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Best Wargame # 1
E V O N Y
What is Evony?
It is highly popular because it is a persistent world. The landscape does not change each game or each time you log in, but rather you control your fledgling kingdom and direct its affairs.
Your subjects will continue building, gathering, researching and laboring even while you are away. You may complete quests, attack barbarians or rival players, form alliances, achieve rank and title and expand your kingdom.
Raise your Prestige and vanquish your foes. Your destiny is in your hands.
Welcome to Evony. This article will help get you started in a new and exciting experience.
When you first begin, the Routine Quest will give you an idea of where your efforts are best directed. If you are new to Evony, the quest will help give you a boost in the beginning by rewarding your efforts with extra building materials, population and gold.
New players should stick to this quest and your time spent waiting on resources will be greatly lessened, but don't be afraid to branch out and try new things if you have extra resources.
What follows is a list of important things every Evony player should know. Spend a few minutes here and learn the basics:
1. Every player enjoys a 7-day Beginner's Protection when they first create their account. During this time, you will be free from attack by other players. Of course, you can't attack them either. Any time during the period, you may end the Protection by upgrading your Town Hall to level 5. Don't do this unless you are ready for war!
2. When you first enter Evony, you will see building sites in your town and resources fields around your city. To build on these fields, simply click on an empty site and select what you wish to build from the menu. If you're not sure what to build, consult the Routine Quest.
3. To upgrade a building, simply click the building you wish to upgrade and hit the upgrade button. Clicking a building also allows you to use the building's features, like creating troops, researching and recruiting heroes.
4. The administrative options for your city can be accessed at your Town Hall. You can rename your city, adjust the tax rate, offer comfort to the population or levy them for materials and gold as well as appoint a mayor. The Routine Quest Administration will take you through many of these operations.
5. Once you accomplish the objectives of a quest, you will see a number appear next to the Quest icon at the bottom of your screen. Click it and find the checked off quest and select Get Award. Some main quests have multiple sub-quests, so to complete one of these select a checked main quest and then find the appropriate sub-quest in the list below and Get Award. If you need more help, check out the Quest Guide or head over to the forums for tips from other players.
6. Need gold? Raise your population by building and upgrading cottages and raise your tax rate a bit. Just remember that the higher your tax rate, the lower your population will be, possibly leaving you without enough workers for your resource fields or even causing grievances in the populace. Try to strike a balance between tax revenue and population.
7. There are 2 ways to earn additional resources. First, build and upgrade your farms, sawmills, mines and quarries. Each upgrade increases production, as long as you have enough population to man them. Second, send your armies into the field to conquer nearby valleys. Many valleys that are not Flats will have a resources bonus attached to them. For instance, conquering a Forest will increase your lumber production and conquering a Hill will increase your Iron production. Remember that the higher level the valley is, the bigger the bonus you will get, but the heavier it will be defended. Be sure to scout them out before sending troops in, so you know what you're getting into.
Note: When troops are outside your cities, they require twice as much food to sustain them as when they are garrisoned in a city, so don't leave them camped outside your town unless absolutely necessary.
8. To train troops, you need a Barracks. More advanced troops require technologies from your academies and take longer to train, as well as requiring more resources. They may also require an upgraded Barracks.
9. Need to leave the game? No worries. Your workers will continue harvesting resources while you are away and you will have that much more to spend when you return.
10. Heroes are an important part of city. Armies require a hero to lead them and will benefit from a heroes attributes, while appointing a hero as mayor of your city will increase production, based on the heroes attributes. Heroes are recruited from your city's Inn and they reside in your Feasting Hall once recruited. Remember that heroes must be paid a salary in gold, and if your Feasting Hall is full you wont be able to recruit additional heroes or have heroes sent from other cities unless you upgrade your Feasting Hall.
11. Ready to expand your territory and build a new city? The higher your title, the more cities you can control. To build a second city, you must reach the title of Knight. To raise your title, you'll need medals which you can earn in battle, like when you attack a valley. Once you are a Knight, you'll need 250 workers (trained at the Barracks) along with 10,000 of every resource, including gold. Then send your army to conquer a Flat of your liking, and once it is yours, click the Flat and select Build City. Now grab a cup of coffee, and when you return, you'll have a brand new city under your command!
If you ever feel confused or overwhelmed with what to do, return to the Routine Quest. It will help you in the initial phases of Evony. That's why its there.
Good luck!
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Best Wargame # 2
N E W 1 0 0 0 A D
NEW 1000 A.D. WAR GAME - TOTAL DOMINATION
Welcome to New 1000 A.D.
New 1000 AD is a free online multiplayer turn based strategy war game based on civilizations of medieval times.
The object of the game is to get the most land, research and points to be at the top of the leaderboard.
You can win two ways by attacking your opponents into submission or exploring past them.
You can build alliances, declare wars, produce an economy based around wood, iron, food and gold.
Build your army to attack friends or send your explorers on missions to gain land.
Production of goods, buildings and army are the keys to being the best and top ranked empire.
Control your population, aid your friends goods in time of need, defence of your empire and control of the trade market are all part of the quest to conquer the game.
We have 2 games to play at New 1000 A.D.
The Standard is a 28 day round with turns coming every 9 minutes and Blitz is a 21 day round with turns coming every 3 minutes.
The civilizations you have to choose from are the Vikings, Byzantines, Chinese, Japanese, Zulu, Barbarians, Incas, Franks, Turks or the Mongols.
Each with their own advantages and disadvantages.
You will find everything you need to know about the civilizations, goods, weapons and buildings in our documentation that you will find on the home page.
You are allowed 1 account per game but you can play both games at same time as long as you have just one account on each of the games.
Make sure to visit our game forums and interact with other players in the community. Post ideas ,questions or just make conversation at the forums.
If you have any questions or concerns you can email support or message one of our admins and they will be happy to help.
Now make an account and start your quest to rule the known world of 1000 A.D.
What is New 1000 AD?
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Welcome to my guide. I will be upgrading it in the future (finally got to it now), so look forward to much more. I hope you find the contents of this guide useful in your endeavors to become master of 1000ad.
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2. GENERAL TIPS
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"The first most important thing, no matter what civ you are, is how you play your turns. This is the thing that separates the good from the bad in this game. Make every turn count and you'll be rocking this game in no time. I judge my turn usage to my mage potential. Maging is the only thing you should worry about when playing turns. When you are doing a action, ask yourself this question. Do I get anything out of this action?"
"Never ever fight personal wars; they are a waste of time, turns and resources. Ever wonder why the big boys never thieve or cat you back? That is because we only care about one thing, our mage."
"Never waste turns on making weapons/wine/horses with low land. It much more effective to attack run, then make weapons/wine/horses. Unless you are totally broke and you need weapons to start, in this scenario you would not be listening to me. It would be better to ask an ally, then pay them 2x as much after the mage."
"The market. there's a huge difference in what you can buy at 1 million acres and what u can buy at 100 million acres. a byz can buy over 5 iron per gold mine at 1 million acres. at 100 million acres yer lucky to pull more than 2. in this regard, in the long run a viking is more effective cause with 150% mining they would still make 5 iron per turn even at 100 million acres. i never liked the way the market changes so abruptly for this reason. its unfair to the people that rely on selling and buying goods."
~Eric~
"The other is the importance of defense research. i think its a little lacking. without it, u die really. take it from me, I've walked through the realm of the dead more times than i ever wanted to. the base defense of a byzantine, if I'm not wrong is 17 (15 for race and +2 for the wall) with 100% that's now 34. a horseman is 10 attack and with 100% to attack that only 20. a pole would need over 300% attack to undo 100% of defense. that's pretty big. I played a round not too long ago there and didn't lose land once the entire round except for when I was exploring somebody hit me for 20000 acres. all because i had defense r/ls. i think i ended up with 750 defense r/ls. even when I maged I kept enough army where i couldn't be broken. the more defense i had the less army i needed to keep. and since they were going attack and no defense, my 75% attack was good enough that i could still bust them up nicely. but most importantly, to break you they have to kill off a lot of your army thus your chances of logging on dead go way down."~Eric~
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3. MAGE TIPS
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"Mage run"- During these run you do all your research, try to get as much out of them as possible. Save 300 turns before you start then use at least 200 of them with as many mage towers as you can. Also stockpile gold, weapons and wine for your later attacks runs during these runs. If you are in an alliance and have goods on the public market, try to have someone rich standing by ready to boost you with some extra gold, having a lot of mage towers is expensive. ~Hansa~
Maging is the most important thing to learn in the game. It literally is definition between good and bad players. All experience players judge other players by there Research. It is the true score in the game.
No matter what civ you play, you must be able to support your own mages. There is no point in attacking if you can't support your mages. To support your mages, you can either sell of excess (what you are making before expenses) iron, food, and wood production on local trade. With this method, you must sell enough per turn to support your mage towers per turn.
For starters, I usually play my mages out on the circumstances. Usually I don't attack after 300 (or 1/2 your turn max turn hold) unless I need more land. If you feel it would be more effective to attack after this, go for it. Around the last 3 attacks, I start building toolmakers with the land. Then when I want to mage, I take forts down (always mage with all your land, never leave anything up you are not using)and build mage towers with that land. Then I take the larger amount of land I have in toolmakers down, usually 1/2 for the first, build that land to toolmakers. Then take down another 1/2 and do the same. Then I balance out local trade to the status page and make sure everything is balanced.
Then play 12 turns, hit F5, then hit enter.
I mage this way until about 40-50 turns, then I start taking mage towers down while building toolmakers. What I mean by this is that first I setup all mage towers on auto demolish, then I play one turn, build more toolmakers with the new demolished land, then keep doing this until they are all down. First thing you should build is forts at this point. Start putting up army, usually players stick around and build up their army as the turns come around.
(It's okay to lose land AFTER you are done with it, so take your time rebuilding; but make sure you get a decent one back before you leave your account for the day).
If you don't have time for this, then stop maging around 60-70 turns left. Same directions, only more turn lefts to train.
For defensive players, you must save the turns in for army. This style may not mage out as much as an attacker, but if you have nice defense and can keep your land it's very effective. With more land to start with, your attack runs will be for much higher land.
You'll need lots of wood and iron, you usually make enough of it when on your act run, so don't sell it because you think you have an excess when attack, you'll need the material right away for fast conversation. Ideally, mages should take only 2-5 min max. You need to be fast because some players choose to sit online and wait for players to mage and take all your land while you are vulnerable.
You use toolmakers with Mongols, you set your toolmakers to make just enough to your mage towers. Making a profit when you mage these are bad, because you are running to many markets or toolmakers and losing mage potential. Byz mage are np, in fact you make most of your gold when you mage them.
You can food mage, (must have the right Research for this, usually +100 Research in food or more). Food mage is when you leave just enough farms or hunters up to support your mage per turn, selling it all on local trade.
You can also sell bows, swords, and other good on public market before you mage. Just set everything to a close to min price before you run. Sometimes it does take a while to sell thou.
"When you have set up for your mage and everything is in order, your local trade is set to what you need and you have excess wood and iron you can always squeeze in more mage towers with demolishing markets and build on the land, note this should be dealt with carefully and only for fast mages since it can hurt if you get hit a lot when you mage."
~GK~
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4. RESEARCH TYPES AND USES
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"Research is one the most efficient keys to the game. Since all research cost always increase for each points, all investments here is irreversible and limits your other research. Think before you research and make sure you have a plan behind what you research. Making one points here and one there is seldom worthwhile focus your research on those spots you think is essential to you." ~Hansa~
Military Research Types
Attack Points - This research is very important. It is the key to winning the game. I invest in it early so I can break empires early. Most of the best players invest very heavily in this, and usually accounts for 45-50% of overall research in attack Civilizations.
Defense points - Most people don't really spend much on this, but a little can go along way. Any empire type that isn't an attacker should invest in this. Econ Empires should balance this with the same amount of attack.
Conquered land - The best research in the game. I always try to get this stuff in my first mage with civilizations that can attack. Conquered land research help's you get a much more land to mage with. Who wouldn't want more Research? Combine this with lots of attack, and you are unstoppable.
Military loss -Thought his research type has been known to lead to many deaths, it's still something to consider. People who play independent should get this very early, as it really helps save those valuable weapons. I don't suggest getting this research type unless you have at less some defense.
Fort Space - If you don't have any problem filling up your forts then fort space is the best research for you, its like attack/defense/conquer all in one , of course it takes more time and resources to build and upkeep an army. I will also get you killed if you don't have any defense with it.
"Fort space on early stages isn't all that good in my opinion, get attack/defense (depends on the strat) to support your forts, running full forts with big fortspace research and no defense can get you killed."
~GK~
Thief Strength - Thieve strength is the same , whether you hit someone with 1 million thieves or 1 thieve. This rls make's the percent of damage you do greater. If you want to invest in this, I suggest you model your entire strat around it.
Catapults strength - this research isn't for everybody, it's often used in a bundle with massive catapult armies to wipe out big part's of armies, destroying.
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Best Wargame # 3
B U L F L E E T
What is Bulfleet?
It is free and can be played instantly, you just need a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox.
Register now and experience hundreds of hours interesting gameplay versus thousands of players from all over the world!
Develop your home planet, build new structures and research new technologies. Create powerful alliances or lead your ships in great star wars! Conquest the world of Bulfleet and write your own Space Saga!
Just after registration in the game you will receive a planet on a random place in the galaxy. On this planet you will be able to develop your economy by constructing buildings and researching new technologies.
By developing your planet you will be able to construct a Colony ship and colonize new planets for your civilization.
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Best Wargame # 4
W A R G A M E S II
What is Wargames 2?
Fight other nations for conquest of land, form alliances and conquer the world!
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Best Wargame # 5
W O R L D O F A E G I S
What is World of Aegis?
Aegis is a MMORPG amongst the best of its class, with thousands of players online. We have an active community with chats, forum and where role playing is much the order of the day.
The game is totally browser based and FREE. You do not need to download or install anything.
Features include, icons, graphics, over 50 troop types and 70 buildings to choose from, unlimited game play and endless world (we do not reset).
To play, all you need to do is go and fill in the registration form, this takes 2 minutes and you will need a valid email.
Once this is done you are ready to log in and enjoy the game!
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Best Wargame # 6
L O R D S
What is Lords?
In this massive multiplayer online game you will be able to interact with other players in a competition for fame, power, wealth and glory.
Why this game is worth playing?
* fast paced and low time consuming
This game was designed for people who don't have much time. The micromanagement was cut to minimum. About 5-15 minutes a day will be enough for this game.
* lots of player interaction
You won't play alone. There are plenty of possibilities to interact with others. Not only solo attacks, but trade agreements, exchange of gifts, tributes, vassals system and factions allegiance will force even the shiest person to play with others.
* new players are valuable for everyone
Have you ever played a MMOG where at the beginning no one bothers or cares about you? That won't happen in this game. From the very beginning you will be flooded with offers from factions and sovereigns.
* free to play
You can play this MMOG for free as long as you want.
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Best Wargame # 7
W A R - O N L I N E
What is War Online?
Using the Flash driven map, you can actually see your armies do battle, set formations, traverse different terrains and wage all out war the way strategy games are supposed to be.
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Best Wargame # 8
H O L Y W A R
What is Holy War?
Dive into the age of the Holy War! Take on the role of a Knight as a Christian, Saracen or Pagan and conquer or defend the Holy Land!
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Best Wargame # 9
A G E S O F W A R
What is Ages of War?
You do not need to install any software to play because you can play through your existing Internet web-browser or Web TV.
Best of all, it is absolutely free to play.
In the game, you are part of a kingdom, called a province. You control your province by constructing buildings, building your military, and conquering your enemies with military might, magical powers, and espionage.
Your goal is to be the largest in all the lands but other provinces have the same goal. Every hour your province will bring in resources that fund your conquests. Use them wisely and your enemies will be left to grovel at your feet.
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Best Wargame # 10
I K A R I A M
What is Ikariam?
Can you turn it into a flourishing town and capital of a mighty island empire?
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Best Wargame # 11
T R I B A L W A R S
What is Tribal Wars?
Every player controls a small village, striving for power and glory.
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Best Wargame # 12
R E N A I S S A N C E K I N G D O M
What is Renaissance Kingdom?
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Best Wargame # 13
T E Q
What is TEQ?
TEQ3 is a war game; you have to compete with thousands of players from all around the world.
You have to organize your country plot out strategies and plan attacks to conquer the most land and resources.
You can play all by yourself and conquer the crown, or join a team to learn and become the most powerful team on the block.
Best of all, the game is free to join.
Honestly, this game is really primitive, however it has an innocent appeal and is actually quite addictive!
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Best Wargame # 14
S I M C O U N T R Y
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Best Wargame #15
T R A V I A N
What is Travian?
* No download, the game is available immediately.
* You play with thousands of real players in a persistent ancient world.
* Build up villages, wage wars or trade untroubled with your neighbors.
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Best Wargame # 16
V I S U A L - U T O P I A
What is Visual Utopia?
You start with a tiny army, build colonies, train troops and attack.
Join a kingdom or create your own.
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Are you aware of any other free online strategy war games?
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- War of Legends. It is a great game that was ruined by the company that distributes it, Jagex. Do a review of it.
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