Old World

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 […]

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 […]

Ultimate Guide to Nations The Nations Themselves One of the major difference between Old World and other 4x games has to do with whatever civilization you choose to play. In […]

In this quick Old World guide, you’ll find the full hotkey list and useful debug information. Hotkey List Camera Keys W, Up Arrow Move North  A, Left Arrow Move West  S, Down Arrow […]

Hotkeys There’s oodles of them, check the controls in the options for the full list. Here’s a few that are handy early on: Middle click “locks” a tool tip open […]