Lords Online City Defense Guide

Lords Online City Defense Guide by Royale33

Introduction

A defensive approach is one of the main strategies used in Lords Online. In a defensive approach, the player focuses on defense, which means he builds up fortifications and defensive troops with the goal of his city being able to successfully defend himself. The defensive approach is recommended for players who aren’t online all the time, players that have lots of enemies, and alliance leaders and vice-leaders.

Pros
– Safer than an attacking approach.
– Players have a better chance of lasting longer.
– Even if troops are wiped out, they are still doing moderately good due to the fortifications

Cons
– Usually they do not attack much.
– It can be hard to get people to attack you.

If you decide you are fine with the pros and cons! I suggest you try this strategy out!

This guide contains three sections:

– First Steps
– Upgrading Buildings
– Fortifications and Troops

*IMPORTANT*
These three sections MUST be done in order for this guide to work…

First Steps

So you want to be a leader for Lords Online in defense? Before you can start dominating the game, you must first do the simple steps to give you solid ground and give you a head start.

Time Needed To Finish This Section: One Hour to Five Hours

This section will help you get solid resource production and give you solid foundations for becoming a leader in defense.

*Important*
This is mostly following the “Newbie Quests” and “Leveling Quests” By completing the Quests, you will gain resources usually as a reward…but make sure you have leveled up your warehouses and barns enough to store the resources gained, or else you will not receive them!

If you run low on resources and cannot continue, remember to accept the rewards for the quest!

Section One Steps

1.) Level up your Town Hall to level 5.

2.) Build a warehouse and a barn and level each of them to level 5.

3.) Upgrade one of each of your resource fields to level 5.

4.) Build a Wall and upgrade it to level 5.

5.) Build a Beacon Tower and upgrade it to level 5.

6.) Build a Barracks and upgrade it to level 5.

7.) Build a Tavern.

8.) Build a Garrison.

9.) Build a Market and upgrade it to level 5.

10.) Build an Academy and upgrade it to level 5

11.) Build a Black Tower

12.) Build an Embassy and join an alliance!

13.) Build a Cellar

14.) Build an Abbey

15.) Upgrade all your Wall defenses (Archer Tower, Traps, Moat) and Resource Academy technology to level 3.

16.) Once this is done, take the remaining time to allow your resources to build in storage.  You will need them for the next stage in building once the protection runs out

After Completing the Above, You Should Have:

General Buildings
Town Hall – Level 5
Beacon Tower – Level 5
Barracks – Level 5
Tavern – Level 1
Garrison – Level 1
Market – Level 5
Academy – Level 5
Black Tower – Level 1
Embassy – Level 1
Abbey – Level 1

Manor – NOT BUILT
Palace – NOT BUILT
Arsenal – NOT BUILT
Arena – NOT BUILT

Storage
1 Warehouse – Level 5
1 Barn – Level 5
1 Cellar – Level 1

Resource Fields
1 Farm – Level 5
1 Sawmill – Level 5
1 Iron Mine – Level 5
1 Quarry – Level 5

Fortifications
Wall – Level 5
Archer’s Tower – Level 3
Trap – Level 3
Moat – Level 3

If you do not have enough resources to continue, and there are no more quests to get awards from, take a break from playing and come back in 5-10 hours or so.

End of Section One

Upgrading Buildings

Time Needed To Finish This Section: Two to Seven Days

This section will help you improve your resource production and get you prepared to start becoming a leader in defense!

*Important*
This is mostly following the “Newbie Quests” and “Leveling Quests” By completing the Quests, you will gain resources usually as a reward…but make sure you have leveled up your warehouses and barns enough to store the resources gained, or else you will not receive them!

If you run low on resources and cannot continue, remember to accept the rewards for the quest!

Most likely, if you are reading this, it means that you have finished Section One of my guide…and thus I congratulate you for that. But we still have lots of work to do…before the defensive domination begins, we must go through the most boring part of this whole guide. In this section, we will be focusing on leveling up buildings which takes long periods of times and it will probably take you a long time to get though this section. But don’t worry! If you get through this part, you will have a lot easier time for the rest of the game.

Section Two Steps

1. Level up your Town Hall to level 10.
2. Build 8 more warehouses and level them all up to level 5.
3. Build 8 more barns and level them all up to level 5.
4. Level up all your resource fields to level 6….if you run out of resources, wait a while and come back.
5. Level up all your resource fields to level 8….if you run out of resources, wait a while and come back.
6. Level up your Barracks to level 10.
7. Level up your Beacon Tower to level 10.
8. Build an Arsenal and level it up to level 10.
9. Level up all your resource fields to level 10….if you run out of resources, wait for a while and come back.
10. Level up your Walls to level 10.
11. Level up your Abbey to level 10.
12. Level up your Marketplace to level 10.
13. Level up your Town Hall to level 15.
14. Level up all your Barns to level 15.
15. Level up all your Warehouses to level 15.
16. Level up all your resource fields to level 12….if you run out of resources, wait a while and come back.
17. Level up your Tavern to level 5.
18. Level up your Garrison to level 5 and recruit another hero.
19. Research ALL Academy Technologies to the levels you need to build all the types of troops in your academy.
20. Level up your Town Hall to level 20.
21. Level up ALL buildings needed to build troops to the appropriate levels.
22. Level up your Beacon Tower to level 15.
23. Build an Arena and level it up to level 10.

After Completing the Above, You Should Have:

General Buildings
Town Hall – Level 20
Beacon Tower – Level 15
Barracks – Level (Depends on Player’s Race)
Tavern – Level 5
Garrison – Level 5
Market – Level 10
Academy – Level (Depends on Player’s Race)
Black Tower – Level 1
Embassy – Level 1
Abbey – Level 10
Arsenal – Level (Depends on Player’s Race)
Arena – Level 10

Manor – NOT BUILT
Palace – NOT BUILT

Storage
8 Warehouse – Level 15
8 Barn – Level 15
1 Cellar – Level 1

Resource Fields
6 Farm – Level 12
4 Sawmill – Level 12
4 Iron Mine – Level 12
4 Quarry – Level 12

Fortifications
Wall – Level 10
Archer’s Tower – Level 3
Trap – Level 3
Moat – Level 3

End of Section Two

Fortifications and Troops

Finally the fun begins! This section is where all the battles start to take place, and once you complete this last part, you should be winning them by a great margin. This section is where you will start building defenses and fortifications to make you a player to be feared.

Time Needed To Finish This Section: Two Weeks to a Month

*Important*
This is mostly following the “Newbie Quests” and “Leveling Quests” By completing the Quests, you will gain resources usually as a reward…but make sure you have leveled up your warehouses and barns enough to store the resources gained, or else you will not receive them!

Section Three Steps

1. Level up Walls to level 15.
2. Level up all your resource fields to level 13….if you run out of resources, wait a while and come back.
3. Level up Archer’s Towers to level 10  and train ONE basic unit to activate the Archer’s Towers (Ex: Axeman, Blademan, Infantry)
*NOTE* Make sure you always have at least ONE troop in your castle at ALL TIMES!
4. Level up Trap to level 8
5. Level up Moat to level 8.
6. Level Walls to level 20.
7. Level up Archer’s Towers to level 15.
8. Level up all your resource fields to level 15.
9. Level up Trap to level 10.
10. Level up Moat to level 10.
11. Level up ALL your Warehouses to level 20.
12. Level up ALL your Barns to level 20.
13. Level up Archer’s Towers to level 20.
14. Level up Trap to level 13.
15. Level up Moat to level 13.
16. Build a PALACE and level it up to level 10.
17. Level up all your Resource Fields to level 16.
18. Level up Trap to level 20.
19. Level up Moat to level 20.
20. Level up Barracks to level 20.
21. Level up Abbey to level 20.
22. Level up Arsenal to level 20.
23. Wait until you have almost all of your warehouses and barns FULL of resources.
24. Train half as many troops possible for your Regular Ranged Units (Archer, Combat Archer, Axeman)
25. Train half of the remainder troops possible for Magic Ranged Units (Mana Clerics, Monks, Sorcerers)
26. Put the rest of your resources into all the infantry units…put the most into the strong ones, but make sure to train all the types…at least one of each! (Blademen, Mana Demon, Manamancer, ect.) This will help your Archer Towers get to shoot more targets and the attackers waste turns by attacking the infantry units if the attacker is not online.
27. Train 3 City Builders in your Palace (Tree Spirits, Pioneers, Laborer)
28. Make a new city close by!
29. Repeat ALL the steps for making your 2nd city starting from section one…except, if you run out of resources, you can transfer some from your main castle…and make sure to reinforce your 2nd city with some troops while you are building!
30. Level up the rest of your buildings and Technologies to level 20 and continue to train troops!

End of Section Three