1. Historical Cities
Testing
A lot of players test their theories on the Historical Cities themselves, while there is a method that will cost you a lot less. You need your military techs at LVL10 and find someone else who has their military techs at LVL10. Preferably this would be an alliance member. One of you needs to leave the alliance and hopefully you have cities near eachother for the testing. You can capture a LVL10 NPC near someone also for this purpose. Added benefit is that you don't have to demolish your wall defenses.
The defender recreates a Historical City defense on scale (1:100 - 1:1000) and the attacker sends the wave you want to test on the same scale.
2. Historical Heroes
General
Historical heroes are extremely important. Make these a top priority from the moment you start playing. As I will show later in this guide, you can get free information on 6 Historical Heroes.
HUBs
When you get information on a Historical Hero, the hero is usually very far away from you and long distance attacking is often not even an option. You could advance port on the NPC where the hero is located, but you can also keep a city slot open and build a temporary city next to it (a HUB).
Find a low level flat near the NPC, preferably on 1-1.6 miles, and attack it with scouts or cav, because they are fast. Build time can be up to 20 hours, but your city will build instantly over server maintenance, at around 06:00 server time.
Capturing Historical Heroes from NPCs
When you have your city near the NPC where the H-hero is, you need to attack it. On every successful attack, you have a chance of capturing the hero. This chance is about 3-5% per hit, so about 25 hits on average to capture the hero.
Some tips:
-Always check Statistics / Hero first, to see if a H-hero is already captured. Realize that it is case sensitive!
-It's possible for H-heroes to have lower attack than the 'normal' hero in the NPC. This could make you think there is no H-hero in the NPC, while there actually is.
This basically only happens with INT/POL heroes.
-Do not scout for H-heroes, you will never see one on a scout report.
-Do not capture the NPC where the H-hero is in.
-Hit all the NPCs near your cities, to see if you can stumble upon a H-hero close to you.
Capturing Historical Heroes Player vs Player
H-heroes can only be captured PvP, when the players who wants to capture the hero has his/her portrait by paying cents for them. This has a couple of implications:
-It's quite safe to scout with you best (Historical) Hero, because your enemy will not know that you're scouting him and it's not very likely that he happens to have the portrait on your hero.
-You can safely attack / scout bomb players who don't have a LVL9+ Beacon Tower with your best H-hero, because they will not see the name of your hero.
-When trying to sow discord a H-hero from a colony, you need to buy the portrait of the hero you're trying to get.
3. Free cents
In Age II, everyone can get free 70 cents.
1. 5 cents - to start with.
2. 10 cents - from quest, chatting in beginner's chat.
3. 10 cents - from Item Purchase; buy a Fabric Box in Shop/Chest.
4. 10 cents - from linking your account to FaceBook.
5. 25 cents - from 2x strategem quest. Try to wait until you win them from the wheel. You get them quite a lot from the wheel.
6. 10 cents - from folk hearsay; you get 10 cents back from your first details on a Historical Hero.
(7. 15-50 cents - from commission quests.)
Never spin the wheel with these cents, only spend them on information on Historical Heroes.
4. FaceBook
Gifts
Good gifts are
-Amulets
-Minor XP Package
-Minor Speed-up Package.
Most inexperienced players value speed-ups over XP. Good players will realize that in most cases, Minor XP (anabasis) will be more valuable. Save your Anabases for when you can set your H-hero to LVL150. Use regular LVL5/LVL10 farming to get your H-hero high level first.
Amulets can be sent by Prinzessin players; if you can get some to send you free amulets, this would be the best gift you can get from FB.
Visit empire / Increase production
You can get 38 free resource packages from this per day. This is an absolute must in the beginning stages of your empire. Later in the server, it's usually not worth the hassle anymore and you're better off just sending out your ballistae farming missions an extra time. Click HERE to see how to visit empires and get free resources.
Post items on your wall
Early in your empire:
Corralling horses = 100 Cavalry
Plows to pikes = 100 pikes stacks
Excess lumber = 100 Rolling logs (~90K lumber after demolishing them)
Artifact discovery = Holy Water
Later in your empire:
Help = Reduce troop upkeep 5% stack 20x
Bored = Moving speed and hitpoints increase 1% on heroes stacks 10x
Traveling troubadour = War-horn
5. Gear
Start out by leveling up your gear researches. Do not use your gems for your star level, but save them! Every time you level up your research, you lose 1 star level and you essentially burn your gems.
Really try to save all of your gems, until you absolutely need the attribute bonus from the stars; usually when you want to attack a LVL12 H-city, or get into a huge war with another alliance. Also, when you get stuck on gear researches and don't think you will be able to upgrade them any time soon, you can choose to star using your gems.
Delicate gems:
use 1 delicate gem for leveling up to 3 stars
use 4 delivate gems for leveling from 4 to 6 stars
Flawless gems:
use 4 ultimate gems for leveling 7+ stars.
When you have all stars to level 8, save a huge amount of gems again, and level your star rating to 9, one by one. If you fail 8 to 9, you fall back to 0.
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