Getting Started

Starting Out

You will start out with a basic village. Your first step is to build your economy in this village, before anything else.

A. The first thing you want to do is purchase a farm, and a market in your village. Click on the map to place your buildings. Building placement is not important strategically.

B. Once you have your farm you can train farmers, and with your market, you can train merchants. They will start to produce gold and food.

C. Once you have gold and food incoming, you can support additional producers. You should build one of each; Lumber Mill, Stone Quarry and Iron Mine. These will support production of Wood, Stone and Iron. Train Lumberjacks, Stonemasons and Ironworkers to produce these resources. Each of these workers requires food and gold, so make sure you keep sufficient Merchants and Farmers. D. Before moving on, you should understand the Basics of KoB.

II. Military Now that you have your economy running, you will want to begin building a military. There are three types of military buildings available in your village. Barracks for infantry units, stables for cavalry, and workhouses for siege units.

Start with a Barracks, which will allow you to train Swordsmen for defense. You'll want to build your stables soon after. When training these units, be aware of the cost (in gold and food) and train enough Merchants and Farmers to support your growing armies. The workhouses aren't available until you own a Fort.

III. Realm When you started, you chose a color for a Realm. This is effectively the team you are on. The Realm gets ranked by how well the members are doing, and individuals are rewarded for assisting the newer (lower ranked) members of their realm. When you are new, the other members can assist you with necessary resources, military reinforcements and advice. You can change realms, but only once each 7 days. The lord of your realm also has the option to banish you, this will normally only happen if you are inactive, or offensive.

IV. Activity If you are inactive for 5 days, your rank will change to 9999, until you log back in again. When this happens, other players will often assume you are no longer playing the game. It is likely that you will be banished from the Realm you were on, and be attacked by players interested in taking the resources you are apparently not interested in.