Frequently Asked QuestionsQ) How do I produce sufficient troops so that I'm not always running out?I can only speak from personal experience, but my highest chapter city has no troubles with its troop levels, so here are some of the things that it has:
- Human, so fewer combat losses
- Level 10 Fire Phoenix, fed when fighting a lot of battles at once
- 2 max-level Armories
- The Sanctuary Ancient Wonder (called Martial Monastery for Elves)
- Shrine of the Shrewdy Shrooms Ancient Wonder
- Post Elvenar chapter, therefore no demand for standard goods, which means I can easily cater the tougher fights to spare troops
- Lesser Ancient Wonders: Needles of the Tempest (improves Archers), Dragon Abbey (improves Priests)
- Simia Sapiens Ancient Wonder
If I know I am going to be doing a lot of Tournament and/or Spire encounters, often I will put down one or more of those 5-day temporary combat buildings such as
Unleashed Unit Upgrade.
Interestingly, you will notice there is no mention of Barracks level. Once you have the full 5 training slots, leveling your military buildings (Barracks, Training Grounds, Mercenary Camp) only helps you if you are collecting troops often enough to make use of the additional training speed. So level them as appropriate for your activity.
Q) How do I improve my mana production?Event buildings. The buildings you acquire from the always-running events will far outstrip anything you can build from the Culture menu.
There are also a couple of good buildings available in the Crafting pane of your Magic Academy. Depending on what chapter you are in, the
Festival Merchant is a great mana producer. (After a certain chapter it starts producing seeds, though. It then becomes a good seed producer, if you happen to need seeds.)
Keep an eye on what turns up in Crafting for anything that produces mana, and whenever an event is running, check the daily prizes for mana producers and spend your event currency on those. (As a bonus they will typically provide culture and sometimes population as well.)