Fixing Castles

[Sir Windows 55]

Greetings everyone,

as we all know castles built by AI in SH2 feature a number of issues from William's towers facing the wrong way to the Queen's giant hole in the wall. I thought maybe a list of known issues would be a good idea, which in turn could then be turned into a modpack that includes fixed AICs.

Currently known issues

• Sir William builds his towers facing the wrong way or messes up his moat. Fixed by @ EaglePrince  back in 2016.
• The queen leaves a hole in her wall. This one is the result of a misplaced engineer's guild. If the engineer's guild is moved one tile east in the editor the queen will place her square tower.
• The bishop has a misplaced engineer's guild. Same issue as with the queen. Guild needs to moved one tile east. The bishop also tends to mess up his moat.
• The bull will mess up his moat and prevent himself from placing a mercenary tent. This happens most often at free man start. Can be fixed by moving the tent away from the moat.
• Lady Seren places her engineer's guild outside her castle. Not really much of an issue, but she has plenty of room inside for a guild. Something to consider.

Any further suggestion and notes are welcome. 

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Bishop's current AIC, fixed and screenshot of the result. 

Note: I took the screenshot before he finished his moat entirely.

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Queen's current AIC, fixed and screenshot of the result.

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Bull's current AIC, fixed and screenshot of the result.

 

[EaglePrince 252]

Do glad to see these being mentioned. Also, awesome that you brought up those other issues with some of the other AI lords!

Well, a lot has changed in my life lately. I got married in February this year, and we became parents in March. We have a baby boy now. This might be something to write about in the appropriate thread for off-topic, and I should definitely do that! However, I find that related to this topic: now I've come to enjoy some relaxing activities, and playing Stronghold 2 could be one of them. That, and fixing those AI castles!

So glad you mentioned all these issues needing to be fixed! Also, if somebody manages to make those fixes before me, they have their permission to include my fixes for Williams castles in that larger "castle fix pack".

Thank you do "summoning" me with that great idea!

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[Sir Windows 55]

Welcome back and congratulations! 🥳

I've made some of the fixes already, but there are still other lords and I'm not sure if their castles aren't broken. Just off the top of my head, Edwin builds a mercenary tent in each of his castles which he doesn't need.

If anyone is interested in testing out the fixed castles I've attached the AICs.

Bishop01.aic bull01.aic Queen01.aic