Ancestors Legacy (PC)

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Capture a Village

To capture a village, first command your squads to set it on fire, then occupy it to take it over (both actions are reflected by the status bar above the village's main building). Villages can have four levels of defense: no defense, brown, silver and gold - all reflected by the outline of village's status bar. The higher the defense, the more troops are needed to take it over, and more soldiers might die while they capture the village. Take notice, that capturing stops upon enemy soldiers entering the village.

Stockpiled food

If you have more squads than your villages food production can support, then you will start to lose stockpiled food. When you run out of stockpiled food your squads will starve. If your squads are starving, then your squads will be defeated in fights you should have won. When training squads keep in mind the increased food upkeep.

Do what you can to avoid starving. You can strike at enemy food production to starve him. Starving will put a player at a large disadvantage.

Try taking a village with food production.
Factions may have techs that reduce upkeep, or boost food production.
Factions may have have prayers that reduce upkeep or boost production.
Make sure your village farms are producing food.
You can disband some of your excess squads.

The viking upkeep reduction tech is basically required for the vikings as the game progresses. The saxons and germans upkeep reduction is useful but not required. While the slavs should frequently use the upkeep prayer. Both the vikings and slavs have a production boost tech. This boosts your production for your base, and can be useful but not amazing.

Various Steam Achievements

Complete the indicated task to unlock the achievement.

AchievementHow to unlock
A Ship That Doesn't SinkUnknown.
All for RurikUnknown.
Commander VeteranRecruit each type of unit in the game at least once.
ConquerorWin a match in Multiplayer or against AI.
Dunstan's RevengeUnknown.
Edward and GodwinComplete Edward's campaign.
Edward Needs ThoseUnknown.
Elite UnitReach maximum level with any squad.
Fallen WarriorLose a match in Multiplayer or against AI.
FirestarterStart a match in Multiplayer or against AI.
Harold's Guerilla WarriorsComplete Harold's campaign.
IndisputableWin a Multiplayer match or AI Skirmish in less than 8 minutes.
It's a TRAP!Detect and destroy five enemy traps.
It's a... trap.Make an enemy trigger a trap you built.
Lindisfarne RichesComplete Ulf Ironbeard's campaign.
Lost OnesReplenish a squad ten times.
MieszkoComplete Mieszko's campaign.
NO LIFE IS WORTH SAVING...Unknown.
Off the CourseComplete the basic training mission.
PanicRaise the alarm in your village.
ProtectorRaise the defense level of your village.
Rebuilding ForcesComplete the squad training mission.
Rock-SolidRaise a squad's armor to its maximum level.
Rudolf of HabsburgComplete Rudolf's campaign.
Rurik's ReignComplete Rurik's campaign.
Squad ProficiencySpecialize ten squads.
Squad VeterancyUnlock a veterancy ten times.
The Last ImpedimentComplete the base building training mission.
Through DefensesDestroy a village with Gold defense.
Time to WorkSend peasants to work at a resource point 50 times.
Uber MicroWin a match against an AI on Insane difficulty.
Under Mieszko's BannerUnknown.
Unexpected AlliesComplete the economy training mission.
UntouchableDefeat an entire enemy squad with ranged attacks only.
Vienna's Finest ArmorUnknown.
War MachineDestroy any building with a siege machine.
War VeteranDefeat each type of unit in the game at least once.