start up guide

1. Click Quest button
Daily Quest tab, Get reward

2. Build Cottage level 2
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3. Build Inn
Speed it up

Click City

4. Build Farm
Speed it up

5. Build Sawmill
Speed it up

6. Build Quarry
Speed it up

7. Build Ironmine
Speed it up

Turn in quest

8. Build Sawmill level 2
Speed it up

9. Build 3 Cottages level 2
Speed it up

10. Build Rally Spot
Speed it up

11. Build Barracks
Speed it up

Turn in quest

12. Build Feasting Hall
Wait for it to complete

A good time is 3-5 minutes
The record is 0:01:29

At this point you should have about 200 Prestige, 7300 Food, 3950 Lumber, 5750 Stone, 7300 Iron -- pat yourself on the back!

While waiting
13. Do 10 push-ups because exercise is good for you!

14. Click Overview, Levy and choose Stone
15. Click Overview, Comforting and choose Praying
Turn in quest

16. Train 10 Workers in your Barracks

17. Click Overview and set the Production of all four resources to 100
Turn in quest

18. Click Overview and set the Tax Rate to 20%
Turn in quest

19. Click Overview and rename your city
Turn in quest

20. Click your portrait and change your flag
Turn in quest

21. Click the Wheel of Fortune (the roulette in the bottom-left corner), then Apply
Turn in quest

22. When Feasting Hall finishes
Turn in quest

23. Recruit hero from Inn
Turn in quest

24. Appoint him mayor in Feasting Hall
Turn in quest

Note: Check the Inn periodically - if a hero with at least 10 higher Politics is available, replace your current hero with him. Higher

politics reduces construction time and increases resource production!

25. Build Marketplace
Turn in quest

26. Train 10 Warriors in your Barracks

27. Build Town Hall level 2
Turn in quest

28. Levy Lumber
Comfort with Disaster Relief

29. Build Embassy
Turn in quest

30. Build Academy
Turn in quest

31. Research Lumbering

32. Build Warehouse
Turn in quest

33. demolish warehouse.

34. Research Agriculture

35. Build Ironmine level 2
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36. Build Ironmine level 3
<insert> Build Two level 2 Cottages
37. Build Forge
Speed it up
Turn in quest

38. Build Forge level 2

39. Research Military Science

40. Build Workshop
Turn in quest

41. Build Quarry level 2

Speed it up

Note: If you get stuck, Levy the missing resource

42. Build Walls
Turn in quest

43. Build Beacon Tower
Turn in quest

44. Build Beacon Tower level 2
Turn in quest

45. Build Beacon Tower level 3
Turn in quest

46. Build Town Hall level 3
Turn in quest

47. Build Walls level 2
Turn in quest

48. Click Gift icon in top-left corner
Claim Newbies Package and Package for Lords
Click My Items, Chest tab
Open both packages by clicking Detail, then Apply

At this point you should be a Lieutenant with about 1400 Prestige, 35000 Food, 15000 Lumber, 20000 Stone, 25000 Iron

49. Build Farm level 2
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49. Build 6 Sawmill level 3
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50. Build 3 Quarry level 3
Speed it up

Continue building up 11 Sawmill level 3, and 6 Quarry level 3

Build cottages to keep population from going red (10 cottages is good for mid level, but 6-8 is enough later on so you may want to stay with that)

51. Build Academy level 2 when resources allow
Turn in quest

52. Research Masonry

53. Build Barracks level 2
Turn in quest

54. Research Mining

55. Build Academy level 3
Turn in quest

56. Research Informatics
Speed it up

57. Research Military Tradition

58. Train 10 Scouts in your Barracks

59. Build Barracks level 3
Turn in quest

60. Train 10 Pikemen

At this point you should be a Knight with about 2100 Prestige, 40000 Food, 15000 Lumber, 7500 Stone, 10000 Iron

61. Build Marketplace level 2


Recommended resources to have: 12 sawmills, 4 quarry, 3 food, 3 iron

Explanation: 12 sawmills as stated earlier most valuable resource. 4 quarries you need stone to build and reasonably priced if you wanted to cut down to 1 quarry but this requires you to spend more time watching market, 3 food is low but food is very cheap and while in beginner protection you don't need to feed an army until the 7th day at which point you can upgrade town hall and build all the farms you want, 3 iron because archers use iron, again like stone you can have one but that requires you to spend even more time watching market.

I used these steps when I started they worked well for me.

Tip: I will just say this once now. The market is a great way to get gold. If you watch it you will see sometimes you can be the highest bidder and lowest seller while making 20%-50% profit! Expecially when a server is new prices are unstable, pay attention to them and you will make more then enough to pay for the research you need.

My suggestion on finding an alliance: start on page one! If an alliance is in top 50 it is active that is most important. Now starting from page one look for an alliance that says in its description something such as "We are based in". So the first alliance you see starting from the first page that says it is based in your area apply. If they reject you ask what is the prestige requirement or if they have a second devision you can join (example Romans RomansII). If they do not respond keep moving down the list until you find one. This worked for me I am in a great alliance with alot of active people in the top 10. (Server 52 alliance UENO)


Day Two: Build cottages you want about 10 or 11 in each of your cities. Upgrade resources starting with sawmills. make warriors. While building warriors upgrade barracks to level 4. Research lumber to level 5. Research construction. Once level 4 Barracks is reached and warriors are done build archers. Be sure to find a hero today with attack above 65! Start leveling this hero immediately by conqouring 4 valleys using the archers and warriors you have built. Still got time? Go back to upgrading and researching resources!
Second City: Get this today. Build level 1 inn. Build level 1 feasting hall. Find a hero with 60+ politics as soon as possible. Build an Academy, upgrade it as soon as possible so resource fields get boost from research and most importantly construction. Build level 1 rally point. Build resources, upgrade resources, once resources are to high to upgrade instantly if you have time keep upgrading, once your out of time upgrade your townhall and call it a day.

coming out of 7 day protection

ok the buildings to have

farm 3 lvl5+

iron, stone 3-5 lvl 5+

wood 8-10 lvl 5+ this depends on how active you want to be wth the market, more lumber requires mor market activity

cottage 6-10 lvl5 (i have 9 lower to 7 later)

barracks 4-8 lvl 3-5 ( try for more, such as 3,3,3,3,3,6,6,6,9,9)

rallypoint, inn, feast hall workshop, forge, embassy, beacon tower, market, stable, relief station, each all level 3-5
town hall, walls level 4

1000 traps, 500 archers towers

2-3 thousand warriors, 1000 archers
or 2-4 thousand scout
plus 100 each pike/sword for "layers"

further steps to take


*** THE MAGIC WORD IS FOUND ON THE ALLIANCE PAGE****
1. make your city 1 by 1 , if you have a second already, beprepared to abandon it for a week unless you can protect it
2. build 2nd city when u r sure that u can defend 1 st city, be aware of who around you will become your enemy
3. make internal structure build 10 AT for every other thing you build for now
wall defense : (max) (for lvl 9 ...for lower lvl maintain the ratio)
1. 1000 traps
2. 2000 abatis
3. 14000 archer towers
4. others(as ur wish)


army: close gate(from rally point) : if u have less troops.. like you are a beginner and have no troops..

open gate(from rally point) : when u have pretty much army to defend( if u open the gate incoming army will have to strike your wall defense + inside army) but here is trick too
1. defending ratio:
10000 warrior, 1000 pikemen, 50000 archer, 5000 swordsman, 100 cavalry, 100 cataphract, 100 ballista, 10 ram, 10 catapult (maintain this ratio as your army trainning power make army in this ratio.. just follow from warrior.. later u can build more)

2. attacking ratio:
1000 warrior,1000 pikeman, 100 swordman,1000 scout, 10000 archer,10 cavalry, 10 cataphart

pls note : never use only one type of troops in defend or attack.. they will die in a second.. always use rainbow(i.e mixed form) archer is much power ful army here... so make more acher in ratio of other meat shield..
To make troop faster (ratio)
make lumber mill(2) iron mill(1) farm(3){farm for feed the troops} and capture valleys to enchance production of resources... make resources.. build troops.. be powerful.. thnx
- TheDestroy

ok while you build troops and your cities ou should be doing the following

1) attack valleys for medals, this will also increase the experiance for your hero's

2) build npc's suround yourself with npc cities mostly level 4-5 for now

3) look around and keep track of what others within 10 miles are doing, if you see a stagnant account, let us know,, or someone growing very quickly, let us know