Take the castle, keep it reinforced, and hold it long enough to win.
Check your alliance's requirements and who's leading. Early Castle battles can be messy; coordination improves as the kingdom finds its rhythm.
Agree your role before spending. Offensive and defensive leads may be different players; later generations give accounts more room to specialise. Match heroes, widgets, gear, charms and research to that role.
Keep designated leads available for their jobs. Prioritise the best available troop tiers among other players for the castle garrison. Those players can also join attacking rallies too.
The King's Castle sits between four turrets. Your alliance wins on occupation time; personal battle points have their own rewards.
KvK requires a consecutive early hold. Otherwise, the longest occupation wins at the end. Check your live Rules and timer. Event rules
A hostile turret fires on the castle garrison, faster as occupation continues. Your own team's turrets spare it. Taking turrets helps you break a hold and protect your own.
Local Castle Battle is an alliance contest within your kingdom. KvK adds Kingdom of Power preparation and cross-kingdom rules. Check the KvK screen for access, ownership and turret bonuses.
Close arrivals give defenders less time to reinforce, but each rally fights separately against the current occupant. Assembly and travel time both affect arrival.
Ruins slow marches. The alert-zone rebellion forces cities out before battle; wait for it to end before moving back.
Both sides attack each turn. Losses apply before the next; the fight ends when one army is gone. Every surviving row attacks, including the troops behind your infantry.
Counters apply to the troop type actually hit. Cavalry do not hit archers on every attack; hero skills can change targeting. Combat rules
Both pairs matter on attack and defense. Health keeps a rally fighting; lethality increases damage, rather than deciding permanent kills.
The Frakinator model uses these bonus factors:
Offense: base attack × (1 + ATK/100) × (1 + LET/100)
Resistance: base health × (1 + DEF/100) × (1 + HP/100)
At 500% ATK and 100% LET, the factors give 6 × 2 = 12. Another 100 points of ATK gives 14; the same added to LET gives 18. The lower paired stat can offer the bigger gain.
Damage also scales with the square root of each active troop count. Twice the archers gives roughly 41% more archer damage per turn. Extra troops also absorb more losses.
Squad-wide skills help the whole army, even without the hero's matching troop type. Read the skill's scope. Widget skills can require rally or defender duty.
Compare with your saved roster: stars, skills, gear and widgets all matter.
Damage over time · attack up · damage-taken amplification
Widget skill: defender · attack. Hero reference
Attack and defense up · damage proc · damage-reduction proc
Widget skill: defender · health. Hero reference
Defense and health up · lethality up
Widget skill: defender · attack. Hero reference
Zoe adds attack and damage amplification. Saul adds lethality, defense and health.
Compare return damage as well as survival: clearing the rally leaves troops for the next hold.
Enemy attack down · incoming damage down · squad health up
Widget skill: defender · defense. Hero reference
Attack and defense up · damage proc · damage-reduction proc
Widget skill: defender · health. Hero reference
Damage proc · enemy lethality-reduction proc · health up
Widget skill: defender · health. Hero reference
Eric reduces enemy attack and incoming damage, and adds health. Jaeger adds health and a chance to reduce enemy lethality.
Compare Eric with your Zoe and Jaeger with your Saul at their actual development.
Enemy attack down · incoming damage down · squad health up
Widget skill: defender · defense. Hero reference
Attack and defense up · damage proc · damage-reduction proc
Widget skill: defender · health. Hero reference
Damage proc · enemy lethality-reduction proc · health up
Widget skill: defender · health. Hero reference
Eric and Jaeger add squad-wide survival. Hilde adds damage support and a damage-reduction chance.
Try Zoe or Saul when you need more return damage. Check defender widgets too.
Lethality up · attack up · damage proc
Widget skill: rally · attack. Hero reference
Attack and defense up · damage proc · damage-reduction proc
Widget skill: defender · health. Hero reference
Damage procs · enemy lethality-reduction proc
Widget skill: rally · lethality. Hero reference
Amadeus adds attack, lethality and a damage proc. Marlin adds damage procs and enemy lethality reduction.
Hilde still supplies attack, defense and damage. Her defender widget is only part of the kit.
Lethality up · attack up · damage proc
Widget skill: rally · attack. Hero reference
Damage-taken amplification proc · attack proc · damage-reduction proc
Widget skill: rally · attack. Hero reference
Damage procs · enemy lethality-reduction proc
Widget skill: rally · lethality. Hero reference
Petra adds attack and damage-taken amplification procs, damage reduction and a rally attack widget.
Compare with your developed Hilde using battle reports.
Lethality up · attack up · damage proc
Widget skill: rally · attack. Hero reference
Damage-taken amplification proc · attack proc · damage-reduction proc
Widget skill: rally · attack. Hero reference
Damage procs · enemy lethality-reduction proc
Widget skill: rally · lethality. Hero reference
Attack, lethality and damage effects combine here, with rally widgets supporting the role.
Compare survivors and losses too. A survival skill can still improve an attacking rally.
Castle casualties fill the infirmary. Once it's full, further casualties die. Keep healing. Casualty rules
Green banner on the march hero; first skill beneath the flag on the Expedition side of the Skills screen.
The banner marks eligibility. Check the rally window to see which four contributions were selected.
Your gear, charms and research don't add another set of rally bonuses. Other heroes can increase deployment capacity, but their skills don't transfer. Neither do skills 2 and 3 of your first hero.
If you lack the required hero, ask whether to send troops without heroes. Sloth's rally explanation
The garrison hits back. Survival skills help attacking rallies too. Four Gordons can stack health; mixing health, defense and enemy debuffs gives your lead other options.
25% squad health at skill 5. Stacks across selected copies. His second skill does not transfer.
Health Up · Lv 1–5: 5% / 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%
10% defense and 15% health at skill 5. Combines two stat families. His third-skill lethality does not transfer.
Defense Up · Lv 1–5: 2% / 4% / 6% / 8% / 10%
Health Up · Lv 1–5: 3% / 6% / 9% / 12% / 15%
20% less enemy damage dealt at skill 5, guaranteed. Combines with health and defense support.
Enemy Damage Down · Lv 1–5: 4% / 8% / 12% / 16% / 20%
20% less enemy attack at skill 5, guaranteed. His health and damage-taken skills only apply when leading.
Enemy Troop Attack Down · Lv 1–5: 4% / 8% / 12% / 16% / 20%
20% damage-taken reduction at skill 5. Sloth rates this below Gordon's health contribution; four copies do not mean 80% fewer casualties.
Damage Taken Down · Lv 1–5: 4% / 8% / 12% / 16% / 20%
Up to 25% lethality. Yeonwoo and Amadeus share this first-skill stat family. His second skill does not transfer.
Lethality Up · Lv 1–5: 5% / 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%
Up to 25% attack. Complements Chenko's lethality. Choose with the rest of the rally's effects.
Attack Up · Lv 1–5: 5% / 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%
Check which four skills the rally selected. An unwanted hero can take a slot; a fifth Gordon adds troops, but no fifth health contribution.
Duplicate Gordons stack. Duplicate Petras or Marlins don't give independent copies of their first-skill effect. A single Petra can still help when she isn't leading. Check each hero's interaction.
Leave lead accounts free for their assignments. Fill the castle with the best available troop tiers from the remaining joiners. Each sends their own march and troop mix.
Check active bonuses when membership changes. The highest-stat member supplies them; the displayed captain may be someone else.
A garrison lead may ask for a particular troop type. Otherwise, reinforce with your own mix. Keep the designated defender inside.
The displayed captain doesn't explain every defensive role. Inspect the active stats and skills, especially when players arrive or leave. Sloth's defensive roles
Infantry buy time for cavalry and archers to deal damage. Too few expose those rows early; too many can leave you short of damage.
Each participant sends their own ratio. The rally or garrison contains those different troop mixes. Your alliance may recommend a setup, or occasionally ask for a specific reinforcement type.
60% infantry, 40% cavalry, no archers. Margot and Alcar give those two troop types the damage and survival support to make this work.
Attack leads may answer cavalry-heavy holds with very low-cavalry formations. The useful split depends on the heroes and opponent; your offensive and defensive presets may differ.
Checked 11 October 2026. Older guides quote six / three; use your live event rules.