Old World

Tips for Ambitions A small tip is sometimes you got opinion bonus when you accept one’s ambition, if he/she is important and their opinion is just a bit lower than […]

What’s that little red circle mean? Yields Quick Reference Yields at a Glance Money – Used to buy Food, Iron, Stone, or Wood, or to fund tutoring, influencing, or many […]

Definitive Guide to Traits Traits In addition to Archetypes, events will pop up in the game that may give any of your Characters a trait. There are lots of these […]

Comprehensive Guide to Multiplayer Introduction There are lots of different ways to play MP. You can play network games in real time which tend to last several hours, or play […]

Guide to Naval Actions Intro Here is a short short guide on naval actions in the game. Naval combat itself is pretty much like land combat, except that there are […]

Definitive Guide to Combat The Basics The whole point of OW is to establish and grow a Kingdom in a world where Kingdoms already exist. At the founding of your […]

Guide to Diplomacy From Start to End In the early game, your ruler winds up doing most of the diplomacy for you, primarily in the form of “Influencing” individuals (members […]

Rush Buying Huide The Basics A standard Old World game lasts for 200 turns. The faster you can clear “stuff” out of the build queues of your cities, the more […]

In most other 4x games, every tile inside your city’s borders produces some number of resources for you, so right off the bat, you’ve got resources to work with. Guide […]

Religion is a surprisingly important and powerful aspect of the game that will help you keep your families happy, and perhaps a rival AI Nation or two, if you can […]

Assuming that this is not your first foray into 4x games, it will probably come as no surprise that settlers and founding new cities are the means by which your […]

Guide to Characters Introduction The addition of families and the need to produce an heir brings us inevitably to the topic of Characters, and this is another striking difference between […]

In this guide, we just gave a brief mention to each of the vassal families that the playable nations have access to. In this section, we’ll go into each one […]