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Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth – Lake-town

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Good news! Lake-town in the Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle Earth is now available as a 5th city in your kingdom. However you don’t need to own 4 cities before it’s available to you because it’s available to all players and you automatically receive a Lake-town deed just by logging in now. And the requirements are simple with you just needing a level 4 Keep in your city and occupying a plain on the world map like you would for the other cities. However, Lake-town isn’t just an additional city but is unlike the other cities as it has new buildings, resources, and finally makes it possible to directly train tactical troops. If you don’t see any of this when you open the game then you might need to download the 12.0 update which has the following new features:

  • Expand your Kingdom with Lake-town and train tactical Troops
  • Produce Pearls, the new rare resource ONLY in Lake-town
  • Two new Tactical Troops – Pikemen and Longbowmen available
  • Seven types of Tactical Troops are now displayed on Training Tab in Barracks
  • Ten new human Heroes and an unlockable mystery Hero (Heroes List)
  • New Lake-town Campaign Chapter
  • Various UI and UX improvements

Lake-town’s city and field layouts look entirely different from the other cities reflecting the name. And the two new buildings are the Lake-town Tower, which can be built on the city map, and Oystering Boats, which can be built on the field map. You can build the Lake-town Tower on any available plot in your city view but can only build a maximum of 2 Oystering Boats on the 2 water plots in the field map. The Lake-town Tower is similar to the Sage’s Tower and it’s where you check for special events and relics. The level of your Lake-town Tower also affects the type of tactical troops you can train so it’s important to keep leveling it up. The Oystering Boats produce pearls, and like any other resource building the higher the level the more they produce. And Lake-town Architects are new units that are required to upgrade certain buildings even if they’re at level 1 such as the vault.
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So how can you make the most out of your city and field plots to create the best Lake-town for your kingdom? As I explained in my other city guides, first it depends on what you want to use the city as in your kingdom. And since Lake-town has the unique ability to train tactical troops you might want to focus on maximizing the troop production value of this city. So here are the different levels of pearl production for your Oystering Boats:

Level # of Workers Pearls per hr Max Storage
1 15 150 15000
2 30 300 30000
3 60 600 60000
4 100 1000 100000
5 150 1500 150000
6 210 2100 210000
7 280 2800 280000
8 360 3600 360000
9 450 4500 450000

So since you can have 2 Oystering Boats then obviously the overall production is just double the chart above, and when you add the ability to assign heroes to increase production then you can squeeze out even more. But it almost pales in comparison to how much you can food, wood, etc you can produce per city so you have to take that into consideration with your city planning. And with a level 10 Keep you can have up to 40 field plots, not including the 2 Oystering Boats. So since the various tactical troops require different amounts for food, wood, stone, and ore, I recommend just constructing 10 of each resource building. The tactical troops require food maintenance so you can either increase your food production by capturing the appropriate world map locations, assigning heroes or just constructing more farms.

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A level 10 Keep also gives you a total of 34 city plots. But that includes the Keep, Academy, Lake-town Tower, Vault, Great Hall, Muster Field, Embassy, Forge, Armory, Watch Tower, Stables, and Tavern. So if you build all of those you’ll have 22 city plots available for houses and Barracks. As I broke down the requirements in my City Resource Guide you’ll only need about 5 houses in Lake-town to produce enough workers for all 40 field plots. After that you’ll need houses for idle population to produce your troops, so the remaining city plots can be a combination of barracks and houses according to your needs. And the training speed increases by about 19% for every level 9 Barracks in your city. So a balanced Lake-town will look like the following:

Balanced City Example:

  • 10 Field plots for each resource (Farm, Lumber Mill, Mine, Quarry)
  • 14 Houses (4 for workers and 10 to train troops and taxes)
  • 10 Barracks (-19% Training Speed per lvl 9 Barracks)

So here’s what you get for that arrangement:

Population Production/hr Max # of Troops Training Speed Reduction
63000 90000 5625 88%

You can rush the building of your Lake-town by using all the hourglasses you’ve accrued and/or resource gifts you’ve won over all this time to give your Lake-town more resources than what it can initially build. I was able to level up my Lake-town completely in one day using this method. Also if you have any Master Builders I suggest using them as soon as you start because it’ll save you a ton of time. And if you’re curious about training tactical troops I have a guide for that, and you can check out the complete list of Lake-town heroes below:

List of Lake-town Heroes

  • Bard (Unlockable mystery hero)
  • Guthwald
  • Ordhelm
  • Aldostan
  • Hesthryth
  • Tilswyn
  • Triswig
  • Evaren
  • Ealwen
  • Branheric
  • Bronsgar

 

 

UPDATE: I’ve been asked about acquiring a Laketown deed by those who believe they missed it but it’s available to everyone. It’s automatically added to your items in the Miscellaneous tab. In order to establish Laketown you have to acquire a plain on the world map. So don’t worry, you didn’t miss out on unlocking Laketown.

11 comments

  1. Heather - June 6, 2015 8:50 PM

    I don’t no how to be able to set up lake town can some please help

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    • Kareem Ali - June 9, 2015 10:02 AM

      Hi, you can now purchase the deed for Lake-town in the Misc. tab in the Shop. Hope that helps

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  2. Chewy - January 31, 2015 9:41 AM

    If I go to new world willi have to buy it?

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    • Kareem Ali - February 1, 2015 6:40 PM

      No you won’t have to purchase anything.

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      • Chewy - February 1, 2015 9:37 PM

        I went to a new world 2 weeks back an don’t have it….

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  3. Nilay Robert - January 4, 2015 8:22 AM

    How can i get laketown i missed the laketown deed

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    • Kareem Ali - January 4, 2015 12:31 PM

      Lake-town deeds became available to all players on Dec. 4th. Did you look in your items bag under miscellaneous? You might have to acquire a plain on the world map before it’ll let you start a new city. But it should automatically have been added to your inventory. Maybe it’s not available on your server yet

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      • LW - February 12, 2015 7:50 AM

        I only started playing in mid-Jan 2015. Have I missed out on the lake town deed?

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        • Kareem Ali - May 16, 2015 10:04 AM

          Yes but you can now purchase it in the shop or even win it through the daily login bonus

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  4. justin - December 13, 2014 4:26 AM

    Why can I not train troops even though I have fulfilled basic requirements?… .Does it take longer for this city to get together for some strange reason?

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    • Kareem Ali - December 15, 2014 12:40 AM

      Have you upgraded the Laketown Tower?

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