Mage Knight Score Calculator
Calculate final fame with achievements, title bonuses, cities conquered, reputation mode, artifacts, spells, units, shields, crystals, and wound penalties.
| Achievement | What to count | Fame formula | Title award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greatest Knowledge | Spells and Advanced Actions | 2 per spell, 1 per action | +3 best, +1 tied |
| Greatest Loot | Artifacts and crystal pairs | 2 per artifact, 1 per pair | +3 best, +1 tied |
| Greatest Leader | Unit levels | Ready full, wounded half down | +3 best, +1 tied |
| Greatest Beating | Wounds in deck | -2 per wound card | -3 worst, -1 tied |
| Conquest area | Input in calculator | Fame formula | Use case |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keeps | Conquest shields | 2 per shield | Secure sites and map pressure |
| Mage Towers | Conquest shields | 2 per shield | Spell-focused conquest scoring |
| Monasteries | Conquest shields | 2 per shield | Advanced action and burning routes |
| Dungeons and ruins | Adventure shields | 2 per shield | Adventurer category scoring |
| Reputation mode | Positive track | Negative track | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Official | 0 fame added | 0 fame lost | Rules-as-written final fame |
| Campaign variant | Add position | Subtract position | Long-form score logs |
| Penalty-only | 0 fame added | Subtract position | Harsh conquest records |
| Manual title mode | Separate entry | Separate entry | Exact multiplayer comparison |
| Score band | Solo conquest read | City pattern | Deck shape |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 120 | Learning finish | One city or near win | Few final cards |
| 120 to 159 | Solid victory | Two mid cities | Balanced upgrades |
| 160 to 199 | Strong victory | Two high cities | Loot and spells online |
| 200 plus | Elite conquest | Three or more cities | Deep achievement stack |
| Build style | Main scoring source | Risk flag | Calculator check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spell scholar | Spells and advanced actions | Low conquest shield count | Knowledge should beat loot |
| Artifact raider | Artifacts and crystal pairs | Can carry wound cards | Loot minus beating swing |
| Banner leader | Ready and wounded unit levels | Wounded level 1 units score 0 | Leader value after halving |
| Map conqueror | Keeps, towers, monasteries | Weak deck score if rushed | Conquest shields per city |
To score any Mage Knight campaign, you must calculate several different types of points. By calculating each of these values for a given campaign, you can compare that one campaign to another Mage Knight campaign. You must look at the fame track to determine the total fame score for the campaign.
Furthermore, you must look at the cards in your deck, and the status of your unit. The total fame score is built from several different achievements for that campaign, including the number of spell you played, the number of advanced action you played, the number of artifacts you collected, the number of crystal pairs you collected, the level of each of your units, and the number of shield that you collected from the game map. A calculator can compute each of these value for you.
How to Score a Mage Knight Campaign
A calculator will save you the trouble of calculating the coefficients for each of these category and the rounding rule for each of these category. Wounds will impact your total fame score. Wounds will impact your total fame score in a negative way.
Each wound card that remains in your deck will impact your total fame score by deducting 2 fame points from your total score. Wounds from your units will have a similar effect; the total fame score from wounded units are halved. Thus, if you happen to end your game with a clean finish (with no wound unit), you will earn more fame then if you end the game with a battered finish (with many wound unit).
Reputation is also another factor in scoring your campaign. However, different groups has different rules regarding reputation and how it should be factored into your total fame score. Some groups will entirely ignore reputation in determining their total fame score.
Other groups will include reputation in a campaign variant, or will only use the negative value of reputation for wounded units. Your choice in reputation will impact your strategy during the game; a calculator allows you to switch between these different reputation modes at will. Titles is another major factor in competitive games.
If you are playing any type of competitive game, you will earn a title if you gain the leading score in a given category. Thus, each title will provide a bonus to your total fame score. Titles do not impact solo games, however, and as a result of this, two sets of identical Mage Knight cards will not result in the same total fame score if one of the games use solo mode and the other uses competitive mode.
Thus, understanding whether your games will be competitive or solo is essential to understanding your Mage Knight games. City levels and city counts are two factors in your game that is different than fame. City levels and city counts will not add to your fame score, but they will indicate to others how many maps you controlled during your playthrough of the game, and how difficult of a campaign it was.
Thus, although city levels and city counts will not contribute to your total fame score, it is still important for understanding the context of that score. The calculator will display your city levels and city counts so that you can remember the context of your total fame score. Many people tend to make mistake when scoring their games.
For example, some people will count the wounds of their units as if they were wound cards in their deck, the wounds of recruited units will be ignored, conquest shields will be mistaken for adventure shields, and title bonuses will be awarded even when the scenario does not allow for such bonus. If you make these types of mistake, your total fame score will not reflect the game that you actualy played. Using any type of strategy to score your games will prove to be very useful.
For example, you can look back at a game that you played some time ago, and remember the reason that you recieve the score that you did. Furthermore, you can compare the scores of two characters to see the effects that their different strategies had upon their total fame score. Additionally, as you continue to play such games, the number will begin to exhibit pattern in your plays.
High total fame score can be the result of knowledge of the game, looting the game for artifact, having a powerful army, or keeping your deck as clean of wound card as possible.
