Ultimate Beginner's Guide in Rise of Kingdoms

The Rise of Kingdoms game on Android and iOS

The Rise of Kingdoms (formerly known as Rise of Civilizations) is now one of the top-grossing strategy games on mobile. Developed by Lilith games, it has over 1 million downloads to date. But before you jump to this game as Governor of your City with experience on other strategy games like Clash of Clans, there are things that you still need to consider since this game is unique among other strategic games. 

Here you can have the beginner's advantage in this game.

Save your gems till VIP 6

VIP 6 can offer two builders

This is one of the crucial stuff to remember in the game. The gems you can obtain from quests and other events are useful to increase your VIP level even without spending a dollar. The reason why it is important to save those red gems in the game until VIP level 6 is to unlock the second builder queue permanently! So save them up and reap the benefits too!

Focus on your City Hall

Before upgrading your City Hall, there are required building upgrades.

Unlike other city building strategy games out there, Rise of Kingdoms only lets you focus on upgrading your City Hall. You will get to level up other buildings in the game since they are prerequisites in upgrading your main building. So just focus on getting it bigger until level 17 so you can unlock 4 action queues with tier 3 troops that are best in resource gathering in the future!

Use the speedups well

Speedups item in the game

Speedups help you build things faster. Only use your building speedups on the City Hall and its requirements and you are good to go. High-powered cities in every Kingdom save speedups religiously, you shouldn't wait that long to upgrade your City Hall. War is coming, and you should act with haste!

Find the right Alliance to join

Alliance folks can help you build things faster

Choosing the best Alliance is also key to this game. Your Alliance can help you build faster and can offer lifetime protection against random enemy attacks. The war in this game is costly and will require lots of time and resources, so not being attacked is important so you could just focus on increasing your power!

Researching is also a priority

Research in the Academy

You can't improve your troops, increase your production and gathering output if you don't research in the Academy. Aside from helping increase your Kingdom power, they also give additional stats and increase the troop tier that will help you out in the long game.

Keep training more troops

Training cavalry troops in the Cavalry Barracks.

Training more troops in the barracks is not costly so once training queues are available, use them right away because they help increase your power, protect your building, and siege other Kingdoms.

Power up your main Commander

Julius Caesar, one of the commanders in the game.

Powering up your main Commander by feeding them experience books to level up and increasing their skills using hero sculptures will help your Kingdom grow stronger. Remember, a higher level commander can have more troop capacity and more skills to use to get an advantage against other cities and commanders!

These are among the basics a beginner should know when playing the game to have an advantage. You can read more advanced guides about the Rise of Kingdoms on this blog if you follow the Rise of Kingdoms tag.