Self Trickle Helper

Road speed bonus

When playing on a server that has Regions, if your alliance has captured adjacent regions then those can be combined to be Countries. When a castle is in a country the roads (cobble routes) can be upgraded and this gives a speed bonus for all troop movements.

In general it is best to trickle with 51 troops for a castle (251 for a fort or 1251 for a city).

The option is provided to let you trickle with more because some people prefer to use 55 or 60 (liking to use a round number). The maths behind how the combat system works mean that you only need 51 and using more just means you can't self-trickle for as long.

The exception is when there are Vikings about. Vikings change the balance. If you think that you might be attacked with Vikings then the best approach is to trickle with a mixture of defensive troops. If you only have offensive troops to trickle with then trickle with more - 76 troops is suggested (376 for a fort or 1876 for a city) to be safe.

Be aware that full details of the way in which Vikings change the balance of combat have not been published by Xyrality, so this represents or best guess based on the information Xyrality have provided.

The option to trickle with 153 or 165 troops for a castle is experimental. The idea is that if you trickle with this number of troops then it covers two slots instead of just one. At the moment you will have to mark both slots as covered, that enhancement will follow in due course.

A tick change is a common attack technique used to try to defeat trickles. (This is where the attacker sends a unit to land at a slightly earlier time, in the hope that you have the trickle set up before the new attack is launched. This has the effect of shifting combat times forward, which can produce holes in a trickle.)

There is no completely reliable way of dealing with tick changes. Using the option to "Harden against tick change" helps. It doubles the initial garrison size, and uses smaller timing windows for when troops need to return back. These help to make the trickle less succeptible to a tick change, but it does take a bit longer for you to set up the self-trickle.

The Arsenal will show you what troops you have available that are yours to command. This is different from the troop overview that will also show troops from other players. It is important that you use the figure for your troops and not the total number of troops, as you can only self trickle with your own troops.

Alternatively, if you need to cover a particular trickle slot or slots then you can enter a number of hours and minutes (hh:mm) and the tool will instead generate a self trickle sheet for that length of time.

Lords and Knights and the XMas edition of Lords and Knights use different styles of links. The two applications are otherwise identical except for cosmetic differences.

Lords and Knights uses links that look like l+k://... whilst the Xmas editing uses links like lkxmas://...

Selecting the wrong one and the links either won't open for you or if you have both apps installed then it will open in the wrong one.