Kingshot - Beginners Guide (Maps & FAQ)

Welcome to KingShot, a city-building war strategy game similar to Whiteout Survival. The key to success? Efficiency and consistency – don’t waste resources!

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New Players Guide

Getting Started (First 24 Hours)

Should I Attack Someone Early Game?

Second Character (Farm)

Govenor Gear

Batch Healing Technique

Emporium of Enigma

FAQ

Maps

Infographics

New Players Guide

Getting Started (First 24 Hours)

Your top priority is to follow the chapter missions and complete them as fast as possible. But here are some extra tips to speed up your progress:

Upgrade your Town Center ASAP – it unlocks new buildings and troops.
Train troops non-stop – never let your Training Camps sit idle.
Join an active alliance – you get protection, buffs, and help for buildings & research.
Do Intel Missions & Suppress battles – they give you hero shards.
Don’t waste time gathering yet – early missions give tons of resources, so wait until Day 2 or 3 to start gathering.
Save your Recruitment Hero Keys until you have 10 – using the 10x option gives you a better chance to get full heroes, even Mythic ones, instead of just shards.

Should I Attack Someone Early Game?

(First 30 Days)

Most of the time, the answer will be no. Why is the answer no? Well, I am glad you asked.

In the early game, most people do not hold onto resources since upgrading buildings, tech, or training more troops is very quick to do. So, you will not be able to plunder many resources.
Troops are expensive to retrain. If you are attacking someone’s castle, resource tile, or anything else, your troops will be lost. There is no way to get them back; you will have to train them all over again. Training troops takes a long time and does not yield many troops in a day.
Attacking Beasts or Terrors will give you more resources in the early game. The same can be said for gathering.

Should I Attack Them If:

They have a lot of resources? No, they are most likely an experienced player or a “whale” (a term for a player who spends a significant amount of money in the game). They will absolutely defeat you. The chances of an inexperienced player simply leaving all their resources unprotected are very slim.
What if they have a low troop count? Low troop counts usually mean they have already been plundered, which means you gain nothing but lost troops.
Should I attack resource tiles or alliance banners? You gain absolutely no strategic advantage from this, but you do gain more resources than from attacking castles with low troop counts. The small extra thing you gain is something called ENEMIES who will want to destroy you.

When will the answer be yes?

Very good question. The only reason the answer will ever be yes is if the game rewards killing troops (i.e., during events like “All Out” or Server vs. Server (Kingdom vs. Kingdom).

Kill count leaderboard. If you are attacking troops outside of these events just to increase your kill count, then the leaderboard has plenty of players who prioritize this. They essentially rank the player who is making the biggest mistake, because you gain nothing strategically from having a high kill count outside of specific events. Have fun and play smart.

Second Character (Farm)

How to farm with a F2P second account?

Once you have set up a second account using the option:

Profile -> Settings -> Characters

Work your way through the starter missions until you can join an alliance (or your alliance farm).

Now comes the easy steps:

Don’t stop making troops until you can fill all your farming rallies.
Remember you can only loot from your main what you gather farming or raided from another player only.
Try not upgrade your storehouse if you can, will help you later.
Work your way to level 13 for the 3rd free gathering rally on the research center (it might take a while but is so worth it).
Don’t be afraid to spend gems you have earned this character isn’t for saving them.
Upgrading regimental expansion on research center will help you gather more resources.
When raiding your farm send out all troops first to a farming location, you may need to send more than the recommendation to empty the farm.
Optional , if you upgrade all your houses and fill your mines (ie Quarry) this will get you 100 gems a day if you need to put out the fires.
Don’t forget to repair the barricade if it gets to zero or probably will randomly teleport your farm.
Move your farm close by your main base for easy hitting (also the best farm tiles are close by level6,7,8).
After you have raided yourself you can use the merchant to get rid of the locked resources.
If you start an upgrade and cancel it (click on upgrade, details cancel) the resources used is lootable.

Following these simple steps, you should be able to have 3 or 4 gathering rallies running 3 times a day collecting 6-18 million food, wood, coal of iron.

Govenor Gear

Govenor Gear is unlocked at Town Center Lv. 22. Each piece of gear increases your attack and defense stats:

Wreath & Charmstone: Cavalry
Garb & Gaiters: Infantry
Lament & Shortstaff: Archers.

You will also receive bonuses for having 3 pieces and six pieces at or above a given quality. At this time, gold 3* is the highest gear level possible but I expect this to change to gold T6 3* relatively soon as those levels are listed for points in out 2nd Hall of Govenors.

Batch Healing Technique

Heal Your Troops Faster with Batch Healing!

In the game KingShot, your units take damage during fights at locations such as Sanctuaries, Fortresses, the King’s Castle, and Kingdom vs Kingdom events. When this occurs, you should restore their health quickly.

Instead of restoring the health of all damaged units at the same time, consider restoring the health of smaller groups of units. This allows you to use instant-heal actions more frequently with assistance from your alliance.

How to Use:

Your alliance members can help speed up your troop healing time. To make the most of this, you should only heal as many troops as your alliance can instantly help with.

Finding Your Ideal Batch Size:

Check your Embassy building to see your “Timer Help Duration & Helps” numbers
Start by trying to heal troops that take about 1 hour to recover
If you have an active alliance with many online members, you might be able to handle 2-3 hour batches

Example:

If you have a level 28 Embassy, you get 39 Timer Helps
Each help reduces healing time by 4 minutes and 1 second
This gives you a total possible reduction of 2 hours and 36 minutes
So keep each healing batch under 2 hours and 36 minutes for instant healing

Try different batch sizes to find what works best with your specific alliance activity level.

Emporium of Enigma

The Emporium of Enigma consists of three connected events:

Harbor Drill
Buccaneer Bounty
Emporium of Enigma

Harbor Drill:

Harbor Drill: Earn points by completing Daily Drill tasks.
Daily Drill: Contains 6 tasks that reset every day.
Event Offer: Purchase the Harbor Tome for $5, which doubles the rewards you earn.

Through the Daily Drill tasks, you’ll earn Corsair Keys, which are used to open chests in the Buccaneer Bounty tab.

Buccaneer Bounty:

Use Corsair Keys obtained from the Harbor Drill to open chests.
You can refresh chests 3 times for free. Subsequent refreshes cost 90 keys.
Rewards are available for opening chests at milestones: 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, and 100.
There are 3 types of chests:
- Splendid (Best)
- Exquisite (Middle)
- Regular (Worst)

You can buy Corsair Key Packs to get more keys:

Cost	Corsair Keys	VIP
$0.99	120	500
$2.99	360	1500
$4.99	500	2500
$9.99	900	4000
$19.99	1700	6000
$49.99	3500	12000
$99.99	6000	20000

Note: The packs reseat each day of the 7 day event.

Emporium of Enigma:

By opening chests in the Buccaneer Bounty, you earn Pearls of Enigma.
Use these Pearls to trade for items in the Emporium of Enigma.
Here is the gen1 Emporium of Enigma shop:

ou can save Corsair Keys after the event ends but not Pearls of Enigma.

FAQ

How to find your construction speed boost?

Click on your power and scroll to the bottom.

What is Double Time?

Double Time is a decree increasing construction speed by 20%. It can be found in your Court of Justice and should be enabled for all major builds.

The attack time is 3 times? What does that mean?

This is the screen for applying to the sanctuary. Three different alliances each select a time slot, and the time slot chosen by the majority becomes the final decision. The sanctuary will open at that decided time. The final time will be announced at 0 UTC.

What is the advantage of upgrading low-tier troops to higher tier instead of training new ones?

You can upgrade more troops in a batch than you can just by training them. For me, for example, I can upgrade a little more than 600 troops, but I can only train a bit more than 500 troops at a time.

How to deal with Bear Trap?

When starting a rally, use your three strongest heroes.
When joining rallies, use Chenko as your lead hero. If joining multiple rallies, send no heroes to the others if you don’t need them to increase troop capacity (Chenko and Amadeus are the only attack rally joiners at this time).
- Chenko is used because she increases lethality, which is the most important stat for the bear trap.
If you can fill all marches, prioritize Marksmen, then Lancers, then Infantry, as Marksmen have the highest lethality. Send 100% Marksmen for all marches if possible.