Crusader 2 Let's Play Video, I recorded the game in which I won the third mission of the Trail. I do realize that I was doing some "mistakes" there, as I could have been more effective, but this is the way I wanted to make my first video: I was training swordsmen and archers which are my favorite combination, although I have to use crossbowmen frequently, as those archers are not effective enough against heavy armored soldiers. Also, the only means of earning gold I used here were religion and food... And yeah, I could have set more misses in the church to gain even higher popularity effect from there; I did build more candlers for that reason, but I just forgot to use those candles. :) Next video could be from some harder, more challenging, mission. :) Also, no speech here, but you may hear my voice next time as well. :D I hope this is not a big downside of the video? :)

This is really nice to see this castle in action. :) By the way, Micha, although you didn't make it to win this game, you did leave a castle burned to the ground behind you, and that has to be counted as well! :cool: Micha barbarian! :D

Thanks, Chris. :) ADDITION: You can also add CTRL+mouse wheel scroll - that rotates building for 45 degrees. We already have this there: Hold CTRL + Q, E Allows you to rotate a building 45 degrees. but some may find this one quicker to do. This with mouse wheel scroll and control button suits me better for example. And, of course, I did try those two in game - they work. :)

Hey, guys! I believe I told this once before - that using ALT+F command you can activate free camera mod in the game. Unfortunately you are unable to give any command this way, but you are to move using arrow keys or "ASDW" ones, so you can make some nice screenshots and enjoy the view, and stuff like that. :) I hope this message alone will not be considered as spam as this is not a question, and one cannot tell me much after I give you this information in case you didn't know it, but this way people will be able to find out how to activate free camera in the game. This keyboard shortcut is not listed in the manual which can be found at Steam, not it can be found in this article.

I just meant to tell you people that Stronghold Heaven is up again! :) I created another thread to let you know, but it was removed as a duplicate of this topic. They are accepting login's and you can write new posts there, and create new topics as well.

Hey, guys, as I have been playing Stronghold 1 recently - I won all military missions, and almost all economic missions, I came to this one. It is called A Deterrent, and if you want a challenge, this might be the right one for you. It's mission 4 in Economics campaign. Here are missions objectives: You cannot build the marketplace, so that makes the whole mission really interesting; especially if we consider that there are many events that will make you your mission harder. Those invasions are not some large invasions - and you will handle those easily, at least if we speak about defense. But those invasions will effect your popularity... Also, these objectives are for normal difficulty settings, you can also select easy or hard settings if you want. If someone doesn't have this mission unlocked, he can win the three missions before this one which are fairly easy, but you also ask me for sav file.

Indeed, one could expect that. :) Thanks guys, as I am new to Steam, all those things you say I find really valuable. :)

Indeed. :) Now I feel sorry for ignoring those two friend invites, but what the heck. :)

You're welcome! Also, if someone wants to get the sound, as that one takes a lot of data, he can download that by links from this tread. If you don't want to do it that way, you may also use music and sound from Stronghold 1 perhaps. If I find some time, I may also pick up the most important sounds from Russian Story, and submit the here.

Thanks for reply. :)

Hey, guys, I wanted to ask you about adding people to friends list on Steam. During these few days I got two friend requests from people I don't know, and I don't recall their usernames from any of discussions. How do you handle these things? I decided to ignore those requests, as I am unsure who that person is, what he wants, and what is everything he can get from becoming my friend there - with exception to the fact that he would be able to see if I am online, or not - I do realize that. I just meant to ask how you handle it, do you accept their request if you see that you have one, or several, games in common, or something like that? If you want, you may also reply to me through personal message here on this website.

I agree, this way many more people pay for a game they don't actually like much in the end.