Your name in this world

Every world gives you its own name, separate from your account. You can type one yourself or let the anonymizer pick a random name for you.

Player or AI? Nobody knows

Real players and AI lords look exactly the same on the map, in reports and on the leaderboard. You never know for sure whether your neighbour is a human.

Want to stay hidden yourself? Use the anonymizer and keep the village names the game gives you. A self-chosen name or a renamed village can give you away as a real player.

Four peoples

Each people has its own units, buildings, look and strengths. Your people also decides the colour of the land around your villages.

Humans+30% food · army up to 12.0k population

Insects+15% wood · army up to 36.0k population

Kzar-Vath+60% iron · army up to 10.0k population

Necromancers+60% gold · army up to 24.0k population

Your starting spot

You start in a ring around the centre of the map, between the AI villages. The game already points at a good spot: not too far out and not too close to other players. You may pick a different one.

Building and upgrading

Tap a building, or an empty spot, to build or upgrade it. Every level costs more resources and takes longer. Each village builds one thing at a time.

Everything costs a mix of the five resources: wood, stone, iron, food, gold.

Points

Every building level gives points. Points decide your place on the leaderboard, and how big your village looks on the map.

Town Hall

The heart of your village and worth the most points. Every level makes building 5% faster: at level 15 a building takes about 49% of the normal time. You also rename your village here.

Sawmill, Quarry, Iron Mine, Farm

Your four production buildings. They produce every hour, also while you are not playing. Higher levels produce more and let you store more.

Bank

Your source of gold. Gold is the scarcest resource early on, and mages, elite units and the noble coin ask a lot of it.

Barracks

Here you research and train your troops. Higher levels unlock more units and train faster (level 10 trains about 3.5 times as fast as level 1).

Market

Trade resources through offers (you get 3 fresh lists a day) and send merchants with resources to any village.

Castle

Mages, elite units and the noble come from here, and here you mint the noble coin. Every level also adds +5% defence.

Wall

Every level adds +8% defence. Mages can knock levels off it, and flying units fly right over it.

Research

Before you can train a unit, you research it in its own building: the barracks or the castle. Each village researches for itself, one unit at a time.

Scout, Spearman, Swordsman are ready from the start.

Training troops

Pick how many you want in the barracks or castle. Units cost resources and population, and come out one by one.

Defenders and attackers

The humans as an example (every people has its own versions, see the unit book).

Defenders: Spearman, Swordsman, Archer, Heavy Cavalry. Keep them home to protect your village.

Attackers: Light Cavalry, Heavy Knight, Wizard. Send them out to raid and conquer.

The unit book (last chapter) shows every number.

Population limit

Each village can only feed a limited army. Big units take more room than small ones.

• Humans: 12.0k
• Insects: 36.0k
• Kzar-Vath: 10.0k
• Necromancers: 24.0k

Each people fights differently

Every people gets the same strength for the same resources, but in very different pieces:

• Insects: a third of the price and a third of the strength. They come in swarms.
• Necromancers: half the price, half the strength.
• Kzar-Vath: a quarter more expensive, a quarter stronger. Few but hard.
• Humans: the middle ground.

Disbanding troops

Too many troops, or the wrong kind? Disband them from the castle menu to free up population. You do not get the resources back, but a disbanded nobleman returns his noble coin.

Health and healing

Big units do not die at once. A giant eagle that takes damage stays in your village wounded and heals 100 health every 3 game hours.

Mages and the wall

Mages need castle level 8 and are strong attackers. After a won battle the surviving mages knock levels off the enemy wall, at most 5 per attack:

• Humans: 100 wizards per level
• Insects: 300 hive shamans per level
• Kzar-Vath: 80 blood mages per level
• Necromancers: 200 necromancers per level

Elite units

Every people has one giant, trained in the castle from level 10: Giant Eagle, Spider Fortress, Dragon, Reaper. Three giant eagles match one dragon. Against anything that flies (dragon, giant eagle, dragonfly and hornet riders, and their undead kin) only bows, flying units, magic and elite fight at full strength; every other troop fights at 50%.

Necromancers raise the dead

After a battle, necromancers call fallen troops back to life, their own and the enemy's, in defence and in attack. A fallen dragon rises as a zombie dragon, a fallen eagle as a zombie eagle. Necromancers never raise each other.

Reading villages

The bigger a village looks, the more points it has. The colour of the land shows which people lives there.

Land and speed

Troops march 25% faster on the land of their own people and 25% slower on foreign land.

Forests and mountains

Mountains block the way: troops on foot or on horseback walk around them. Only flying units go straight over.

Forests slow troops down, so marching armies usually go around them too. Flying units do not care.

Tapping a village

Tap any village on the map to see its owner and points, with buttons to attack, scout, support it or send resources.

Scouting

Scouts show you the troops and stores of another village. Each people's scouts have a fixed chance to stay unseen; sending more does not change it:

• Scout: 10% unseen
• Mosquito Swarm: 100% unseen
• Cloaklizard: 50% unseen
• Death Raven: 75% unseen

An unseen scout leaves no trace. A spotted one fights the enemy scouts. Each scout also has a trick: human scouts may carry off some loot, cloaklizards sometimes kill in silence, ravens snatch insects, and mosquitoes wear out on the way (almost all of them burn up when they scout Kzar-Vath).

Attacks coming your way

When an army marches on your village you see it on the map, and where it comes from. What is inside stays hidden until it arrives.

Armies and merchants on the move

Everything that moves is on the map: armies, scouts and merchant carts.

Leaderboard

The button at the top right of the map. See who has the most points and where their villages are.

Defence

Your defence is your garrison, made stronger by the wall (+8% per level) and the castle (+5% per level).

Demolishing buildings

Elite units can tear down buildings. Tick the box in the attack screen and pick a building. Your elite then fights at 75%. The strength of three dragons takes down one level, at most 3 per attack. Even a lost attack damages the building at half strength.

Support and calling back

Send troops to another of your villages to help defend it. They join the garrison there, and you can call them back whenever you want.

You can also send support to a village of someone else. Those troops join their garrison.

Minting a noble coin

In the castle you mint a noble coin for 10.0k of every resource. Every nobleman you train costs one coin.

Taking over a village

Send your nobleman along with an attack. Every won attack where he survives brings the village 30 closer to surrender. At 100 it is yours: four won attacks. Wait too long between attacks and that progress slowly fades. The nobleman stays behind to rule the village, and it takes on your people.

Several villages

Switch your active village with the village switcher at the top, or tap the village on the map and choose Make active. Every village has its own buildings, stores and army.

Sending resources

With a market you send merchants with resources to your other villages, or to anyone else.

Building with your realm stores

Short on resources in one village? Press the 🚚 button and merchants bring the difference from your other villages. This also works for minting a coin.

Realm army

In the attack screen, switch to Realm army to send troops from all your villages together instead of from just one.

Villages are lives

You stay in the game as long as you hold one village. Lose your last one and you choose within 3 days: found a new village, or give up your place.

The centre of the map

Five divine villages stand behind a golden barrier, ringed by ten empty villages.

Empty villages

No troops, 30 points and +25% production. You can take them from day 30. The AI leaves them alone. After a takeover they grow like any other village.

The barrier

The golden barrier only falls once all ten empty villages have been conquered. Then the divine villages are open to attack.

The divine garrison

Every player has to beat the garrison of a divine village on his own. Gods are twice as strong as humans. What you kill stays dead for you, so every soldier only has to fall once.

Holding a divine village

+100% production and a golden glow. The first time a divine village is taken from the gods, it gets 24 hours of protection. The AI never attacks divine villages.

Divine points

From the first conquered divine village on, you earn one divine point every game hour for every divine village you hold. Your score is shown at the top right.

The Corruption

Once no divine village belongs to the gods any more, the Corruption starts at the edge of the map. In 30 days it creeps all the way to the barrier and attacks every village it reaches. Four won attacks turn a village into a ruin that never recovers. You see every wave marching towards you; beat it back and the next one comes later, but twice as strong.

During the Corruption you cannot found new villages, but you can still take each other's villages, divine ones included.

Playing as the Corruption

Lose all your villages during the Corruption and you can command part of it. You get a village at its edge and 300 corrupted troops every game hour. You may attack villages up to 10 tiles past the edge. Four won attacks turn a village into a ruin.

Winning

The round ends when every ordinary village is a ruin. The player with the most divine points wins.

Report a bug

Something wrong? Use Report a bug on your profile, in the settings or on the start page. Describe what happened; your session details are added automatically and you can attach a picture.

Settings

The gear at the top right: the game version, switching worlds, your account and logging out.

The AI lords

The AI lords play by the same rules as you. They build, train, follow the same quests and attack. Some play better than others.

Game speed

Every world runs at its own speed, shown when you pick a world. A faster world means shorter game days, quicker building and quicker marching. The world keeps going while you are offline.