3.2 Building

In order for you to fully use your land and its resources, it is important to construct as many buildings as possible on your land. There are many different building types in Thardferr and most of them are crucial for your survival; it is up to you to choose which one are the most important and to build them.

There are many different units in the world of Thardferr, some are strong, others are weaker, but all of them as its use and can be a great addition to your army. Before presenting them, it is necessary to give a little background information concerning war strategies. First, in a combat, there are three main combat phases proceeded in the following order: the long-ranged attacks, the short-ranged attacks and the melee or close combat attacks. This means that first all long-ranged damages are dealt, then the remaining units can deal their short-ranged damages and the close combat finishes the fight. As you can see having many long-ranged units can be very useful since you it allows one to kill enemy units before they can deal their damages.

The population screen let you manage your people and tell them in what area you would prefer them to work in. The first number you should look at before changing your population occupation is the total population you currently have in your kingdom. Your population will often depend on the number of houses you have, how many land you currently control and the number of castles you have built so far. Obviously, the higher your population is, the better it is for the kingdom.

Once you know how many peasants you have under your control, you can direct their work in certain areas presented below:

Your Population
Occupation	Allocated in	Optimal level	Production
Miners	Mines	100	4 iron +1 for dwarves +2 for orcs
Lumbers	Mills	85	5 wood +1 for elves +2 for orcs
Agriculture	Farms	60	100 food +15 for orcs
Building	N / A	150 workers per building. (110 for orcs and gnomes)	1 building per 150 workers.
Training	Training centers Advanced training centers	N / A	1 soldier per man.
Blacksmiths	Forges	80	Production speed depends on race.
Explorers	N / A	N / A	Depends on number of land1.

New technologies are what make you more powerful than your opponents and enable you to defeat them with minimal losses. Each technology give valuable advantages to your units and to your kingdom.

There are eight basic technology trees available to all races, four of which improve your combat ability and the other four having varying effects depending on the level of research.

The first combat technology increases the damages dealt by blade weapons, each level in this technology will increase by one the damages dealt by all units using bladed weapons (arrows are not considered to have blades).

The second combat technology improve your long-ranged attacks range by creating better bows, changing the shape of throwing axes or by creating more effective slings. This allows your men to attack more often before close combat and therefore to deal more damages. This technology is pretty expensive and only has one level, but can be very useful for an army consisting mainly of archers and long-ranged men.

The third and forth combat technologies have basically the same effect and improve your army defense. Each armor type can be improved using this technology, but the lower level ones can usually reach a higher level. Like the blade technology, each technology point in armor resistance will increase your defense by one point.

The next four technology trees are listed in the table below, and each technology can be researched only if all the technologies preceding it in the same technology tree are researched, that is, each tree must be researched in order. It is important to note that all technologies are cummulative and that if you research a higher level technology, the ones already researched will remain active.

Here are the technologies divided in their respective trees:

The research time and cost for gnomes is 10% lower than these numbers.

The last technology depends on your race and is unique to each of them. The table below will give you the different technologies depending on each race.

Technology
Race	Technology	Effect
Dwarf	True Silver	Researching new materials for shield creating has been found to help in many great armies. It is believed that many dwarven leaders found a new metal called True Silver that is one of the most resistant material ever found. With this metal, they were able to create thougher shields for their shieldbearers.
Elf	Magic Field	This new technology consists in researching a new spell for your mages allowing them to cast kingdom spells (as wizards normally do). Note that mage spells are identified by a * in the spell casting options.
Gnome	Explosive powder	This technology allows you to build explosive projectiles for your catapults, increasing their attack radius.
Human	Clerical Magic	This new technology allows your trainers to include clerical magic in the knight formation allowing them to heal your wounded units in combat and to reduce your combat losses. The damages dealt to your units will be reduced by 0.5% per percent of paladins in your army, but never by more than 25%. For example, an army of 100 paladins and 300 other units would have it's damages reduced by 12.5%.
Orc	Cloacking	This technology will provide your shadow warriors equipment suited to hide in different areas more effectively, decreasing the chances of being found by 15%.

As you build your kingdom you might encounter serious problems with your population. Among these problem is the most important one, the crime rate. Crime rate is a very important factor some kingdoms forget to consider while expending their land. In fact, the bigger you grow, the more difficult it becomes to make sure your population does not turn into a criminal society. In fact, not only is it important to feel they are living in a peaceful kingdom, but the higher your crime rate is, the less people you will be able to work with. Even if this does not reflect directly in the number of men you can assign in your population management screen, the higher your crime rate is, the less people will work and the lower will be your production. In fact wood, iron, food, gold production are affected by high crime rates as well as your chances of exploration and military performances.

In order to maintain a decent crime rate, one must understand how it works. First, it increases and decreases every few day as time passes and your population evolves and changes. Even if the general tendency will be to a very slow increase if you do not do anything, the crime rate should be maintained fairly constant every day. There are a few factors affecting crime rate. First, every castle built or acquired by any mean will increase crime rate by five points. Also, because attacking sometimes cause population to revolt, every attack has a chance of increasing crime rate. Let the revolt be caused by the amount of people killed in these slaughters or by the peasants living on newly conquered land who might not like the way you manage your kingdom, these revolts can quickly become a problem to some kingdoms. In order to maintain a peaceful kingdom, one will try to build more security and enforce authority forces present in your kingdom. Building guard houses will therefore reduce your crime rate by one point.