Lord of Ultima Strategy Guide

How do you Build a Palace in Lord of Ultima?

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Palaces in Lord of Ultima

A level 1 palace requires 10 Million Wood and Stone and you have 10 days to supply it! Without support from your alliance you can forget about building a palace! So again picking a strong alliance early on in the game is crucial to win Lord of Ultima!

More information on Palaces and Upgrades can be found on this link:

Palaces in Lord of Ultima

How do Moongates Work in Lord of Ultima?

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MOONGATES in LORD OF ULTIMA:

When Moongates become activated on a World, one Moongate on each active continent will be enlightened. When this occurs, land based troops will be able to attack targets on any other continents where an active Moongate exists.

Attacks (and defense support) may continue to take action on other continents for as long as the enlightenment lasts. Moongate enlightenment will last for 72 hours and will occur at random intervals.

Attacking troops will receive a penalty dependent on the distance troops must travel (both from the source castle to that continent’s Moongate AND from the target continent’s Moongate and the target castle). Defense support is not penalized for travel distance.

When the enlightenment is about to end, besieging and supporting troops will automatically cease their current siege/support activities to return home, to ensure that they will be back before the enlightenment ends and the Moongate closes. The Moongates will be closed for some time until a new enlightenment cycle starts.

Note: While older continents will start immediately with active Moongates that can be enlightened, new continents will be protected for some time after the first cities are founded there.

Building a New City on Another Continent in Lord of Ultima

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How do I build a new city on another Continent in Lord of Ultima?

In the middle game or even early on your alliance may be stronger on another continent or may want to expand the alliance to other continents. Many people ask this question the solution is below:

1. Build a city on water
2. Build a Harbor and upgrade to level 10 (gives you 30 Merchant Ships, you need 25)
3. Build a Trinsic Temple Upgrade to Level 10 so you can recruit a baron
4. As a new city on land you need the same resources to build a new city
5. Find location on another continent and settle

You can't move your barons from other cities to your water city!

Resource Cities in Lord of Ultima

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Building Resource Cities in LoU

Beginning Game:

I have found that your first few cities should be diversified resource cities, a good balance of Stone, Wood, Iron, Food and Gold should be able to supply enough resources for research and to supply your surrounding cities. If you are planning to build a Castle city you will need a lot of stone so I recommend weighting the nearest city in more stone than other resources.

A good amount of resources p/h in your first 5 cities at about 10k each (except your castle city, which should have no resources just barracks and recruitment buildings) will be more than enough to get you ahead in the game.

Middle Game:

Once you have developed your game and built castles you may want to consider a Gold City (See Strategy Post Gold City) and have specific resource cities supplying your Castles with Iron. Iron and Gold Resource cities are a good idea as recruiting a vast number of Zerks requires an enormous amount of Iron.

To build Gold and Iron Cities are the only ones that make sense to me at this stage of the game, as having a different cities for food, stone or etc are a pain in the ass to manage and time carting or shipping various resources all over the place!

End Game:

Once your alliance has developed and your alliance has cities with Castles near shrines, you will want the alliance to plan for enlightenment of the shrines. When cities are enlightened they will be able to build a palace, when this happens huge amount wood and stone are required to sustain the upgrading of a palace. It would be a good strategy to plan for enlightenment in the middle game with members of the alliance building specific resource cities near the shrines, namely as many wood and stone cities as the enlightened cities in the alliance will need huge sums of wood and stone of about 10 million of wood and stone!

To Build Specific Resource Cities:

Use The LoU Tweak Tool and City Planner
Upgrade City Hall to level 10
Build about 20 cottages to get CS to 2000
Build Warehouses for storage
Place as many specific mines as possible according to the city plan and upgrade to level 10.

Gold City in Lord of Ultima

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Gold City in LoU

Gold is a crucial resource in Lord of Ultima in the beginning of the game a lot of players try to trade in order to obtain some sort of wealth in LoU. This is foolish, Gold in Lord of Ultima is just like any other resource like Wood, Food, Stone and Iron.

The further you get in LoU the more Gold you need to progress or recruit higher level units and of course you could buy resources on the market. So, gold should be considered just as any other resource and I suggest you consider gold in every city you build. Especially in new games where a market may not be liquid and at the end game when alliances need massive amounts of resources to build palaces as fast as possible.

I'm not sold on specialized resource cities such as a single resource city like Stone or Wood, however a Gold city makes a lot of sense as it just produces gold and is easy to manage. The best of all a gold city can not be plundered or attacked! And having a constant supply of gold is crucial in title advancement, recruiting high level units and barons.

There is nothing more frustrating in having to wait for enough gold to recruit a baron or what have you!

To build a gold city is simple it requires markets and town houses and the higher level your town hall is the more townhouses and markets you can build.

Simply build about 10-15 cottages to get the construction speed up and then use the lou city planner to place your markets and townhouses. Once you have reached the max amount of buildings you can destroy the cottages and replace them with more town houses or markets, but by then you will be producing a massive amount of Gold per hour!

Water Castles and Navy in Lord of Ultima

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Water Castles in Lord of Ultima

As a rule of thumb you should not even consider building a castle in Lord of Ultima if your city is on water. The reason is your castled city can be attacked from all continents and a naval attack in Lord of Ultima is the most destructive. However, having a strong naval city can cause a lot of damage to your enemy.

When, you decide to build a water castle make sure you build and plan your navy in advance as building a navy will take a lot of resources mainly wood and gold. So, surrounding your water castle you need at least two resource cities to supply it. (I suggest having a look at a gold city and resource city posts if you are not sure how to go about building a gold and resource city.)

Once you have support for a constant supply of gold and wood you will need to work on a strategy for your water castle. The water castle is going need a strong defense and of course offensive units. The most logical is to work on the defense first in case of an attack on your city.

Defensive Navy Strategy:

To get a better understanding of a defensive navy in Lord of Ultima, you need to combine defensive ships and well as defensive units. (see post on defensive units if you are unsure).

The naval units or ships to be used are Sloops and Frigates (see below).

Sloops are defensive ships armed with artillery which can assist protecting your city in a naval attack or protecting other vessels in an escort. To begin with you should have at least two sloops in your navy and two defense Frigates.

Frigates can carry troops (or units) both defensive and offensive troops. So a part of the defensive navy in Lord of Ultima would be to load Frigates to the max with defensive units as in a normal city. Good defensive units to load each Frigate would be one with Templar's and another with Rangers.

Once you have built a basic defensive navy you can start on building a basic offensive navy.

Offensive Navy Strategy:

As with defensive a offensive navy in Lord of Ultima requires specific ships and units. This time you use a combination of War Galleons and Frigates (troop carriers).

War Galleons in Lord of Ultima require space and consume a lot of food. They take up 400 space and consume 2,500 food per day! They are the strongest attack units in Lord of Ultima which is used to destroy buildings and towers. A War Galleon has an attack strength of 12,000 a mighty force to contend with!

To start with an offensive navy should consist of at least two War Galleons and two offensive loaded Frigates, one with Zerks and the other with Mages. This is a good mix of magic and destruction.

Sloop	Ship	Artillery Attack	Small but potent ship armed with powerful defensive artillery. Used to escort larger ships on forays against enemy coastal cities.	6,000 wood 4,000 iron 2,000 gold	Shipyard Level 1
Frigate	Ship	Artillery Attack	Allows troop transport by sea. Its artillery, while not the largest ever seen, can deal additional damage during an assault or siege.	15,000 wood 5,000 iron 5,000 gold	Shipyard Level 6
War Galleon	Ship	Artillery Attack	The mightiest ship to sail the seas. Imposing, beautiful and oddly graceful, these vessels are a danger to any enemy. They are especially effective against buildings and defensive structures.	30,000 wood 10,000 iron 20,000 gold	Shipyard Level 10

Towers in Lord of Ultima

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LOOKOUT TOWER

Picture	Description	Requirements
	Enables incoming attacks to be seen sooner. (Time without Lookout Tower: 1 Hour). Increases the Defensive Value of a limited amount of Scouts by 100%. If there are not enough Scouts in the city, 2 city guards can take each slot and gain the same bonus. Lookout Towers don’t count towards a city’s building number limit.	Town Hall Level 2

Level	Time Bonus	Unit Count (Scout)	Unit Count (City Guard)	Resource Cost Wood	Resource Cost Stone	Build Time	Rank Points
1	+30 min	4	8	-	200	25sec	1
2	+1 hr	8	16	-	400	5min	2
3	+2 hr	15	30	-	600	13min, 30sec	3
4	+3 hr	25	50	-	1000	25min	5
5	+4 hr	40	80	-	1500	40min	8
6	+5 hr	60	120	-	2200	1h	12
7	+6 hr	88	176	-	3500	1h, 22min	17
8	+7 hr	125	250	-	5000	1h, 50min	23
9	+8 hr	175	350	-	7000	2h, 25min	30
10	+10 hr	250	500	-	10000	3hr, 20min	40

Picture Description Requirements

Increases the Defensive Value of a limited number of Rangers by 100%. If there are not enough Rangers in the city, City Guards can take their place and gain the same bonus. These towers don’t count towards a city’s building number limit. Town Hall Level 3

RANGER TOWER

Level	Unit Count	Resource Cost Wood	Resource Cost Stone	Build Time	Rank Points
1	30	-	100	25sec	1
2	60	-	200	5min	2
3	120	-	400	13min, 30sec	5
4	200	-	1000	25min	10
5	320	-	3000	40min	16
6	480	-	7000	1h	24
7	700	-	14000	1h, 22min	34
8	1000	-	24000	1h, 50min	46
9	1400	-	38000	2h, 25min	60
10	2000	-	58000	3h, 20min	80

BALLISTA TOWER

Picture	Description	Requirements
	Increases the Defensive Value of a limited number of Ballistae by 100%. If there are not enough Ballistae in the city, 10 City Guards can take each allotted slot and gain the same bonus. These towers don’t count towards a city’s building number limit.	Town Hall Level 9

Level	Unit Count (Ballista)	Unit Count (City Guard)	Resource Cost Wood	Resource Cost Stone	Build Time	Rank Points
1	4	40	-	100	25sec	1
2	8	80	-	200	5min	2
3	15	150	-	400	13min, 30sec	5
4	25	250	-	1000	25min	10
5	40	400	-	3000	40min	16
6	60	600	-	7000	1hr	24
7	88	880	-	14000	1hr, 22min	34
8	125	1250	-	24000	1hr, 50min	46
9	175	1750	-	38000	2hr, 25min	60
10	250	2500	-	58000	3hr, 20min	80

TEMPLAR TOWER

Picture	Description	Requirements
	Increases the Defensive Value of a limited number of Templars by 100%. If there are not enough Templars in the city, City Guards can take their place and gain the same bonus. These towers don’t count towards a city’s building number limit.	Town Hall Level 8

Level	Unit Count	Resource Cost Wood	Resource Cost Stone	Build Time	Rank Points
1	30	-	100	25sec	1
2	60	-	200	5min	2
3	120	-	400	13min, 30sec	5
4	200	-	1000	25min	10
5	320	-	3000	40min	16
6	480	-	7000	1h	24
7	700	-	14000	1h, 22min	34
8	1000	-	24000	1h, 50min	46
9	1400	-	38000	2h, 25min	60
10	2000	-	58000	3h, 20min	80

GUARDIAN TOWER

Picture	Description	Requirements
	Increases the Defensive Value of a limited number of Guardians by 100%. If there are not enough Guardians in the city, City Guards can take their place and gain the same bonus. These towers don’t count towards a city’s building number limit.	Town Hall Level 6

Level	Unit Count	Resource Cost Wood	Resource Cost Stone	Build Time	Rank Points
1	30	-	100	25sec	1
2	60	-	200	5min	2
3	120	-	400	13min, 30sec	5
4	200	-	1000	25min	10
5	320	-	3000	40min	16
6	480	-	7000	1hr	24
7	700	-	14000	1hr, 22min	34
8	1000	-	24000	1hr, 50min	46
9	1400	-	38000	2hr, 25min	60
10	2000	-	58000	3hr, 20min	80

Towers, in Lord of Ultima are excellent for defense see (defense basics) each tower will give the number of defense units protection of 100%, meaning the attacker will need twice as many units to defeat the units stationed in towers.

Best Attacking Units in Lord of Ultima

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Best Attack Units in Lord of Ultima

Berserker (Zerks)

Attack Points: 50

Food:1

Space:1

Speed:20

Loot:20 Great, general purpose raider economical in numbers

Knights

Attack Points: 90
Space:2
Food:25
Speed:10
Loot:15 2nd Strongest Attack Unit

Mages

Attack Points: 70
Space: 1
Food: 20
Speed:20
Loot:10

Warlocks

Attack Points: 120

Space:2

Food:20

Speed:10

Loot:10 Strongest Attack Unit

Paladins

Attack:60

Space:2

Food:15

Speed:10

Loot:20

How to Attack a City Lord of Ultima

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Attacking in Lord of Ultima

Before attacking in Lord of Ultima check with your alliance, once you have attacked a city you will be on the radar! I suggest using the BOS tool it is a great tool to check out your territory and planning your army.

Before thinking of an attack you need to have built up an attacking army, many players make the mistake of using defensive units instead of offensive units.Another point to consider is what type of attack in Lord of Ultima you choose. (See Article Offensive Units)

There are four types of attack in Lord of Ultima:

1. Scout Attack
2. Plundering Attack
3. Assault
4. Siege

1. Scout Attack

It is a good strategy to combine a scout attack first on any city you wish to attack. By sending scouts you will get a lot of information about your enemy. You can use this information in your BOS tool calculator to plan your 2nd attack! Like in any real battle gathering of intelligence will give you the upper hand.

To scout send as many scouts possible a good number against an average city is 500, however the city you are attacking could have many scouts and towers. So, to be more effective send 1000 scouts this should get you the information you need to plan the next attack.

Once, you get the report back you will see how many units, towers and buildings the enemy city has. Feed this information into your BOS Caculator. You will then be able to plan the amount of units needed for the next type of attack.

You can scout cities with or without a Castle.

2. Plunder Attack

This is a useful attack on weak players it is intimidating and can be used against players with or without a Castle, but best to be used against players without a Castle. This attack causes little damage to the defender's defenses but you get to steal the resources.

This is also the attack to be used on lawless cities which will deplete them of any resources they once had.

The defender's gold and purified resources are protected as well as resources the defender has on the market.

3. Assault

Assault Attacks are used to weaken an enemy's defense, like with a plunder attack resources are also carried back. However the main aim of an Assault is to kill as many defensive units of the enemy an assault is geared to inflict casualties, five time more than with a plunder attack! This ratio works both ways, this type of attack is used against Castles, and your attack should be at least 5 x stronger than the enemy to be effective. Repeating assault attacks is a good strategy to give the enemy no time to rebuild its defense, combining the repeat assault attacks with the help of a few players in your alliance can certainly cause massive damage before a siege.

4. Siege Attack

This, is the ultimate attack in Lord of Ultima, here you will need to plan your attack carefully. You will certainly be sure to use this attack as the last and most vicious assault that can be used in Lord of Ultima!

A siege attack has but one purpose to take the enemy's Castle and unlike the other attacks, this attack will repeat itself every hour until the siege is successful or until all your units have been destroyed in battle!

Each siege needs to have a baron with the rest of the units, each wave (repeat siege) that is successful will weaken the enemy by 10% until the siege reaches 100%. So, be sure to send a massive army with the baron to ensure a victory!

Once, 100% has been reached the baron will take over the city, with its buildings and resources!

When selecting the army use as many siege weapons as possible as described in the article offensive units. These can destroy towers and are need to weaken the defense of the enemy.

Raiding Monsters / Boss Raids Lord of Ultima

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BOSS RAIDS

BOSS TYPES

Dragons Hydras Molochs Kraken

LOOT

The amount of loot you get after fighting a boss depends on several things. The division of resources (other than gold) is dependent on boss type, and there is an overall cap based on the boss’s level. You can only get in total 500 resources from a Level 1 boss, 3000 for a Level 2, etc.

Whether you kill the boss or not does not influence the amount of resources gained! However, the promised artifact (if any) will only drop if you kill the boss. In addition to resources, you will gain (X*loot) gold, where X is a set factor decided by the boss level.

To figure the maximum loot from a dungeon raid, you can set up the following calculation:

Maximum Capacity of Army = (Number of units that survive)*(Loot capacity per unit sent).

Example: 25 Berserkers (capacity 10) can carry maximum total of 250 resources. Gold does not weigh anything in this game. However, it appears that you can only receive up to double your Troops’ total capacity in gold.

This chart is based on information gathered from several boss raid reports:

Boss level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Max loot	500	3,000	20,000	40,000	100,000	150,000	200,000	300,000	450,000	600,000
Gold/loot	200%	120%	80%	50%	35%	35%	30%	27%	26%	5%
Max gold	1,000	3,600	16,000	20,000	35,000	52,500	60,000	81,000	117,000	30,000
Suggested Units*
Berserkers Rangers Templars Warlocks	50	300	2,000	4,000	10,000	15,000	20,000	30,000	45,000	60,000
Crossbowmen Knights	34	200	1,334	2,667	6,667	10,000	13,334	20,000	30,000	40,000
Mages	100	600	4,000	8,000	20,000	30,000	40,000	60,000	90,000	120,000
Paladins	25	150	1,000	2,000	5,000	7,500	10,000	15,000	22,500	30,000
Sloops (sea)	1	2	14	27	67	100	134	200	300	400
Frigates (sea)	1	3	20	40	100	150	200	300	450	600
War Galleons (sea)	1	1	7	14	34	50	67	100	150	200

*Suggested Units is the number of units (of that type) that would be needed to make sure you carry all the loot back home. Only surviving units can carry loot, so to guarantee max loot you should send additional units to account for battle losses.

When you don’t manage to kill the boss, your troop losses are 5 times higher than if the boss dies. With current knowledge, 300% of the listed defense worth in attack should ensure a kill. With less there is always a small chance to fail.

‘(sea)’ Sloops, Frigates and War Galleons can only attack Sea-Dungeons and cannot attack Land-Dungeons. Although Frigates can transport land units across water to Land-Dungeons.

NOTE: I have had very good luck with all units EXCEPT for sloops against an Octopus. I have screen prints where 308 sloops (with +34% bonus) lose to a L7 Octopus and 500 lose to a L8! Be very careful hunting bosses with sloops!

ARTIFACTS

You will always receive resources from attacking a boss, but you will only get the promised Artifact if you kill the boss. However, as your title increases you lose the ability to gain artifacts from lower level bosses. You can always gain Artifacts for one title below your current. For Specifics about Artifacts, check:
Artifacts

Also, each boss type gives different Artifacts:

All bosses can give Shovels, Amulets, Medallions, Horns, Chests, and Toolkits.
Dragons can give Axes
Hydras can give Picks
Molochs can give Hammers
Krakens can give Axes, Picks, Hammers and Sickles

The Boss Levels grants the following Artifacts when slain:
Level 1 – Copper for Knights
Level 2 – Bronze for Barons
Level 3 – Steel for Earls
Level 4 – Silver for Marquess
Level 5 – Gold for Princes
Level 6 – Platinum for Dukes
Level 7 – Verite for Kings
Level 8 – Valorite for Emperors
Level 9 – 2 Valorite Artifacts
Level 10 – 3 Valorite Artifacts

NOTES

Bosses level 7+ will automatically be shown as deserted as soon as a player sends troops to raid it, this prevents other players from raiding the same boss.

Bosses spawn randomly depending on the amount of player cities and their level. If there are more cities in an area, more bosses will spawn nearby (about the same amount of bosses per city). VW: Bosses despawn after a time or if a certain amount of players sent attacks.

GUARANTEED BOSS KILL FIGURES

To have a 75% chance of killing a boss you must send 56.25% of the unit numbers listed below.
To have a 50% chance of killing a boss you must send 25% of the unit numbers listed below.
To have a 25% chance of killing a boss you must send 12.5% of the unit numbers listed below.
To take into account research divide the numbers required by the amount of research you have and round up, ie for 50% research divide by 1.50, for 75% research divide by 1.75, for 100% research divide by 2.00

Number of units required to guarantee killing dragons without research

Troop type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Berserkers	50	300	2000	4000	10000	15000	20000	30000	45000	60000
Rangers	84	500	3334	6667	16667	25000	33334	50000	75000	100000
Guardians	250	1500	10000	20000	50000	75000	100000	150000	225000	300000
Crossbowmen	42	250	1700	3300	8300	12500	17000	25000	37500	50000
Knights	19	112	756	1467	3689	5556	7556	11112	16667	22223
Mages	36	215	1429	2858	7143	10715	14286	21429	32143	42858
Warlocks	21	125	834	1667	4167	6250	8334	12500	18750	25000
Templars	100	600	4000	8000	20000	30000	40000	60000	90000	120000
Paladins	28	167	1134	2200	5534	8334	11334	16667	25000	33334

Number of units required to guarantee killing hydras without research

Troop type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Berserkers	34	200	1360	2640	6640	10000	13600	20000	30000	40000
Rangers	56	334	2267	4400	11067	16667	22667	33334	50000	66667
Guardians	168	1000	6800	13200	33200	50000	68000	100000	150000	200000
Crossbowmen	63	375	2500	5000	12500	18750	25000	37500	56250	75000
Knights	28	167	1112	2223	5556	8334	11112	16667	25000	33334
Mages	36	215	1429	2858	7143	10715	14286	21429	32143	42858
Warlocks	21	125	834	1667	4167	6250	8334	12500	18750	25000
Templars	68	400	2720	5280	13280	20000	27200	40000	60000	80000
Paladins	42	250	1667	3334	8334	12500	16667	25000	37500	50000

Number of units required to guarantee killing Molochs without research

Troop type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Berserkers	50	300	2000	4000	10000	15000	20000	30000	45000	60000
Rangers	84	500	3334	6667	16667	25000	33334	50000	75000	100000
Guardians	250	1500	10000	20000	50000	75000	100000	150000	225000	300000
Crossbowmen	63	375	2500	5000	12500	18750	25000	37500	56250	75000
Knights	28	167	1112	2223	5556	8334	11112	16667	25000	33334
Mages	24	143	972	1886	4743	7143	9715	14286	21429	28572
Warlocks	14	84	567	1100	2767	4167	5667	8334	12500	16667
Templars	100	600	4000	8000	20000	30000	40000	60000	90000	120000
Paladins	42	250	1667	3334	8334	12500	16667	25000	37500	50000

Number of units required to guarantee killing Octopus without research

Troop type	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Sloops	2	9	57	110	277	417	567	834	1250	1667
Frigates	1	4	23	44	111	167	227	334	500	667
War Galleons	1	1	6	11	28	42	57	84	125	167

Raiding Dungeons in Lord of Ultima

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Forest Dugeon

Dungeons

The different types of dungeons will give you about 75% extra of a single type of resource. (ex. Forest Dungeons give more wood)

Level 1: 10-20 berserkers
Level 2: 70-80 berserkers
Level 3: 300 berserkers
Level 4: 700 berserkers
Level 5: 3000-3400 berserkers (result: 30 units lost, 9k gold 11k special resource, 3.5k other resources)
Level 6: 6000-7000 berserkers (results: 70 units lost, 17k gold, 26k special resource, 9k other resources)
Level 7:
Level 8:
Level 9: 15,000-35,000 berserkers (35k will likely max out resources looted, which is about 350k). Sending only around 15k is fine, but you will lose slightly more troops per resources gathered. Result: 100-300 troops lost.
Level 10:

Sea Dungeons Mountain Hill

Building a Real Castle in Lord of Ultima

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Building Castles

Before building a Castle in Lord of Ultima, you need as mentioned other cities around it to supply resources to especially stone! You need a lot of stone to build a Castle!

I went about this way every one has the own ideas, but this strategy is for my first Castle, not 2nd or 3rd!

1. Firstly, you want to upgrade the Town Hall to level 10

2. Build 20 cottages on the outer node of the city upgrade to levels 6-7 to get construction speed to 2000

3. Upgrade Walls to level 10

4. Build Traps and Towers more Towers than traps upgrade to level 8-10

5. Build as many Barracks in the center of the city leave a gap for stable and training grounds

6. Upgrade to levels 7-10

7. Build the Castle upgrade to level 10

8. Recruit as many Rangers as possible, in other words a ranger Castle

When Will my City Turn Round Lord of Ultima?

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City Shapes Lord of Ultima

You may have noticed the different shapes of cities in Lord of Ultima and wonder when they change.

City Shapes vary according to score, the first major shape change happens when your city score becomes 5000, not your empire score.

City changes to round when your city score is 5000

A city with a Castle after score 5000

In Lord of Ultima your City will continue to expand on the regional view according to your city score there are many different shapes of cities on this link:

City Shapes Lord of Ultima

Lord of Ultima Third City Strategy Continued

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Lord of Ultima Third City Strategy

...Continued

Up to now your main city should be recruiting defensive military units in groups of 1000. Your 2nd City should be producing resources at a rapid rate and passing them to your main city. Your Gold production should be over 1k p/h. Now it is time to build your third city and I will share what I have done, you may want to choose a different path, but I got sick of waiting hours and hours so this is my strategy.

I decided that time is a precious resource in Lord of Ultima and therefore I needed to refine the amount of time spent playing Lord of Ultima!

So, to save time in recruitment speed I upgraded all my barracks and recruitment buildings in my main city to level 10. This will also increase score, but at this stage you should have a score of between 6000 to 7000. Instead of wasting time to get a City Score of 5000 so my main city could become round.

I used this strategy, and focused on my third city which will be Castled to save time of purifying:

1. Upgraded Town Hall as Fast as Possible aiming for level 9
2. Built a few Iron Mines and Woodcutter Huts but built more Stone Mines (needed for walls)
3. Built lots of cottages did not upgrade resources past level 5, instead upgraded cottages quicky
4. Got Construction Speed to 1 300 by upgrading cottages to level 7
5. Forgot to mention all resources where coming from my main and 2nd city

Once my city was running at speed I started the next phase:

1. Built a Stable Upgraded to level 10
2. Built Four Barracks around the stable with a view to upgrade to level 10
3. Built a Training Ground with four Barracks around it view to upgrade to level 10
4. Upgraded Wall with a view to upgrade to level 10
5. Built Towers and Traps as per defense strategy upgraded to level 10
6. Lastly built Castle

Instead of purifying excess resources I traded them to my gold supplies up which was needed at my first city, to keep up recruitment of units. Also, started recruiting armies of 1000 in my third city starting with scouts, only once I had a sizable army did I build the Castle.

See post on Castle for third city.....

Note:

Before you decide to build a castle in your third city speak to your alliance and make sure your first and 2nd cities are producing enough resources and have a strong enough defense to support your third city (castle)

3rd City Strategy Lord of Ultima

2012-04-24T03:31:00.002-07:00

Your Third City Strategy Lord of Ultima

Dam! After all that time spent researching resources, you have clicked level two of Title Advancement and now it presents you with further research for title advancement! Or, it offers you a short cut by building a Castle to get to the next Title of Lord of Ultima, Marquess. When I got to this stage I wanted to flip but you have to back to the chart of Title Advancement to remind yourself where you are in the game.

At this stage of the game there is most likely a lot of action around you with alliance members either on the attack or defense. Lord of Ultima is like chess as with any other strategy game you need to remain claim and focus on the bigger picture.

At this stage you may be tempted to build a Castle to simply get the title or build your city nearer to certain alliance members. When you catch yourself think like this, I always remind myself how long it took me to get to this point and am I willing to risk all the time and effort I put in thus far. It is a long game and requires lots of big picture thinking and patience.

Lord of Ultima is the ultimate Chess Game!

So, then back to deploying your third Lord of Ultima City. Again I suggest to keep the same strategy as your 2nd City, however try place your cities with your main city in the center, and a city on either side as close as possible. Again you want to trade freely between your cities and send support when required.

Your first city, which I refer to as your main city now needs to concentrate on building a sizable army. When I mean sizable I'm talking at least 10 000 units of various kinds. This stage I call the Defense Stage, by now from raiding creatures and dungeons you should have the following units stationed in your city:

Units Prior to Deploying Third City:

Picture	Name	Unit Type	Attack Type	Description	Resource Cost	Requirement
	City Guard	Infantry	None	Enforcers of law and order, these stalwart fighters are trained to deal with any threat within a city’s walls.	100 wood	City Guard House Level 1
	Berserker	Infantry	Infantry Attack	Fearsome warriors driven by a thirst for blood and glory. It is said the war cry of the Berserker makes brave men weep and women swoon.	150 iron	Training Ground Level 1
	Ranger	Infantry	Infantry Attack	Skilled bowmen whose keen eyes and deadly arrows rain misery on infantry units. A key element of any army and especially useful for defending Castles.	160 wood	Training Ground Level 4

You should by now have 1000 City Gaurds and Berserkers,couple of hundred Rangers and a few scouts.

Your main city walls should have traps and towers to protect your units after deploying your third city you need to expand your army! Again, I can't emphasize enough do not be tempted to build a Castle at this stage with out building your army to the below:

Units in Main City After Deploying Third City:

The first army you want to expand is scouts. Normally experienced players will first scout a target, this in Lord of Ultima is called a scout attack. To give them a nasty surprise your towers, traps and 1000 scouts will eliminate their scouts! This will make them think twice about scouting you or plundering your city for a while.

Defense Strategy Expansion Recruit 1000 Scouts

Place Barracks Next to Stable

Upgrade Barracks and Stable to Level 10

Once, you have 1000 Scouts which will take a while to recruit with all the upgrading start the next defense:

The Bowman, is one of the strongest offensive units. Recruit 1000 will require a few barracks placed around the Stable and upgraded to level 10.

If your Town Hall is not a level 10 (which it does not have to be level 9 is fine, level 10 just gives you an extra 20 buildings from 80 - 100) you may be running out of buildings which you now need to replace with barracks.

I suggest getting rid of these buildings:

City Guard House

Hide Out

Warehouse

Defense Strategy Lord of Ultima

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Defense Basics

The best defense is a mix of Rangers, Guardians, Templars, and Ballistae in towers. Sloops are great defensive units, but suffer from getting no advantage from towers or walls (The 50% defense bonus from a level 10 wall can make a huge difference) and being unable to support landlocked cities.

Rangers are the best defense against Infantry

Guardians are the best defense against Cavalry

Templars are the best defense against Magic

Ballistae are the best defense against Artillery

It is also important to have plenty of scouts. If every single one of the attacker's scouts are killed off, he'll be intimidated and may think twice about attacking you. He'll also be clueless as to what kind of defenses you have. This could lead him to send a force that's much too small, or a force of the wrong type (such as an all cavalry force against your city filled with guardians).

I would prioritize towers over traps because at level 10 towers double the strength of 2000 troops, while traps only neutralize 1000. First, I put 2 lookout towers in every city. This gives you enough warning time to span an entire continent and can double the defense of up to 500 scouts. Then get enough towers to double the defense of every defender. When towering city guards it's best to use ballista towers, as these house 2500 troop strength at level 10 instead of the standard 2000. Finally, fill in any remaining wall slots with a mix of traps. If you have a water city you may want to focus on camouflage traps, as these can neutralize boats. But keep in mind that the number given by traps is the neutralized troop strength, not troop count. A level 10 camouflage trap would only neutralize 2 war galleons (which count as 400 troop strength).

Editors Note: The author of above is not known this information was found on the lou wik

Lord of Ultima Strategy 2nd City

2012-04-23T14:16:00.000-07:00

The Lord of Ultima 2nd City Strategy:

Ok, so you have placed your 2nd City next to your first city. It is time to go over a few things...

Buildings that Wont Be Needed:

Moonglow Tower
Trinsic Temple
Warehouses
Recruitment Buildings

As mentioned previously the only way to expand from this point is research through title advancement. The main goal of your 2nd City is to supply resources to your first city for purification so do not waste time on recruitment buildings for now.

Simply upgrade your Town Hall; build plenty of Wood, Stone, Iron and Farms with Cottages next to them. It is also crucial that your 2nd City has a big enough Market to send resources to your first city. At this stage your score should be around 2500 -3000. You now need to stop worrying about your score, which will naturally increase with the number of buildings and upgrades in your 2nd City.

Buildings Needed in Your 2nd City:

Wood Cutter Lodges
Iron Mines
Stone Quarries
Farms
Markets
Townhouses
Cottages

Again, get resources to around 5-6k p/h as with your first city, then simply send resources to your first city for purification.If you are worried about been raided you should have no resources stored in your 2nd City they should all be passed to your first city every few hours.

Purification needed to get to Earl level two is:

400k Wood, Stone, Iron, Food and 320k Gold!

To Get to 320k Gold You Will Need to Trade Some Resources (Read Post on Trading)

This Stage Can Take a Week Depending on Your Resource Levels and how wisely you use them!

While you are purifying this vast amount of resources start building a strong defense which is mentioned under the post defense strategy.

Earl Level 2 Lord of Ultima:

Purified Resources (each)	Gold (x1000)	Castles	Title	Level	Max. Barons	Max. Cities	Mana Regain per hour	Max Mana
0	0	-	Sir	-	0	1	0	3000
0	0	-	Knight	-	0	1	250	15000
0	0	-	Baron	-	0	1	300	20000
50	40	-	Earl	1	1	2	400	30000
400	320	-	-	2	2	3	400	30000
700	560	1	Marquess*	1	3	4	500	40000

Do Not Be Tempted To Build a Castle at This Stage!

Lord of Ultima Beginners Guide - Building a 2nd City

2012-04-23T13:48:00.000-07:00

Lord of Ultima Beginners Guide Part Two

....Continued from Lord of Ultima Beginners Guide Part One

Right so here is a quick check list where you should be right now:

1. Part of a strong alliance and forming good relationships in your alliance

2. Using the LOU Tweak Tool

3. Your city now has 80 Buildings

4. Your resources are at least 6k p/h

5. You have researched and purified 40 Wood, Stone, Iron and Food

6. Your Gold is at 500 p/h

7. You have three markets upgraded to at least 250 Carts

8. Your Gold Reserves are at + 100k

You Are Now Almost Ready to Build Your 2nd City!

The site for your new city is crucial as it is going to supply your first city with resources that are needed to advance your title and hence other cities. Title Advancement will become the only way to expand your empire, which are linked to the number of Barons you can recruit.

Purified Resources (each)	Gold (x1000)	Castles	Title	Level	Max. Barons	Max. Cities	Mana Regain per hour	Max Mana
0	0	-	Sir	-	0	1	0	3000
0	0	-	Knight	-	0	1	250	15000
0	0	-	Baron	-	0	1	300	20000
50	40	-	Earl	1	1	2	400	30000
400	320	-	-	2	2	3	400	30000
700	560	1	Marquess*	1	3	4	500	40000

As you can see from the above table you have progressed from Sir to Baron by simply upgrading your Town Hall. Now you will gain the Title Earl after you have 40k Gold and 40K purified of each resource.

You will now be able to recruit a Baron.

Baron

Blessed

Infantry Attack

Whilst sieging an enemy city, a Baron must be present for the Claim of Power to progress and to successfully conquer the city. They are also vital when founding a new city.

50,000 iron 100,000 gold

Trinsic Temple Level 10 & Title

A Baron Costs:

100k Gold and 50k Iron

A new city requires the following resources:

1 Baron

100k Wood

100k Stone

25k Iron

25k Food

250 Carts

So, I hope by now you are seeing for your self the value of resources in Lord of Ultima and why I suggested in the beginning to get your resource levels to around 6k p/h because the more resources you have the faster you can expand!

Back to Placing Your 2nd City

I suggest you don't worry at this stage about placing your new city next to a shrine, unless of course you a fortunate enough to have your first city placed near a shrine. We will cover more about shrines in other posts.

At this stage you want to place your 2nd city right next to your first, the shortest possible distance.

The reason is simple your cities will need to support each other by sending resources to be purified and in the case of attack been able to send units to cities quickly. This makes you a more powerful player than the ones who spread the cities all over the place. Hopefully some of your neighbors right now are also your friends? That way they can also support you don't be afraid to ask for help with resources and other things you need, the goal of your alliance is to get every one in the alliance strong in a shortest amount of time. Pass on gifts and they will be passed back to you be friendly and you will be surprised at the results of relationships in the game.

Once you have recruited your Baron and have the resources mentioned above you are ready to deploy your first city. Click on the desired location and press build city, once you have done a flag will pop up at the location it will take a while for your city to appear so do not panic!

Do Not Be Tempted to Build a Castle at This Stage!

Lord of Ultima Beginners Guide

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2. Beginners Guide to Lord of Ultima

...continued from where to start.

By now you have up to 80 Buildings depending on the level of your Town Hall. Your city is now no longer under protection which means it has the chance of been plundered. This is about the worst thing that can happen to your game, unless you have broken the golden rule and built a Castle. It is now time to take your city to the next level and also begin to understand that resources are key to winning the game.

You now need to start to focus on the next big step building a 2nd City this takes some time but this will guide you to get there quicker than most people could even think!

1. Build a Moonglow Tower and upgrade to level 10

Once, you have built a Moonglow Tower and upgraded it to level 10 you can do research by purifying your resources. Basically every thousand units of resources becomes refined and becomes one refined unit. So it is 1000:1 Ratio.

To refine or purify resources click the trade button and go to the end tab Purify Resources enter the amount of units and press Purify. This will deduct the resources from your city and purify them.

2. Gold

Gold is the slowest "resource" you need to get your Gold Production to about 500 p/h. To do this build at least 3 Markets (which will also allow you to trade) place them next to each other vertically. Once you have completed the line of markets build Townhouses around them as many as you can. But the quickest way to get gold is to trade which is covered under a separate post.

3. Build a Trinsic Temple and upgrade to level 10

Your gold pile should be pilling up by now and you have at least 250 Carts from upgrading your markets. It is time to build your Trinsic Temple! The Trinsic Temple will allow you to recruit a Baron, once you have finished purifying 40 units of Wood, Stone, Iron and Food and lastly of course got your Trinsic Temple to level 10.

While You are Waiting For Upgrades and Resources:

Use this time to chat to members of your alliance read the forums and start recruiting units (army) at this stage only recruit City Guards. Every thing in Lord of Ultima works in large numbers so recruit 1000 City Guards they do not take up any room and this will help your defense for later in the game. Recruit about 1000 Beresekers as well but do not recruit units that require gold yet. You will need the gold for your Baron.

Do Not Be Tempted to Build a Castle Yet!

Where to begin in Lord of Ultima

2012-04-23T09:27:00.000-07:00

You have logged on to Lord of Ultima Online and are ready to play:

The first thing you should know about Lord of Ultima is that it is a real time online strategy game and the great thing is it is free!

The game has huge depth and requires a lot of time and this can be frustrating at first. Before you even bother to play know that you will need to invest an incredible amount of time into it. The game could take months if not years to complete and once you get into it it is very enjoyable.

I have divided the game into three basic parts for beginners. This will enable you to get into Lord of Ultima and get somewhere fast. It may not make any sense at first, but if you stick to these guidelines you will be well on your way to VICTORY.

Beginners Guide to Lord of Ultima:

1. Build your City

You start your city with 3000 of each resource and a Town Hall you will notice in the menu on your left the resources: Wood; Stone; Iron; Food and you will be promoted to take the tutorial. This is highly recommended going through the Lord of Ultima tutorial will assist you to get to know the very basics of the game and assist you to build the first stage of your city.

I suggest you build many Wood Cutter, Iron Mines, Stone Quarries and at least Three Farms. Place a cottage next to each one including farms on the crop next to the farm house. This will increase production and get your construction speed up.

Join an Alliance look for cities nearby you and request an invite, don't just join any alliance.

In the beginning of the game your city is protected so need to worry about anything except for resources.

1. First Stage Goals For a New City

Use the LOU tool to layout your city (see page tools)

Construction Speed to 1000 (Upgrading Cottages)
Wood and Stone to 6000 p/h
Iron to 3000 p/h
Food to 1500 p/h

Upgrades:

Resources as high as possible (level 7-10)

Cottages as high as possible (level 6-10)

Town Hall upgrade to level 8

Alliance:

Join a strong alliance with cities near to your location!

DO NOT BE TEMPTED TO BUILD A CASTLE YET