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1 What is 1100AD?
2 On with the Tutorial
3 WARNING: Everything beyond this point, is subject to drastic changes during Feb (and maybe Mar) 2010 !
4 Miscellaneous Information
- 4.1 adventure huts
5 Conclusion
6 END OF THE Gguide DOCUMENT

What is 1100AD?

1100AD is a War Tactics and Strategy game placed in the Medieval era of parts of Europe. It is unlike most other war strategy or medieval era games. We have a pleasant mix of village, town and city development as well as troop training for armies and battles. You are placed in a rather large valley along with many other, mostly first-time, players from many counties, cultures and languages. Just like in real life, you will need to find methods to communicate (or not) within this context. You have choices to become friends or foes with just about everyone you come in contact with.

As you learn more about the game and the techniques that other players employ to survive on a daily basis, you will find out more about yourself and those around you.

Do you have what it takes to survive?
Do you have what it takes to succeed?

Only time will tell as you enter into this world of war and politics so it is time you are:

Getting Started

Click on the link above
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On with the Tutorial

There is a Tutorial on the top right hand corner of your browser window that will guide you through the steps to develop your city by configuring it to your desires, building and upgrading your buildings and employing your population as troops that will be formed into armies.

While your Storehouse is being built you can perform your first city configuration.

This menu follows a recommended step-by-step in-game tutorial. As you might notice, the step you are on is blackened out. You can choose to move to the next step down the list or go back and review at any time. Go to the end of each document and you will find the following menu.

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Added this MENU to the end of each document

Note:
I have removed the Table of Contents until the graphical aspects of this document grows to a sufficient length to warrant the need for one. Pete

WARNING: Everything beyond this point, is subject to drastic changes during Feb (and maybe Mar) 2010 !

Train first Troops

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.)
It is your choice to either train troops now or to continue constructing buildings.
The bigger the army, the better!

Resist the Attacks of Marauders

Marauders are computerized enemies
You may see these marauders in the Tactical Page Map labeled as red flags.
Select the army you have and simply click the enemy you wish to destroy.

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. b. In the event of a battle, it will be represented by two swords crossing each other. 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

This is the insignia of you and your city, basically the sign you would commonly see on a shield or flag.
To setup your coat-of-arms, highlight your Settings tab, then click Profile.
This displays your current information, click on the “Change” button on the left-side Avatar.
On the bottom of the menu, you’ll find various coat of arms (CoA) to chose from. Select the one that best suites you.
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

You can give your armies creative names to express yourself.
Flag selection’s purpose is to give each army its own symbol for instant recognition.

Join Selected Army

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.

Split Armies into Two

Splitting the army into two will separate your troops into two bands.

Select All/None

Selects all your troops or deselects those that are selected.

Advanced Options

Disband/kill selected Armies (Self-explanatory).
Register Armies in this city (Relocates that army's population to the city you are at)

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. Pointing your cursor over a city will display the player's name followed by their coordinates, city name and current points.

The Map Legend on the right side of your browser displays the status of a city to you.
Unflagged cities are automatically considered neutral. That means they have no alliance or aggression toward you.
From this view you can also selectively choose who you want as your ally, enemy etc... By selecting the city you view their profile.
The profile shows you their relations with other players, owned cities, rating and reputation.
On the right side of the profile, it gives you five options.

                 a. Send Campaign (Aid or Attack)
                 b. Private Message (PM)
                 c. Offer Ally
                 d. Declare War
                 e. Non-Aggression-Pact (NAP)

The arrows around the valley map allows you to scroll through the valley. 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.

Map - Attack

By selecting a city it is possible to send a campaign to attack or aid someone.

Before selecting your command (Aid or Attack) you must select which soldiers you are sending off.
Unemployed troops (found on the top right hand corner of your browser, displays soldiers who are not in any campaign or fixed group).
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 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.
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
Select Aid or Attack (Aid to relieve the selected city)

Politics - 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.
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 clicking “Mark All Messages as Read”, you eliminate the flashing unread message icon at the top of the screen.

Politics – Vassals

Vassals are players that pay taxes to a stronger player in return for their protection
You do not want to be a vassal; you should only become somebody’s vassal if you are in deep trouble.
To be able to have other players as your vassals you must construct a level 1 Obelisk of Glory and fill it with resources.
This tab allows you to view all your vassals

Settings - Profile

You may change your user name, email and password here
Its also possible to record your birthday date and change your Coat of Arms.

Settings – Settings

The map scrolling speed is how many boxes you wish to scroll each time you click the arrow on the valley map.
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.
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.
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

Basic Buildings

Castle

The castle is required for your settlement to operate.
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)
A listed view of your city's buildings and their current level will be displayed.
Mercenaries are found here for hire. An Obelisk of Glory is required to unlock these units.
In order to Terraform (clearing land to build on) you must reach an upgrade level of 6.
Upgrading: Decreases build time by a certain amount of percentage.
Upgrading your castle is required for other buildings to reach their new upgrade level.
No extra space required when upgraded.

Storehouse

Also required for your settlement to operate.
The storehouse is where all extracted resources are stored.
On the Resources Tab, your current flow of resources per hour and possible expenses are displayed.
Income(+###) is the max amount of resource collected each hour. Castle provides +10 resources for each type.
Expenses(-###) is the amount of each resource that is taken per hour.
Upgrading: Increases the max storage of extracted resources.
No extra space required when upgraded.

Farms

Built manually, the farm is required for your city to progress.
Farms provides population so that other buildings in your city can be supplied with workers.
Farms are also necessary for training troops.
Population numbers go down when you build, upgrade, or train warriors.
Upgrading: Increases population amount provided (not per hour).
No extra space required when upgraded.
Restrictions: Limit 20 per town.

Resources Extraction

Sawmill

Used for producing wood.
Upgrading: Increases production of wood per level. Higher amount of wood collected per hour.
No extra space required when upgraded.

Coal Mine

Used for producing coal.
Upgrading: Increases production of coal per level. Higher amount of coal collected per hour.
No extra space required when upgraded.

Iron Mine

Used for producing iron.
Upgrading: Increases production of iron per level. Higher amount of iron collected per hour.
No extra space required when upgraded.

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.
Upgrading: Increases production of stone per level. Higher amount of stone collected per hour.
No extra space required when upgraded.

General structures

Cache

Cache is another storage unit for some of your resources.
Unlike the Storehouse, this building will prevent a certain amount of your resources from being robbed.
Upgrading: Increases capacity of resources stored in the Cache.
No extra space required when upgraded.

Restrictions: Limit 1 per town.

Strongbox

It basically provides extra resources storage.
The strongbox can be robbed just like the storehouse.
Upgrading: Increases the amount of resources that can be stored at any one time.
No extra space required when upgraded.
Restrictions: Limit 10 per town.

Marketplace

The Market place hosts your resources trade with outside settlements.
You can also receive resource support from another city that belongs to you.
There is a 5-1 maximum trading ratio limit. Example: You cannot trade 1 wood for more than 5 iron.
Carts are generally used to transport goods but under Settings there is an option to use your warriors to carry resources.
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 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.
Upgrading: Increases the amount of resources you can trade at a time and decreases the ratio for exchange.
No extra space required when upgraded.

Repair Squad

The higher this building is upgraded, the faster damage done by rams and catapults is repaired.
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)
Upgrading: Faster repairs for your buildings
No extra space required when upgraded.
Restrictions: Limit 3 per town.

Obelisk of Glory

After you build and fill the resource tab, you are allowed to accept vassals.
The other purpose is to get “Mercenary Points” which allow you to purchase various mercenaries to supplement your army.
Upgrading: Allows more mercenary points to purchase more mercenaries
No extra space required when upgraded.
Restrictions: Limit 1 per player.

Tavern

The tavern is where you can find additional heroes to hire. (requires 50 gold to hire and a 5 gold per day fee)
In addition, you can easily see the total amount of troops you have spread across your cities and on campaigns.
It is also a requirement to upgrade your library
You can auction a level 5 or higher hero to receive gold if he is bought.
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.
Finally, you are able to purchase strong heroes that other players have put up for auction.
Upgrading: You may purchase a hero that’s being auctioned
No extra space required when upgraded.

Temple

The temple allows you to donate resources to improve your reputation (requires a level 5 temple to donate).
When your reputation becomes to low you can no longer declare war or accept vassals.
You can also resurrect a hero here.
Upgrading: Resurrect a hero with no experience loss
No extra space required when upgraded.

Rally Point

The rally point is where all your troops and siege weapons gather after they are created.
Upgrading: No upgrade available

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

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.

Fountain of Glory

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.

Watchtower

Level	Defense Bonus	Sight	Gold to Build	Gold Totals
1	20%	1	0 (free)	0
2	40%	2	0 (free)	0
3	60%	3	25	25
4	80%	4	50	75
5	100%	5	75	150

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.

Miscellaneous Information

adventure huts

This is one persons opinion of difficulty levels from least to most:

Abandoned Mines (that's a given)
Barbarian Settlement (also a given)
Monsters Cave (without lots of meat its #4)
Druid Temple (without knights its more difficult)
Blackrock Castle (it owns you for a long time)

Conclusion

MORE INFO: Compare with http://1100ad.feildmaster.com/wiki/Main_Page

As this game is still in Beta, rules and play are always changing!

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