Wilderness

Wilderness are uncontrolled regions on the Map, and may be hills, mountains, lakes, forests, plains or bogs. 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, each level gives you 5 more% -- level x 5 ... e.g. LVL 3 wild x 5 is 15% ). The level of the region determines 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	Ballistae	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						50
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 or supply troops as there are traps in the first wave, and they will all be sacrificed to the traps.

Tip: If you make a mistake with sending second wave too late or too early, you can substitute scouts for the first wave to prevent the loss of more expensive archers or siege.

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, fourth and fifth city.

For more information, see crest and Crest_Drop_Research

Newer Released crests : Galahad, Percival And Lancelots crests are meant to be available in wilds now.. They can be found in Lvl 8+ wilds.

Multi-wave Attacks

Your Rally Point must be at least LVL 2 to send two attacks from the same location. You must also have at least 2 idle knights not assigned a role or on a march. You need to time the 2 waves so that the Archers arrive 1-15 seconds after the Militia clear the traps. You need Fletching researched to higher than the level of the wilderness you are attacking to limit your losses. Make your 2nd wave march immediately after the 1st wave as traps will begin to re-spawn with in 15-30 second and kill your troops in Wave 2. To help with coordinating march times, send at least one of the slowest type in the first wave along with the second. On attacks with Ballista add 1 Ballista to the Militia wave to slow down the first wave. 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)

Here is a basic chart that indicates the troops needed to defeat different levels:

Practical Situations:

It is possible to completely overwhelm any level wilderness to achieve nearly zero lost troops while conquering wilderness or searching for crests. This will also show practical amounts of troops.

Wilderness Level	Resource Bonus	Wave 1 - Suicide Run to use up traps	Wave 2 - Main Attack	Troop Losses	Minimum Fletching	Rally Point Level
1	5%	n/a	60 Swordsmen Or Pikes 300 Archers	None	.1+	1+
2	10%	5 militia/supply tr.	150 Archers	1st Wave	2+	2+
3	15%	10 militia/supply tr.	300 Archers	1st Wave	3+	2+
4	20%	20 militia/supply tr.	1,000 Archers	1st Wave	4+	2+
5	25%	50 militia/supply tr.	2,500 Archers OR 400 Ballista	1st Wave 2nd Wave - 5 Archers	6+	2+
6	30%	100 militia/supply tr.	4,200 Archers OR 750 Ballista	1st Wave	7+	2+
7	35%	150 militia/supply tr.	6,000 Archers OR 2,000 Ballista	1st Wave	8+	2+
8		299 militia/supply + 1 ballista	8000 archers and 800 ballista 10,000 Archers + 1600 Ballista OR 25k Archers + 2500 Ballista If you have a lvl 10 Fletch send 15k archers and 2500 Ballista	1st Wave + 1-2 Archer NO LOSSES	9+	2+
9	45%	599 Militia/Supply Tr. + 1 Ballista	10,000 Archers + 2500 Ballista 15k archers 10k Ballista	1st Wave + 2 archers NO LOSSES (lvl 10 Fletch)	9-10	2+
10	50%	1199 Militia + 1 Catapult	80k-90k archers + 1 militia	1st Wave + aprox. 2300 archers	9-10	8+

• Note: All combat research such as fletching, metal alloys, poisoned edge, and healing potions should be kept one level above the wilderness level. If it is not, then their may be more losses than expected.

Please keep scenarios low. There shouldn't be 20 different ways to capture a level 10 wilderness posted. This chart is based of of practical situations. Not everyone is going to have enough DI's and food to build 50k catapults. Additionally, please stop messing with the low level wilds, as they are well set. If you have a better contribution for more efficient waves, please submit it.

Alternatives with Losses

When circumstances are less than perfect and the player considers some losses as acceptable. Not recommended for crest hunting.

Wilderness Level	Resource Bonus	Wave 1	Wave 2	Troop Losses	Fletching	Rally	Comments
8	40%	300 MM/ST	50,000 Archers	545 Archers	8	5+
8	40%	12,500 Archers	-	775 Archers	10	2+	Hunting
9	45%	600 MM/ST	43,425 Archers	1,063 Archers	9	5+
9	45%	599 MM/ST + 1 Ballista	50,000 Archers + 2,000 Ballista	1 Archers + 100 Ballista	9	5+
9	45%	599 MM/ST + 1 Ballista	38,000 Archers + 2,000 Ballista	2 Archers + 100 Ballista	9	4+
9	45%	599 MM/ST + 1 Ballista	10,000 Archers + 5000 Ballista	NO TROOPS LOOSES	10	8+
9	45%	600 MM/ST	90000 Archers	23 Archers	9	9+
10		1200 MM/ST	82000Archers + 8000 Ballista	1006 Archers + 400 Ballista	9	9+
10	50%	1199 MM/ST + 1 Ballista	37,500 Archers + 2,000 Ballista	1,006 Archers + 450 Ballista	9	4+
10	50%	1,199 MM/ST + 1 Ballista	23,000 Ballista	402 Ballista	10	3+
10	50%	1,199 MM/ST + 1 Catapult	83000 Archers + 6377 Catapults	2 archers + 50 Catapults	10	9+

As an alternate method to losing a siege weapon (ballista or catapult) in the first wave with your Militia, you can send your second wave first. By doing this you can view the "Troop Activity" tab and then time your second wave of pure militia to hit first. This way you lose one more militia and no siege weapon on the trap clearing.

Example: Level 8 Wilderness suggests "Wave 1: 299 Militia + 1 Ballista and Wave 2: 12000 Archers + 800 Ballista." - You lose 299 Militia and 1 Ballista from the first wave and 1 archer from the second.

Using the alternate method "Wave 1: 12000 Archers + 800 Ballista and Wave 2: 300 Militia" - You lose all of the second wave(Militiamen) and only 1 archer in the first wave.

NOTE: This method REQUIRES you to monitor the march times so you can send the militia marching so they hit 1-30 seconds prior to the first wave. The 2nd wave MUST hit first in this case.

There is a troop marching speed calculator here.

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

-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.

Owning a Wilderness

For each city, you can own one wilderness per level of your Castle. The level of your Castle does not affect the level of wildernesses you can own.

For example, if you have four cities with the four castles to LVL 9, you can own up to 36 wildernesses.

You can keep attacking wildernesses with all your slots filled, but you won't be able to conquer them (ie. you will not recieve the percentage increase in productivity and you will not fulfill a quest). You may be able to win the battle and "secure" the wilderness, but you will not "conquer" it. However, even wilds that you cannot own may contain Crests and do contain small resource deposits, both of which will be claimed after securing the location.

If you conquer a wilderness, your troops will remain in the wilderness to defend it. You must recall them to have them return to your city. If you do not conquer the wilderness, your troops return automatically.

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

For Information on defending your Wildernesses, see Owned Wilderness Defenses