Dawn of Fantasy/Gameplay

There are several game modes when starting Dawn of Fantasy (here after called DoF or dof). There's the single player modes of castle defense/lay siege featuring the major NPC towns of the realm of Mythador. You will have the option to purchase troops before starting the battle at the chosen town and picking things like the race/size/difficulty of the opposing army.

There is also the single player campaign mode of Kingdom Wars where a player starts out with control of one of the major NPC cities and attempts to conquer the rest of Mythador via attacking the cities. The AI will attempt to siege your starting town and any towns you conquer so don't leave them unprotected! Should your army and an AI army enroute to your towns meet, you will be end up fighting a field battle instead of a siege battle. When starting a campaign you'll have the option of picking the length/difficulty of your campaign.

Multiplayer is also referred to as the Online Kingdom part of dof. It in you'll create a "home city" that you will build up and use to create troops of your chosen race. You can create a total of four home cities to play with but are limited to playing one at a time (you can simply log off and pick up another home city at any time). When you're logged off of your home cities your peasants will still gather resources, troops will complete building, buildings will continue to build providing a persistent online world. At this time you can't visit other players cities but this is planned to be implemented in the next several weeks and a much larger crafting system is also planned going forward.

Each of the races play differently in the Online Kingdom mode. The Humans and Elves play styles are the closest in terms of troops and building up the player's town. Orcs are vastly different from either other race in both troop production and the free build they enjoy as well. For more in depth information see the pages bearing the name of the race in question.

Mercenaries play a large role in the mid to late game period of Online Kingom as experienced players use them to supplent armies that have been destroyed as well as build specific army types around their favorite units. These mercenaries can be found by using the "build camp" when an army is roaming around the world map. Most NPC towns have a mercenary merchant with available units for purchase.