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Tips and tricks thus far.
By Trv3
Quick tips I have found helpful in early game play. Please add any you might find useful.
   
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13 Jun, 2017 @ 9:53am
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Castle Siege
Hi Guys!

This is my very first guide, so be nice!

Early in the game you find the AI is quite hard to beat, which is awesome! So here are a few things I have found helpful to do during a castle siege. P.S I play a strong defence so expect a defensive play style.

1. Build walls around the camp as soon as possible, you will then be able to build towers and upgrade them with a ballista for a low cost. This adds a good defence for scouting AI armies and helps hold the defence while reinforcements arrive. (Don’t forget to close the gates if an enemy approaches)

2. Market - best building to have, expensive but provides a good cushion when resources are in need. I have built barns to farm food, which is easy to stockpile, then sell for silver to buy wood.

3. Archers! - place them up high in the towers, they cut the enemy down very quickly and when “fire arrows” are researched they help with the siege equipment.

4. Serf's gosh! - You need these guys early so build at least 10 units first and get some resources rolling in at the start to help with the walls, at least 5 need to gather wood at one time and they tend to follow each other so micro manage them for now.

5. Swordsmen - Archers are for a good defence but you find that the AI loves archers at the early stages so build 2 - 3 units if you expecting an attack, they wipe out archers quite quickly and the siege engines they bring. (Flanking works well here so place them at different entrances)

6. Resources - the best way to start stockpiling resources is the build all the industrial buildings and upgrade them twice.The barn is a quick food stockpile, build one and build one of each animal every 15 - 20 mins, they bring addition resources and its improvements cost food which you will have a lot of very quickly. Wood is the most important early on but with a market you are able to get some serious wood by trading in resources...

That’s all I have folks, everything else you can do from here. There are more advanced things I have found to work but it’s for another time. Explore and try out different tactics but most of all please comment on what you find useful and useless.

Awesome Game! Keep gaming!
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MilitaryGradeHotdogs 24 Sep, 2021 @ 1:56pm 
this is mostly wrong first micro manage a town or city with two serfs and a ton of animals those animals provide your income,start reserching the ecomony stuff until you get the one with the sheep i forgot the name of thistech but sheep give you 21 silver so they are the besy money makers,then build an army and conquer europe
garrowe101 4 Jul, 2020 @ 9:13am 
One thing worthy of note is an lvl 5 swordsman can pretty much mulch an absurd amount of lower tier units with no casualties thanks to the regeneration, so upgrading your recruitment buildings to level 5 can massively increase the potential of the more expensive units.
McLovin 8 Jan, 2020 @ 2:38pm 
Matthew Grim - There is no difference in game play AT ALL between armies of different areas. All you get is a different starting point. It isn't anything like Microsoft's Age of Empires for example, where each nationality had different units (elephents, or archers, or guns, or whatever) than the other. The voices are all identical, despite the different countries...it's a BUDGET game, that would have a lot of playability if it wasn't so clunky.
Fake 3 Nov, 2019 @ 4:56am 
frankly i enjoy this game @aqua ibis if you want to comment, comment something respectable or get the hell out.
MatthewGrim 2 Nov, 2019 @ 1:15pm 
so quick question, whats the difference in the nations you play as?
progress chaos 15 May, 2019 @ 6:32pm 
Should probably take this down, pretty dated. 10 serfs in one city?
DutchToast 6 Nov, 2018 @ 1:12pm 
you can build houses by selecting your serfs and getting them to build a tent to increase your max troop count.
mqm23 29 Jun, 2018 @ 1:19pm 
How can I build houses??
Classical 21 Mar, 2018 @ 4:21am 
Here's a tip: If you need more silver income, build up armies made exclusively of serfs. They produce 4 silver each.
Kreamy 21 Feb, 2018 @ 9:35am 
how do you get markets to work? I researched it, built it, researched locally to sell at the market from town, but can only buy stuf....