Building Your Cities Part 1

What Should I Do First?

This information is for beginners and first time players I thought it might be helpful to give you a step by step guide in getting all of your cities out and built within a very short time.

If you haven't done so yet, go into the store, click on the chest page and select the chest that cost "0" gems.  Within this chest you will find all the deeds for your cities, along with some Divine Inspirations, Portals and other Chests.  After purchasing it, go to your chest tab in your inventory click on it and your city deeds will appear on your court tab, the rest can be found on the other various tabs.  It is important to have the deeds to build the next cities, without it you will have to crest wilds to obtain seals which can take months of searching.

You will see that there are quests that will help you to gain more resources by completing them.  If you are part of the alliance just ask, and there is always resources to help you out. With some builds you will only be able to put out one of that type of building out.  Don't short change your buildings because each building and level count towards the city value and the ability to ascend free.  One building you can build and remove will be the market place for it is generally never used.

The following are some of the buildings you will be building: 

1. Cottages - approximately (6) - cottages give you people to work in your farms and to build your troops with.  Each level will raise your population number. 
2. Farms - Farms can be build out on your second page for the game (4) Farms = food; (3) Quarries = stone; (3) Sawmills = wood; (3) Mines = ore. Each time you add a level to your castle you will be given three more spots. Because your raids will bring in more of some resources then another you will need more mines then anything else. These buildings also serve as storehouses along with the main storehouse.  It is important that you keep your raids running at all times this will require you checking in once a day and reset the 24 hour timer kabam has provided or letting the bot re-set it for you.
3. Rally Point - build this up as high as you can.  Each level at the rally point allows you to send out one more wave of troops.
4. Knights Hall - Knights are needed for combat.  In clicking on your Knights Hall you will see your friends list with numbers behind their names.  If a friend is playing in the game you will see 55, if they are not it will be 50.  What this number represents is the experience level of your knight which will grow as you use them. Using the friends that play the game for your roles and attacking knights will start with more experience points will grow faster then people not playing the game. 
5. Assign your Knights - From your list you will need to assign Foreman, Alchemist, Marshall, and Steward with each of them they hold a position that requires you to give them experience skill points in their specialty area.  You will also want to assign one more so it is ready for your first raid.  
6. Raiding Knights - with these knights I make up their names i.e. "Barbarian Raid One" and so on.  Because you made the name it will start at 50 you can then add the one skill point to combat, making it level 51.  The more points added the higher gold you will pay that knight. Currently I raid level 9 raids using a level 51 knight with no problems. Knights will not collect experience as long as they are raiding which is good and bad, good in that as long as they don't collect points you don't have to pay them much, bad in that if you need a higher level Knight to attack, these Knights have very little skill.  
7. Attacking Knights - Picking a friend who plays the game will set their level to 55. The attacking knights remain in your knight hall collecting points.   Their salaries only go up according to their skill points but you want them to be as high as they can be so remember to assign their points.  So in all you will have two sets of knights, some for raiding and some for attacking.
8. Barracks - after placing all the other buildings use the rest of the spaces for barracks build at least one to level 4 - this will allow you to then build archers which are needed for raiding.  A level one raid will require (500) supply troops and (500) archers, the speed in which you build them will depend on the amount of barracks you place out and their levels.  You will want to continue to build your troops every day.
9. Alchemy Lab - Look for fletching on the list, you will notice that you will have to get your logging up to four in order to get your fletching up to one, you will need that to be at least at one in order to send your archers to a barbarian level one camp.

Now continue to build your city.  Following the quests that they give you is a great way to gain resources. Also if you need resources don't hesitate to post it on a note card including the coordinates and names of your the cities, what type of resources you need, and send it to the alliance. Someone will most assuredly send you some.

As soon as possible start building your troops and establish at least six raids in the first city, once that city is doing well, find a place to put your second city and establish those raids. You can get the raiding troops easy by transferring from your bigger cities to the newer ones.  Continue this through out the remainder of your cities.

The other thing you will want to do is start cresting.  Cresting is a way for you to obtain cards for your throne room and champion hall.  Finding a throne room card to help with your building is a good way to build faster.  You can crest two ways, either from the wilds or by attacking the barbarian camps.  

NOTE:  Attacking the barb camps is different from Raiding them.  Attacking will possibly yield a card, while raiding them will bring you resources.

The purpose of getting all of your first cities out and up to ascension level is that once ascended there will be some great benefits:

• All farms will turn to level 12's regardless of how high you have them.  Instead of having to rebuild them you will be given a certain amount of points to be placed accordingly.  Considering ore is the least amount that your raids bring in you will most likely want to use a percentage of your points there.  But we will talk about that at a later time.
• After ascension your buildings such as blacksmith, stable, relief stations, workshop, storehouse, will automatically be consider level 12 buildings also.  So you will not have to rebuild them.
• In replace of them they will give you more spaces for cottages and barracks, how many you build of each will determine either how fast your troops will train or how many troops you can train at a time considering that the amount of troops you can train depends on your population within your city.  This too will be something you decide when you get to that point.
• With the changes in the storehouse and points, you will now be able to protect and collect higher levels of the various resources more efficiently.
• Rally Point will allow you to send at least three more waves out and allow higher troop amounts to be sent.

The one draw back to building very quickly is that although your cities will be built and your might have grown, you will really be playing in a glass house.  You will now need to get your troops caught up.  Finding cards to help your troop training becomes very helpful.  At this point you will not have the troops needed to defend a city of your might.  

So after the first ascension of each of your cities, and before the next, it is very advice able that you take the time to build your troops by  making various waves of different types of troops.  This will help to rein others when they are being attack, to defend your cities, and to attack others.  

The key to growth in any game such as this is "Resources", and while your farms will bring in some resources they will not bring in enough for you to continue to build without having to wait till more develops.  Hence, establish your raids in your cities as quickly as possible.