The Guard

Your guard knights go on missions, fight in the tournament and each boost one castle. Season, recruiting, levels and reputation at a glance.

The Guard is a game within the game: you recruit knights, send them on missions, train them, equip them and send them into the guard tournament every evening. In return your castles get lasting bonuses, you earn Thalers and fame, and the best guards make it into the rankings.

The season

The Guard runs in seasons that last several months. Before a season starts, the guard page shows a countdown; between two seasons your guard is "resting". The sidebar of the guard page shows when the current season ends.

Recruiting knights

You always recruit in the castle you are currently in, and that castle must not already hold a guard knight – so each castle has at most one knight. Ten slots are free, and you can buy up to three more for 200 gold each. Bought slots only last for the current season; if a knight on a bought slot falls, you can fill the slot again at no extra cost.

A new knight starts at level 1 with basic starter gear. You choose his name, glow colour and emblem colour. With "move knight" you send him free of charge to another of your castles that has no knight yet. The journey takes a few hours, less with trained Speed.

Levels and stats

Knights gain experience (Exp) on missions and level up to 65. Every level raises life, attack and defence, and it raises the cap for training: no skill can be trained beyond the knight's level. Death missions open up at level 30. The table below shows how much experience in total a knight needs for each level.

A large part of a knight's fighting power comes from his equipment: more life, attack and defence, plus crit rate (the chance of an extra-hard hit), block rate (absorbs damage), blood damage and blood avoid.

Reputation and exploration: what your castle gets

Every mission shifts the knight's reputation between −100 and +100; the mission card shows which way. A savage knight squeezes more out of the land: up to +30% resource production. A kindly knight drives the people on and speeds up troop recruitment. You cannot have both, and each day reputation drifts 10 points back towards the middle. Exploration, on the other hand, never drops: each point gives +1% merchant carrying capacity, up to +100%.

Level	Experience needed
2	25
3	100
4	225
5	400
6	625
7	900
8	1,225
9	1,600
10	2,025
11	2,500
12	3,025
13	3,600
14	4,225
15	4,900
16	5,625
17	6,400
18	7,225
19	8,100
20	9,025
21	10,000
22	11,025
23	12,100
24	13,225
25	14,400
26	15,625
27	16,900
28	18,225
29	19,600
30	21,025
31	22,678
32	24,559
33	26,668
34	29,005
35	31,570
36	34,363
37	37,384
38	40,633
39	44,110
40	47,815
41	51,748
42	55,909
43	60,298
44	64,915
45	69,760
46	74,833
47	80,134
48	85,663
49	91,420
50	97,405
51	103,618
52	110,059
53	116,728
54	123,625
55	130,750
56	138,103
57	145,684
58	153,493
59	161,530
60	169,795
61	178,288
62	187,009
63	195,958
64	205,135
65	214,540

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