The Barracks for Beginners

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The Barracks for Beginners Jun 9, 2014 9:49:45 GMT -6

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Finding the Barracks

The Barrack window can be opened by clicking on the compound looking icon in the center of the main city window. In the image above you can see a red square around the Barracks icon.

Once inside the Barracks you will see three tabs: Train, Enhance Attribute, and Crit Rate. For now let's focus on the Barracks itself. The Barracks allows you to train troops as well as enhance them greatly. The level of your Barracks determines the maximum troops you can maintain. For example in the screen shot above you can see that my Barracks level is at 47 and my maximum troop count is 33,603. Directly beneath this you will notice the amount of resources required to perform the upgrade to level 48 as well as the required time. Back to troops, building your soldiers strongly tied to population since each troop takes one population to maintain. We will get further into population later on for now lets stick to the basics.

Training troops is fairly straightforward. As long as you have sufficient Idle Population you will be able to train troops for use. You have four troop types: Infantry, Cavalry, Archer, and Catapult. Each troop takes a specific amount of your resources and time to produce, more detail can be found below.

There are as of right now three types of servers. V1, V2, and V4 servers. V1 and V2 servers are largely similar though they do have some differences. V4 Servers provide a higher troop count as well as some other somewhat insignificant differences. For the most part they are the same game with minute differences. Since I am not playing on a V4 server the details within this guide will pertain to the older servers.

Training Troops

When training troops there are a few things to note, first I will tell you to beware of the green icon to the right in the image above. This button will automatically finish your troops training of that type the catch is that it requires those pesky little Gold Coins. THERE IS NO CONFIRMATION REQUEST AT ALL. Basically if you press it and you have the Gold Coins say bye-bye to the Gold and hello to your very expensive troops. If you have the Gold Coins by all means press it like there is no tomorrow but if you are not filthy rich you might want to steer clear of this button.

Second you will notice the gray bar, this gray bar is your progress bar for that troop type that is training. The bar will turn blue as correlating to the percentage of training completeness. Just above this gray bar you will see the amount of troops you are training, in this case it is 1,224 Infantry.

Third, to the right of the progress bar and just below the button that automatically completes training you will see a clock with a time beside it. That is the time required to build the amount of troops you have decided to build.

Finally you will see an icon to the far left which is the troop type. Below that you will see a number. This number is the amount of troops you have of that type which are not currently assigned to any heroes. Mine is zero because my troops are all assigned to heroes.

Troop Types: Infantry

Infantry will likely be your best friend when it comes to building troops. They are relatively cheap in terms of resources required to train and they are also great all around for fighting with great attack, health, and defense. Below you will see some statistics on Infantry. Resources will be your largest issue with troops and particularly food.

Troop Types: Calvary

Cavalry are one of the most underused troop types on my server. The main reason being that they are very expensive to build and provide little benefit if any from that of the Infantry.

Do not let this deter you from training Cavalry though. This is because on V4 each troop type has a different marching speed. Out of the troop types available it only makes sense that the troops on the horses would have the quickest march time right? They tried implementing this on the older servers but it only caused an uproar and after two or three days the reverted back to a "One size fits all" approach to marching times on our servers. Unless you play on an older server the speed and crop cost will play a large part in what type of troops you choose to build.

Troop Types: Archer

Archers are overlooked most of the time. They are the cheapest to build, have a high attack rating but they have a terrible defense rating.

Strong Army for Few Resources (Has Been Phased Out)

Now here is where it gets tricky regarding Archers. Not many know this even though it is in plain sight. Archers are an untapped resource in most cases because when you get into troop enhancements, which more detail can be found below, Archers receive the highest increase in attack. If you get your Archers to level 10 enhancement, equip a few gems and items and use a good formation where your Archers are behind Infantry you can have a hard hitting army for a bargain! The downside is that if you get hit by any troop type you will suffer great losses of troops, but then again they are very cheap to train. You've been informed now it's up to you, but I seriously suggest giving them a shot before you cast them to the side for Infantry and Catapult.

Troop Types: Catapult

Finally we get to the most overused troop type on the game, unlike Infantry they aren't as cheap to build and frankly they are as expensive as Cavalry. They pack one mean ass punch right from the get go and will likely be your first enhancement to level 10.

Last Edit: Jun 9, 2014 10:18:17 GMT -6 by Brainiac

Brainiac
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The Barracks for Beginners Jun 9, 2014 10:19:52 GMT -6

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Enhance Attribute

Enhancing troops is going to be your goal after you decide it's time to build your Army. Without enhancing your troops frankly you stand no chance against an enemy with enhanced troops. By enhancing them you increase all of their ratings dramatically. Once your troops have been enhanced to level 10 they receive a "Special Attack". This is more of a special effect than it is a special attack because the only true change other than the increase in statistics similar to the previous enhancements. You will commonly hear these level 10 enhanced soldiers referred to as "Swirlies" and this is attributed to the special effect they receive at level 10. Now, what do you say we get into the nitty gritty of Enhancements?

Crit Rate

Crit Rate or Critical Rate, is a way for your soldiers to inflict extra damage. Depending on the level of your Crit Rate you have a certain percentage of chance as well as damage that will be dealt to the enemy. All Crit Rates are the same for the four troop types. The maximum chance, or possibility of you actually inflicting Crit damage, being 15% and the Maximum damage being 150% of the normal damage your hero inflicts based on their current level, attack rating, equipment etc. When the damage is dealt it is great but don't count on it too often because even with 15% chance the odds that one of your hero will strike with Crit damage is unlikely in most cases. Again it isn't impossible and it does happen but not as often as you would like and most of the time it doesn't happen when you want it to the most, such as against an enemy player with more troops than you.

Something to keep in mind is that these Crit Rate enhancements are the same exact price as the regular Enhance Attributes.

Crit/Enhancement Cost

Enhancing troops can be done via two methods, there is a third but it is kind of tricky. The main two methods, which really are the only two methods, is by using Copper Coins or Cast Iron. The third method is using Gold Coins. If you choose to use Gold Coins just know that the Gold Coins are converted into Cast Iron so ultimately you are using Cast Iron not Gold Coins. Sound complicated? If you thought that was ridiculous wait until you learn this little bit of info. If you do not have enough Cast Iron to perform the enhancement and you do not have the CC to perform the enhancement you will be asked to purchase the Cast Iron with your Gold Coins. When you purchase the Cast Iron with Gold Coins from the enhancement window be careful because if you have Cast Iron and you only intend to purchase enough to perform the upgrade it cannot be done. For some reason when you are asked to purchase the remaining Cast Iron it instead purchases the entire amount. So if you were to perform the level 10 enhancement and you only had 30 Cast Iron but wanted to buy the remaining 6 with Gold Coins you will instead purchase the entire amount of 36 Cast Iron for 72 Gold Coins and the Cast Iron you already had will remain untouched. You have been warned folks. Below you will find a table with the required amount of Cast Iron and Copper Coins for each level upgrade.

Last Edit: Jun 9, 2014 10:31:48 GMT -6 by Brainiac

Unknown008 New Member Posts: 21 Server: A168-Macrianus(V4) How long played AOWE: 3 weeks	The Barracks for Beginners Jun 10, 2014 12:00:58 GMT -6 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Unknown008 on Jun 10, 2014 12:00:58 GMT -6 Quick question: I barely recognise the barracks there. Do servers perhaps have different game settings? I see the resource requirements are very different!
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Brainiac Administrator Former GM/ Vet Player Posts: 210 Server: A205 How long played AOWE: 3 years	The Barracks for Beginners Jun 10, 2014 13:26:34 GMT -6 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Brainiac on Jun 10, 2014 13:26:34 GMT -6 Yes the barracks on v4 only require food to make troops thats why the charts above have 0 for all other resources

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