LordPaultheDubious

Hello guys, It has been such a while, and I thought I would check in. These days I am doing a mixture of things: I'm almost halfway through my 2 year Master's in English Literature and whereas last year I was teaching p/t at a secondary school and also tutoring privately, this year I am just doing the tutoring and hoping to be able to get back into woodwork (some of you know that I am a qualified cabinet-maker and had a p/t business for a while) - a possible opportunity has come up to share a workshop with a carpenter. I have also got back into miniature painting, lately painting up the figures for Darklight: Memento Mori (I have them up on Pinterest). I am giving thought to taking commissions, but we shall see. I would say that I am more involved in boardgames now than in playing on PC, though I am watching the 'Stronghold Next' progress with interest! Hope everyone is well :) Paul PS: I saw this on Facebook and thought of you!

English Language and Literature :) I seem to recall 'The Forgotten' being won by strategically placing a square tower full of archers and x-bows just in front of the river-crossing to guard it and protect your farms. I also remember it being a long, hard fight the first time I beat it...which must be 10 years ago, so I am a bit hazy. I might even still have a paper print-out of LM's original walkthrough somewhere...

Sure can! :) Yeah, I am well thanks - full-time teacher, so life's been busy, but as a couple of my classes are now on exam/study leave, ths term's feeling less hectic. Sending them via Google drive - sent you an email.

Hi folks - it's been absolutely ages? - how is everyone? I've very recently got back into playing Crusader and have been playing through the two trails again - as usual I hit a wall on 'The Forgotten' (need to remember how Lord Michael recommended tackling that one), but I am making decent headway on the second trail, up to Mission 65 now. I was thinking that if anyone is struggling with this trail, I can offer you some save-games for most missions which are at a point of near victory - just pm me if you'd like any (I haven't bothered with this for the super-easy starting missions). If you don't want to use them for 'winning' the mission, it might be handy to see how I've built my defense and so forth. Paul

Welcome, Wynnette! Hi folks - apologies for a long absence - incredibly hectic with the teacher training, but I will have some respite over Spring Break ('Woo!' Obvs.), so hope to spend a bit of time here before I'm back into it again. Hope everyone is well and happy :) Lord Chris - I passed on that message so hopefully Frank'll get hold of you soon. LPtD

Hiya, this is impressive stuff, hopefully I'll get a chance to join in with some of it :)

:) Excellent

I would love to take part, however I am super-busy now - I've started my teacher training year. Going to wean myself off Savage Lands and get started on my first assignment! So I might not be around here much - but good luck to all participants! :)

Hearty congratulations! Well deserved titles :) Thank you Nigel, for your valiant defense and for a memorable contest - that was a lot of fun and if a similar competition is on offer again in the future I would certainly love to sign up to fight again :)

Nice work :)

Cool, I will keep a look-out :)

Hiya - should be no problem - send me an email and I'll convert it for you

Yes, I didn't expect to win that at all after Nigel took out the best-positioned trebuchets - my archers and crossbowmen took a real pounding as well. The final push left me with quite heavy casualties, notably my valiant squad of sergeants-at-arms who destroyed the inner gate house but were entirely wiped out before my army of swordsmen could relieve them. Brilliant fun once again, thank you :)

Awesome, look forward to it (hope I fare better than in my SHC game against Charles last night - 'demolished' doesn't quite cover it!)

Another thoroughly enjoyable game, thank you Nigel - I'll get that Jester!

I was about to post this as a separate thread, but then spotted this! I received two friend adds on Steam this week, I am guessing they are site members here, so it would be great if they could shed some light - I'm afraid I am rather more selective about adding people, so I'd like to be confident that I know them first. Thanks - Paul

Look forward to trying it out, might have to hang on til the end of the month before buying though :) Edit: just gone on Steam and realised how cheap it is :D

:) Thought it would amuse you - great game, and glad that my honour is restored after the 'overzealous lord' debacle. Good game, and on another note, it's reassuring to see how well the game copes with synching issues - other games would just boot you if your connection got lost.

:) Yep, it has been quite a while since I've used the feature myself, so forgot about the scripting issue! But could he not just save the .map file under a different name, remove the scripting and win/lose, then convert it using Alt + ' ? I'm sure that's how I've done things in the past when I wanted to use a map design for both an invasion and an economic mission. Anyway, between us all it looks like we've arrived at a solution for EaglePrince's brother, so hopefully... :)

Hiya, just spotted this thread - your brother can do exactly this by pressing Alt and , (comma) when in the map editor screen,, this will take you to a screen (pictured in attachment) where you can change the map type to siege, economic etc. and resize it, should you wish - don't forget to save it under a new name though, so the original invasion map isn't lost. (This also works in SHC)

That was a lot of fun - though my brave, if foolhardy, Lord decided to join the assault (I had selected him in error) and was killed in action - next time I'll leave him at home. No spoilers, but it is a fun castle to lay siege against and I'm looking forward to hearing how everyone else fares :)

Hi Nigel (and Hi everyone!) Thanks for your message on Steam, this looks like an excellent contest. I am afraid I can't commit the time to this until after Thursday (I have an essay deadline), but otherwise I am interested in taking part. :) LPtD