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To Arms
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Walk-Through For the First Mission, “A Province at Peace”
You take control of Artos in this first mission. Your goal is to gather 500 units of building materials and 500 units of food while protecting the peasants from attacks by barbarians. You have eight mercenaries to help you, and you can seek out a group of javelineers to add to your forces. Start by locating the stockade, where Artos, who is on his horse, and his men wait. If you click on the barracks, a picture of a spearman appears in the top-left corner of the screen. You can click on that picture to start creating a spearman. You can summon as many spearmen as you want, but you need enough food to sustain the extra people, so you should wait until your resources increase before using this option. You can also skip it altogether and still complete the mission successfully. The javelineers will help you out tremendously, though, so seek them out by heading west and then moving a little bit south, where you’ll find them standing by a group of trees. Click on one of them and they will join you. They ride horses, so they’re much faster than the mercenaries and spearmen. Every time you see a warning that barbarians are attacking, send Artos and the javelineers to dispatch them quickly. One of the gameplay mechanics that separate Warrior Kings from other RTS games is the use of carts, which take supplies from a village, where peasants gather food, gold, and building materials, to a warehouse near the city. Carts can be destroyed or captured by the enemy, so you need to protect them in addition to the peasants. You can assign a unit to follow one of them by clicking the unit, pressing the “F” key, and clicking the cart. The only problem with this strategy, though, is that the javelineers are the only ones who can keep up with the carts, and you only have five of them, which means you will have to keep pulling them away to attack barbarians, who come from all directions. The best way to handle this mission is to select the mercenaries and spearmen (assuming you decided to create some) while they’re near the stockade (move them there if you brought them out), press and hold the “R” key (the cursor turns from a straight arrow into a curved one), and click somewhere near the entrance to the village. This will put those units on patrol between the stockade and the village; hopefully they will take out a few barbarians between those locations as the carts roll along (note, though, that fighting knocks them out of their patrol, which you need to reset when they’re done). While they’re busy, move Artos near the javelineers, click and hold your mouse, and drag a box around them. Hold down the Control key and press “1.” Every time you need Artos and the javelineers, simply press the “1” key and you’ll automatically select them as a group, which you can send against the barbarians by right-clicking in their vicinity. The attackers will inevitably kill some of your peasants during the mission. To create a new one, click on the village and click the picture of a peasant in the top-left corner. Below the peasant is a picture of a cart that you can click to replace any that the barbarians destroyed. It’s also not a bad idea to add a cart or two to the group so that you can accumulate materials and food faster. All this proves to be merely training for later levels, though, when a bishop named Lothar shows up and declares that Amalric is a traitor to the empire. He orders Amalric’s execution and commands his men to raze the city, but before the Baron dies, he tells his son to flee to the dock and escape. When Lothar’s soldiers start attacking the town, you can send Artos and his men to attack them, but you’ll find yourself quickly outnumbered, and if Artos dies, you have to restart the mission. You can send your javelineers in to take out a few of them for fun before running away, but your best bet is to just head for the docks and end the first mission. You’ll notice that, no matter where Artos and his men were when Lothar arrived, they’re now to the right of the city, facing away from it. Drag a box around them to highlight the entire group and start right-clicking ahead of them to move toward the dock, which is straight ahead. If you want to kill some Imperial troops before you leave, go after the three mercenaries guarding the boat right behind the dock. You can even sink their boat and feel like you did something to protect Cravant. Right-click on the dock to escape and load the next level, in which Artos builds a new power base in Angland. (Wonder what European nation that’s supposed to be?) Defeat the barbarians harassing the villagers there and you can become their new lord, thus setting the stage for Artos’s revenge. Cheat If You Must Stumped? Then you may need some help, thanks to the cheat codes that are commonly placed in most videogames. They allow you to, well, cheat and change the rules. This sometimes includes activating bonuses, unlocking secrets and new levels of gameplay. To enable the cheats in Warrior Kings, simply type one of the following codes (no need to press Enter or the “~” key first). You’ll notice that some of the letters in each code correspond with hotkeys in the game, but don’t worry about that; the computer will recognize the sequence of letters and unlock the code.
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 The Little Things. You can zoom in close on troops and buildings during the action.  Against All Odds. Imperial troops are no match for Artos.  Medieval Mechanical Marvels. Use siege weapons to destroy the enemy’s defenses.  Imperial Troops Have Entered the City. Early in the game you lose your homeland to a corrupt leader, but you will return and get revenge. |
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