Lords In The Medieval Times

Getting Started With Lords In The Medieval Times

I picked up Lords In The Medieval Times about two years ago after my usual cache of strategy games got stale. It's a mobile base-building and combat title that layers resource management on top of troop training and kingdom expansion. Nothing groundbreaking, but it does a few things right and a few things wrong. Let me walk you through how to actually make progress without burning out. The core loop is straightforward. You collect resources, upgrade buildings, train troops, and push into territories. The twist compared to similar titles is that construction queues run on real-time timers and your resource income is directly tied to building levels and trade routes. Most players miss this connection early on and end up stuck wondering why their economy is flatlining at city level 12. I hit that exact wall myself around month four. My resource production had plateaued despite upgrading everything I could. The problem wasn't missing buildings — it was that I'd been ignoring the marketplace trade route mechanic. Once I routed my excess stone and timber through dedicated trade caravans to the neighboring settlement slots, income jumped roughly 40 percent within three days. That single adjustment is what separate players who coast from players who quit out of frustration.

The troop system follows a rock-paper-scissors model. Sword units counter bows, bows counter spears, spears counter swords. Your hero skills amplify whichever type you've invested in. I learned the hard way that spreading hero skill points evenly across all three types sounds safe but leaves you underpowered in every matchup. Commit to one primary unit type and one secondary for countering. Your third slot should go toward support skills like troop recovery speed or march speed. Don't deviate from that unless you're playing a specific alliance war meta.

Resource Management That Doesn't Suck

Food gets you through daily quests. Wood and stone feed construction. Gold is the rare currency that gates everything meaningful. Iron and magic crystals are endgame resources that most beginners don't access until week six or seven. Here's what nobody tells you: the warehouse upgrade has a hidden efficiency curve. Upgrading from level five to six gives you nearly double the storage but only slightly increases the upkeep cost. Skipping straight from level three to level eight is inefficient because you pay the premium rate on storage tiers you already exceeded weeks ago. Upgrade in sequence and you'll save roughly 15 to 20 percent of your gold over the first two months. I tracked this myself after wasting about eight thousand gold on a rushed warehouse build. Construction order matters more than most guides admit. Start with the town hall and the marketplace. Then the barracks. After that, pick whichever resource building is closest to a threshold cap — usually the lumber mill hits its first bottleneck fastest. Housing comes after everything else. I used to rush housing early to enable bigger armies but ran into an army cap wall anyway because the barracks upgrade was behind schedule. Reverse priority and it flows naturally.

Alliance Play and Territory Control

Playing solo in this game is viable for the first month but hits a hard ceiling. Alliance bonuses kick in at territory control level three and above. You get resource production multipliers, reduced march damage, and faster troop recovery. The catch is that you need active allies. Dead alliances drain faster than they help. I joined an alliance that looked strong on paper — high power scores, active chat, decent territory spread. Turned out half the members were dormant accounts and the rest were focused entirely on raiding weaker neighbors instead of fortifying shared borders. After three weeks of wasted time trying to coordinate defenses that never materialized, I transferred. The lesson is simple: check the alliance activity log before committing. Look at join dates, last login timestamps, and whether territory tiles are actually being upgraded or just sitting there. When your alliance does control a territory zone, the resource node bonuses are significant. Each controlled node adds a flat percentage to all member resource income. Four nodes can push your total production up by 18 to 22 percent depending on your city level. That's not flavor text. That's the difference between keeping pace with rival alliances and falling behind.

The Download and Setup Process

The game is available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store under the title Lords In The Medieval Times. It's free to download with in-app purchases. On Android, make sure you have at least 2.5 GB of free storage and Android 8.0 or higher. iOS requires iPhone 8 or later with iOS 13+. The install size jumps to about 1.8 GB after the initial download pulls asset updates. Link your account to a social login or email immediately after creating it. I lost a entire two-month progress sweep when my device crashed and I hadn't bound an account. Support recovered it eventually but it took eleven days and several tickets. Just bind it on day one and move on.

What This Game Gets Wrong

The energy system for training troops is the biggest friction point. You get a limited number of training actions per hour and refilling them costs premium currency. For free-to-play users this means you're constantly queueing troops then waiting hours for them to finish while your energy recharges. It's designed to encourage spending. You can work around it by batching your training sessions during energy regen windows rather than spread-eagle-ing them throughout the day. Instead of training ten troops at five different times, train fifty at once when your energy bar is full. The difference in efficiency is noticeable over a week. PvP matchmaking is also uneven below city level 25. You'll face opponents with significantly higher power scores simply because the matchmaking pool is shallow at lower tiers. This isn't a bug — it's intentional retention design to keep you engaged with the upgrade grind. Accept it and focus on PvE content and alliance activities until you hit level 30. The matchmaking stabilizes noticeably after that. The event calendar runs on a seven-day rotation with daily login rewards and weekend boss battles. Some events overlap and you can't complete both in full. I've spent weekend gems on boss events that conflicted with weekly alliance tournaments, then regretted the choice the following Monday. Track the event calendar before committing premium currency. The event schedule is visible in the top-right corner of the main screen.

A Quick Build Order for New Accounts

Day one through three: Town Hall to level five, Marketplace to level four, Barracks to level three. Collect every quest reward. Day four through seven: Push housing to level five, resource buildings to level six each, upgrade the army camp. By the end of week one you should be city level ten or eleven with a functional troop composition and a marketplace trading route active. This puts you ahead of most casual players without requiring more than thirty minutes of active play per day. After that point the game self-balances around your alliance activity and personal time investment. The mechanics don't change much. The depth comes from how you optimize within those mechanics — resource routing, troop composition, hero skill allocation, and territory strategy. Everything else is decoration.