How to Build a Kick-ass Berserker Castle

Berserker is your most basic type of unit in the game.  They're my favorite because they're fast to recruit, cheap to make, good for raiding and is generally pretty good offensive troops.  My berserker castle below.

• Layout: http://bit.ly/p15NvV
• Max Troop Cap: 300K Bersekers
• Recruitment Time:  3sec/zerk
• Storage: 775k wood/stone 1.9mil iron/food
• Purification/shipping capabilities
• Requires: ministers, 75k food/hr

How to Build

1. Copy the full link (not the short URL) to the layout of this castle and overlay it on your city.  You'll need LoU Tweaks.
2. Set trade minister with resource targets at: 200k wood, 220k stone, 1mil iron, 1mil food. Request missing resource from nearby hub.  Surplus goes back to hub
3. Set building mister to auto upgrade, except for cottages
4. Set target army at 300k berserkers, auto upgrade walls and towers
5. Upgrade townhall to lvl 4.
6. Build 40 temp cottages and upgrade to lvl 6 or 7, depending on how fast you want to build the castle
7. Upgrade townhall and add permanent buildings, as shown in the layout.   Make sure you build storage, marketplace, moonglow tower some time early on.  Don't build a castle yet
8. Upgrade walls and towers to lvl 10.  
9. When all existing permanent buildings are at level 10, delete 8 cottages and add 8 permanent buildings
10. Build a castle and upgrade all building to 10

Of Note:

• Don't build a castle until you have enough resources to build it and enough food to support it
• This castle requires that you have ministers.  If you don't have minister, add food in the castle.
• Require 75kfood/hr.  I'll show you how to make a food city in a later post
• This castle should be landlocked (not on water)
• You should also have adequate defenses in case it's attacked.  Unless you're on a secure continent.

System of Hubs for Palace Donation

You do not need this until later in the game, when donation to palaces is the focus.  It's most useful when donating to places lvl 4 or more.  Each city can ship out 16 million in resource in 1 shipment.  If you have 10 cities, that's 160 million resources!  You can fill a level 1-3 palace in 1 wave!!!

You need at least 2 cities, but you may want to build as many as 10 or more.  Build these cities as close together as you can to cut down shipping time.

City 1: See Palace Hub
When use in the system of hubs, this city should not be used to send resources to palaces manually.  Carts should be available to fill cities 2-10.

City 2-10: Shipping http://bit.ly/oXElhX
Set wood/stone level at 8 million each.  With 16,600 carts, you can ship out all 16 million in 1 shipment.  This city can be on water or landlocked.

Your First City in LoU

The goal of the first city is to make a second city. This city has following buildings:

• about 74 resource buildings (wood/stone/iron/food/gold)
• 20 cottages (next to wood/stone or iron)
• a moonglow tower (to purify resources)
• a barrack (to house your baron)
• a trinsic temple (to produce a baron)
• at least 2 marketplaces (to send resources with your baron to found a new city)
• 1 warehouse (if you don't play often, you may want to add another warehouse)

This is my first city layout: http://bit.ly/pj0Io6

Note: when you go through the tutorial, you have to build a hideout, a cityguard house and a training ground.  I destroyed these buildings afterwards to make room for more resource buildings.

After the tutorial, you should download LoU Tweaks (see previous post.) Click on the "L" button and use either the autoplanner 1 or the autoplanner 2 to plan your city with wood/stone/iron/food resource buildings.  Manually add 1 or 2 warehouses next to either a sawmill or a stonemason.  Add at least 2 marketplaces (you may want to add a 3rd marketplace or a harbor.)  Add townhouses next to marketplaces or harbor.  Add a trinsic temple and a barrack next to it.  Add a moonglow tower.  After you're done with the layout, COPY URL in the autoplanner and paste in the Overlay layout box of the city layout.  Apply layout and build your city exactly as planned.

You can optionally build the entire city manually without the help of the autoplanner.  I personally recommend this so that you enjoy the whole experience of LoU, then compare your build to the one generated by the autoplanner.