K541 - The Story so Far [Part 1]

HOW WE MET
My game tag is Evka, and my friend and partner is Porschechic.

Doll, PurEvil and Porschechic were our competitors in our second ever Alliance vs Alliance event over at Guns of Glory.

It was GreenMFMachine, Sparta and I, against 5 other kingdoms. Bride, who was the rotational leader of Porschchic's alliance, and Sparta, who was the Main leader of our Alliance KLB in K115 - stuck a pack to work together and claimn the top two positions

Porsche and I just instantly clicked, and needless to say, it was a first and second place victory, by a considerable margin. I think i knew, just what an awesome person Porsche was, when our Champion "Sparta", went into beast mode, and absolutely flattened Porsche [ Accidentally, I must add]
There was a pause for 2 minutes..... Sparta apologized, and Porsche responded with "Accidents happen"

I would have been upset, ........Many of us would have been upset. But she didn't care, she auto healed, and went straight back to fighting for our cause.

Sparta and our team proceeded to win the next few AvA's, but it just wasn't the same.The victories were hollow..... 
I wanted to play with Porsche....: and I still wanted to honor Sparta... A player that I grew to love and respect. Loyalty to him is all I knew... 
He was the reason I logged on every day... that I stayed through the hard times.....

So, I just had to start another account on Porsche's server and told her that I was going to create a farm with her... and watch her play.  After a few weeks, I was around level 20 - 21, but I felt, I was too far behind everyone in an established server. I needed a new challenge, one that I could share the experience... with my friend.... or just relax and meet new people..... I started on KOA K541....

KOA K541
Over the first 2 days, I just wanted to get a feeling for the server, Was this the place that I should start? Should I stay..... How were the people, the dynamics of the peopler.... were there any huge spenders? 
I just built the castle to around 12 - 13... not sure if it was the right move or not... but I left, and only came back a few weeks later... I was bored... I was tiered and needed to ignite the flame within me.

Not knowing what i should do, i approached KC and watched as they conversed each other... Joker happened to be on, and I remember that he was witty enough to make me laugh, was full of life, talked smack to the so called bigs, and most of all was respectful to others. 
I want to join an Alliance, his alliance.. so I looked at their ranking.. "Alliance Rank 9"
Perfect, this was a team that did not care about been the best, they just wanted to play together and have fun.

ALLIANCE UNW
I wanted to be with the underdogs and I needed a challenge. I sent a Shout out.... 

"I am looking for an alliance, If you are in the top 5... don't bother with trying to recruit me"

Joker responded "Join us".. 
Then someone else responded, " Joker, you are suppose to be recruiting for us", to which joker said " This one is mine, we like her" Challenge accepted.

There were two others that caught my attention at UWN, the leader "Cal", and his 2IC, "Real".  Real played the way I liked to play, Smart, organized and Compressed. He seemed to know what he was talking about, was experienced and had tactical know how. I loved it ... we were the underdogs, and I had found a home.

After a week, I was made R4, probably because I could answer a few questions that others couldn't. I am not the chatty type, actually like to stay away from drama... and just keep my conversations to a few people.

ENTER PORSCHE 
I told Porsche I was playing KOA, and she immediately asked if she could join to see what it was all about. I agreed, but "don't go crazy … Don't spend too much, we just here to relax and chill in the kingdom."

I was still playing GoG at the time, and that is were i spent most of my gaming budget for the month. The thing about Porsche, she loves a big BBC... and when she saw the dragon [ And not the Blimp of GoG], she knew she needed a big one... so she started swiping.... My Gawd.... a level 54 Dragon, on a level 10 castle... it as so funny. 

Within a few Hours, her castle grew to the mid 20's [Top 3 at the time] and people began to notice her. Then she said it.. Evka are you not gonna grow with me? I thought "Gawd damn", do I have too?
I had just spent my monthly gaming budget and would have to wait until after KE ..... So Porsche stopped because of me ... but she worked on her stats


WWR SUB-ALLIANCE
I knew KE was around the corner, and then it happend.
Hale [Leader of WWR] had a fall out with Lorden, and started demanding that Cal [Leader of UNW] move his WWR sub alliance to her territory, and take up the fight with THF.

CAL showed us the Screen Shots, where Hale threaten us, and showed us, that HALE had basically said, "Either you are with us, or against us" I was so upset, the way she spoke to him in the message, this was a man that I started to admire ... and he gave the choice to the R4's. 1, Support the mad woman Hale..... 2. Support the war crazy Lorden.... 3. We step aside and become neutral.

The Call was made, we had selected 3, and wanted no part in and internal feud between 2 players that wanted to rule the kjingdom.
it was clear that Hale liked others to do her bidding, that she hide behind her so called United Kingdom. She wanted Lambs... She wanted us to be her meat shields. Everything she did was to avoid front facing reputational damage, and create back stage conspiracy and drama.


It was not even 24 hours later, when RAM ported to WWR, and burt down both Hale and Beef. She cried out in KC, that she had quit.... beaten and exhausted, she told everyone she had left the kingdom.

Killing Event - 1st Ever for K541
KE started, and THF & UNW were now allies. I was uncomfortable, so i did not take part... but it was at the time, Porsche ran at hale and Zeroed her. She had already healed most of her troops, and lost 100K., This was followed up by a hit from Real..... I wasn't proud of it ... I hate to see someone down and out, so I spoke to Hale for the first time.
I told her that Porsche had gained alot of respect for RAMROD, and wanted to test herself against the other bigs in the kingdom. That it wasn't a anything personal.... Her response was ... She is giving her account to Myst, and will not be participating in the kingdom, as she had personal things to attend too... Hale had Quit.

Lorden had this R5 room, where he was trying to run the Kingdom from. I was not part of it, but alot of what was said from a political perspective was originated out of there. Talk of killing off all Alliances not in the top 20 or 25 was discussed. Voted against [Declined]. Then Lorden added more sub alliances and revoted.... The kingdom was been run from a R5 room???? There was no Queen/King... only self proclaimed wannabes with huge ego's. I turned to Porsche, and I said ... lets go get the crown. The first one is the only one that matters... I been in enough wars to know how to win them... Unless 4 of the top 5 were on 1 side.... I can draw the war out for a week.. True story.

The Second KE was on its way... Hale had apparently quit, and Porsche mentioned she was speaking to Myst, who was the New leader of WWR. The plan was to advise THF, that we were going to go into KE as Neutral. But Lorden had spies in one of the rooms were the chatting was tacking place. I live by the principles, of no hitting outside KE, unless provoked, No tile hitting [Farms] and my word is my bond.. unless someone does something to place the relationship at risk. I am not an aggressive player. I try to play on value, and for those that i care about.

"Continued on Part 2"

Crown Event - Initial Strategy [First Draft - Subject to change]

Hi Everyone

These are my thoughts on how to tackle the first crown event

Firstly, we need to ensure that we are in the best position to be able to support each other.

Porsch and DaRich are our strongest statistically wise, and will need to position opposite each other, and in a position that they are able to sweep the towers.

Real & Myself have decent stats, and should be able to clear 95% of our enemies in the Kingdom.

Tiz is our only Level 30, and he is improving every day. Being a level 30, we need to ensure that he improves his embassy to match, so that he has the biggest reinforcement capacity.

My suggestion is to port in shielded and take the following positions:

We need to take minimal damage up front, so we need to make our move, only when the timer hits 4 hours, or the other alliances have a wait and watch approach.

Once we are in the above formation, we should only have 2 people sweeping initially.

Porsche, I think it is best if you purchase Shadow Dragon, so all your marches have the dragon.

I am not sure how ,many troops you are going to have, however, lets say you have 450K at the time of the throne.

- Send 1X full troop load to the sweeper that is active - When they receive your troops, they can unbubble, and they become the tower sweeper. If anyone is not online, they need to bubble, and send troops to those that are unbubbled in the throne vicinity. 

- Tiz might just wanna mess around and send 1000 troops to the throne, if the others hold back.

Porsche, for every 150K troops you have over 450k, will mean that an extra person can be unbubbled.

Objective

Sweep the towers and control them, if the throne is occupied by a threat... We can use the towers to kill and thin them over an hour or two... if they decide to go in by the millions. We then Mega sweep them on Porsches stats when they ready for the taking.

- If we hitting the throne, they are more than likely going to be mega garrisoned for a 4 hour period... As a last resort, we hit the throne with mega rally, if we are concerned that we are going to lose too many troops with a single attack.

- TIZ is vital part of our success [Now that Afgan has left] - when we control the towers... and the others are licking their wounds, we have a go to control the Throne... 

- Porsche will need to go in first to secure, followed by Tizz and everyone else.

- When the capacity gets reached, Porsche changes leadership to Tizz, so that we can ensure we have maximum people number of people. Porsche, can then leave and send 1 X Calvary back.

- Tizz can activate mega garrison, and change the leader at anytime to P or darich. 

- I think that, during this time, we need Darich online to sweep, and if we have a threat on the towers, Darich to send in 1 cavalary troop in order for tizz to transfer leadership, and P to go out and sweep the threat. On Darich's stats with 1 mil reinforcements, I don't think anyone will be able to knock him out of the throne. I can do the same if darich is offline. 

- When any of the sweepers enter the Throne, they should only send 1 Calvary. 1 is enough to transfer stats

- We make the forest our own, Castles that port in, that may be a threat, need to be hit. If they have anti scout, we need to mega.

- If any of the castles in the forest are mega'd, either we all reinforce, or use a port to move slightly to the side

Threat

Towers need to be occupied for 5 minute before releasing the trigger

Floki - Stats aren't as good as I thought

Hale - has Descent Stats

Fast Donkey - He may have something up his sleeve, but I don't think he is a big spender

Ram - I think he has fallen back, but still a top 3 threat

Waltz - Top 2 threat, but he is green, a good guy, but is Hales major weapon.

Diesel - Along with Waltz, is our biggest threat to the throne. He has played the game before... Will definitely be suited up to kill.... And I think that him being Zeroed was a ploy to make us feel at easy. He is their Yoda after all.... and THF and Lorden are banking on him taking this for them.

We need to try and get THF and WWR to take each other out first, but there may be a possibility that they are going to partner, so we need to be prepared. hale is already telling Lorden it was us that initiated the early hit..... Yes, it probably was, but wasn't she suppose to be away at the time? This woman is not to be trusted... Just my opinion.

Ensure that all castles 22 - preserve their troops, as they need to send in to reinforce with Level T8's and above.

- Any Questions or Suggestions?

Begginers Guide to KoA

Game Tutorial

When starting a new game, a tutorial will pop up to assist you with a walkthrough.
This will help new players to understand the dynamics of the game, and explain the basics.

Bind Your Account

Before spending any money on the game, do not forget to bind your account.
You can Bind the account by selecting the "Player Profile Window" (Click the avatar on the left top).
Click on the bottom left button to access the Settings page
Click Account to bind your account to Google or Facebook. For "iOS", you can bind to Game Center and/or Facebook.

Select your Alliance

An important step is to find a suitable Alliance. Via the Alliance menu you can apply to join an alliance or join one of the alliances that are currently open for new recruits. As with other games with alliances it is important to find a likeminded group of people. Don't be afraid to switch to another alliance if you feel your first is not a good fit, or if either leaders or other members are not active enough. Make sure you have an active group of people. Not only the number of members are important, but also how many actually log in, which you can see in the Alliance menu (select Members and you see for each member when they last logged in). If you are intending to play for a long time, the social aspect is important for many people as well.

Alliance Teleport

When you join an alliance for the first time you get a free alliance teleport (I had 3 when I started playing, got one as a free gift, not sure where the other came from). You can use this to teleport close to your alliance, but be careful about using it. The game can suggest you to move to a location, which automatically happens if you accept, but this might not be the location your alliance wants to settle down, just where your leader happens to be at that time. Ask about it in the alliance chat first. You can also acquire an advanced teleport from the Alliance Store to teleport later, but this is costly, and Alliance Credits are not easy to come by, so make sure you only use the Alliance Teleport if you are quite certain you will stay.

University

One of the buildings in your base, inside the city walls, is your University. You can build the University once you upgrade your Stronghold to lvl 4. Once you have it, you should basically try to make sure you always have some research project active and you should make your research speed as fast as possible. The Development Research Category contains import projects to increase your construction, research and troop training speed, the Economy Research Category contains important projects to increase your resource production and gathering, the Combat Research Category contains, besides the many projects to improve the strength of your troops also the very important projects to increase the number of March Slots (these influence how many different marches you can use simultaneously, very important if you want to do multiple rallies, attacking enemies, gathering resources, fighting monsters etc). The Defense Research Category offers projects that help you defend your Stronghold in various ways. It is not that this is not important, but if there is one category that you can pay less attention to in the beginning, it is this one.

Training Troops

There are 5 buildings relevant for training troops. Barracks, Stables, Range and Siege Workshop are the building where you can give your assignments to train troop. The level of the buildings influence which troops you can train, the higher tier, the better the troops. Each is associated with a troop type, Infantry, Cavalry, Bowmen and Siege. The Military Tents influence how many troops you can train and your troop training speed. For each Military Tent you have for each level the Troop Training Speed increases with 0.5%, so it is important to build many and upgrade all of them.

Upgrading Buildings

The game suggests some order of building and upgrading buildings, you don't need to pay attention to that. There are some things to consider. One building to upgrade as fast as possible is the Embassy (unlocked at Stronghold level 6), it increases the number of Alliance Helps you can receive and the time each Help deducts from your timers. It does not make as much difference as when a percentage of timers is deducted, but especially early on in the game, when timers are not that long, it can make a difference if you can receive many Helps (and you have an active alliance that provides those Helps fast). Early on I also tend to focus on upgrading buildings that are requirements for the next Stronghold upgrade first to make sure I can start the next Stronghold upgrade when I go offline for a while. All the buildings have their own importance, the University unlocks new research project levels, the Barracks, Range, Stables and Siege Workshop new troops, the Farm and Sawmill increase your resource production rate and capacity (also build many of them and upgrade them, do not forget to unlock the extra areas for building outside the city walls). After you start an upgrade do not forget to click the item above the building to request for Alliance Helps.

Walls

The Walls can contain traps that are build in the Trap Factory building. Upgrading the Trap Factory unlocks more Traps. Traps can play an important role in defending your city.

Market Place

At the Market Place building, located to the right of the Vault, you can make trades. There are various different offers to get some resources or goodies by paying with resources or gold, and there are a couple of free refreshes each day as well. You might want to judge for yourself whether trades are worth it, but some are no brainers, like the wood vs food trades. Unless you are in high need of one and not the other, you can always make some resource profit by making the trades where you get more (e.g. paying 750 food to get 3000 wood).

Helping Alliance Members with Research and Construction

You and your alliance members can help each other with research and building upgrades. Before you have build your Embassy you need to go to the Alliance menu to Help, once you have the Embassy there will be a shortcut icon above the Embassy to Help All. The number of Helps you can receive is determined by the Embassy level. Initially you can receive two Helps and it is increased by 1 by every level of your Embassy. The initial time that is deducted with each help is 30 seconds and this is increased by 3 seconds from level 2 of the Embassy onwards. This is a fixed amount, so they are not a huge help like in some other games where the alliance Helps take off a relative amount of the remaining timer.

Using Gold and Speed Ups

During the game there are various ways to get gold and speed ups, but they are not that easy to come by. Once your timers start to be more than just a few minutes you might get tempted to use these to speed up research, construction and troop training. My general advice is don't just use these for anything, only use them if you can get something back by winning prizes in the active Events. Saving up some gold and speed ups is important so that it will be easier to win the prizes of those Events.

Power

Although the power of a player has no direct meaning for your strength in combat, it is often used by players as a quick measurement of strength anyway. Typically alliances will set certain power requirements for their players which increase over time. As such it is important you get your power up as well. There are seven basic categories of power: Lord, Dragon, Troop, Building, Research, Trap and Equipment. You can see your power breakdown by clicking on your avatar at the left top of the screen, followed by clicking on the More Info button to the right of your player name. It is an extra reason to always have active research projects, building upgrades and troop training. Your Lord and Dragon power increases by leveling up your Lord and Dragon, and to do that you require experience points (XP). You get these for a lot of different activities.

Lord Talent Points

After each level up of your lord you can assign lord talent points. There are three different categories in the lord talent point section. My suggestion is to focus on the Economy section first. There are possibilities to increase the building and research speed in this section, as well as increasing resource production and gathering speed. Both are important for the speed with which you can grow your account. It is possible to reset the skills later by paying the required 1000 gold or using a Talent Points Reset from the Alliance Store, so you can focus more on the Combat tree before you start to battle.

Monsters

There are plenty of Monsters around on the map of different levels. You can initially only kill the level 1, but once you have killed a level 1 you are allowed to attack a level 2, once you killed a level 2 you are allowed to attack a level 3 and so on. You need to have a stronger army to kill higher level monsters. When you click on a monster, you will see a recommended Troop Power and when you select troops to attack, you also see the Troop Power, so you know whether you have a chance to win or not. Killing monsters gives you some Lord and Dragon XP and goodies as well. Hitting monsters costs stamina. Stamina will recharge automatically. Whenever you log in, hit monsters until you are out of stamina.

Events

You can win prizes by completing various stages of Events. You can find the active events in the Event Center building. There are various events and this is likely to change all the time, so always good to check out when you log in, but so far the most interesting are a daily rotating (total of 8 stages) event with activaties such as training troops, killing monsters and gathering resources. When you are very small it might be difficult to win the gold, but once you get a reasonable size you can focus each day on winning the tier 3 gold prize of the daily event stage. I will write separate guides with tips on how to complete each of the daily event stages.

Alliance Tech and Donations

The leaders (Rank 4 and 5) of an Alliance can do research that benefit the alliance in Alliance Tech and Donations. Any member can (and should) help by donating the requirements. This can be done by selecting Donations in the Alliance menu, by going to one of the projects for which the requirements are not filled yet, and clicking one of the buttons to Donate at the bottom. The left one is always active, the middle and right one sometimes. Even when they cost gold, you should push them. You get alliance credits (can be used to purchase items in the Alliance Store) in return and donate a lot more. Each Donation increases 10 minutes on the cooldown timer. Once you exceed four hours you cannot donate anymore until the timer is reset to 0, so I suggest to always stay below 4 hours so that you can donate again when you check back after 1 or 3 hours.

Daily Reward

In the Tavern building there is a Daily Reward menu. Here you should look every day. You get rewards for tasks you likely do anyway and in the Daily Reward section you can claim the prizes by clicking on the chests. I will write a separate guide with an explanation for each activity and tips on how to complete them.

Merlin Gift

Sometimes a free gift with timer appears at the Daily Shipment location, near the Tavern. Look there frequently and grab it before the timer expires.

Gather Resources

Gathering resources is an important way to get extra resources. Make sure before you log off to send out your troops to gather.

King of Avalon - Daily Check List

King of Avalon - Daily Check List

• Make  A Wish - Make 20 Wishes a Day
• Fortune Teller - Spin the Zodiac Wheel 5 times
• Crystal Ball - Play the Crystal Ball 1 time
• Forge Equipment - Forge 1 piece of Equipment [Low quality = Shorter amount of time]
• Market Place - Make 10 Trades at the market Place
• Build Traps - Build a minimum of 200 traps
• Research - Research at least once in the university [Research items that will take a while to complete while you offline]
• Donations - Donate at least 20 times to the Alliance Tech

• Trading Post - Send 4500 resources to your Allies
• Gather Silver - Gather a minimum of 1500 Silver
• Gather Iron - Gather a minimum of 6000 Iron
• Gather Wood - Gather a minimum of 30 000 Wood
• Gather Food - Gather a minimum of 30 000 Food
• Portal Monster - Donate 1 Dust to the gate
• Boost Silver Mines - Boost 2 Silver Mines
• Boost Iron Mines - Boost 2 Iron Mines

 

• Boost Sawmills - Boost 2 Sawmills
• Boost Food Farms - Boost 2 Farms
• Reinforce Allies - Send 1000 troops to reinforce allies
• Heal Troops - Heal 30 troops in the hospital
• Sign In - Ensure that you sign in for the daily rewards and collect
• Help Allies - Help 25 Allies with timers
• Collect Tributes - Collect 5 Timed chests
• Upgrade Building - Upgrade at least 1 building.

• Resource items - Use at least 5 items
• Train Cavalry - Train a minimum of 250 Cavalry from the stables
• Train Infantry - Train a minimum of 250 Infantry from the barracks
• Train Bowmen - Train a minimum of 250 Bowmen from the range
• Train Siege Troops - Train a minimum of 250 siege troops from the workshop
• Kill Monsters - Kill 5 monsters a day [Preferably until stamina is depleted]
• Synthesize Scrolls - Synthesize at least 1 scroll in the armory
• Attack Barbarians - Defeat at least 1 barbarian captain  [Rally]

• Look at the Events, see whether you can win gold and speed ups by completing your current research, building and/or troop training, make sure you do the activity required for the events
• Claim the completed Daily Reward from the Tavern
• Claim completed Growth and Main Quests from the Quests menu
• Read your e-mails and PMs [Alliance & System e-mails from the game might have gifts]
• Discuss with your alliance members whether there are targets worth attacking for resources. [Untagged]
• Merlin Deliveries- Look to claim the timer as soon as it is available 
• Forbidden Labyrinth - Ensure that your cool-down has not run down, and enter as soon as possible. [If using for a source of resources, buy resources daily.] 
• Merlins Trials - Collect previous days rewards and complete daily trials
• Daily Chests - R4 & R5 Function, ensure chests are released daily 
• Magic Spire - Enter the Spire and ensure that troops are collecting magic crystals at all times

Class in Session [Joker] - Lesson 1 [Spire]