Stronghold 2 Scenario Design Articles
Map Design
The Map Editor, by Kester* - An overview of the toolbars and icons.Shallow Water, by Yellek - This tutorial illustrates how to make shallow water that your troops can walk through.
How to Make High Walls, by Yellek - Want to make walls higher than what the editor allows? This tutorial will show you how.
How to Make Ruins and Fire, by Yellek
Freeplay a Kingmaker, by Sir_Vet - Illustrates how to make a Kingmaker map playable as a Freeplay.
Scenario/Scripting
How to Make Free Builds Using the Default Keep, by Kester* - Using the default keep, this is the easiest way to assign a territory in a free build map.
How to Make Free Builds With a Selected Keep, by Kester* - If you would like to select one of the available keeps, rather than use the default keep.
How to Make Free Builds With AI Estates, by Kester* - How to add AI estates to your free build map.
How to Make Custom War Maps, by Yellek - This tutorial shows how to make a custom war map with 3 territories, 1 enemy, 1 enemy invasion, 1 wolf attack, and gong production reset to a new level.
Triggers and Events, by Wahnsinniger - An extensive list of all the triggers and events available in the Stronghold 2 map editor, along with descriptions.
Examples of Scripted Events, by Wahnsinniger - Basic and advanced concepts of triggers/actions/events/missions, along with scripting examples.
Move Ship Event, by Deluphusin - Illustrates how to use the Move Ship event.
*) denotes a former staff member.