Stronghold crusader map pack2/24/2024 ![]() had a good bunch of military fun and failure. Soncino is in Lombardy, one of the regions of northern Italy where emperor Frederick I. Those castles have multiple concentric-ish layers of defence, a nice ballance between symmetry and asymmetry, and sit in the then german-ish part of today's Italy. Soncino is the one with the round tower in one corner and was built right at the corner of the walls of the city of Soncino, with the round tower facing outwards. His castle is based on what seems to be a common style in northern Italy, two castles in specific: Rocca di Soncino and Castello di Torrechiara. Quite fitting, as I find his italian voice acting in Crusader 2 to be the best. The Wolfĭuc Volpe, well that's not a french name, isn't it? Indeed it is italian and means fox. See that big round tower attached with a piece of wall to the donjon? To me that feels pretty much like vanilla Crusader Pig architecture. Now, there is just one reason why I picked this specific french castle, besides also being located in the then Plantagenêt half of France. Well, okay, even if I had the space to build the full outer bailey, the Pig's economy would provide pretty much nothing to fill all that space. There is an outer gate at the original tip, I just moved it to the red line. The red line in the image shows where I had to cut the outer bailey in half. The Pigīig surprise here, Duc Truffe got a french castle. well, if that doesn't sound like Beauregard. The Knights Templar were quite present in Europe as well, escorting travellers, and acting as an early bank, sending their profits to the Outremer.īackstabbing and money. Now, as far as I remember, the Knights Templar went down due to back-stabbing from the french King, who apparently owed them a lot of money. It is decently sized, quite fitting for the rich Snake, was never conquered, and at one point in history was used to imprison some Knights Templar. The Snakeĭear earl Beauregard got himself a french castle as well: Château de Najac. Wait, France? Well, the Rat's name is de Puce, and the Plantagenêts were a dynasty in hold of the English throne. It is tiny, it looks cool, it was quite often besieged and destroyed, and it lies in the Plantagenêt half of medieval France. This castle is based in Château de Culan. If possible, a moat is added to all castles in two cases: If the reference castle has a moat there as well, or if there was a cliff blocking access. You can judge the compromises I made yourself, as every castle preview picture is accompanied with a floor plan, satellite image, or otherwise reconstruction of the reference castle. The required buildings for a bot's economy are just too huge to fit into real historical castle designs, and the keep cannot be re-positioned. Sometimes castle sections get squished, sometimes cut away. The castle miniatures are not entirely to scale. ![]() Big surprise, real historical castles often tend to grow away from the keep, and real castles are quite often rather long and thin if built on a rock or mountain. These are not skirmish campaign optimised and often need quite a lot of space in one direction. This is a pack of 16 new castles, all based on real historical ones. What does this Mod better than Firefly?.Why would I want to use modded AI castles?.Those are Firefly's original castles with a few fixes applied, like the addition of missing defenders where useful, the addition of required gatehouses, or adding important economical buildings Firefly forgot. firefly_vanilla/ to the game's aiv directory.Īdditionally, if you just want to fix the bugs of Firefly's castles, then copy all files from. If you want to have Firefly's original AI castles back, you can copy the files from. For the Steam version of Stronghold Crusader HD, this directory is located at /steamapps/common/Stronghold Crusader Extreme/aiv/. history/ directory to the aiv directory of your Stronghold Crusader installation, after deleting all the 128 original files. To use this mod you have to download or clone this repository and copy all files from the. This is a mod for the game Stronghold Crusader HD that replaces all of the original AI lord castles with new and improved ones from me, Evrey, with some special thanks going to Heroesflorian for his valuable help to make the castles even better. The V in AIV stands for Village, by the way.
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