When to travel

[Storm0267]

Im on island 3, its mid summer i think, what should i do, should i travel to new lands or should i go back and forth to earlier lands to build up my funds and wst till the first of spring to travel. Im likely near 100 days in total on all islands combined, first reign.

[Sarph]

Couple of things to take into account:

1) Are you playing Shogun? If so, you're completely handicapped during winter unless you already have a banker with a nice stock. Traveling to a new island during fall is going to be really slow/boring/potentially a reign loss.

2) You can only bring 3 sets of squires/knights - do you have iron and knight upgrade available via the forge? If so, spending some days to upgrade the army makes it easier to do earlier portal assaults on new islands, allowing you to push for clearing the dockside in good time and giving you lots of breathing room for completing that island.

3) Are you traveling to a completely new island or is there a base set up already? What is your economy going to look like initially? Again, if you're playing Medieval you can just set up Pikemen and winter will be much less of a problem.

[Storm0267]

Forst playthrough no iron, going to island 4 medieval. Mid summer or so

[Sarph]

In that case you should be able to grab iron on 4th island before winter, and with pikemen you should be fine building up a base to survive the first winter. Good luck :)

[Storm0267]

Cool. After i get iron ill clear out island 4 then the earlier islands.

[Storm0267]

I do wonder what about going back to colect gold do i wasye days traveling by boat

[Sarph]

Season changes at the same pace no matter what island you are on, however the more days you spend on a single island the stronger the Greed becomes on that island. Going back and collecting gold doesn't really make much sense since you can only bring a full bag no matter if it's from 1st or 3rd island, let's say. What you can consider is going back to an easier island and spending winter there (with not much progress), because it is 'safer' to do so on an easier island than one of the harder ones where Greed waves will be stronger by default.

[Storm0267]

Collect gold idea is to fill the bank up, like go to all farms and hunters and bank the gold then get on the boat before the day change thus saving time

[Howru]

If you are in the middle of the summer (and you could see total days on pause screen) - move to next island. You will have ~20 days to prepare for winter. That's more than enough to build 2-3 Iron walls on each side, hire 50-70 archers and stockpile 200+ gold in bank, to comfortably spend winter while pushing portals.

[Storm0267]

Thanks, i wish it wad not only in roman numerals its something ill have to look up

[MasterTJ123]

What happens if I travel to a new island with no base on it? How many Greeds are supposed to spawn there? I'm close to day 100 and going to the fifth island, but I think I will not have enough time to build walls and towers before the Greeds come...

[Storm0267]

you could be swarmed. i wish you luck. be sure to go with a full sack of gold no matter what

[Corvid79]

If it's mid summer that should give you plenty of time to get to the fourth island, you have all of fall before winter. I usually try to make it to the fourth island by fall to get iron. I then stay on the fourth island until after winter stock piling money, hire people and improving the Kingdom. You do not lose days travelling on boat, and as far as roman numerals it tells you what day you are on if you click on the map.

[Corvid79]

Originally posted by MasterTJ123:

What happens if I travel to a new island with no base on it? How many Greeds are supposed to spawn there? I'm close to day 100 and going to the fifth island, but I think I will not have enough time to build walls and towers before the Greeds come... :aira:

Greed do go by the day count, it also depends on difficulty setting. If you've never been to island 5 and established no base, you might have a small handful of greed the first night but could get crushed the second night. I would wait until after a blood moon and sail out on a peace day before night fall before I made that attempt. That gives you a full day to set up a good camp before the greed get there.