Hey all, and welcome to a revised and updated version of the Kingdoms at War Handbook. This will be in mostly the same format and same information from the KaW Handbook brilliantly posted by Dillybar, I will thank him and give most credit to him for this. DISCLAIMER: I do take ownership of this thread and the content. The content taking from DillyBar's thread has been re-used and edited by me. I hope you all enjoy (= NOTE: If you see this color, it means that you are reading a new section of this Handbook. ___________________________________ Table of Contents 1. Kingdoms at War Home 2. Communication and Slang 3. Forums 4. Buildings 5. Builds 6. Lands 7. Building Strategies 8. Allies/Volleying 9. The Marketplace 10. Clans 11. Wars 12. Getting Started 13. Making Money 14. Epic Battles 15. Equipment 16. Achievements 17. Leaderboards 18. Terms of Use 19. Quick Links 20. Advice/Behvior ___________________________________ Kingdoms at War Home First off, You will come to one of three screens...iDevice, PC or Android. I will give a brief where to find what on each (PICTURES!). The Kingdoms at War homepage is the page that pops up when you open the Kingdoms at War App. It has lots of information and buttons on it, and I'm going to explain what each of them lead to and talk about. FIRST OFF: iDevice The Top Bar- The Top Bar contains a lot of information. It has the number of soldiers you have out of your max amount of soldiers, the number of spies you have out of your max amount of spies, and the amount of time until your next regeneration. It also has how much gold you have, how many Nobility Points you have, how many allies you have, and lastly, it has how many Buildings you have. This also gives you the tab to open your chat section. In the chat section it will have three tabs: Wall, Friends, and Private Messages. Your wall is clearly..Your wall! This will is a public view where everyone can see and talk to your or others. The friends tab is where you can talk to in private messages if you have followed them, and they did the same back (thus making you KaWriends!). The chat tab is where it shows your PM's of whom you have been talking to (history). Finally, it gives you the settings. In this settings it allows you to toggle the notifications you have, AND see the users you have blocked. Battle- The Battle button is the top button to the right of your flag. Here you can search for a player or check the battle list. In the battle list these are players that are CURRENTLY online. With this, you can view their profile, and or attack or use a spy action on them. The players on here will be about the size of build you are. This list can be refreshed to find others to hit. Quests- The Quests Button is the button second from the top to the right of your flag. Here you can do quests. Also, you may recieve a bonus for "mastering" a quest which is basically doing 1 quest succesfully a certain amount of times. There is also a small chance of getting a nobility point or health crystal from succesfully doing quest. I'll say it again, a SMALL chance. Profile- The Profile Button is the button third from the top to the right of your flag. In your profile, you can check out many many things. The first thing you can do is, edit your banner! This will be your motto to Kingdoms at War. This has a 100 character limit. The second thing you will notice will be the clan info; this will show you what clan you are in, and the title you have. The next thing you will notice is the equipped equipment pieces you have, you can also click the view more button to bring up more equipment pieces and the stats received from them. After the equipment comes your latest achievements. You can click the view more button to view all, latest, or achieved achievements. You will then come to your stats, this will include: Attack, Defence, Spy Attack, and Spy Defence. Then comes your ally stats. These stats are the BTA and BFA. BTA = Bonus to Allies (what most people come to by your combined stats). BFA = Bonus from Allies (the total amount of stats received by allies). You can also check out whom owns you, your ally hire price, and plunder bonus to allies. Next, Battle stats. These are all the actions you have done in Kingdoms at War, to and from players and or epic battles. The stats include: Fight offenses/defenses won/lost. Steal offenses/defenses won/lost. Scout offenses/defenses won/lost. Assassination offensese/defense won/lost. Bonuses. This included your equipment bonuses and Pro Pack % bonuses along with your reset bonsues. Clan Bonuses. The bonuses you receive from your clan by getting various achivements. Below bonuses are Active Spells. These are your spells activate by the alchemist. Items: This shows the number of said items in: Attack/Defense/Spy Attack/Spy Defense potions and Permanent Items/Other Items. Last button: Reset. Self explainatory. Leaders- The Leaders Button is the fourth button from the top to the right of your flag. Please view the Leader Section for more information. Clans- The Clans Button is the blue button on the left underneath your flag. Please view the Clans Section for more information. Forums- The Forums Button is the middle blue button underneath your flag. Please view the Forums Section for more information. Help- The Help Button is the blue button on the right underneath your flag. Here you will get help about the Basics, Chat & Forum Behavior, Allies, Buildings, Items, Battles, Quests, Points, Clans & Wars, Epic Battles, Terms of Service, and the Privacy Policy. Chat- The Chat Button is the Speech Bubble close to the bottom right corner. Click here to access World Chat, Clan Chat, or Ally Chat. View the Communication and Slang section for more information. Home- The Home Button is the left button on the bottom row. Clicking on home will take you back to the Kingdoms at War Homepage. Newv5B/u] The News Button is the middle button on the bottom row of buttons. Clicking it will take you to your news. Here you will see when someone battles you (LOL), when an ally is hired or has reset, and clan info. Allies- The Allies Button is the second from the right button on the bottom row. Please view the Allies Section for more information. Kingdom- The Kingdom Button is the second from the left button on the bottom row. Here you can see what buildings you have, explore more land, build more buildings, upgrade your buildings, sell your buildings, and travel to high/lowlands. Marketplace- The Marketplace Button is the the right button on the bottom row. View The Marketplace section for more information. Second: Android The top bar on the Android only contains the settings tab, and your messsages tab. NOTE: You will not be able to view the list of blocked people on ANDROID. Smack tab in the middle is your kingdom flag, or if engaged in an Epic Battle...the boss picture! To the top left you will find your Kingdom outlook. Below that is your ally list. To your top left is the battle tab, below that is your quest line. Below your kingdom flag there are another five tabs. The left one will ask you for feedback. After that (left to right) is your marketplace tab, forums, leaderboards then a help topics. ALL these buttons do the same as iDevice. Additionally...You can click you menus button on your Android phonee. This will give you six tabs to choose from...Home, Search, Allies, Marketplace, clan and profile. Last: PC (computer) This will be much more complicated to explain...If you read all of the above it will make sence and pretty much be self explainatory. You have your top bar, from left to right here are the tabs that is provided: Forums -> Clan Events -> Top Players -> Top Clans -> Top EBs -> Link iPhone -> Logout. By clicking on the forums it will open a new tab for you on your internet browser and will bring you to your sections of forums. I'm sure you can guide yourself from there The last two things the Android and iDevice's do not provide are the Logout and Link iPhone features. Logout..you logout! When you click the link iPhone button, it will direct you to a different web page and you follow the directions to link your iPhone; simple right? You then have your name, flag, cash, troop/spy level to your left followed by 9 tabs you can view of your profile: Kingdom, battle, quests, allies, supplies, alchemist, mage and oracle. Supplies = marketplace. Under your 9 tabs you will see three symbols...settings (this will bring up your blocked list andyour main settings), feedback, and music (volume on or off). To the right of that is your chat bar. This includes: World, Clan, Ally. Click whichever one you want to view and it'll show up. NOTE: If on world chat, it will include messages from ALL chats, BUT you will be posting on WORLD chat. LAST THING: Your friends list, and messages. Sadly, this isn't in order..so if you have a lot of friends and a PM..good luck finding it!
Communication and Slang There are 6 different methods of communication. They are world chat, clan chat, ally chat, wall chat, palringo chat and Private Messages. World Chat- World chat is chat with the world. In order to access World Chat, you click on the speech bubble and you click on world. There you can say whatever you want as long as you don't violate the terms of service. Speaking on World Chat costs 1 speaker for every message. You regenerate 5 speakers every day if you are on an iPod touch, iPhone, Kindle, or Android. You can also pay 1 nobility at the oracle for 1 speaker. There is a 100 character limit in World Chat. Lastly, there is a banner at the top that advertises the latest news with clans and wars. You can also spend 26 speakers to post a message on the banner for 15 minutes. You will limit at 25 speakers from regeneration. Clan Chat- Clan Chat is chat with your clan. In order to access Clan Chat, you click on the speech bubble and then you click on clan. There you can say whatever you want as long as you don't violate the terms of service IF ENFORCED. You must be in a clan to access Clan Chat, and chat there is free. There is a 100 character limit in Clan Chat. Ally Chat- Ally Chat is chat with your owner or your hired allies. In order to access Ally Chat you click on the speech bubble and then you click on Allies. There you can say whatever you want. Chat in Ally Chat is free. There is a 100 character limit in Ally Chat. Wall Chat- Wall chat is chat with anyone in Kingdoms at War. Everyone in Kingdoms at War has a wall. In order to view your wall click the top right button with the social media Icon. There you can see what posts people have left on your wall for you. In order to post on someone elses wall, you will need to search, and type in the username of the person that you want to wall. Then you click on "Wall" click "Post to Wall" and type out whatever you want to post. Once you have finished reading a post, you can also delete it by clicking on the minus sign and you can also see how long ago the message was posted. There is a 128 character limit per wall post. Regardless if you are on YOUR wall or not, you must stay within the Terms of Use or you can be silenced. Palringo Chat- Palringo lite is a free Application from the AppStore. Here you can talk to people privately through private messages or chat with a group. Here you can say whatever you want and you can also post pictures. There is no character limit in Palringo Chat. Slang- There are lots of slang words for Kingdoms at War. Here are a few of the main slang terms. KaW- Kingdoms at War LB- LeaderBoard WC- World Chat CC- Clan Chat AC- Ally Chat Pal- Palringo Pin- When a defender is "Too Weak" Sit- To keep a defender "Too Weak" Volley- Hiring 1 person back and forth Farming- To hit 1 person over 5x daily OSF- Open Secret Farm Pots- Items from The Marketplace LC- Land Complete (Buying all lands) DTW- Defender Too Weak PM- Private Message BUMP- Bring Up My Post (Forums) Devs- The developers of Kingdoms at War ToU- Terms of Use Bypassing- Modifying a word to get past the filter Stats- Your BTA (located on profile) Nobs- Nobility Points Maxed- LC with all fully upgraded buildings Regen- Regeneration period, where you get more troops/spies Full- To have all of your soldiers/spies Lurking- Being in a chat but not talking Sub- A Subterranean Factory T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6- Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4, Tier 5, Tier 6 Lv- Level (of building) Attk- Attack Def- Defense Scout Bomb- To scout someone a lot Assa- To Assassinate someone Keep- Owning an ally BL- Battle List Circ- Summoning Circle Av- War Aviary Plunder- The gold you earn from an attack Ally Plunder- The gold your allies give you Tax- The amount of gold taken away in war BTA- Bonus To Allies BFA- Bonus From Allies K- Thousand M/Mil- Million Bil/B- Billion Strip- Hire allies and farm a player HLC- Bought all of the lands in The Highlands HLBC- Bought all of the lands in The Highlands with Lvl3 T5 Buildings HFC - Bought all of the lands in The Hoarfrost Lands HFLC - Bought all of the lands in the Hoarfrost Lands with Lvl3 T6 buildings EB- Epic Battle. TFO- The Forgotten Ones (EB) BR- Battle Royale (EB) NML- No Mans Land (EB) Haunt- The Haunting (EB) NQ- No Quarter (EB) CotD- City of the Dead (EB) FoD- Figure of Death (EB) ToC- Talons of Carnage (EB) NG- New Growth (EB) SS- Scionic Storm (EB) SR- Sporavek's Revenage (EB) TBO- The Barren Orchard (EB) TT- Terrain Travails (EB) CtT- Crossing the Threshold (EB) CoR- Cave of Riches (EB) TGL- The Gilded Lord (EB) StP - Storm the Palace (EB) VD - Viper's Den (EB) DS - Desert Stine (EB) ACC - A Cold Calling (EB) VP - Vanished Paladin (EB) FC - Frozen City (EB) WW - Wasteland Wilds (EB) GS - Glacial Squall (EB) TSG - The Sleeping Giant (EB) SS - Smoke Signals (EB)