EaglePrince

I am making this tread so other could simply find the greatest Stronghold Crusader mods known by us. Those are Stronghold Europe, and Russian Story.

Thanks, I hope it won't be hard to find. :) I will also try to find that by myself if I find some time today or tomorrow. ADDITION: I found those files. Here they are: tile_buildings2.gm1 tile_castle.gm1 anim_castle.gm1 It's clear what is what. :) To get the stone castle keep in skirmish you need your those last two files from Russian Story 2.0, and to get hovels with straw roofs, you need to use tile_buildings2.gm1 from Russian Story 2.0. The only thing about that is this way you will also get granary from version 2.0, which is the same as in Stronghold 1. There may be some other building affected by this file, but we may check that later. How would you like to have swordsmen and knights like they are in Stronghold 1? I mean, these are Russian steppes, not Holly Land. :) There are some things chat could get fixed here, and I hope we can do that. After that works is done, I would be able to upload our version of Russian Story to some free and reliable hosting service. Of course, I wouldn't want to give anyone less that I got, and for each detail I modify I would give the original files... Or something like that!

You're both welcome! I am showing you the link where you can download this mod. Speaking about translating, it might not be necessary to translate entire game. 98% of the game is being translated by simple replacing of one file. Still, this way you will not be able to see names of the AI lords that were intended by creators of Russian Story, and their descriptions, and you will also be unable to see the right translations of the text within the campaign. Speaking about names of AI lords, I am unsure whether the creators of Russian Story have adopted the speech within the game to those new names. To be more precise, I am unsure if the games says "message from Danilo", or "message from Lionheart" for example. (I'm not saying that Lionheart is being renamed to Danilo, but some, if not all, AI lords were renamed like this.) ADDITION: Speaking of models, houses from 2.0 I like more. Could you tell me what is the file, or files, in which are those models being stored? And also, how do I change the default stone keep - I like it more when the keep is bade of stone, not wooden? I may try to find it by myself, but I'm just asking in case you are able to find an answer quicker then me.

I am sorry, I don't understand you mean by captial and non-captial punishment?

So, here are some screenshots. :) I managed to run Russian Story 2.1 by changing the exe file. I removed the one that may have been changed after patching to version 2.1, and I put there my Stronghold Crusader 1.0 exe file (recommended by creators is 1.1). This is screenshot from 2.1, later I will add a screenshot from 2.0, because hovels are different. Here, you will see those things different then in Crusader: hovels, woodcutters, all farms, lookout tower - it's no longer round (it's square now), stables, church, chapel, monuments, granary, iron mine, barracks, market place, well... There may be some more stuff that were changed. ADDITION: This is another screenshot - with hovels from 2.0 version. There is one more really good thing - it is possible easily to translate entire game to English. The downside is that Russian Story has it's own campaign which would need to be translated in harder way, but everything else works pretty well as far as I can see. :) SECOND ADDITION: If someone is interested to download this mod, but he doesn't know from where, I could give him the link. As about uploading some stuff by myself, I will wait a little more if I make it to get a reply from someone of the creators. One way or another, I will post the link to download - at least two links to download from a Russian website with instructions how to do it - if it's hard for you to make it since it's in Russian.

Yes, I believe that is how it looked like when I installed 2.0 version. Later, when I installed 2.1 it started to look different than that, but then it wasn't the only thing messed up. Thanks, I will try that tomorrow. First I will try to use the original file from Crusader, or something like that. Maybe that will work.

Indeed, who knows! In fact, it would be the best if Steam had such a policy for all games. I mean, it would be nice if you could try a game before buying it... It would be possible, and of course, there would have to be some limitations, such as - to try a game you need to have another game purchased and activated at Steam. It would be a trial version that would last 24 or 48 hours for example. There might be other limitations with the number - one could choose to play a trial version of the game once in a month for example. Of course, I guess it wouldn't happen, as then people would be buying less bad games. I mean, that would be one use of Steam which we don't like much. :)

I'm glad to hear you did make it to solve the problem. :) No need to feel sorry, someone might have the same issue later, and thanks to this tread, he might know how to solve it. :) I am sure most of us wouldn't find the problem right away by themselves.

I did it! I installed Russian Story and I got those edited files! Still, some other problems remain. The whole game is in Russian (ciryllic), and none of those letters is being displayed correctly. When I installed Russian Story 2.0 it was relatively OK, although I wasn't able to read ciryllic characters, but installing 2.1 version everything became messed up. Those characters seem to look even worse - now they are only some vertical bars instead of letters, and I cannot see the cursor. I can move it and click on stuff though, it's there, only I can't see it. Does someone know how we could fix those things? With different letter, and this with the cursor. I would only like to add that, compared to Stronghold Europe mod, although Russian Story introduces more original things, such as completely new design of church, chapel, iron mine, woodcutters hut, wheat farms, etc... Russian Story might seem a little bit incomplete, they didn't take much care about some specific details. Also, I'd like to add that they really did a great job, they really put a lot of time into it. There is also one thing I noticed in Russian story - you are able to build two types of barracks just like in Stronghold 1, wooden barracks and stone barracks. (Those were barracks and mercenary post) ADDITION: If this with letters can't be corrected easily, than I would suggest just using those models inside Stronghold Europe maybe. It would fit there as well! Speaking about translating this into English, or doing something like that just by copying a file - I will try that later, but I am unsure if that will work, as number of AI's is not the 16 nor 8 here... But it is possible that this won't make any problem, and it is possible that this thing can be done. If I am right, entire text from the game is inside one file that should be possible to open using Notepad.

I tried running this larger exe files, and I had several problems. First one is that it was taking too long until my PC made it to run this exe file. I guess that's because they made it so large - it's more than 1 GB... After some time, the PC managed to run it, but there was another problem. Everything was in Russian, and ciryllic is not being displayed as it should. Instead of ciryllic I see some weird letters with dots and stuff... I tried to extract those exe files, but it didn't work. I tried it using 7zip. Do you have any ideas, how to extract these two files? Maybe that is not necessary, but with this incorrectly displayed Russian I feel like walking in the dark while I try to install this mod. 7zip and UniExtract didn't do the job.

I would certainly do that. :)

Indeed, 2014 was a good year for this community, and I wish 2015 to be even better! :) Happy new year! :)

Indeed, I have recently won those two missions from the campaign. :) Each time it was exciting! I also like how you added the moat in front of the castle.

Hmm, this is a great finding! I have seen one screenshot now, it seems like they have introduced wooden towers there, which is really nice, and stuff like that Russian Story was missing in my opinion. I noticed how each keep there in skirmish game is a wooden one, while all around are stone walls and stone towers, which doesn't make much sense. On the other hand, being able to build wooden fortification - that is a great idea. I hope I will be able to find it, and download it, so I could try it. As about Russian Story, I will not be running those two exe files until I check other possible sources, or until I contact creators of Russian Story on their official website. One thing I noticed is that on official website is says that that Russian Story is 900 MB, and not 1.2 GB like this one I downloaded. ADDITION: It appears that is a Stronghold 1 mod... source: http://strong-me.ucoz.ru/index/0-2 If I understood this correctly, the first sentence says: "ME (Medieval Empire) - new mod of legendary game Stronghold 1". Still, models from these mods might help you with your work as well, even if I am right. SECOND ADDITION: Medieval Empire can be download from this page by clicking at this link "??????? ? ??????? (10.69Mb)". Still, this is another exe file... :what: I understand that many people want to have exe file to install stuff, but still... I also posted them a question at their guest book, I hope we'll get some reply there. THIRD ADDITION: I also found this page, and I saw that they were posting stuff there recently (December 26), so I hope we will get some reply there as well.

I was expecting that answer, 1.1 GB is really a lot in this context. I will upload those to Google Drive as soon as I test Russian Story by myself, and of course, I guess I should ask those guys for permission as well. Thanks, Chris! ADDITION: What I downloaded now are two exe files, and I am thinking what to do with them - whether to run them or not... I shall see about that, and the other thing about exe files is thet Google Drive won't accept them I think. We shall see...

You downloaded your files from Sronghold Heaven? I am downloading mine from some website www.playground.ru. There are two files uploaded by user ICE-DOG. I believe that should be one of the creators. Speaking about their official website, they are offering one link to download each Russian Story 2.0 (900 MB), and Russian Story 2.1 patch (200 MB), but I didn't make it to download it from there. First I didn't see any link to download the mod, and after I tried to register, the website wasn't accepting my anti-bot answers (text one needs to type from an image of animation). I also meant to ask @Lord_Chris about this. Would that be possible for Stronghold Nation to host these files? Russian Story would take 1.1 GB, while Stronghold Europe takes slightly more then 500 MB. I do realize this is quite a lot of space by the way, and downloading this could burden the server. Perhaps the best solution would be to upload those two to Google Drive like I meant to do, and to share those links in Downloads Central, or in one or two treads inside Stronghold Crusader & Extreme forums? By the way, the patch has been downloaded, I'll try to install Russian Story now. Afterwards I will also check what can be found at SHH about it as well!

Well, that does make more sense to me as well. Thanks for your reply, Micha! :)

You're welcome! :) By the way, I didn't make it to download 2.1 patch today, the server was pretty slow this evening; I hope I will have more luck tomorrow. I will let you know through this tread when I upload those two to Google Drive, so you could compare those two. I hope you will be able to find something from there that might have been missing to you, although the best would be for both of us to have it all from the beginning, of course. :)

Hey, guys, I've started Steam this evening, and I noticed that I have 3 games - not 2 as I should be having. Then I took a look into the library, and after that I saw another game there - Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes... Can someone tell me what is this about? Is this some New Year present from Steam, or a demo, or something like that? Also, if it is a gift, then I guess I have two days left to install it if I want (that's what it says: "Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes - 2 days left"), and then it's all mine? Also, may I be able to trade that game for another one, as this one appears to be similar to Heroes (Mights and Magic, etc...) and I haven't been a fan of that kind of game...

I am downloading this mod today, it's taking some time. I hope I will get those buildings you are mentioning as well. Russian Story mod does seem interesting to me, it's showing Eastern Europe quite well - or to me more precise: as I would imagine it. The only downside is the snow - they introduced snow terrain, but each building, rock, or a tree doesn't have it's winter version. Because of that I believe that it would be better if they just didn't make that snow terrain. Because of that I believe it would be better that they didn't make that snow terrain at all, although bringing in the snow is a great idea. I guess that might be another mod: "winter mod", or "Swedish mod", something like that... Well, I am interesting in those stuff, although I wouldn't be able to offer any help right now, as I have a lot of obligations. :( Too bad to hear about that thing with a virus. If I get something more than you've got, I would upload it to Google Drive, and I would share the links here. I've done the same thing with Stronghold Europe today as well.

That's great, I'm glad you solved the problem. :) I was following this tread, and I was curious what might be the problem. Flash Player wouldn't come to my mind that easily, now we know it. :)

Thanks, Chris! :)

It is a Stronghold Crusader mod. They introduces snow and stuff like that into it, and they also made buildings to look at they used to look in Russia during middle ages. (and, yes, the tread needs to be moved to Stronghold Crusader forum :D ) ADDITION: I believe this ( http://russianstory.ucoz.ru/ ) is their official website. From there one can download version 2.0, and the patch 2.1. I'll have a look at it later today, it is possible that this mod is in Russian, but I believe that we should be able to easily get the English text, and speech as well - if we want, and if it is not in English already.

Welcome, Crusader1307, to Stronghold Nation. Now when you said this, another thing came to my mind - we don't have Stronghold Europe here either... We only have it uploaded to free file hosting websites; which is not a problem as long I have it, but still... We could do something about that. But we do have a separate website for Stronghold Europe in English. On the other hand, we don't have anything about Russian Story mod here, but I could put some effort to get it. Of course, with permission of the creators. By the way, can I ask, why do you want to avoid Russian websites? Is that because you expect that the mod would be in Russian if you get it from there, or something else? Perhaps you find it hard to download it from there because of the language? I am from Serbia, it's also a Slavic language and we use Cyrillic - similar to script used by Russians, if that is the case, maybe I could help you. :)

Yes, I also got same message when I tried to log in using Internet Explorer, and then I came back to Firefox in which I am logged in there "by default". I hope they are going to fix it.