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. 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.

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 militia as there are traps in the first wave, and they kill the traps, preventing archer loss if you follow the following guide.

Level	Wave 1 - clear traps	Wave 2 - main attack	'Troop 'Losses	'Minimum 'Fletching	Comments
1	n/a	50 archers	0	1	OK
2	5 mm	150 Archers + 1mm	5 mm	2	OK
3	10 mm	300 Archers + 1mm	10 mm	3	OK
4	20 mm	1k Archers + 1mm	20 mm	4	OK
5	50 mm	3k Archers + 1mm	50 mm	5	OK
6	100 mm	7k Archers + 1mm	100 mm	6	OK
7	150 mm	15k Archers + 1mm	150 mm	7	OK
8	300 mm	20k Archers + 1 mm	300 mm	8	OK
9	600 mm	30k Archers + 1mm	600 mm	9
10	1200 mm	80k Archers + 1mm	1200 mm	10	OK

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. (Edit: If you want to play it safe, just send along a few more Militamen with the second wave, they will die off before the Archers.) 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 a couple militia with the archers. This slows the archers to the march speed of militia and leaves you no math to do.

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)

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.

When attacking with heavy artillery, such as Ballistae, they are slow enough that you no longer need to send along one Militiaman with the second wave.

Crests in the Wilderness

Starting with Tournament of Crests, Crests started dropping in the game. Some of these are also needed to build your third 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	X
6	X	X	X	X
7	X	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.