Wilderness

Wilderness regions are uncontrolled regions on the Map, and may be hills, mountains, lakes, etc. Conquering these regions will improve production of the relevant resource. How much your production is increased depends on the level of the region(level 1 will give you 5% and level 10 will give you 50% more resources). The level of the region impacts how hard the region is to conquer and how many troops you will need. You can scout before you try to conquer the region to get an idea of what kind of troops you will need. In Wilderness regions level 5 up to 10 you may find crests but it is very random.

Charts

Units in Wilderness This chart indicates how many troops you will encounter in an unoccupied wilderness:

Level	Supply Troop	Militiamen	Scout	Pikemen	Swordmen	Archer	Cavalry	Heavy Cavalry	Ballista	Battering Ram	Catapult	Traps
1	50	50
2	100	100	50	50								5
3	200	200	100	100	50							10
4	500	500	200	200	100	50						20
5	1000	1000	500	500	200	100	50					50
6	1500	1500	1000	1000	500	200	100					100
7	3000	3000	1500	1500	1000	500	200	50				150
8	6000	6000	3000	3000	1500	1000	500	100	50			300
9	12000	12000	6000	6000	3000	1500	1000	200	100	50		600
10	25000	25000	12000	12000	6000	3000	1500	400	200	100	50	1200

Traps regenerate 10% of that level every 5 minutes.

Defeated Wilderness Forces repopulate 10% of that level every 5 minutes.

Fighting in the Wilderness

Note that the effectiveness of your troops in battle is determined by the level of your knight and your levels in fletching, metal alloys, poisoned edge and healing potions.

With the addition of Traps in the patch of 25. February, it is no longer possible to conquer a Wilderness level 2 and above without any losses.

Updated Tutorial - May 23, 2010

Send as many milita or supply troops as there are traps in the first wave, and they will all be sacrificed to the traps.

Note: Supply troops are slower than militia however, ballistaes are even slower than both, so, for lv 8+ wilds, it can be more economical to use supply troops as sacrifices.

Here is a basic chart that indicates the properties of different levels:

*  Wave 2 - Main Attack must be done as quickly as possible after Wave 1 starts it march.  Traps will respawn and kill 
	    your fighting troops in Wave 2 in 15-30 seconds. Make sure you use economical to use up 
	    Supply Troops in both waves or you may have your 2nd wave overtaking your 1st Suicide Run wave.  By the time 
	    you're hitting a Level 5 Wilderness hopefully you've researched Featherweight Powder at least to Level 2 so 
	    that each Supply Troop can carry 240 Resource units.  At Level 5, the respawning rate of the traps are 
	    instant.  In 15 seconds the 50 traps will kill 50 Archers of your second wave. Make your 2nd wave marches 
	    immediately after the 1st Suicide Run wave within 14 seconds.
**(On level 8 to 10 wilderness add 1 ballista to militia wave to make timer similar.)
*** Make sure your 2nd wave hits the wild as as soon as possible after 1st wave, all traps will 
   regen within 5 minutes.
**** Please also make sure your fletching lvl matches the ones given below for desired results.

The point of this chart is to give you the lowest loss scenario. Losing 20k militia for 1 wild is NOT efficient when you can do it by losing per say 50 catas. Stop messing with the low level wilds and adding 20 different wave setups for 9-10. Go to Wilderness Research to put up your research data. This table below is ONLY for the lowest cost loss or the easiest.

Level	Resource Bonus	Wave 1 - Suicide Run to use up traps	Wave 2 - Main Attack	Troop Losses	Minimum Fletching	Rally Point Level	Comments
1	5%	n/a	11 Swordsmen	n/a	.	1+	OK
2	10%	5 militia/supply tr.	150 Archers & 10 Supply*	5 Supply	2+	2+	OK
3	15%	10 militia/supply tr.	300 Archers	1st Wave	3+	2+	OK
4	20%	20 militia/supply tr.	1,000 Archers	1st Wave	4+	2+	OK
5	25%	50 militia/supply tr.	2,500 Archers	1st Wave	5+	2+	OK
6	30%	100 militia/supply tr.	4,200 Archers	1st Wave	7+	2+	OK
7	35%	150 militia/supply tr.	6,000 Archers	1st Wave	8+	2+	OK
8	40%	299 Militia/Supply Tr. + 1 Ballista**	10k Archers + 800 Ballista	299 Militia, 1 Archer & 1 Ballista	9+	2+	OK
8	40%	299 Militia/Supply Tr. + 1 Balista**	10k Archers + 1600 Balista	1st Wave + 1 Balista	9+	2+	OK
9	45%	599 Militia/Supply Tr. + 1 Ballista**	40k Archers + 2,500 Ballista	1st Wave + 1 Archer & 100 Ballista	9	3+	OK
9	45%	599 Militia/Supply Tr. + 1 Ballista**	12k Swords + 30k Archers + 1200 Ballista	1st Wave + 1 swordman & 100 Ballista	9	3+	OK
9	45%	599 Militia/Supply Tr. + 1 Ballista**	12k Swords + 30k Archers + 2400 Ballista	1st Wave + 100 Ballista	9	3+	OK
9	45%	600 Militia	43,425 Archers	1st Wave + 1,063 Archers	9	5+	OK
9	45%	599 Militia + 1 Ballista	10k Archers + 2500 Ballista	1st Wave + 2 Archers	10	2+	OK
10	50%	1199 + 1 Ballista	54,000 Archers + 2400 Ballista	1st wave + 1006 Archers + 450 Ballista	9	9	OK
10	50%	1199 Militia + 1 Catapult	30k Archers + 2500 Catapults	1st Wave + 6 Archers, & 50 Catapults	10	9	OK
10	50%	1200 Militia/Supply Tr. + 1 Ballista**	10k Swords + 70k Archers + 2840 Ballista	1st Wave + 1000 Archers & 400 Ballista	10	9	OK
10	50%	1200 Militia/Supply Tr.	80k Archers + 1 Militia	1st Wave + 2126 Archers	10	9	OK
10	50%	1200 Militia/Supply Tr.	82k Archers + 4500 Ballistae + 3500 Catapults	1st Wave + 5 Archers & 50 Catapults	10	9	OK
10	50%	1200 Militia	90k Archers + 10k Catapults	1st Wave + 50 Catapults	10	10	OK
10	50%	1199 MM + 1 Catapult	80k Archers + 5000 Ballista + 5000 Rams + 10k Catapults	1st Wave + 50 Catapults	10	10	OK

Contributors

• Lord MightyMarv
• Lady Sarena of Council of Elders
• Furnix, Theo, and Dreldan=
• Persephassa
• Brooklyn
• Casper_DM
• Checelieto = zeusmaxfield
• NoodleOh
• Desero
• Eshara24
• Altiar
• MiLkDudD12
• Lord AP0LL0
• Chrishaas
• Azurwraith (added level 8 no loss scenario)
• Updated Rows and Table style Desero 21:42, May 27, 2010 (UTC)

Other Links

• Fighting in the Wilderness (additional)
• Please contribute to Wilderness Research (For lv 8-10 Research).

Multi-wave Attacks

Your Rally Point must be at least Lvl. 2 to send two attacks from the same location. You must also have 2 knights available (not assigned a current role.)

You need to time the 2 waves so that the Archers arrive 1-15 seconds after the Militiamen. You need Fletching researched to the level of the wilderness you are attacking.

To help with coordinating march times, go back into the march screen immediatly and send the required supply troops with the archers. This slows the archers to the marching speed of the 1st wave of supply troops and avoids an overtaking situation. Don't allow the second wave to overtake the first - send at least one of the slowest type of the first wave along with the second.

The Troop Speed page has a link to a web-based calculator that includes all skill effects, or follow the link here: KoC Troop Speed Calculator.

Here is an Excel table that will help with march timing Marching Calculator (provided by Darkfeather1)

Crests in the Wilderness

Starting with Tournament of Crests, Crests started dropping in the game. Some of these are also needed to build both your third City and fourth City.

Level	Sir Bor's Crest	Sir Ector's Crest	Sir Kay's Crest	Sir Bedivere's Crest	Sir Gawain's Crest	Sir Percival's Crest	Sir Galahad's Crest	Sir Lancelot's Crest	King Arthur's Crest
5	X	X
6	X	X
7	X	X	X
8	X	X	X	X
9	X	X	X	X	X
10	X	X	X	X	X

Types of Wilderness

Mountains

Mountains increase your ore production.

Woods

Woods increase your wood production.

Hills

Hills increase your stone production.

Grasslands

Grasslands increase your food production.

Lakes

Lakes increase your food production.

Plains

Plains are where you build new cities.

Bogs

Bogs are impenetrable wilds. They cannot be conquered or attacked. They are just there so not every plain in the game can be occupied by a player. Even though they have no function at this point in the game, the bogs are leveled 1 - 10 just like other wilderness. This may suggest that in a future update the bogs may get a function. Bogs can be successfully attacked with TP.

Owning a Wilderness

In a city you can own as many wildernesses as high is you Castle level. This doesn't affect the level of wilderness you can own.

For example, if you have four cities with the four castles to level nine you can own up to 36 wildernesses.

You can keep attacking wildernesses with all your slots filled but you won't receive its benefits. However, Crests can be found in these wilderness you attack but you don't get to own.

Since July 20th, 2010 you can defend your wildernesses by adding traps or getting mercenaries.

The traps are bought with 200 Gold each (only gold, not other resources). Traps are destroyed when triggered, and will need to be rebuilt manually but they've got the advantage that they are built immediately. The number of traps you can have depends on the wilderness level (100 x wilderness level --> 600 traps for level 6)

Mercenaries are soldiers who will defend your lands for you while your troops are away. They do not consume food but they need to get paid with Gold . You can hire three different types of mercenaries: Novices (200 gold/hour), Intermediates (400 gold/hour) or Veterans (1000 gold/hour).

Novice: Militiaman 260 Scout 100 Pikeman 410 Swordsman 330

Intermediate: Scout 100 Swordsman 340 Archer 340 Cavalry 320

Veteran: Scout 100 Cavalry 400 Heavy Cavalry 200 Ballista 400