Greetings,

I am having some bug problems.

In mission 14 you have one portal, which is not giving me any monsters.

I have a lair and chickens, Nothing enters my dungeon even after the first wave of invaders...
I have a feeling my copy is bugged.

I also have already tried patching with the 1.7 official patch (this gives me a file error) and the unofficial 1.8... Nothing helps. The portal just won't spawn monsters for me.

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this, save reinstalling and playing to that point again... I'd rather not waste my time like that.

Thanks!

My understanding is that the GOG version is already patched to 1.7, and that 1.8 adds very little, so there's not much mileage in patching.

Which mission is 14? There must be something amiss, apart from those two buildings, what else have you built? Sometimes they take a while to come through, and not all creatures are available on all levels.

Also, this may seem patronising but I have to ask, have you actually claimed the portal? Most levels start with the portal accessible, but unclaimed. If it's over some water or something then you'll need to make sure you build a bridge over to it so that your imps can claim it. I distinctly remember one of the later levels where this is the case, check the colour of the glow running around the portal, if it's multi-coloured you haven't yet claimed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVIZYkDmxBc

A video of the mission (German) but you will mainly need the visuals.

You start with an already claimed portal. There is a bridge and even in this video monsters start coming threw without a lair or hatchery present. For me no monsters ever come threw...
I have a feeling that perhaps my copy is somehow flawed.
I restarted the game/mission several times with the same result.

After watching the first few minutes of the video, I think I know what's wrong. No monsters come threw the portal until AFTER building a training room. You may have just seen the imps walking over it after collecting gold. If you haven't already built a training room then try that other wise I have no other ideas to help. Hope this helps.

Firstly, don't use 1.8, it breaks more things than it fixes, despite it' claims.
Backup save file, Uninstall the game, reinstall it and load save file, then chose restart level.

Second, that's the reaper level, so lair + hatchery + 3X1 training room along a reinforced wall then prison + thunderbolt.

Capture manapools and summon horny as often as possible.