The most usefull thing to buy is probably the horseshoe, you get much better value bying these and getting lucky than to buy other items directly. With the new feature you can even get troops using these horseshoe coins, as well as lots of other cool items of course.

If you get treasure maps, make sure you don’t use them until you can manage to beat the troops in a level 10 wilderness. It really suck if you can not manage to kill the troops and get your prize, what a waste of coins. When it comes to treasure you can only dig up your own, not other players treasures. To get the treasure you have to occupy the location where the treasure is, gather for 1 hour and then pick it up.

One last thing, it is possible to get any type of item just from pillaging and occupying. This is cool, so you don’t have to spend money on the game if you don’t want to. However, it can take ages to get the item you want without going to the shop, so many people do it to speed things up.

PH – Physical – Marching consume physical points. These points recover slowly and medicine can increase the recovery rate.
CMD – Command – This determines the amplyfying effect, effects 100 troops and 1000 soldiers.
OFS - Offense – Amplifies siege by 1% for every 10 OFS. Hero weapons increase the OFS score.
SAL - Salary – The amount of gold you have to pay the hero every hour.
TAL - Talents – Every upgrade increases Talents by 1, and it’s used to increase officers attributes below. Every level increase gives you 1 additional talent points.
PLT - Politics – Politics of mayor accelerates resource production, construction, and fortification of building by 1% per point.
CBP - Combat Power – 1 Combat Power of mayor increases troop training speed by 1% and Offense by 10, and 3 Combat Power regain Officer’s Physical by 1.
SAG - Sagacity – 1 Sagacity of Mayor increases research speed by 1% and Defense by 10. 3 Sagacity regain Officer’s Energy by 1.
ENG - Energy – Applying stratagems lowers energy which recovers slowly, medicine can quicken rate.
SPD – Speed – Amplifies tempo of troops by 1% for every 1 SPD
DFS - Defense – Amplifies guard by 1% for every 10 DFS. Equipment could increase DFS.
FDL - Fidelity – Affects rate if mutiny or not, you can increase with items or gold.

There are three types of military officers, the mayor, the commander and the tactician. If you don’t have either a commander or a tactician the mayor vil act as such for both of them. This does not work the other way around so it’s important to always have at least a mayor appointed. The mayor increases the production rate of resources and also accelerates the speed of constructing buildings, walls and fortifications. The commander accelerates the speed of training troops. He is also important in defending a city under attack. The tactician speeds up your research.

Types of NPC units.
Outlaws = Infantryman
Footpad = Billman
Thugs = Grenadiers
Mounted Robber = Musketeers
Cavaliers = Hussars

Each of the servers has about 40,000 players, so it looks like the total number of players is about 100,000 now, assuming not too many players play on several servers. This is pretty good for a game that has only been out one month! I expect the game to be growing even more in future month and new interesting features to be added frequently. During Halloween they had a pretty cool event also, here is what they say about it at their website.

As Halloween is approaching, FOW is proud to announce our first annual Halloween celebration. 

Between Oct. 28, 2009 00:00 to Nov.7, 2009 23:59 Napwar server time (CDT), we will be having a series of activities to celebrate with the Nap War community. Players who log into Nap War daily will receive a Halloween Box. When you complete a few simple quests, you will receive even more items and “candy”.

Activity 1: Halloween Box awarded to players who login during the celebration.

During the activity period, all players will be awarded a Halloween Box every other day if they log on to the game. By opening the box, you could randomly get one resource, an item, or a Halloween costume. Or you can buy the box in the Shop, or exchange it for candy. 
What is candy for? See Activity 2.

During the Activity Time, every player can own up to 5 Halloween Boxes through daily quests. The box will only be available on Oct. 28, Oct. 29, Oct. 30, Oct.31, and Nov. 1 Napwar server time, one per player per day. Do not miss any of them!

Halloween Box Tip: Available to players at the rank at Knight or above.

You could randomly get one of the following after opening the Halloween Box.

Resources:
Food 100,000;Wood 100,000;Stone 100,000;Iron 100,000;Gold 100,000;Voucher 10;Voucher 50;Voucher 100;Voucher 150

Items:
Chesterfield’s Works;Kyng Alisaunder’s Works; Aristotle’s Works; Bag of Black Powder;Relocation Scheme;Emergency Recruitment Notice;Recruitment Notice;Golden Key; Imperial Edict; Retraining Manual

Activity 2: Lightening jack-o-lantern, looking for candy, and applying your the Halloween Boxes.

During the Activity Period, you can buy jack-o’-lanterns, candles, or candy or get them by pillaging or occupying a wilderness. Use candles to light jack-o-lanterns while looking for candy and the Halloween Box.


Required items: jack-o-lantern, candle, and candy

Item Tips: 

1. Buy from the Shop: You can buy jack-o-lanterns, candles, candy, and Halloween Boxes in the Shop. 
Jack-o-lanterns cost 30 coins
Candles cost 30 coins 
Candy costs 6 coins 
Halloween Box costs 50 coins.

2. Receive jack-o-lanterns, candles, and candy from battles in a Wilderness or a City.

Quick Guide: 

Get the coords of a nearby wilderness by using candles to light a jack-o-lantern, then occupy the wilderness and gather for more than an hour. You will then be able to receive one Halloween Box and some candy.

You will randomly get 1 item out of those mentioned above after you open the Halloween Box.

Resources or Candy? You can exchange resources or Halloween Boxes for candy. Exchange rates are as follows:

1 candy=Food 25000=Wood 20000=Stone 15000=Iron 10000

10 candies=1 Halloween Box


Activity 3: Bite apples and seize the first strike.

Get Halloween Apple by pillaging or occupying a wilderness or a city. Or you can purchase them in the Shop. You will get items, resources, or vouchers when you “eat” the apples. 

You will randomly get one of the following after openning the Halloween Apple:

10,000 Food;10,000 Wood;10,000 Stone;10,000 Iron;10,000 Gold;10 Voucher;50 Voucher;100 Voucher; Recruitment; Horseshoe Coin; 3 Transportation Team; Combat Notes; Military Doctrine; Gist of Battle; Recruitment Notice; Civil Law; Relocation Scheme;Adv Relocation Scheme;Hippocrates’ Works;
Little Marengo: Level 1 +10 Speed (Napoleon’s favorite horse);
Guardian Robe: Level 1 +2 Command, +2 Combat Power, +2 Sagacity, +2 Defense;
Precious Gem Ring: Level 1 +1 Command, +1 Politics, +1 Combat Power, +1 Sagacity, +1 Physical, +1 Energy, +1 Defense, +1 Offense;
Guardian Sword: Level 1 +13 Offense, +3 Command, +3 Combat Power.


Enjoy our Halloween celebration where everything is all treats and no tricks!

Lets look at the first units. The basic unit is the peasant, and you need peasants to help you carry loot home when you raid someone. Carrying stuff is pretty much the only thing they are good at though, so you need other units to protect them. The basic offensive unit is the infantryman. Infantrymen are soldiers who are specifically trained for the role of fighting on foot to engage the enemy face to face, always suffer greater loss compared to other branches of the army services. They work well against other infantrymen as well as against scouts and peasants, so you should have some of these at the start.

Scouts are trained to move swiftly and perform reconnaissance duties, providing detailed geographic coordinate and military intelligence by submerging the enemy troops. These are your intel gatherers, they engage other scouts in combat though so you want to have more scouts than the guy you are trying to get intel on. Most small inactives won’t have scouts at all though, so you don’t really need that many early on.

Another unit you can train with barracks level 2 is the billman. Billmen, take shining hook-spear as powerful weapons, are considered to be elite force to terrify infantrymen, even knights, mentioned as being one of the main forces during the Hundred Year’s War. These units work very well against horse-mounted infantry. You won’t fight much mounted infantry early on though, so I’d recommend upgrading barracks to level 3 for the next unit.

The next unit would be the grenadier. Grenadiers are chosen for being the most physically powerful soldiers and would lead assaults in the field of battle. These units are very effective against all non-mounted infantry and you’ll want to train quite a few of these early on. Feel free to leave comments or questions, good luck with the raiding!

This is a quick beginners guide to browser game Fog of War, Napoleonic War, for short just NapWar. Signing up is pretty easy, you just choose your username and password and type in your email. You have to choose gender, but that only effects what your avatar will look like, there are several to choose from. You also get the option of choosing which part of the game map you want your first city in, doesn’t matter really, all the areas are pretty much the same.

Signing in for the first time there will be a few system messages in your inbox, nothing that important really. Getting startet from here is pretty easy, just follow the quests. You’ll see the quest icon on the bottom of the screen, click that and just follow what they tell you to do. Doing the quests is not just a good way to learn the game, it’s also the fastest way to grow from the start of the game. The reason is that you get really good rewards from most of the quests, sometimes you even get more resources and gold as a reward as what you spent doing the quests.

I suggest looking at the rewards when you’re doing the quests though, you’d want to do the quests that gives you the most resources as a reward compared to what you have to spend doing it. Doing the resource production quests early is also a good idea, so that you get your production started early. You don’t need any military the first few days since you will be under protection. Anyways, this is just a short intro, feel free to leave questions or comments.

The Fog of War is a term used to describe the level of ambiguity in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations. Thus, in this game, strategy and well-kept balance between resources and development require player’s decision-making skills and determine the outcome. There are 5 types of resources, 10 armaments, 5 fortifications, and 30 stratagems and operable battle systems to make this game playable and interesting.