Guides and Job Descriptions View Using "Times New Roman 10" Font 2013 Aug 13 Previous Major Revision 2016 Oct 17 Modified by KoldAdvice "Senatus Populusque Quiritium Roman.us" (For the Senate and People of Rome) Gold Eagle on Red Shield on Green Leaves Guides 0-121 for League Members ................................................................................... Guide #00A List of League Guides 0 to 19 # 0 Introduction to this set of 100 guides # 1 Beginners Guide # 2 Aedile Promotion Requirements # 3 Heroes and Consuls # 4 What to study first # 5 Builds that you can complete instantly # 6 Buy cheap (slow delivery) crops # 7 How to Get Crops for Armies # 8 Kill Matrix (Equivalent Hastatus) # 9 Rectorate Level Seized Wilds # 10 Locating Cities near League Central # 11 Main Researches while in NP # 12 OVERNIGHT PROTECTION # 13 Hiding Sesterces # 14 Hiding Resources # 15 Reconnaissance level Details # 16 Assist Seizing of Wilds # 17 Specialization by City # 18 What does POT mean for a Hero? # 19 Attacking Your First City continued on next email -end- Guide #00B List of League Guides 20-39 (cont'd) # 20 DAILY GOALS - Citizens and ? # 21 Remedies for BOREDOM # 22 Ring a Player's Bell (an alert) # 23 Hoarding Resources # 24 Single (vs Multiple) City Strategy # 25 Minimum Army to Seize/Maraud a Wild # 26 Miscellaneous Advice # 27 When Attacked, Don't Panic.. But: # 28 Defending a city being marauded # 29 (Almost) Lossless Marauds (not for farming luxes) # 30 Transferring Resources and Sesterces (Lost in Transit) # 31 5K Prestige per day # 32 Farming Luxuries # 33 Reacting to Loss of all your Speculatores # 34 Losses during Market Transfers # 35 Ses Protected by City Rectorate # 36 Steps to Quit Playing Completely # 37 Get Hero Prisoners and Treasure Maps # 38 Scouting the Enemy # 39 Number of Heroes in Wilds continued on next email -end- Guide #00C List of League Guides 40-59 (cont'd) # 40 Non-Keyboard Characters # 41 League vs Thugs Battles: Easy Spices, Wine & Wool # 42 Prestige from Troops & Fortifications # 43 Powerful Level 7 Techs for all Troop Types # 44 Some Carthage Revolt Coords on B37 # 45 Grey Aglets To Equites # 46 Building Your 2nd City # 47 Noble Rank Promotion Requirements # 48 Lossless Armies to Maraud Wilds # 49 ARMY Terminology # 50 Undefended Colonization Calculations # 51 HP & Onagers for Walls of Different Levels # 52 After Basic Training in SPQR league # 53 Maximum Resource Storage Capacity # 54 First Steps when defending a city being colonized # 55 Second Steps when defending a city being colonized # 56 Last Minute Preparations for War # 57 Hitting a WSC (no losses) # 58 Attacking Rebel Cities (RCs) # 59 Carthage Revolt Forces on B65 # 59 Carthage Revolt Forces on Chaos # 59 Carthage Revolt Forces on SX2 continued on next email -end- Guide #00D List of League Guides 60-79 (cont'd) # 60 Carthage Revolt Loot # 61 Code of Dracos # 62 Axis of Independent (Red Dot) Targets # 63 Easy Red Dot (Axis) Coords on B30 # 64 POT heroes # 65 Tactics for Farming Luxes (Maybe or NOT) # 66 Decolonize Friend "B's" City # 67 Additional DeColonization Info # 68 New AEDILE abilities (on Server B44): # 69 Unwritten Recruiting Rules # 70 Recruiting Process # 71 Marauding Wilds 7-10 Part 1 of 8 # 71A Other Equipment Guides for Heroes # 78 Marauding Wilds 7-10 Part 8 of 8 # 79 Things to do when you log in each day # 71 Other Equipment Guides for Heroes continued on next email -end- Guide #00E List of League Guides 80-105 (cont'd) # 80 Hero Equipment # 81 Types of Equipment # 82 Equipment Comparisons # 83 Get Equipment In This Recommended Order # 84 Creating a Sesterces & Crops city # 85 Farming Diamonds from a lvl 10 wild # 86 ? When Attacked, Don't Panic.. But: # 87 Code of Dracos from Front Cohorts # 88 Carthage Insurgents Coords on Various Servers # 89 List of Some Prestige Generators # 90 Getting Emblems From Rebel Cities # 91 Quickly Check a List of NPC Coordinates # 92 Equipment (Armour) Lion Set # 93 Equipment (Armour) Fearless Set # 94 Maximize your POT Heroes # 95 Best Traits for a POT 8 Hero # 96 Wild Attack Sheet (To be Printed Out and Kept Handy) # 97 Absolute Minimum Troops to win a Rebel City's Rounds 1-10 # 99 Axis (Red Dot) (FearLess SkullBearer) Rewards #101 Axis Rewards #102 How Experience Raises the Level of Your Hero #103 Glory Equipment Reference #104 Duplicate City Names #105 Best SetUp for new Roma Colosseum Challenges continued on next email -end- Guide #00F List of League Guides 106-121 (cont'd) #106 Coordinated Attacks (or Joint Attacks) #107 Joint League attack on Carthage Thugs at 8:30 am server time DAILY #108 Levelling Up POT Heroes (especially POT 8) #109 Number of Crops Eaten For Each Pack of Troops #110 Carthage Insurgents: Incense, Pot-5 etc #111 Reminders About Farming Wilds #112 Best Targets for Luxuries & Other Stuff #113 What is the Peloponnesian War Item used for? #114 Easy Wine, Wool, Silk: Thieves & Gangsters #115 Colosseum Strategy for Dictators and under #116 Colosseum Strategy for those above Dictator #117 Faculty: Contribution by Troop Type #118 Troops & Army Sequence for Dracos from LAS #119 Preparations for Massive War #120 Attacking Front Squadron #121 Rapidly sending Dummy/Hammer -end- Guide #00F List of Cor II League Guides 131-132 (cont'd) #131 Cor II attacking RCs #132 Cor II attacking Tower of Babel -end- # end of Guide List -end- .............................................................................................. Guide #00 Intro: These 100+ Guides (sent 3 per day) (If you already know the stuff in these guides, please email me any corrections that you find.) These guides were written to help COR/Caesary players learn how to play this game well. The goals for these guides are: a) to teach beginners how to play the game. b) to present the information in a good sequence for beginners to learn. (the guides are being renumbered to do this) c) to avoid making beginners feel the game is too complicated. d) to present only one topic well in each guide. d) to make most guides compact enough to fit in one game email. e) to not refer members to other web pages. f) to modify the guides to correct errors and include new suggestions. g) to defer complex war tactics & strategies to another guide set. BUT there are many OTHER winning approaches to play this game. If you wish to learn everything by yourself, ignore these guides . . . have fun too. Questions emailed to me will often be answered by sending you a guide. Suggested changes or corrections are welcome. -end- .............................................................................................. Guide #01 Beginners Guide Follow all the Quests. While waiting for things to be built: You should attack lvl 1 to lvl 2 (Lvl 3 later) river wilds to get Grey Aglets. You need up to 50 Grey Aglets each day. Do not train Hastatus, Sagittarius, or Speculators. Trade 5 Grey Aglets for 1 Mini-Pack of captives. 1 Mini-Pack of captives contains Hastatus, Sagittarius, and Speculators. You can also trade 20 Grey Aglets for 3 Mini-Packs. Don't attack non-water wilds, they produce smoke which lets the enemy spike (counter-attack) your attacks. Only make your amphitheatre lvl 1. Only hire heroes that are level 1 to 3. others cost too much to maintain. Do the above for about 5 to 10 days and you will have a big army. Study only the important techs in the University and the Academy. Ask in league chat which ones are important. Build only 2 warehouses only to lvl 3. Build your Temple to lvl 2 only & Market to lvl 4 Only grow your rectorate to lvl 4 & workplaces (quarry, farm, mine, sawmill) to lvl 4 -end- ................................................................................... Guide #02 Aedile Promotion Requirements (other promotions will show in Quest) Promotion requirements are: 20K Sesterces 2000 Prestige 10 Dye 5 Spices Upgrading your Rectorate to Level 4 gives you: 10K Crops 260K Lumber 10K Stone 10K Metal 2 Hippodamian Plans 10 Dye 5 Spices The only other things you need to be promoted are: 2K Prestige and $20K Sesterces -end- ................................................................................... Guide #03 Heroes and Consuls 1. If you are farming Grey Aglets,Guide #1, you need 20-40 heroes/city. Each one should either be a POT hero (blue) or under level 5 (only 1-4). Dismiss those above lvl 4. To maximize his Experience when fighting use your POT hero first, use up ALL of his physical before other heroes, 2. When not fighting, your POT hero must be Consul (& overnight) 3. Only upgrade the level of your POT heroes, NOT others. Check daily, and when POT Hero Experience is fully Green, click "Update" until is NOT fully green. Then apply his unused Trait Points to Sway, then Bravery & Parry. 4. Later on, your amphitheatre in your biggest city should be max level, so that you have a big range of heroes to choose from. To exclude high level heroes, amphitheatres in your other cities should be lvl 1. 5. To get FREE hero prisoners, seize wilds instead of marauding to get a hero prisoner about 1 in 4. While prisoner:no hourly retainer needed. 6. POT Heroes = blue names & are in Recruitment packs in your My Items Chest. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #04 What to study first It is just as important to study 24/7 as it is to create jobs, build and train troops. Here is an initial study guide: Agronomy first.(and its reward is 30,000 sesterces) Crops are the most important thing in this game. You need to feed crops to your army. Always keep Agronomy at its highest level possible. Then study the other job techs: Forestry, Hammering and Mining Then study Gastronomy (troop feeding) Then stacking to improve your Warehouse capacity. Then get your Reconnaissance up to level 3. (Specs will return wild troops # data) Then Navigation (to make your troops travel faster) -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #05 Builds that you can complete instantly Some buildings can be built without waiting. They are all listed below. To complete a building instantly, just click on the green spot after the "build info" in the top left corner. Level Building 2 Farm (This non-building can be completed instantly) 1 Cottage (As many as you want) 1 Amphitheatre 1 Barracks (As many as you want) 1 Stable (As many as you want) 1 Plaza 1 University -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #06 Buy cheap (slow delivery) crops When buying crops, you can BUY them at the current "buy" rate and get them in 30 minutes. OR You can buy cheaper crops that you have to wait for someone to sell. To buy these cheaper crops, offer to buy them at the "Sell" price plus 0.0001 sesterces. As soon as someone else decides to sell his crops, he will sell them TO YOU at this cheap price. Sometimes, this "Sell" price is 90% lower than the "Buy" price. That's when you get a real bargain. But don't buy more than you can store in your Warehouses or hide in your Market (or you might be marauded). :( BUT make sure to BUY crops at this cheap price; do not SELL your crops at this cheap price, or you will be sorry. Sometime others will place BUY orders a little higher than yours and start a "Market war". :) The best time to place these cheaper BUY orders is just before you go off-line at night. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #07 How to Get Crops for Armies You need lots of crops to feed your growing armies. So beware: if you cannot feed your armies, they will riot and leave your city. . . . forever. Never let you hourly crop production stay red (It should be green). Never let your # of crops stay RED (Upgrade your warehouse levels, you need 2 warehouses) Build 7 cottages in each city. Level them up as high as you can. Always, always, always be creating Farm jobs, check every 15 minutes. Study as much Agronomy and Gastronomy as you can afford Build and raise your Temple level as high as possible. Upgrade your Farm to the highest level possible. Build a 2nd city with lots of Cottages in it Buy crops in the Market whenever the price is under 0.01 sesterces. Hoard (Hide) your Crops in groups of 2.9 million in your Market (Even more, later). Do all these and you will never run out of crops. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #08 Kill Matrix (Equivalent Hastatus) When 2 armies are comprised of different troop types, it is quite easy to determine if one army is stronger than the other. There ARE other factors such as hero level, armour and tech levels. The following matrix shows roughly how many of each type of troop is equivalent to 1 of another type. For example 10 Hastatus are equivalent to 1 Equite. To see if your army will beat another, convert all non-Hastatus to eH (their equivalent number of Hastatus). If you have twice the number of equivalent Hastatus as your enemy, you are pretty sure to win (unless the enemy is helped by another army). To be more accurate, compare the 2 front rows and then compare the 2 back rows. With very big armies, the hero levels matter. Troop Has Sag Ball Equit Princ Onag Hastatus 1 Sagittarius 1 1 Ballista 5 5 1 Equite 10 10 2 1 Principe 30 30 6 3 1 Onager 40 40 10 5 1.6 1 Speculatores only fight Speculatores (no eH). -end- ................................................................................... Guide #09 Rectorate Level Seized Wilds Big Armies come from Big Cities. Training troops and building big cities require huge amounts of resources. High Level Seized Wilds generate maximum resources. Your seized wilds should be at least the same level as your Rectorate. You can have the same number of seized wilds as your Rectorate Level (but not over 10). Stronger league members will help you seize bigger wilds. Just ask in League Chat. But don't seize wilds from other lords. Seized wilds can be far away because you only wait to seize them once. Only seize unowned wilds. "RLS Wilds" means "Rectorate Level Seized Wilds". Remember: water wilds are safe from spikers: NO SMOKE. With small armies, use Protective Stop. Are ALL of your seized wilds as least "RLS Wilds"? They should be. Check NOW and do something about it, if necessary. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #10 Locating Cities near League Central It is important to locate your main cities near League Central so our league can help defend you when you are attacked. It also shortens the time to get resources from members & coordinate joint attacks. Later cities should be near RC's & other league members in other provinces. To best locate your cities, Before building your 2nd city: 1. Ask where League Central is. If none, go to Britons. 2. Choose a location near League Central & beside a lvl 3 river to build your 2nd city. 3. Upgrade 2nd city till its army can attack its lvl 3 river wild. While waiting, keep farming Aglets using your 1st city's troops 5.Transfer your main hero and all your troops from 1st city to reinforce your 2nd city 6. Relocate your 1st city right beside your 2nd city using your Precision Mover. After this, you must wait 24 hours before attacking from your 1st city. So attack from your 2nd city. 7. Send yourself an email to know when you moved. 8. After the 24 hr wait, your 2 cities are together & operational. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #11 Main Researches while in NP Most players are in Newcomers Protection up to Rectorate Level 4. During that time, you should follow this study plan. Groups of subjects should be researched in the following order. Study Group A subjects simultaneously (in both the Academy and in the University). Then Group B simultaneously University Group A Agronomy 1 Logging 1 Hammering 1 Mining 1 FootPace to level 2 (only if you want to train Sagittarius) Academy Group A Reconnaissance to lvl 3 Gastronomy 1 Navigation 1 (continued below) University Group B Stacking 1 Agronomy to lvl 4 Logging to lvl 4 Hammering to lvl 4 Mining to lvl 4 Stacking to lvl 4 Academy Group B Equitation to lvl 3 (to train Equites) Gastronomy to lvl 4 Navigation to lvl 4 Logistics to lvl 4 -end- ................................................................................... Guide #12 OVERNIGHT PROTECTION Protecting Your City from maraud Other players will maraud your city without any warning. They can wipe out all your troops and all of your resources and all of your sesterces in one attack. This cannot happen while you are in Newcomer Protection. But as soon as your Newcomer Protection (NP) expires you must take precautions every night and whenever you are attacked while playing. Here is what you must do EVERY NIGHT: 1. UNCHECK Head-On in the Engagement Protocol tab in your plaza in every one of your cities. 2. To Hide your Sesterces: Study the Guide titled "Hiding Sesterces" 3. To Hide your Resources Study the Guide titled "Hiding Resources" If you don't have these Guides, just wait or ask your host for them. Don't let marauders kill your troops and pillage your city. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #13 Hiding Sesterces After you leave Newcomer Protection, every night and whenever your city is being attacked you should hide your sesterces. This procedure hides the sesterces in an offer to BUY iron in the market. Offer to Spend any or all (Click Maximize) your sesterces to BUY iron at a ridiculously LOW price. A good price is 1/2 the price of the lowest existing offer (at the bottom). The ridiculous price is so low that no other player will sell you any. Your offer will stay unfulfilled until you cancel it. During this time, all your sesterces are "hidden" and no marauder will get them. To unhide your sesterces, simply cancel the order and you will get your sesterces back. The downside is that it costs you 0.5% of you sesterces each time you hide them. In this way, anyone can hide (and unhide) any number of sesterces. Limited only to 200 million of the resource being bought. NEVER let a marauder get your sesterces again. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #14 Hiding Resources After you leave Newcomer Protection, every night and whenever your city is being attacked you should either sell or hide all your resources. Hiding is preferable. Hiding your resources is similar to hiding sesterces except that each resource must be SOLD at a ridiculously HIGH price. A good price is twice the price of the resource being offered for sale on the TOP line of the market prices. To unhide your resources, simply cancel the offer to sell and you will get your resources back. Three cautions apply. a) it costs you 0.5% of the selling price of the resource to hide them. b) The market must be at level 5 to hide sesterces and the 4 types of resources c) There is a limit to how many resources you can UNHIDE but hiding up to 2.9 million of a resource is always fine. So don't HIDE more than 2.9 million. Ask for help about hiding more than that. If you hide too many (eg 25 million crops) they will ALL be unrecoverably lost when you UNHIDE them. NEVER let a marauder get your resources again. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #15 Reconnaissance level Details Speculatores (sent on Scouting missions) return the following info according to the Reconnaissance Level studied. Don't bother sending Specs with less than level 3 Reconn. Level Wilderness Details City Details 1 Estimated troop count Resources 2 Allegiance,Grievance, Population 3 Exact troops count Buildings (no levels) 4 Building with levels 5 Wall fortifications 6 Estimated troops count 7 Heroes Exact troop count 8 Sovereign Troops 9 Technology levels Heroes 10 Technology Levels 11 Unknown Unknown -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #16 Assist Seizing of Wilds One of the best ways to help a smaller player is to help him seize bigger River Wilds than his armies will allow. You can use the table below to estimate the troops at the wild (in equivalent Hastatus). Or you can use Specs to scout the wild. The small player should send 1/3 of the wild's troops, the strong player should send an army at least 10 times that size. The smaller player must be able to accept an additional seized wild. Also see http://prntscr.com/qp6pe Wild Wild Troop Range Level (equivalent Hastatus) 1 1 - 50 2 51 - 100 3 101 - 500 4 501 - 1,000 5 1,001 - 2,000 6 2,001 - 5,000 7 5,001 - 10,000 8 10,001 - 40,000 9 41,001 - 100,000 10 100,001 - 400,000 to level 5, when x (the wild level) is even, the # of zeroes is x/2 above 5, when x (the wild level) is odd, the # of zeroes is (x+1)/2 -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #17 Specialization by City Resource production rises dramatically when you specialize your city production and training. Strong players do. When not specified, seize water wilds. Build 1 or 2 warehouses in each city & no Academy in cities not training troops. Don't upgrade idle workplaces. (All will house troops.) Specialized cities should be located together. City# Specialization 1 initially produce 3 crops for each wood, stone, metal, train hastatus 1 cont'd seize water wilds, eventually just produce crops and sesterces 2 crops and equites, seize water wilds only 3 metal and hastatus seize 20% mountains (eventually train principes) 4 stone and onagers, seize 20% deserts (then train 80% principes) 5 wood and sesterces, seize 20% forests, no academy 6 crops and equites, seize water wilds only 7 metal and principes, seize 20% mountains 8 crops and sesterces, seize water wilds only, no academy 9 wood and sagitarrius (or principes), seize 20% forests 10 crops and equites, seize water wilds only -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #18 What does POT mean for a Hero? A POT hero is a very valuable hero whose name is shown in blue. A Pot Hero is a hero with great Potential. He becomes more valuable more quickly than a normal hero. A normal hero becomes increasingly valuable as he gains experience. A hero's experience is used to upgrade his UTP which is his traits: (Sway, Bravery and Parry). UTP is Unassigned Trait Points. But a Pot hero's traits grow faster. For example, a Pot 7 hero has more potential than an normal hero because his traits grow 70% faster. You could say that a Pot hero gets smarter faster. Sway is a Consul's ability to persuade (sway) his city employees to work better. While fighting, a Hero's Sway permits him/her to lead a bigger army. More Bravery improves the ability to attack. More Parry improves the ability to defend. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #19 Attacking Your First City 1) Make sure that the lord of the city is not in a league. His league members could declare war on our whole league 2) Judge by the prestige & city icon, if you think you will win. If not, choose another target 3) Send 20 or 40 speculatores to scout it. You might lose them all. But if they live, you know if the city has anything worth looting. 4) Send a non-pot hero with just 1 Hastatus to maraud to see if his Head-On is Unchecked. If he lives, Head-On is Unchecked. If you are lucky & the lord isn't there, you won't lose any troops when you really attack If he dies, HeadOn is Checked. You lost 1 Hastatus and you get to see the troops living in that city (whether or not the lord is online) 5) If Head-On is UnChecked then (using Protective Stop) You can send some troops to maraud, hoping he is not online or you can decide not to attack You should use the Multiple Arena Tactic (see Secret #08) IF Head-On is Checked, you compare his troops to yours. If you have at least 2.5x as many troops, you should win, unless other troops defend? -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #20 DAILY GOALS - Citizens & Aediles 1. Create jobs 24/7 2. Exchange to buy Repression Horns (3/day) for Aediles+. 3. Hire all Lvl 1 and 2 and POT Heroes from the Amphitheatre and no others 4. Seize a higher level river wild ( if necessary. . . Review and Cure troops in the Plaza Infirmary) 5. Build as many as 6 Cottages up to level 5 6. Study at the University and Academy 7. Do NOT train troops in the Barracks 8. Upgrade the Plaza & Market & Temple as high as possible 9. Place cheap Buy orders for low resources at the SELL price plus $.0001 10. Hide your surplus res & ses 11. Attack lvl 1 & 2 rivers to get at least 50 grey aglets daily 12. Explore the Rhine Castles for free, if available 13. On some servers, barter 10 Red Passes for 5 Black Passes each day -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #21 Remedies for BOREDOM lol 1. Make sure there is a Consul in each city 2. Get rid of all Grievances 3. Remedy all Red numbers in the bottom right corner 4. Review Priorities: Jobs, Builds, Studies, Heroes, Aglets 5. Create 5 more Dummy Armies 6. Check the Market Buy/Sell Price Bargains 7. Check if any Buddies are online 8. Glance at League Chat and World Chat 9. Check your game and internet mail-boxes 10.Check your Plaza Infirmary 11.Check the lucky ring (Amphitheatre) for heroes to hire 12.Look for Spike Opportunities 13.Reread some Playing Guides 14.Hide some resources 15.Watch YouTube -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #22 Ring a Player's Bell (an alert) To tell a player (or a league official) something important when he/she doesn't seem to be watching his league chat window: 1. (Get ready in advance by asking the player the coords of one of his small seized wilds.) On server B65, Karma has a Lvl 4 wild at [91,56] 2. PM your message or send your email (game mail) to the player. 3. To ring his/her bell, just maraud the player's wild (eg the wild at [91,56] for Karma) with 1 Hastatus. 4. Summon Back the army immediately. (It won't cost you a Summon Edict Item, if you summon back WITHIN 1 MINUTE.) 5. The trumpet will sound for the player being marauded. 6. If online with high enough volume, he/she will be alerted. 7. By looking at league chat and his email box, he/she can reply. Neat. huh -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #23 Hoarding Resources If you know how to hide your resources (up to 2.9 million) then you are ready to start hiding large quantities of resources. This is called hoarding resources. In this way you can hide 25 million to 100 million or more of any resource. Hiding this quantity of resources is done exactly the same way as when hiding a smaller quantity of resources. But problems can occur when you unhide large quantities of resources. If you do it wrong, you will lose ALL the resources that you hid. To do it right, you must never hide more resources than the ARSC, which is the maximum capacity of ALL the warehouses in the city, not in ALL your cities. Always look at the Warehouse ARSC before hiding large quantities of resources and you will not lose them. BEWARE. And NEVER hide more than the ARSC in one order. But you can hide many orders of this size. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #24 Single (vs Multiple) City Strategy Most players build as many cities as they can, as soon as they can. The Pros and Cons of a Single City (called a jumper) are: PROs You can easily relocate a single city using Movers (which drop while farming wilds) You can easily move to escape from an enemy You can become a potent city marauder, by moving to a new area, marauding, then relocating before anyone can retaliate The location of your city is unknown because it changes often. You can easily relocate your city near a specific target Exponential growth favours res & ses production later in the game CONs Resource exchange between friends is usually slowed down due to distance. Hiring of heroes is limited to those that appear in a single Amphitheatre Resource and ses production is limited early in the game (but 1 city becomes an advantage due to exponential growth) Troop training facilities are limited Selective / specialized production/training on a city basis is not possible. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #25 Minimum Army to Seize/Maraud a Wild These armies are sure to beat the level of wild shown. To cut losses, send more troops. Some wilds are smaller, send 7 Speculatores to spy. The H indicates the main (Hammer) army. For a level 3 wild or higher, you must add dummy armies (D) to the Arena. Build a dummy army with: 1 Has / 1 Has / 1 Has in front 1 Sag / 1 Sag / 1 Sag in back Wild total # or total # Hero(s) Level (Has/Sag) Equites Config 1 100 3 x 4 H 2 250 3 x 10 H 3 1,000 3 x 40 HD 4 3,000 3 x 75 HD 5 8,000 3 x 200 HD 6 18,000 3 x 720 HDD 7 40,000 3 x 1,600 HDD 8 100,000 3 x 4,000 HDD 9 250,000 3 x 10,000 HDDD 10 1,000,000 3 x 40,000 HDDD -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #26 Miscellaneous Advice -Save ALL your Guides: emails get deleted automatically -Keep "Head-On" Unchecked: Plaza- Engagement Protocol tab -Study Agronomy and Gastronomy, always as high as possible -To avoid spikes: set Protective Stop at 10% -Hide your res & ses every night -Upgrade Market to lvl 5 to hide all 4 types of resources -Don't defend anyone being marauded. (They should hide their stuff) -Examine your Amphitheatre's heroes every 30-120 minutes. -Some casualties are in your Plaza's Infirmary where ses can cure them. -Don't bother to add fortifications to your wall, waste of res. -Don't raise the level of your non-POT (non-Blue) heroes. -Update the level of your Blue (Pot) Heroes, every night. -Don't just send max res, save a few transports for emergencies. -There's no sure way to increase the drop rate except hitting gangsters, thugs, insurgents or axis -Seizing might yield more resources etc (than marauding). -Keep a list of coords of your seized wilds. (Email the list to yourself; to ID stolen wilds) -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #27 When Attacked, Don't Panic.. But: 1. Don't immediately prepare to defend . . . But do these 3 things instead: a) Make sure that your Head-On is unchecked IN THE CITY that is under attack b) Hide all your sesterces instead. c) Mention in League Chat that you are under attack 2. Check WHEN the attack will be, by WHOM, and if it is a Maraud or a Colonize by: a) Clicking on the Reports button, then on the Arena tab to see if it is a Maraud or a Colonize, AND when it will happen AND the name of the attacker's city (it doesn't name the attacker) b) if Colonizing (it takes many hits), relax, don't defend. c) Look up the city name (City tab of Ranking button up top) to get the attacker's name. d) Look up the Prestige, Honor and League of the attacker in Ranking 3. Only consider defending if attacker has low prestige AND NO league AND is marauding. 4. If defending, ask for help & defend at the last minute. 5. Follow the steps in Guide #28 -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #28 Defending a city being marauded or colonized Do NOT fight to defend. Take the following defensive actions instead: a) UNCHECK Head-On in Engagement Protocol in the Plaza b) hide all your resources c) hide all your sesterces (after hiding resources) d) do NOT ask others to defend you. they may lose their troops e) send the URL of the battle replay to your Host (or Defence Coordinator) so he can see the enemy's army size and city location f) do not communicate with the attacker by email. Keep quiet If marauding, the attacker will get no ses, no res and will kill no troops. If colonizing, ask your league for assistance via league chat. He will stop attacking. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #29 (Almost) Lossless Marauds (not for farming luxes) It is possible to attack wilds very rapidly with NO lost troops. The trick is to send enough Equites and no other troops. If you hit river wilds, there is no smoke and enemies don't know what you're doing and therefore cannot spike you. Lossless marauds are NOT good to farm luxes but are good to seize and for Tr.Maps. Put this # of Equites into EACH of the 3 front stacks & leave the rear stacks empty. Send them to a nearby River Wild as fast as you can type. If you have enough Equites, load them onto a 2nd or 3rd hero and send them out at the same time. For Wilds over level 2, send a Dummy army first to avoid losses. Your coloured aglets and crops will pile up. Occasionally a big wild will kill a few troops. Here's how many you need to send: Wild Equites Level (per stack) 1 11 2 40 3 130 4 1,000 5 1,600 6 2,000 7 6,000 8 13,000 9 40,000 NB It takes 3 times the # of Equites shown above. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #30 Transferring Resources and Sesterces (Lost in Transit) Members with high prestige can usually transfer res and ses to others. BUT BEWARE. Always check the prestige level of the person whom you are shipping to. If they have MORE prestige than you, some, much or ALL of the shipment will be "lost in transit". This is what the system does to prevent low prestige people from sending stuff to higher prestige people. There is a way to get around this but it is very complex. A good way to transfer to a higher prestige person is to contact your host, who will give you the name (& coords) of a city with lower prestige than you. You can send the stuff to that city with no losses. Then the Host can arrange to transfer it to the higher prestige person with no losses. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #31 5K Prestige per day How to jump up on prestige? Farm 40 yellow aglets a day, get 2 black passes from bartering 20 yellow aglets, Use 20-yellow aglet barter to get 3-midsize troops packs Then when RCS resets, HIT MACEDON RCs rapidly. For 1 Macedon emblem+1 red WSC Passes, u get 5,000 prestige....see barter quests under Macedon hero. Everyday you can go up 5,000 prestige! But there is another use for Red Aglets. If you collect 300 Red WSC Passes, you can exchange them for a POT 8 Hero. Which will you need most: Prestige or a POT 8 Hero? Also see Guide # 42 (or ask for it) for other ways to increase your prestige. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #32 Farming Luxuries Farm during Double or Triple Drop events. Process: 1. Choose a wild of the correct level that is NOT owned by anyone else, that is nearest one of your cities. 2. Send 7 Speculatores to count troops in the wild. (It changes) 3. If the maximum # of wilds are seized, release a low level wild. 4. For a level 3 wild or higher, use dummy armies which are: 1 H / 1 H / 1 H in front 1 S / 1 S / 1 S in back 5. Send 2.2 times the # of troops to seize the wild. Sending more will have less losses, but the luxuries drop faster if you lose troops, so don't send more. 6. If level 3, 4 or 5, send 1 Dummy army after the main army by "Joining the arena". If level 6 send 2 Dummy armies after the main. 7. While you are waiting, build more dummy armies on heroes 8. After a seize, release the wild & attack it again. 9. Leagues attacks Thugs daily for loot like: Dye, Spices, Wine, Wool & Silk. Guides #41 & #107 have more info. 10. For Wool & Silk; Tribunes can attack Insurgents -end- ................................................................................... Guide #33 Reacting to Loss of all your Speculatores This means that another player sent a bunch of Speculatores to gain intelligence about your city. He sent more specs than you had. So yours all got killed. You can take various actions, but you cannot really find out who sent the specs. 1) Train a much larger number of speculatores hoping to have more than he sends specs the next time. 2) Wait until he takes further action against you. If he wants to find out if your Head-On is UNCHECKED he will send 1 Hastatus or 1 Equity who will die but will either tell him that HEADON is UNCHECKED or the # of troops that you have. But either way, you will know who is attacking. 3)Wait until he takes further action against you. If he is much stronger than you, he might either a) send a very strong army to maraud all your sesterces and resources. To prevent this you must hide all of your sesterces and resources. b) send up to 20 simultaneous colonizing armies to colonize you in one 15 minute sweep. If you think that he will do this use a Cease--Fire. c) slowly send 20 consecutive colonizing armies. If you see that he is doing this, ask your league for help via league chat. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #34 Losses during Market Transfers (not LeKool) Problem: Players with higher prestige can transport to players of lower prestige with no losses. But a player with lower prestige always suffers almost 100% "losses en route" when transporting res/ses to a player with higher prestige. Solution: You create a small city called a "Truser city" (Transfer User) belonging to an alt that you create. Anyone can transfer to that low pres alt's city. Then you maraud that low pres city to get the res/ses. So you should locate the truser city close to your destination city. I keep the Rectorate less than lvl 2 so that the rectorate won't protect any res/ses from maraud. Other Considerations: Of course other players can see the smoke and can steal (by assisting in the maraud) or spike. So I occasionally maraud the truser city with 1 Hastatus to create smoke. Then others cannot tell if I'm really transferring or not. Then they give up after they get nothing a few times in a row. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #35 Ses Protected by City Rectorate A certain quantity of your sesterces are always protected from maraud automatically by the system. The quantity protected varies by Rectorate Level. If you have less sesterces than this, don't bother hiding them. (Note that the quantity of resources protected from maraud is always 30% of the CRC for that resource.) Rectorate Ses Rectorate Ses Level Protected Level Protected 1 3k 10 18,500k 2 9k 11 19,200k 3 22k 12 20,072k 4 78k 13 20,900k 5 210k 14 21,700k 6 510k 15 22,550k 7 1,330k 16 23,408k 8 3,360k 17 24,282k 9 8,280k 18 25,172k R (R-10)+17 million -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #36 Steps to Quit Playing Completely If you are seriously reading this, you must be feeling very low. We could probably help you improve your methods of playing , but you've probably made up your mind. To best help for the league, prior to quitting, is to: Leave your player in the league. Tell your host where your cities are (so that the league can farm your res and ses). Keep Head-On Unchecked. Dismiss all your Speculatores Set your tax rate to 50% so the max ses are produced. Let your host know when you finally quit Thanks for playing in our league. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #37 Get Hero Prisoners and Treasure Maps Once you can train Equites, train 360 of them so you can easily win your attacks on Lvl 3 River wilds with almost NO LOSSES. Give as few as 3x120 Equites to your Blue (POT) Hero and Seize the nearest Level 3 River wild (that is not owned by anyone else) time after time. If you accidentally seize someone else's Lvl 3 wild, they might get mad and attack you. You should attack Lvl 3 river wilds instead of Lvl 1 or 2. This is because Lvl 3 wilds often give you Treasure Maps as loot. You need many Treasure Maps to convert them into Hippodamian Plans (needed when you upgrade your cities). Also, when you seize wilds, you often get Hero Prisoners, that become good heroes for you as soon as you retain them. But only retain those UNDER Level 5 The game says that it costs you sesterces to retain a hero prisoner, but, in fact, they are free to retain, not like normal Heroes that you must pay to retain. Happy hunting for Grey Aglets on level 3 River Wilds. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #38 Scouting the Enemy Every time you attack a wild or anything else, you have a great advantage if you know the exact strength of the enemy army. You can discover the exact troop numbers at any wild by sending 7 Speculatores to scout it. But your scout won't return with the exact troop counts unless you have studied Reconnaissance Lvl 3 in the city. Study this, then send out your scouts. Once you know how many troops are at each wild, you can decide to attack the wilds with the smallest numbers of troops. You can compare the strengths of whole armies by converting each troop type to its Equivalent number of Hastatus (eH) using the Kill Matrix in Guide # 8. If you send 2.2 times the number of Equivalent Hastatus against any wild, you will always win (unless you are spiked). Avoid spikes by attacking water wilds. They produce no smoke and no-one knows you are attacking them, so NO spikers. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #39 Number of Heroes in Wilds To win an attack on a wild, send around twice (or 2.2 times) the number of Equivalent Hastatus as in the wild and send the same number of heroes each with an army. Losses should be about 30%. If you send 10 times the number of Equivalent Hastatus, you will suffer very few losses. When seizing, send a Hammer followed by Dummies. See Guide #8 to calculate Equivalent Hastatus. Wild Lvl # of Heroes 1- 2 1 3- 5 2 6- 8 3 9-10 4 -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #40 Non-Keyboard Characters Here is a list of some non-keyboard characters that you might have wanted. To use them, highlight it and then Cut and Paste using Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V. ß姆årÐ ﾓ◊Яㄅ∆к ●★♥♦♣♠すい™₪Ħ◘☺☻♀Ὧ £œ_$†ØÑ€♪¿ ФИЛИП ŧћФяŋ☣ṽžº²ÐⒿø ® éêèîâôñ؟öḖü‘äô ∞ ┏┳━┓ ┣╋┃ ┣┻┏┫ ┛ ḎăɱⱥǥǝȊǹĉ ۩‘3 яµφลℓ ЯØΛRz ¢ђล๏ร ¥¨¨ˆøøπ“æ ¬˚∆˙˙©ƒ∂ßåΩ≈ç√∫˜µ≤≥÷–≠ ÅÍÎÏÓ˚ÒÆ ÷≥≤˜ıı√Ç≈ΩÅÍŒ´´®†Á¨ˆØØ∏“ºª••¶§∞¢£™™¡ ΨИȊℓ ⇖ ⇧⇗ ⇦ ⇨ ⇙ ⇩ ⇘ Myƨteяiouƨ ♛CoCo ۩ Also see: http://www.alt-codes.net/ -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #41 League vs Thugs Battles: Easy Spices, Wine & Wool If one league member has 22K Has and 11K Sag (for Rounds 1 to 4), other league members (must be Aedile) can get Wine and Spices by joining with a Dummy army. Arena: Carthage Thugs Enemy Troops: Round 1 has 10,000 Hastatus and 5,000 Sagitarrius Send: DH or DDH plus more Dummies (up to 8 total armies) Losses: Only 20% of losses shown are really lost Travel Time: short (2 min out, normal return) Reward: Rounds 1-5 Dye, Wine , Spices Rounds 6-10 Wool, Silk, Medium Packs, Resources Winning Army Size: 2.2 x the Enemy Troops or more Who is Rewarded: Random choice of any of the armies Drop Rate/Round: Worse when a player sends multiple armies Locations: [44,471][32,495][66,470] and elsewhere Entry Fee: Sample Repression Horn (usually returned) Warning: Rounds 5 and 10 have 3 times normal troops Min. Hero Physical: 30 -end- Other Thugs: [11,400][24,429][113,410][159,408][150,433][219,463][187,493][28,486] [49,433][135,450][58,452][44,471][66,470][79,490][32,495] For rounds 5 and 10 use Anvils not Dummies (1 Anvil = 20 x Dummy Enemy Troops: Round 5 has 31K Has & 8K Equites & 31K Sag Enemy Troops: Round 10 has 47K Has & 8K Equites & 31K Sag & 6K Ball for each round of normal combat minus 1, we need at least 2 Anvil armies following the Hammer. So for 3 rounds, we need to send AHA then AAAA An H of 3 x 20k Equites will have few losses. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #42 Prestige from Troops & Fortifications Everyone knows that you get prestige when upgrading buildings, but you also get prestige when training troops or making fortifications in your walls. Type Prestige Troops (sesterces needed) 1 Hastatus 1.5 1 Equite 10 1 Principe 19 1 Sagitarrius 2 1 Ballista 8 1 Onager 36 1 Speculatore 3 Fortifications (no ses needed) 1 Trap 1.5 1 Barbican 9 1 Rockfall 27 Only Barbican fortifications have HP to strengthen the walls. NB You also get Prestige by building and studying. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #43 Powerful Level 7 Techs for all Troop Types Every player should know that level 7 Academy research is much better than all previous training levels. With level 7 training, all troop types except Hastatus become much more effective fighters. For example, the Sagittarius troops become much more effective at level 7 because they become able to attack more enemies than just those directly in front of them. Hastatus get nothing special Equites get ambush assault Principes get testudo (but only with lion gear) Sagittarius get Dispersion Ballistae get Piercing Onagers get Fire Balls Speculatores get exact troop counts in cities and Sovereign Troop details -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #44 Some Carthage Revolt Coords on B37 The Carthage Revolt Locations are purple dots mainly located in the Carthage province on the global world map. see Guide 41 (and others) for attack tactics for Carthage Revolts Carthage Thugs: (15k eh: 10kHas 5kSag) Armies to send: DDH + more D's locations: [11,400][24,429][28,486] [32,495][44,471][49,433] [79,490][113,410][132,447][135,450][150,433] [159,408][187,493][219,463] -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #45 Grey Aglets To Equites Each day, you can barter 25 grey aglets at goat time (5 for 1 minipack and 20 for 3 minipacks). And each day, while attacking, you can barter another 25 grey aglets the same way while you are attacking. This gives you 8 mini-packs of captives each day. You shouldn't unpack all these mini-packs right away because you have to feed them after you unpack them. When you have lots of mini-packs, you can unpack them and attack lvl 4 River wilds to get yellow aglets. You barter yellow aglets to get medium-packs of captives that contain Equites. When you get enough Equites, you can attack level 1 and 2 river wilds with NO LOSSES. See the Guide titled (Almost) Lossless Marauds. That's when things get interesting. Grey aglets (meaning troops) don't cost you anything from then on. You should also be training Equites in your stables around this time. With them, you can start marauding lvl 3 and 4 river wilds without losses. And eventually you will be able to barter 20 more Grey Aglets for a Black Pass. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #46 Building Your 2nd City Your City 2 location is important. If your league recommends a League hub, build your city near it. If you have an experienced friend on your server, build it near him/her. If not, build your city in Britons. If in Britons, the numbers in your coords should both be less than 200 (eg [40,13] on B63). Your coords MUST BE exactly beside a level 3 river (and within 5 squares of both a level 4 river & a level 8 river.) Take your time to search for this location. Future success will depend on it. This is so that different coloured Aglets can be farmed quickly. Only start your 2nd city when you have at least 100,000 of each resource. so you can send half your resources to it. Once built, do not put troops in it until it is producing at least 5,000 crops per hour (or they will starve). After you your 2nd city is thriving, & it can feed ALL your troops, send ALL of them there. Then use a Precision Mover to relocate your first city beside your 2nd city. After using the Precision Mover, the city cannot attack for 24 hours. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #47 (old 22) Noble Rank Promotion Requirements Rank Minimum Prestige Minimum Sesterces Required Luxuries Citizen n/a n/a n/a Aedile 2,000 20,000 10 Dye, 5 Spices Censor 20,000 50,000 10 Spices, 5 Wine Quaestor 200,000 100,000 10 Wine, 5 Wool Tribune 500,000 200,000 10 Wool, 5 Silk Procurator 1,000,000 400,000 10 Silk, 5 Furs Praetor 2,500,000 800,000 10 Furs, 5 Incense Legate 4,000,000 1,000,000 10 Incense,5 Ivory Dictator 5,500,000 2,000,000 10 Ivory, 5 Diamond 5th Legion Chief 7,000,000 5,000,000 10 Diamond, 5 Ivory, 5 Incense, 5 Furs This is to lvl 10 if you want more just ask. Note that many luxes such as Incense and Furs are required for later promotions. Do NOT accept to barter them for sesterces or you will regret it. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #48 Lossless Armies to Maraud Wilds See the guide #49 named Army Terminology. Armies to maraud wilds (H:Hammer D:Dummy F: 1H/1H/1H R: 1S/ 1S/ 1S 1 H F: 9E/ 9E/ 9E or H F: 1P/ 1P/ 1P 2 H F: 15E/15E/15E 3 H F: 325E/325E/325E or H F: 40P/40P/40P 4 DDH F: 250E/250E/0 or H F: 50P/ 50P/ 50P R: 20O/20O/20O 5 DDH F: 400E/400E/0 6 DHD F: 750E/750E/750E 7 DHD F:1000E/1500E/1500E (D is 12H/12H/12H empty rear) 8 DHD F:4000E/4000E/4000E (D is 50H/50H/50H empty rear) 9 DDHD F:8000E/8000E/8000E (D is 100H/100H/100H 10S/ 10S/ 10S) 10 DDHD F:12000E/12000E/12000E (D is 200H/200H/200H 10S/ 10S/ 10S) -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #49 ARMY Terminology Army:Troops arranged in 6 Slots (3 in Front, 3 in Rear). Hero:The leader of an army. Slot:One of the 3 groups of troops in the Front or Rear of an Army (aka Division or Stack). Front row:The 3 slots of "offensive" troops at the Front of an army. Back row:The 3 slots of "defensive" troops at the Rear. Arena: Location of a battle Hammer(H):One of the main or biggest armies being sent. Dummy(D):Army with 1 Hastatus in each slot in the Front with 1 Sagittarius in each slot in the Rear pictured as 1 Has / 1 Has / 1 Has 1 Sag / 1 Sag / 1 Sag Anvil(A): Big Dummy army, usually with 100 in each slot Suicide Army:(aka Runner)Army of 1 Equity in one slot and no rear row Specs:Speculatores (spies who collect enemy intelligence). Pack:captives who will become your troops. Hero Prisoner:The winning army can capture an enemy hero Even Your Hero! Army Sequence:eg DDH means Launch a Dummy, a Dummy joins , a Hammer joins -end- .................................................................................................... Guide #50 Undefended Colonization Calculations Colonization of an undefended city is not a simple matter. Assume a city wall of Level 5 which has 2,000,000 HP (bricks). (See Guide #51 for bricks in other levels.) Assume that Head-On is Unchecked and that no defending army is sent. # of Onagers to send If you attack with an army of 1 Equity and 1 Onager, the Onager will remove 100 bricks for each round against the wall. Only 500 rounds are sent. So each Onager will remove 50,000 bricks in total. The number of Onagers required is 40 ( = 2,000,000 / 50,000 ). So at least 40 Onagers must be sent to bring down the wall. This army will succeed in each Colonization attack, which will reduce the City's Allegiance by 5. # of attacks The # of attacks needed to Colonize is the City's Allegiance divided by 5. If the Allegiance of the City being Colonized is 80, a total of 16 colonization attacks will be necessary. But the Allegiance will rise slightly during all the attacks, so you need more than 16 attacks if the attacks are NOT done simultaneously. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #51 HP & Onagers for Walls of Different Levels For each level of wall, the # of HP (ie Bricks) and the # of Onagers required to knock it down are shown: Wall HP (# of Bricks) # of Lvl in millions Onagers 0 0.0 - (1 Sag) 1 0.1 2 Onag 2 0.3 6 3 0.6 12 4 1.2 24 5 2.0 40 6 3.0 60 7 4.62 93 8 5.6 112 9 7.2 144 10 9.0 180 11 10.8 216 12 11.25 225 -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #52 Basic Training In Basic Training, you learn how to -Build your cities and train troops, then -Get grey aglets, then yellow aglets every day -How to coordinate seizes of lakes with another player, -Build up your troops -Maraud tiny unleagued cities -Colonize unleagued cities When you have around 3000 Equites or over 2 cities, in SPQR you choose: -to work with other members of SPQR to attack the Non-City sites or -to join the Fighting league: SPQR★, or -to join the secret Special Forces league: SPQR●. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #53 Maximum Resource Storage Capacity As we grow, big city marauds and great bargains in the marketplace fill up our warehouses and make them overflow. We can find ourselves with hundreds of millions of one or more resources. Two questions arise: How much can we store? and How much can we keep safe from maraud? --How much can we store? A city cannot store more than 2,140,000,000 of any resource without hiding some. A level 10 market can hide another 2,000,000,000 resources in 10 orders of 200 million. (Produced resources are lost when CRC is breached.) --How much can we keep safe from marauders? All hidden resources are safe. Only 30% of your total WareHouse capacity (CRC) are safe from maraud. Each level 2 WareHouse keeps 160,000 resources safe. A Level 6 keeps 2,560,000 resources safe. A level 12 keeps 159,600,000 resources safe. --Beware when hiding resources. You can only UNHIDE as many resources as the total warehouses CRC. Try to UNHIDE more and they are ALL lost. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #54 First Steps when defending a city being colonized Colonizing of your city is NOT the end of the world. In fact it is usually quite a simple matter to decolonize a city. Colonization is usually a lengthy process, taking up to 4 hours to complete. (This presumes that you are Censor/Quaestor level.) React as follows: 1. UNCHECK Head-On in Engagement Protocol in the Plaza. 2. Tell your Host (or Defence Coordinator) a) you are being colonized. b) if you have a Divine Liberty Item. c) what your current Allegiance and Grievances are. 3. Do NOT hide your resources and sest. 4. Do NOT adjust your Allegiance. 5. Estimate when the colonization will be complete. Presume that the attacker will NOT send his colonization attacks simultaneously. 6. Return to your computer 20 minutes before the colonization is complete (even if you must set your alarm clock to do this) 7. Perform "Second Steps when defending a city being colonized" in guide 55. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #55 Second Steps when defending a city being colonized (See guide #54 for the first 7 steps) 8. Let them complete their colonization (unless your Host suggests that you defend). 9. Check to see if they have garrisoned troops in your city. Normally they do NOT. 10. If they have not garrisoned any troops in your city, send all your troops (except 10 Hastatus) to another of your cities. If necessary, train 1 Hastatus for the War of Independence. 11. Start a War of Independence (bottom right hand corner of the Colonization window.) You will win immediately and will be NO LONGER colonized. This successful War of Independence MUST occur within 24 hours of being colonized. 12. If this doesn't work, speak to your Host (or Defence Coordinator) again. 13. The next step is usually for your league to send a Big Army to attack the troops that the enemy has Garrisoned in your city. Then you can be Decolonized. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #56 Last Minute Preparations for League War To prepare for war, here is what you should do: 1. If your War Coordinator asks: Total up the # of troops of each type across all your cities and send them to him 2. Hire as many heroes as you can, of levels 1 and 2 and 3 (20 or 30 per city isn't too many for dummies) 3. Stop opening your mini, midi and large-packs of captives (to minimize troops who eat) 4. Train as many Equites as you can, or Hastatus if your cities cannot train Equites. 5. If training Equites, set tax rate to 45% (unless your crop production slowly turns red) 6. Train Ballistae or Onagers (1/10 of your Equivalent Hastatus troop #s should be these) 7. Train Around 100xN Speculatores in each of your cities (N is your Rectorate level). 8. Only create Agronomy (Farm) jobs to produce as much food as you can. 9. Upgrade your Plaza to its highest level possible. 10. Study Reconnaissance up to level 7 (to see exact # of troops in enemy cities) 11. While fighting, stop studying other subjects and stop upgrading buildings. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #57 Hitting a WSC (no losses) The WSC gets reset to 1 at a specified time. Then it's number goes up each time it is hit by anyone. The enemy at the WSC gets stronger each time its number goes up. Your hero gets experience if you win. But the rewards vary by both -the number : Normal rewards aren't worth much. But If the number is divisible by 10, you get a book if you win. (A book shortens your troop training time) -how many troops you send compared to the enemy at the WSC: If you are too weak - no reward If you are a little bit stronger (say up to 2.2 times as strong) -best rewards If you are way too strong (say 50 times as strong) very small rewards. Most of the time the number ends in "1" because of the book. So when you want a book, you hit it 10 times rapidly repeatedly with enough troops to win every attack, then you will get the book. -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #58 Attacking Rebel Cities (RCs) for Emblems RCs are similar to WSC targets but have less troops. But attacking Rebel Cities will incur 20% losses unlike 0 losses at WSCs. Send the total # of Equities below. Only 1 stack is used for levels not ending in 0; 3 stacks are used for levels 10,20,30,40,50. These same troop counts can be used for WSCs. (Merely 1/2 these troops can do the job for RCs but the troops listed below work for WSCs & RCs for lazy players). Rewards include Bread & Emblems. Rewards: Lvls 1-9 1 Black Pass, 1 Red Pass Lvl 11-19,21-29 1 Red Pass Lvl 10,20 & 30 3 Red Pass, 1 Book (Commentari de Bello Civili) RC Equites RC Equites RC Equites Lvl # to send Lvl # to send Lvl # to send 1- 5 50 x1 6- 9 100 x1 10 100 x3 11-15 500 x1 16-19 1000 x1 20 1000 x3 21-25 5k x1 26-29 10k x1 30 10k x3 31-35 50k x1 36-39 100k x1 40 100k x3 41-45 500k x1 46-49 1000k x1 50 1000k x3 -end- ............................................................................................. Guide #59 Carthage Rebel Forces on B65 (10-30 min return time, approx 20% losses) (See Guide #60 for loot.) "equiv.has" means Equivalent Hastatus 1. Use 2.5 to 1 troops and a hero 2 lvl over the one in enemy (better if head,shield, boots,on hero ) 2. Outward travel time is 2 minutes, return travel time is 10-30 min. Force Type example equiv. has Thieves [134,157] .6k eh Roving Bandits [136,158] 1k eh Carthage Thugs [44,471] 15k eh Carthage Insurgents [ 73,483] 60k eh &[109,440]&[57,410]&[47,469] Front Cohort [434,56] 1280k eh Gangsters [123,154] 1300k eh Front Division [416,38] 1600k eh Light Armored Cohort [441,44] 2800k eh Carthage Revolt [ 93,418] 3000k eh Carthage RevoltMF [104,483] 4000k eh Schemers [91,457] 14000k eh-end- .................................................................................................... Guide #59 Carthage Rebels Forces on Chaos (10-30 min return time, 20% losses) (See Guide #60 for loot.) "equiv.has" means Equivalent Hastatus 1. Use 2 to 1 troops and a hero 2 lvl over the one in enemy plus head,shield, boots,on hero 2. Outward travel time is 2 minutes, return travel time is 10-30 min. Force Type example equiv. has Thieves [134,157] .6k eh Roving Bandits [136,158] 1k eh Carthage Thugs [150,433] 15k eh Carthage Insurgents [80,425] 60k eh &[109,440]&[57,410] Front Cohort [434,56] 1280k eh http://prntscr.com/12pzib Gangsters [44,465] 1300k eh Front Division [416,38] 1600k eh Light Armored Cohort [445,47] 2800k eh http://prntscr.com/12pzyl Carthage Revolt [ 85,428] 3000k eh Carthage RevoltMF [94,463] 4000k eh Schemers [91,457] 14000k eh -end- .................................................................................................... Guide #60 Carthage Rebels Loot Even members sending Dummies, when attacking the Carthage Revolt Forces can get rewards like luxuries and stuff like Motivational Speeches, Resources, Troops, etc: Revolt Type Return Time Rewards Thieves 15 min Tr.Maps, Res, dye, spices , wine, Roving Bandits 5 min Tr.Maps, Res Thugs 10 min dye, spices , wine, wool Insurgents 15 min wool, silk, Incense Front Cohort ? min Code of Dracos Gangsters ? min ? Front Division ? min Code of Dracos Light Armored Cohort ? min ? Carthage Revolt 30 min furs, incense Carthage RevoltMF 15 min ivory, diamond Schemers ? min Hard Core Emblem See Guide #59 for Carthage Rebels coords on Chaos For more info, see http://guides.questunlocked.com/caesary/ 2011/09/29/introduction-to-the-carthage-revolt/ -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #61 Code of Dracos Code of Dracos are very hard to get. Here's how to get them: 1) Available from Item Mall for 100 gold 2) Also can be obtained through a barter quest for 3 Vitruvius Plots (each bartered for 10 Treasure Maps) Do hundreds of lossless marauds of Level 3 wilds for TMs. 3) You can also obtain a Draco from doing battle with any battle formation within the Axis of Independent beginning with Front Cohort and Above. You must first obtain at least the rank of Quaestor in order to participate in the arena. Each arena consumes 1 Pacification Aglet and 40 physical from your hero. To do this, you need heroes of level 60 or 70, at least and be able to lead 50k horses each. Higher level heroes are even better. Heroes get lots of experience. (2 mins attack time, 15 mins return time maximum) See Guide# 62 for a list of the types of Axis of Independent targets. To attack the Axis, a lord needs 1 city close to an the Axis. -end- ....................................................................................................... .......... Guide #62 Axis of Independent (Red Dot) Targets The Red Dots in Asiana are perhaps best known as a source of Code of Dracos. (All except the Front Divisions drop Dracos.) Death rate when fighting Red Dots is 20%. The various Rebel forces of Axis of Independent are made up of 17 NPCs: 1 Front Division, 2 Front Cohort, 3 Front Squadron, 4 Front Squad, 5 Light Armored Division, 6 Light Armored Cohort, 7 Light Armored Squadron, 8 Light Armored Squad, 9 Heavy Armed Division, 10 Heavy Armed Cohort, 11 Heavy Armed Squadron, 12 Heavy Armed Squad, 13 Royal Division, 14 Royal Cohort, 15 Royal Squadron, 16 Royal Squad, 17 Fearless Skullbearer. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #63A Easy Red Dot (Axis) Coords on Chaos Rewards include Code of Dracos. Quaestor rank is necessary. Each attack requires 1 Pacification Aglet. Attack with 2.2 times the enemy troops. Drop rate improves as troop losses increase. 1 Front Squad, [465,87][469,89]* 2 Front Squadron, [447,69][450,72]* 3 Front Cohort, [432,52][434,56] 4 Front Division, [416,38] 5 Light Armored Squad, [473,75] 6 Light Armored Squadron, [456,58]k[459,60] 7 Light Armored Cohort, [443,44] 8 Light Armored Division, [431,33]k[429,29] 9 Heavy Armored Squad, [475,57] 10 Heavy Armored Squadron [467,51] *(no Draco rewards) NB The name is empty when awaiting reset NB There are other bigger Red Dots NB Beware, some names are wrong on the big map(those above are right). -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #63B Easy Red Dot (Axis) Coords on B30 Rewards include Code of Dracos. Quaestor rank is necessary. Each attack requires 1 Pacification Aglet. Attack with 2.2 times the enemy troops. Drop rate improves as troop losses increase. *No Draco rewards until Front Cohort 1* Front Squad, [452,115][453,110][467,90] 2* Front Squadron, [408,61][425,81] 3 Front Cohort, [388,45][397,55] 4 Front Division, [365,26] 5 Light Armored Squad, [473,93] 6 Light Armored Squadron,[428,68] 7 Light Armored Cohort, [401,37] 8 Light Armored Division,[393,15][400,12] -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #63C Red Dot (Axis) Coords on SX2 *no Draco rewards coords EH Prins Onags 1* Front Squad, [464,90] 0.6kk 16kP 4kOn 2* Front Squadron, [450,72] 0.9kk 24kP 6kOn 3 Front Cohort, [428,56] 1.3kk 32kP 8kOn 4 Front Division, [413,35] 1.6KK 40kP 10kOn 5 Light Armored Squad, [470,72] 2.2kk 56kP 14kOn 6 Light Armored Squadron, [460,62] 2.6kk 64kP 16kOn 7 Light Armored Cohort, [441,44] 2.9kk 72kP 18kOn 8 Light Armored Division, [427,31] 3.2kk 80kP 20kOn 9 Heavy Armed Squad [478?59] 3.8kk 96kP 24kOn 10 Heavy Armed Squadron [465,47] 4.2kk 104kP 26kOn 11 Heavy Armed Cohort [453,35] 4.5kk 112kP 28kOn 12 Heavy Armed Division [446,28] 4.8kk 120kP 30kOn 13 Royal Squadron [473,37] 5.8kk 144kP 36kOn 14 Royal Cohort [464,26] 6.1kk 152kP 38kOn 15 Royal Division [458,20] 6.6kk 166kP 41kOn -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #64 POT heroes You should choose your biggest POT hero and assign him as many trait points as you can. Then make him Consol of your city whenever he is not fighting, especially overnight. A POT Hero is the real name for a Blue Hero. Any hero can up upgraded level by level. Higher level heroes can lead bigger armies. Heroes have Traits (sway etc) defined by how many UTP points you assign to each trait. POT heroes get extra UTP points compared to normal heroes. (Most players only upgrade POT heroes.) You can tailor a hero to the job you give him. You can give him more: -Sway - to better govern your city or lead more troops -Bravery - when leading an offensive army -Parry - when leading a defensive army Most players keep Sway twice as high as the other two traits. Always use your POT heroes when fighting so that they gain experience as fast as possible. While a hero is Consul, he also gains experience (even more while training troops eg 66 exp/equity see Guide #102) More experience gives them more UTP points. You can use a Reversion Act Item on a new POT hero to reset his UTP points, so you can re-assign them. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #65 Tactics for Farming Luxes (Maybe or NOT) 1. Farm your luxes before your prestige goal is achieved. Drop Rate is much lower after you have met your prestige goal. 2. Launch a maraud on the wild from each of your cities at 1 time. That's 5 raids and continue till you get your lux. Most of the time it takes 8 hits. 3. When sending Equites, leave the middle slot empty eg 500/0/500. 4. Some players say that the colour of your hero also affects the drop rate and they don't mean black or white, but the background colour instead. Why else would the background colours be there? Please let me know if this works for you. It didn't for me. Lux Background Colour ... ................ Dye Black Spices Black Wine Green Wool Green Silk Blue Furs Blue Incense Purple Ivory Purple Diamond Yellow -end- ................................................................................... Guide #66 DeColonize Friend "B's" City Also see Guide #67 Preparations 1. B is not in your league & no troops are garrisoned there to reinforce it. If the sovereign lord reinforce his colonized city the reinforcing troops won't fight unless someone tries to colonize it or a War of Independence is started. 2. B sets Tax Rate to 75%. 3. B moves all troops to another city & UnChecks Head-On in Plaza 4. Prepare 750 Onagers as army #2 to add at the last minute. (Less might do the job, A lvl 10 wall with no fortifications needs only 260 Onagers) 5. B does Temple levies to reduce Allegiance by 20, until it is exactly 25. (takes 20-45 minutes) Wait 15 more minutes until a final levy is permitted (and Allegiance is exactly 25) 6. B Sets Tax Rate to 95 & does a final levy to reduce Allegiance to 5 7. Send 1 Equite to Colonize B's city Wait until 1 minute before colonize time 8. Add Army #2 (of Onagers) to the Arena Wait till Colonization success 9. B sets tax rate to 40%, & uses Theatrics (if available). Wait till Allegiance =80 10. Summon Back the armies that are garrisoned in B's city 11. Sever the Sovereignty -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #67 Additional DeColonization Info Also see Guide #66. 0. Ask the Sovereign lord to decolonize B's city. Sometimes they will. 1. (Set the Tax Rate in B's city to 53, the night before. if possible) 2. If Sovereign City is nearby, B uses a Mover to move his city far away 3. B can use an Outpost to supply enough crop intake to feed his Speculatores when population is very low 4. After 3 minutes, send Army #3 of 1 Hastatus (or 1 Equite) to Colonize B's city again (just in case it is needed) After Decolonization is complete: 5. B cancels Supply Line, if one was used -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #68 New AEDILE abilities (on Server B44): You can be granted a promotion once the requirement on on Sesterces and luxury items is met. Required Sesterces and luxury items will be deducted on accepting the quest reward. After become Aedile, click "World" -- "Map", to attack Thieves, find Pink NPC, it drops luxury, can be used to Noble rank Promotion. Also, to attack Roving Bandits , find Pink NPC, it drops Resources Pack, can be used to get Resource. Also, to attack Gangsters, find Pink NPC, it drops Troops Pack and Luxury, can be used to get Troops and Noble Rank Promotion. Also, to attack War Simulation Colosseum, find White NPC, it drops Red WSC Pass , can be used to get POT 8 hero from "Quest" Also, to attack Rebel City, find Black NPC, it drops Rebel City Emblem, can be used to get Equipment from "Exchange" and "Quest". -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #69 Unwritten Recruiting Rules Recruiting is when you try to get players to join our league. There are a few unwritten rules and consequences. 1. Do NOT advertise in world chat (wc). Some players consider this to be spam and will find where you live and will attack your city and maybe the rest of the league. 2. Do NOT try to recruit members that are already in a league (neither by email, nor my Private Message chat). Some leagues will attack you for doing so. 3. If the prospect takes offence at being recruited, do NOT argue with him/her. Just say "I respect your point of view." and end the conversation. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #70 Recruiting Process See the Guide named Unwritten Recruiting Rules. Instead of advertising, we do Direct Marketing: Watch WC for unfamiliar names, new players. They usually write "Hi" or something like that. Immediately look up their profile, if they are in a league, they are NOT prospects. If they are NOT in a league, quickly Copy their Lord Name to the Clipboard. Then PM (Private Message Chat) them saying "You are welcome to join Spqr, the training league for one of the top leagues" Then use PM to say "I will send you an invitation" Then send them an invitation. Then wait 1 minute to give them a chance to reply. Whether OR not they reply (unless they reply "NO"), PM (Private Mail) them again saying "Do you know how to accept my invitation". Then wait. If no response, give up on this prospect. If they respond "NO", PM them saying: Click on "League" (up top), then click on "Accept" beside the word "Spqr". That's all you can do. If they accept, help them. -end- ................................................................................... Guide #71A Other Equipment Guides for Heroes Some of our numbered guides are about equipment but the following web sites also provide detailed information about equipment (aka gear): Equipment for Heroes: http://guides.questunlocked.com/caesary/2011/06/26/beating-the-front-squad/ and http://guides.questunlocked.com/caesary/2011/06/01/lion-equipment/ Attacking Axis: http://caesary.freeforums.org/axis-rebels-for-dummies-t17.html Caesary InSider Wiki http://caesary.freeforums.org/portal.php Bright Equipment & Evil Army http://bbs.callofroma.com/viewthread.php?tid=9234 -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #71B Marauding Wilds 7-10 Part 1 of 8 Once Level 7 is reached, something strange happens: sometimes the 1-1-1/1-1-1 standard dummy works, and sometimes it does not. Once you have Reconnaissance 10, you learn why: some Level 7 wilds have Footpace 7 (and thus the Sagittari have Dispersion), and some have Footpace 6. Now isn’t that a problem? While Dispersion means that there is 1/4 the damage as before, it also means each of your divisions will get hit by 1-3 sets of Sagittari – and kill your troops before the enemy front divisions have even had a chance to attack.This means that more and more of the enemy’s troops from other heroes will be attacking your main hero, causing you to take more losses. But there is a way to survive! You have to figure out what kind of damage your decoy will see from dispersion, because it needs to be able to survive that and still survive enough to have someone standing for the front divisions. In order to do this, you need to know what technology the wild has and what technology you have. -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #72 Marauding Wilds 7-10 Part 2 of 8 Step 1: Scout the wild. Send a scout to the wild you’re going to maraud. Step 2: Figure out how the troops are divided. Now we need to figure out how many heroes have Sagittari, and how many of that hero’s divisions have Sagittari. How many heroes: Are there Equites? If there are no Equites, then each hero has Sagittari. If there are Equites, there is one hero that does NOT have Sagittari (as heroes with Equites ONLY have Equites). In this case, there are no Equites and it’s a level 10 wild, so there are 4 heroes with Sagittari. How many rear divisions have Sagittari: Are there Onagers or Ballistae or both? If there are no Onagers or Ballista, there are 3 divisions of Sagittari. If there are Onagers AND Ballistae, there is 1 division of Sagittari. If there are Onagers or Ballistae (but not both), there are 2 divisions of Sagittari. In this case, there are no Onagers or Ballista, so there are 3 divisions of Sagittari. -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #73 Marauding Wilds 7-10 Part 3 of 8 Do the math! Multiply the number of heroes with Sagittari by the number of divisions of Sagittari on any given hero to get the total number of divisions of Sagittari. For my scouted wild, there are a total of 12 divisions of Sagittari. Since there are 20,796 Sagittari in total according to the scout report, there are roughly 20,796 / 12 = 1,733 Sagittari in each division. Step 3: Take into consideration the non-Sagittari enemy divisions. We must also consider the damage the other divisions give. Hastati only attack one time, so there just needs to be one left over to survive. Principes attack twice, so we’ll need something in the rear division. Ballistaes attack twice if they’ve got Arming 7, as the damage penetrates the front division and some will land on the rear division. Onagers attack once. ..................................................................................................... Guide #74 Marauding Wilds 7-10 Part 4 of 8 So, for Principes or Onagers, you need one rear division to be filled. With Ballistaes, you need two. Step 4: Figure out how much damage each division will give you. With dispersion, each of your decoys will get damage from each division of the enemy’s Sagittari. The damage is 25% of the damage Sagittari are capable of giving (by the definition of dispersion), and Sagittari give at most 5 damage. You also need to take into consideration the damage boost from the Footpace technology. Footpace raises the damage by 3% per level. The approximate amount of damage the Sagittari will give your dummy is: (# of divisions with Sagittari) x (# of Sagittari in each division) x (5/4)x(1+# of footpace x 0.03) For my wild, this is 3 x 1733 x (5/4) x (1+0.3) = 8,449 HP. -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #75 Marauding Wilds 7-10 Part 5 of 8 Step 5: Figure out how many troops you need to survive that amount of damage. I’m going to use Principes in my dummy, because Sagittari give Principes less damage (70% of the damage they give other heroes) and because Principes’ larger HP means that you lose less troops. So how many Principes do I need to survive dispersion? Your Medication level comes into play, because it increases your HP, as does whatever equipment you put on your dummies. (#damage) x 0.7 / ( (400+equipment HP boosts) x (1+( medication level )/20 )) For my wild, without Equipment and with level 10 medication, I need: 8449 x 0.7 / (400 x 1.4) = 10.5 Principes to survive the dispersion. (In the example below, I forgot the 70% reduction and put in too many principes.) If you’d rather use Hastati or Equites in front, adjust the numbers accordingly: # of Hastati: (#damage) / ( (60+equipment HP boosts) x (1+( medication level )/20 )) # of Equites: (#damage) / ( (250+equipment HP boosts) x (1+( medication level )/20 )) -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #76 Marauding Wilds 7-10 Part 6 of 8 If there is a need for rear divisions in your dummies (eg, there are Principes, Ballistae, or Onagers present), you can do a similar calculation to determine how many troops you need to have in the rear division: # of Sagittari: (#damage) / ( (45+equipment HP boosts) x (1+( medication level )/20 )) # of Ballistae: (#damage) / ( (100+equipment HP boosts) x (1+( medication level )/20 )) # of Onagers: (#damage) / ( (600+equipment HP boosts) x (1+( medication level )/20 )) For my wild, the decoys each look like this: 12 Principes (or 101 Hastati) 12 Principes (or 101 Hastati) 12 Principes (or 101 Hastati) -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #77 Marauding Wilds 7-10 Part 7 of 8 For my wild, the decoys each look like this: 12 Principes (or 101 Hastati) 12 Principes (or 101 Hastati) 12 Principes (or 101 Hastati) 61 Ballistae (or 11 Onagers, or 134 Sagittari) - - Step 6: Figure out your main hero Now you need to consider your hammer. It needs to be big enough to sweep through the enemy’s largest formation at once if you want the least amount of dummies. What you use depends on your technology and equipment. In my case, I have a Saturn Rain Hat, so my primary source of damage is my 100k Sagittari stack, and my 10k x 3 Equite stacks finish it off. You can use similar calculations to determine how many Equites (or other troops) you need, but I wouldn’t do it with less than 15k Equites per stack if they’re your primary source of damage. -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #78 Marauding Wilds 7-10 Part 8 of 8 Step 7: Profit! Now that you know the number of dummies you need (from the wild level) and what troops need to be on your decoys, you can send ‘em out and maraud with low losses!The placement of your hammer depends upon the level of wild and whether or not there are Equites in the wild. Wild Level Wild Equites? Formation 7 or 8 No HDD or DHD, or DDH 7 or 8 Yes DHD 9 or 10 No DHDD or DDHD 9 or10 Yes DDHD -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #79 Things to do when you log in each day 1. Check and make sure you haven't been attacked or colonized within the last 24 hours To decolonize, if troops weren't left quartered there, do a War of Independence 2. Look through Military Situation in league tab. Check and see if any of your league mates have been attacked and may need help. 3. Look in Event Log to see what has happened with the league recently 4. Check to see if we have the Rhine Castles for exploring 5. Exchange 2 Sample Repression Horns and 10k Sesterces for 1 Repression Horn 6. Announce in LC that you're on. That way we can include you in things like Carthage Thugs or can help you if you get attacked etc -end- ..................................................................................................... Guide #80 Hero Equipment Equipment is used like armour on heroes. It is bartered in exchange for Emblems, luxuries etc. Emblems and luxuries can be purchased using gold, or earned by attacking sites like Rebel Cities in each province. Each piece of equipment is assigned to cover part of a hero's body. Different types of equipment make a hero's army faster, braver, stronger etc. Things increased by equipment are: HP, Bravery, Defence, success rate, life of troops etc. More recent types of equipment are more complex and are only active for a brief time interval. Some require the body part to be "unlocked" with Minerva Gems before the equipment can be worn. Equipment adds complexity to the game and provides new reasons to spend money. Read more about each type of equipment in the Daily Barter tab in the Quest descriptions. Heroes below a certain level eg 40 cannot have some Equipment. Some equipment has different levels eg Loyal Steed (fast travel) levels 1 to 4. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #81 Types of Hero Equipment The game developers constantly release new types or models of Hero Equipment. Some say that the Loyal Equipment is useless. The various types of equipment are: a) Lion Gear (aka King Legend) needs Lion Heart and needs rank:Legate need Parthia Emblems; attack Front Squads for Lion stuff b) Fearless Gear (aka Gift from Mars) needs Horn of Mars, and needs rank:Legate from Egypt and Carthage c) Loyal Gear (aka Minerva) is good for any rank and requires Red WSC passes, Bronze, Silver, Gold bars It must be unlocked and only lasts 7 days. d) HardCore Gear needs rank: Tribune requires Black Ore, Silver Ore e) Holy Gear (on other servers) from Reich and Gauls e) Saturn Gear (was on other servers, no longer purchasable) requires Emblems and crops f) Obsolete Gear Types: Spartan, Vulcan -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #82 Equipment Comparisons This web site compares different equipment: http://guides.questunlocked.com/caesary/2011/07/04/equipment-comparison/ -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #83 Get Equipment In This Recommended Order Get all the Lion Gear first Get them in the order of the quests: sword, shield, helmet etc. You hit Front Squads (FS) for Lion Emblems (also Rome & Parthia RCs), but its easier collecting them from the RC's if you can get some hits into them. tic has 49 Parthia & 80 Rome, all from RCs. He is trying for Lion Emblems now. You need Pacification Aglets from exchange to hit FS and you can only get 10 per day. Also you need at least 25k ponies & 5k onags ,and lv75 hero if possible. When you hit FS send d/h/d/d/d/d/d. Make the dummies 11/11/11 hast 11/11/11 sag. # 84 Creating a sesterces & crops city -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #84 Creating a sesterces & crops city A sesterces city also produces lots of resources. Usually a ses city also specializes in crops. The city is built as follows: 1. Do not include an Academy nor Stables, nor Barracks nor Workshops 2. House troops in this city and include a plaza so that battles can be launched 3. Create 3 high level Warehouses to store all the crops that are produced and to permit hiding lots of crops. 4. Set your tax rate to 45% 5. Include a Market maxed to highest level to hide lots of crops 6. Include a max level Temple and optionally a level 1 amphitheatre 7. Seize only high level water wilds 8. Worship Juno in the Temple to get higher population capacity 9. Max the level of the Farm and continually create Farm jobs forever (all the time) 10. Fill all remaining available lots with cottages. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #85 Farming Diamonds from a lvl 10 wild Diamonds drop almost every time if you proceed as follows: 1. Maraud a lvl 10 River wild with three heroes in a DHD attack 2. Equip the Hammer Hero with Armour if you have some. 3. Put a total of 33K Equites in the Hammer spread 11K/11K/11K across the front row 4. Put nothing in the back row of the Hammer. 5. Attack during a 4 x Luxury Drop event. 6. Attack over and over again, replenishing troops and heroes when necessary. 7. Smile when you get a Diamond. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #87 Code of Dracos from Front Cohorts Draco hunting can be done by up to 8 players, but everyone must know what to do. All participants share the loot. Here is what must be done: 1. One person must have 35K Equites & 3,900 Onagers & a hero that can lead them. 2. The Hammer is 10 Eq / 10 Eq / 34,980 Eq with 0 / 0 / 3,900 Onagers in back. 3. The Dummies are 1 Hastatus in each front slot and 1 Sag in each back slot. 4. The armies must go in the following order: D H DDDDDD 5. The leader must announce the coords of the FC in League Chat. 6. All players must add their Dummies within 1.5 minutes. Any players with lag should restart their browsers before saying they are ready. 7. All players must indicate that they are ready. 8. The leader launches the first Dummy and types "Launched" in LC. 9. The Hammer is launched, he types "Hammer In" in LC. 10. The remaining Dummies can then be launched in any order. Missing dummies cause lost troops from the Hammer. 11. The armies will return home according to their speed and distance. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #88 Carthage Insurgents Coords on Various Servers Only 10 rounds are permitted after each reset. Rebel Level increases each round. The name (label on Purple Dot) is blank when a reset is necessary Min. Requirements: Physical of 40 is used so must be at least 40 Player Limit: 3 and Hero Limit: 5 Reward: Wool and Silk and some non-Luxury Items Minimum Rank: Tribunes Return Time: 15 minutes Servers: Chaos/GoGoGoGo.com & SX2/CallOfRoma.com & Leviticus/CallRoma.com & 2/Playality.com locations (exact coords on many servers): [1,380]&[16,380]&[44,471]&[47,469]&[57,410]& [64,470]&[73,483]&[80,425]&[85,428]&[105,470]&[109,440] -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #89 List of Some Prestige Generators Note that troops all consume citizens, resources and sesterces. Barbicans are RECOMMENDED because they cost 0 sesterces and some resources and because its the only fortification that has HP. troops: 1 hast=1 prestige 1 sag=2 prestige 1 principes=19 prestige 1 equites=11 prestige 1 ballista = 8 prestige 1 speculatore = ? prestige walls fortification: 1 trap =1 prestige 1 barbican = 9 prestige 1 rockfall = 36 prestige . -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #90 Getting Emblems From Rebel Cities Equipment (armour for your heroes) is a main part of the game. Emblems must be exchanged for Equipment. So a player needs Emblems, hundreds of Emblems. The first Emblems needed are from Rome and Parthia. Emblems are part of the rewards for attacking the Rebel Cities (RCs). The rank of Legate is necessary to exchange Emblems. But Emblems can be gathered long before the rank of Legate is made. By the time, a player becomes Legate, it is possible to have gathered hundreds of Emblems. In fact, it is desirable to do do. Attacking Rebel Cities is described in Guide 60. A Black WSC Pass is used each time a Rebel City is attacked. Troop losses are only 20% of those expected. Attacking a Rebel City is very similar to attacking a WSC which is described in Guide 59. Most players use the same army configurations to attack RCs and WSCs. Hero Experience is gained from both RCs and WSCs. But Emblems are only gained at RCs. Attacking rounds 1 to 20 only requires small armies. A player can locate a city near each RC to reduce troop travel time. Troops losses are minimal, so start attacking RC's with a rank lower than Legate. A good goal is two Emblems per playing session. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #91 Quickly Check a List of NPC Coordinates It is often desirable to check the status of a list of locations. For example the list of Carthage Insurgants to see any attack rounds are available: [1,380]&[16,380]&[44,471]&[47,469]&[57,410]&[64,470]& [73,483]&[80,425]&[85,428]&[105,470]&[109,440] Just whisper (send) this list of coords as a private message to someone in your league who is not online or to me (KoldAdvice). Then go to World View (not the whole world), and click on the first set of blue coordinates. The game will take you there. Then click on the next set of coordinates. If it moves too slowly, just refresh your browser, resend the list and it will move very fast. This technique has many uses. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #92 Equipment (Armour) Lion Set The King Legend (Lion Gear) is the first set of armour to earn. One set arms only 1 hero. To get Parthia and Rome Emblems, a lord should have a city in both Parthia and Italia that are close to the Rebel City to speed up the return trips. Lion Emblems and Hearts can only be earned from an AoI. To attack AoI Light Armoured to get Lion Hearts, you must rank 4th Legion Chief. To get the last few piece of Lion Gear, a rank of 4th Legion chief is necessary. Gear Rank Luxury Lion (Rome,Parthia Emblems) Boots Legate 10 Dye 1 Emblem 10 0 Shield Legate 10 Spice 2 Emblems 0 20 Helmet Legate 10 Wine 3 Emblems 10 20 Armour 4th LC 10 Wool 4 Hearts 0 40 Sword 4th LC 10 Silk 5 Hearts 20 30 -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #93 Equipment (Armour) Fearless Set to be written -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #94 Maximize your POT Heroes 1) Try to get the highest POT hero you can get. The lowest POT is 3 and the highest POT is 8. Keep checking in the Amphitheatre as sometimes they have POT hero's on there. You can get POT 8 hero's if you attack using 300 red WSC passes and having a lot of luck or beating somebody's POT hero who has very low loyalty points. 2) Level Up your POT hero to level 255 this permits your POT hero to lead a big army such as 125k/125k/125k Hastatus. 3) Assign Trait Points Very Strategically Hero's have 3 types of trait points: Sway, Bravery and Parry. Each is unique and depending on which traits you set will factor greatly in battle. SWAY increases the troop count that you can carry. BRAVERY increases attack power PARRY increases defence (continued in Guide 94 Best Traits for a POT 8 Hero) -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #95 Best Traits for a POT 8 Hero MOST people raise SWAY and BRAVERY thinking: more troops + more attack power = success But this is incorrect. It is very easy to determine if someone has chosen this path because they will have 170k ponies. The trait that stands out is actually PARRY. Why would it be there in the first place? each is important that's why it is there, its about choosing the balance correctly. I have found that the longer the hero stays in the battle it seams to increase in attack power. Strong players assign traits in this order: PARRY, SWAY then BRAVERY. High defence, decent amount of troops and lastly attack power; remember: the longer the hero stays in battle seems to increase in attack power. For example, A POT 8 with PARRY=353, SWAY=382 & BRAVERY=283 can lead a total of 103,870 Ponies; large enough with high defence and good attack power. This hero can outdo a hero with high attack and sway by staying in longer and losing a lot less troops; remember their parry is 23. The recommended POT 8 HERO has a sway of 353 with Bravery of 283 etc. Try it! -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #96 Wild Attack Sheet (To be Printed Out and Kept Handy) Army-to-send Luxury http://prntscr.com/ctr3ik Wild Wild Troop Min# or Lossless# Item (NB send enough Dummy Armies Level Range Ponies Ponies to match # of wild armies) (Equiv.Hastatus) x 3 x 3 1 G1 1 - 50 4 11 (No Lux, No Treasure Maps) 2 G1 51 - 100 10 40 Dye , No Tr.Maps 3 G2 101 - 500 40 130 Spices, Tr.Maps 4 Y2 501 -1,000 75 1.0k Wine 5 Y2 1,001 - 2k 200 1.6k Wool 6 Y3 2,001 - 5k 720 2.0k Silk 7 Y3 5,001 - 10k 1600 6.0k Furs 8 P3 10,001 - 40k 4k 13.0k Incense 9 P4 41,001 - 100k 10k 40.0k Ivory 10 P4 100,001 - 300k 30k 120.0k Diamond ^^ The column above is Aglet Colour (Grey,Yellow,Purple) and # of wild armies -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #97 Absolute Minimum Troops to win a Rebel City's Rounds 1-10 Players with small pony armies can begin to attack Rebel Cities with the troops shown below. But these armies must only be used to attack rounds 1 to 10. This minimum army setup is popular because it can be easily remembered; Send 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90, 100x3 from rounds 1-10 for the minimum ponies needed. Some players equip 10 heroes each with an army listed above. Then the 10 attacks can be sent out very rapidly if the Plaza is level 10 (or 2 Plazas of Level 5 in 2 cities). This stops other players from stealing the rewards from the valuable round 10. A large number (say 40/city) of inexpensive low level heroes are quite advantageous in this and many other situations. But don't upgrade these heroes, only upgrade your POT heroes. -end- -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #98 Rhine Castles The Rhine Castles were added to encourage league member participation. If one member has a big enough army, other members can supply the dummy armies. But beware, enemies can choose to defend the castles. Each time a Castle attack succeeds, all (except recent) league members can Explore the Castle once for free and get valuable rewards which get better for higher ranking members. But exploring stops when an enemy league takes the Castle. A special prize to all league members for the league that holds a castle for the longest time period each day. Great league participation. Notes: 1. Each Dummy army must be 3x111 Hastatus plus 3x111 Sagitarrius. 2. Best attack mode is DDD DDD HHHH DDD. 3. Each Huge Castle attack consumes 1 Gold Horn and 1 million sesterces from the League Depository. 4. Hero limit is 90 for the Huge Castle. 5. A simple attack of only Dummy Armies is possible under special circumstances. 6. The 4 hammers must contain approximately this number of Equivalent Hastatus troops (maybe less) Equivalent Hastatus: EH EH EH EH EH Castle Horn enemy H#1 H#2 H#3 H#4 Huge Gold ? 1,000k 100k 100k 100k Medium Silver ? 1,000k 50k 50k 50k Thin Bronze 7,800 90k - - - All it takes to beat the Thin is 1 Hammer and no dummy armies. Configuration (5k Eq/ 2k Eq / 2k Eq with empty back row) The Thin Rhine castle has only 3 small armies, each one is: 129 Has / 1034 Has / 129 Has 27 Ball / 213 Ball / 27 Ball -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #99 Axis (Red Dot) (FearLess SkullBearer) Rewards Front Squad: Rome & Parthia Emblems, Lion Emblem Front Squadron: Incense, Dye, Lion Emblem Front Cohort: Wine, Lion Emblem, Code of Draco Front Division: Wine, Lion Emblem, Code of Draco Light Armored Squad: Rome & Parthia Emblems, Code of Draco, Lion Heart Light Armored Squadron: Incense, Dye, Code of Draco,Lion Heart Light Armored Cohort: Wine, Incense, Lion Heart, Law of the 12 Tables Light Armored Division: Silk, Furs, Lion Heart, Law of the 12 Tables Heavy Armed Squad: Egypt & Carthage Emblems, Law of the 12 Tables, Fearlessness Emblem Heavy Armed Squadron: Furs, Incense, Law of the 12 Tables, Fearlessness Emblem Heavy Armed Cohort: Furs, Incense, Fearlessness Emblem, Roman Law Heavy Armed Division: Furs, Incense, Fearlessness emblem, Roman Law Royal Squad: Furs, Incense, Roman law, Law of the 12 Tables, Horn of Mars Royal Squadron: Ivory, Diamond, Roman Law, Law of the 12 Tables, Horn of Mars -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #100 Principe Armies to beat WSC Rounds 1-20 (multiply by 3 for Equites) WSC means War Simulation Colosseum: Send 3 times this # of Principes to win each round (better if 3 slots have 10% 80% 10%) Round # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10* 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20* Principes/slot 5 5 5 10 10 10 15 15 15 65 50 60 70 80 100 120 140 160 180 500 1) * means send 2 Dummies during Book reward rounds 10 & 20 2) Losses are 0 (even if you lose) attacking any WSC (good for practise) 3) Many players set up armies for the first 9 rounds in a city & 11-19 in a 2nd city 4) Don't wait for each army to return before sending all the first 9 armies per group. 5) Locate these 2 cities in Parthia & Italy for Emblems. 6) Use POT heroes for rounds 10 & 20 so that they get the extra Experience. 7) These same armies can attack Rebel Cities for emblems (but losses are 20%). 8) Attack travel times are 2 minutes but return home times depend on the distance. 9) Don't tarry when attacking for book rewards or someone might steal them. 10) Round reward is 50% training speed-up -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #101 Axis Rewards Axis NPC Rewards 1* Front Squad, Rome & Parthia s x2 & Lion Es 2* Front Squadron Dye & Spices x2, Lion E 3 Front Cohort Wine x2, Lion E, Code:Draco 4 Front Division Wine x2, Lion E, Code:Draco. 5 LA Squad Rome & Parthia Es x2, Code:Draco, L.Heart 6 LA Squadron Dye & Spices x2, Code:Draco, L.Heart 7 LA Cohort Wine & Spices x2, L.Heart, Law of 12 Ts 8 LA Division Silk & Furs x3, L.Heart, Law of 12 Ts 9 HA Squad Egypt & Carthage x3, & Fearless E, Law of 12 Ts 10 HA Squadron Furs & Incense x3, Law of 12 Tables, Fearless E 11 HA Cohort Furs & Incense x3, Fearless E,R.Law 12 HA Division Furs & Incense x4, Fearless E, Roman Law 13 Royal Squad Egypt & Carthage E x4, Law of 12 Ts,R.Lw, Horn:Mars 14 Royal Squadron Ivory & Diamond x4, Roman Law, Law of 12 Ts, Horn of Mars 15 Royal Cohort Ivory & Diamond x4, Law of 12 Ts, Roman Law, Horn of Mars. 16 Royal Division Ivory & Diamond x5, R.Law, Law of 12 Ts, Horn"Mars -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #102 How Experience Raises the Level of Your Hero The best heroes are high POT level 255 heroes. They are even better when they have the optimum assignment of UTP points and the best equipment. The game suggests that we fight the WSCs and RCs to gain experience without losing many troops. See Guide 95 for the best UTP settings for a POT 8 hero. The level of a hero increases as his experience grows. A hero gets more experience in 3 ways: by losing troops while fighting, by serving time as Consul and by training troops while he/she is Consul. You also get Prestige by making troops & fortifications. The amount of experience gained by the hero Consul for training 1 of each type of troop & fortification is shown below (from pango): Hastatus 8 Sagittarius 25 Trap 8 Equite 66 Ballista 48 Barbican 54 Principe 117 Onager 227 Rockfall 116 Speculatore 20 -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #103 Glory Equipment Reference http://www.playality.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5646new glory equip - don't get boots, amours, helmets etc -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #104 Duplicate City Names In time of war, even our small members will be sending suicide armies. The enemy cannot see the size of the attacking army. Everyone should use the same city names. This is to confuse the enemy in time of war. All the enemy sees when we attack him is the name of our city. If we have different city names, the enemy can look up the city in the ranking list and can know if it is a weak member or a strong member who is attacking him. If we all have the same city names, he doesn't know who is attacking him and cannot decide who to defend against. So we should ALL use city names from this list, and none other: ۩1, ۩2, ۩3, ۩4, ۩5, ۩6, ۩7, ۩8, ۩9, ۩10 Thank you -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #105 Best SetUp for new Roma Colosseum Challenges The best setup is F 500k Has 5 Has 80k Has R - 8.5k Sag - The Pot-8 hero should be level 255 with a Hard-Core Helmet and the rest Fearless equipment with accessories (Loyal, Hold, Glory etc). maximize the Sway and set Bravery a little higher than Parry If you don't have a Hard-Core helmet use a Saturn hat and the rest Fearless equipment with accessories and use the setup below: F 500k Has 5 Has 80k Has R - 8.5k Sag - In both cases, if you have spare Buffers, use them. Never attack with Equites. They should just be used to attack wilds. If you are level 4 you can put 4 Heroes in the Arena, but a system bug might drop your # of heroes to 2. Then, you must refresh and add them back in. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #106 Coordinated Attacks (or Joint Attacks) One day, all members of this league will be called to participate in attacking an enemy. Some will provide a big army (called a Hammer) and some will provide small armies (called Dummy armies:Guide 25). It is important to learn how to coordinate these attacks. We cannot just ask everyone to hit a certain coordinate. It is important that the Hammers and the Dummy armies arrive in the correct sequence, regardless of who we are attacking. This is not a trivial matter. The communication and the actual sending of the armies must be practised, so that it is very easily done (without error) when we are fighting. A good way to practise coordinated attacks is by participating in our daily attacks on the Carthage Thugs (Guide 41). Not only will we learn how to coordinate our attacks, but the participants will randomly get the following rewards: Luxuries such as Dye, Spices, Wine, Wool Medium Packs of captives a Sample Repression Horn to replace the one used Each time you participate, you will need a Sample Repression Horn. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #107 Joint League attack on Carthage Thugs at 8:30 am server time DAILY Everyone in the league is welcome to join in on this attack It will be Daily at 8:30 pm EST (New York time) in the evening All you need to participate is: 1) be of Aedile rank 2) have a hero with 30 physical 3) have a Dummy army containing 3 Hastatus and 3 Sagittarius 4) be available at 8:30 5) have a Plaza upgraded as high as possible 6) have a copy of our Guide 41 7) be willing to follow orders (lol) If you have more heroes each with a Dummy Army, you can join us for more rounds I hope to see you next time. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #108 Levelling Up POT Heroes (especially POT 8) Situation: You have a POT8 but it's only lvl 5, what's best to lvl it up? Solution: Instead of attacking WSCs (War Simulation Colosseums), it's better to farm lvl 3/4 for Treasure Maps initially, while you unlock gear spots on the hero. If you have lion sword and shield gear, then hit Light Armored Squads once you're at level 40. Once you can put swords/shields on it, put it to farm resources that you need on lvl8/9 wild's until its lvl 80 or so. Then start hitting Light Armored Squad / Heavy Armored Squad with it It's not the fastest way but you'll gain Treasure Maps, Reversion Acts and various coloured Aglets along the way plus resources This way is much more efficient then just setting it on Red Dot (Axis) asap which takes lots of clicks and dummy reloading -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #109 Hourly Crops Eaten For Each Pack of Troops Be sure that you produce enough crops per hour before opening a pack of troops. The hourly crop production is the green (or red) number under and to the right of the # of crops that you have. Crops/Hr Pack Type #Has #Equ #Prin #Sag #Ball #Onag #Spec 1625 Mini-Pack 250 0 0 150 0 0 40 5000 Medi-Pack 0 33 241 177 0 0 10750 Larg-Pack 0 128 43 0 308 18 0 85160 Giant-Military 0 2000 0 0 1000 300 0 4250 1000 Sagittar 0 0 0 1000 1500 100 Equites 0 100 3400 1000 Hastatus 1000 -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #110 Carthage Insurgents: Incense, Pot-5 etc League members of rank Tribune who send Dummies share in the rewards. But one or two members will lose 1500 Equites from their Hammers in rounds 5, more in 10. Rank Required: Tribune Formation for lvl 1-4 and 6-9 is DDH H needs 21k Equites enemy 1-4 is 16k H 11k S 2.6k E 2k B enemy 6-9 is 20.8k H 13.5k S 5.2k W 2k B formation for lvl 5 and lvl 10 is d/d/h/d/h btw enemy 5: 52k H 47k S 24K E 12k B enemy 10: 65k E 13k P 32.5k B 6.5k Onag Minimum Hero Level: 50 recommended Real losses: 30% of actual Physical Requirement: 40 Heroes Limit: 6 Fee: SR Horn round 5: DDHDH, I sent last H, lost 963 Equites round 10: DDHHH, Roy send H:57k Eq and H:42k H, 40k S I sent last H: 27k Eq, showed a loss of 10,768 Equites; real loss: 3230 Eq (Aesculapius cured 1,938 Equites) I got: TM, LargePack, 40k Ses, Pot-5 Hero Reward: SR Horn, Wool, Silk, Medi-Packs, Large-Pack, Incense, TM,40k Ses, Pot-5 -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #111 Reminders About Farming Wilds as a reminder...speedfarming 3/4s can be done with no balli in wild and lowest has/sag count you can find in them....using 50/50/50 princ x 1 for lvl 3 and x2 for lvl 4 for no losses (meaning 2 heroes in arena attacking lvl 4 wild)...if you get losses find easier wild another reminder: if you don't own a sword...you can use a lvl 9 holy ring instead to farm lvl 10s with has/sag..i use 25k in each division when farming this way -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #112 Best Targets for Luxuries & Other Stuff Many of these require coordinated League attacks. Spices -Thieves, Thugs Levels 1-5 Wine -Thieves, Gangsters, River Wilds Level 4 Wool -Gangsters, Thugs Levels 6-10 Silk -Gangsters, Thugs Levels 6-10, Light Armored Division Furs -Carthage Insurgents, Light Armored Division Incense -Carthage Insurgents Levels 1-5 Ivory -Carthage Revolt Main Force (CRMF) Diamond - Do (CRMF), CR Main Revolts(CRMR) Pot-5 Hero -Carthage Insurgents Level 10 Code of Draco -Front Division Lion Hearts -Light Armored Squad Emblem:Parthia-Parthia RC Emblem:Rome -Italia RC -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #113 What is the Peloponnesian War Item used for? This Item increases a Hero's EXP (Experience) by 10,000 or by 30%, whichever is more. It is similar to, but better than, the Greco-Persians Wars Item which increases a Hero's EXP by 1,000 or 8% whichever is more. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #114 Easy Wine, Wool, Silk: Thieves & Gangsters Reset: Every 9:30 minutes Thieves Coords: [62,452] [134,157] [259,136] [353,235] [372,78] [73,326] [286,296] [474,378] [260,458] [90,39] Gangster Coords: [72,326] [284,141] [264,458] [471,378] [44,465] [367,87] [355,235] [281,299] [123,154] [74,33] Minimum Rank: Aedile Entry Fee: Treasure Map Physical: 20 Both Drop: Treasure Map, 100-Packs of Has, Sag & Equites Gangsters Drop Dye, Spices, Wine, Wool, Silk Thieves Drop: Dye, Spices, Wine Advance Time: 2 minutes Return Time: 15 minutes Army Sequence: DH Other D's (Dummy, Hammer, Other Dummies) Drops Change: They get worse if you attack more often than once a day Armies to Use: Round 1: 1/1/500 Equites Round 2: 1/1/1000 Equites -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #115 Colosseum Strategy for Dictators and under This guide is for players without any equipment (gear). Attack players with a low rank level or players with same rank or lower than you. Always try the person at the bottom of your list first. If you attack the person at the top and win, you take their place and will face 10 harder players. You can check on ranking of an opponent to see how many wins/losses he has. You get a new list when you win or lose a battle with someone in the list. Your 10 battle attempts are refreshed at Goat time each day. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #116 Colosseum Strategy for those above Dictator This guide is for players with equipment (gear) tba -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #117 Faculty: Contribution by Troop Type The maximum number of troops that a hero can lead is called his faculty. A hero can lead more Hastatus than Equites. This guide explains how to calculate what combination of troops will fill a hero's faculty. Just multiply the number of each type of troop by his "faculty count" from the table below: Troop Type Faculty Count Hastatus 1 Equite 3 Principes 6 Sagittarius 1 Ballista 4 Onager 8 The Faculty Count is also the number of Citizens taken from the population to create (or train) 1 of the troop type. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #118 Troops & Army Sequence for Dracos from LAS LAS means Light Armored Squad. The LAS at [473,75] has 56k Principes and 14k Onagers. Required rank to hit LAS is 4th Legion Chief. (Note that you can also get code of Dracos from a Front Division, with a smaller army but same setup. Mere Quaestors can hit a Front Division. The FD at [413,35] has 40k Principes and 10k Onagers). To win when attacking a LAS: Use army sequence of D H D D D D . to attack the Light Armored Squad Where each D is a normal Dummy Army with 3 Hastatus and 3 Sagittarius. But the Hammer (H) is 115k Hastatus / 1 Hastatus / 25k Equites and an empty back row. But make sure to put armor (eg Lion Equipment) on the Hero of the Hammer. The Hero level for the Hammer was 111. The losses are: 558 Hastatus died and 438 Equites died. The battle lasted 3 rounds and of course all the Dummy Armies died. -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #119 Preparations for Massive War 1. Stop messing with enemy lakes 2. Start making foot troops and Onagers; PILE UP TROOPS 3. Move towns to stronghold at League Central 4. Set automatic engagement protocol - OFF (i.e. Uncheck Head-On) 5. Trib towns to league mates - diverse on time zones (50% on USA and far east players, 50% on Europe and middle east players) 6. Uncolo all farms, so that all players could use them 7. Never defend alone, always communicate with other players 8. Do not contact extra small players for help 9. Only post battle coords in private chat 10. Do not hesitate to call league host - but all contact in private 11. Battle ranking - NO-ONE JOINS WITH HORSES...once u establish who is on line communicate with them details about heroes. 12. All VH, ELDER and official MUST say when on line -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #120 Attacking Front Squadron Loot: Luxes (Dye, Spices) and maybe even a Lion Emblem Minimum Rank: Quaestor Fee: 1 Pacification Aglet per lord Physical: 40 Experience: 630k Losses: 20% of those shown travel Time: Go:2 minutes Return:15 minutes Bummy: can send 2 dummies and no Hammers and will get loot if Hammer is sent should send the first Dummy and a Dummy after the H. Army to send: Dummies should be 3H 3H 3H | 3S 3S 3S Army config should be DHDDDD Hammer of Equites|Onags: 25k 25k 25k | 3k 3k 3k -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #121 Rapidly sending Dummy/Hammer For Castles, Forts & Axis When you need to send fast att on castle or on axis you can use keyboard with mouse (as combo ) so this is how it is done: - 1st you go on coords if it is axis or in report/castle/choose castle on which 2 send/click launch (you enter in it) - 2nd click and hold "enter" on your keyboard - 3rd choose hero or dummy and click send (I use this for castle) - 4th if you are sending more heros or dummys (this is for axis only) keep holding "enter button" and repeat procedure under the third dash * this one can be used only on castle* even faster when sending dummy - 1st you go in report/castle/choose castle on which 2 send/click lunch (you enter in it) - 2nd click and hold "enter" on your keyboard - 3rd choose hero or dummy and click send (repeat clicking send with mouse button) (most players use this on castles) -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #131 Cor II attacking RCs The COR II RCs are very different from the previous COR I RCs No troops are lost when attacks these RCs Each RC can only be attacked once per day The 3 RCs have different troop counts # Region Front Middle Rear RC01 Hispania 5 Has 1000 Sag 1000 Has RC02 Carthage 50 Has 1000 Sag 1000 Sag RC03 Gauls 500 Has 1000 Sag 1000 Sag Remember that 1 Has= 5 Equit, 1 Equit = 5 Sag, 1 Sag = 5 Has Your leftmost armies are in front. Enemy's leftmost armies are in front -end- ....................................................................................................... Guide #132 Cor II attacking Tower of Babel You can do most rounds of TOB lvl 1-20 in just 2 rounds. If you have on your demi: You: Div 1 - 1 prince Div 2 - Main force Div 3 - Empty Enemy: Div 1 - killed by firewave round 1, Div 2 - killed by main round 1, Div 3- killed by firewave round 2. Enemy 2k sag? 3k Sag 3k Has??? -end- ......................................................................................................................... END OF GUIDES ......................................................................................................................... SECRETS ......................................................................................................................... Secret #01 How to find an attacker's coords This works for any attack that has already occurred. For example see any attack in the league's Military Situation tab 1. Click on the Battle Replay button 2. Go up in the URL and copy the portion between the "=" and the the end including the ".xml" for example: "184.75.209.42/report//81/33/81bff3b0a424eb42336ea7e217989182.xml" 3. Paste the copied text into the URL field to replace what's there. 4. Hit Enter. You will see a long page of txt 5. The attacker is seen on the text group "