Defender of the Crown

[Djay]

I have a problem with this game....

how the hell do you do the Jousting section, i cracked all the other sub-games, but to this day i CAN'T DO THE JOUSTING!!!

ARGHHH!!!

[Twistin'Ghost]

I agree. This was the only part of this game I never was able to succeed at. Some of my friends claim to have won jousts, but they were never able to do so while I watched them play (so I remain cynical). I was far more successful at playing chicken in ICFTD or pie fights in The Three Stooges...

[th4t1guy]

There's a little black X on the knights shield you have to hit. It's hard to do because your pole keeps bouncing around, but the better your starting character's jousting skill, the less the pole bounces. If you win the joust, I think you get some land or something.

[Djay]

I think you get some land or something.

if your opponent has land you can joust for land or fame, if they don't you can only joust for fame...

There's a little black X on the knights shield you have to hit.

yeah, i thought it was aim for the X, but its bastard hard...

i've never seen anyone win th joust ever...

[Dizzy]

Taken from this solution

The Joust has two phases to it, much as an offensive seige does.


Phase 1: The Lists

When people think of "jousting", this is it. Two horses, thundering down on
one another, with the riders trying to unhorse each other. This event takes on
a first-person perspective, with you facing the enemy knight. At the start,
the enemy will be a good distance away from you, but as he approaches, you'll
see his body, lance, shield, and horse.

The shield looks something like this.

Se bottompage

The goal is to aim your lance into the middle of the enemy's shield. This
produces the best results, and more often unhorses the enemy than not.

If you hit too far to the sides, or too high, you aren't likely to score a
hard enough hit to knock the enemy off the horse.

Keep your lance up, by the way. If you push it too far to the lower left, you
can and will kill your opponents horse. This is considered the ultimate in bad
form, and will result in you being stripped of your lands and titles, as well
as being banned from all future tournaments. Every territory that you
conquered reverts to an unclaimed state, for anyone to take over. Auxillary
castles are vacated as well.

If no clean hit is made by either side, the joust resumes until someone is
finally knocked off their horse. This part of the joust exists solely to
determine how much health you'll have for the next one.

[Drake1009]

Isn't there a way to make it harder for your opponent to hit your shield? He always seem to do that in the first bout.

[AmiGer]

Hey, Dizzy. Your jpg image has a very high compression rate...
But nice description...

Thanks.

[fiath]

JPEG sucks on black/white text images, even on very high compression.

Update: Censorship

[Dizzy]

Originally posted by AmiGer
Hey, Dizzy. Your jpg image has a very high compression rate...
But nice description...

Thanks.

Sorry made the picture with print screen then past it nito xp's pictureprg. I could not past it as txt because the spaces get removed in EAB

[7-Zark-7]

Originally posted by Twistin'Ghost
I agree. This was the only part of this game I never was able to succeed at. Some of my friends claim to have won jousts, but they were never able to do so while I watched them play (so I remain cynical). I was far more successful at playing chicken in ICFTD or pie fights in The Three Stooges...

You're doing better than me Twistin! I think my only successes in most of the Cinemaware games are restricted to winning fistfights in Rocket Ranger, (usually blow up the zepplin in the chase), Escaping the hospital once in ICFTD, & winning some of the earlier strafing & dogfights in Wings!

As for DOTC, I actually prefer the C64 version playability wise, the controls were more polished IMO, though I still suck at the jousting. Occasionally I'll survive for for a couple of rematches, (ie: both jousters remain on their mounts), but I usually it claims I hit the opponent's horse.