Lords Mobile: The Ultimate F2P Guide

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. For who is this guide?
3. Principles
4. Guideline
5. Heroes
- The Golden Trio
- Hero Chapters
- Colloseum
6. Buildings
- Resource buildings
- Infirmary
- Barrack
- Manor
7. Talent Points
8. Gathering
9. Crafting
- Gathering Set
- Construction Set
- Research Set
- War Set
10. How to deal with bullies
11. How to spend your Gems and Guild Coins
12. How to earn Free Gems

1. Introduction
This guide will explain to you how to turn your account into a powerhouse without having to sell
your home. I will also teach you how to protect your troops and resources from bullies
effectively and with minimal expenses. This guide will cover all the fundamental principles and I
will explain these with examples. I will also spend some time on the psychological and
interactive aspects of playing a game like Lords Mobile. After the theoretical part, I will give

instructions what you should be focussing on as a f2p player.

2. For who is this guide?

I created this guide to reach out to all the f2p players, but even if youre not f2p you may find it
beneficial to read. If you want to be a heavy attacker who leaves behind a series of burning
castles right from the start of the game, this is not the guide for you. However, if you don't mind
biding your time and staying relatively low-profile for about 2 months before happily and easily
grinding castles into the dust, please read on.
Also note that in my opinion, a defensive strategy does not mean you shouldn't attack. It just
means that attacking serves the higher purpose of maintaining a high growth rate and does not
become a goal in itself, and that economy is the most important goal. You also have to
understand there is no one way to play Lords Mobile. It all depends on your playstyle,
kingdom, the guild you are in and if youre free to play or pay to play.

3. Principles
Have patience
When you start playing, you will quickly notice that Lords Mobile is a slow-paced game and that
it takes you hours, days, weeks or even months to get anywhere. Therefore, the first principle is:
have patience! Even though development may seem slow at times, keep the longer-term goals in
mind and you will notice you are getting ever closer to them.
Set goals
That immediately introduces the second principle: Work towards long-term goals and don't let
events (such as attacks on you) carry you away from them. Instead, deal with these diversions
and then immediately return to your long-term goals.

Maintain exponential growth

The third principle of this strategy is: maintain exponential growth. This means you continuously
have to invest your resources in such a way that they increase your growth rate. This means you
will grow ever faster and faster, allowing you to eventually catch up and pass people with higher
might who initially may seem to grow faster.
Don't get into conflicts
You are not out there alone, and people (especially children) are less reserved than in real life.
Many players around you will be immature and react emotionally and with verbal violence to
your actions, or derive enjoyment from acting like a bully. Some will even go to great lengths,
hampering their own growth just to annoy you. Others will abuse you if you give them half the
opportunity. The most dangerous (and the rarest) will try to play psychological games with you.
You cannot avoid this, but you can do a great deal to stay out of trouble. Make friends, join a
guild and be polite but firm. Never give in to threats, harassment or extortion, but don't provoke
people by being smug, defiant or triumphant. Be firm, rational and calm, don't hesitate to call
bluff and never, never, react to insults or do anything that might insult people yourself.
And finally, don't offend people with your actions. Sure, you can attack them, but don't do it ten
times a day, and politely react to messages asking you to stop. Be honest and open that you will
attack them again if they dont defend themselves. They will still hate you, but they will be less
likely to invest a lot of time and effort in destroying you.
In short, don't do anything that will get you dragged into long-lasting and potentially growth
limiting conflicts.

4. Guideline
Based on these principles, we can now formulate guidelines:
1. Rush to Castle Level 17 to unlock Tier 3 troops.
2. Only build and research when you can easily afford them in terms of hourly income.
3. Only build and research when doing so will make you grow faster (exponential growth).
4. Focus on your Golden Trio.
5. Build an army to beat skirmish, gather and to raid inactives and guildless players only.
6. Make yourself an unattractive target to make raiding you unprofitable.

5. Heroes
The Golden Trio
The Golden Trio is Sage of Storms, Scarlet Bolt and Trickster. I call these the Golden Trio
because they are the first three heroes you will get to Gold Grade. Most players will rush through
hero chapters and focus on a strong team to unlock Rose Knight. Rose Knight is amazing,
arguably one of the best f2p heroes in the game, but she is an end-game hero used for her logistic
skills and we have little use for her now except maybe Colloseum.

Lets take a look at their Administration Skills at Gold Grade.

Trickster: 25% Research Boost, 3000 Max Energy Boost, 10% Energy Regeneration
Sage of Storms: 20% Construction Speed
Scarlet Bolt: 20% Construction Speed
In short: by focussing on these three heroes and getting them to gold grade asap you will save
yourself a fortune of speed-ups. Even p2p players who maxed out Big Guy and Petite Devil will
want to max these 3 heroes asap.

Hero Chapters
Hero chapters is where you unlock heroes and sweep stages for medals. Its pretty selfexplanatory. A good team consists of 1 tank, a healer, 2 heroes that can stun and a sniper. You
start off with Oath Keeper. You will replace this hero with Death Knight. Hes the best tank a f2p
player can get. Your healer will be Prima Donna. She will heal your entire team. Your sniper will
be Tracker wich leaves room for 2 more heroes.
Here is my recommended f2p hero composition:

- Death Knight (tank + stun)

- Prima Donna (healer)
- Black Crow (damage dealer)
- Incinerator (damage dealer + stun)
- Tracker (sniper)
To unlock these heroes you need to 3-star their respective chapter and sweep for Hero Medals.
Death Knight can be unlocked at Elite Chapter 3 Stage 18
Prima Donna will be unlocked automically in Normal Chapter 1
Black Crow can be unlocked at Elite Chapter 1 Stage 18
Incinerator can be unlocked at Elite Chapter 1 Stage 12
Tracker can be unlocked at Elite Chapter 2 Stage 15

Colloseum
If you manage to get into the Colloseum top 3000 you can earn Gems. Every 3 hours, Colloseum
rewards are awarded based on the players rank.
There is no best colloseum team. Every composition can be countered. Were going to make a
team from our 8 heroes (golden trio and hero chapters team) because we can not afford to unlock
and level up other heroes just for colloseum. Later on we can add heroes like Rose Knight and
Demon Slayer but for now your colloseum team will look something like this:
- Death Knight
- Prima Donna
- Tracker
- Trickster
- Scarlet Bolt
Feel free to swap heroes and make your own team. Just dont unlock and level-up heroes that are
not in your golden trio and hero chapter team. Its inefficient. You dont want to be a jack of all
trades master of none. If your team dies before Prima Donna can even proc replace her with a
damage dealer. Trial and error and you will learn how to counter hero compositions. Dont worry
too much about colloseum. If you lose a colloseum defense it doesnt necessarily mean your
composition is bad. Its more likely your enemies team is higher level and/or has higher grade
heroes. Use your daily 5 attempts and keep pushing the leaderboards!

Lineup for Free-to-play players :

Rose Knight (tank, stun, support)
Death Knight or Oath Keeper or Child of Light (tank, stun)
Prima Donna
Incinerator (stun, damage dealer)
Tracker or Black Crow or Demon Slayer (damage dealer)

6. Buildings
Resource buildings
We will build 1 Farm, 6 Timber Mills, 6 Quarries and 5 Mines. The reason we only need 1 Farm
is because our upkeep is always going to be negative. Were going to build a massive army and
therefore they will consume more food then we can ever hope to produce. Nothing will happen
when you run out of food. In Lords Mobile your troops and reinforcements will NOT die if you
dont have any food.
We do need food for our construction, research and to train troops, but you will receive alot of
food packs. Whenever you need food you just open a food pack from your inventory. Dont
worry you will get plenty of them!
Mines have a lower capacity and generate less resources compared to Timber Mills and Quarries,
but its not a problem. Take a look at the world map and youll find mostly Fields and Rich
Veins. Woods and Rocks are harder to find and Ruins are the rarest.
Barrack
We will only build 1 barrack. Building additional barracks does not increase the training speed. It
only allows you to que up more troops. Thats nice for when you go to work or go to bed, but
higher tier troops require such a long training time that 1 barrack is all you ever need.
Infirmary
Infirmaries are extremely important and often neglected. Whenever you get attacked at your own
turf your troops get sent to the infirmary where you can heal them to get them back. It will cost
you resources to heal them but its cheaper and faster than training new troops. We will build 5
infirmaries and later on in the game we will replace two manors with 2 infirmaries. Its important
to note that when youre getting attacked on the world map while gathering your troops will not
be sent to the infirmary and any losses are permanent. Your infirmary only works for the troops
defending your own turf.

Manor
The Manor produces Gold and increases Barracks training speed wich is very nice, because Gold
is hard to come by and who doesnt want to train his troops faster? But I cant stress the
important of having enough infirmaries to cover your army enough. Once you get attacked
repeatedly by a bully you will understand the importance of an infirmary. Dont be too greedy
and build too many Manors. You can keep alot of troops safe with the Shelter and Fake Rallies
but there will be a time where an attacker catches you off guard.. and then its too late.

7. Talent points
Because we are in the development stage of our account we want to speed up everything as much
as possible. We are going to max Construction Speed I & II, Research Speed I & II, Training
Speed I & II and the remaining points go into Gathering I & II.

2 points in Food Production I (prerequisite)

2 points in Stone Production I (prerequisite)
10 points in Construction Speed I (MAX)
10 points in Research I (MAX)
2 points in Timber Production I (prerequisite)
2 points in Ore Production I (prerequisite)
5 points in Food Production II (prerequisite)
5 points in Stone Production II (prerequisite)
5 points in Ore Production II (prerequisite)
20 points in Construction Speed II (MAX)
20 points in Research II (MAX)
2 points in Squad Offense I (prerequisite)
3 points in Calvary Offense I (prerequisite)
3 points in Trap Building I (prerequisite)
15 points in Training Speed I (MAX)
3 points in Ranged Offense I (prerequisite)
3 points in Infantry Offense I (prerequisite)
3 points in Squad Defense I (prerequisite)
3 points in Squad Health I (prerequisite)
5 points in Ranged Offense II (prerequisite)

5 points in Infantry Offense II (prerequisite)

5 points in Cavalry Offense III (prerequisite)
5 points in Infantry Offense III (prerequisite)
35 points in Training Speed II (MAX)
Once this is done put your remaining points in Gathering I & II (max II first not I)

8. Gathering
You can gather resources on the world map from Resource Tiles. Higher level Resource Tiles
allow faster resource gathering and may yield higher grade Materials. Gathering will be your
main source of income early on in the game. Thats because our own production fields dont
generate alot and they stop generating resources once the storage capacity is reached. The
materials you get from gathering are extremely important. You will need tons of them. They will
be used to craft your equipment.
There are 5 different Resource Tiles:

Woods
Resource: Timber
Chance to get: Feather, Logs, Ancient Bark

Rocks
Resource: Stone
Chance to get: Platinum, Amber, Copper Coil, Lava Mud

Rich Vein
Resource: Ore
Chance to get: Coal, Minerals, Metal

Field
Resource: Food
Chance to get: Linen, Fur Pelt, Vines

Ruins
Resource: Gold
Chance to get: Tip 1: Dont gather when youre AFK for too long or offline. If youre getting attacked while
gathering any losses will be PERMANENT. Infirmary does not heal troops that are lost while
gathering.
Tip 2: Dont leave tiles with few resources. Always clean up your tiles. Otherwise new tiles wont
respawn! Be responsible and think of the environment and your neighbours.

9. Crafting
We are going to craft 4 different equipment sets: Gathering Equipment, Construction Equipment,
Research Equipment and War Equipment. The Gathering Equipment is what you will be wearing
most of the time and you will only equip Construction and Research Equipment when you want
to construct or research something.
Items with Construction Speed and Research Speed only need to be equipped BEFORE you start
a new project. Once the project is started you can take them off. Dont be that guy who is using 1
Lunar Flute and 1 Sentinel Ring or worse: a hybrid accessory with both Construction and
Research Speed. Why settle for less when you can get the best?
These are the four sets you will be crafting:
Gathering Set

Mainhand: Offhand: Gryphons Talon

Head: Devil Visage
Body: Regal Platemail
Boots: Seafarer Cleats
Accesory: Construction Set

Mainhand: Trident
Offhand: Gryphons Talon
Head: Body: Odysseus
Boots: Seafarer Cleats (Amethyst Boots are better by 0.5% but we already crafted Seafarer Boots
for Gathering)
Accesory: Sentinels Circlet x3
Research Set

Mainhand: Offhand: Vice Grips

Head: Body: Calvary Mail
Boots:
Accesory: Lunar Flute x3
War Set

Mainhand: Fiery Tomahawk

Offhand: Frostwing Shield
Head: Berserker Tuskhelm
Body: Odysseus
Boots: Winter Stompers
Accesory: Lost Islands Relic x3
There are a few items that are better than the items listed above but those require Frostwing
Hearts, Gryphon Cores or Festive Bells to craft. You can get those materials from hunting
Frostwings, Gryphons and Snowbeasts, but the droprate for those materials is ridiculous. You
will simply not get enough of those materials to craft the items to a respectable level.

10. How to deal with bullies

Here are some practical tips to deal with bullies:
- Keep your troops and your leader in the Shelter this will keep them safe for up to 12 hours.
- Start a fake rally to keep troops safe for up to 8 hours.
- Reinforce your guildmate with a shield to keep your troops safe.
- Send all excessive resources (that your vault cant protect) to a guildmate with a shield.
- Have enough hospital beds so your troops at your turf will only be wounded.
- Never pay a ransom. You dont want to give your bully an incentive to keep attacking you.
- If a bully is messaging you. Do not reply.
In short: you want to make yourself an unattractive target and not give your bully an incentive to
keep burning your castle. Sooner or later the bully gets tired. If above does not work consider
relocating and changing your name.

11. How to spend your Gems and Guild Coins

Gems
A rule of thumb: do not buy anything with Gems that can be bought with Guild Coins. You
should save up 10,000 gems first before spending anything. 10,000 Gems will be invested in the
Treasure Trove. Remaining gems will be used to buy Crystal Pickaxe. The Crystal Pickaxe is
needed to upgrade the Treasure Trove. Maxing out your Treasure Trove will take a long time, but
its definitely not impossible. See section 12 for tips how to earn free Gems. Once your Treasure
Trove is maxed you want to buy Steel Cuffs to upgrade your Prison. Upgrading your Battle Hall
is optional, but not recommended.

Guild Coins
Guild Coins will be used to buy the 7-day Gathering Boost and Rare Material Chests. We will be
crafting alot of items and for that we need TONS of materials. Do not buy VIP points. Just log in
everyday for the consecutive login bonus that can get up to 600 points. Find an active guild or
get it to be active because killing monsters gives you resource packs, Gems and sometimes VIP
points. Finishing Solo and Hell events will give you VIP points aswell. Rare Jewel Chests are
important to buy aswell because you will put Jewels in your War Set later on in the game, but
this is not a priority in the beginning. Last but not least always have atleast 1 Relocator in your
inventory incase youre getting harassed and attacked repeatedly by bullies.

12. How to earn gems

Who doesn't love free Gems? There are several ways to earn free Gems in Lords Mobile.
Treasure Trove
This will be our biggest source of free gems. The Treasure Trove is a bank wich you unlock at
Castle level 17 when you clear the last skirmish mission. The Treasure Trove lets you deposit
Gems to earn more over time. To do so you will need 10,000 gems. With a maxed out Treasure
Trove you will receive 21,000 free gems every 30 days!
Maintenance
When the servers are down for maintenance you will receive free gems! When they extend the
maintenance you will receive even more gems!

Ingame events
Occasionaly there will be ingame events. Events like Daily Gem Roulette allow you to spin a
wheel and receive up to 1,000 Gems a day. Its always a good idea to check the ingame news to
see if theres an event going on.
Mystery Box
You can open the Mystery Box when the countdown ends. It contains ingame gifts and
sometimes you wil receive free Gems.
Monster Hunting
When you hunt monsters on the world map theres a chance you will get Gems as a reward. The
amount of damage you do to a monster does NOT affect the reward. Its random.
Guild Gifts
Whenever you or your guild members guild kill a monster on the world map or spend money in
the game there will be a Guild Gift. This Guild Gift can contain Gems.
Colloseum
Every 3 hours, colloseum will award players free gems based on the players rank. You want to
stay in the top 5000 and push the leaderboard everyday.
Facebook events
Follow the official Lords Mobile Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LordsMobile
Every now and then there will be a Facebook event where you can earn free gems and other
goodies.
Forum events
Be sure to keep an eye on the official forums aswell! Ocassionaly there will be forum events and
contests with great prizes!