A few days ago I’ve started a series of article about ultimate soldier, you can read the previous article about the infantry unit (part 1 and part 2) or if you are looking the archers unit click here.

Today I’m taking on the cavalry. I unfortunately didn’t played that much with the cavalry, most of my heroes ended up being archer or infantry heroes.
So here the table of the cavalry

Cavalry Ultimate soldier 1 :

Resource Cost :

Best attack

Lionheart Cavaliers

Lionheart Cavaliers have the best attack of the tier-4 cavalry and they even have a little extra against infantry. However they lack defence (worst of the t4 cavalry and even worst that the T2 cavalry, which is really bad) if there lack of defence didn’t scare you off, it’s food per round consumption might make you think twice about grabbing them. At 74 they are the worst of the game even U2 use less food per round that the lionheart.

Runner up for best attack : White stallions

Best Tank (defence)

Iron-clad Cavalry

The Iron-clad have the best defense of all cavalry, so they are a perfect choice to have fast and tanky reinforcement. They however have a lower hp than other cavalry so I don’t know how much it’s make a difference in a fight though.

Runner up for best defense: White stallions 

Glass canon

Lionheart Cavaliers / Flying Monkey Brigade

I’ve already explain that Lionheart Cavaliers have a terrible defense but the Flying Monkey Brigade is not far behind. At 52 it’s the second lowest defense rating of all cavalry.

Greediest

Lionheart Cavaliers / Iron-clad Cavalry

I like I said before Lionheart Cavaliers have the highest food consumption in the game making them the greediest unit. Iron-clad eat  a lot of your food too with a consumption of 65.

Best runner up:

White Stallions

Being no 2 in attack and defense, having a lower consumption and a skill that increases damage and reduce is damage receive vs archer, make the white stallion one of the favorite cavalry among CoK player that went with cavalry. Its only downside is that its cost structure is similar to most U2, you might have to use gold and coupon to change your iron to stone and wood.

Left overs ?

Black Raiders
Black Raiders are in a weird category, they have only 2 points of attack more than the Iron-clad (the last in the U1 cavalry group), they are in the middle in term of defense, they cost mostly food and their skill is against infantry which cavalry unit are already good against.

From what I see mostly in battle and in the forum it seem that the White Stallions and the Iron-clad Cavalry are CoK fan favorite.

There a poll you can check out and vote on the forum about the cavalry u1.

Check out my previous entry on the infantry and the archers.

A few day ago I’ve started a series of article about ultimate soldier, you can read the previous article about the infantry unit or if you are looking the archers unit click here.

Like we saw in my last article, in terms of pure stats The Hammerfists and Chainmail Guard stands out has being either the best attack infantry unit or the best tank. But guess what they have similar cost structure and have a similar cost structure of most ultimate soldier 2 (call U2/T5 too).

Let break them down for you:

Ok let compare the total with the % of resource type use vs the total.

As you can see they have the same cost structure than the U2.  in term of cost they will go well with a U2 with a different cost structure like the war elephant or if you go purely inf and want to do start with u1 and then only do u2 once you got the research or if you use gold and coupon to exchange resources, then the resources distributions doesn’t matter

The Hammerfists vs Chainmail Guard
-Same cost structure ( hammer fist cost less overall though)
-Same cost structure like U2
-Chainmail = highest def. & hp.  lowest att + def bonus def vs cav
-Hammer = highest att. for u1 but low def + dmg bonus vs all troop

More of the same thing ?

There are 2 other that have almost the exact same cost and theirs stats are pretty similar too, the halberdian and the Rattan Infantry. The Halberdian have only 1 point of attack than the rattan infantry but have more def (6 point) and is the third best defence in the infantry units. However, what I like with the Rattan infantry is that it has an bonus defense vs archer and more speed (easier to move around) and their cost configuration complement well the cost of u2 (infantry and archer) since it mostly use iron which is what U2 Inf/arche use less.

Halberdian vs Rattan Infantry
-basically the same cost (mostly iron)
-RI better speed
-H good vs cavalry (extra def/att vs cav)
-RI high def vs archer (so better for attacking city)
-RI bonus damage vs infantry

Gimme ur Food punk !

Yellow Turban, Chargers and Broadsword Sentinels have one thing in common, they cost a lot of food compare to the other infantry unit. Out of the 3 the yellow seem to be the best since it has the highest attack and defense. However it skill can be misleading since it receives more damage and deal more damage, so the Broadsword sentinel(BS) might be tankier than them (the BS have higher hp too). Like I explain in my last post, the charger is a glass canon with is high attack but abysmal def (lower than a royal guard the tier 3 infantry). But the have a super high speed with 21 being even faster than some cavalry, it can make it useful for reinforcement. I personally don’t like the charger, in the current high archer with high leadership environment we have, they wont be able to land attack if they are not with high leadership hero.

Yellow Turbans vs Chargers vs Broadsword Sentinels
-have all high food cost (= not good)
-YT – 159/85
-YT –  Much higher damage dealt to all troop types in exchange for higher damage suffered.
-C  –  153/42 (less def than royal guard)
– C -Higher Unit Attack when attacking cities. Higher damage dealt to City Walls and Buildings.
-C  -best speed for a infantry unit
-BS – 129/71 – Higher Unit Attack and less damage suffered while defending cities.

Alone in the wood
Cost wise the Roving Gallant is the only unit that cost primarily wood which makes it a good complement to the U2 cavalry since it mostly cost a lot of stone and iron. Its skill reduce its damage dealt and receive, but considering it 52 of def (lower than

Like I said previously, Roving Gallant is probably one of the weakest infantry U1, it sole advantage is that its cost complement well the U2 cavalry (Rabid Horseman).

Roving Gallants
-cost primarily wood
-150 attack/ 52 def
-skill reduce damage but reduce damage receive
-best speed for a inf after the charger

That all for the infantry you can check the pool (and vote) about which infantry unit is the best.

Infantry :

Pool

Unit list

A few day ago I’ve started a series of article about ultimate soldier, you can read the previous article about how to get them and the archers.

Today I’m taking on the infantry, note that this article is mostly my personal opinion and some input from the members on the forum.
For my first tear down, I’ll focus only on stats, next part I’ll focus on cost.

List of all U1 (with T3 and U2)

	HP	ATK	DEF	SPEED	LOAD	CONS	Special Skill
Royal Guard (T3)	653	102	70	9	650	26	Higher Unit Defense against Infantry attacks
Halberdian	750	143	77	12	1320	63	Higher Unit Attack and less damage suffered while facing Cavalry.
Yellow Turbans	683	159	85	9	1680	56	Much higher damage dealt to all troop types in exchange for higher damage suffered.
The Hammerfists	650	166	58	12	1740	58	Higher damage dealt to all troop types; less damage suffered when attacked.
Chargers	669	153	42	21	1620	54	Higher Unit Attack when attacking cities. Higher damage dealt to City Walls and Buildings.
Roving Gallants	788	150	52	18	1590	53	Less damage dealt in exchange for much less damage received.
Broadsword Sentinels	794	129	71	9	1710	57	Higher Unit Attack and less damage suffered while defending cities.
Chainmail Guard	901	121	100	9	2130	71	Higher Unit Defense against Cavalry attacks.
Rattan Infantry	759	144	71	15	1890	63	Higher Unit Attack against Infantry. Higher Unit Defense against Archer attacks.
Goliaths	1633	311	70	12	1890	63	none

Best Damage output:

The Hammerfists

The Hammerfist are the hardest U1 infantry hitter. It has the highest attack and the skill that gives extra damage against all units (Higher damage dealt to all troop types). Next unit would probably go to the yellow turban since it has the second best attack and have a skill that increases damage.

Tanker:

Chainmail Guard (highest hp and def)

A tank unit is determine by 2 thing its amount of hp and its def (which reduce de damage receive)  since the chainmail guard have the highest in both attribute it win without have any other contender. The next best in line is the yellow turban (again) with the second highest def but its skill that increases damage taken might be misleading, The Halberdian seem to be a good choice too.

Glass Canon:

Chargers / The Hammerfists

While they have high attack and offensive skill, they have about the same hp of a Royal Guard (T3 infantry) and have less defence. I don’t know if the Hammerfists skill “less damage suffered when attacked. “ really have an impact to help their survival but even if you exclude the cost Royal guards are probably better to tank than those 2.

Greediest unit:

Chainmail Guard

With the 71 of consumption they consume more food than almost all other Ultimate soldier (only the Lionheart Cavaliers consume more) and even more the Goliath (the U2). While the chainmail guard cost less food that other U1 it makes it up with its high consumption. If you’re going Chainmail guard keep that in mind so you have alot of food for them.

The WTF unit

Roving Gallants

Decent attack but very weak in defense (second lowest) but its skill make me wonder : “Less damage dealt in exchange for much less damage received. “ So it drop from being a good hitter too being an average hitter and average defender (still probably less than the rattan infantry and halberdian). Not a very good trade off honestly. (honestly we have to look at it’s cost to make sense with that unit)

The forgotten

Broadsword Sentinels/Rattan Infantry

I’ve usually go for the Rattan infantry but not only for the reason here mostly because of their cost (see next post). They have a decent attack/def ratio and its skill usually what predominant in most of the server I’ve played (a high inf/archer army with low cavalry count)

I actually never tried the broadsword sentinels seem cheaper tank than the chainmail guard (and better hitter) when defending cities. Might worth a try on my next server.

So what your favorite infantry unit ?

Next post I’ll compare them cost wise and give you some precious link.

I’ve started a post about the ultimate soldier recently, today I’ll talk about the archers ultimate soldier.

Archer are probably the most used unit in the game and with reason they are super efficient to defend, they gain an extra attacks while on the wall (that mean they get an extra square while defending not a guaranteed 2 attack), many good heroes have cool abilities with them (Deng Ai, Pang tong, etc) and the best U2 is almost undoubtedly the archer u2 the northern assassin.
But despite being the most used unit they lack the number of choice the Infantry and Cavalry have.
Here a quick summary of the u1/u2 archers.

U1 Archer

Mongolian Sniper (Attack partially ignore Cavalry defense.)
cost :
wood:1390 stone: 2220 iron:830 food:1110 total:5550
HP:788
Attack:157
Defense:39
Marching Speed:9
Range:2
Movement:3
Carry Load:1650
Consumption:55

Crossbow Elites (Higher damage dealt to all troop types.)
Wood:1440 Stone:2310 Iron:860 food:1150 total:5760
HP:706
Attack:163
Defense:31
Marching Speed:12
Range:2
Movement:3
Carry Load:1710
Consumption:57

Qiang Guerillas (Less damage suffered while being attacked.)
Wood:1340 stone:1670 iron:1610 food:750 total:5370
HP:721
Attack:152
Defense:47
Marching Speed:15
Range:2
Movement:3
Carry Load:1590
Consumption:53

U2 Archer

Northern Assassins
wood:4090 stone:6550 iron:2450 food:3270 total:16360
HP:1398
Attack:336
Defense:51
Marching Speed:10
Range:2
Movement:3
Carry Load:1620
Consumption:54

U1 (T4) choice

With 163 attack power and it’s extra damage to all troop types the crossbow elite is the best U1 in term of raw damage output but lack the defense and they might just die before delivering a good blow. Qiang Guerrilla have the highest resistance and their ability give them extra longevity. Mongolian Sniper are just super strong vs cavalry.
The choice usually come down to chose between the quiang and the Crossbow elite since the mongolian sniper don’t offer much compare to the Crossbow elite and have basically the same price. From there
It’s depend on your heroes, style, your resources output (that can be changed though) and what U2 you’re choosing.
Since Crossbow Elite need the same resources distribution than some U2 (NA & Goliath)
I usually go for the Qiang Guerilla.

Note that if money and coupon are not a problem for exchanging your resource, then you might want to go with the Crossbow elite anyway since you can always change the other extra resource to the missing stone (usually) .
I personally rather not build u1 archer when I’m going NA since they use my archery ranges while building and since the NA take like week to finish a whole batch of 100/115, I rather have a mix of inf/arch or cav/arch.

More info on the forum :

Check the pool (and discussion) on which is the best U1 for archer.

Or this other pool.

I’m doing a little series of article on Ultimate soldier. In the following days I’ll post some article on each type of Ultimate soldiers.

What does U1 and U2 do?
Ultimate soldier are the strongest unit in the game, they are the most expensive unit and take forever to recruit. Once you chose them you cannot change your choice until you switch server. Note that there also a item you can use to reset your choice.

How to obtain them :
For U1 you need : L10 of attack def of corresponding research for the unit type you want the U1 from
For U2 you need : L20 of attack def of corresponding research for the unit type you want the U1 from
Note : having L10 of attack def of 2 type of unit (like cavalry and infantry) give you the choice of both U1 but you can chose only one.

Coming soon :
U1/U2 spotlight : Archer
U1/U2 spotlight : Infantry (part 1 & part 2)
U1/U2 spotlight : Cavalry

More information on the forum unit post here and the unit List :
U2 everywhere : http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-58289-1-1.html

Info on the new elite system (v1.70) : http://item.koramgame.com/ck/v1.70/article6.html

Note that is a post from our friend Astute from server L11.

This is a post more about how to maximize this feature for your school, if you want specific information about how school work try to look for it on the new patch page and on the forum :

Patch page : http://item.koramgame.com/ck/v1.50/article%203.html
Forum thread : http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-55904-1-1.html

After playing around with the school features, below are some info that should help everyone.

1. Every player have a max number of seek advice (click advice button). This number start off with 3, I am not sure if it will increase later.
2. Every player with a hero of literary Talent of level 3 or more can Challenge another hero of level 3 or more
3. Student receives more insight and Contribution as compared to the teacher.
4. Each teacher can have a max of 3 students.
5. Student gets attached to a teacher by pressing the Pay respect button

6. A teacher need to have 3 students attached before the students can seek advice

In order for everybody in the school to gain the maximum insight and contribution, the objective is to help everybody use up ALL advice and ALL challenges.In the below instructions, I am assuming that the school has 10 players.
– There should always be 3 teachers in the school.To be fair and even out the points for everyone, the 3 players with the lowest contribution should assign 1 hero as teacher.
For the other 7 players,
– assign heroes that you want to improve and use up the 3 advices
– If you have a hero at Literary level 3, check for any teacher or students with lvl 3 and use challenges.
– After finishing with the advice and challenge, remove the hero from the teacher with 3 students- Assign the hero (preferably lvl 3 hero) to a teacher with 0 or 1 student.
For the 3 players with lowest contribution,
– remove the teacher hero
– Assign heroes that you want to improve to another teacher and use up the advice.
– If you have a hero at Literary level 3, check for any teacher or students with lvl 3 and use challenges.
– After finishing with the advice and challenge, remove the hero from the teacher with 3 students
– Assign a hero to become the teacher

After every week, the school can review again who have lowest contribution and reassign the 3 players with lowest contribution.

– A Teacher hero from the Headmaster can take more than 3 students

– Teacher from other players can take a max of 3 students

– The player with highest contribution becomes the headmaster

For the current event (see announcement)

– Every hero have 3 free reviews

– Every player have 3 free Private Tutor

Private tutor gives additional free advice to all students under that teacher.Since Headmaster can have more students, the way to maximize the Private tutoring is for all heroes to become students of headmaster. Headmaster use up 3 private tutor session Another player try and gain more contribution until he becomes headmaster, he assign a hero to be teacher. Everyone else assign student to the new headmaster, and repeat.

DDtank server merge

Yesterday (march 13) DDtank merged the server 1 and the server 2
Here a extract from there press release for more info:

To respond to your request, improve the atmosphere of the gaming environment and give you a better experience in game with more partners and more challenges,
YooGames DDTank on 2012.3.13 PDT will merge server 1 Canyon and server
2 Treasure after a temporary maintenance(for the exact times please visit the
YooGames DDTank website:http://www.yoogames.com/ddt/ and forums)?

Special thanks to all that have been supporting YooGames DDTank all this while!
We will give all of you more chances to share your in-game experience,battle with
stronger opponents,and make new friends!

After the merge, there will be these events,be the first to check them out:

Event 1: Celebration of merging! Double (what’s bless?)
Event 2: Celebration of merging, free packages! Will be gift away
Event 3: Melting Jewelry for merging of the server
Event 4: Fortifying weapon, hat, shield/arm because of the server merge!
Event 5: Marriage event!
(for details log on to YooGames DDTank webpage and forums:">http://

www.yoogames.com/ddt/)

Let these events ignite our passions,what are you waiting for?Join the family of
YooGames DDTank now!

Three Kingdom Online U25, U26 & U27 Server Merge

There is a merge of 6 server into 3 utlimate server. I’m not on any of these server though.
Here the detail:

19:00 Mar. 21th to 19:00 22th Mar. (PDT)
S50, S52 -> Ultimate Server 25
S51, S53 -> Ultimate Server 26
U12, U18 -> Ultimate Server 27

If you are merging go check their forum thread explaining the merge, it pretty much the same as other merge but it always good to remember what happening.

http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-53823-1-1.html

You can check my other articles on the server merge.
How to prepare for a merge
My first merge
Ultimate server merge war lasted 1 day

Clash Of kingdom L5, L7 and L10 Server merge poll

L5, L7 and L10 are almost done, while we don’t have a hard date, Koram is asking for suggestion on how to do the merge.
You can check the forum thread and give your opinion if your one of those server.
Here the forum thread : http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-53846-6-1.html
Here where you can vote on one of 4 option : http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-54250-1-1.html

I think Merging all 3 servers into 1 its bad, having many characters in the same server is very annoying to do specially with the new koram start page. Some players are stuck with 3 and more different character they need to switch.
Instead of merging everybody in 1 server, create 3 new L servers with different maps (one with 6, one with 8 one with 3) and kingdoms for each account ID to pick. This will allows players to split up their IDs into different kingdoms and reduce the pain of account switching.
So from that perspective I think the best option is the last one (option 4) have 3 new server and legion can change server.
So go give your opinion you have until march 15th 11h59PM PST.

I was feeling old school and I decided to bring out my old nes and play a game that really loved then Destiny of an Emperor.

Destiny of an Emperor is old NES RPG game (made in 1989) that is based on the Romance of three kingdoms novel.

It’s not the actual story of the Luo Guanzhong’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel since you control Liu Bei and is general and you can actually take down the Wu and wei Kingdom.

So for you fan of Clash of Kingdom and Three kingdom online, I think you will love that game. You will see all the good old general from the Three kingdom Area.

I don’t know if I’m going to write about it but if you want to check some walkthrough you can check lord Yuan Shu site for there review and walkthrough of the game :

Lord yuan shu site:http://www.lordyuanshu.com/category/destiny-of-an-emperor

You can find the game and walkthrough on Kongming site:http://kongming.net/doae/

I’m laughing myself out right now because of Peng Guo awesome Three Kingdom comics. Read this one and click on it for his main site

Peng Guo created this web comic about the story of the three kingdom but on is own view. Zhang Fei like Mc Donald, Cao Cao have a duck hat and the Red Hare is a red hare… Some might be a little offensive or be NSFW but there are all awesome.

Check these out, click on the image for the main site.

This is kind of a update from my previous post :What to do everyday to maximize your army and heroes but I sometime cut in the in the middle of something and just log in grab some tax, build troop, move around my carrier and help my kingdom in an attack that I forget this stuff.

So here are the top thing I forget to do sometime that are important to do…

1-Greet your fellow brother: Sorry my brother if I forget to greet you, it just that it lost in the city interface. Click on a city, then city again then tavern then the last tab and sometime they’re not enough brother in your brotherhood so you can even click… So please go greet your brother, each time you do it you gain loyalty and you need to get to 41 of loyalty to get the brother in arm skill.

2-Train in the cave for some xp (last 8hr so up to 3 time a day): I usually think about it the first time I login but forget to do it afterward. A friend of mine said, if your afraid of forgetting it, do it right away and if there only a few hours remaining, just cancel and restart for 8hrs so you maximize the amount of training your heroes get. And don’t give a little extra to you favorite heroes with some inspiration, specially when the boost is on.

3-Register battle royal: I log in the morning so this is never enable, when I come back it sometime already 5h00 PM PST. arrrg

A easy way to get gem and a extra tax, try to do it before 5h00 PM

Hum that not battle royal …just a image to fill point 3 and 4

4-Play resource war : It’s at 8h00 PM PST so don’t miss it. I tend to always miss it because 1- it so late and 2- at 8h30 it’s already to late. Its great way to get free resources. Check out the forum for more information.

5-Help your legion in legion league battle: This one can be easy to forget because sometime your legion leaders are human and forget to register your legion. If your legion is strong enough and you don’t have amnesic legion leader you have to remember to go sign in after 8h00 PM (which for some of us is late) and next day you have to go collect your silver ( If your legion win) before 5h00 PM…

If you manage to think about all of this you’ll get a good amount of extra silver the next day.

6- Donate to kingdom: I’m guilty of forgetting this one some time. But at the beginning of the server it essential that you help your kingdom and it will help you later. When there only one left when tend to forget…

7-Buy all gear at mystery shop: most of it is crap, so in the past I rarely visited it at all. Now it’s good to visit the mystery shop because you can recycle all the crappy gear since the update 1.4 so it’s good to go there and buy everything for a total of 15 gear and recycle everything you don’t like.

8-Recyle

Recycle all your crappy gear from point 7 and from the historical campaign. All sometime forget this because doing it is freaking (no swearing see) is boring. Click click click get some gem click click get some more, click click nothing …

It worth it but since it tedious I don’t always do it. I hope they will do like in three kingdom online and do batch recycle. You get so many gem if you do it every day and you can upgrade/enhance/refine/temper a lot of your gear after that.

9-Login for free gift:

Now that they log us with the announcement I don’t forget it but I use to do.  Don’t forget to check if there any free gift, there almost free gift every day, sometime you have to do stuff to do it but it’s usually worth it.

10-Check to if there any new heroes (after awhile you might not to do that)

When you have all your heroes we tend to forget to check forget to check for new heroes, I actually got Deng Ai just by refreshing with 10 silver. Ok if you’re using gold you’re probably better to really forget checking heroes with silver, since you probably got a bunch of gold one already…

List of silver heroes

Click on the image to check Peng Guo awesome comics.

Other that are not there

Play bull-eye 5 time

Let be honest after doing bull-eye a bunch of time you get bored and never look back… I forget it but then I think of doing it I don’t do it anyway …

Play heroes roster 5 time

Same has Bull-eye but worst…

So what are the thing you tend to forget ?