RÍKI

Choose your people

The map and the foe

HOW TO PLAY

You are a jarl with a longhouse, three karls and a scout. Gather food, wood, gold and stone, raise a settlement, climb through four ages and break every rival hall on the map. A completed Great Hall that stands for five minutes also wins the saga.

Controls

• Left click selects; drag boxes units; double-click selects all of that kind on screen; Shift+click adds.
• Right click gives the order that fits the target: move, gather, build, repair, attack, garrison. Shift+right click queues orders.
• Scroll the map with the arrow keys, the edges of the screen, or middle-mouse drag. Mouse wheel zooms. Click the minimap to jump.
• A then click: attack-move. S stop. Del deletes the selection. Esc cancels / opens the menu.
• H selects your Longhouse; . the next idle karl; , the next idle warrior; Space jumps to the last event.
• Ctrl+1–9 saves a control group; 1–9 recalls it. F3 pauses. +/- changes game speed.
• With a building selected, right-click the ground (or a resource) to set its rally point. Click a queued item to cancel it.
• Walls: pick Palisade or Stone Wall, click a start tile, then click an end tile to lay a line. Gates let your own people through; you can lock them.
• The Longhouse's Bell hides nearby karls inside it (and towers); ring it again to send them back to work.

The Ages

The rival jarls

Rival jarls run their own economies, climb the ages, raise armies and raid — and they know where the resources are without scouting. Easy jarls gather slowly and attack rarely; hard jarls gather faster than you and come often. The build-up setting keeps every jarl at home for that long.

Counters

Spears beat riders. Riders beat archers and siege. Archers beat spears and slow infantry. Javelineers beat archers. Rams and stone-throwers break walls and halls; keep them behind a shield wall. Towers and the Longhouse shoot more arrows with karls or archers garrisoned inside.