The Greed: Advanced Monster Guide

Overview

The monsters in Kingdoms: Classic come out of Portals at night and attempt to attack the kingdom and destroy it, reduce its inhabitants to beggars and ultimately steal the king/queens crown, ending the game. There are several types of monster and in this guide I will be showing all of the monsters!

The Portal

The Portals are the gateways through which The Greed enter our earthly realm. Small portals are scattered throughout the forest. Active portals appear as stone arches made of black stone similar to that of the cliffs, and they are filled with swirling, purple goo. Inactive portals appear as empty arches which make mysterious groaning noises.

Every night, active portals spawn a number of Greedlings. As the Kingdom progresses, the attacks become more and more powerful, eventually including Floaters as well as Breeders.

Portals can only be destroyed by sending out a knight and his party to attack it. Portals do not regenerate health and any inflicted damage done by a knight’s party stays. Portals that are under attack spawn Greedlings, and the amount will get bigger the longer the kingdom has existed.

When a portal is destroyed, an immediate swarm of Greedlings, Floaters, and Breeders pours forth from the closing portal. The Knights and their Archers can often perish, especially if they lack the blessing from the Statue of Archery. These waves get more massive as the game progresses, and can level an unprepared Kingdom.

Once a Portal has been destroyed, the Kingdom’s own Teleportation Portal can be built on the site of the destroyed portal for five coins. The new portal appears circular and made of grey stones, with a clear swirling material inside. Once construction is complete, the King can spend 1 coin to teleport nearly anywhere in the Kingdom. The view speed increases greatly, and pressing the down arrow instantly teleports the King to the location within view. After teleporting, crackly purple lightning appears at the exit location, and a Permanent Teleportation Link can be established for 5 more coins. The King can use the teleporter for the cost of just one coin. This is incredibly useful in the mid- to late-game stages as continual movement between the left and right sides becomes time consuming.

Greedlings

The Greedling is the most basic and numerous monster in the game, as well as the first enemy to be encountered. They start appearing on the first night, and increase in number as days pass. They are slightly larger and faster than villagers, but they cannot outrun the King on a horse. Their primary goal is to steal as much of the Kingdom’s riches as they can, including coins, dropped tools and of course the crown!

If a Greedling attacks a Villager, his tool is dropped and he turns into a regular Villager. If a Greedling attacks a regular Villager, his coin is dropped and he turns into a Vagrant. Any dropped item can be taken away by Greedlings but can be retrieved if you charge at the Greedling at full speed.

If a Greedling attacks the King, a coin is immediately dropped from the coin purse for each hit. A single Greedling is limited to about one attack per second and they will die after one attack. If the King has no coins left to drop, the Crown is dropped instead. Any Greedling who comes in contact with the dropped Crown instantly picks it up and triggers game-over, but if you can get the crown before the Greedling you will not lose!

The best protection against Greedling swarms is to fortify your walls to the highest upgrade possible and, as is the case of most other enemies, acquire a great number of archers to mow them down with more arrows than they can handle. Catapults are also extremely effective against large groups of the Greed, and can easily wipe out an entire horde if the Catapult launches at the right time. If you are out in the open and see a Greedling and have some coins on you, just drop them on the floor and they should igore you but steal your coin!

Greedlings may also be known as Goblins, Reficul, or Minions.

Masked Greedlings

Some Greedlings wear certain types of masks, which increase the amount of hits it takes to kill them, they are called Masked Greedlings and they usually appear in the later nights and can take two to four hits before dying (depends on the type of mask they have) from archers, but will still die after one shot from a catapult.

Masked Greedlings may also be known as Masked Goblins, Masked Reficul or Masked Minions.

Floaters

The Floater is a flying insect-like monster that can abduct and consume up to three townspeople. Unlike the standard Greedling that is usually killed in one hit, Floaters require more shots from Archers before dying. They first appear during the third Blood Moon, but they become more common as days pass, taking part in the usual nightly raids. Their goal is not so much to take the Kingdom’s stuff, but to take its people.

Floaters ignore dropped coins and tools, with their only purpose being to abduct and kill the Kingdom’s townsfolk. Floaters fly slowly towards the center of the Kingdom until they target a townsperson, then they swoop low to gather them up then return to floating towards the center of the Kingdom. Once three villagers are captured, a Floater turns back towards the nearest Portal to disappear with its prisoners.

Abducted townspeople can be freed if the Floater is killed within a few seconds of consumption.

Floaters ignore the return of the day and will continue to attack until all of them are dead or filled, creating trains of Floaters extending for a good part of the day in Winter, preventing any unit to leave the walls of the Kingdom.

The best protection against Floaters are catapults or heavy arrow fire. Catapults always kill Floaters with a single shot, which makes them useful against these creatures if their shots can be timed right. Archers that are in fully-upgraded Archer Towers also serve to protect ground troops from Floater attacks, as Floaters prioritise abducting Archers that are in towers. As with other enemies, having as many archers as possible helps to minimize the damage done by Floaters during an attack.When a Floater is killed, it will turn into a ball and fall to the ground.

Floaters may also be known as Flyers or Flying Scourge.

Breeders

The Breeder is a giant enemy and a much larger version of the normal Greedling. Breeders can plow through walls by throwing discarded catapult boulders back at the walls as well as with heavy fist attacks. They also regularly spawn Greedlings with a sort of vomit action. Breeders and their Greedlings do not flee when the sun rises, they melt into goo after taking sufficient damage.

The Breeder’s primary attack is a punch that can knock down swarms of men with a single blow. This leaves townsfolk disarmed, knocked prone, and vulnerable to Greedling attacks. When the King gets attacked by a Breeder they lose all their gold in 1 hit. Breeders can also attack by picking up the boulders that were previously fired with a catapult and then throwing them against the walls or at the Kingdom’s subjects. This attack can be as devastating to your troops as it is when used against the Greed, it is an area of effect attack, and it disarms and knocks prone up to 5 defenders at a time.

In light of that, catapults still remain the strongest weapons against Breeders, as boulders still do massive damage. They do not die with one shot, but they can be taken down quickly by the combined efforts of both catapults and archers.

Breeders may also be known as Bosses, Ogres, or Giants