Dear Players! The 1100AD Team would like to congratulate you on St Patrick’s Day and send out to you the cordial wishes of good rest, happiness and joy, wealth and the chance to find your own four-leaved clover that will bring you success in all your initiatives and undertakings!
We have prepared the special offers, contests and – of course – discounts on the occasion of St Patrick’s Day!

NEW ORDER SKILLS
Apart from the contest, we have created 2 new slots for the added order skills; also, there are the completely new order skills now:
1. The Elite Archer Specialisation – gives you the defence and shooting speed bonuses for the Elite Archers.
2. The Vitalian Brothers Specialisation – gives you the attack and defence bonus for the Vitalian Brothers.
3. The Russian Horse Archer Specialisation – gives you the attack and defence bonus for the Russian Horse Archers.
Additional:
- The extra skill ‘Battle March’ applies to the Vitalian Brothers now, too.
- The extra skill ‘Shooting’ applies to the Russian Horse Archers now, too.
- The extra skill ‘Mercenaries’ applies to the Russian Horse Archers and Vitalian Brothers now, too.

DISCOUNTS AND CAMPAIGNS
The unique units can be bought at discounts at the in-game shop now.
The order skill ‘Storage’ is cut in price by 70%
The cost of installing additional resource extraction facilities in the forts has been cut by 50%

THE CONTEST: GET MORE LEPRECHAUN COINS THAN OTHERS
Just like last year, the green houses of the Leprechauns will appear in almost all the towns and locations; one can find the green coins of the Leprechauns by exploring the houses. The green coins can be exchanged for various goods in the Exchanger that can be found if you click the diamond icon in your bottom menu bar. The coins can be and should be exchanged during the campaign; the coin expenditure is not reflected in their number shown in the stats.
The TOP of successful Leprechaun house explorations will be statistically kept throughout the festive week; the TOP 10 players will be able to win the following valuable prizes once the fest is over:
The 1st place: +1 city control point, +1 merc hut control point (unlimited), +10 000 Kinsmen (the unique soldiers who are not known to anyone but who were honoured with the service of the Tournament Winners – these guys you cannot find anywhere else), +500 diamonds, +1 order skill level (as chosen by the player), + 1 level 42 free hero, + the big artefact set.
The 2nd place: +1 merc hut control point (unlimited), +8 000 Kinsmen, +400 diamonds, +1 order skill level (as chosen by the player), + 1 level 42 free hero, + the middle artefact set.
The 3rd place: +1 merc hut control point (unlimited), +6 000 Kinsmen, +300 diamonds, +1 order skill level (as chosen by the player), + 1 level 40 free hero, + the small artefact set.
The 4th and 5th places: +200 diamonds, + 1 level 24 free hero, a 5-level artefact storage building, a level 5 resource strongbox, + an artefact bundle.
The 6th through the 10th places: +100 diamonds, + 1 level 24 free hero, a level 5 resource strongbox, + an artefact bundle.

Attention: changes in the contest rules:
1. Any one player can ONLY become the TOP 1 winner ONCE and get the main prize at any one and the same server during the current calendar year. This is saying that the players who were Number One in the Ancient Coin Contest cannot get the main prize even if they win the 1st place in this green-coin contest.
2. If several players get the equal number of coins at the contest’s closure and are both Number Ones therefore, they will be downplayed to the 2nd places and so nobody gets the main prize.
3. Any one order can only get 1 prize. The order skill winnable for this contest can be picked from among the extra skills but the end-of-time level of any order skill may not exceed 30.
4. The houses of the Leprechauns will disappear at 10:00 Server Time on 24 March.

Other Changes:
The regional and state chats will be shut down on all the servers.