“Legend of Lords” is a team game, which requires clear division of labor and close cooperation between members to win. For example, who occupies Kanda, who occupies the first fortress, who will defend, what kind of soldiers to train for defense, and who will send out vehicles, all need to be planned in advance.
Why? “Legend of Lords” has three important rules to understand:
1). Soldiers consume food. If there is insufficient food, soldiers will run away;
2). Attack is calculated team by team. That is to say, if you have 5 teams attacking the same target at the same time, the battle result is calculated team by team; Defense is calculated in combination. That is, all the defense soldiers (including reinforcements) in a village are combined to calculate the attack and defense results;
3). Attack and defense soldiers are separate. Attack soldiers are not suitable for defense, and defense soldiers are not suitable for attack. Attack soldiers in the village will not participate in the battle, only attack soldiers reinforced in the fortress will participate in the battle.
This means that in order to maximize the strength of the troops, the best choice is to train only one type of soldiers, such as all attack soldiers or all defense soldiers.
The division of labor in conventional alliances is as follows:
Attack: The main attacker is responsible for attacking cities and plundering land, attacking the enemy’s manpower, and occupying the enemy’s military strongholds (fortresses). Generally, the main attacker occupies the sacred fields (10 fields + three 40% food oases) to ensure the maximum efficiency of sending troops. In the team, there are usually at least 2 people responsible for attacking, and only 1 person is sent out at a time to ensure a continuous and stable military deterrence;
Defense: The main defense is responsible for the defense of one’s own military strongholds and the defense of local military strongholds occupied by the attackers. Usually, at least 3-5 defenders need to be configured for joint defense to effectively resist the attack of the opponent’s main attacker;
Reconnaissance: In the game, the NPC’s military strength is visible, and the player’s military strength is invisible. Scouts are needed to scout in order to obtain military intelligence of hostile players. As the saying goes, “know yourself and know the enemy, and you will win every battle.” The role of reconnaissance is very important. At least 1 person is configured;
Logistics: “Food and grass must be sent before the troops move.” Logistics mainly cooperates with strategies and tactics to provide resource support. For example: support for rapid village opening, continuous troop surge support, fortress garrison support, and joint defense support. Logistics usually do not send troops, and focus on upgrading resource fields. Therefore, defense protection is needed;
Catapult: The Catapult in “Legend of Lords” is a strategic-level troop. The catapult can flatten all the buildings in the village until the village disappears. However, the research and development and production of the Catapult consumes a lot of resources, and special personnel need to be arranged in advance for production. The driver also needs defense protection;
Donator: A role tailored for farming players. Usually, they play business construction and collect various decorative buildings. They do not need to build soldiers or fight. In the later stage of the game, they provide a large number of donated soldiers to the alliance to ensure the rapid recovery of the alliance’s combat power.
The following is an introduction to the focus of different division of labor gameplay:
1.Attack
Positioning
Break the defense, that is, destroy all defensive forces. The attacker pursues the maximum single attack power, so sufficient grain production to reserve the maximum force is the basic requirement for a qualified attacker.
Soldier selection
Infantry is dominant in the early stage, archers are dominant in the middle stage, and cavalry is dominant in the late stage. Attackers usually only choose one type of soldier to focus on development, and with hero specialization and technology upgrades, the attack power of this type of soldier can be maximized.
Force reserve
Soldiers need to consume food, so the more food production means more soldiers. Three main ways to increase food production:
- Select 10 fields to open a village. 10 fields refers to a plain with resource fields distributed as: 10 wheat fields, 1 lumberyard, and 1 quarry.
- Occupy a large grain oasis, that is, an oasis with a grain production bonus of 40%;
- Occupy a fortress. Small fortresses have a 60% food production bonus, and large fortresses have an 80% food production bonus.
In extreme cases, your 10 fields can get a 160% food production bonus.
Force recovery
After each large-scale battle, the attackers will die in battle and need to quickly recover their forces.
- Improving the level of the building that produces soldiers can increase the speed of soldier training;
- Requesting logistical resource support can ensure 24-hour continuous production of soldiers;
- Extracting reserve soldiers in the recruiting office to quickly recover the forces;
- Requesting allies to donate soldiers, which means giving you reserve soldiers.
Note: Reserves are a very important means of restoring forces. What you need to do is:
- Increasing the population of the village can increase the training speed of the reserve forces;
- Increasing food production can increase the upper limit of the reserve forces;
- Issue a request for donations every day.
2.Defense
Positioning
Joint defense means that multiple defenders jointly resist the attacks of attackers. Defenders provide permanent defense and mobile defense for the alliance’s military strongholds (fortresses, strongholds, castles).
Selection of arms
Defenders need to train corresponding infantry defense, archer defense, and cavalry defense arms according to the main arms of the attackers in the enemy camp. Usually, a defender focuses on developing one type of arms, and with the hero’s expertise and technology, the defense of that type of arms can be maximized.
Military reserve
Soldiers need to consume food, and insufficient food will starve the soldiers to death. Therefore, more food production means more soldiers can be raised. Similarly, there are three main ways to increase food production:
- Choose 8 fields to open a sub-village (10 fields are given to attackers);
- Occupy the food oasis with the highest bonus without conflicting with other members;
- Continuously open sub-village. Because defense is calculated in a combined manner, more sub-village means more defenders are trained at the same time.
3.Reconnaissance
Positioning
Know yourself and know your enemy, that is, you need to keep track of the strength and dynamics of the enemy camp at any time. Scouts are the eyes of the alliance and provide important information for strategic decision-making. The best scouts can keep track of the strength and military distribution of the enemy camp at any time.
Selection of arms
There are two types of scouts, one is infantry and the other is cavalry. Cavalry is faster, but consumes more resources. You can choose according to your actual situation.
Force reserve
Scouts reserve troops and also need the support of food production. Scouts can disperse troops by opening a large number of sub-villages.
4.Catapult
Positioning
Precise strikes to destroy the defense system. Catapult are expensive, slow-moving, but extremely threatening. They belong to the concept of raising troops for a thousand days and using them. If they don’t move, they will be fine. If they move, they will be very important.
Selection of arms
There are two types of Catapult, one is “battery”, which is only effective against city walls; the other is catapults, which give priority to attacking buildings. Usually both types of vehicles need to be produced. The higher the level of the city walls and buildings, the more vehicles are needed to destroy them. Since the workshop building is only unlocked at the town scale, drivers usually upgrade the village scale first instead of opening a sub-village.
Military reserve
The production of vehicles consumes a lot of resources, so drivers also disperse the troops by opening a large number of sub-villages.
5.Reconnaissance
Positioning
Know yourself and know your enemy, that is, you need to keep track of the strength and dynamics of the enemy camp at any time. Scouts are the eyes of the alliance and provide important information for strategic decision-making. The best scouts can keep track of the strength and military distribution of the enemy camp at any time.
Selection of arms
There are two types of scouts, one is infantry and the other is cavalry. Cavalry is faster, but consumes more resources. You can choose according to your actual situation.
Force reserve
Scouts reserve troops and also need the support of food production. Scouts can disperse troops by opening a large number of sub-villages.
6.Donators
After a battle, the main attackers are often completely wiped out. It usually takes 3-7 days to restore the troops. Donators can help the attackers quickly restore the troops by donating soldiers. The number of donated soldiers is proportional to the food output and population. Therefore, the donors should develop cities as much as possible, upgrade the wheat fields to level 15 or above, and collect more decorative buildings to increase the population.
Understand the division of labor and gameplay focus of “Legend of Lords”, reasonably allocate the division of labor and number of members, and make real-time adjustments according to the changes in the enemy camp in actual combat to achieve the best results.