Dear players, 1100AD team wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year. Due to these wonderful events, we are opening the winter season in our favorite 1100AD game and give you a lot of bonuses and surprises.


1. Winter atmosphere

The new winter background was specially created by our graphical artists for the main page of the game. The image is based on the history of the battle on the Lake Peipsi, also known as the "Battle of the Ice".
Those, who are interested, can download this background for the desktop theme.

To make the sense of winter more real, we cover all servers except Outremer with snow, so all your cities will be filled with snowdrifts and rooftops will appear snow-covered.


2. Bonuses and discounts

We introduce a great holiday discount and bonus pack:
- 50% discount on hero name change;
- 50% discount on building an underpass;
- 50% discount on generating a personal coat of arms;
- 30% off sale commission when using the auction;
- 30% discount on resetting hero skills;
- price for “instant location revolt suppression” decreased from 25 gold to 15 gold;
- notable price decrease on raising vassal points;
- opportunity to buy a unique Christmas hero – Snow lady, for 80 diamonds (when buying, hero comes as conditionally free).

And finally, what we all were waiting for a lot - 50% discount on silver and gold subscription! When buying gold subscription for 3 months and more you get your Snow lady absolutely for free (conditionally free) as an additional gift!


3. Contests

During all winter holidays we are going to make different contests in social networks.
Winners will get different stuff, starting from gold and diamonds and up to conditionally free heroes. So, be active, and watch us on Vkontakt, Twitter and Facebook, cause it's really worth it!

4. Gifts and lottery

Same as last year, all of you will get a Christmas tree in all your cities! Once in every 24 hours there's an opportunity to get a gift from the Christmas tree. Gift list includes resources, free troops, different artifacts and diamonds.
We haven't forgot about our newbies as well, so all of them have a chance to get three additional bonuses as a gift:
- an event, increasing all single cell buildings level in the chosen city by 1*;
- an event increasing castle level in the chosen city by 5*;
- a one time event that gives out a “Strongbox” building of the first level. The building will be randomly set in an available free cell in the city, or if no such place will be available , then placed on rocks or forest.

*In case part or all of the buildings in the chosen city have reached the maximum level, the mentioned event will not affect them. So be careful and don't make your event useless.
The same goes with the castle level increase – if you already have a castle of 15th or 18th level, the event will make it reach the 20th level, if you have a 20th level castle then the event will be useless.

Apart from gifts, we also introduce the Christmas lottery, completely different from last year.
The lottery is based on a ticket system, that way, each player buys a ticket (or several tickets) and either does get a prize during the draw, or doesn't.
There are three types of tickets – bronze, silver and gold. Depending on the type of the ticket bought, the pack of possible prizes that a player can claim will vary.

The draw will take place every three days or once in the end of the week, except for Christmas and New Year holidays.

Ticket information:
Bronze ticket (price : 5 gold)
List of goodies for such type of ticket:
1) Conditionally free hero;
2) 1-4 level artifacts;
3) Gold (up to 7 gold);
4) Resource donation into Library;
5) Average resource amount (different amount of each resource type);
6) Large resource amount (different amount of each resource type).

Silver ticket (price: 10 gold)
List of goodies for such type of ticket:
1) Conditionally free hero;
2) 1-4 level artifacts;
3) Gold (up to 25 gold);
4) Resource donation into Library;
5) Large resource amount (different amount of each resource type);
6) 10 000 of each resource type.

Gold ticket (price: 30 gold)
1) Conditionally free hero (of a higher level);
2) 1-4 level artifacts;
3) 3-5 level artifacts;
4) Gold (up to 80 gold);
5) Resource donation into Library (large amount);
6) 50 000 of each resource type;
7) Diamonds;
8) Silver subscription for 7 days;
9) Gold subscription for 7 days;



Attention! Despite the fact that bronze and silver tickets have several goodies that look the same, chances of getting worthy prizes differs.
That way, a chance of getting a 4th level artifact in a prize “1-4 level artifacts” in a bronze ticket is lower than in a silver ticket.
Still, it doesn't mean that a player, having a good luck, cannot pick desirable prizes if he buys only bronze tickets.

So we wish you all good luck and as many prizes as you can get!

Worth mentioning is the fact that this year, part of the raised lottery money will be donated to one of Riga's orphanage of which we will keep you informed.

5. New artifacts


Remember, we promised you new artifacts this summer? So hey, they are finally ready. We introduce 5 of them this New Year.
New artifacts:
1. Arabian Cavalry Sword;

2. University Diploma;

3. Slings with Lead Bullets;

4. Teutonic Knights Shield;

5. Genoese Crossbows.


New artifacts can be found in adventure huts (Druids temple, Barbarian settlement, Monster cave and etc.)

6. Holiday craftable artifacts

Besides all above mentioned, we offer players an opportunity to craft three very powerful authentic artifacts from several different parts:
- Ancient Frankish Crown (when using gives +1 cities control point);

- Ancient Viking Standard (when using gives +1 vassal point);

- Ring of King (when using makes your chosen hero conditionally free).


Each of mentioned artifacts is crafted from different amount of parts (total of 12 per all artifacts). You can find the necessary parts in adventure huts, buy at the auction or win in a lottery. Artifacts will be crafted in a separate bookmark of the “Christmas tree” building.

We all do and will be doing our best to make your winter holidays more enjoyable, at least in our favorite 1100AD game. We wish you all Merry Christmas and a truly Happy New year!

P.S. Due to some inconveniances, caused by misunderstanding and rush, we decided to prolong the winter holidays season up to January 15th (my BD ), including all the subscription discounts, lottery and X-mas tree! Thank you for understanding!