Legacy of Holy Castle: Disaster...

On the 15th October, Wednesday, The Legacy of Holy Castle had made major change to the game during the maintenance period. Here are the changes as announced by the admin:

The adjustments of The Legacy of Holy Castle:

1. Occupancy. Currently the winner of the attack will get 75% gold and 25% food within 24 hours from the loser instead of 50% gold and 50% food.
2. Units. The price decreases greatly for level 3 units.
3. Hero's quest. The experience from adventure will increase greatly.The gold and wood from adventure will be canceled.
4. Battle experience. The experience from battle will be adjusted to avoid some improper behavior.

Most of these changes had made this once nice game impossible to play, especially the occupancy rule.

Once your castle is occupied, your gold production drop to 25% for a whole 24 hour period. You lose the ability to rebuild yourself and is not able to attack others to gain back what you lost. This had made the game a boring game during these 24 hours, and easily make the player lose interest. After 24 hours, it is quite probably you will be occupied again due to the inability to rebuild. A player being occupied the first time would sooner or later quit the game.

The Hero's quest rule had made the occupancy rule worse. As before the patch, you can gain gold by adventuring which compensate a bit on your lost in battle and occupancy. Now you had lose your another ability to gain resources.

The battle experience had dropped a lot, which make your hero even more difficult to grow. This would make late comers even harder to catch up with the already top player, which separate the strong and the weak apart more. Weaker players will always be a farm and has no chance to survive.

I am deeply disappointed with the change in this once great game. If these changes are not reverted for a week, I would probably say goodbye to Legacy of Holy Castle as well.

The Legacy of Holy Castle Guide: The Importance of Formation

Never under-estimate the importance of formation in The Legacy of Holy Castle. For the same number of units that can handled by your hero and the same number of defensive building you have, how you place your buildings and your units is the only factor that you win or lose a battle.

My castle was attacked everyday recently and it is a very good chance for me to experiment with several defensive formation.
I tend to rely quite a bit on the usage of defensive buildings, especially the self-detonating towers, as they can deal quite some amount of damage to enemy units. Putting the line of self-detonating towers right at the front has the advantage that they can destroy quite an amount of enemy units right at the beginner, weaken them so that they can deal less damage to our units. The disadvantage is that if the enemy knows your formation, he can produce weak units with amount 1 at the frontline to take the damage from the self-detonating tower, which can waste your self-detonating towers.

That's the reason why I put a line of elite hoplites the front to take down weak units first, and allow stronger units next taken down by the line of self-detonating towsers.

Next are the ramparts and the arrow towers. Putting arrow towers right behind the rampart as the ramparts are extra strong in defense. When the enemy units take several rounds to destroy your ramparts, they had already taken up quite an amount of damage from the arrow towers and the archers.

Putting hoplites and self-detonating towers around your hero is important, as whether your hero survives determine the win or lose of the battle. These are the last line of defense, so that any enemy units approaching your hero should be taken down by the body guards.

This formation has proven effective for some time. It had an disadvantage though, is if your enemy is patient enough to give you consecutive attacks, your defense building will finally all broken down, and he can finally occupy your castle...

Do you have any good formation to suggest? If so, feel free to leave a comment.

The Legacy of Holy Castle Quickstart Guide

I have just played 2 days of The Legacy of Holy Castle, and now I have 40 castle area, 158 credits and 53 units and 3 heroes. I am not sure whether this is treated as successful, I guess this is not too bad.

First of all, when you just started playing the game, finish the "Novice Quest". This will guide you through the main parts of the game and give you several gold and food rewards. At the end of the quests, you will have 50 archer units as the reward.

After that, keep upgrade your silver mine. It is never too much, as gold is very essential to your success in The Legacy of Holy Castle. Besides the silver mine, remember to build a tavern early, this is used for recruiting heroes.

After you got your tavern, recruits 2 heroes, 1 with high body statistics (high VIT, STR, AGI) and 1 with high intelligent (WIS). As wood is also very essential for the game, you have to always keep 1 hero busy with lumbering. Choose your high WIS hero for this job, as high WIS is account for high wood yield.

For your main hero, always keep him adventuring, killing enemies in the Village. This will gain him experience point and thus higher statistic and better for PvP. More important, he will have chance to gain crystal drop from the battle field. These crystals, can be combined to synthesis hero items, or can be sold for gems in the market place (auction).

For the other hero, which with high body statistics, you can keep him half of the time adventuring, and half of the time lumbering (depends on your need of wood for building).

When you found the upgrade cost of silver mine becomes much higher than Field upgrade cost, you can upgrade the fields as well. Although food is not much used during the protected period, the food can be sold at the marketplace for gold.

Remember to use the marketplace wisely, always exchange materials, goods that you are in need most to keep your pace of upgrade high.

The Legacy of Holy Castle

Just started playing another interesting browser-based strategy type of multiplayer game - The Legacy of Holy Castle.

I found that I like this game very much. At the beginning I thought this is just another clone of Travian. After I play a few hours, I found The Legacy of Holy Castle has more interesting elements than simply empire building and warring against each other.

I like The Legacy of Holy Castle's concept of hero. Although there is also heroes in Travian-like strategy, but there are more role-playing element introduced in The Legacy of Holy Castle. The hero can perform many different tasks - he can chop wood for your kingdom, he can go out and search resource and rare elements for you, he can be trained to gain experience, he can even go out to adventure and gain the experience point to level up. During adventure, he can defeat various enemy, and he can get items dropped (mostly crystals which can be used to craft other items). The experience point earned can be used to buy ability points which futher strengthen up the hero.

The Legacy of Holy Castle has less graphic interface and besides the hero battling interface, most parts of the game is text-based, which in my opinion, is quite clean and good-looking.