What should I do when I start playing the game?

Follow your advisor’s advice and start to build up your village, this will provide you with the many goods you need to progress. Then you sh...

What is Popularity?

Popularity is the measure of how happy people are in your village. If you are in positive popularity people will come to your village if the...

How do I improve my Popularity?

Clicking on the popularity icon will open the village management controls. Here you can adjust the tax rate (lower is generally more popular...

How do I get more people to come to my village?

People come to your village if there is enough housing space available (build more hovels if not) and you have positive popularity. Manage y...

What is honor?

Honor’s primary function is to allow you to increase your rank. You gain honor in several ways, initially you get honor every day based on y...

How can I get more honor quickly?

To gain honor more quickly, you can hold banquets, the more types of banquet goods used, the more honor you will receive. You also gain hono...

What does research do?

Research improves all aspects of your kingdom, whether that is in food production, or the speed of your armies, the capacities of your grana...

How do I get more research points?

The main way to get more research points is to rank up, you get three each time you increase your rank. Research points can also be bought f...

How do I get more gold?

The first way you build up your gold is tax. The higher the tax rate you set and the more peasants you have, the more tax you will collect. ...

How do I make troops?

If you have free peasants in your village who aren't working at one of the village buildings, you can turn them into troops by clicking on t...

What is the parish?

The parish is the geographic region that your village can be found in on the world map. There will over time, be other players there along w...

What are strategy cards?

There are hundreds of different strategy cards to collect and play in the game and deciding which cards to play, when to play cards, and in ...

How do I get cards?

Cards can be bought in packs from the store, each pack has a different flavor of contents. Card pack are also often given away as prizes at ...

What is a premium token?

Premium tokens allow you to do more when you are not online. You can queue up multiple researches as well as multiple buildings to be built ...

How can I get more resources?

Scouting is a great way to get more resources, so take a look on the world map and check for resource stashes. Recruit scouts and click on t...

How do I buy and sell goods?

To buy and sell goods, you must research the first level of Merchant Guilds; this is available when Level 2 of Mathematics has been complete...

What is a vassal and a liege lord?

For a new player, one of the most important things you can do is to find a higher ranked player to be your liege lord (that makes you the va...

How do I move my village?

As you advance in rank, you’ll be able to own more and more villages, so don’t worry if you’re starting far away from your homeland or frien...

How do I get more villages?

Once you are able to research Leadership and then Captains you may acquire additional villages. Once you have recruited a captain you can us...

How can I protect my castle from pillage and ransack attacks?

Building up a strong castle is always recommended, but with pillage and ransack attacks you need to build a bit further out as once attacker...

How can I protect my village?

Your castle never sleeps, but you can! As a new player with a single village, you do not need to worry too much about the safety of your cas...

What is the AI?

The AI (Artificial Intelligence) are the red icons on the world map. They are not other human players like you, but instead game controlled ...

What do parish buildings do?

You and the other players in your parish all have an interest in building up your parish capital buildings so you can enjoy the bonuses that...

What does the steward of the parish do?

Just as you control your village, the parish steward controls the parish capital. The steward can set the tax rate, construct parish buildin...

How can I get more gold for my parish?

The parish can get gold in diverse ways. The parish gets a percentage of gold from all the goods that players buy and sell at its market, as...

How can I get more flags for my parish?

Each parish will begin generating flags every 24-48 hours once it has an elected leader. Flags are needed to construct buildings in the pari...

What are factions?

A faction is a group of players who work together to achieve common goals. Joining a faction is an important first step into the vibrant pol...

What are houses?

A house is a group of factions working together to achieve complex political goals on a grand scale. Once a faction’s general applies to a h...

What do the colors on the world map mean?

There are twenty houses, each represented by a distinct color. The color of each different administrative region on the map is determined by...

Why can't I place a pitch rig or a vineyard in my village?

Some buildings can only be placed in certain village types. The first village you start with is a ‘Lowland’ type village, however to place a...