It is a lot of uncertainty and rumours now about Knighthood and what will happen to it. One thing that seems clear is that thoose who now owns it, Playdom, will only use the nescesary resousces to keep the game running.
One result of this is that the rules are no longer policed as they used to be. And making clones is no longer a big risk. We see some player growing very powerful by making a lot of new identitys.
I am not saying that we should all start cheating, but maybe that what is chateing have changed?
Some of us have had different acounts a long time. To send gold to war mode, to help and get alarm boosts, or just for fun. We discovered that to play different identitys at the same time, you need to use different browsers. This is also good because when it is technical problems, it can vary what browser is the best. I have experienced lately that for Knighthood fighting, Google Chrome works very wel.
If you make several new acounts, remember to write down the security question, and answer, in case of problems acsessing that acount later. Also the date and year of birth that you give to it. Don`t think that you will always remember it!
Be careful who you give the log-on information to! Sharing an acount, and taking turns playing it in war, can be vary fun. If you have friends that you know that you can trust :)
Making new identitys can also be great fun! If we use our fantasy and imagination. It can be characters from a favourite book, maybe flowers from our garden? Or something else...
mandag 21. februar 2011
onsdag 19. januar 2011
Reinforcements
When it became possible to send freemen vassals as Facebook-gifts, that changed the game of Knighthood a lot. Especially in the lower attac brackets.
The raiders are very useful for attacing and seizing. The hospitalers make it possible to move to different ABs fast, but remember they also give higher attac strength. The different defenders help protect your real vassals. And the attacers can be used to help get higher alarm, if you get a friend to seize them.
Here are some useful tips:
* Try to be FB friend with many KH players, so that you get enough reinforcements. Try to log in every day, to send to your friends, also when you are in peace mode yourself. Remember that an extra levy to replace a wounded one, can be the difference between loosing a vassal or keeping it :)
* Save up the reinforcements. Never go to war mode without a lot of them, ready to use. If you do not like to fight yourself, a lot of reinforcements can make your power grow very fast if you need to help someone else in the team :)
* Raiders are also very useful for trapper-bombing. If your real vassal is stronger than power 25, you do not need to use 10s in case of trapper. It will be the raider that is lost, and you can take in new ones. AND you have 20 rescue atempt for each, so it can be easy to break down the opnents defenses, if he is not online :)
* Reinforcements makes it easier to escape from a strong enemy. You can take in more, or release thoose that you have. Remember that when you get out of the AB, you may need to make one raid against an oponent in the new AB to get away fast from the target lock. And don`t attac someone that you will end up in a fight with...
* One good tip, if you have a very little acount, that you use in WM: Kepp only one real vassal. Take in reinforcements, and gather armies. Then do some fighting, but do not take more than 2 seizes! Then choose disband armies, and release the reinforcements so that you go into false peace mode. 1 or 2 hours before disband, when you are still in WM, you take in new reinforcements. Now you can fight and have fun, and not have to worry about alarm boost... you will be in real PM when you are finished :)
mandag 24. august 2009
Knighthood-tips: Learn form my mistakes ;) Theese are some things that you do not want to do in Knighthood:
- Panic and attac back when attaced by a surfer!!!
If you do that, he will have target-lock on you. Try to run, in low ABs by releasing or seizing 10s, else by reclaiming or trapper-dropping 20s.
Best way to be sure not to loose a vassal is to have a AB-friend seize and release every 10 mins. Then it will never be possible to seize from you!
- Logging off without alarm!!!
No matter how good your defense is, it is the alarm that protects you! Put strong vassals in outpost, make sure that the alarm is reset by making an attac, then find someone to help you get alarm boost by seizing and releasing vassals from you.
The defensive alarm will increase by double the power off the seized vassal. You need defensive alarm double your attac strenght to be able to feel safe!
- Leaving trapper armed when you are not online!!!
First, you can be trapper-bombed. Someone can "loose" 10s in your trapper and then use the rescue-atempts to break down your defenses.
Or, if you have good vassals, you can be power-bumped. A surfer may drop stronger vassals in your trapper, and by doing that he can give you much higher AS, and place you in a AB where your defenses are much to weak.
Then he will reclaim his own AS-vassals, and help himself to what he wants from your castle, before he takes back thoose that he put in the trapper.
If you are online and paying attention, be careful what trapped vassals you keep!
- Forgetting about the weapons when you calculate strength!!!
Always remember that weapons will give 50% more damage if the opponent are unarmed. When hospital makes defenders heal, they are not re-armed ;) Remember that when you decide how high alarm that you can attac, and also what alarm you need!
- Going in war with very powerful top-vassals!!!
They can be very useful when you attac, but remember you will be in an attac bracket with other players of similar power and attac strenght as yourself. And if your top vassals are much stronger than the rest, you will not be able to have a defense that is strong enough for the AB!
- Spreading your vassals to thin in defense!!!
All the 3 coloumns are useful, and in the beginning it can be very tempting to try to use all. But that usually means that all your defenses are to weak! It is better to choose one or two, and be very strong there! If you have strong palisade, you can protect a good outpost to give you alarm, and if you also have strong wall, you can protect tower, and keep gold and sezed vassals safe.
- Reclaiming the vassal that gave you alarm, before you are ready to fight again!!!
Yes, I have done that! And my alarm was gone! You can reclaim other vassals, that you used for surfing, if you need them. But always remember which ones that was seized to give alarm.
- Loosing the seized vassals!!!
Maybe it is not a mistake, but it is something that you do not want to do! Put them in tower, there they are more diffcult to get. Place vassals in blockhouse and asign them to protect your timers.
Also, look carefully if the timer is active. If so, try to become friends. You might ask your liege to help you, by posting to them. Active timers can give you a big surprise, by rebelling, or by recruiting a lot off 10s to help you. And by doing that they can put you in a much thougher AB!
And finally, a good advice on how to make others make mistakes:
- Playing dead ;) I have only tried it in low ABs, but I have been told that even very skilled players fall for this, time after time. They think that they was very unlycky, and that the target suddenly came online!
If you have a lot off time and patience, good nerves and a friend to help you hold gold, you sit online with an alarm that is not high enough to make you safe.
You start with your trapped empty. When an oponent attac you, he will first use a 10 and see that you don`t have trapper. Then he will start breaking down your defenses. Now you must let him see that his healing-cost goes down.
This way he will know that you are not online, and that he doesn`t have to be careful ;)
You must consider in each case how much to let the defenses drop. Don`t make it possible to take your vassals! I think the best way is to heal and rearm, but move some off them out off the wall.
Then, when he starts trying to seize, you man your trapper. Very often you will get a good vassal in trapper that way!
If you do that, he will have target-lock on you. Try to run, in low ABs by releasing or seizing 10s, else by reclaiming or trapper-dropping 20s.
Best way to be sure not to loose a vassal is to have a AB-friend seize and release every 10 mins. Then it will never be possible to seize from you!
- Logging off without alarm!!!
No matter how good your defense is, it is the alarm that protects you! Put strong vassals in outpost, make sure that the alarm is reset by making an attac, then find someone to help you get alarm boost by seizing and releasing vassals from you.
The defensive alarm will increase by double the power off the seized vassal. You need defensive alarm double your attac strenght to be able to feel safe!
- Leaving trapper armed when you are not online!!!
First, you can be trapper-bombed. Someone can "loose" 10s in your trapper and then use the rescue-atempts to break down your defenses.
Or, if you have good vassals, you can be power-bumped. A surfer may drop stronger vassals in your trapper, and by doing that he can give you much higher AS, and place you in a AB where your defenses are much to weak.
Then he will reclaim his own AS-vassals, and help himself to what he wants from your castle, before he takes back thoose that he put in the trapper.
If you are online and paying attention, be careful what trapped vassals you keep!
- Forgetting about the weapons when you calculate strength!!!
Always remember that weapons will give 50% more damage if the opponent are unarmed. When hospital makes defenders heal, they are not re-armed ;) Remember that when you decide how high alarm that you can attac, and also what alarm you need!
- Going in war with very powerful top-vassals!!!
They can be very useful when you attac, but remember you will be in an attac bracket with other players of similar power and attac strenght as yourself. And if your top vassals are much stronger than the rest, you will not be able to have a defense that is strong enough for the AB!
- Spreading your vassals to thin in defense!!!
All the 3 coloumns are useful, and in the beginning it can be very tempting to try to use all. But that usually means that all your defenses are to weak! It is better to choose one or two, and be very strong there! If you have strong palisade, you can protect a good outpost to give you alarm, and if you also have strong wall, you can protect tower, and keep gold and sezed vassals safe.
- Reclaiming the vassal that gave you alarm, before you are ready to fight again!!!
Yes, I have done that! And my alarm was gone! You can reclaim other vassals, that you used for surfing, if you need them. But always remember which ones that was seized to give alarm.
- Loosing the seized vassals!!!
Maybe it is not a mistake, but it is something that you do not want to do! Put them in tower, there they are more diffcult to get. Place vassals in blockhouse and asign them to protect your timers.
Also, look carefully if the timer is active. If so, try to become friends. You might ask your liege to help you, by posting to them. Active timers can give you a big surprise, by rebelling, or by recruiting a lot off 10s to help you. And by doing that they can put you in a much thougher AB!
And finally, a good advice on how to make others make mistakes:
- Playing dead ;) I have only tried it in low ABs, but I have been told that even very skilled players fall for this, time after time. They think that they was very unlycky, and that the target suddenly came online!
If you have a lot off time and patience, good nerves and a friend to help you hold gold, you sit online with an alarm that is not high enough to make you safe.
You start with your trapped empty. When an oponent attac you, he will first use a 10 and see that you don`t have trapper. Then he will start breaking down your defenses. Now you must let him see that his healing-cost goes down.
This way he will know that you are not online, and that he doesn`t have to be careful ;)
You must consider in each case how much to let the defenses drop. Don`t make it possible to take your vassals! I think the best way is to heal and rearm, but move some off them out off the wall.
Then, when he starts trying to seize, you man your trapper. Very often you will get a good vassal in trapper that way!
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