Technology

New technologies are what make you more powerful than your opponents and enable you to defeat them with minimal losses. Each technology give valuable advantages to your units and to your kingdom.

There are eight basic technology trees available to all races, four of which improve your combat ability and the other four having varying effects depending on the level of research.

Sharper Blades

The first combat technology increases the damages dealt by blade weapons; each level in this technology will increase by +1 the attack dealt by all units using bladed weapons. This bonus applies to melee OR short-range (units with both melee/short attack, only the short attack will get the bonus). The bonus does not affect long-ranged attacks of any kind.
Racial Notes: Catapults are not affected, as they deal only ranged damage. Units with both long-range and melee, such as Balista or Axe Thrower, are buffed only for their melee attack. Units with both melee and short-ranged attacks, such as Dwarf Runners or Human Knights, will receive the bonus only for their short attack.

Improved Long-Range

The second combat technology improve your long-ranged attacks range by creating better bows, changing the shape of throwing axes or by creating more effective slings. This allows your men to attack more often before close combat and therefore to deal more damages. This technology is pretty expensive and only has one level, but can be very useful for an army consisting mainly of archers and long-ranged men.

Armor Tech

The third and forth combat technologies have basically the same effect and improve your army defense. Each armor type can be improved using this technology, but the lower level ones can usually reach a higher level. Like the blade technology, each technology point in armor resistance will increase your defense by +1.

The next four technology trees are listed in the table below, and each technology can be researched only if all the technologies preceding it in the same technology tree are researched, that is, each tree must be researched in order. It is important to note that all technologies are cummulative and that if you research a higher level technology, the ones already researched will remain active.

Here are the technologies divided in their respective trees:

Tree 1
Name	Effect	Level	Research time	Cost
Field-glass	Doubles exploration efficiency.	1	30	50000
Convertion	Increases the number of peasants joining your kingdom after capturing land from an enemy.	2	50	300000
Transport	Reduces attack time to 18 days.	3	60	500000
Leadership	Increase minumum Basic Army Strength to 0 and gives natural Basic Army Strength growth (there is small chance that BAS will increase every day).	4	40	400000
Improved Law System	Reduce crime rate natural growth and reduce maximum crime rate to 25%.	5	70	500000
Tactical Knowledge	Greatly improves chances of victory in combat.	6	100	2500000

Tree 2
Name	Effect	Level	Research time	Cost
Habitation	Increases the number of peasants per house to 115.	1	40	200000
Commerce	Increases gold production.	2	60	300000
Animal training	Increases animal weapon production by 20%. The animal production increased depends on the player’s race.	3	15	100000
Blacksmithing weapon name	Increases weapon production by 20%, there is one technology for each type of weapon.	4-8	15	100000
Carpentry	Increases building construction speed by 50%.	9	60	400000
Barrack	Increases the number of men that can be housed in a guard house to 65.	10	50	300000
Training techniques	Increases unit production speed by 25%.	11	100	1000000
Fortification	Decreases enemy attack power by 5% when defending a castle.	12	125	400000

Tree 3
Name	Effect	Level	Research time	Cost
Irrigation	Increases the number of food produced per farm by 15.	1	150	50000
Machinery	Decreases the optimal worker level for Mines to 85.	2	175	200000
Wood Recycling	Increases wood production by 1.5 per Mill.	3	240	300000

Tree 4
Name	Effect	Level	Research time	Cost
New Spells	Adds new spells to your spellbook. See Chapter 4 for more details on these spells.	1-4	50-110	150000-900000
Insight	Decreases wizard rest time. They will rest at a rate of 2 per school per day.	5	150	100000
Magical Instruments	Greatly improves spell casting success.	6	100	2000000

The research time and cost for gnomes is 10% lower than these numbers.

The last technology depends on your race and is unique to each of them. The table below will give you the different technologies depending on each race.

Technology
Race	Technology	Effect
Dwarf	True Silver	Researching new materials for shield creating has been found to help in many great armies. It is believed that many dwarven leaders found a new metal called True Silver that is one of the most resistant material ever found. With this metal, they were able to create thougher shields for their shieldbearers.
Elf	Magic Field	This new technology consists in researching a new spell for your mages allowing them to cast kingdom spells (as wizards normally do). Note that mage spells are identified by a * in the spell casting options.
Gnome	Explosive powder	This technology allows you to build explosive projectiles for your catapults, increasing their attack radius.
Human	Clerical Magic	This new technology allows your trainers to include clerical magic in the knight formation allowing them to heal your wounded units in combat and to reduce your combat losses. The damages dealt to your units will be reduced by 0.5% per percent of paladins in your army, but never by more than 25%. For example, an army of 100 paladins and 300 other units would have it’s damages reduced by 12.5%.
Orc	Cloacking	This technology will provide your shadow warriors equipment suited to hide in different areas more effectively, decreasing the chances of being found by 15%.

It is important to keep in mind that one should not research new technologies unless he can really afford it because not only are these new acquisition very expensive to research, but they take a lot of time to get. However, they can be very good long term investment.