Here is a list of known cheats for Fog of War: Napoleonic War (NapWar).  There aren’t many tricks and cheats although there are some gliches and loopholes that can be exploited.

As mentioned in an earlier post about how to get loads of napwar gold fast.  This is done by putting your tax rate at 95% and every 20 minutes doing a pacify and Observation to keep your Loyalty at 100% while taxing the crap out of your peasants.  This is a good cheat for NapWar as you can do a lot with the gold, from having more research than other game players, or by buying resources off other players to advance your city.  This works even better when you have masses of high level cottages all over your city map.  Don’t build too many though as you’ll need space for up to 8 barracks to train your troops really fast.

Alliance for profit.  To get a lot of prestige very quickly, getting into an alliance is a great way to get 1000 prestige.  If the NapWar Alliance you get into has more than 80 members then you will get prestige bonuses all the way up to 1000 prestige.  If you are cunning enough, you could even convince a napwar alliance leader to accept your invitation purely for this, and once you’ve handed in all your quests and got your free prestige, then you can get kicked out of the alliance, which doesn’t lose you any prestige.  If you quit the alliance, you will lose 25% prestige.

Emphasising on technology.  If you emphasise on technologies that will give you a bonus in battle like Medicine, Military Tactics, Military Philosophy, and most importantly Ballistics, this will give you a massive edge in attacks or attacking other game players.  This is often far overlooked by people scouting and trying to make a hit on you, so quite often they will send not enough troops to break through your defences and you will win the engagement, which will give you big bonuses in prestige.

Scout defence.  If an enemy can’t scout you, then they won’t attack you.  No one wants to send an army against someone else that might or might not have a massive army waiting for them.  To defend with scouts, you will need a massive number of scouts, we’re talking 10k or more.  Then when someone is trying to scout you, your scouts will kill them all and they won’t get a scout report.  This not only lets you know who is looking at you (if your beacon tower is high enough level) but also forces the agressor to train some more scouts before sending them against you again, which buys you enough time to call in one of your armies, or to mount a charge against them!

Scout transports.  Another Napwar trick or cheat is to use scouts as transports.  NapWar scouts move at stupidly quick speed, and can deliver small payloads in a very short amount of time.  If you are going to be sitting watching the game for a little while, then you can send a number of scout transports in the same time it would take to send a convoy transport.  Scout transports work well if you’re using the Scout Defence mentioned above, or if you need resources very quickly, like if a city is running out of food, or if you need a couple thousand iron ore to train some more troops.

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Here is a guide to some of the research available in Fog of War: Napoleonic War.  I’m a big fan of personal research, searching google for hints and tips for games.  A good way to search is basic “napwar” or “fog of war napoleon war” or if you want to learn about something specific, then search for something like “napwar research” or “napwar tactics”.

In the NapWar game, researching technology is one of the best ways to advance your game.  Each new technology gives you some prestige, and if you’re completing the quests, then you’ll often get your hard earnt gold returned to you after spending it on researching a new NapWar technology.

If you are wondering what you should upgrade, a good way to start is to look at your quests and to see if there is something in there that will get you a gold refund.  Otherwise have a look around your city and see what you want to upgrade.  For instance, if you’re wanting to start building Musketeers, then you’ll need Ballistics level 1.  To get the Ballistics technology you’ll need to upgrade other technologies, in this case, Recruit Training level 4.  After you’ve researched ballistics, then you can start making the very dangerous Musketeers.

Getting to a level 4 technology is quite expensive, further down, I’ll talk about how to get enough NapWar gold to keep your research pumping.

Having better technology than your foe is a massive advantage.  If you have Ballistics level 4 and the person attacking you has Ballistics level 3, then your long range attackers get a free shot before the enemy does.  This is a massive advantage as if you have similar or equal number of long range attackers, having that extra 10% range on your long range attacks could mean the difference between winning and getting slaughtered.

Other technologies that are great to upgrade is scouting, as you’ll get better scout reports back.  Resource upgrades are great as everyone needs resources.  Troop speed doesn’t really make a difference until you’re huge and trying to do multiple attacks on the one person while someone else is attacking you.

Research can be expensive.  Each new NapWar technology level gets higher and higher cost.  To fund your research you can apply a tactic that works great, but needs baby sitting.  How to do it is:  Set your tax rate to something extremely high, like 95% tax rate.  Then every 15 mins, nearly as soon as the timer runs out click on your Town Hall, click Pacify and do an Observation.  It will cost you some food, but it will keep your loyalty high.  Keeping your loyalty above 90% will keep your peasants happy, and with tax rate of 95% should get you enough NapWar gold to keep your NapWar research going.  There is a drawback of this.  If you leave it at 95% tax rate and go to bed, you’re likely to have no peasants when you wake up.  I suggest setting your taxe rate to something nicer like 5 or 10% overnight, and when you’ve got time to babysit and Pacify every 15 mins or so, then set it to 95% and make some NapWar research money.