The Sims Medieval Guide to Foreign Kingdoms

Annexing Foreign Lands, Forming Alliances, and Loyalty Benefits

Allying with foreign countries will give your Kingdom passive bonuses in a variety of categories. In this Guide to Foreign Lands, I'll list all of the territories you can Annex and what benefits are provided when you do so.

The order in which you Ally with these Kingdoms can alter your Kingdom's progress in various areas. To read my recommendations, have a look at our Kingdom Ambitions Tips.

How to Annex other Kingdoms
In order to get benefits from other lands, you must follow a multi-step process. Here's the list of things you must do to get these bonuses. The process starts in Kingdom Mode's Territory Map.

1. Click Make Ally: Select a nation and pick the little red button to make a country your Ally. This costs some RP but is worth it, especially if you already know you want their particular benefit. At this stage, your Merchant can trade with this country.
2. Complete the Annex Quest: Every Kingdom you Ally has a special quest which will unlock their benefits. I'll call this the Annex quest. When you complete it, you've annexed the nation and can get their specials. The Annex quest should appear automatically after you Ally with that nation, even if you don't meet the hero or building requirements.
3. Maintain Loyalty through Edicts and Patrols: When you've completed their special Quest, you'll now have the benefits and must maintain loyalty in order to keep them. The bar will move faster to the left (toward rebellion) when you are using the Knight, Spy, or Monarch as they alone possess the ability to influence it positively. The game assumes you should take some of your time with those Heroes to improve foreign relations.

The "friends bar" for that country has to move very far into rebellion before you lose their benefits. So don't freak out if it turns red, just resolve to go in with a Knight, Spy, or Monarch and improve relations.

Note that some countries require a minimum amount of Renown before you can Ally with them and begin the process. I'll note those. On Trades the first item is what you need in the cargo hold, the second is what you'll get in return. If it takes 2 mushrooms to get a wood, if you put 4 mushrooms, you'll receive 2 wood. Only Merchants can access the ship's cargo hold and initiate these trades.

Every country will import goods of a specific type. Have your Merchant load the boat with Imports and they'll get Simoles greater than the regular selling price in return.

Note the items you can get by importing: darkstone, tablet of the watcher, etc. These can be traded multiple times and transformed into other items by trade. Use Control + F to search this page and type in what you have. You may get to turn it into something else, entirely, like a Mystic Metal Fragment, Unicorn Horn, etc.

Effenmont and Gastrobury
These two island nations must be discovered before you can begin the process and make them an Ally with RP. Buy a map to either country at the Village Shoppe and select the hero with the item and have them go to the Dock. They'll sail to the new territory and unlock it on the territory map.

Foreign Territories List & Benefits

Aarbyville
Annex Quest: New Gangs of Aarbyville
Imports: Weapons
Trades: 3 Magic Powder for Prisoner, 3 Jeweled Ring for Tablet of the Watcher, 2 Watched Water for Excalipaddle
Alliance Benefit: Heroes receive 20% more gold reward and XP for completing quests. Couple this with high Well-being and you'll be rolling in dough.
Notes: Requires 60 Renown to Ally.

Advorton
Annex Quest: Tournament of Honor
Imports: Will buy Armor for Simoles
Trades: 6 Adamantle for Precise Scimitar, Tablet of the Watcher for Advortonian Scale, 3 Darkstone for Unicorn Horn
Alliance Benefit: Advorton will reduce all 3 and 4 QP Quests to 2 and 3, respectively. This allows for many more quests to be taken on when trying to Platinum a Kingdom Ambition
Notes: Requires 160 Renown to Ally.

Burdley
Annex Quest: Squirrel Infestation
Imports: Medical Supplies for Simoles
Trades: 2 Crudium for Scrap Metal, Magic Powder for Strong Health Salve, 3 Mysterious Machine Parts for Unicorn Meat
Alliance Benefit: -25% RP Building Cost. Very Handy if you can get this early enough.
Notes: Requires 160 Renown to Ally

Crafthole
Annex Quest: already Allied
Imports: Will buy Minerals and Metal Ores for Simoles
Trades: 2 Mushroom for Wood, 3 Nightshade for Goose Feather, Magic Powder for Luck Potion, Mysterious Machine Part for Steel Hammer
Alliance Benefit: Provies the Hunter's Stew and Crafthole Energy Potion
Notes: The Potion of Energy recipe you receive for Annexing Effenmont is much better. Crafthole Energy Potions at the Village Shoppe will make you crash like caffeine. The stew isn't bad!

Effenmont
Annex Quest: A Political Marriage
Imports: Meat for Simoles
Trades: 3 Tablets of the Watcher for Magical Staff, 2 Darkstone for Flame Sword Enchantment
Alliance Benefit: The Potion of Energy recipe will be available to your Wizards and Physician. Truly handy, it will allow you to never sleep if you have enough of them. You can even drink them to keep the Well Rested buff going.
Notes: Doesn't require Renown, but you will need to buy the Map to Effenmont at the Village Shoppe. It's expensive, but the Potion of Energy is worth it!

Gastrobury
Annex Quest: Gastro-Fest or Bust
Imports: Fruits and Vegetables for Simoles
Trades: Boar or Bear meat for Sausage, 5 Fowl Meat for Sausage, 5 Watched Water for Darkstone, 5 Unicorn Meat for Mystical Metal Fragment
Alliance Benefit: All foods take twice as long to spoil, food buff time is doubled, and 3 special sausage recipes!
Notes: Requires the Map to Gastrobury to Ally. Buy at the Village Shoppe.

Snordwich
Annex Quest: Sleepless in Snordwich
Imports: Fish for Simoles
Trades: 5 Wood for Sleeping Draught, Goose Feather for Mithral, 2 Tablet of the Watcher for Darkstone
Alliance Benefit: Increases Job Well Done buff by +10, Reduces severity of Shirked Responsiblity by -10
Notes: Requires 160 Renown to Ally.

Ticktop
Annex Quest: Golems Gone Wild
Imports: Crystals and Stones for Simoles
Trades: Gems for Mithral, 3 Goose Feather for Combusion Cordial (Spy Poison), 4 Magic Powder for Mysterious Machine Part
Alliance Benefit: Heroes on Quests get 6 more hours of Free Time before they are Falling Behind. Can practically Guarantee platinum if you pace yourself.
Notes: Requires 60 Renown to Ally.

Tredony
Annex Quest: already Allied
Imports: Herbs and Seeds for Simoles
Trades: 6 Barley for Gems, Fancy Clothing for Gems, 2 Phosphorous for Magic Powder, 3 Goose Feather for Jeweled Ring, Prisoner for Sturdy Lute
Alliance Benefit: Banker's Ale, Tredonian Gem Wine, Fine Loaf Recipes.
Notes: This is a good example of how trade can benefit you. Get those phosphorous, turn them into Magic Powder, Turn those into Mysterious Machine Parts from Ticktop, and you can get your hands on some hard to get unicorn meat. It's a long process, but there is plenty of Phosphorous in the lands.

Yacothia
Annex Quest: Death of the Proxy
Imports: Poisons
Trades: 2 Wood for Fancy Clothing, 6 Mithral for Staff of the Watcher, 5 Goose Feather for Watched Water, Prisoner for Watcher's Blade.
Alliance Benefit: +25% daily income for all Heroes.
Notes: Requires 60 Renown