Aloriah: Midgard Progress Update #2.21

The interesting thing this week is that my "Civilization Size" has hit 7700. I had some spare resource (most of it is used to retrain troops for Mother Dragon attacks), and finally finished upgrading all my buildings to level 10. Thus, 7700 "Civilization Size" is the highest you can get.

The Mother Dragon has landed again, with 50% life. Time to kill her more! Here are details on the new epics available:

Ragnarök's weekly attack on the Mother Dragon occurred as normal. This was attack #10 and we did 7.7% damage, taking her down to 42.3%. If you are interested, you can read the battle report at:

http://midgard.aloriah.com/battlereport.php?id=130529

• Aloriah is an online web browser based strategy game. More information can be found at my Aloriah Coverage page.
• If you wish to jump straight in, you can sign up at http://www.aloriah.com/?ref=guzzer.
• As best described by the creators of the game:
  "Aloriah is a free online web browser game based on mythologies of our time.
  Rule a civilization and experience epic events together with thousands of other players.
  • Play for free directly online through your internet browser
  • Expand villages, rally your armies and level your heroes
  • Explore the lands of Aloriah to find its mysteries
  • Journey on legendary quests together with your friends
  • Choose to worship the gods of good or evil"

Aloriah: Midgard Progress Update #2.20

Rolled past 35k scenario points, but did not get any rewards for it. I guess the 30k mark was it for rewards.

On Midgard, we pretty much control the server and access to the Mother Dragon. This was the first proper non-alliance attack, so props go out to Mysterious!

The Mother Dragon now loses life on a weekly basis. That was 4% supposedly. The message was bugged but now has been fixed.

Ragnarök's weekly attack on the Mother Dragon occurred as normal. This was attack #9 and we did 12.5% damage, taking her down to 43.8%. If you are interested, you can read the battle report at:

http://midgard.aloriah.com/battlereport.php?id=122949

She is now back flying in the air, and her life rounds back up to 50%.

Apparently, silver eggs can now be found (an alliance member got one). They upgrade the Mother Dragon set items to the next tier. As for me, I have not found anything new yet. :(

• Aloriah is an online web browser based strategy game. More information can be found at my Aloriah Coverage page.
• If you wish to jump straight in, you can sign up at http://www.aloriah.com/?ref=guzzer.
• As best described by the creators of the game:
  "Aloriah is a free online web browser game based on mythologies of our time.
  Rule a civilization and experience epic events together with thousands of other players.
  • Play for free directly online through your internet browser
  • Expand villages, rally your armies and level your heroes
  • Explore the lands of Aloriah to find its mysteries
  • Journey on legendary quests together with your friends
  • Choose to worship the gods of good or evil"

Lord of Ultima: Templar Military City Layout

Similarly to Crossbowmen, I normally use Paladins instead of Templars (http://guzzerbbg.blogspot.com/2010/11/lord-of-ultima-paladin-military-city.html). However, there are times whereby you need permanent dedicated defense, for example, palace defense. In this case, Templars would be better.

Thus, here is the Templar Military City Layout which you can see in the LoU Flash City Planner:

Max Units: 296,000 Templars

Recruitment Speed: 5s

Storage: 975,000 wood/stone and 2,575,000 iron/food

Food Deficit: 37,000 per hour (need to restock every 2.90 days)

As you can see, it is designed for maximum troop strength and reasonable recruiting speed. There is no need for Moonglow Towers, Marketplaces, etc. You just build lots of Templars who sit and defend your palace.

Like always, there is no food production, ship it in via the trade minister.

For towers, I use:

• Lookout Tower x2 to give 20 hours of attack advanced warning. I find 1 tower/10 hours is not enough.
• Ballista Tower x22 as the most risk is someone catapulting your city.

• Lord of Ultima is an online web browser based strategy game. More information can be found at my Lord of Ultima Coverage page.
• If you wish to jump straight in, you can sign up at http://www.lordofultima.com/en/ref/2300431315.
• As best described by the creators of the game:
  "Lord of Ultima is EA’s first game in the free Strategy MMO genre and is completely playable in a web browser. Developed by EA’s Phenomic studio, the game’s creator Volker Wertich (the genius behind strategy classics such as the Settlers) takes this genre to the next level. Lord of Ultima features deep strategic gameplay and multiple social features including an advanced trading system, alliance features, online chat, and forums. At launch it will be available in English and German language.
  
  
  Set in the legendary Ultima universe, the game takes you to the new world of Caledonia, formed from the remains of Sosaria which was shattered into countless islands. You start your journey with a humble village which you grow over time into a mighty and prosperous capital. On your path to glory you will have to expand your power by creating additional cities, exploring new continents and forging a vast empire. You must master the art of diplomacy and trade as well as the military activities of spying, plundering, attacking and sieging enemy cities to finally become the mighty and feared Lord of Ultima."

Aloriah: Midgard Progress Update #2.19

30k scenario points, just rolling through the milestones. I am not sure how many resources I received as a reward, just a lot, as the notification for the scenario point rewards is currently bugged.

The excitement of the patch 1.004 changes is now dying down, and it is back to business as usual:

• Black dragon scenario point Farming.
• Weekly Mother Dragon attacks.
• Farming ruins/fishing for items/resources.
• Plundering other players for resources (to fund our troop retraining for Mother Dragon attacks) and ensure no one else gets too big so as to challenge us in future.

Ragnarök's weekly attack on the Mother Dragon occurred as normal. This was attack #8 and we did 8.8% damage, taking her down to 61.7%. If you are interested, you can read the battle report at:

http://midgard.aloriah.com/battlereport.php?id=117052

Despite it being the most damage we have done in an attack, it was a rather messy attack. We were not all able to engage at the same time as the server was incredibly unstable. We had great difficult logging in to change our movement orders. The Mother Dragon was moving around a bit and we had to re-plot our path to her several times. Draak basically carried a lot of the damage as he brought a ton more troops!

A few of us in the alliance were lucky enough to get purple eggs so we did a combined hatching which netted all of us a new epic each:

I think it was bugged a little as the chance is not supposed to be 100% for all. It has been corrected now and we should consider ourselves fortunate.

Rewards for dragon scrolls were upgraded in patch 1.004  but as you can see, it may still not be worth the time to use them. However, I still have a greater scroll to test which I will do so soon.

Chest rewards were increased also. Similarly (to scrolls), I am not sure gold chests are worth bothering with, especially given you have to dedicate a primary skill to them.

• Aloriah is an online web browser based strategy game. More information can be found at my Aloriah Coverage page.
• If you wish to jump straight in, you can sign up at http://www.aloriah.com/?ref=guzzer.
• As best described by the creators of the game:
  "Aloriah is a free online web browser game based on mythologies of our time.
  Rule a civilization and experience epic events together with thousands of other players.
  • Play for free directly online through your internet browser
  • Expand villages, rally your armies and level your heroes
  • Explore the lands of Aloriah to find its mysteries
  • Journey on legendary quests together with your friends
  • Choose to worship the gods of good or evil"

Aloriah: Midgard Progress Update #2.18

30k scenario points here I come!

The long awaited Patch 1.004 (Graphics and Egg-Content) has now arrived. Patch notes can be found at:

http://www.aloriah.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=2862

Once of the first things I checked was the new "Realm Ranking". I am rather pleased with my #1 position given that I do not focus on achievements primarily. My main aim is to win the round and get achievements as I go. Ramdas, on the other hand, does focus on achievements a bit and he has now surpassed me with 2135 achievement points, it just has not updated yet. Congratulations are in order!

When the Mother Dragon is in the air, she drops eggs which you can pick up. Above is how they look on the ground. It is the green egg just next to the lookout tower. When the Mother Dragon is landed, you can still get eggs from ruins, etc.

Above are the eggs which are available/known at present.

The Mother Dragon landed and brought new toys!

Following are some egg uses:

Both of the buffs last 3 days by the way.

I was fortunate to get 3 bronze eggs and upgraded 3 items.

Given the Mother Dragon has landed, we resumed our weekly attacks on her. There was a problem with this weeks attack as the Mother Dragon roams out of her lair a lot more, as you can see in following picture:

Whilst we were waiting at the gather spot, the Mother Dragon attacked us! My main army was still enroute. Therefore, we only did 3.8%. The battle report is at:

http://midgard.aloriah.com/battlereport.php?id=110153

When my main army finally arrived, I then attacked solo, doing only 0.5%. The battle report is at:

http://midgard.aloriah.com/battlereport.php?id=110328

I could have left the alliance temporary to attack without the "Wrath of the Mother Dragon" (only 35% effectiveness as there are seven of us in the alliance). If I did so, I would have done a lot more damage. However, I chose not to do so as my little form of protest. I am not happy how the wrath makes us "raid" each week, instead of attacking in our own time. Such a design goes against the notion of being able to play in your own time.

The Mother Dragon now sits at 70.5%. Prior to our two attacks, it had roamed and attacked two other players who each did 0.1% to her.

Given the Mother Dragon roams out of her lair a lot more now, the parts of Molten Ashlands near her lair have become extremely hazardous. Above is a prime example of an army I had too close. :( 

• Aloriah is an online web browser based strategy game. More information can be found at my Aloriah Coverage page.
• If you wish to jump straight in, you can sign up at http://www.aloriah.com/?ref=guzzer.
• As best described by the creators of the game:
  "Aloriah is a free online web browser game based on mythologies of our time.
  Rule a civilization and experience epic events together with thousands of other players.
  • Play for free directly online through your internet browser
  • Expand villages, rally your armies and level your heroes
  • Explore the lands of Aloriah to find its mysteries
  • Journey on legendary quests together with your friends
  • Choose to worship the gods of good or evil"

Lord of Ultima: Guardian Military City Layout

Although I normally use Crossbowmen (http://guzzerbbg.blogspot.com/2011/02/lord-of-ultima-crossbowman-military.html), there are times whereby you need permanent dedicated defense, for example, palace defense. In this case, Guardians would be better.

Thus, here is the Guardian Military City Layout which you can see in the LoU Flash City Planner:

Max Units: 292,000 Guardians

Recruitment Speed: 4s

Storage: 975,000 wood/stone and 2,575,000 iron/food

Food Deficit: 36,500 per hour (need to restock every 2.94 days)

As you can see, it is designed for maximum troop strength and reasonable recruiting speed. There is no need for Moonglow Towers, Marketplaces, etc. You just build lots of Guardians who sit and defend your palace.

Like always, there is no food production, ship it in via the trade minister.

For towers, I use:

• Lookout Tower x2 to give 20 hours of attack advanced warning. I find 1 tower/10 hours is not enough.
• Ballista Tower x22 as the most risk is someone catapulting your city.

• Lord of Ultima is an online web browser based strategy game. More information can be found at my Lord of Ultima Coverage page.
• If you wish to jump straight in, you can sign up at http://www.lordofultima.com/en/ref/2300431315.
• As best described by the creators of the game:
  "Lord of Ultima is EA’s first game in the free Strategy MMO genre and is completely playable in a web browser. Developed by EA’s Phenomic studio, the game’s creator Volker Wertich (the genius behind strategy classics such as the Settlers) takes this genre to the next level. Lord of Ultima features deep strategic gameplay and multiple social features including an advanced trading system, alliance features, online chat, and forums. At launch it will be available in English and German language.
  
  
  Set in the legendary Ultima universe, the game takes you to the new world of Caledonia, formed from the remains of Sosaria which was shattered into countless islands. You start your journey with a humble village which you grow over time into a mighty and prosperous capital. On your path to glory you will have to expand your power by creating additional cities, exploring new continents and forging a vast empire. You must master the art of diplomacy and trade as well as the military activities of spying, plundering, attacking and sieging enemy cities to finally become the mighty and feared Lord of Ultima."