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How would I go about building a trade only city? I know I would have to do all the research but I want to avoid building any military buildings but I'm not sure I could advance through the tasks. Thanks for any suggestions.
I'd suggest just crafting one or two when they come up, at the start of each chapter, but don't place them until an event. Then tear them down when you have replacements crafted for the next chapter.You could place valorian valors for your current chapter to produce troops as a work around and then teleport them out, same for grounds of orc strategist
Oh awesome, this is very helpful info, thankyou!@Tolkiengirl58
Another thing to be aware of is Armories. Once you reach Chapter 8 Orcs, complete the tech & upgrade them to lvl 20, they will begin making little green orc heads (not to be confused with Orc military troops, lol!) similar to the way your factories produce goods. These little orcs will be required in negotiations on the world map (beyond ring 10 from your city), catering in tournaments (once you reach a certain squad size), and upgrading certain bldgs (workshops for every upgrade from Orcs chapter onward). Some Fellowship Adventures require badges made by producing troops. Events have quests to train troops. Until you train them, you can be stuck and unable to continue in the quest line thus severely limiting the amount of event currency you can get.
There are folks who play without ever fighting. I'm not one of them, but from what I've seen in comments here, they seem to use the barracks and 2 armories to help with the little orcs, events, etc. They never need to build the Training Grounds or Mercenary Camps. You can use upgrading the armories for event quests, too. Especially as you reach higher chapters, their upgrade times are some of the quickest in the game, so having them will help with event quests that require you to upgrade a bldg to a certain level.
So much to learn, thank you!All of my cities are trade only. I have the Barracks & 1 armory only. The armory is necessary for training orcs when you reach the orc chapter. I run with five T1, five T2 and three T3 boosted factories. With regular trading in my fellowships, this has been a good balance for my cities. I will note that I typically am only able to run one round of the tourney each week. On non-boosted weeks, I run at least 10 provinces & on boosted weeks, I try to get 15-20 provinces. As far as AWs, I run with the GA, MH, WR & BTG for now. One of my smaller cities has the PT as well.