User Guide

HIRING HEROES
New heroes can be hired at the Tavern, but only one hero can be
hired from each Tavern in a seven-day period. On the left of the
Tavern screen is a colourful wheel with different types of heroes.
The wheel is divided into five spokes, one for each town alignment.
On each spoke is a portrait for a magic-oriented hero and a might-
oriented hero for that alignment. The portrait in the centre of the
wheel represents Barbarian heroes. Some of the slots will be blank,
because that type of hero is not aligned with your town. When you
click on a hero class you like, you can view his or her biography at
the bottom of the screen. If you don’t like that hero, scroll through
the others in that class, or choose a different gender (by clicking the
Male or Female boxes) and scroll through that set of heroes.
HERO CLASSES
The 11 starting hero classes are associated with certain town types:
Haven Knight & Priest
Necropolis Death Knight & Necromancer
Academy Lord & Mage
Asylum Thief & Sorcerer
Preserve Archer & Druid
Stronghold Barbarian
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on that town’s Hall type (Village, Town, City). In addition, each mine
you flag with your own colour will earn a certain amount of that
resource type each day. Resource generation is important to the
upkeep of your kingdom because it allows you to hire new troops
and heroes as well as build new town structures.
NOBILITY SKILL
Another way to produce resources for your kingdom is to have a
hero with the Nobility skill. Heroes with this skill can earn gold (with
the Estates skill) and other resources (with the Mining skill) each
day. They can also act as a ‘Governor’ for a certain town. Town
Governors increase the growth rate of the creatures that can be hired
in that town. To select a hero as the town’s Governor, select the
‘Choose Governor’ option.
BUILDING STRUCTURES
To build town structures, you must first open your Town or City Hall
screen. This will reveal all the structures that can be built in this
particular town type. You can build any structure marked with a
green background. Red backgrounds mean you cannot build the
structure at this time because you don’t have enough resources,
haven’t met the requirements for that structure, or already built a
structure in this town today. Gray backgrounds indicate structures
that cannot be built in this town, and gold backgrounds mean a
structure has already been built. You can build one structure per
town per day as long as you meet the requirements.
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