Random Tips I learned...

[joemama1512]

This is a random assortment of hints and tips that took me an embarassingly long time to realize, that you all might find useful.

1) You can recruit your warchief from ANY military building. I always thought it had to be a training center. My 8 yr old informed me otherwise... ;-)

2) You can actually buy out Kobold owned areas using gold once you are friendly with them. You get to keep the kobolds! This was playing as Boar so I am not sure this is a normal situation or not, need to test.

3) Upgrading a building affects ALL whatevers in the zone. Normally not significant, but Merchants can take advantage. By putting your market and trading center in the same zone, upgrading one of them will buff all 4 (well, 5) merchants, and upgrading the second one will upgrade all 6 twice over. Thus you can get a pretty significant efficiency boost from having both in one area. (thats 40% buff for 6 merchants is like 2.4 free virtual merchants)
This can also affect the Overcrowding research that can be gained by Mimirwhatever and Snake stolen lore.


Would love to hear other tips that people have discovered.

[Scorpiuscat]

Very nice tips!

[bailian]

ill come back to this game when they remove the coin building upkeep garbage the game just does not have the econamy to support this stupid feature

[ShakeNBakeUK]

Originally posted by potato rotato:

ill come back to this game when they remove the coin building upkeep garbage the game just does not have the econamy to support this stupid feature

looks like you could use one of the OP's tips ;)

[joemama1512]

Thanks for keeping the tips coming!

One more: If doing the Lazy Villager conquest maps, make more Healer huts than usual as they gather food when not healing, even in lazy villager mode.

Upgrading the huts isn't very helpful in that regard but the forge tool does increase their food output by 15%, which would give them 4.6/2.76 food production... close to a generic hunter lodge.

[Sildraug]

Originally posted by Hollow:

...and if you get overcrowding and have 2 longship docks in the same territory only the one with a lighthouse is safe while the other still gets attacked.

That's a corner case I hadn't messed with yet, thanks, good to know.

[Ink Drinker]

Originally posted by nothing to lose.:

Make sure to disembark your sailors like 1-2 months after the Kraken event has been announced, so you won't lose them and your longship docks won't be damaged. Also, building a lighthouse on a longship dock makes it completely immune to Kraken attacks. However, you can only have one lighthouse.

you can have as many light house as you want, just build one, pass the tile to a ally, build 2nd one, ask to return the last one

[Ink Drinker]

or just let the tile with light house be decolonized

[>^._.^<]

Originally posted by Ink Drinker:

Originally posted by nothing to lose.:

Make sure to disembark your sailors like 1-2 months after the Kraken event has been announced, so you won't lose them and your longship docks won't be damaged. Also, building a lighthouse on a longship dock makes it completely immune to Kraken attacks. However, you can only have one lighthouse.

you can have as many light house as you want, just build one, pass the tile to a ally, build 2nd one, ask to return the last one

wtf does that really work? do you even get double comm influence from it?

[joemama1512]

Another one: If playing Conquest with Lazy Villagers, you can create more Healer Huts than usual for most clans.
While villagers cannot gather, healers will do so when idle. They also get a boost from their forged tool which includes a food gathering buff.

This allows you to employ more idle villagers onto food if you don't have enough real food work areas to function.

[my wifes nenen enjoyer]

Originally posted by bailian:

ill come back to this game when they remove the coin building upkeep garbage the game just does not have the econamy to support this stupid feature

What do you mean lmao. I beat extreme on conquest surely you can do it.

[Mmm]

My two tips are about feasts:
1) don't forget about feasts
2) don't keep feasts for latter or for just in case

[joemama1512]

If playing Rats (or snake) you can use Overcrowding to stack 2 markets and 2 trade posts on a single tile. If upgraded will give a whopping 80% boost to EACH merchant! With 12 merchants you are making almost 48 gold total.


If trying Snake conquest the first mission is the awful Find-The-Boar and no gold making allowed map.
I recommend rushing top path and getting the Savage Lures tech. This gives you two hunting stations that have ZERO UPKEEP that cannot catch on fire! That helps keep your upkeep to a minimum. Draconic Fury is good too of course for clearing with Signy but I found the infrastructure assistance better.

Then, check the map for Jotunn and work your way over to them and drop a well or two. Since its very hard to get gold and build up even scirmishers to beat the boar, instead you can just befriend the jotnir and let him do the heavy lifting for you. This tip applies to any clan since the AI is crippled in this map and cant really do anything.