Evony is fast becoming the most popular free online web strategy game for serious MMORPG fans; currently in just a few months exploding to an active player base of nearly two million world-wide! Based slightly on the larger World of Warcraft type design, Evony is beautifully designed and runs free to anyone with a web browser. Competing in medieval castle warfare with hundreds of thousands of players online, you lead your cities and build your alliances to conquer territories, claim resources and plunder enemy cities.

Each player builds up his/her city by focusing on the latest defenses, production of food and resources, investing in new technologies and massive armies meant for conquering your neighbors and defending your territories. Strategies are enacted in real-time, with alliances spanning around 100 members each fight and battle one another to take down the most powerful of enemies.

Evony runs in most modern browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome. Adobe Flash Player 9 or above is required, however that also is free. Evony is growing at an explosive rate. Since starting this year, it has expanded by adding 21 new servers and 12 world servers to handle the huge public interest. Those who sign up to servers when they are first released are given an advantage by being able to acquire resources first than those who later join.

Building and researching is completed by ‘construction queus’, which allow players to click and set strategies and then leave the game and return when they wish, with their cities automatically following resource collection, defence, offense orders. However, for those players who also desire to stay online, players can also constantly scout, attack and loot and plunder territories/npc barbarian city-states and other players. The ability to set a build queue and orders for your standing army before work, and then check up on them later is incredibly appealing, and having the ability to play for a few hours straight after work makes the game incredibly addicting!

Each player starts with one pretty bare city with little to no troops and no defenses of any kind. As the ruler of a new city, your first task is to build a few homes for citizens, farms for food, lumber mills for wood, and so on. Once you have some decent resources coming in you can focus on expanding your city, increasing your technology, and building your army and defenses. With buildings ranging from population growth, to military fortifications, espionage capabilities, feasting halls and research (to name a few), your city has access for you to micromanage it and the people living there.

Players can build Traps for killing invading infantry, Abatis defenses for stopping invading Cavalry, Archer's Towers for extreme protection, and Rolling Logs and Rockfalls to crush would be sieges. These defenses will play a key role in taking out attackers that would raid your city.

Outside of your city, you have plots which grow with your rank increase, giving you access to fertile farms for food, iron mines, stone quarries, and sawmills; all made for the purpose of acquiring resources. As a newly founded small city the amount of plots you can control is very small. As you level up and increase the level of your town hall you can control more cities and more land plots within each city. Your Town hall also allows you to set productivity rates for the plots and assign workers to the different resource buildings based on your current needs.

You're able to quickly monitor your controlled valleys production queues, cities, tax rates and other options using the town hall options available to you. There are also options for raising loyalty amongst your citizens and imposing a levy tax on them for certain resources if you find yourself in a pinch! Another very important building in your city is the Barracks. The barracks allows you to build and queue up troops to defend your city, attack other cities, and capture land and valleys for your building requirements.

Once you build an army you'll head to the map screen and find neighbors and land plots to attack and call your own. You can also use the map to find potential nearby allies who can offer vital assistance should you be attacked. Allies can garrison troops in your city if you're able to get into an alliance with cities near you. The map screen is also where you choose land plots to conquer. Land plots have percentage modifiers that can give your resource buildings an excellent boost.

This particular segment of map has a few strongholds and a lot of open space. The busier servers are a little tighter which allows for more interaction and PvP. To register and start playing the game now visit Evony.com!