VIKINGS VENGEANCE,
DEMYSTIFIED

Each town hit has a finite points budget. More marches give you access to more towns; they do not multiply that budget.

The town's full reward does not depend on who makes the kills. Reinforcers earn separate points for their own kills. Aim for 100% kills — merely surviving is not the same as a full score.

There is no universal safe troop count. Difficulty, troop tiers, garrison power and active skills decide whether your reinforcements can clear the wave.

Send all troop types, including archers. Your total deployment is limited by each march's capacity and your available queues. Only when those queues cannot carry everyone should you leave archers home first; they can still take kills on later waves.

Your carrying limit is the sum of your march capacities — with equal caps, march cap × available queues. For example, 5 × 160k = 800k and 6 × 150k = 900k. This is why some players cannot empty their cities around 800–900k troops; use your own limit. Leave archers first. Very large armies without an archer-heavy troop mix may then need to leave cavalry too.

Towns with unavoidable home kills are lower priority for scoring reinforcements: the owner's troops take kills that would otherwise earn allies reinforcement points. Prefer empty or less contested towns, while ensuring enough support to survive and clear every wave. Lower priority does not mean no cover.

Increase march capacity where possible — more troops deployed, fewer left at home. Use actual march/deployment capacity, not HQ rally capacity, for city marches.

Illustration: a 10,000-point reinforcement pool, split by equal kills. The town's reward is separate. Real shares follow kills, not player count or troop count alone.

With N senders using q queues across M towns, incoming marches average N × q ÷ M. If everyone sends 5–6 to distinct participating towns, expect roughly 5–6 reinforcers per town on average, not a guaranteed minimum. Offline senders whose towns receive no cover raise that average at the remaining towns.

Ralyvora · Kingshot Guides. Community references; verify the model against your reports.

For city waves, distribute your available infantry, cavalry and archers evenly across all queues, keeping the same ratio in each march. Equal distribution does not require leaving troops behind to force 1:1:1.

Low archer kill counts are not a reason to leave them home while march space remains. Equal splits are a practical baseline, not a proven universal Vikings optimum; tougher waves may need different allocations.

Waves 7, 14 and 17 only hit cities whose player is online when the wave fires. Go offline and it's not just your points that vanish — your reinforcers lose theirs too.

Stay online for all three online-only waves. No attack means no town reward and no reinforcement pool at that town.

A city that falls once still gets the next wave. Fall twice and the Vikings stop coming — pull your troops and redeploy to a live city.

Advanced rotation: offline players also send troops out before logging off. Cover their empty towns during all-member waves, then quickly rotate to online towns for 7, 14 and 17 and return afterward. Plan travel time and cover first; an uncovered empty town can lose future waves.

The event's Members tab shows who's online and how full their garrisons are — faster than asking in chat, and the easiest way to spot the gaps before wave 7.

Waves 10 and 20 hit HQ. Use an agreed whitelist within its 15 reinforcement slots.

Whitelisted players reserve one queue. Each sends exactly the largest player's effective HQ garrison cap ÷ the number of assigned HQ players, at 75/25/0 infantry/cavalry/archers. Divide by 15 only when all 15 slots are assigned. Officers resolve integer rounding and confirm each march can carry its share.

Keep the reserved queue earning city kills until wave 9 or 19 has fully resolved, then transfer its agreed share to HQ. Return to city reinforcement after the HQ hit resolves.

Confirm the whitelist, cap and shares before wave 1. Everyone else keeps reinforcing towns; no first-come race for HQ slots.

Two jobs, two lists. Your own city is led by your guard station; the cities you reinforce run on the joiner leads you send.

The offence faces

The same kits that hunt the bear hunt Vikings — attack and lethality, straight from the bear-hunt lists. Confirm against your own kill reports.

Chenko

25% attack up — the benchmark offence face.

Yeonwoo

25% attack up, stacks with Chenko.

Amadeus

Full offence kit — often leading, still a fine joiner.

Amane

25% attack up — the third of the trio.

Margot

Plain 25% attack up — a second Amane.

Hilde

15% attack — half useful, better than an empty slot.

Zoe

Offence on paper — check your kill reports.

Jabel

Cavalry offence — a solid fill.

Saul

Archer stats — better than most in a pinch.

Your other two hero slots in a march mostly add capacity — fill them with your next strongest.

A garrison uses the guard station's skills plus the first four unique joiner skills. Flat % buffs stack across joiners; chance-based procs don't — a second Jabel in the queue does nothing and blocks a slot a flat-buff hero could fill.