The Players’ Guide

by Martel

The Players’ Guide is written by the most experienced players of Orkfia II: Alliances At War to ensure that you will get the best help possible in learning and mastering this game.

An Intense Strategy & War Experience

Alliances At War is a fast browser based strategy game, developed and maintained by its players. It is text based and situated in a fantasy world called “Orkfia”, a world inspired by Tolkien’s Middle Earth. Together with other players in your alliance you will be warring others as they step in your way. The combination of strategy and war is the ultimate challenge in Alliances At War, besides basic stuff like training military, constructing buildings and trying to stay alive.

We are Orkfians

In 2001, some players grew tired of a browser based game they had played for some time. It was too slow for their taste and was being ruined by advertisements and decision-making that more often worked against them rather than for them. Instead of suffering in silence, they created their own ideal game and called it ORKFiA. It was much faster (some called it a four-hour game), it was free from advertising and everyone was welcome to form alliances with whoever they wanted.

Today we call our game Alliances At War but we are still loyal to these ideals and we still call ourselves Orkfians.

No resets

After 6 weeks your tribe leader is 100 years old and dying (although some races will live longer). Dying of age is unavoidable, but also means that you may start playing at any time and still enjoy competing for the top ranks.

Easy to start playing

Decide for a race that fits you from the race listing and you are ready to go.

Easy to keep playing

If you survive the full period that your leader has to live, you will start your next tribe with heritage – a bonus to land, money and fame – based on the success of your previous tribe. You also get heritage if you die at the hands of other players, 75% normally and 50% if you die during a war.

Rules for fair play

The Code of Conduct was created by players and contains the rules enforced in Alliances At War.

Free to play

It is completely free to play since dedicated players sponsor this game.

Free from ads

Advertisements are ruining many other games. Because we are the players and we demand fast-loading pages, and clean space, you will never see any ads in Alliances At War.

More than just a game

Alliances At War has a friendly community eager to help new players. The first place where you will meet other players is inside your alliance, using the alliance forum. (Remember to say “hello” to your new allied friends in there!) To interact with more players we have both the World Forum (available in game) and the #orkfia IRC-channel (located at the netgamers.org server).

“Orkfia is also one of the few games you will ever play where you can choose to influence the future of the game and get involved at staffing level if that is what you want. Compared to the mammoth commercial games available it may be a speck of dust, but I think for at least a few hundred people of many different countries this game means more to them than any of the multi-million dollar games and that's quite an achievement whichever way you look at it.“ (Jamzi/Orkfia Portal, 2008).

Welcome to Alliances At War

We hope you enjoy getting to learn Alliances At War through the eyes of the players who helps writing this guide, and we hope to see you inside the game soon.

Last updated: July 2011