EaglePrince

Sure, I would gladly test how it works if I am available! Thanks! Also, I hope we'll meet on some battleground these days!

Well, if you could be able to play with us, we would be able to put you behind another player which you would be supporting. In online games any support can be really precious. :)

I have added you two guys as known participants in the first message here. Also, both Saturday and Sunday would fit me pretty well, but let me know when you would be able to play? Also, I don't want to push you, Chris - if you can't make it to install Crusader for this weekend, we can play another time as well :)

Well, it would be interesting to play a 2 vs 3 vs 1 game as well. :) Only I think that we should add one more pig in that case, because even though we would be fighting against each other, their attacks would be weaker on each of us. For that reason I could offer you these two quests as well. :) These maps are The Guardians and The Last Stand. The reason for this would be to make it more challenging, but we do can save if for another time - we can go to the Island Blues first, to pay those three guys a visit. :) Also, even though AI's would be weaker if Xiimarcleon follows us into that cruel land, it should be equally difficult to us, if not even more difficult, as Xiimarcleon would be working against us. He might be trying to put our castles to fire, to destroy our economy, of even to kill one of us. Hmm, now when I said it this way - maybe we should save The Guardians and The Last Stand for another day. :)

Sure, I could do that, only I won't be able to do it until evening. That's great to hear! Both Saturday and Sunday would suit me pretty well.

Oh, I'm sorry I forgot to tell that. It's Desert Island Blues map. And, yeah, if/when someone joins my quest, I would add date and description to first message here. Also, I didn't make a standards name for this tread, as I we don't know the date of this event. I am sorry if it should have been named differently, such as "Stronghold Crusader; Call to arms!", or something like that.

Hey, guys! Few days ago Lord Vetka, Xiimarcleon and I tried to play a multiplayer game. In the end we were not able to play all together, so Xiimarcleon and I started a game alone against two Lionhearts and one Pig. We were expecting a swift victory, but they had more gold and they defeated us. To be more precise, we were unable to continue, and we were holding, but their attacks were growing stronger and stronger, while we were going weaker by time. My plan now is to ask one of you guys, to follow me back to those lands, and to avenge that defeat! Who's with me? We must go back to that island, and take it as our own! I tried it by myself, but I failed, and in the end I was overwhelmed by their forces. I could go there with Sir Longarm if none of you is able to join me. I haven't made any precise date or anything now as we can deal about that later. For example, we go pay a visit to those guys on weekend. Also, I have non-HD version of the game. The map we would play is Desert Island Blues, and these are positions we would be taking. AI lords would start with 8000 gold - normal game.

The map looks really good, and considering how great your other maps are, I hope I will be able to try them as soon as possible. :) I hope to see your map on official Firefly / Crusader 2 page. They do often show fun made maps, and this one deserves to be shown there. :) Also, speaking about the map itself - I really like how edged of the map are done in Crusader 2, and you used that pretty well here with that river. :)

That's great to hear, thanks for letting us know, Vetka! Oh, and now those of us who have non-HD version may have learned something from this - don't mess up with HD patches. :)

Thanks, Chris! Also, if anyone faces any problem with Stronghold Europe, he can let us know - I hope we can help with that.

I did notice it. From the minimap, it does look pretty nice. I hope I will be able to get CivCity Rome some time soon to try it. :) It seems like a nice game.

Thanks, Vetka! Thanks for your suggestion. That is why I created this tread. I hope that people will notice it, and that they will be aware of the fact that they can play all Stronghold Europe maps in Crusader, but that they are also able to play Crusader maps in Stronghold Europe.

This tread I created to let you know about one possible problem you might notice pretty late - after finishing the map... We all know that those three sorts of palm trees are growing in oasis, and olive trees grow on dry land, in Crusader, but you might miss this one. In Europe trees don't act like in Stronghold 1 - they act like in Crusader, which is logical, as it is a Crusader mod. Chestnut trees are replacement for olive trees in Stronghold Europe, so they don't grow in grass lands - they would grow only on dry land. All other three sorts of thees in Stronghold Europe act the same way as palm trees in Crusader - they don't grow on dry land, but they do grow on grass land. Right now we haven't had any problems with that on maps that have been made by now, but still, it should be told - just in case.

I have created this tread only to let you know that one is able to play Europe maps in Crusader, and the other way around - to play the old Crusader maps in Europe. I haven't realized this by myself - Lord Vetka had noticed that he can run my Europe maps in Crusader. I never tried playing Europe maps in Crusader before, although I believe that I had tried playing Crusader maps in Europe, and that I had failed. One thing is sure - or I am mistaken, and this was possible from the beginning, or this is possible to do until the latest Stronghold Europe patch by Teutonen Ritter. Anyway, if you do put your Crusader maps in Europe, there will still be one illogical thing - in some maps you will find some cacti or camels... For this reason I am planning to edit those maps so they would look more natural. On top of my list are some favorite maps of mine which were made within my family, and some of those great maps created by Firefly, such as Close Encounters, The River, etc... I expect I am going to be pretty slow in this, but I hope I will adopt at least some of those maps. I will be writing about my progress in this tread. And, one more thing. Now when we know that Europe and Crusader maps can be played in both versions I feel need to thanks Chris again for giving us Stronghold Europe subsection in Downloads Central. Thanks to that we will be able to see which maps were originally created for Europe, and which ones for Crusader; and each map will surely look way better in the version it was made for. Besides that, we still don't know for sure if there might occur some problem while playing an Europe map in Crusader, and vice versa - we do know that it works fine on those several computers we tested it on. Regards!

The map can be downloaded now from our downloads central. :) Follow this link to download the map.

I wouldn't be bad if the five of us were all able to play, but that's OK. :) I hope we could try next weekend as well! Speaking about a map - I wasn't thinking about that one yet. I also don't know for sure if we are playing Crusader or Extreme. We could play one of Vetka's map, I am open to any suggestions. If you have no idea, we could try with The River map, and put the three of us in south-east, and give the AI's 8000 gold. See you on battlefield! :)

So I am making this tread, as I believe we should have one like this for Stronghold Europe as well. This is the new map that came to life thanks to joint work of Duc Vautour's and myself. There will be another map as well, but this the first one that is going to be available at SHN downloads central. I am giving you the minimap, and I am also giving you the panorama of the map. I hope you're gonna like it. Duc Vautour sent me his map called Line in the Sand, which hasn't been submitted to SHN yet, but it will be soon enough. Even though his map hasn't but published yet, this one I made by editing Line in the Sand. I believe this map could be played in singleplayer and multiplayer as well. All AI lords have enough space and enough resources, while none has too much resources, and almost each castle lord that doesn't have any ally out there is going to have had time defending his industry outside of his castle. Any suggestions about the map - what could have been done better, or anything like that - that is all welcome! I am sorry for making double treads for this, but there is no notification displayed at main forums page about when I make a new tread or post in a sub-forum, such as in Stronghold Europe. I am making this one so it could be visible by others.

Thanks, Chris, I'm glad you like it. :) Message edited - I removed some off topic part of the post.

Welcome to the community TemplarMERC! :)

So I am making this tread, as I believe we should have one like this for Stronghold Europe as well. This is the new map that came to life thanks to joint work of Duc Vautour's and myself. There will be another map as well, but this the first one that is going to be available at SHN downloads central. I am giving you the minimap, and I am also giving you the panorama of the map. I hope you're gonna like it. Duc Vautour sent me his map called Line in the Sand, which hasn't been submitted to SHN yet, but it will be soon enough. Even though his map hasn't but published yet, this one I made by editing Line in the Sand. I believe this map could be played in singleplayer and multiplayer as well. All AI lords have enough space and enough resources, while none has too much resources, and almost each castle lord that doesn't have any ally out there is going to have had time defending his industry outside of his castle. Any suggestions about the map - what could have been done better, or anything like that - that is all welcome!

Hey, Mathew! If I got it right, you have no internet access on your computer. In that case, if it is not about your internet provider, it could be that reinstalling network adapter driver could help, unless it's a hardware problem. Still, what confuses me is that you do have access to MSN homepage which does need internet connection, so I might be wrong about this one. :/ To check if it is because of your internet provider, you can try connecting to internet using another device, such as your phone - if you have wireless enabled in your router settings. Now when I wrote it, I see you said you are able to play multiplayer games, and you are able to connect to Skype, so that should indicate I'm wrong... Anyway, I do have no actual idea what might be causing the problem.

That's great to hear! I added you to the list. :)

That's great to hear! If someone else wants to join us, he would be most welcome.

I agree! Even if they don't come back to Stronghold 3, they could use some of it to make one great game!