Feed your people normal rations the entire second year on all cows. Leaving two fields fallow the first year is very important for this, it gives you very high fertility after the first year.

The second year of the game you should plant three fields leaving two fields fallow. When harvest comes get all the wheat you can, let the cows die due to farming. You can feed one double ration the first year on nothing but cows (go into ration and move fork over to all cows). Leaving two fields fallow, and three with cows. Plant one field with the ten grain the first year. Here is how to switch over from cows to wheat in the second year of the game without a wagon suggesting it started on weak county status, for the ten grain, and you didn’t have storms (hard difficulty setting too). You should be looking to switch to grow grain by the second season, if not first season if you have a wagon to trade with. This will help to give your population a good boost start. In the first 3 - 4 seasons you should look to double feeding your people. It is important that you make the most of the first 2 years of the game, in particular the first 4 - 6 seasons are crucial to getting a good start. Most games are played with advanced settings, ie - no castle, no army, weak county, hard difficulty, no weapons, advanced farming, no army eats, 100 or 500 crowns, exploration on. Some of the tips here I have found along the way and I have tweaked it to my own liking - heheh. This site is developed mainly to help newbies in getting started in the game. Please check out my updated page on Advanced Farming Tips

If you no longer have your game CD, it is still possible to play by downloading a copy. I also have instructions on how to get the game working on Windows XP. Kali costs $20 for life but it has a 30 day trial that you can apparently reuse by getting another temporary key.

Contact me on cleone.nz at gmail dot com for more information, especially if you are an old player back from the old days at WON. We now play it from a game lobby on Kali ( It plays game through the IPX option and it seems to work though most modern router connections. Yes, there is a small number of us still playing the odd game of Lords2. I haven't personally tested it as I have the CDs still. Its been brought to my attention that a download to the game is available at.

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