Anocris tips for fast progress

If you are brand new, read the beginner guide first and come back. The Anocris hub links every page in this series.

The daily routine

A routine that fits into a few short sessions a day:

1. Collect production in every city and set the next cycle: short while you are online, long before you go to bed.
2. Spend straight away. Start a building, a research and a recruitment in every city.
3. Spy nomad camps of your best level, compare several and pick the most loot for the fewest losses.
4. Simulate, then use all five free attacks. Unused attacks do not carry over.
5. Heal in the Imhotep Temple after each fight.
6. Check the tribe chat and your Migdol for incoming attacks.
7. Before logging off, spend or hide resources and send troops on a safe trip if you expect visitors.

Farm nomads like a veteran

Nomads are the engine of a free account. The official guide adds a few points most players miss:

• Camps of the same level differ. Spy several and hit the one with the best loot to loss ratio.
• Spied but unattacked camps vanish after 24 hours. Do not spy everything in the morning and attack in the evening.
• Check the camp name before your troops land. If it changed, someone else hit it and it respawned.
• An empty camp still has a wall. Send combat units with your traders on follow up hits.
• Look for papyrus. Players on the forum recommend favouring camps that hold papyrus, since it is the resource you are always short of.
• Push research to the next camp level. Barter 5 opens level 3, Measurement 20 level 4, Glassmaking 1 level 5. Each level holds far more resources.

Level 2 camps hold much more than level 1, so the official advice is to build up to 100 Hyksos spearmen, or the same strength, as soon as possible and then move up.

Never lose troops you did not have to

Lost units are lost resources and lost time. Five habits that keep losses low:

1. Rush Espionage 15 for the simulator. The administrators call it incredibly useful and say the sooner the better.
2. Simulate with 0 percent luck for you and 10 percent for the enemy. If you still win, you will win.
3. Recruit Sesh and Wabau. Two of each per unit give +50 percent strength and 50 percent regeneration, and both are cheap.
4. Put cheap units in front. Hyksos spearmen with their high weakness soak the first hits so expensive units survive.
5. Keep the Imhotep Temple growing so more of your wounded can be healed after each fight.

Grow your economy faster

• Papyrus first. The official beginner tips single out the Papyrus Plantation. Add Irrigation research for up to +50 percent.
• Research in your capital. Research counts for the whole account, so run it where the Library is highest.
• Geometry, Architecture and Hieroglyphics early. Up to 80 percent cheaper buildings, 80 percent faster building and 80 percent cheaper research add up to more than any single upgrade.
• Never overflow the Warehouse. Collected resources above capacity are destroyed. Measurement adds up to 80 percent space.
• Trade inside your tribe and use the Market. Swapping surplus clay for papyrus beats waiting.
• Use season spells. Each season changes production, defense and troops; check the effects in the Amun Temple and switch to what you need next.

Expand early with colonies

Every colony is a full second city with its own production, recruiting and healing. The staff guide lists founding the first colony as one of the steps to grow faster. Collect the 6 lapis lazuli for Hatshepsut Palace level 1 from daily nomad wins and quests, recruit a Vizier and send it out with a few loaded traders. Specialise later: one city for production, one for troops, one for defense. Each further palace level allows one more city, with no fixed limit.

Moving troops and resources between your own cities needs the Sekhmet Temple and Market at level 5 in both cities. Build those in each new colony early.

Use events and the calendar

• The Treasure of Tutankhamun returned three times in the last year (winter 2025/26, spring 2026 and 1 August to 3 September 2026). Nomads then carry faience pearls, one to three per camp, and you trade them for High Priests, Neith Priestesses and the Edfu and Valley festivals. Raid every day while it runs, because each camp has pearls only once.
• The Christmas truce switches off player attacks and espionage on all servers for a few days around Christmas and New Year. Nomads stay open, so it is the safest time of year to farm.
• Daily and weekend events can change things like troop speed, according to a staff answer from November 2026. Read the in game notices before you plan long marches.
• Server mergers come with a 48 hour transition period where city relocation with the crowns and renaming with the Cobra and Cat statues are free. Use it to move next to your tribe.

Pick the server that rewards your schedule

If you can only log in twice a day, a peace server (1:2 protection, 100 percent of defeated units survive) or a speed economy server (fast building, normal marches) lets you grow without being farmed overnight. If you can be online often, a speed server compresses months into weeks. A new server opened roughly every two weeks in 2026, so you never have to join one that is months old. The factions and server types page compares them.

Habits that quietly slow you down

Most slow accounts are not unlucky. They repeat a few avoidable mistakes:

• Idle queues. A city without a building, research and recruitment running is losing hours you never get back. Queue long jobs before you sleep.
• Spying with too many Bedouins. More is not safer. Too many get noticed and turn a spy mission into a battle you did not plan.
• Ignoring the Migdol. If it is not three levels above an attacker's Espionage, you will not see what is coming.
• Fighting alone. A player without a tribe has no Horus Fort support and nobody to warn them. Join one, or found your own if your server is quiet.
• Going inactive for a week. After seven days without login the score ratio no longer protects you, and every raider on the server can hit you.
• Using an attack to park troops. Parking troops with an attack on a nomad camp burns one of your five daily attacks; a spy mission does the same job for free.

Free time savers and smart spending

• Confirm the protection rules. Beginner protection ends at 2,400 points or day five. Plan your first big growth spurt so you are ready, not surprised.
• Hide troops overnight with a spy trip to a level 1 nomad camp. Spy missions against nomads do not cost one of your five attacks.
• Use the account sitter rule for holidays: another player may run your account for up to 10 days in a row, once every 30 days.
• If you buy amethysts, wait for happy hour. Staff mentioned a 30 percent bonus that starts at 18:00 CEST, and noted that the payment method can change the amount you receive.
• Spend amethysts on time, not luxury. Extra nomad attacks and attack protection while you are away give more growth than cosmetics.

For the numbers behind these tips, the units and combat guide and the buildings and resources guide list every unit, building and research.

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