Took the letters out of my fingers. Time for a test run already, enough HYPE
You want to have a real media-savvy event invite streamers and journalists and crap to a big ass server like primetime announced on kickstarter page a twitch.tv stream to watch the devs build a stronghold castle with devs or pre-screened players like from cRPG dick around in it and fight a little. Let the devs sound relaxed and joke while actually playing the game. Still not sure how unfinished all your shit is but no one will care about half done animations and still being redesigned combat if its all running on your engine good and Stronghold can be seen all dynamic in real time.
If you can mange to get some enthusiastic cRPG community supporters on a server with you guys for like a guided sample round of Stronghold it would be really cool. And do the twitch thing with chadz and jacko or whatever's faces up on their streams and have one shooting a crossbow the other managing the castle walls and have some oafish looking dev using a mallet flinging ppl off the top of a ladder like we all love from cRPG siege modes and be natural having fun playing instead of aggressively selling and pitching shit.
No idea what your guys future plans are or anything with the campaign but that's my idea of the day I guess haha.