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Reference · Troops

Troop Progression — Tier vs Forticlad

Troops get stronger in two separate ways. Knowing the difference shows you where your power really comes from.

Tier is your troop’s class; Forticlad is the upgrade path inside that class. They’re two separate systems.

1 · Combat Level 1–30

The stage before Tiers: a new troop levels from 1 to 30 with no Tier yet — this is the "1-30" starting row in every table.

2 · Tier (named class)

Unlocked after Lv.30. A Tier is a named troop with all-new, higher base stats — Tier 10 = "Ace," Tier 11 = "Bastion." The portrait badge "Lv.10.0" means Tier 10.

3 · Forticlad Level 1–10

An upgrade path inside a Tier (done in the Barracks). Each level raises stats and unlocks Forticlad skills. The small number badge on a troop is its Forticlad Level. Forticlad 10 raises the Lv.8 troop skill to Lv.2.

Reference · Stat Tables

Troop Stats — Ace & Bastion

Exact stats for one troop at every Forticlad Level, for the two confirmed Tiers, with skill unlocks. The same pattern holds at every tier: Shieldbearers take the hits, Shooters deal the damage, and Bombers are in between.

Base troop stats before any hero or research bonus is applied.

Shieldbearer

Ace · Tier 10

FC	ATK	DEF	HP	LTH	Unlock
1-30	21	26	30	21	—
1	22	27	31	22	—
2	23	29	33	23	—
3	24	30	35	25	Forticlad Shield L1
4	26	32	37	26	—
5	27	34	39	27	Forticlad Shield L2
6	28	35	40	29	—
7	29	37	42	30	—
8	31	38	44	31	Steel Defense L1

Bastion · Tier 11

FC	ATK	DEF	HP	LTH	Unlock
1-30	24	28	33	24	—
1	25	30	34	26	—
2	27	32	36	27	—
3	28	34	38	29	Forticlad Shield L1
4	30	35	40	30	—
5	31	37	42	31	Forticlad Shield L2
6	33	39	44	33	—
7	34	40	46	34	—
8	35	42	48	36	Steel Defense L1

Bomber

Ace · Tier 10

FC	ATK	DEF	HP	LTH	Unlock
1-30	26	22	22	28	—
1	28	23	23	30	—
2	30	25	25	32	—
3	32	27	27	34	Forticlad Grenade L1
4	34	29	29	36	—
5	36	30	30	39	Forticlad Grenade L2
6	38	32	32	41	—
7	40	34	34	43	—
8	42	36	36	45	Combat Training L1

Bastion · Tier 11

FC	ATK	DEF	HP	LTH	Unlock
1-30	28	25	25	30	—
1	31	27	27	32	—
2	33	29	29	35	—
3	35	31	31	38	Forticlad Grenade L1
4	38	33	33	40	—
5	40	35	35	43	Forticlad Grenade L2
6	42	37	37	45	—
7	44	39	39	48	—
8	47	41	41	50	Combat Training L1

Shooter

Ace · Tier 10

FC	ATK	DEF	HP	LTH	Unlock
1-30	28	20	20	30	—
1	30	22	22	32	—
2	32	24	23	34	—
3	34	25	25	37	Forticlad Sniper L1
4	36	27	27	39	—
5	39	28	28	42	Forticlad Sniper L2
6	41	30	30	44	—
7	43	32	31	46	—
8	45	33	33	49	Boosted Rounds L1

Bastion · Tier 11

FC	ATK	DEF	HP	LTH	Unlock
1-30	30	23	23	33	—
1	33	25	25	35	—
2	35	27	27	38	—
3	38	29	29	40	Forticlad Sniper L1
4	40	31	31	43	—
5	43	33	33	46	Forticlad Sniper L2
6	45	35	34	48	—
7	48	37	36	51	—
8	50	39	38	54	Boosted Rounds L1

Lower tiers — base stats

Base stats for one troop before Forticlad and bonuses. The game keeps the decimals; the in-game screen rounds them down, which is why the tables above show whole numbers.

Shieldbearers

Tier	ATK	DEF	HP	Lethality
1	3.7	8.2	12	3.6
4	9.4	14.2	18	9.4
7	15.2	20.2	24	15.4
8	17.1	22.2	26	17.4
9	19.1	24.2	28	19.4
10 Ace	21.1	26.2	30	21.4
11 Bastion	24.27	28.82	33	24.61

Bombers

Tier	ATK	DEF	HP	Lethality
1	8.2	4	4	10
4	14.2	10	10	16
7	20.2	16	16	22
8	22.2	18	18	24
9	24.2	20	20	26
10 Ace	26.2	22	22	28
11 Bastion	28.82	25.3	25.3	30.8

Shooters

Tier	ATK	DEF	HP	Lethality
1	10	3.4	3.2	12
4	16	9	8.8	18
7	22	14.9	14.5	24
8	24	16.8	16.4	26
9	26	18.8	18.4	28
10 Ace	28	20.7	20.5	30
11 Bastion	30.8	23.81	23.58	33

Power and training cost

Tier	Power	Training time	Food	Wood	Steel	Gasoline
1	4	12 s	76	50	17	3
4	11	32 s	253	167	51	8
7	34	83 s	589	389	119	17
8	46	113 s	1,178	776	238	32
9	60	131 s	2,943	1,937	593	77
10 Ace	79	152 s	5,886	3,872	1,185	153
11 Bastion	95	180 s	20,601	13,552	4,148	536

Every troop marches at speed 15. Healing costs about 10% of the training resources and takes exactly 10% of the training time.

Reference · Scaling

Troop Bonus by Generation

Every hero in the same generation shares one ATK/DEF troop bonus, no matter their role or type — and it goes up about 20–25% each generation.

Newer generations have a bigger ATK/DEF bonus. Generation 7 is the highest at +683.05%.

Season 6 = the “Bomber Patch.” Generation 6 (Season 6) is the update that made Bombers more popular with everyone — a sign to use a few more Bombers from then on.

Generation	Troop ATK/DEF Bonus
Generation 1 · R	+94.57%
Generation 1 · SR	+147.12%
Generation 1 · SSR	+210.17%
Generation 2	+252.2%
Generation 3	+304.74%
Generation 4	+388.5%
Generation 5	+466.2%
Generation 6	+567%
Generation 7	+683.05%
Phoenix top-up	+273.21%
Tyronn top-up	+304.74%

Stars matter

These are the values at 30 stars. A Generation 7 hero gives +86% at 0 stars and +264% at 15 stars. The bonus applies to that hero’s own troop type.

Reference · Heroes

Army-Wide Passives (+15%)

One hero per generation — plus both top-up heroes (marked ) — gives +15% to your whole army, even when the hero isn’t deployed. It’s free, permanent power. Shieldbearer was the last troop type to get one, through Phoenix & Tyronn.

These +15% army buffs work whether or not the hero is deployed. Free power.

Gen	Hero	Passive	Boost
2	Alph Bomber	Radiant Aura	+15% DEF
3	Veronica Shooter	Shadow Pact	+15% HP
4	Koschevoi Bomber	Magic Artillery	+15% ATK
5	Edwin Shooter	Evidence Lock	+15% Lethality
6	Worrell Bomber	Paradox Revelation	+15% DEF
7	Rex Shooter	Beyond Spacetime	+15% HP
	Phoenix Shieldbearer	Echoes of Glory	+15% ATK
	Tyronn Shieldbearer	Bloodlust	+15% Lethality

Reference · Costs

Hero Upgrade Costs

Maxing a hero takes 5 star tiers with 6 "parts" each, paid with universal Blank (yellow) shards that work on any hero.

What each star tier costs in shards, so you can plan before you spend.

Star Tier	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5	P6	Tier total
Tier 1	1	1	2	2	2	2	20 includes 10 recruit shards
Tier 2	5	5	5	5	5	15	40
Tier 3	15	15	15	15	15	40	115
Tier 4	40	40	40	40	40	100	300
Tier 5	100	100	100	100	100	100	600

Total to max a hero: 1,065 Blank shards across all five tiers, plus 10 hero-specific recruit shards to first unlock them — 1,075 shards in all.

Reference · Costs

Exclusive Equipment Costs

Every hero’s Exclusive Equipment runs from Lv.0 to Lv.10, and Lv.10 gives the full +16% used everywhere in this guide. Upgrading costs parts.

The bonus only goes up on even levels, so never stop on an odd one. The last step costs seven times more per point than the first — so spreading parts across your three heroes usually beats maxing one.

550

Parts to take one hero’s equipment from 0 to maxed

+3

Points of bonus every two levels — it goes up evenly

7×

What the last step costs per point versus the first

Parts per level

Levels	Parts	Running total
0 → 1	10	10
1 → 2	25	35
2 → 3	25	60
3 → 4	45	105
4 → 5	45	150
5 → 6	65	215
6 → 7	65	280
7 → 8	85	365
8 → 9	85	450
9 → 10	100	550

The costs come in pairs — 25/25, 45/45, 65/65, 85/85 — each pair costs 20 more than the one before, after a cheap 10-part first level. The last step is the only exception: the pattern says 105, but it costs 100.

What the bonus is at each level

Level	Bonus	Parts spent
Lv.2	+4%	35
Lv.4	+7%	105
Lv.6	+10%	215
Lv.8	+13%	365
Lv.10	+16%	550

An even +3 points every two levels, after the first +4 at Lv.2.

Odd levels don’t raise the bonus — so never stop on one. Only even levels give more bonus. A hero at Lv.7 has spent 65 more parts than at Lv.6 and still shows +10%, and at Lv.9 the wasted amount is 85 parts. If you stop, stop on Lv.2, 4, 6, 8 or 10.

This is based on two checks: Lv.2 gives +4%, and a Lv.3 equipment on this account also shows +4%. Check it against any Lv.3 or Lv.5 equipment you have — but the level costs and even-level bonuses above are correct either way.

Cost per point of bonus — where the parts really go

Step	Parts	Points gained	Parts per point
Lv.0 → Lv.2	35	+4	8.8
Lv.2 → Lv.4	70	+3	23.3
Lv.4 → Lv.6	110	+3	36.7
Lv.6 → Lv.8	150	+3	50.0
Lv.8 → Lv.10	185	+3	61.7

Every step costs more per point than the one before it. The last step costs 185 parts for +3 — seven times the price per point of the first step. In total, Lv.6 to Lv.10 costs 335 parts, 61% of the total, for only 6 of the 16 points.

Same parts, spread across your three heroes

How you spend it	Parts	What your three heroes get
One hero maxed	550	+16% on one hero 16 points in total
Lv.6 / Lv.6 / Lv.4	535	+10% · +10% · +7% 27 points in total
Lv.6 / Lv.4 / Lv.4	425	+10% · +7% · +7% 24 points in total
Lv.4 / Lv.4 / Lv.4	315	+7% each 21 points in total
Lv.2 / Lv.2 / Lv.2	105	+4% each 12 points in total

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Spread parts across your three heroes instead of maxing one

You use three heroes, and each one has its own equipment bonus, so parts spent on your second and third heroes aren’t wasted. Lv.6 / Lv.6 / Lv.4 costs 535 parts and gives your three heroes 27 points of bonus in total — compared to 16 points for the 550 parts it takes to max one hero. That’s about 70% more bonus for slightly fewer parts. Getting all three to Lv.2 costs 105 parts, the same as taking one hero to Lv.4, and gives 12 points instead of 7.

Two things to keep in mind. The bonuses go to different stats depending on the hero — attack, defense, health or lethality — so they don’t add up into one number. And maxing one hero still makes sense when that hero is the key to a mode: Tyronn is the only Shieldbearer whose equipment works in rallies, so there’s no other hero to spread parts to in that slot.

Reference · Account growth

Research, VIP & Hero Levels

What a fully researched tree gives, what each VIP level adds, and how hero levels raise your march size.

Military research is the biggest troop-stat source: +117.36% ATK, DEF, HP and Lethality for each troop type. Hero levels are one of the biggest sources of march capacity.

Research trees at max

Tree	Techs · levels	Base time	Main stats at max
Development	46 · 178	1,104 days	+169,440 hospital capacity, +411% healing speed, +204.5% training speed, +30% Recruitment Hall recovery, +29.6% research and construction speed, +211 training capacity, +3 march queues
Economy	28 · 124	166 days	+242% gathering for every resource, +80% factory profit
Military	102 · 561	3,912 days	+117.36% ATK, DEF, HP and Lethality for each troop type, +49.63% to all troops on top, +33,830 expedition capacity
Forticlad Tech (per troop type)	9 · 87	467–516 days	+34,500 rally capacity, +50% Lethality and HP, +30% ATK and DEF for that type, −50% Tier 11 training and healing cost, +1,250 expedition capacity

Base time is with no speed bonuses. Research time = base time ÷ (1 + research speed), and a returning-player boost divides it again.

VIP

VIP	Points	Key bonuses (cumulative)
4	59,000	+12% construction speed
6	119,000	+1 march queue, 2 troop formations
8	698,000	+1 formation slot
9	1.2M	+11% Troops DEF, +22% construction
10	2.38M	+13% ATK and DEF
11	4.82M	+15% ATK, DEF and HP
12	max	+17% ATK, DEF, HP and Lethality, +24% factory profit

Daily login VIP points: 400 on day 1, +20 per day in a row, up to 1,000 from day 31.

Hero levels and march size

Hero Lv	Needs Warden’s Office	March capacity it adds
10	—	1,019
30	13	5,150
50	19	11,219
70	24	13,724
80	25	14,144

Every hero adds the same capacity for its level, whatever its rarity. A march holds (500 + research + Mansion + your march heroes’ level capacity + …) × (1 + capacity %), so levelling the heroes you march with is one of the biggest capacity sources. Lv.80 needs 47.5M Hero EXP in total.

Reference · Buildings & costs

Warden’s Office & Costs

What the Warden’s Office costs level by level, what Diamonds buy, and the gathering, stamina and Power numbers behind everyday play.

The Warden’s Office has 80 levels: Lv.1–30, then Forticlad 1–10 in 5 steps each. Speeding up 1 hour costs 1,600 Diamonds.

Warden’s Office

Level	Build time (no bonuses)	Food & Wood (each)	Steel	Gasoline	Forticlad Cores
10	6 h	900,000 Wood	180,000	45,000	—
15	18 h	9M	1.8M	450,000	—
20	82 h	40M	8M	2M	—
25	440 h (18 days)	160M	32M	8M	—
30	965 h (40 days)	600M	120M	30M	—
Forticlad 1 (each of 5 steps)	7 days	140M	28M	7M	250
Forticlad 5 (each step)	14 days	170M	34M	8.5M	720
Forticlad 6 (each step)	15 days	190M	38M	9.5M	360 + 24 Advanced
Forticlad 10 (each step)	20 days	350M	70M	17.5M	630 + 168 Advanced

With no speed bonuses, Lv.1 to Lv.30 takes 215 days and Forticlad 1 to 10 another 695 days. All Forticlad buildings together need 80,200 Forticlad Cores and 5,920 Advanced Forticlad Cores (the Warden’s Office alone 23,700 and 1,740). Each level needs the Communication Center at the level before, plus one other building.

What Diamonds buy

What	Diamonds
Finish a timer: 1 minute	27
Finish a timer: 1 hour	1,600
Finish a timer: 1 day	38,400
Missing resources	1 per 2,000 Food or Wood, 400 Steel or 100 Gasoline
Extra build queue, 48 h	2,000

Scouting a prison costs 1,000 Food × its Warden’s Office level; anything else costs 10,000 Food. A report under 10 minutes old reopens for free.

Stamina

Up to 400, refilling 1 every 150 seconds (24 an hour). Fugitives cost 20, Arrest, supply, bounty and radar targets 10, and Hurricane Corps rally targets 20.

Carrying

Each unit weighs: Food 1, Wood 1, Steel 5, Gasoline 20. A Tier 10 soldier carries 758 Food, 151 Steel or 37 Gasoline.

Gathering

Tile level	Food or Wood held	Steel held	Gasoline held	Food per hour
1	140,000	28,000	7,000	633,600
4	1.2M	240,000	60,000	728,640
6	6M	1.2M	300,000	792,000
8	28M	5.6M	1.4M	855,360

Speed rises 5% per tile level. Steel gathers at 1/5 and Gasoline at 1/20 of the Food speed, matching their weights. Emptied tiles come back after 10 minutes.

Power and Power rating

Total Power = buildings + heroes + troops + research + hero gear + Trove Collection + Tomes + Prisoner Armor + satellites. Troop Power is the number of soldiers × each tier’s Power (Tier 10: 79, Tier 11: 95, and more with Forticlad).

Power rating compares each part with a target for your Warden’s Office level: D under 30%, C 30–50%, B 50–70%, A 70–90%, S 90–110%, SS over 110%. Total-Power targets: Lv.10 281,700; Lv.20 1.50M; Lv.25 2.84M; Lv.30 5.31M; Lv.40 6.77M; Lv.50 8.29M; Lv.60 10.94M.

Reference · Terms

Glossary

Every game term in this guide, in plain words. Terms are underlined where they first appear on a page — tap one to read its meaning without losing your place.

Every term in the guide, defined. Underlined words anywhere open their definition.

AttackATKStats

How hard your army hits. More Attack means more enemy troops get hit hard enough to risk dying.

DefenseDEFStats

How much damage your army can absorb. It makes enemy hits wound your troops instead of killing them.

HealthHPStats

One soldier’s hit points. More HP means fewer of your troops go down at all.

LethalityLTHStats

How likely your hits kill for good instead of just wounding. It turns injuries into permanent enemy losses.

Kill-checkCombat

The hidden roll behind every hit. Attack decides how many troops get one, Lethality decides how many succeed, and HP + Defense help your troops survive them.

Tactical DMGCombat

A second kind of damage. It happens when a condition is met — like every 3rd round — and each hit is a set share of the dealing troop type’s ATK. It has its own boosts and defenses.

The 40% RuleCombat

Of the troops knocked out in a solo attack on a prison, 40% count as dead or Hospital and 60% as lightly wounded (35% and 65% in rallies and tile fights). It isn’t the point where a fight stops.

Combat Level1–30Troops

A troop’s starting levels, 1 to 30, before it has a Tier. It’s the “1-30” starting row in the stat tables.

TierTroops

A named troop class unlocked after Combat Level 30, with a whole new higher baseline. Tier 10 is “Ace,” Tier 11 is “Bastion.” A “Lv.10.0” portrait badge means Tier 10.

Forticlad Level1–10Troops

An upgrade path inside a Tier, raised in the Barracks. Each level adds stats and unlocks Forticlad skills. It’s the small number badge on a troop.

Troop BonusHeroes

An ATK/DEF boost that every hero in the same generation shares, whatever their type or role. It goes up about 20–25% each generation.

GenerationGen 1–7Heroes

Which release group a hero came from. Newer generations have a bigger Troop Bonus and higher base stats.

War skillHeroes

A hero’s PvP skills — the ones that actually matter in fights against other players.

Arrest skillHeroes

A hero’s PvE skills, listed on the faint “PvE” line of each hero card. They don’t apply in PvP.

Exclusive EquipmentHeroes

A hero’s Exclusive Equipment war skill, marked with the EE badge on their card. It only works in the one mode its text names.

PassiveHeroes

A buff that helps your whole army all the time, even when the hero isn’t deployed.

RallyRallies

A team attack. One leader uses a three-hero formation, and other players join in with their troops.

JoinerRallies

Someone who adds troops to another player’s rally. Only four joiners’ skills count: the four highest-level first War skills of the joiners’ first heroes.

SurvivedBattle

Troops that never took a hit. Fully ready for the next fight.

Lightly WoundedBattle

Took damage but heals back to full as soon as it gets home.

Heavily WoundedBattle

Knocked out and sent to the Hospital. Recovers — as long as there’s room.

LossBattle

Dead for good. The only battle result you can never get back.

HospitalBattle

Where Heavily Wounded troops recover. Keep space free: once it fills up, the overflow becomes real deaths.

Defender’s AdvantageBattle

In a solo attack on a prison, the defender’s troops that would have died become Heavily Wounded instead, while 30% of the attacker’s knocked-out troops die. In rallies and tile fights, nobody’s troops die.

Blank shardsCosts

The universal yellow shards you can spend on any hero. Maxing one costs 1,065, plus 10 hero-specific recruit shards to first unlock them.

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