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1 The Basics
2 Learning the various buildings and their roles
3 Diplomacy

The Basics

Before you read this, we recommend you to get acknowledged with game background.

City - Town

Upon entering the game, you will receive a tutorial on the upper right corner of your browser.
It will help to better understand the game basics and what is more important - help you develop your city quicker. If you follow the tutorial you will get rewards upon finishing each of its steps. NOTE: By skipping a step you will deny your reward for it, so be patient and follow all the steps of the tutorial.

Rename your City

Nobody likes being stuck with a strange name. Luckily, you can name your new city whatever you desire. In order to do that - click on an orange banner with a City name written on top of it (it is located in upper center part of the city screen). A city options menu will pop-up, allowing you to rename your city.

Hire a Hero

Your first hero is free of charge and can be hired from the castle. You are given three to choose from, each with his own set of skills. They may also differ in levels (from level 1 to level 3) and you should think carefully before choosing which one will lead your army. One should know that upon hiring a hero, it is impossible to hire another hero for free for quite some time. It is also impossible to hire any more heroes until you build your tavern up. Sometimes it is wiser to take a level 3 hero, which usually already has 2 or 3 active predefined skills, while sometimes it is better to choose a level 1 hero, which has only 1 predefined active skill, but the one you need. So the choice is up to you.

There is a trick, though - if you've chosen the wrong hero, you can enter a tactic mode of your first city, and disband this hero. This way, he will disappear and allow you to buy another hero for free.
The disbanded hero will be available for resurrection for 7 days. If he won't get resurrected during this time, he will vanish forever.

In order to do this trick you should:

In "Tactics" mode: 1) Select the hero → 2) click on "Advanced actions" button → 3) click on "Disband (kill) selected armies" button.

Before selecting your first hero, highlight each available character to check on their preset special abilities. Each skill can be raised four times (there are total of 4 levels of each hero skill in the game). Those are classified as follows:
- 0 points — None;
- 1 point — Novice;
- 2 points — Expert;
- 3 points — Master.

The skills that are available in game:
- Leadership — increases the morale of your troops, which defines, how many units will attack at the same time;
- Logistics — increases the movement speed of your hero's army when traveling in valeys (between cities, forts and other locations);
- Pathfinding — increases hero's army movement speed within city, fort or any other location which has a tactic screen;
- Scouting — increases hero's sight range by 1 for each skill level. At "Master" level hero will get a sight range of 4, which is the highest in game so far;
- Knowledge — increases hero's experience growing rate (XP points per kill) and improves his efficiency as a collector;
- Defender — increases all units' hit point amount in hero's army;
- Archery — increases the damage output of shooter units in hero's army;
- Fighter — increases the damage output of infantry units in hero's army;
- Cavalry — increases the damage output of cavalry units in hero's army;
- Ballistics — increases the damage output of siege weapons in hero's army.

Every time your hero increases a level, he gains 1 free skill point.
Player can use those to advance his hero's skills.
Novice skill requires 1 free skill point,
Expert skill requires 2 free skill points,
Master skill requires 3 free skill points.

So, in order for hero to become a "Master" of any particular skill, he requires 6 free skill points.

Hero stats:
Olive Leaf — indicates the current level of your hero;

Gauntlet with a Sword — indicates hero's attack power (how much damage he inflicts);

Shield — indicates hero's hit points (how many he has).

Start Gathering Resources

There are 9 types of resources in the game. Most of them can be gathered from the buildings in your cities, while few of them are given in exchange for real money.
They are:
- Coal — can be gathered from the Coal mine;
- Iron — can be gathered from the Iron mine;
- Stone — can be gathered from the Quarry;
- Wood — can be gathered from the Sawmill;
- Lime — can be gathered from the Lime oven;
- Population — can be gathered from Houses and Wells;
- Mercenary points — can be obtained by building Obelisks of Glory, Fountains of Glory, Mercenary Camps or as a tribute from your order members (where you are the master of the order) or your vassals;
- Gold — can be obtained by buying it for real money. You can also obtain gold, by selling heroes, armies, artifacts, mercenaries etc. at the auction;
- Diamonds — can be obtained during tutorials, quests and by buying gold. You receive 10 diamonds for each 1000 gold you buy. Player receives 1(one) free diamond per day, if he was online during that day.

All the resources except mercenary points, gold and diamonds are tied to your city(-ies), which means that you cannot construct a building in some city, where there is not enough resources to accomplish the task, even you have plenty of them in another one.

Normal resources (coal, iron, stone, wood and lime) can be spent on different things, starting from building up your cities and ending with training your armies or terraforming the valleys. Despite the fact, that there are 5 basic resources, 2 of them are more important than others. This is so, because unit and building prices include them in bigger numbers than the others. These two types of resources are wood and iron and each player should concentrate on building up their gathering sites to a maximum level in the first place.

When player receives his first city, he has only a level 1 Castle, 500 basic resources of each type and no resource gathering mines. Immediately after that a Storehouse is being build, so player is left with only 424 resources of each type;
Basic resources are gathered per hour, while population and mercenary points are given to you in certain amounts upon the finishing of construction or upgrade of certain buildings. In order to improve the gathering rate of basic resources one must upgrade its extraction sites (coal mines, iron mines, quarries etc.).

To do so, do the following:

1) Select any resource building (sawmill, quarry, iron mine and so on) → 2) go to the "Overview" tab → 3) click “Upgrade” icon (found on the top right corner of the menu)

Increase your City Population

Population indicates the manpower of your kingdom. It is required to construct or upgrade buildings as well as to train troops. There are two types of buildings that give you free population points - Farms and Wells.
Well can be built only once per city; it gives your city a bonus of +400 population and it cannot be upgraded. Farms can be built in greater numbers — 20 per city; it gives you +10 population on level 1 and each house can be upgraded 9 times (up to level 10), where each upgrade adds population numbers as follows:
+30 on level 2 (total of 40 population);
+40 on level 3 (total of 80 population);
+40 on level 4 (total of 120 population);
+40 on level 5 (total of 160 population);
+40 on level 6 (total of 200 population);
+40 on level 7 (total of 240 population);
+40 on level 8 (total of 280 population);
+40 on level 9 (total of 320 population);
+40 on level 10 (total of 360 population).

To build your first farm, do the following:

1) Click on an empty space → 2) click on the farm icon → 3) if you have enough resources, the construction process will start

Train your First Troops

There are several types of troops available in game, they are:
- Infantry;
- Shooters;
- Cavalry;
- Siege Weapons;
- Heroes.

Player should note, that there are some units in the game that throw projectiles, but are considered to be infantry, not shooters.

Some troops are made in Barracks or Stables, some in Workshop, while others can be hired from Castle (Obelisk of Glory/Fountain of Glory) or in special Mercenary Camps. At the start of the game you will only have an opportunity to hire troops from Barracks, Stables and Workshop. It is not obligatory to do that, however it is advised to build a Barracks and train there some swordsmen and archers or marksmen in order to successfully fend off the marauder attacks.
To build a Barracks, do the following:

1) Click on an empty space → 2) click on the Barracks icon → 3) if you have enough resources, the construction process will start

Repulse the Marauder Attacks

Marauders are computerized enemies who like to attack easy targets — your poorly defended or undefended forts and cities. In order to see whether marauders attacked your town, you need to check the tactical view of your city. If marauder armies will be present there, they will be marked as red flags, while your armies — as green ones.
To kill the marauders, do the following:

1) Click on your army → 2) click on the red flag, representing the marauder army → 3) watch as the "crossing swords" icon and time needed to reach the destination appear near your army name in the upper right section of the screen → 4) wait until your army reaches the enemy and engages them in battle → 5) as the battle starts, watch the lower middle portion of the screen for battle log to appear; it will show you detailed information about the current battle → 5) When the enemy perishes, only the green flag of your army will be left on the tactics screen

Setup your Coat-of-Arms

A coat of arms is a distinctive heraldic design on a tunic used to cover and protect armor, but the term is more broadly applied to mean a full heraldic achievement which consists of a shield and certain accessories. In either sense, the design is a symbol unique to a person, family, corporation, or state. Such displays are also commonly called armorial bearings, armorial devices, heraldic devices, or arms.

In order to setup your personal coat-of-arms, do the following:

1) Highlight the "Settings" tab → 2) When the menu pops up, click on the "Profile" link → 3) Click on the "Change" button under your current coat-of-arms (which should be empty for now) → 4) The list of available free pre-generated coats-of-arms will appear (it can be scrolled horizontally). Choose the coat-of-arm that you find most appropriate →
5) Push the "Tick" button

It is also available to generate your own Coat-of-Arms from different elements, but it will cost you 750 gold. If you have this resource in abundance, you may want to do create your own unique symbol, so that everybody would recognize you on sight when you become a powerful feudal lord.

The game gives you a lot of elements to choose from, when creating your personal Coat-of-Arms, so it is possible to create a very complex and bizarre sign, but one should note, that process of creating correct, high quality armorial bearings is not a mindless one — it is science, and one should get acknowledged with it a bit, at the very least.

Canceling an operation

Each player should know that there are several operations in the game that can be canceled during their progress. Sometimes we miss-click or do the things we are sorry about later. It this cases canceling an operation is a savior.
You can cancel (while the process is still in queue) these operations:
- Construction of building;
- Demolition of building;
- Upgrade of a building;
- Downgrade of a building;
- Training of non-mercenary units.

You can cancel (when the process is already started) these operations:
- Demolition of building;
- Terraforming.

In different cases, different percentage of resources is returned:

- When canceling a terraform process, 0% of resources are returned;
- When canceling unit production (those that are in queue), 75% of resources are refunded;
- When downgrading a building, 30% of its upgrade cost to current level are returned (and 100% of "slave" buildings' cost {for each building}, if such were present. "Slave" buildings are additional constructions of same type as the target building, they are placed around it and are required by the upgrade process in order to advance the target building from one level to another. These buildings are consumed during the upgrade process and are used to increase the size of the target building. Barracks, Stables and Workshop require such "slave" buildings during their advancement from level 3 to level 4 and from level 8 to level 9);
- When demolishing a building, 30% of its total cost (initial cost + cost of level upgrades done so far combined) are returned;
- When demolishing a Fountain of Glory, 30% of its total cost in basic resources and 100% of its total cost in gold are returned.

City - Tactics

In "City" tab, apart from the already known "Town" mode, there is "Tactics" mode. Tactic mode implies some changes to way you see the location. They are:
- All the background colors become dim;
- The building grid is changed to combat grid, which looks differently and is suited for combat purposes. You can toggle it on and off, just like the City grid — just click the amber stone located in upper right corner of the Tactics screen;
- The combat grid represent all the positions available on the map where armies may move to. Some positions are more beneficial for standing your ground (your walls, rock formations for example), some for movement (gray tiles), so you can use those to your advantage;

- The movement process of any army takes time. The time required to move from one point (circle, where your army is located right now) to another (circle, where you want them to be) is shown in the upper right corner;
- The roads that were present in "Town mode" view, are now shown as "Gates" — these are the points where armies (yours/allied/enemy) enter and leave your city. There are four of them, each for one cardinal point - North, East, South and West;
- All the armies present at the location are being shown as flags:
--- Your hero and armies are marked by green flags;
--- Allied heroes and armies are marked by blue flags;
--- Enemy heroes and armies are marked by red flags;

Army Control User Interface

In tactical mode, there are several buttons and menus that help you to handle your armies more effectively:
1. - this icon toggles between the "battle log" and the "currently selected armies screen" (also known as formation screen) modes;
2. - this icon has two states, pinned and unpinned (default state). What is does, is makes one of the previously mentioned modes permanently enabled when it is pinned — you will either always see a "battle log" screen or "formation" screen. Note that pushing the 1. button, when this button is "pinned", won't have any effect;
3. - this icon selects/deselects all of your armies on the battlefield;
4. - this is a menu, that covers some very important tactical features:

1) - this is your formation list, it shows your predefined battle formations. "Default" formation is available to everyone from the start and your troops will be distributed by four rows according to this formation automatically. You can also configure up to 2(two) formations of your own if you have no subscription and up to 10 formations, if you have Silver or Gold subscriptions.
2) - "Configure formations" button, it will bring up the screen, where you can configure your formations;
3) - "Aggression: low" button sets your army to "stand ground" stance — your soldiers will only attack the enemy if it is in their range (if the correct "Attack Range" option is enabled), but they won't engage them in melee or pursue them;
4) - "Aggression: range" button sets your army to "defensive" stance — your soldiers will attack the enemy, when at least one unit in your army, who has the longest range is able to reach the foe. They will pursue and engage the enemy, but only up to the distance where your longest range units can attack, they won’t engage the enemy in melee by themselves, but they won't evade the charging in enemy either.
5) - "Aggression: high" button sets your army to "attacking" stance — your soldiers will attack the enemy if they know where he is (another army or watchtower spotted the enemy, for example). Whether they will attack in melee or at range is configured by the "Attack Range" buttons;
6) - "Attack range: melee" button sets your army's attack range to 0. This means, that if the correct Aggression option is selected ("range" or "high"), your army will try to tie up the enemy in melee, firing projectiles while they close up with the foe.
Note: never use a combination of "Aggression: low" and "Attack range: melee" without paying attention, because your armies will get nailed with bolts and arrows from the distance, without inflicting any casualties to the enemy. Though, there are cases when you may consciously want to use this combination, for example, you are leveling up in some Adventure Hut location, say Druid Temple, and you see the army of your vassal entering it as an "attacker". This way, your army won't attack him on sight, unless he steps in the same tile your troops are located in;
7) - "Attack range: adaptive" button sets your army's range to the shortest one available (except 0), for example — if you have a Footpad or a Royal Guard in your army, then the minimal range will be set to 1. Your army will start to attack the enemy only from the abovementioned minimal range. You should note that this is a very dangerous mode to use if you are not paying attention to your armies. Using it in combination with "Aggression: low" will ensure that your army won't attack the foes until they come to your minimal range (usually 1 or 2), using it with "Aggression: range" will override your army's "attack from maximum range" settings with the "attack from minimal range" one, ensuring that will try to tie up in melee and eventually get slaughtered;
NPC (Marauders/Adventure Hut) armies use the combination of "Aggression: range" and "Attack range: adaptive", that's why they are relatively easy to beat. --- I would suggest you never use this "Attack range: adaptive" scenario at all, this way you will prevent a lot of bad things from happening;
8) - "Attack range: ranged" button sets your army's range to the longest one available (usually 4 - the one of the Norman archer). Your army will start attacking the foes from their longest range and won't try to engage them in melee. This is a "good all around" scenario you want to deploy on a regular basis. It allows your armies to shower the enemy with projectiles from a far, while being safe on relatively long distance.
In general situation (when your armies are not specialized in melee only) it might be a good idea to use a combination of "Aggression: low" and "Attack range: ranged", especially when you are not paying attention to the combat. This tactic is also very useful against NPC armies. Of course each player should understand that there is no ideal combination of "Aggression" and "Range" stances that would suit all situations perfectly, one should adjust these settings each time he encounters an enemy;
9) - "Complete the army" button marks your selected army as a regular and a fixed one. This means that when sending campaigns to different locations, "fixed" or "rallied" armies will appear as already predefined ones in the list — the troops that are registered to these armies won't appear in the "Troop pool", they will only be chosen when you choose the whole army from the army list. This is a very important feature, which every player should use eventually;
10) - This button "unfixes" or breaks your regular armies (ones that were "fixed" before), so that troops that are already attached to specific rallied armies may appear in the "Troop pool" again.

5. - this icon allows you to join two or more selected armies into one. You choose which army will be reinforced with the troops from another army, so the name and the flag of this specific army will stay the same;
6. - this icon allows you to split one army into two or more (up to ten). You may choose the name of your new armies (the naming rule is: %your_chosen_name% @1-10). If you didn't type in your new army name, then the default one will be used (it is usually Army @N; settings that control the naming rules are located in "Personal → Profile → Settings → Armies naming:);
7. - this icon opens up the "Advanced actions" menu, which allow you to disband and army or to register it to the current city (if the army is located in one of your cities and this city has enough population to upkeep it).
8. - this icon opens up the menu, where player can rename one particular army and choose one of 33 available flags for it.
9. - this icon clears the current battle log and sends a report about it to your cities. Note that this operation can only be done if nobody else is watching this log (another player in the same location). If you still see the log after pushing this button, you need to refresh the page;
10. - this icon toggles on/off the display of your selected armies in the right pane. This option is useful, when you want to see the battle log (in text format) and still be able to see your armies' numbers;
11. - this icon opens up the menu, where player is allowed to choose the destination he wishes to travel to (for example, one of his forts of towns), when he will leave the location he's in right now. Note, that this option will function only when your armies are standing on one of the "Gate" tiles (North, East, South or West).

12. - this button (yes, it is button) quickly changes the way battle log is displayed (back and forth from text view to detailed view). It is very useful function when fighting in great numbers, for example 1000000 troops vs. 1000000 troops;
13. - this button (yep, this is button too) triggers the visibility of the battle grid.

Map - Valley

The "Valley" mode, also known as the World Map, shows the world from a bird's eye view. In 1100AD all the world map is divided into so called "Valleys" — areas each 99 tiles x 99 tiles long, where everything, including player forts and towns, landscape features (such as mountains, forests and lakes), NPC locations, event/quest locations is spawned across such valleys. Each valley has a unique number starting from 1 and the new ones (valleys) are generated automatically each time when the ever-growing player amount demands so. This means that "old" players, who probably are very strong right now, are most likely to be distributed among the first 10 valleys.

The "Valley" view screen contains several types of elements:
1. - This is a "mountain" tile, it slows your army movement by 100%;
2. - This is a "forest tile", it slows your army movement by 100%;

3. - This is a "water" tile, no troops can travel by water. It can be used to create defensive contours that can be locked (guarded) by forts. Note that if you defend your towns using this method, your enemy would only reach your settlements by destroying/sieging your fort(-s);
4. - This is a "town" tile, absence of any flag on top of it indicates that you have no political relationship with this player (he is neutral to you);
5. - This is a "faded town" tile. Faded colors indicate that the player who owns this settlement is active no more (didn't played a game for a while, say plus/minus two weeks);
6. - This is a "town" tile, green flag indicates that it is yours;
7. - This is town's name, on screenshot it is "Chewland";
8. - These are town's coordinates within the current valley. [16|88] means that this town is located on the crossing of 16th row and 88th column of the current valley, which wholly consists of 99 rows and 99 columns.;
9. - This is your total kingdom (commander) rating score;
10. - This is the rating score, which this particular town (the one with the green flag on top of it) adds to your total kingdom (commander) score pool;
11. - This is the place where coat-of-arms icon is being displayed, either your personal one or your Order's (if you happen to be a member of any order).

The flags on top of locations (forts/cities/mercenary camps) indicate to whom do they belong and which relationship stands between you and the particular person who owns the location.
There are 7 types of relationship in 1100AD:

- Green flag with gold border indicates that the object belongs to you;
- Green flag with gold border and crown on top of it indicates that the object belongs to your master (sovereign);
- Green flag without any border indicates that the object belongs to your vassal (you are his master);
- Blue flag indicates that the object belongs to your ally;
- White-blue flag indicates that the object belongs to a person with whom you have sealed a non-aggression pact;
- White flag indicates that the object belongs to a person with whom you have a truce;
- Red flag indicates that the object belongs to your enemy;
Note: If you are a member of an order, then your relationship with different players will be automaticly enriched with ones of the order (you will inherit all the allies and enemies of the order).

Clicking on player's town or other location on the valley map, will bring you to his profile page:

1. Player's in-game nickname (you can change it if you have Silver or Gold subscription, the changes will only be shown to you);
2. List of player's owned forts and cities (you can also rename them if you have a Silver or Gold subscription, but the changes will only be shown to you);
3. Player's relations with other players;
4. Player's protections are shown here. There can be Newbie protection (protection from attacks), protection from powerful attacks and protection from building demolishing;
5. This icon shows if player has any hidden locations;
6. This icon indicates whether player has any subscriptions (Newbie, Silver or Gold);
7. This icon shows which languages player speaks or understands.
8. This is "actions" menu, it shows you a list of available actions you can perform with regard to this player:

1) Send campaign — this button will open up "Valley - Attack" screen, where you can choose whether to attack or aid a player;
2) Private message — this button will open up your mailbox and initiate the private message form (letter);
3) Offer to become my vassal — this icon will open up a menu, where you can offer another player to become your vassal;
4) Offer to become my lord — this button will open up a menu, where you can offer another player to become your sovereign (master);
5) Offer an alliance — this icon will open up a menu, where you can offer another player to become your vassal;
6) Declare war — this icon will open up a menu, where you can declare a war to a player;
7) Non-aggresion pact — this button will open up a page, where you can offer a player to sign a non-aggression pact.

Valley navigation
Navigation in valleys can be done in two ways - by using amber arrows around the valley screen or by inputting coordinates manually, using the corresponding forms. Navigation via arrows moves the map viewport by 3 tiles (these are default settings, you can change them in Personal → Profile → Settings → Map scrolling speed) in chosen direction. The valley navigation elements are:

1. North arrow - moves the map viewport north;
2. North-west arrow - moves the map viewport north-west;
3. North-east arrow - moves the map viewport north-east;
4. West arrow - moves the map viewport west;
5. East arrow - moves the map viewport east;
6. South-west arrow - moves the map viewport south-west;
7. South-east arrow - moves the map viewport south-east;
8. South arrow - moves the map viewport south;
9. Valley dropdown box - opens up valley dropdown box, where you can choose which valley to observe;
10. x and y coordinates - fields where you can input coordinates of object you are eager to find on the map;
11. Current x and y coordinates' position on the map, as you see they totally correspond with ones that are inputted near the 10 marker.

Map - Attack

By selecting a location (town/fort/mercenary camp/adventure hut) on the valley map or by choosing Map → Attack, player can enter "Attack" screen, where different options are available:

1. This is the list of your locations, the string in green indicates the name of the location, the map icon - targets the current campaign to the chosen location (automatically fills in the data in the areas marked as 10, 11 and 12);
2. This button is a drop-down list (you may have to click it a few times, before it opens up, so stay patient) of your lord's, vassals' and order battle brothers' locations. They are displayed in the same manner as yours (marked as 1 on screenshot), so the functionality of this menu stays the same as of "My Cities" one;

3. This list, also known as "Troop pool" shows the troops available to you in the chosen location (you choose it in the "My Cities" menu, which is marked as 1 on the screenshot). Note that fixed (rallied) armies are not shown here, they are shown lower in the "Armies" menu.
4. This is your selected armies screen (the ones you've chosen in the "Troop pool" or from "Armies menu"). You can use the "Select all" button, to select all the troops and heroes available in the chosen location and "Clear all" button to clear the currently selected armies (the list will become empty);
5. From the selected troops (the ones that are shown in the area marked as number 4 on screenshot) you can create an army, here you can enter its name;
6. This menu allows you to configure the aggression level of the army you are creating/editing right now;
7. This menu allows you to configure the preferred attack range of the army you are creating/editing right now;
7. This menu allows you to configure the battle formation that will be used by the army you are creating/editing right now;
8. The "configure" button allows you to apply all the settings you've configured in the areas that are marked as 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 on the screenshot;
10. This is the name of the location, where your current campaign is targeted to;
11. This is the name of the location's owner (you/another player/adventure hut/noCommander), where your current campaign is targeted to;
12. These are the coordinates of the location, where your current campaign is targeted to;
13. This field shows you how much time will take your current campaign to reach its destination;
14. This drop-down box will let you choose the speed you want your army to move with. There are several options available here, the ones above 100% cost gold (105% - 1 gold, 111% - 3 gold, 125% - 5 gold, 142% - 10 gold, 200% - 50 gold). This menu is very important, especially during team battles, when you need to arrive at the same location approximately (+/- some minutes) at the same time as your team mates do;
15. This is "Aid" button, it will send your army as a Defender to aid someone (your ally);
16. This is "Attack" button, it will send your army as an Attacker to attack someone.

Politics – Relations

By selecting Politics → Relations, player will enter a Vassal/Referral list. Vassals are players that agree to pay taxes (this option is not a mandatory, though) to a stronger player in return for their patronage. If you don't want to become somebody's vassal — do not, but consider doing so in times of big trouble, when other players are trying to defeat you. In order to become a feudal lord and have vassals yourself, you need to build a level 1 Obelisk of Glory and fill it with resources first. This page allows you to control and observe several things:

1. This is your personal coat-of-arms, you cannot change it from here, you can only observe it;
2. This button will update the page to show you your vassal list (on screenshot, Warfare1101 is a vassal of some other player). If you don't have any vassals yet, then the list will be empty;
3. This button will update the page to show you your referral list. The 5th section on the screenshot will be changed to "Your referral link", and the vassal list will be changed to "Referrals of the player" list. Same as before — if you don't have any referrals yet, the list will be empty. The referral program itself is a very beneficial thing — it allows you to invite other people to play 1100AD. If they start to play because of the hyperlink you have provided them with, they will become your referrals and thus — give you some bonuses:

1) If your referral buys gold, you receive 30% of bonus diamonds given to the referral during the purchase (referral will still get his diamonds too);
2) When your referral acquires 3rd, 5th, 8th cities, you will receive the following diamond bonus: 20 diamonds for the 3rd city, 50 diamonds for the 5th city and 100 diamonds for the 8th city;
3) While your referral owns more than 3 cities, you receive a certain amount of random basic resources once a day.

4. This is your vassal/referral list;
5. This area shows you the total tribute your single specific vassal paid to you. You need to click on a player in the vassal list in order to update the information in this area;
6. This button will open up your selected referral/vassal player profile.

Politics – Order

By selecting Politics → Order, player will enter an "Order" page of the game. If a player is not a member of some Order then this page will offer him to create his own Order for 1000 gold and become its master. Coat-of-arms of the Order master becomes the global coat-of-arms of the whole Order. If a player already owns an Order (is a master of his own Order) or is a member of some, then this screen will allow him to perform several actions:

1. This is your personal coat-of-arms, you cannot change it from here, you can only observe it;
2. This button will open up Order's artifact treasury. NOTE: Only the master of Order or specially assigned order member can transfer artifacts from the storage;
3. This icon allows you to leave the Order;
4. This area shows you how much gold there is the Order's treasury. Only the Order master can spend this money;
5. This button allows you donate some sum of gold to the Order's treasury;
6. This area includes all the available bonuses of the Order. Each of the Order bonuses can be leveled up using gold from the Order's treasury (most of the bonuses have a level cap of 20, "Slots in Order" has a level cap of 70, "Vassals" has a level cap of 33 etc.). Each member of the Order benefits from these bonuses, so it is better to be accepted in a big and powerful order than in a new and small one.
7. This is the full list of the Order members. The green stone shows who's online, the gray one - who is offline;
8. This is your Order's chat, a very convenient tool that allows you to stay in touch with your Order members. It automatically converts the coordinates you have entered, or player nickname (if you use the correct format: [x,y,valley] or x|y(valley) - for coordinates and [user=username1] for user profile) into a hyperlink , which is very useful;

9. A timestamp, it shows you when each player leaved a message in the chat. The time zone, which is used in the chat is GMT+0 or "Greenwich" time, which happens to be the server time as well (server time is shown in the right part of the footer);
10. This is a field where you enter your message, which will appear in the chat, when you push the "Enter" button. If you push on an Order member's name (area marked as "7" on the screenshot) the message you have typed will be wiped and that player's name will appear there instead.

Personal - Messaging

By selecting Personal → Messaging, player will enter his "Mail box", where he can communicate with other players from the server he plays on (for example - Beta). NOTE: players without subscription may store up to 50 messages in each of their mail boxes (Private Messages, Action Messages and Sent Messages), while players with Silver or Gold subscriptions may store up to 100 messages. This screen offers several options:

1. This icon will lead you to your "Private Messages" screen, which is basically your normal Inbox screen, where you can see all the messages sent to you by other players;
2. This icon will lead you to your "Action Messages" screen, where all the political, order, subscription and vassal messages go;
3. This icon will lead you to your "Sent Messages" screen, where you can see all your previously sent messages;
4. This is your received/sent messages section, here you can choose which message to read;
5. This section shows you selected message's title, body and time it was received;
6. This icon indicates the name of the player who's sent the particular message;
7. This section shows you brief history of your mail with another player;
8. This section gives you a quick preview of selected message (you need to hover your mouse over one of the messages shown in the 7-th area of the screenshot). The message body and time it was sent are shown here.
9. This section allows you to create a new message (NEW MESSAGE), reply to an existing one (REPLY), forward a message (FORWARD), mark all your messages as read (MARK ALL AS READ) and delete a single message (DELETE).

Personal - Profile

By selecting Personal → Profile, you will enter the game settings screen. There are a lot of options and settings that can be tweaked here (you can learn about them all in the "Game Settings" section of the Wiki):

- Profile — this page allows you to enter your personal data (Name, Last name, e-mail, gender etc.), change your password and create/change your personal Coat-of-arms;

- Settings — this page allows you to change your map (Valley) scrolling speed, game update frequency, enable/disable "Tip of the day" feature, enable the "City view", allow your troops to act as transport for looted goods, change your army naming policies and "army control lag" options, enable/disable graphical combat logs, hide/unhide the right panel of the tactics screen and configure the time needed for an active campaign to become inactive;

- Army Formations — this page allows you to configure your army formations (create new ones, edit or delete existing ones);

- Languages — this page allows you to set the languages you speak (up to five), configure your preferred language of the game user interface and change your country flag (for 200 gold);

- Lists — this page allows you to look through and unblock the players (if needed) previously blocked in the "Messaging" screen;

- Rewrite Troops — this page allows you to register your armies from one city to another (choose which city's population resource will be used by selected army). The register option is free for Gold subscribers and it costs 75 gold for everyone else;

- Keyboard Settings — this page is only available to Silver and Gold subscribers and it allows you to configure your in-game keyboard shortcuts (from 0-9);

- Vacation — this page allows you to configure the amount of days you wish to pick for your vacation (how much time you want to spend not playing the game, without fearing that somebody might attack you). The minimum time of vacation is 5 days and maximum is 23 days;

- SMS Service — this page allows you to enter your cell phone number where you want to receive short text messages from the server that notify you about some of the in-game actions. It also allows you to configure the options that define when exactly the SMS is going to be sent (each SMS costs 7 gold);

- Gold Service — this page allows you to buy gold and subscribe to one of the available in-game subscriptions (Silver or Gold). It also shows you how much gold you have on your account;

- Restart Account — this page allows you to restart your account and choose the valley where you want your first town to appear after the restart. If you wish to choose the exact valley where you wish to spawn, it will cost you 200 gold, if you wish it to be random, it will be done for free;

- Security Code — this page allows you to set your security code (NOTE: this is very important and should be done immediately after you start playing the game).

Help – Forums

By selecting Help → Forums, players will be transported to the game forums. Here they can find interesting topics about game features and balance, discussions about the latest patch changes and a much more. NOTE: most fresh and up to date information about the game can also be found here.

Help - Help

By selecting Help → Help, players will be transported to the 1100 AD Knowledge Base also known as 1100 AD Wiki. Here they can find a lot of useful information about the game, including tips, tricks, game guides, strategies and much more. It is advised to take atleast a quick look at this part of the website, because it will make your experience with 1100 AD much more pleasant.

Learning the various buildings and their roles

Basic Buildings

Castle

Castle is the most important building of your town. It is required for your settlement to operate. If your castle is destroyed, then the town disappears too. Castle controls several things in your city:
- it provides you 50 population, 100 resource storage and 10 of each resources per hour;
- it is the place where you hire your first hero. If your hero (or all of your heroes) has fallen, then castle is the place, where you can resurrect him (or only one of many, if you have all of your heroes fallen) for free, but you have to wait 15 minutes from the time of his death in order to do so;
- it provides you with your "Hero" screen, where you can see your hero's stats, improve or alter his skills, manage his items and switch between all of your other heroes;
- shows your current building rate (upgrading your castle increases it, and on castle level 20, you will have 147%);
- allows you to hire basic mercenaries (the ones that doesn't require special locations such as Teuton Castle or Barbarian Settlement). In order to unlock this option you need to build an Obelisk of Glory or Fountain of Glory in that town;
- allows to terraform terrain (you need castle level 6 and higher in order to do that);
- allows you to store and manage artifacts brought to the castle's treasury.
Castle takes 2x2 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.
You can only build one Castle in your town.

Storehouse

Storehouse is the second most important building of your town — it allows you to store basic resources. Some buildings and upgrades require a lot of these resources in order to be completed and in case your storehouse cannot hold the necessary amount, you won't be able to build those. Storehouse is needed for:
- your settlement to operate properly, because some buildings and building upgrades require a storehouse of certain level to be built;
- storage of all your basic resources;
- showing the information about the resource income (per hour) and expenses (including the population and mercenary points). This information can be accessed from the "Resources" tab of the building;
- showing the information about the type and count of buildings constructed in your town. This information can be accessed from the "Information" tab of the building.
Upgrading this building increases the maximum amount of resources it can hold, on the 20th level, the storehouse is capable of holding 29 900 resources, which in pair with castle's storage of 100 resources ends up with 30 000 of each resource storage cap for the city/fort. It can be further expanded by building and upgrading Srongbox which cost gold;
- your storehouse can be robbed by other players during the raid, so it would be wise to protect the building with walls. You can pillage other players' storehouses for personal profit too.
Storehouse takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow up in size during upgrades.
You can only build one Storehouse in your town.

Farms

Farms are some of the most essential buildings of your town — they provide the "population" resource which is required for numerous things. Player needs to know some facts about this building to use it effectively:
- population resource the farms provide is required for constructing buildings, upgrading buildings and training troops;
- there is no gathering rate for population resource, it is added permanently when you build a new farm or upgrade an existing one;
- population numbers go down while you develop your city and build troops, so you need to construct farms periodically in order to provide the needed amounts of this resources for your city to prosper;
- each farm should be placed on the town grid and constructed separately, so you need to plan your city wisely;
- upgrading each farm increases the overall population of your town;
- each fully upgraded farm provides 360 population;
- with maximum number of fully upgraded farms in your town you will have 7 250 population (7 650 population if a Well will be constructed too).
Farm takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.
You can only build up to 20 farms in your town.

Well

Well is another type of building that provides your town with population. It supports the city with source of clean and fresh water. There are some things each player should know about this building:
- it adds a +400 population for your town and can be built rather early in the game, which makes this building very effective early on;
- upon building this construction, your town becomes "active" for a specific event to appear — - each 2 weeks thieves in your city steal something from the merchants and hide it somewhere in the tunnels beneath the well. You are asked by the merchants to explore the well with your hero to get their stolen resources back, but beware — thieves may attack you.
Well takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it cannot be upgraded.
You can only build only one well in your town.

Resources Extraction

In order to extract resources in your city, you need to build special resource gathering buildings. There are five of them. They are:

Lime Oven

This building is used for producing lime. Upgrading this building increases the production rate of lime resource (per hour). The higher the level of building, the more resources it produces. This construction can be upgraded up to level 20, the production rate on this level will be 570 lime per hour (or 741 per hour if you have Gold Subscription).
Lime Oven takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.
You can only build only one lime oven in your town.

Coal Mine

This building is used for producing coal. Upgrading this building increases the production rate of coal resource (per hour). The higher the level of building, the more resources it produces. This construction can be upgraded up to level 20, the production rate on this level will be 570 coal per hour (or 741 per hour if you have Gold Subscription).
Coal Mine takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.
You can only build only one coal mine in your town.

Sawmill

This building is used for producing wood. Upgrading this building increases the production rate of wood resource (per hour). The higher the level of building, the more resources it produces. This construction can be upgraded up to level 20, the production rate on this level will be 570 wood per hour (or 741 per hour if you have Gold Subscription).
Sawmill takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.
You can only build only one sawmill in your town.

Quarry

This building is used for producing stone. Upgrading this building increases the production rate of stone resource (per hour). The higher the level of building, the more resources it produces. This construction can be upgraded up to level 20, the production rate on this level will be 570 stone per hour (or 741 per hour if you have Gold Subscription).
Quarry takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.
You can only build only one quarry in your town.

Iron Mine

This building is used for producing iron. Upgrading this building increases the production rate of iron resource (per hour). The higher the level of building, the more resources it produces. This construction can be upgraded up to level 20, the production rate on this level will be 570 iron per hour (or 741 per hour if you have Gold Subscription).
Iron Mine takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.
You can only build only one iron mine in your town.

General structures

Cache

Cache is another resource storage building, but it acts differently from the Storehouse. Cache hides a portion of your resources (the one that is stored in the Storehouse) from the robbers, it doesn't increase the maximum capacity of resources available to the city, though. The building can be upgraded up to level 20, when it can hide up to 3 850 resources of each type.
Cache takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.
You can only build only one cache in your town.

Strongbox

Strongbox is additional Storehouse that can be built in the city. It has some differences from the original storehouse, though:
- strongbox has only 5 levels comparing to storehouse's 20;
- building this construction costs gold, 70 at start and 50 for each upgrade, which makes it a total of 270 gold needed to build a fully upgraded strongbox;
- fully upgraded strongbox can hold up to 25 000 of each resource, which makes this building very important;
- strongbox can also be robbed just like the storehouse;
Strongbox takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.
You can only build only one strongbox in your town.

Marketplace

Marketplace is a building that allows you to trade with other players' settlements. It provides several bonuses:
- it allows the town, where marketplace is built, to be supplied with resources from your other cities or forts for free;
- it allows you to trade resources with other players;
- it allows you to exchange one resource for another, the rate is 15:1 if you wish to do it for free, or 1:1 if you prefer to pay extra gold for it (you need to pay same 10 gold when you exchange the amount of resources from 1 to 30 000, 20 gold for 30 001 to 60 000 etc.);
- it provides an extra storage of resources, but they apply only on those gathered by trade. It means, that if you have a trade order that is to deliver 15 000 of each resource in your town and your storehouse is already full, you will still be able to receive and store those in the market and they won't disappear;
- each upgrade increases the amount of resource storage (15 000 on level 20) and resource transferring capacity (15 000 on level 20) the market can handle.

To place an order on the market, do the following:

1)click on the “My Orders” button at the bottom right part of the market page → 2) select the resources you want to receive and the ones you are willing to trade in return → 3) click on the "Publish trade order to the market" button (two arrows following each other in the circle) to make your order available to the public

Marketplace takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.
You can only build only one marketplace in your town.

Repair Squad

Repair Squad is a building that allows you to repair the damage done to the buildings by rams/catapults/ballistae/trebuchets. This building can: - repair the damage done to your city by siege engines. The repair rate is measured in seconds and it caps at 1 hit point per 5 seconds when building has reached level 10 (3 HP per 5 seconds if you have three repair squads in your town/fort); - dig underpasses between your forts, towns and mercenary camps. The digging costs you gold and time (the amount varies depending on the distance to location you dig the underpass to). You can also dig underpasses to your vassals' and order members' locations. Underpasses cut travel time between the locations it connects by 30-50%. NOTE: underpass remains constructed and usable if your city was captured by other player, so build those at your own risk. - upgrades increase the building repair rate the Repair Squad provides. Repair Squad takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow up in size during the upgrades.
You can only build only three marketplace in your town.

Obelisk of Glory

Obelisk of Glory is a very important building, it allows you to gain access to another type of military units — mercenaries. It also provides the player with several options:
- it takes a lot of your population resources, but gives mercenary points in return (on level 20 it provides you with 6 890 mercenary points);
- after you have built the construction and filled the vassal tab with enough resources to level up, you are allowed to accept vassals and capture/build mercenary camps;
- it allows you to raise your vassal points by paying gold;
- it allows you to gain access to the "Mercenaries" tab of the castle, where you can hire basic mercenary units;
- it allows you to buy non-basic mercenary units (the ones that are provided by mercenary camps, such as Slaves, Teutonic Knights, Knights Templar etc.).
Obelisk of Glory takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.
You can only build only one Obelisk of Glory at all (not per city, but per commander).

Fountain of Glory

Fountain of Glory is a building that provides you with mercenary points. It is very expensive on population resource, though. There are few things each player needs to know about this building:
- while Obelisk of Glory cannot be built more than once, Fountain of Glory can be constructed in every city, though it is not recommended to build it in town where you have an upgraded Obelisk of Glory constructed, because together they will eat up a lot of population and you won't be able to recruit any non-mercenary troops from that settlement anymore;
- building and upgrading of this structure costs gold, 120 for foundation and 100 for each level upgrade, so fully upgraded building will cost you 520 gold;
- the maximum level of the building is 5th, at which it will provide you with 4800 mercenary points (without modifiers);
- initially, it is not profitably to build a Fountain of Glory, because this building is not an essential one and it takes 450 population, while giving back only 300 mercenary points (ratio 1.5:1), but this building has a special property — each Fountain of Glory in your kingdom (starting from the second one) provides itself with a mercenary point bonus of 10% (modifier). This means, that 2 Fountains of Glory will give you a mercenary point bonus of 10%, 3 buildings will provide you a 20% etc., so when you will have 6 Fountains, the population-mercenary point ratio will be 1:1. From this point on, it will be profitably to build this structure. When you have 12 cities with Fountains of Glory in each, the mercenary point bonus of this building will be 100%, which is extremely beneficial.
Fountain of Glory takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.
You can only build only one Fountain of Glory per city.

Tavern

Tavern is a fine establishment where different heroes from all over the kingdom visit to relax and drink a mug of ale or two; This building provides you with some options and bonuses:
- here you can hire additional heroes. Each new hero will cost you 10 gold and take 5 gold for upkeep (if he is out of the "Free hero" rule's reach);

The free hero rule:
1) Each player without subscription has one free hero;
2) Each player with Silver subscription has two free heroes;
3) Each player with Gold subscription has four free heroes;
4) Each player, regardless of subscriptions gains one additional free hero for each city starting from 8th.

- tavern provides your city with a morale bonus (it affects the number of troops in your army attacking simultaneously). The maximum morale bonus a tavern can provide is 115% (on level 5);
- tavern allows you to see the total amount of your troops and heroes, their total number of hit points, attack damage and capacity (how many resources units can carry with them). This information is available in the "Armies" tab of the tavern;
- tavern allows you to gain access to the auction, where you can buy and sell troops, mercenaries, heroes and artifacts;
- tavern is required to be able to construct the library.
- tavern also allows you to resurrect fallen heroes for free, but they will lose all their experience which lies between their current level and their next level upon the resurrection (it means that if you have a 25th level hero, who has 99% of the required experience needed to reach level 26, he will lose all this experience upon the resurrection in tavern);
Tavern takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.
You can only build only one tavern per city.

Temple

Temple is the building that allows you to resurrect your fallen heroes and improve your kingdom's reputation. There is something each player should know about this construction:
- temple allows you to donate basic resources or gold to improve your kingdom's reputation (each building's upgrade reduces the amount of resources needed to improve your reputation by one). Reputation is needed to declare wars, offer and sign agreements, accept vassals and build towers (mark towers);
- you will need to donate resources to the temple eventually, because someday your reputation will get low enough to block the ability to take vassals or declare wars;
- temple allows you to resurrect your fallen heroes without the reputation loss (with temple level 5, it will cost you 100 gold to resurrect a single hero).
Temple takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow up in size during the upgrades.
You can only build only one temple per city.

Rally Point

The rally point is a place (a building, actually), where all of your troops, carts and siege weapons gather when they are trained. All of your coming to your city/fort units will also arrive at the rally point.
Rally Point takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it cannot be upgraded.
You can only build only one rally point per city.

Library

Library is one the most important and key buildings in the game; it is capable of doing a lot of complex actions that are described in detail in the Library section of the Wiki. In general, library increases the knowledge level of your kingdom and there are few things each should know about this structure:
- by donating basic resources (same amount of each type) to the library, you fill up the knowledge bar of your kingdom. Once the bar hits 100%, you reach the next level and are allowed to build/capture one more city and then, the process starts again, requiring more and more resources for the next level each time;
- at start, first level library works only at its 10% efficiency, so you should avoid donating any resources to this institution before fully upgrading it first (to 10th level);
- this building allows you to automate some of the processes of your city, but you need to assign a hero for this (luckily, the hero is only assigned formally, he doesn't need to stay in the city to perform his duties in the library). It is possible to automatically collect the resources from your storehouse and spend it on services of one of these buildings: Library, Temple, Obelisk of Glory, Barracks, Stables or Workshop. Resource distribution is not 100% effective thought, but it is possible to get it to 95% rather easy, if you have a Gold subscription. This service comes very handy if you are not able to play the game for day or two, but want to invest your resources into something valuable, such as training troops or increasing your kingdom's knowledge level. NOTE: this option doesn’t work if you are online.
Library takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow up in size during the upgrades.
You can only build only one library per city.

Military buildings

Barracks

Barraks is a military building that produce regular, non-mercenary infantry. It can produce six types of units:
- Ranger;
- Pikeman;
- Archer;
- Marksman;
- Swordsman;
- Man-at-Arms;
Upgrading this building will increase the maximum number of troops that can be trained simultaneously — one at first level, two at second, three at third and so on, ending up with ten on tenth level of the building.
Barracks is a multicellular building and it increases in size during some of its upgrades, it takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid on levels 1-3, 2x2 tile space on levels 4-8 and 3x3 tile space on levels 9-10.
You can build as many as you wish barracks per city.

Stables

Stables is a military building that produce regular, non-mercenary cavalry. It can produce three types of units:
- Scout;
- Horseman;
- Knight.
Upgrading this building will increase the maximum number of troops that can be trained simultaneously — one at first level, two at second, three at third and so on, ending up with ten on tenth level of the building.
Stables is a multicellular building and it increases in size during some of its upgrades, it takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid on levels 1-3, 2x2 tile space on levels 4-8 and 3x3 tile space on levels 9-10.
You can build as many as you wish stables per city.

Workshop

Workshop is a building that produce regular, non-mercenary machines. It can produce three types of units:
- Catapult;
- Ram;
- Cart.
Upgrading this building will increase the maximum number of troops that can be trained simultaneously — one at first level, two at second, three at third and so on, ending up with ten on tenth level of the building.
Workshop is a multicellular building and it increases in size during some of its upgrades, it takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid on levels 1-3, 2x2 tile space on levels 4-8 and 3x3 tile space on levels 9-10.
You can build as many as you wish workshops per city.

Defensive buildings

Wall

Wall is a basic defensive building, it allows you to protect different parts of your town from the enemies. Walls can significantly slow down enemy armies. There are few things one should know about walls:
- walls can be passed (climbed) only by infantry. Carts, siege weapons and cavalry cannot travel through this obstacle;
- walls can be destroyed only by siege engines (rams, catapults, trebuchets and ballistae);
- when fighting on walls your infantry receives a defensive bonus (hit points are increased) as follows: 1.15 times on level one wall (wooden), 1.55 times on level two wall (stone) and 2 times on level three wall (orange tiled);
- each upgrade increases the hit points of the wall (500 on level 1, 2500 on level 2 and 10000 on level 3) and the defensive bonus it provides.
Wall takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.
You can build as many as you wish walls per city.

Gates

Gates is another basic defensive building; it is fortified more heavily than any other part of the wall and allows the allied forces to pass through your fortifications freely. There are few things each player should know about gates:
- gates can be passed (climbed) only by infantry. Carts, siege weapons and cavalry cannot travel through this obstacle;
- gates can be destroyed only by siege engines (rams, catapults, trebuchets and ballistae);
- when fighting on gates your units receives a defensive bonus (hit points are increased) as follows: 1.5 times on level one gates (wooden), 2 times on level two gates (stone) and 2.5 times on level three gates (orange tiled);
- each upgrade increases the hit points of the gates (1000 on level 1, 5000 on level 2 and 20000 on level 3) and the defensive bonus it provides.
Gates takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.
You can build only five gates per city.

Watchtower

Watchtower is a building that gives you additional line of sight in your city or fort during the battle. This structure is very important because it gives you advantage over your enemies and allows you to catch them unprepared. Each player should know a few things about this construction:
- watchtower can be passed (climbed) only by infantry. Carts, siege weapons and cavalry cannot travel through this obstacle;
- watchtower can be destroyed only by siege engines (rams, catapults, trebuchets and ballistae);
- watchtower can be upgraded to 5th level, and while first two upgrades don't cost any gold, others, starting from 3rd - do. You need 25 gold to upgrade the watchtower to level 3, 50 gold to level 4 and 75 gold to level 5, ending up with a sum of 150 gold for fully upgraded tower;
- the building provides line of sight of 1 on first level, of 2 on second level, of 3 on third, of 4 on fourth and of 5 on fifth, thus making a fully upgraded watchtower a very strategically important building in the game;
- just like the walls and the gates, watchtower provides a defensive bonus for your troops. The bonuses are: 1.2 times on level one watchtower, 1.4 times on level two, 1.6 times on level three, 1.8 times on level four and 2 times on level five;
Watchtower takes 1x1 tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.
You can build only two watchtowers per city.

Diplomacy

Pact of Alliance (Alliance)

This pact makes a classic alliance between you and other player:
- you are able to aid each other and visit each other's cities freely;
- you can't attack your allies in neutral or enemy locations, nor can they you (there is an exception, though, if one of the pact members has sent an army to attack a city, and other one to aid it with his forces - they will engage in battle with each other);
- time it takes to break a pact of alliance — 1 day or upon acceptance of pact's second member;
- it doesn't cost you anything to offer an alliance, but it will cost you 10 reputation to break one;
- there is no reputation requirements for offering and alliance. This means that you can have a very bad reputation (say -129) and still be able to offer an alliance.

Non-Aggression Pact

This pact implies some restrictions on your aggression towards other pact members:
- player cannot attack forts and cities of other member of the pact;
- your armies will engage other pact member’s armies, if you meet them on the neutral grounds (adventureHut locations, neutral city etc.)
- time it takes to break a non-aggression pact — 1 day or upon acceptance of pact's second member;
- it doesn't cost you anything to offer a non-aggression pact, but it will cost you 5 reputation to break one;
- there is no reputation requirements for offering a non-aggression pact. This means that you can have a very bad reputation (say -129) and still be able to offer a non-aggression pact.

Truce

Truce is required only when you want to end war. There are several things you should know about this type of diplomatic move:
- truce is the only way to end war and it cannot be used in any other circumstances apart from that;
- truce cannot be broken manually, it will last for one week and then will end automatically. The only way to end a truce before one week period is to override it with some sort of friendly political agreement (offer an alliance or a non-aggression pact etc.);
- if you have a truce with another player, you will not be able to engage in any sort of aggressive activities against that player;
- player cannot attack forts and cities of another player, who he has a truce with;
- it doesn't cost you anything (0 reputation) to offer a truce;
- there is no reputation requirements for offering a truce. This means that you can have a very bad reputation (say -229) and still be able to offer a truce.

War

This political pact starts a war between you and another player. War implies several restrictions, each player should know about:
- with War pact on, you are allowed to use siege weapons (rams, ballistae, catapults and trebuchets) not only against your foe's gates and walls, but also against all of his buildings excluding the Castle';
- war allows you to capture your enemies’ cities even if they are not grayed out on the Valley map (are active);
- it costs you 50 reputation to start a war, and none reputation to end it (offer a truce);
- there is a reputation requirement for declaring a war — you should have not less than -199 reputation;
- there is a reputation requirement for accepting a war — you should have not less than -199 reputation;

Vassalage

Vassalage is a mutually beneficial pact between two players, where one of the player acts as a lord or a sovereign and another one as his loyal vassal. The pact implies several features one should know about this political agreement:
- members of the vassal agreement are allowed to aid one another's locations;
- you can use all of your lord's or vassal's locations as rally points for you armies in-between the upcoming campaigns (you are able to visit these locations with your troops and send campaigns from there);
- a vassal automatically receives a non-aggression pacts with all of his sovereign's allies;
- a vassal automatically becomes an ally of his lord's other vassals;
- a vassal automatically becomes an enemy of his sovereign's enemies;
- it doesn't cost you anything (0 reputation) to become a lord or a vassal;
- it costs you 10 reputation to break a vassal agreement;
- there is a reputation requirement for offering someone to become your lord or vassal — you should have not less than -149 reputation;
- there is a reputation requirement for accepting someone's offer to become his lord or vassal — you should have not less than -149 reputation;

Order

Order is a military political organization that pulls together different feudal lords and knights under the banner of a single visionary leader and aims to reach some greater goal. There are several things one should know about this political unit:
- the policy of an order is solely decided by its magistrate (master);
- members of an order are allowed to send their troops to any cities, forts, locations belonging to other members of same order;
- all the members of the order are counted as allies;
- during his initiation, new member of the order receives all the political relationships of the order's master. These new political relationships override the previous ones (also known as the personal relationships) and are counted as "active". If later, the new member leaves the order, his personal relationships with other players are restored;
- Master of the order might ask you to share something (gold, mercenary points, resources) with him, before he accepts you into the brotherhood;
- there is no reputation cost (0 reputation) for joining the order;
- there is no reputation cost (0 reputation) upon leaving the order;
- there is no reputation requirements for joining or leaving an order.

Payment Options of Political Agreements

In 1100AD it is possible to ask for tribute or pay one, while playing with the political features of the game.
Upon signing all of the agreements, except declaring war, engaging in vassal relationship or joining the order it is possible to demand or offer a tax of 1-100 gold or 1-50 000 basic resources of each type. This payment is considered to be valid only for one occasion and will be completed only in case the selected player has the needed amount of resources. If he doesn't — he will still sign the agreement, but the tribute will not be paid.

There are special types of payments for vassal and order relationships (they are presented below). What's true for the vassal-sovereign relationship is also true for member-magistrate relationship, so the written below will only mention the vassal-lord relationship situations.

Glory Point (Mercenary Point) Tax

This tax works as follows:
- lord takes away from his vassal some mercenary point amount which is mentioned in the agreement even if they are used by his vassal right now;
- if the agreement is broken, than the vassal receives his mercenary points back;
- if the vassal has less mercenary points than there is mentioned in the agreement, then his sovereign takes all of the vassal's mercenary points he has at the moment and they are subtracted from the sum mentioned in the agreement. Then, when the vassal acquires new mercenary points, they go to his lord too, until his debt is fully paid. When the tribute is finally paid, vassal newly obtained mercenary points will go to him and he will be able to use them.

Library Resources Tax (percent per each donation)

This tax works as follows:
- each time a vassal donates some amount of resources to his library his lord receives a percentage of these resources (defined in the vassal agreement) to his library. This means that if the tax was set to 25% and his vassal donates a sum of 10 000 resources of each type to his library, than only 7500 of each resource will be successfully donated and the rest 2500 will be sent to his lord's library.

Library Resources Tax (on timer)

This tax works as follows:
- once in a while (once per 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 15 or 30 days) the specified in the agreement amount of resources (from 1 to 5000) will be taken away from vassal's storehouse and donated to his sovereign's library;
- if vassal has no required amount of resources when time comes to pay the tribute, then the tax payment will be ignored that day.

Contract signing payment (in gold)

This is not a tax, but an agreement payment. The specified amount of gold will be taken away from a person who is being invited into an order or asked to become a vassal only once — during the contract signing procedure. The minimum amount of gold that can be taken is 1, the maximum - 1000;

Gold Payment Tax (on timer)

- once in a while (once per 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 15 or 30 days) the specified in the agreement amount of gold (from 1 to 100) will be taken away from vassal's treasury and transferred to his sovereign;
- if vassal has no required amount of gold when time comes to pay the tribute, then tax payment will be ignored that day.

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-== Starting with the basics ==
+== The Basics ==
+Before you read this, we recommend you to get acknowledged with [[Game Background|game background]].
 === City - Town ===
-Upon entering the game, you will receive a tutorial on the top right hand corner of your browser.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; clear: right">[[File:1_rename_your_city.jpg]]</div>
+Upon entering the game, you will receive a tutorial on the upper right corner of your browser.<br/>
-==== Rename your City ====
+It will help to better understand the game basics and what is more important - help you develop your city quicker. If you follow the tutorial you will get rewards upon finishing each of its steps. NOTE:  By skipping a step you will deny your reward for it, so be patient and follow all the steps of the tutorial.
-* Nobody likes being stuck with a strange name. Luckily, you can call your new city whatever you desire.
-* Select the Banner of City name at the top center of the screen.. A city options menu will pop-up, allowing you to rename your city.
+=====Rename your City=====
+Nobody likes being stuck with a strange name. Luckily, you can name your new city whatever you desire.
+In order to do that - click on an orange banner with a City name written on top of it (it is located in upper center part of the city screen).  A city options menu will pop-up, allowing you to rename your city.<br/><br/>
+[[File:2_rename_your_city.jpg]]
 ==== Hire a Hero ====
-* Heroes are located in the castle. You are given four choices, each with different skills.
+Your first hero is free of charge and can be hired from the castle. You are given three to choose from, each with his own set of skills. They may also differ in levels (from level 1 to level 3) and you should think carefully before choosing which one will lead your army. One should know that upon hiring a hero, it is impossible to hire another hero for free for quite some time. It is also impossible to hire any more heroes until you build your tavern up. Sometimes it is wiser to take a level 3 hero, which usually already has 2 or 3 active predefined skills, while sometimes it is better to choose a level 1 hero, which has only 1 predefined active skill, but the one you need. So the choice is up to you.<br/>
-* Before selecting your favorite hero, highlight each character to see their special abilities. Each skill has four stages to it. Every time your hero increases a level, he gains 1 point.
+<div style="width: 359px; height: 159px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:3_hire_a_hero.JPG]]</div>
-None (0 points), novice (1 point), expert (2 points), master (3 points)
+There is a trick, though - if you've chosen the wrong hero, you can enter a [[Tactics|tactic mode]] of your first city, and disband this hero. This way, he will disappear and allow you to buy another hero for free.<br/>
+The disbanded hero will be available for resurrection for 7 days. If he won't get resurrected during this time, he will vanish forever.<br/><br/>
+'''In order to do this trick you should:'''<br/>
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px;">
+In "Tactics" mode: 1) Select the hero → 2) click on "Advanced actions" button → 3) click on "Disband (kill) selected armies" button.
+</div>
-* Leadership –Soldiers have more health
+Before selecting your first hero, highlight each available character to check on their preset special abilities. Each skill can be raised four times (there are total of 4 levels of each hero skill in the game).  Those are classified as follows:<br/>
-* Logistics –Your army gains faster movement between cities
+- 0 points &mdash; '''None''';<br/>
-* Pathfinding –Your army travels faster within cities
+- 1 point &mdash; '''Novice''';<br/>
-* Scouting -Increases Hero's sight range, at max it goes to range 4
+- 2 points &mdash; '''Expert''';<br/>
-* Knowledge -Increases hero experience per kill and plays a role in collector efficiency
+- 3 points &mdash; '''Master'''.<br/><br/>
-* Defender -Increases Army defense
-* Archery -Archers, Rangers and Marksmen become stronger
+The [[Hero Skills|skills]] that are available in game:<br/>
-* Fighter -Foot soldiers get stronger
+- Leadership &mdash; increases the morale of your troops, which defines, how many units will attack at the same time;<br/>
-* Cavalry -Cavalry become stronger
+- Logistics &mdash; increases the movement speed of your hero's army when traveling in [[Valey|valeys]] (between cities, forts and other locations);<br/>
-* Ballistics -Siege weapons do more damage
+- Pathfinding &mdash; increases hero's army movement speed within city, fort or any other location which has a [[Tactics|tactic screen]];<br/>
+- Scouting &mdash; increases hero's sight range by 1 for each skill level. At '''"Master"''' level hero will get a sight range of 4, which is the highest in game so far;<br/>
+- Knowledge &mdash; increases hero's experience growing rate (XP points per kill) and improves his efficiency as a [[Collector|collector]];<br/>
+- Defender &mdash; increases all units' hit point amount in hero's army;<br/>
+- Archery &mdash; increases the damage output of shooter units in hero's army;<br/>
+- Fighter &mdash; increases the damage output of infantry units in hero's army;<br/>
+- Cavalry &mdash; increases the damage output of cavalry units in hero's army;<br/>
+- Ballistics &mdash; increases the damage output of siege weapons in hero's army.<br/>
-a. Olive Leaf - The current level of the Hero.
+'''Every time your hero increases a level, he gains 1 free skill point.'''<br/>
-b. Crossing Weapons - The Hero's attack power.
+Player can use those to advance his hero's skills.<br/>
-c. Shield - Hero's life.
+Novice skill requires 1 free skill point,<br/>
+Expert skill requires 2 free skill points,<br/>
+Master skill requires 3 free skill points.<br/>
-==== Start gathering Resources ====
+So, in order for hero to become a '''"Master"''' of any particular skill, he requires '''6''' free skill points.<br/>
-* Resources are income you spend to build your town and improve your army
-* By improving your resource buildings you will be able to extract more resources per hour.
-* Select any resource building (sawmill, quarry, iron mine...) and on the overview tab, click “Upgrade” (green arrow) found on the top right hand corner of the menu.
-==== Improve City Population ====
+<div style="display: inline; float: left; padding: 0 7px 10px 0; clear: left">[[File:4_hero_stats.jpg|20px]]</div>
-* Farms supply population for upgrading buildings or creating troops.
+'''Hero stats:'''<br/>
-* Create a farm by clicking on an empty square of land and choosing the farm building. Alternatively, you may select an already existing farm and on the overview tab, click the upgrade button to increase your total population. (Represented by two golden heads on the resource bar).
+Olive Leaf &mdash; indicates the current level of your hero;<br/><br/>
+Gauntlet with a Sword &mdash; indicates hero's attack power (how much damage he inflicts);<br/><br/>
+Shield &mdash; indicates hero's hit points (how many he has).<br/><br/><br/>
-==== Train first Troops ====
+==== Start Gathering Resources ====
-* Troops are made in the Barracks or Stables (if you do not have one, click an open field and order one. You must have the necessary resources.)
+There are 9 types of resources in the game. Most of them can be gathered from the buildings in your cities, while few of them are given in exchange for real money.<br/>
-* It is your choice to either train troops now or to continue constructing buildings.
+They are:<br/>
-* The bigger the army, the better!
+- Coal &mdash; can be gathered from the Coal mine;<br/>
+- Iron &mdash; can be gathered from the Iron mine;<br/>
+- Stone &mdash; can be gathered from the Quarry;<br/>
+- Wood &mdash; can be gathered from the Sawmill;<br/>
+- Lime &mdash; can be gathered from the Lime oven;<br/>
+- Population &mdash; can be gathered from Houses and Wells;<br/>
+- Mercenary points &mdash; can be obtained by building Obelisks of Glory, Fountains of Glory, Mercenary Camps or as a tribute from your order members (where you are the master of the order) or your vassals;<br/>
+- Gold &mdash; can be obtained by [http://payments.ambergames.com/ buying] it for real money. You can also obtain gold, by selling heroes, armies, artifacts, mercenaries etc. at the [[Auction|auction]];<br/>
+- [[Diamonds]] &mdash; can be obtained during tutorials, quests and by buying gold. You receive 10 diamonds for each 1000 gold you buy. '''Player receives 1(one) free diamond per day, if he was online during that day'''.<br/>
+<div style="width: 682px; height: 79px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:6_resource_types.jpg‎]]</div>
-==== Resist the Attacks of Marauders ====
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px; margin: 10px 0 0 0;">
-* Marauders are computerized enemies
+All the resources except mercenary points, gold and diamonds are tied to your city(-ies), which means that you cannot construct a building in some city, where there is not enough resources to accomplish the task, even you have plenty of them in another one.
-* You may see these marauders in the Tactical Page Map labeled as red flags.
+</div>
-* Select the army you have and simply click the enemy you wish to destroy.
+Normal resources (coal, iron, stone, wood and lime) can be spent on different things, starting from building up your cities and ending with training your armies or terraforming the valleys. Despite the fact, that there are 5 basic resources, 2 of them are more important than others. This is so, because unit and building prices include them in bigger numbers than the others. These two types of resources are '''wood''' and '''iron''' and each player should concentrate on building up their gathering sites to a maximum level in the first place.<br/><br/>
-a. In the top right hand corner, you should see the name of your army followed by a walking animation and their time of arrival.
+When player receives his first city, he has only a level 1 Castle, 500 basic resources of each type and no resource gathering mines. Immediately after that a Storehouse is being build, so player is left with only '''424 resources of each type''';<br/>
-b. In the event of a battle, it will be represented by two swords crossing each other.
+Basic resources are '''gathered per hour''', while population and mercenary points are given to you in certain amounts upon the finishing of construction or upgrade of certain buildings. In order to improve the gathering rate of basic resources one must upgrade its extraction sites (coal mines, iron mines, quarries etc.).<br/><br/>
-c. Seconds later the page should reload with the results on the bottom of the page.
-d. If you see no red flag, you have beaten the enemy likewise with your green flag.
-==== Setup Coat-of-Arms ====
+To do so, do the following:<br/>
-* This is the insignia of you and your city, basically the sign you would commonly see on a shield or flag.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:5_building_upgrade.jpg‎ ]]</div>
-* To setup your coat-of-arms, highlight your Settings tab, then click Profile.
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px;">
-* This displays your current information, click on the “Change” button on the left-side Avatar.
+) Select any resource building (sawmill, quarry, iron mine and so on) → 2) go to the "Overview" tab → 3) click “Upgrade” icon (found on the top right corner of the menu)
-* On the bottom of the menu, you’ll find various coat of arms (CoA) to chose from. Select the one that best suites you.
+</div>
-* To customize your own CoA, you must have at least 750 Gold Coins (refer to Gold Coins for more info).  Otherwise, you may choose any of the free choices.
-* If you have Gold Coins then you may return to the Profile page, and select "Generate Personal CoA".
-=== City - Tactics ===
-Another view of your city, the tactical page shows your army along with ally and enemy troops.
-* Your hero is labeled as a green flag.
-* Your armies are labeled as green flags.
-* Allies are labeled as blue flags.
-* Enemies are labeled as red flags.
-Each corner of the map has entry points called "Gates". This is where anyone may enter or leave your city.
-The circles covering each part of the map are waypoints that any army can travel to simply by selecting your army and clicking on a circle.
-The movement of any army will take time. The time required to move from Point A to Point B is shown in the upper right corner.
-* Fixed Squad: The purpose is to keep a specific army separate from others.  Selecting the box will ensure your army does not mix with another one of your armies.
-* Formation: Set on default, you can configure your armies formation by re-ordering how your army will be setup. You may choose what type of soldiers to put into the front lines where they are the most likely to be killed. This allows some interesting strategic choices.
-* Aggression: Low (Not to attack anyone within view), Range (Attack within view but does not pursuit), High (Attack when in view/range and pursuit)
-* Attack Range: Melee (Attack within circle) - Adaptive (Attack within the army’s range or circle) - Ranged (Attack when in ranged sight of army).
-==== Rename Army ====
+==== Increase your City Population ====
-* You can give your armies creative names to express yourself.
+Population indicates the manpower of your kingdom. It is required to construct or upgrade buildings as well as to train troops. There are two types of buildings that give you free population points - Farms and Wells.<br/>
-* Flag selection’s purpose is to give each army its own symbol for instant recognition.
+Well can be built only once per city; it gives your city a bonus of +400 population and it cannot be upgraded. Farms can be built in greater numbers &mdash; 20 per city; it gives you +10 population on level 1 and each house can be upgraded 9 times (up to level 10), where each upgrade adds population numbers as follows:<br/>
++30 on level 2 (total of 40 population);<br/>
++40 on level 3 (total of 80 population);<br/>
++40 on level 4 (total of 120 population);<br/>
++40 on level 5 (total of 160 population);<br/>
++40 on level 6 (total of 200 population);<br/>
++40 on level 7 (total of 240 population);<br/>
++40 on level 8 (total of 280 population);<br/>
++40 on level 9 (total of 320 population);<br/>
++40 on level 10 (total of 360 population).<br/>
-==== Join Selected Army ====
+'''To build your first farm, do the following:'''
-* Select the armies you wish to group together and click “Join Armies”     Then select the group you want to expand. This makes the other group walk over to the selected Army and form as one.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:7_build_a_farm.jpg‎]]</div>
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px;">
+) Click on an empty space → 2) click on the farm icon → 3) if you have enough resources, the construction process will start
+</div><br/>
-==== Split Armies into Two ====
+==== Train your First Troops ====
-* Splitting the army into two will separate your troops into two bands.
+There are several types of troops available in game, they are:<br/>
+- Infantry;<br/>
+- Shooters;<br/>
+- Cavalry;<br/>
+- Siege Weapons;<br/>
+- Heroes.<br/>
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px;">
+Player should note, that there are some units in the game that throw projectiles, but are considered to be infantry, not shooters.
+</div>
+Some troops are made in Barracks or Stables, some in Workshop, while others can be hired from Castle (Obelisk of Glory/Fountain of Glory) or in special Mercenary Camps. At the start of the game you will only have an opportunity to hire troops from Barracks, Stables and Workshop. It is not obligatory to do that, however it is advised to build a Barracks and train there some [[Swordsman|swordsmen]] and [[Archer|archers]] or [[Marksman|marksmen]] in order to successfully fend off the marauder attacks.<br/>
+To build a Barracks, do the following:
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:8_build_the_barracks.jpg‎‎]]</div>
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px;">
+) Click on an empty space → 2) click on the Barracks icon → 3) if you have enough resources, the construction process will start
+</div><br/>
-==== Select All/None ====
+==== Repulse the Marauder Attacks ====
-* Selects all your troops or deselects those that are selected.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:9_tactics.jpg‎‎]]</div>
+Marauders are computerized enemies who like to attack easy targets &mdash; your poorly defended or undefended forts and cities. In order to see whether marauders attacked your town, you need to check the [[Tactics|tactical]] view of your city. If marauder armies will be present there, they will be marked as red flags, while your armies &mdash; as green ones.<br/>
+'''To kill the marauders, do the following:'''
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px;">
+) Click on your army → 2) click on the red flag, representing the marauder army → 3) watch as the "crossing swords" icon and time needed to reach the destination appear near your army name in the upper right section of the screen → 4) wait until your army reaches the enemy and engages them in battle → 5) as the battle starts, watch the lower middle portion of the screen for battle log to appear; it will show you detailed information about the current battle → 5) When the enemy perishes, only the green flag of your army will be left on the tactics screen
+</div><br/>
-==== Advanced Options ====
+==== Setup your Coat-of-Arms ====
-* Disband/kill selected Armies (Self-explanatory).
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:10_profile.JPG]]</div>
-* Register Armies in this city (Relocates that army's population to the city you are at)
+A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms coat of arms] is a distinctive heraldic design on a tunic used to cover and protect armor, but the term is more broadly applied to mean a full heraldic achievement which consists of a shield and certain accessories. In either sense, the design is a symbol unique to a person, family, corporation, or state. Such displays are also commonly called armorial bearings, armorial devices, heraldic devices, or arms.<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 40px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:11_change_coat_of_arms.JPG|120px]]</div>
+'''In order to setup your personal coat-of-arms, do the following:'''
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px;">
+) Highlight the "Settings" tab → 2) When the menu pops up, click on the "Profile" link → 3) Click on the "Change" button under your current coat-of-arms (which should be empty for now) → 4) The list of available free pre-generated coats-of-arms will appear (it can be scrolled horizontally). Choose the coat-of-arm that you find most appropriate → <br/>5) Push the "Tick" button
+</div><br/>
+<div style="width:500px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:12_change_coat_of_arms2.JPG‎|500px]]</div>
+It is also available to generate your own Coat-of-Arms from different elements, but it will cost you 750 gold. If you have this resource in abundance, you may want to do create your own unique symbol, so that everybody would recognize you on sight when you become a powerful feudal lord.<br/><br/>
+The game gives you a lot of elements to choose from, when creating your personal Coat-of-Arms, so it is possible to create a very complex and bizarre sign, but one should note, that process of creating correct, high quality armorial bearings is not a mindless one &mdash; it is science, and one should get [http://www.fleurdelis.com/meanings.htm acknowledged with it] a bit, at the very least.<br/>
+==== Canceling an operation ====
+Each player should know that there are several operations in the game that can be canceled during their progress. Sometimes we miss-click or do the things we are sorry about later. It this cases canceling an operation is a savior.<br/>
+'''You can cancel (while the process is still in queue) these operations:'''<br/>
+- Construction of building;<br/>
+- Demolition of building;<br/>
+- Upgrade of a building;<br/>
+- Downgrade of a building;<br/>
+- Training of non-mercenary units.<br/>
+'''You can cancel (when the process is already started) these operations:'''<br/>
+- Demolition of building;<br/>
+- Terraforming.<br/>
+'''In different cases, different percentage of resources is returned:'''<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:13_complex_upgrade_process2.JPG]]</div>
+- When canceling a terraform process, 0% of resources are returned;<br/>
+- When canceling unit production (those that are in queue), 75% of resources are refunded;<br/>
+- When downgrading a building, 30% of its upgrade cost to current level are returned (and 100% of "slave" buildings' cost {for each building}, if such were present. "Slave" buildings are additional constructions of same type as the target building, they are placed around it and are required by the upgrade process in order to advance the target building from one level to another. These buildings are consumed during the upgrade process and are used to increase the size of the target building. Barracks, Stables and Workshop require such "slave" buildings during their advancement from level 3 to level 4 and from level 8 to level 9);<br/>
+- When demolishing a building, 30% of its '''total cost (initial cost + cost of level upgrades done so far combined)''' are returned;<br/>
+- When demolishing a Fountain of Glory, 30% of its '''total cost''' in basic resources and 100% of '''its total''' cost in gold are returned.<br/>
+=== City - Tactics ===
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:9_tactics.jpg‎‎]]</div>
+In "City" tab, apart from the already known "Town" mode, there is "Tactics" mode. Tactic mode implies some changes to way you see the location. They are:<br/>
+- All the background colors become dim;<br/>
+- The building grid is changed to combat grid, which looks differently and is suited for combat purposes. You can toggle it on and off, just like the City grid &mdash; just click the amber stone located in upper right corner of the Tactics screen;<br/>
+- The combat grid represent all the positions available on the map where armies may move to. Some positions are more beneficial for standing your ground (your walls, rock formations for example), some for movement (gray tiles), so you can use those to your advantage;<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:15_army_movement.jpg]]</div>
+- The movement process of any army takes time. The time required to move from one point (circle, where your army is located right now) to another (circle, where you want them to be) is shown in the upper right corner;<br/>
+- The roads that were present in "Town mode" view, are now shown as "Gates" &mdash; these are the points where armies (yours/allied/enemy) enter and leave your city. There are four of them, each for one cardinal point - North, East, South and West;<br/>
+- All the armies present at the location are being shown as flags:<br/>
+--- Your hero and armies are marked by green flags;<br/>
+--- Allied heroes and armies are marked by blue flags;<br/>
+--- Enemy heroes and armies are marked by red flags;<br/>
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:14_battle_of_hastings.jpg‎|682px|Screenshot of Battle of Hastings]]</div><br/><br/>
+==== Army Control User Interface ====
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:16_tactical_menu.jpg‎|682px|User Interface of Army Control]]</div><br/>
+In tactical mode, there are several buttons and menus that help you to handle your armies more effectively:<br/>
+'''1.''' [[File:17_show_army_log.png‎]] - this icon toggles between the "battle log" and the "currently selected armies screen" (also known as formation screen) modes;<br/>
+'''2.''' [[File:18_pin_log_or_army.png‎]] - this icon has two states, pinned and unpinned (default state). What is does, is makes one of the previously mentioned modes permanently enabled when it is pinned &mdash; you will either always see a "battle log" screen or "formation" screen. Note that pushing the '''1. button''', when this button is "pinned", won't have any effect;<br/>
+'''3.''' [[File:19_select_all.gif]] - this icon selects/deselects all of your armies on the battlefield;<br/>
+'''4.''' [[File:20_combat.gif]] - this is a menu, that covers some very important tactical features:<br/>
+<div style="width:528px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:28_complete_the_army.JPG]]</div>
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px; margin: 0 0 0 33px;">
+'''1)''' - this is your [[Formations|formation list]], it shows your predefined battle formations. "Default" formation is available to everyone from the start and your troops will be distributed by four rows according to this formation automatically. You can also configure up to 2(two) formations of your own if you have no subscription and up to 10 formations, if you have Silver or Gold subscriptions.<br/>
+'''2)''' - "Configure formations" button, it will bring up the screen, where you can configure your formations;<br/>
+'''3)''' - "Aggression: low" button sets your army to "stand ground" stance &mdash; your soldiers will '''only''' attack the enemy if it is in their range (if the correct "Attack Range" option is enabled), but they won't engage them in melee or pursue them;<br/>
+'''4)''' - "Aggression: range" button sets your army to "defensive" stance &mdash; your soldiers will attack the enemy, when at least one unit in your army, who has the longest range is able to reach the foe. They will pursue and engage the enemy, but only up to the distance where your longest range units can attack, they won’t engage the enemy in melee by themselves, but they won't evade the charging in enemy either.<br/>
+'''5)''' - "Aggression: high" button sets your army to "attacking" stance &mdash; your soldiers will attack the enemy if they know where he is (another army or watchtower spotted the enemy, for example). Whether they will attack in melee or at range is configured by the "Attack Range" buttons;<br/>
+'''6)''' - "Attack range: melee" button sets your army's attack range to 0. This means, that if the correct Aggression option is selected ("range" or "high"), your army will try to tie up the enemy in melee, firing projectiles while they close up with the foe.<br/>
+'''<span style="color: red;">Note:</span>''' never use a combination of '''"Aggression: low" and "Attack range: melee"''' without paying attention, because your armies will get nailed with bolts and arrows from the distance, without inflicting any casualties to the enemy. Though, there are cases when you '''may consciously want to use this combination''', for example, you are leveling up in some Adventure Hut location, say Druid Temple, and you see the army of your vassal entering it as an "[[Diplomacy|attacker]]". This way, your army won't attack him on sight, unless he steps in the same tile your troops are located in;<br/>
+'''7)''' - "Attack range: adaptive" button sets your army's range to the shortest one available (except 0), for example &mdash; if you have a Footpad or a Royal Guard in your army, then the minimal range will be set to 1. Your army will start to attack the enemy only from the abovementioned '''minimal range'''. You should note that this is a very dangerous mode to use if you are not paying attention to your armies. Using it in combination with "Aggression: low" will ensure that your army won't attack the foes until they come to your minimal range (usually 1 or 2), using it with "Aggression: range" will override your army's "attack from maximum range" settings with the "attack from minimal range" one, ensuring that will try to tie up in melee and eventually get slaughtered;<br/>
+NPC (Marauders/Adventure Hut) armies use the combination of "Aggression: range" and "Attack range: adaptive", that's why they are relatively easy to beat.
+--- '''I would suggest you never use this "Attack range: adaptive" scenario at all, this way you will prevent a lot of bad things from happening;'''<br/>
+'''8)''' - "Attack range: ranged" button sets your army's range to the longest one available (usually 4 - the one of the Norman archer). Your army will start attacking the foes from their longest range and won't try to engage them in melee. This is a "good all around" scenario you want to deploy on a regular basis. It allows your armies to shower the enemy with projectiles from a far, while being safe on relatively long distance.<br/>
+In general situation (when your armies are not specialized in melee only) it might be a good idea to use a '''combination of "Aggression: low" and "Attack range: ranged"''', especially when you are not paying attention to the combat. This tactic is also very useful against NPC armies. Of course each player should understand that there is no ideal combination of "Aggression" and "Range" stances that would suit all situations perfectly, one should adjust these settings each time he encounters an enemy;<br/>
+'''9)''' - "Complete the army" button marks your selected army as a regular and a fixed one. This means that when sending campaigns to different locations, "fixed" or "rallied" armies will appear as already predefined ones in the list &mdash; the troops that are registered to these armies won't appear in the "Troop pool", they will only be chosen when you choose the whole army from the army list. This is a very important feature, which every player should use eventually;<br/>
+'''10)''' - This button "unfixes" or breaks your regular armies (ones that were "fixed" before), so that troops that are already attached to specific rallied armies may appear in the "Troop pool" again.
+</div>
+'''5.''' [[File:21_join_armies.gif]] - this icon allows you to join two or more selected armies into one. You choose which army will be reinforced with the troops from another army, so the name and the flag of this specific army will stay the same;<br/>
+'''6.''' [[File:22_split_armies.gif]] - this icon allows you to split one army into two or more (up to ten). You may choose the name of your new armies (the naming rule is: %your_chosen_name% @1-10). If you didn't type in your new army name, then the default one will be used (it is usually Army @N; settings that control the naming rules are located in "Personal → Profile → Settings → Armies naming:);<br/>
+'''7.''' [[File:23_army_options.gif]] - this icon opens up the "Advanced actions" menu, which allow you to disband and army or to register it to the current city (if the army is located in one of your cities and this city has enough population to upkeep it).<br/>
+'''8.''' [[File:24_rename_army.gif]] - this icon opens up the menu, where player can rename one particular army and choose one of 33 available flags for it.<br/>
+'''9.''' [[File:26_send_report.gif]] - this icon clears the current battle log and sends a report about it to your cities. Note that this operation '''can only be done if nobody else is watching this log''' (another player in the same location). If you still see the log after pushing this button, you need to refresh the page;<br/>
+'''10.''' [[File:25_show_the_army_pane.png]] - this icon toggles on/off the display of your selected armies in the right pane. This option is useful, when you want to see the battle log (in text format) and still be able to see your armies' numbers;<br/>
+'''11.''' [[File:27_exit.gif]] - this icon opens up the menu, where player is allowed to choose the destination he wishes to travel to (for example, one of his forts of towns), when he will leave the location he's in right now. Note, that this option will function only when your armies are standing on one of the "Gate" tiles (North, East, South or West).<br/>
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:29_combat_screen_corners.jpg‎|682px|Combat screen corners]]</div><br/>
+'''12.''' - this button (yes, it is button) quickly changes the way battle log is displayed (back and forth from text view to detailed view). It is very useful function when fighting in great numbers, for example 1000000 troops vs. 1000000 troops;<br/>
+'''13.''' - this button (yep, this is button too) triggers the visibility of the battle grid.<br/>
-==== Order Armies to leave the city ====
-* Before selecting your command (Aid or Attack) you must select which Army you are sending off.
-* Input the name of the Army and set their Aggression, Attack Range and Battle formation (You may select a previously saved formation or simply make a newer formation).
-* Input the coordinates of a city you wish to send your troops to. The name of the city and corresponding player name will be displayed on top of the coordinates.
-* Set the pace of your Army to reach destination (Normal sends them at a moderate speed or you have the option of paying three gold to whip your troops into a frenzy and speed their arrival time.
-* Select Aid or Attack (Aid to relieve the selected city)
-* Unemployed troops (found on the top right hand corner of your browser, displays your soldiers who are not in any campaign or not in a fixed group).
 === Map - Valley ===
-Also known as the World Map, the map shows your city as well as other players around the world.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:30_map_options_valley.jpg]]</div>
-Pointing your cursor over a city will display the player's name followed by their coordinates, city name and current points.
+The "Valley" mode, also known as the World Map, shows the world from a bird's eye view. In 1100AD all the world map is divided into so called "Valleys" &mdash; areas each 99 tiles x 99 tiles long, where everything, including player forts and towns, landscape features (such as mountains, forests and lakes), NPC locations, event/quest locations is spawned across such valleys. Each valley has a unique number starting from 1 and the new ones (valleys) are generated automatically each time when the ever-growing player amount demands so. This means that "old" players, who probably are very strong right now, are most likely to be distributed among the first '''10 valleys'''.<br/>
-* The Map Legend on the right side of your browser displays the status of a city to you.
+<div style="width:529px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:32_valley2.jpg‎|529px|Map of the 1100AD valley]]</div><br/>
-* Unflagged cities are automatically considered neutral. That means they have no alliance or aggression toward you.
+'''The "Valley" view screen contains several types of elements:'''<br/>
-* From this view you can also selectively choose who you want as your ally, enemy etc...  By selecting the city you view their profile.
+'''1.''' - This is a "mountain" tile, it slows your army movement by 100%;<br/>
-* The profile shows you their relations with other players, owned cities, rating and reputation.
+'''2.''' - This is a "forest tile", it slows your army movement by 100%;<br/>
-* On the right side of the profile, it gives you five options.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:34_contour.jpg]]</div>
-                  a. Send Campaign (Aid or Attack)
+'''3.''' - This is a "water" tile, no troops can travel by water. It can be used to create defensive contours that can be locked (guarded) by forts. Note that if you defend your towns using this method, your enemy would only reach your settlements by destroying/sieging your fort(-s);<br/>
-                  b. Private Message (PM)
+'''4.''' - This is a "town" tile, absence of any flag on top of it indicates that you have no political relationship with this player (he is neutral to you);<br/>
-                  c. Offer Ally
+'''5.''' - This is a "faded town" tile. Faded colors indicate that the player who owns this settlement is active no more (didn't played a game for a while, say plus/minus two weeks);<br/>
-                  d. Declare War
+'''6.''' - This is a "town" tile, green flag indicates that it is yours;<br/>
-                  e. Non-Aggression-Pact (NAP)
+'''7.''' - This is town's name, on screenshot it is "Chewland";<br/>
-The arrows around the valley map allows you to scroll through the valley.
+'''8.''' - These are town's coordinates within the current valley. '''[16|88]''' means that this town is located on the crossing of 16th row and 88th column of the current valley, which wholly consists of 99 rows and 99 columns.;<br/>
-On the bottom of the map, it gives you the Valley # and the X and Y coordinates. By inputting these coordinates, it’s possible to find a specific player.
+'''9.''' - This is your '''total''' kingdom (commander) rating score;<br/>
+'''10.''' - This is the rating score, which this particular town (the one with the green flag on top of it) adds to your total kingdom (commander) score pool;<br/>
+'''11.''' - This is the place where coat-of-arms icon is being displayed, either your personal one or your Order's (if you happen to be a member of any order).<br/><br/>
+The flags on top of locations (forts/cities/mercenary camps) indicate to whom do they belong and which relationship stands between you and the particular person who owns the location.<br/>
+'''There are 7 types of relationship in 1100AD:'''<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: left; padding: 0 20px 0 0; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: left">[[File:35_map_legend.jpg]]</div>
+- Green flag with gold border indicates that the object belongs to you;<br/>
+- Green flag with gold border and crown on top of it indicates that the object belongs to your master (sovereign);<br/>
+- Green flag without any border indicates that the object belongs to your vassal (you are his master);<br/>
+- Blue flag indicates that the object belongs to your ally;<br/>
+- White-blue flag indicates that the object belongs to a person with whom you have sealed a non-aggression pact;<br/>
+- White flag indicates that the object belongs to a person with whom you have a truce;<br/>
+- Red flag indicates that the object belongs to your enemy;<br/>
+'''Note:''' If you are a member of an order, then your relationship with different players will be automaticly enriched with ones of the order (you will inherit all the allies and enemies of the order).<br/>
+'''Clicking on player's town or other location on the valley map, will bring you to his profile page:'''
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:36_player_profile.png|682px|Player profile]]</div><br/>
+. Player's in-game nickname (you can change it if you have Silver or Gold subscription, the changes will only be shown to you);<br/>
+. List of player's owned forts and cities (you can also rename them if you have a Silver or Gold subscription, but the changes will only be shown to you);<br/>
+. Player's relations with other players;<br/>
+. Player's protections are shown here. There can be Newbie protection (protection from attacks), protection from powerful attacks and protection from building demolishing;<br/>
+. This icon shows if player has any hidden locations;<br/>
+. This icon indicates whether player has any subscriptions (Newbie, Silver or Gold);<br/>
+. This icon shows which languages player speaks or understands.<br/>
+. This is "actions" menu, it shows you a list of available actions you can perform with regard to this player:<br/>
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px; margin: 0 0 0 33px;">
+) Send campaign &mdash; this button will open up "Valley - Attack" screen, where you can choose whether to attack or aid a player;<br/>
+) Private message &mdash; this button will open up your mailbox and initiate the private message form (letter);<br/>
+) Offer to become my vassal &mdash; this icon will open up a menu, where you can offer another player to become your vassal;<br/>
+) Offer to become my lord &mdash; this button will open up a menu, where you can offer another player to become your sovereign (master);<br/>
+) Offer an alliance &mdash; this icon will open up a menu, where you can offer another player to become your vassal;<br/>
+) Declare war &mdash; this icon will open up a menu, where you can declare a war to a player;<br/>
+) Non-aggresion pact &mdash; this button will open up a page, where you can offer a player to sign a non-aggression pact.<br/>
+</div>
+<br/>
+<br/>
+'''Valley navigation'''<br/>
+Navigation in valleys can be done in two ways - by using amber arrows around the valley screen or by inputting coordinates manually, using the corresponding forms. Navigation via arrows moves the map viewport by 3 tiles (these are default settings, you can change them in Personal → Profile → Settings → Map scrolling speed) in chosen direction.
+The valley navigation elements are:
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:37_map_navigation.jpg|682px|Valley navigation]]</div><br/>
+. North arrow - moves the map viewport north;<br/>
+. North-west arrow - moves the map viewport north-west;<br/>
+. North-east arrow - moves the map viewport north-east;<br/>
+. West arrow - moves the map viewport west;<br/>
+. East arrow - moves the map viewport east;<br/>
+. South-west arrow - moves the map viewport south-west;<br/>
+. South-east arrow - moves the map viewport south-east;<br/>
+. South arrow - moves the map viewport south;<br/>
+. Valley dropdown box - opens up valley dropdown box, where you can choose which valley to observe;<br/>
+. x and y coordinates - fields where you can input coordinates of object you are eager to find on the map;<br/>
+. Current x and y coordinates' position on the map, as you see they totally correspond with ones that are inputted near the 10 marker.<br/>
 === Map - Attack ===
-By selecting a city it is possible to send a campaign to attack or aid someone.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:38_map_attack.jpg]]</div>
-* Before selecting your command (Aid or Attack) you must select which soldiers you are sending off.
+By selecting a location (town/fort/mercenary camp/adventure hut) on the valley map or by choosing Map → Attack, player can enter "Attack" screen, where different options are available:
-* Unemployed troops (found on the top right hand corner of your browser, displays soldiers who are not in any campaign or fixed group).
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:39_attack_screen.jpg|682px|Attack screen]]</div><br/>
-* Input the name of the Army and set their aggression, attack range and battle formation (You may select a previously saved formation or simply make a newer formation).
+. This is the list of your locations, the string in green indicates the name of the location, the map icon - targets the current campaign to the chosen location (automatically fills in the data in the areas marked as 10, 11 and 12);<br/>
-* Input the coordinates of the city you wish to send your troops to.  The name of the city and player name will be displayed on top of the coordinates.
+. This button is a drop-down list (you may have to click it a few times, before it opens up, so stay patient) of your lord's, vassals' and order battle brothers' locations. They are displayed in the same manner as yours (marked as 1 on screenshot), so the functionality of this menu stays the same as of "My Cities" one;<br/>
-* Set the pace your army will travel to their destination at (Selecting normal sends them at a moderate pace or you can spend 3 gold to make them run like the wind
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:49_armies_menu.jpg]]</div>
-* Select Aid or Attack (Aid to relieve the selected city)
+. This list, also known as "Troop pool" shows the troops available to you in the chosen location (you choose it in the "My Cities" menu, which is marked as 1 on the screenshot). Note that fixed (rallied) armies are not shown here, they are shown lower in the "Armies" menu.<br/>
+. This is your selected armies screen (the ones you've chosen in the "Troop pool" or from "Armies menu"). You can use the "Select all" button, to select all the troops and heroes available in the chosen location and "Clear all" button to clear the currently selected armies (the list will become empty);<br/>
+. From the selected troops (the ones that are shown in the area marked as number 4 on screenshot) you can create an army, here you can enter its name;<br/>
+. This menu allows you to configure the aggression level of the army you are creating/editing right now;<br/>
+. This menu allows you to configure the preferred attack range of the army you are creating/editing right now;<br/>
+. This menu allows you to configure the battle formation that will be used by the army you are creating/editing right now;<br/>
+. The "configure" button allows you to apply all the settings you've configured in the areas that are marked as 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9 on the screenshot;<br/>
+. This is the name of the location, where your current campaign is targeted to;<br/>
+. This is the name of the location's owner (you/another player/adventure hut/noCommander), where your current campaign is targeted to;<br/>
+. These are the coordinates of the location, where your current campaign is targeted to;<br/>
+. This field shows you how much time will take your current campaign to reach its destination;<br/>
+. This drop-down box will let you choose the speed you want your army to move with. There are several options available here, the ones above 100% cost gold (105% - 1 gold, 111% - 3 gold, 125% - 5 gold, 142% - 10 gold, 200% - 50 gold). This menu is very important, especially during team battles, when you need to arrive at the same location approximately (+/- some minutes) at the same time as your team mates do;<br/>
+. This is "Aid" button, it will send your army as a [[Defender]] to aid someone (your ally);<br/>
+. This is "Attack" button, it will send your army as an [[Attacker]] to attack someone.<br/><br/>
+=== Politics – Relations ===
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:43_relationship_relations.jpg]]</div>
+By selecting Politics → Relations, player will enter a Vassal/Referral list. Vassals are players that agree to pay taxes (this option is not a mandatory, though) to a stronger player in return for their patronage. If you don't want to become somebody's vassal &mdash; do not, but consider doing so in times of big trouble, when other players are trying to defeat you. In order to become a feudal lord and have vassals yourself, you need to build a level 1 Obelisk of Glory and fill it with resources first.
+This page allows you to control and observe several things:<br/>
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:44_vassals_and_refferals2.jpg|682px|Vassal and Refferal screen]]</div><br/>
+. This is your personal coat-of-arms, you cannot change it from here, you can only observe it;<br/>
+. This button will update the page to show you your vassal list (on screenshot, Warfare1101 is a vassal of some other player). If you don't have any vassals yet, then the list will be empty;<br/>
+. This button will update the page to show you your referral list. The 5th section on the screenshot will be changed to "Your referral link", and the vassal list will be changed to "Referrals of the player" list. Same as before &mdash; if you don't have any referrals yet, the list will be empty. The referral program itself is a very beneficial thing &mdash; it allows you to invite other people to play 1100AD. If they start to play because of the hyperlink you have provided them with, they will become your referrals and thus &mdash; give you some bonuses:<br/>
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px; margin: 0 0 0 33px;">
+) If your referral buys gold, you receive 30% of bonus diamonds given to the referral during the purchase (referral will still get his diamonds too);<br/>
+) When your referral acquires 3rd, 5th, 8th cities, you will receive the following diamond bonus: 20 diamonds for the 3rd city, 50 diamonds for the 5th city and 100 diamonds for the 8th city;<br/>
+) While your referral owns more than 3 cities, you receive a certain amount of random basic resources once a day.<br/>
+</div>
+. This is your vassal/referral list;<br/>
+. This area shows you the total tribute your single specific vassal paid to you. You need to click on a player in the vassal list in order to update the information in this area;<br/>
+. This button will open up your selected referral/vassal player profile.<br/><br/>
+=== Politics – Order ===
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:43_relationship_order.jpg]]</div>
+By selecting Politics → Order, player will enter an "Order" page of the game. If a player is not a member of some Order then this page will offer him to create his own Order for 1000 gold and become its master. Coat-of-arms of the Order master becomes the global coat-of-arms of the whole Order. If a player already owns an Order (is a master of his own Order) or is a member of some, then this screen will allow him to perform several actions:<br/>
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:40_order_screen2.jpg|682px|Order screen]]</div><br/>
+. This is your personal coat-of-arms, you cannot change it from here, you can only observe it;<br/>
+. This button will open up Order's artifact treasury. NOTE: Only the master of Order or specially assigned order member can transfer artifacts from the storage;<br/>
+. This icon allows you to leave the Order;<br/>
+. This area shows you how much gold there is the Order's treasury. Only the Order master can spend this money;<br/>
+. This button allows you donate some sum of gold to the Order's treasury;<br/>
+. This area includes all the available bonuses of the Order. Each of the Order bonuses can be leveled up using gold from the Order's treasury (most of the bonuses have a level cap of 20, "Slots in Order" has a level cap of 70, "Vassals" has a level cap of 33 etc.). Each member of the Order benefits from these bonuses, so it is better to be accepted in a big and powerful order than in a new and small one.<br/>
+. This is the full list of the Order members. The green stone shows who's online, the gray one - who is offline;<br/>
+. This is your Order's chat, a very convenient tool that allows you to stay in touch with your Order members. It automatically converts the coordinates you have entered, or player nickname (if you use the correct format: '''[x,y,valley]''' or '''x|y(valley)''' - for coordinates and '''[user=username1]''' for user profile) into a hyperlink , which is very useful;<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:50_server_time.jpg]]</div>
+. A timestamp, it shows you when each player leaved a message in the chat. The time zone, which is used in the chat is '''GMT+0''' or "Greenwich" time, which happens to be the server time as well (server time is shown in the right part of the footer);<br/>
+. This is a field where you enter your message, which will appear in the chat, when you push the "Enter" button. If you push on an Order member's name (area marked as "7" on the screenshot) the message you have typed will be wiped and that player's name will appear there instead.<br/><br/>
-=== Politics - Messaging ===
+=== Personal - Messaging ===
-* This shows your received messages. To switch to sent messages simply click the red arrow under the AD 1100 logo. You may view vassal and ally offers by clicking on the hourglass in-between the green and red arrows.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:42_messaging_messaging.jpg]]</div>
-* On the left side of the screen you may write a new message, reply to a received message, delete some or block a sender.
+By selecting Personal → Messaging, player will enter his "Mail box", where he can communicate with other players from the server he plays on (for example - Beta). NOTE: players without subscription may store up to '''50 messages''' in each of their mail boxes (Private Messages, Action Messages and Sent Messages), while players with Silver or Gold subscriptions may store up to '''100 messages'''. This screen offers several options:<br/>
-* By clicking “Mark All Messages as Read”, you eliminate the flashing unread message icon at the top of the screen.
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:48_private_messages.jpg|682px|Mail box screen]]</div><br/>
+. This icon will lead you to your "Private Messages" screen, which is basically your normal Inbox screen, where you can see all the messages sent to you by other players;<br/>
+. This icon will lead you to your "Action Messages" screen, where all the political, order, subscription and vassal messages go;<br/>
+. This icon will lead you to your "Sent Messages" screen, where you can see all your previously sent messages;<br/>
+. This is your received/sent messages section, here you can choose which message to read;<br/>
+. This section shows you selected message's title, body and time it was received;<br/>
+. This icon indicates the name of the player who's sent the particular message;<br/>
+. This section shows you brief history of your mail with another player;<br/>
+. This section gives you a quick preview of selected message (you need to hover your mouse over one of the messages shown in the 7-th area of the screenshot). The message body and time it was sent are shown here.<br/>
+. This section allows you to create a new message ('''NEW MESSAGE'''), reply to an existing one ('''REPLY'''), forward a message ('''FORWARD'''), mark all your messages as read ('''MARK ALL AS READ''') and delete a single message ('''DELETE''').<br/><br/>
-=== Politics – Vassals ===
+=== Personal - Profile ===
-* Vassals are players that pay taxes to a stronger player in return for their protection
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:41_messaging_profile.jpg]]</div>
-* You do not want to be a vassal; you should only become somebody’s vassal if you are in deep trouble.
+By selecting Personal → Profile, you will enter the game settings screen. There are a lot of options and settings that can be tweaked here (you can learn about them all in the "[[Game Settings]]" section of the Wiki):<br/>
-* To be able to have other players as your vassals you must construct a level 1 Obelisk of Glory and fill it with resources.
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:51_player_profile.jpg|682px|Profile Screen]]</div>
-* This tab allows you to view all your vassals
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 15px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:52_player_profile_profile.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Profile''' &mdash; this page allows you to enter your personal data (Name, Last name, e-mail, gender etc.), change your password and create/change your personal Coat-of-arms;<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:53_player_profile_settings.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Settings''' &mdash; this page allows you to change your map (Valley) scrolling speed, game update frequency, enable/disable "Tip of the day" feature, enable the "City view", allow your troops to act as transport for looted goods, change your army naming policies and "army control lag" options, enable/disable graphical combat logs, hide/unhide the right panel of the tactics screen and configure the time needed for an active campaign to become inactive;<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:54_player_profile_army.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Army Formations''' &mdash; this page allows you to configure your army formations (create new ones, edit or delete existing ones);<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:55_player_profile_languages.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Languages''' &mdash; this page allows you to set the languages you speak (up to five), configure your preferred language of the game user interface and change your country flag (for 200 gold);<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:56_player_profile_lists.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Lists''' &mdash; this page allows you to look through and unblock the players (if needed) previously blocked in the "Messaging" screen;<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:57_player_profile_troops.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Rewrite Troops''' &mdash; this page allows you to register your armies from one city to another (choose which city's population resource will be used by selected army). The register option is free for Gold subscribers and it costs 75 gold for everyone else;<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:58_player_profile_keyboardsettings.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Keyboard Settings''' &mdash; this page is only available to Silver and Gold subscribers and it allows you to configure your in-game keyboard shortcuts (from 0-9);<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:59_player_profile_vacation.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Vacation''' &mdash; this page allows you to configure the amount of days you wish to pick for your vacation (how much time you want to spend not playing the game, without fearing that somebody might attack you). The minimum time of vacation is 5 days and maximum is 23 days;<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:60_player_profile_sms.jpg]]</div>
+- '''SMS Service''' &mdash; this page allows you to enter your cell phone number where you want to receive short text messages from the server that notify you about some of the in-game actions. It also allows you to configure the options that define when exactly the SMS is going to be sent (each SMS costs 7 gold);<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:61_player_profile_gold.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Gold Service''' &mdash; this page allows you to buy gold and subscribe to one of the available in-game subscriptions (Silver or Gold). It also shows you how much gold you have on your account;<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:62_player_profile_restart.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Restart Account''' &mdash; this page allows you to restart your account and choose the valley where you want your first town to appear after the restart. If you wish to choose the exact valley where you wish to spawn, it will cost you 200 gold, if you wish it to be random, it will be done for free;<br/>
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:63_security_code.jpg]]</div>
+- '''Security Code''' &mdash; this page allows you to set your security code (NOTE: this is '''very important''' and should be done immediately after you start playing the game).<br/>
+<br/>
-=== Settings - Profile ===
+=== Help – Forums ===
-* You may change your user name, email and password here
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:45_forums_forums.jpg]]</div>
-* Its also possible to record your birthday date and change your Coat of Arms.
+By selecting Help → Forums, players will be transported to the game forums. Here they can find interesting topics about game features and balance, discussions about the latest patch changes and a much more. NOTE: most '''fresh''' and '''up to date information''' about the game can also be found '''here'''.<br/>
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:46_forums_forumscreenshot.jpg|682px|The forums]]</div><br/><br/>
-=== Settings – Settings ===
+=== Help - Help ===
-* The map scrolling speed is how many boxes you wish to scroll each time you click the arrow on the valley map.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:45_forums_help.jpg]]</div>
-* The update frequency is how often you wish the game to show any changes that have happened. You should lower or raise the update bar depending on your internet speed.
+By selecting Help → Help, players will be transported to the '''1100 AD Knowledge Base''' also known as '''1100 AD Wiki'''. Here they can find a lot of useful information about the game, including tips, tricks, game guides, strategies and much more. It is advised to take atleast a quick look at this part of the website, because it will make your experience with 1100 AD much more '''pleasant'''.<br/>
-* Selecting “Warriors as Transport” allows your soldiers to carry goods to fulfill your trading wishes. This allows you to make trades when your city has no carts available. Unfortunately, your warriors will be gone for as long as the trade takes.
+<div style="width:682px; margin: 0 auto;">[[File:47_wiki.jpg|682px|1100AD Wiki page]]</div><br/><br/>
-* The army control lag is how much time passes before you the computer ignores your previous order. If for example, the lag is set for 20 seconds, your army aggression is high and enemy troops are spotted. If you order your troops to retreat, they will follow your command for 20 seconds. Then the computer will take over and make decisions based on your army settings. In this case it is aggressive, so your troops would charge toward the enemy.
-* Graphical combat logs are merely the regular combat logs but with pictures of the troops in addition to their name.
-* To the right there are various options you can change such as army formation, subscribing for bonus features, placing your account in vacation mode and so on.
-=== Help - Forums / Website ===
-* Highlight the Help tab on the upper right corner of the screen
-* By selecting Forums, it will link you to the there. You can suggest new ideas for the game, ask developers to solve any bugs you are experiencing or find out news about the game.
-* The other link will take you to the main webpage where you can find screenshots of the game and register for an account in another world.
 == Learning the various buildings and their roles ==
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 ==== Castle ====
-* The castle is required for your settlement to operate.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:76_castle.jpg]]</div>
-* This is also where you hire your hero and revive your hero (for free if he is your only hero. Go to the tavern to revive a paying hero for 50 gold or resurrect either free or paying hero in the temple for a cost of gold)
+Castle is the most important building of your town. It is required for your settlement to operate. If your castle is destroyed, then the town disappears too. Castle controls several things in your city:<br/>
-* A listed view of your city's buildings and their current level will be displayed.
+- it provides you '''50 population''', '''100 resource storage''' and '''10 of each resources per hour''';<br/>
-* Mercenaries are found here for hire.  An Obelisk of Glory is required to unlock these units.
+- it is the place where you hire your '''first''' hero. If your hero (or all of your heroes) has fallen, then castle is the place, where you can resurrect him (or only one of many, if you have all of your heroes fallen) for free, but you have to wait 15 minutes from the time of his death in order to do so;<br/>
-* In order to Terraform (clearing land to build on) you must reach an upgrade level of 6.
+- it provides you with your "Hero" screen, where you can see your hero's stats, improve or alter his skills, manage his items and switch between all of your other heroes;<br/>
-* Upgrading: Decreases build time by a certain amount of percentage.
+- shows your current building rate (upgrading your castle increases it, and on castle '''level 20''', you will have '''147%''');<br/>
-*Upgrading your castle is required for other buildings to reach their new upgrade level.
+- allows you to hire basic mercenaries (the ones that doesn't require special locations such as Teuton Castle or Barbarian Settlement). In order to unlock this option you need to build an Obelisk of Glory or Fountain of Glory in that town;<br/>
-*No extra space required when upgraded.
+- allows to terraform terrain (you need castle level 6 and higher in order to do that);<br/>
+- allows you to store and manage artifacts brought to the castle's treasury.<br/>
+Castle takes '''2x2''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build '''one''' Castle in your town.<br/><br/>
 ==== Storehouse ====
-* Also required for your settlement to operate.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:77_storehouse.jpg]]</div>
-* The storehouse is where all extracted resources are stored.
+Storehouse is the second most important building of your town &mdash; it allows you to store basic resources. Some buildings and upgrades require a lot of these resources in order to be completed and in case your storehouse cannot hold the necessary amount, you won't be able to build those. Storehouse is needed for:<br/>
-* On the Resources Tab, your current flow of resources per hour and possible expenses are displayed.
+- your settlement to operate properly, because some buildings and building upgrades require a storehouse of certain level to be built;<br/>
-* Income(+###) is the max amount of resource collected each hour. Castle provides +10 resources for each type.
+- storage of all your basic resources;<br/>
-* Expenses(-###) is the amount of each resource that is taken per hour.
+- showing the information about the resource income (per hour) and expenses (including the population and mercenary points). This information can be accessed from the '''"Resources"''' tab of the building;<br/>
-* Upgrading: Increases the max storage of extracted resources.
+- showing the information about the type and count of buildings constructed in your town. This information can be accessed from the '''"Information"''' tab of the building.<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+Upgrading this building increases the maximum amount of resources it can hold, on the 20th level, the storehouse is capable of holding '''29 900 resources''', which in pair with castle's storage of 100 resources ends up with '''30 000''' of each resource storage cap for the city/fort. It can be further expanded by building and upgrading [[Strongboxes|Srongbox]] which cost gold;<br/>
+- your storehouse can be robbed by other players during the raid, so it would be wise to protect the building with walls. You can pillage other players' storehouses for personal profit too.<br/>
+Storehouse takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow up in size during upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build '''one''' Storehouse in your town.<br/><br/>
 ==== Farms ====
-* Built manually, the farm is required for your city to progress.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:75_farm.jpg]]</div>
-* Farms provides population so that other buildings in your city can be supplied with workers.
+Farms are some of the most essential buildings of your town &mdash; they provide the "population" resource which is required for numerous things. Player needs to know some facts about this building to use it effectively:<br/>
-* Farms are also necessary for training troops.
+- population resource the farms provide is required for constructing buildings, upgrading buildings and training troops;<br/>
-* Population numbers go down when you  build, upgrade, or train warriors.
+- there is no gathering rate for population resource, it is added permanently when you build a new farm or upgrade an existing one;<br/>
-* Upgrading: Increases population amount provided (not per hour).
+- population numbers go down while you develop your city and build troops, so you need to construct farms periodically in order to provide the needed amounts of this resources for your city to prosper;<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+- each farm should be placed on the town grid and constructed separately, so you need to plan your city wisely;<br/>
-* Restrictions: Limit 20 per town.
+- upgrading each farm increases the overall population of your town;<br/>
+- each fully upgraded farm provides '''360 population''';<br/>
+- with maximum number of fully upgraded farms in your town you will have 7 250 population ('''7 650 population''' if a [[well|Well]] will be constructed too).<br/>
+Farm takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build up to '''20''' farms in your town.<br/><br/>
+==== Well ====
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:87_well.jpg]]</div>
+Well is another type of building that provides your town with population. It supports the city with source of clean and fresh water. There are some things each player should know about this building:<br/>
+- it adds a '''+400''' population for your town and can be built rather early in the game, which makes this building very effective early on;<br/>
+- upon building this construction, your town becomes "active" for a specific event to appear &mdash; - each 2 weeks thieves in your city steal something from the merchants and hide it somewhere in the tunnels beneath the well. You are asked by the merchants to explore the well with your hero to get their stolen resources back, but beware &mdash; thieves may attack you.<br/>
+Well takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it cannot be upgraded.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' well in your town.<br/><br/>
 === Resources Extraction ===
-==== Sawmill ====
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:78_mines.jpg]]</div>
-* Used for producing wood.
+In order to extract resources in your city, you need to build special resource gathering buildings. There are five of them. They are:<br/>
-* Upgrading: Increases production of wood per level.  Higher amount of wood collected per hour.
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px; margin: 10px 0 0 0;">
+==== Lime Oven ====
+This building is used for producing lime. Upgrading this building increases the production rate of lime resource (per hour).  The higher the level of building, the more resources it produces. This construction can be upgraded up to level 20, the production rate on this level will be '''570 lime per hour''' (or '''741 per hour''' if you have '''Gold Subscription''').<br/>
+Lime Oven takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' lime oven in your town.<br/><br/>
 ==== Coal Mine ====
-* Used for producing coal.
+This building is used for producing coal. Upgrading this building increases the production rate of coal resource (per hour).  The higher the level of building, the more resources it produces. This construction can be upgraded up to level 20, the production rate on this level will be '''570 coal per hour''' (or '''741 per hour''' if you have '''Gold Subscription''').<br/>
-* Upgrading: Increases production of coal per level.  Higher amount of coal collected per hour.
+Coal Mine takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+You can only build only '''one''' coal mine in your town.<br/><br/>
-==== Iron Mine ====
+==== Sawmill ====
-* Used for producing iron.
+This building is used for producing wood. Upgrading this building increases the production rate of wood resource (per hour).  The higher the level of building, the more resources it produces. This construction can be upgraded up to level 20, the production rate on this level will be '''570 wood per hour''' (or '''741 per hour''' if you have '''Gold Subscription''').<br/>
-* Upgrading: Increases production of iron per level.  Higher amount of iron collected per hour.
+Sawmill takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+You can only build only '''one''' sawmill in your town.<br/><br/>
-==== Lime Oven ====
-* Used for producing lime.
-* Upgrading: Increases production of lime per level.  Higher amount of lime collected per hour.
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
 ==== Quarry ====
-* Used for producing stone.
+This building is used for producing stone. Upgrading this building increases the production rate of stone resource (per hour).  The higher the level of building, the more resources it produces. This construction can be upgraded up to level 20, the production rate on this level will be '''570 stone per hour''' (or '''741 per hour''' if you have '''Gold Subscription''').<br/>
-* Upgrading: Increases production of stone per level.  Higher amount of stone collected per hour.
+Quarry takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+You can only build only '''one''' quarry in your town.<br/><br/>
+==== Iron Mine ====
+This building is used for producing iron. Upgrading this building increases the production rate of iron resource (per hour).  The higher the level of building, the more resources it produces. This construction can be upgraded up to level 20, the production rate on this level will be '''570 iron per hour''' (or '''741 per hour''' if you have '''Gold Subscription''').<br/>
+Iron Mine takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' iron mine in your town.
+</div><br/>
 === General structures ===
 ==== Cache ====
-* Cache is another storage unit for some of your resources.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:81_cache.jpg]]</div>
-* Unlike the Storehouse, this building will prevent a certain amount of your resources from being robbed.
+Cache is another resource storage building, but it acts differently from the Storehouse. Cache hides a portion of your resources (the one that is stored in the Storehouse) from the robbers, it doesn't increase the maximum capacity of resources available to the city, though. The building can be upgraded up to level 20, when it can hide up to '''3 850 resources of each type'''.<br/>
-* Upgrading: Increases capacity of resources stored in the Cache.
+Cache takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during upgrades.<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+You can only build only '''one''' cache in your town.<br/><br/>
-Restrictions: Limit 1 per town.
 ==== Strongbox ====
-* It basically provides extra resources storage.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:82_strongbox.jpg]]</div>
-* The strongbox can be robbed just like the storehouse.
+Strongbox is additional Storehouse that can be built in the city. It has some differences from the original storehouse, though:<br/>
-* Upgrading: Increases the amount of resources that can be stored at any one time.
+- strongbox has only 5 levels comparing to storehouse's 20;<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+- building this construction costs gold, 70 at start and 50 for each upgrade, which makes it a total of '''270 gold''' needed to build a fully upgraded strongbox;<br/>
-* Restrictions: Limit 10 per town.
+- fully upgraded strongbox can hold up to 25 000 of each resource, which makes this building very important;<br/>
+- strongbox can also be robbed just like the storehouse;<br/>
+Strongbox takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' strongbox in your town.<br/><br/>
 ==== Marketplace ====
-* The Market place hosts your resources trade with outside settlements.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:79_marketplace.jpg]]</div>
-* You can also receive resource support from another city that belongs to you.
+Marketplace is a building that allows you to trade with other players' settlements. It provides several bonuses:<br/>
-* There is a 5-1 maximum trading ratio limit. Example: You cannot trade 1 wood for more than 5 iron.
+- it allows the town, where marketplace is built, to be supplied with resources from your other cities or forts for free;<br/>
-* Carts are generally used to transport goods but under Settings there is an option to use your warriors to carry resources.
+- it allows you to trade resources with other players;<br/>
-* To place an order on the market, go to “My Orders” at the bottom of the market page. Select the resources you want and the ones you are willing to trade in return. Then hit the two arrows at the top of the page to make your order official.
+- it allows you to exchange one resource for another, the rate is 15:1 if you wish to do it for free, or '''1:1''' if you prefer to pay extra gold for it (you need to pay same '''10 gold''' when you exchange the amount of resources from '''1 to  30 000''', '''20 gold''' for '''30 001 to 60 000''' etc.);<br/>
-* It is also possible to exchange one type of resource for another type that you are short of by going to the exchange tab. The exchange ratio is originally 85-1, but can be reduced by upgrading your market.
+- it provides an extra storage of resources, but they apply only on those gathered by trade. It means, that if you have a trade order that is to deliver 15 000 of each resource in your town and your storehouse is already full, you will still be able to receive and store those in the market and they won't disappear;<br/>
-* Upgrading: Increases the amount of resources you can trade at a time and decreases the ratio for exchange.
+- each upgrade increases the amount of resource storage ('''15 000''' on '''level 20''') and resource transferring capacity ('''15 000''' on '''level 20''') the market can handle.<br/><br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+To place an order on the market, do the following:<br/>
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px; margin: 10px 0 0 0;">
+)click on the '''“My Orders”''' button at the bottom right part of the market page → 2) select the resources you want to receive and the ones you are willing to trade in return → 3) click on the '''"Publish trade order to the market"''' button (two arrows following each other in the circle) to make your order available to the public
+</div>
+Marketplace takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' marketplace in your town.<br/><br/>
 ==== Repair Squad ====
-* The higher this building is upgraded, the faster damage done by rams and catapults is repaired.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:80_repair_squad.jpg]]</div>
-* The other purpose is to construct underpasses between your various cities or possible vassals. Underpasses cut travel time between those cities by 30-50%. Before building an underpass, you must pay gold. (The amount differs depending on the distance of the tunnel)
+Repair Squad is a building that allows you to repair the damage done to the buildings by rams/catapults/ballistae/trebuchets. This building can:
-* Upgrading: Faster repairs for your buildings
+- repair the damage done to your city by siege engines. The repair rate is measured in seconds and it caps at 1 hit point per 5 seconds when building has reached level 10 (3 HP per 5 seconds if you have three repair squads in your town/fort);
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+- dig underpasses between your forts, towns and mercenary camps. The digging costs you gold and time (the amount varies depending on the distance to location you dig the underpass to). You can also dig underpasses to your vassals' and order members' locations. Underpasses cut travel time between the locations it connects by '''30-50%'''. '''NOTE:''' underpass remains constructed and usable if your city was captured by other player, so build those at your own risk.
-* Restrictions: Limit 3 per town.
+- upgrades increase the building repair rate the Repair Squad provides.
+Repair Squad takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow up in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build only '''three''' marketplace in your town.<br/><br/>
 ==== Obelisk of Glory ====
-* After you build and fill the resource tab, you are allowed to accept vassals.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:83_obeliskofglory.jpg]]</div>
-* The other purpose is to get “Mercenary Points” which allow you to purchase various mercenaries to supplement your army.
+Obelisk of Glory is a very important building, it allows you to gain access to another type of military units &mdash; mercenaries. It also provides the player with several options:<br/>
-* Upgrading: Allows more mercenary points to purchase more mercenaries
+- it takes a lot of your population resources, but gives mercenary points in return (on level 20 it provides you with '''6 890 mercenary points''');<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+- after you have built the construction and filled the vassal tab with enough resources to level up, you are allowed to accept vassals and capture/build mercenary camps;<br/>
-* Restrictions: Limit 1 per player.
+- it allows you to raise your vassal points by paying gold;<br/>
+- it allows you to gain access to the "Mercenaries" tab of the castle, where you can hire basic mercenary units;<br/>
+- it allows you to buy non-basic mercenary units (the ones that are provided by mercenary camps, such as Slaves, Teutonic Knights, Knights Templar etc.).<br/>
+Obelisk of Glory takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' Obelisk of Glory at all (not per city, but per commander).<br/><br/>
+==== Fountain of Glory ====
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:92_fountainofglory.jpg]]</div>
+Fountain of Glory is a building that provides you with mercenary points. It is very expensive on population resource, though. There are few things each player needs to know about this building:<br/>
+- while Obelisk of Glory cannot be built more than once, Fountain of Glory can be constructed in every city, though it is not recommended to build it in town where you have an upgraded Obelisk of Glory constructed, because together they will eat up a lot of population and you won't be able to recruit any non-mercenary troops from that settlement anymore;<br/>
+- building and upgrading of this structure costs gold, 120 for foundation and 100 for each level upgrade, so fully upgraded building will cost you 520 gold;<br/>
+- the maximum level of the building is 5th, at which it will provide you with 4800 mercenary points (without modifiers);<br/>
+- initially, it is not profitably to build a Fountain of Glory, because this building is not an essential one and it takes 450 population, while giving back only 300 mercenary points (ratio '''1.5:1'''), but this building has a special property &mdash; each Fountain of Glory in your kingdom (starting from the second one) provides itself with a '''mercenary point bonus of 10%''' (modifier). This means, that 2 Fountains of Glory will give you a mercenary point bonus of 10%, 3 buildings will provide you a 20% etc., so when you will have '''6''' Fountains, the population-mercenary point ratio will be '''1:1'''. From this point on, it will be profitably to build this structure. When you have '''12 cities''' with Fountains of Glory in each, the mercenary point bonus of this building will be '''100%, which is extremely beneficial'''.<br/>
+Fountain of Glory takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' Fountain of Glory per city.<br/><br/>
 ==== Tavern ====
-* The tavern is where you can find additional heroes to hire. (requires 50 gold to hire and a 5 gold per day fee)
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:84_tavern.jpg]]</div>
-* In addition, you can easily see the total amount of troops you have spread across your cities and on campaigns.
+Tavern is a fine establishment where different heroes from all over the kingdom visit to relax and drink a mug of ale or two; This building provides you with some options and bonuses:<br/>
-* It is also a requirement to upgrade your library
+- here you can hire additional heroes. Each new hero will cost you 10 gold and take 5 gold for upkeep (if he is out of the "'''Free hero'''" rule's reach);<br/>
-* You can auction a level 5 or higher hero to receive gold if he is bought.
+<div style="border: 1px solid #d26565; background: #fff; padding: 7px; margin: 10px 0 0 20px;">
-* Here you can revive a additional hero for a cost of 50 gold (do not do this for your free hero, revive him in your castle). Do this soon though since your dead hero may disappear and never to be seen again.
+'''The free hero rule''':<br/>
-* Finally, you are able to purchase strong heroes that other players have put up for auction.
+) Each player without subscription has one free hero;<br/>
-* Upgrading: You may purchase a hero that’s being auctioned
+) Each player with Silver subscription has two free heroes;<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+) Each player with Gold subscription has four free heroes;<br/>
+) Each player, regardless of subscriptions gains one additional free hero for each city starting from 8th.<br/>
+</div>
+- tavern provides your city with a morale bonus (it affects the number of troops in your army attacking simultaneously). The maximum morale bonus a tavern can provide is 115% (on level 5);<br/>
+- tavern allows you to see the total amount of your troops and heroes, their total number of hit points, attack damage and capacity (how many resources units can carry with them). This information is available in the "Armies" tab of the tavern;<br/>
+- tavern allows you to gain access to the auction, where you can buy and sell troops, mercenaries, heroes and artifacts;<br/>
+- tavern is required to be able to construct the library.<br/>
+- tavern also allows you to resurrect fallen heroes for free, but they will lose all their experience which lies between their current level and their next level upon the resurrection (it means that if you have a 25th level hero, who has '''99% of the required experience''' needed to reach level 26, '''he will lose all this experience''' upon the resurrection in tavern);<br/>
+Tavern takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' tavern per city.<br/><br/>
 ==== Temple ====
-* The temple allows you to donate resources to improve your reputation (requires a level 5 temple to donate).
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:85_temple.jpg]]</div>
-* When your reputation becomes to low you can no longer declare war or accept vassals.
+Temple is the building that allows you to resurrect your fallen heroes and improve your kingdom's [[Reputation|reputation]]. There is something each player should know about this construction:<br/>
-* You can also resurrect a hero here.
+- temple allows you to donate basic resources or gold to improve your kingdom's reputation (each building's upgrade reduces the amount of resources needed to improve your reputation by one). Reputation is needed to declare wars, offer and sign agreements, accept vassals and build towers (mark towers);<br/>
-* Upgrading: Resurrect a hero with no experience loss
+- you will need to donate resources to the temple eventually, because someday your reputation will get low enough to block the ability to take vassals or declare wars;<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+- temple allows you to resurrect your fallen heroes without the reputation loss (with '''temple level 5''', it will cost you '''100 gold''' to resurrect a single hero).<br/>
+Temple takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow up in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' temple per city.<br/><br/>
 ==== Rally Point ====
-* The rally point is where all your troops and siege weapons gather after they are created.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:86_rallypoint.jpg]]</div>
-* Upgrading: No upgrade available
+The rally point is a place (a building, actually), where all of your troops, carts and siege weapons gather when they are trained.  All of your coming to your city/fort units will also arrive at the rally point.<br/>
+Rally Point takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it cannot be upgraded.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' rally point per city.<br/><br/>
-==== Well ====
-* The well adds 400 population to your town. However, there is a twist to this. The well acts as a hiding place for thieves so at random times you may receive a town message from a merchant saying the thieves stole some of his resources. All you have to do is to explore the well with your hero to get the resources back, but beware, the thieves may attack you.
-* Restrictions: Limit one per city
-* Upgrading: No upgrade available
 ==== Library ====
-* [[File:Library.jpg]]
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:88_library.jpg]]</div>
-* If you wish to own more than one city, the library is essential.  By donating resources you attempt to get your knowledge level to 100%.
+Library is one the most important and key buildings in the game; it is capable of doing a lot of complex actions that are described in detail in the [[Library]] section of the Wiki. In general, library increases the knowledge level of your kingdom and there are few things each should know about this structure:<br/>
-* For every level you upgrade the library, the resource tax goes down 10%.
+- by donating basic resources (same amount of each type) to the library, you fill up the knowledge bar of your kingdom. Once the bar hits 100%, you reach the next level and are '''allowed to build/capture one more city''' and then, the process starts again, requiring more and more resources for the next level each time;<br/>
-* Upgrading: Decrease the taxation of resources you donate.
+- at start, first level library works only at its 10% efficiency, so you should avoid donating any resources to this institution before fully upgrading it first (to '''10th level''');<br/>
-* No extra space required when upgraded.
+- this building allows you to '''automate some of the processes''' of your city, but you need to assign a hero for this (luckily, the hero is only assigned formally, he doesn't need to stay in the city to perform his duties in the library). It is possible to automatically collect the resources from your storehouse and spend it on services of one of these buildings: Library, Temple, Obelisk of Glory, Barracks, Stables or Workshop. Resource distribution is '''not 100% effective thought''', but it is possible to get it to 95% rather easy, if you have a [[Gold Subscription|Gold subscription]]. This service comes very handy if you are not able to play the game for day or two, but want to invest your resources into something valuable, such as training troops or increasing your kingdom's knowledge level. NOTE: this option doesn’t work if you are online.<br/>
+Library takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow up in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can only build only '''one''' library per city.<br/><br/>
-==== Library: Tax Collection ====
+=== Military buildings ===
+==== Barracks ====
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:89_barracks.jpg]]</div>
+Barraks is a military building that produce regular, non-mercenary infantry. It can produce '''six''' types of units:<br/>
+- Ranger;<br/>
+- Pikeman;<br/>
+- Archer;<br/>
+- Marksman;<br/>
+- Swordsman;<br/>
+- Man-at-Arms;<br/>
+Upgrading this building will increase the maximum number of troops that can be trained simultaneously &mdash; one at first level, two at second, three at third and so on, ending up with '''ten on tenth level''' of the building.<br/>
+Barracks is a multicellular building and it increases in size during some of its upgrades, it takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid on levels 1-3, '''2x2''' tile space on levels 4-8 and '''3x3''' tile space on levels 9-10.<br/>
+You can build '''as many as you wish''' barracks per city.<br/><br/>
-Sooner or later you will have need to perform Tax Collection. You may want to activate Vacation Mode (minimum 5 days) or unexpectedly have to be away from the game for an extended amount of time. In that case, here is a concise summary of the steps that can be taken to hopefully make use of the Game's Tax Collection features.
+==== Stables ====
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:90_stables.jpg]]</div>
+Stables is a military building that produce regular, non-mercenary cavalry. It can produce '''three''' types of units:<br/>
+- Scout;<br/>
+- Horseman;<br/>
+- Knight.<br/>
+Upgrading this building will increase the maximum number of troops that can be trained simultaneously &mdash; one at first level, two at second, three at third and so on, ending up with '''ten on tenth level''' of the building.<br/>
+Stables is a multicellular building and it increases in size during some of its upgrades, it takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid on levels 1-3, '''2x2''' tile space on levels 4-8 and '''3x3''' tile space on levels 9-10.<br/>
+You can build '''as many as you wish''' stables per city.<br/><br/>
-* Click on the library, preferably in a city you have a hero in with Master Knowledge.
+==== Workshop ====
-* Click on the COLLECTOR tab
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:91_workshop.jpg]]</div>
+Workshop is a building that produce regular, non-mercenary machines. It can produce '''three''' types of units:<br/>
+- Catapult;<br/>
+- Ram;<br/>
+- Cart.<br/>
+Upgrading this building will increase the maximum number of troops that can be trained simultaneously &mdash; one at first level, two at second, three at third and so on, ending up with '''ten on tenth level''' of the building.<br/>
+Workshop is a multicellular building and it increases in size during some of its upgrades, it takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid on levels 1-3, '''2x2''' tile space on levels 4-8 and '''3x3''' tile space on levels 9-10.<br/>
+You can build '''as many as you wish''' workshops per city.<br/><br/>
-[[file:Library_tabs.jpg]]
+=== Defensive buildings ===
+==== Wall ====
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:93_wall.jpg]]</div>
+Wall is a basic defensive building, it allows you to protect different parts of your town from the enemies. Walls can significantly slow down enemy armies. There are few things one should know about walls:<br/>
+- walls can be passed (climbed) only by infantry. Carts, siege weapons and cavalry cannot travel through this obstacle;<br/>
+- walls can be destroyed only by siege engines (rams, catapults, trebuchets and ballistae);<br/>
+- when fighting on walls your infantry receives a '''defensive bonus''' (hit points are increased) as follows: '''1.15 times''' on level one wall (wooden), '''1.55 times''' on level two wall (stone) and '''2 times''' on level three wall (orange tiled);<br/>
+- each upgrade increases the hit points of the wall ('''500''' on level 1, '''2500''' on level 2 and '''10000''' on level 3) and the '''defensive bonus''' it provides.<br/>
+Wall takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can build '''as many as you wish''' walls per city.<br/><br/>
-* Note how the "Distributing to: Library Efficiency:" equals 20%
+==== Gates ====
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:94_gates.jpg]]</div>
+Gates is another basic defensive building; it is fortified more heavily than any other part of the wall and allows the allied forces to pass through your fortifications freely. There are few things each player should know about gates:<br/>
+- gates can be passed (climbed) only by infantry. Carts, siege weapons and cavalry cannot travel through this obstacle;<br/>
+- gates can be destroyed only by siege engines (rams, catapults, trebuchets and ballistae);<br/>
+- when fighting on gates your units receives a '''defensive bonus''' (hit points are increased) as follows: '''1.5 times''' on level one gates (wooden), '''2 times''' on level two gates (stone) and '''2.5 times''' on level three gates (orange tiled);<br/>
+- each upgrade increases the hit points of the gates ('''1000''' on level 1, '''5000''' on level 2 and '''20000''' on level 3) and the '''defensive bonus''' it provides.<br/>
+Gates takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can build only '''five''' gates per city.<br/><br/>
-[[file:Library_distributing_to_window.JPG]]
+==== Watchtower ====
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:95_watchtower.jpg]]</div>
+Watchtower is a building that gives you additional line of sight in your city or fort during the battle. This structure is very important because it gives you advantage over your enemies and allows you to catch them unprepared. Each player should know a few things about this construction:<br/>
+- watchtower can be passed (climbed) only by infantry. Carts, siege weapons and cavalry cannot travel through this obstacle;<br/>
+- watchtower can be destroyed only by siege engines (rams, catapults, trebuchets and ballistae);<br/>
+- watchtower can be upgraded to 5th level, and while first two upgrades don't cost any gold, others, starting from 3rd - do. You need '''25 gold''' to upgrade the watchtower to level 3, '''50 gold''' to level 4 and '''75 gold''' to level 5, ending up with a sum of '''150 gold''' for fully upgraded tower;<br/>
+- the building provides line of sight of 1 on first level, of 2 on second level, of 3 on third, of 4 on fourth and of 5 on fifth, thus making a fully upgraded watchtower a very strategically important building in the game;<br/>
+- just like the walls and the gates, watchtower provides a '''defensive bonus''' for your troops. The bonuses are: '''1.2 times''' on level one watchtower, '''1.4 times''' on level two, '''1.6 times''' on level three, '''1.8 times''' on level four and '''2 times''' on level five;<br/>
+Watchtower takes '''1x1''' tile space on your town grid and it doesn't grow in size during the upgrades.<br/>
+You can build only '''two''' watchtowers per city.<br/><br/>
-* If you have any heros in this city, they will show up in the top window. Mouse over each of the the heros and find the one with the highest Knowledge level (None, Novice, Expert & Master is highest). Click on the hero you want collecting taxes in this city and their image will appear in the "Distributing to" window, like so:
+== Diplomacy ==
+=== Pact of Alliance (Alliance) ===
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:96_icon_ally.gif]]</div>
+This pact makes a classic alliance between you and other player:<br/>
+- you are able to aid each other and visit each other's cities freely;<br/>
+- you can't attack your allies in neutral or enemy locations, nor can they you (there is an exception, though, if one of the pact members has sent an army to attack a city, and other one to aid it with his forces - they will engage in battle with each other);<br/>
+- time it takes to break a pact of alliance &mdash; '''1 day''' or upon acceptance of pact's second member;<br/>
+- it doesn't cost you anything to offer an alliance, but it will cost you '''10 reputation''' to break one;<br/>
+- there is no reputation requirements for offering and alliance. This means that you can have a very bad reputation (say -129) and still be able to offer an alliance.<br/><br/>
-[[file:Library_distributing_to_window_with_hero.JPG‎]]
+=== Non-Aggression Pact ===
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:99_icon_non_aggression.gif]]</div>
+This pact implies some restrictions on your aggression towards other pact members:<br/>
+- player cannot attack forts and cities of other member of the pact;<br/>
+- your armies will engage other pact member’s armies, if you meet them on the neutral grounds (adventureHut locations, neutral city etc.)<br/>
+- time it takes to break a non-aggression pact &mdash; '''1 day''' or upon acceptance of pact's second member;<br/>
+- it doesn't cost you anything to offer a non-aggression pact, but it will cost you '''5 reputation''' to break one;<br/>
+- there is no reputation requirements for offering a non-aggression pact. This means that you can have a very bad reputation (say -129) and still be able to offer a non-aggression pact.<br/><br/>
-See how, in this case, the Efficiency increased to 30%! This hero has NOVICE Knowledge! She has a better efficiency rate than having no hero or one with no Knowledge. Selecting a hero with no Knowledge is equivalent to the default 20% tax collection rate. More on this later.
+=== Truce ===
-* Now choose the building you want your taxes to be distributed to: Library, Temple, Obelisk, Barracks, Stable, Workshop.
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:98_icon_truce.gif]]</div>
+Truce is required only when you want to end war. There are several things you should know about this type of diplomatic move:<br/>
+- truce is the only way to end war and it cannot be used in any other circumstances apart from that;<br/>
+- truce '''cannot be broken manually''', it will last for '''one week''' and then will end automatically. The only way to end a truce before one week period is to override it with some sort of friendly political agreement (offer an alliance or a non-aggression pact etc.);<br/>
+- if you have a truce with another player, you will not be able to engage in any sort of aggressive activities against that player;<br/>
+- player cannot attack forts and cities of another player, who he has a truce with;<br/>
+- it doesn't cost you anything ('''0 reputation''') to offer a truce;<br/>
+- there is no reputation requirements for offering a truce. This means that you can have a very bad reputation (say -229) and still be able to offer a truce.<br/><br/>
-[[file:Library_select_building.JPG‎]]
+=== War ===
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:97_icon_enemy.gif]]</div>
+This political pact starts a war between you and another player. War implies several restrictions, each player should know about:<br/>
+- with War pact on, you are allowed to use siege weapons (rams, ballistae, catapults and trebuchets) not only against your foe's gates and walls, but also against '''all'' of his buildings '''excluding the Castle''';<br/>
+- war allows you to capture your enemies’ cities even if they are not grayed out on the Valley map (are active);<br/>
+- it costs you 50 reputation to start a war, and none reputation to end it (offer a truce);<br/>
+- there is a reputation requirement for declaring a war &mdash; you should have not less than -199 reputation;<br/>
+- there is a reputation requirement for accepting a war &mdash; you should have not less than -199 reputation;<br/><br/>
-For Barracks, Stable, or Workshop: select the troop type you want created (you can only select one). For instance, in this picture the Barracks was selected
+=== Vassalage ===
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:100_icon_vassal.gif]]</div>
+Vassalage is a mutually beneficial pact between two players, where one of the player acts as a lord or a sovereign and another one as his loyal vassal. The pact implies several features one should know about this political agreement:<br/>
+- members of the vassal agreement are allowed to aid one another's locations;<br/>
+- you can use all of your lord's or vassal's locations as rally points for you armies in-between the upcoming campaigns (you are able to visit these locations with your troops and send campaigns from there);<br/>
+- a vassal automatically receives a non-aggression pacts with all of his sovereign's allies;<br/>
+- a vassal automatically becomes an ally of his lord's other vassals;<br/>
+- a vassal automatically becomes an enemy of his sovereign's enemies;<br/>
+- it doesn't cost you anything ('''0 reputation''') to become a lord or a vassal;<br/>
+- it costs you 10 reputation to break a vassal agreement;<br/>
+- there is a reputation requirement for offering someone to become your lord or vassal &mdash; you should have not less than -149 reputation;<br/>
+- there is a reputation requirement for accepting someone's offer to become his lord or vassal &mdash; you should have not less than -149 reputation;<br/><br/>
-[[file:Library_barracks_troops.JPG‎]]
+=== Order ===
+<div style="display: inline; float: right; padding: 0 7px 0 20px; margin: 1px 0 0 0; clear: right">[[File:101_award_order_master.jpg]]</div>
+Order is a military political organization that pulls together different feudal lords and knights under the banner of a single visionary leader and aims to reach some greater goal. There are several things one should know about this political unit:<br/>
+- the policy of an order is solely decided by its magistrate (master);<br/>
+- members of an order are allowed to send their troops to any cities, forts, locations belonging to other members of same order;<br/>
+- all the members of the order are counted as allies;<br/>
+- during his initiation, new member of the order receives all the political relationships of the order's master. These new political relationships '''override the previous ones''' (also known as the '''personal relationships''') and are counted as '''"active"'''. If later, the new member leaves the order, his personal relationships with other players are restored;<br/>
+- Master of the order might ask you to share something (gold, mercenary points, resources)  with him, before he accepts you into the brotherhood;<br/>
+- there is no reputation cost (0 reputation) for joining the order;<br/>
+- there is no reputation cost (0 reputation) upon leaving the order;<br/>
+- there is no reputation requirements for joining or leaving an order.<br/><br/>
+==== Payment Options of Political Agreements ====
+In 1100AD it is possible to ask for tribute or pay one, while playing with the political features of the game.<br/>
+Upon signing all of the agreements, except declaring war, engaging in vassal relationship or joining the order it is possible to demand or offer a tax of '''1-100 gold''' or '''1-50 000''' basic resources of each type. This payment is considered to be valid only for one occasion and will be completed only in case the selected player has the needed amount of resources. If he doesn't &mdash; he will still sign the agreement, but the tribute will not be paid.<br/><br/>
-The Archer is selected in this next picture.
+There are special types of payments for vassal and order relationships (they are presented below). What's true for the vassal-sovereign relationship '''is also true''' for member-magistrate relationship, so the written below will only mention the vassal-lord relationship situations.<br/><br/>
-[[file:Library_barracks_archer_selected.JPG‎]]
+===== Glory Point (Mercenary Point) Tax =====
+This tax works as follows:<br/>
+- lord takes away from his vassal some mercenary point amount which is mentioned in the agreement even if they are used by his vassal right now;<br/>
+- if the agreement is broken, than the vassal receives his mercenary points back;<br/>
+- if the vassal has less mercenary points than there is mentioned in the agreement, then his sovereign takes all of the vassal's mercenary points he has at the moment and they are subtracted from the sum mentioned in the agreement. Then, when the vassal acquires new mercenary points, they go to his lord too, until his debt is fully paid. When the tribute is finally paid, vassal newly obtained mercenary points will go to him and he will be able to use them.<br/><br/>
-Notice how the icon is highlighted in red and the "Distributing to:" window tells you Archers would be created as a 20% tax rate, in this instance.
+===== Library Resources Tax (percent per each donation) =====
-* Now decide at what resource level you want the Taxes to begin being collected at. In this picture, it is currently set at 10000. Please NOTE! In this scenario, the lowest quantity resource must be at least above 10000 in order for taxes to start being collected.
+This tax works as follows:<br/>
-WARNING: if you do not manage your resources (by using Marketplace Exchange, for instance) such that they are close to the same levels and start collecting taxes, it is possible to lose large amounts of resources. More on this later.
+- each time a vassal donates some amount of resources to his library his lord receives a percentage of these resources (defined in the vassal agreement) to his library. This means that if the tax was set to '''25%''' and his vassal donates a sum of '''10 000''' resources of each type to his library, than only '''7500''' of each resource will be successfully donated and the rest '''2500''' will be sent to his lord's library.<br/><br/>
-* Once you are happy with the settings you have selected, Click on the CONFIRM button.
-* Once you LOGOUT of the server, using one of these two choices (the Logout word or keys):
-[[file:Logout.JPG‎]]
+===== Library Resources Tax (on timer) =====
+This tax works as follows:<br/>
+- once in a while ('''once per 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 15 or 30 days''') the specified in the agreement amount of resources (from '''1 to 5000''') will be taken away from vassal's storehouse and donated to his sovereign's library;<br/>
+- if vassal has no required amount of resources when time comes to pay the tribute, then the tax payment will be ignored that day.<br/><br/>
-Tax Collection begins assessing your settings and if all conditions are met, your taxes will begin being applied to the appropriate building at the rate indicated.
+===== Contract signing payment (in gold) =====
+This is not a tax, but an agreement payment. The specified amount of gold will be taken away from a person who is being invited into an order or asked to become a vassal '''only once''' &mdash; during the contract signing procedure. The minimum amount of gold that can be taken is '''1''', the maximum - '''1000''';<br/><br/>
-Note: If you merely close your browser window and do not logout, it will be some time before the server recognizes that you are no longer connected. Tax Collection WILL NOT start working until the server sees you are no longer logged in! I merely make note of this because, inevitably, some of you are going the test this and holler at us on the Forums an hour later saying this does not work. It may be as simple as you were never logged out and therefore, Tax Collection never started working.
+===== Gold Payment Tax (on timer) =====
+- once in a while ('''once per 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 15 or 30 days''') the specified in the agreement amount of gold (from '''1 to 100''') will be taken away from vassal's treasury and transferred to his sovereign;<br/>
-Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it!
+- if vassal has no required amount of gold when time comes to pay the tribute, then tax payment will be ignored that day.<br/><br/>
-==== Library: Tax Collection: Extended notes ====
-* Optimally, if you activate Tax Collection for whatever reason, it would be wise to put as many Heros with Knowledge to work in as many cities as possible.
-* It would also be wise to activate tax collection in all your cities even though you do not employ a hero in that capacity. Twenty percent efficiency is better than throwing the resources away.
-* Additionally, you should increase the resource minimum to about 28000 (observations indicated that in certain situation it may need to be set lower) so that upon your return you have the opportunity to apply your resources at 100% efficiency.
-* The Efficiency rates of your heros with Knowledge are:
-Novice = 35%
-Expert = 45%
-Master = 65%
-You can gain an additional 30% by being a Gold Account holder. Therefore your total tax efficiency will be 95% in each city where you have a Hero with Master Knowledge.
-=== Military buildings ===
-==== Barracks ====
-* The Barracks is used for training your infantry.
-* Barracks consists of six (6) types of soldiers.
-* Pikeman
-* Swordsman
-* Man-at-Arms
-* Archer
-* Marksman
-* Ranger
-* Upgrading: Every level you increase your barracks reduces the time needed to train soldiers. Before you can upgrade to level 4 or 9, you need to surround two sides of the building with level 1 barracks.
-* Level 4: Allows training of 4 troops at once
-* Level 9: Allows training of 9 troops at once.
-* A multicell building, upgrading to a level 4 will require a 2x2 or 4 cells of space.
-* Upgrading to level 9 will require a 3x3 or 9 cells of space
-==== Stables ====
-* The Stable is used for training your cavalry.
-* Stables consists of three (3) types of soldiers.
-* Scout
-* Horseman
-* Knight
-* Upgrading: Every level you increase your stables reduces the time needed  to train Calvary. Before you can upgrade to level 4 or 9, you need to surround two sides of the building with level 1 stables.
-* Level 4: Allows training of 4 Calvary at once
-* Level 9: Allows training of 9 calvary at once.
-* A multicell building, upgrading to a level 4 will require a 2x2 or 4 cells of space.
-* Upgrading to level 9 will require a 3x3 or 9 cells of space.
-==== Workshop ====
-* The Workshop is used for producing carts and siege weapons.
-* Workshop can produce three (3) types of machines.
-* Cart (Transfer resources)
-* Battle Ram (Destroy walls)
-* Catapult (Destroy buildings)
-* Upgrading: Every level you increase your workshop reduces the time needed to build machines. Before you can upgrade to level 4 or 9, you need to surround two sides of the building with level 1 buildings.
-* A multicell building, upgrading to a level 4 will require a 2x2 or 4 cells of space.
-* Upgrading to level 9 will require a 3x3 or 9 cells of space.
-=== DEFENSE ===
-==== Wall ====
-* Walls slow down enemy units.
-* In addition, cavalry and siege weapons cannot pass over walls.
-* If you place soldiers on a wall they gain a defensive bonus.
-* Only rams can destroy a wall
-*Upgrading: More health and a bigger defensive bonus.
-==== Gates ====
-* Gates allow your allies to send cavalry and siege weapons into your city.
-* Has 2x the health of walls at the same level
-* Restrictions: Limit 5 per city
-* Upgrading: More health.
-== Alliance System ==
-=== Ally Pact ===
-*Ability to aid each other.
-*Can't attack pact member's cities.
-*Will not engage in combat on neutral or enemy grounds.
-*Time it takes to break pact: 1 day or when accepted by other pact member.
-*Cost to send pact: 0 Reputation.
-*Cost to break pact: 10 Reputation.
-*No minimum reputation needed to send or break pact.
-=== Non-Aggression Pact ===
-*Can't attack pact member's cities.
-*Will engage in combat on neutral or enemy grounds.
-*Time it takes to break pact: 1 day or when accepted by other pact member.
-*Cost to send pact: 0 Reputation.
-*Cost to break pact: 10 Reputation.
-*No minimum reputation needed to send or break pact.
-=== Truce Pact ===
-*Only way to end war
-*Can't engage in any war activities against other pact member.
-*Can't attack pact member's cities.
-*Time it takes to break pact: Will automatically break after one week. Can't break manually.
-*Cost to send pact: 0 Reputation.
-*Cost to break pact: 0 Reputation.
-*No minimum reputation needed to send or break pact.
-=== War Pact===
-*Ability to use catapults against other pact member to destroy other buildings than walls excluding castle.
-*Ability to capture other pact member's town, even if they are active.
-*Cost to send war: 50 Reputation.
-*Cost to break war: 0 Reputation.
-*Minimum reputation needed to send war: -199 Reputation.
-*Minimum reputation needed to accept war: -199 Reputation.
-=== Vassal Pact ===
-*Ability to send aid to other pact member.
-*Ability for vassal to inherit lord's allies as Non-Aggression pacts
-*Ability to pay lord for protection.
-*Ability to inherit lord's war pacts.
-*Cost to send vassal pact: 0 Reputation.
-*Cost to break vassal pact: 10 Reputation.
-*Minimum reputation needed to send vassal pact: -149 Reputation.
-*Minimum reputation needed to accept vassal pact: -149 Reputation.
-==== Vassal Payment Options ====
-===== Glory Point Tax =====
-*Lord receives a set amount of glory points, even if use by vassal.
-*Vassal receives all glory points back if Pact is broken.
-*Glory points is A.K.A mercenary points.
-=====  Library Resources Tax (percent per each input) =====
-*Depending on vassal deposits into his or her library, the lord gets a set percentage of that added to his or her library which is taken away from vassals total amount donated to his or her library.
-===== Gold Payment Tax =====
-*lord decides on the amount of gold per day the vassal pays to him or her.
-*Lord will not get paid unless vassal has gold.
-=====  Library resources tax (on timer) =====
-*Same as Library Resources Tax (percent per each input) option but over a set amount of time instead of instantaneous.
-== Conclusion ==
-MORE INFO: Compare with http://1100ad.feildmaster.com/wiki/Main_Page
-* As this game is still in Beta, rules and play are subject to change
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