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.
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 without any losses.
However, 5 Militiamen will clear all traps on any level wild. The report will read, "Troops were overwhelmed in battle. Unable to determine enemy strength.", and will only show 5 traps cleared, but rest assured that they are all gone.
Here is a basic chart that indicates the properties of different levels:
Level | % Increase | Wave 1 |
Wave 2 |
Troop Losses |
Minimum Fletching |
Knight Combat Skill Points |
Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
5% |
n/a |
50 Archers |
0 |
1+ |
55 | |
2 |
10% |
5 Militiamen |
250 Archers |
0 |
2+ |
55 | |
3 |
15% |
5 Militiamen |
500 Archers |
0 |
3+ |
55 |
|
4 |
20% |
5 Militiamen |
1,000 Archers |
0 |
4+ |
55 |
|
5 |
25% |
5 Militiamen |
2,500 Archers |
0 |
5+ |
55 |
|
6 |
30% | 5 Militiamen |
4,000 Archers |
0 |
6+ |
55 | |
7 |
35% |
5 Militiamen |
15k Archers |
0 |
7+ |
55 |
|
8 |
40% |
5 Militiamen |
30k Archers |
0 |
8+ |
55 | |
9 |
45% |
5 Militiamen | 60k Archers |
0 |
9+ |
55 | |
10 |
50% |
5 Militiamen |
90k Archers |
0 |
10 |
55 |
- Courtesy of Lady Sarena of Council of Elders
- Updated by Storkbite, Furnix, Persephassa, and Theo
Multi-wave Attacks
You need to time the 2 waves so that the Archers arrive 1-15 seconds after the Militiamen. (Edit: as noted further above, "Traps regenerate 10% ... every 5 minutes" So you should actually have about five minutes of time between waves.) You need Fletching researched to the level of the wilderness you are attacking.
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.
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 | ||||||
7 | X | X | X | ||||||
8 | X | X | X | X | |||||
9 | 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, and cannot be conquered. |