Kings Choice: Battle of the Ruins - Gameplay Instructions

Event Structure:

  • Duration: 3 days
  • Day 1: Compete with 5 other alliances on a map. Work together or fight against other alliances. Aim to earn the most points to advance to better maps on Day 2.
  • Day 2: Gather points to secure the best map for Day 3.
  • Day 3: Final competition using your accumulated points.

How to Earn Points:

  • Occupy and Defend Ruins: Points are earned by taking control of ruins and defending them throughout the day.

Starting Soldiers:

  • You begin with soldiers based on your level. The number of soldiers affects your battle outcomes.
  • Check the soldier count of other alliances defending a ruin before attacking.

Soldier Management:

  • Soldiers accumulate at your base throughout the day.
  • Click the "Reload Soldiers" button at your base to gather more troops.
  • Use supply box keys to grow your base and earn more soldiers.
    Each player starts with a deluxe key from alliance rewards, and additional keys can be purchased.
  • You can buy 400,000 troops in the store for 100 gold.

Strategy Tips:

  1. Occupy Nearby Ruins First: Start by taking control of ruins next to your base to create pathways to higher-value ruins.
  2. Travel Time: Moving to ruins takes time—closer ones are faster, while farther ones can take up to 4 minutes. Use Acceleration Flags to cut travel time by 50%. These can be purchased for 40 gold or acquired with event points.
  3. Defeating Ruin Soldiers: Each ruin has soldiers to defeat, even if there are no opposing forces. Team up with others to speed up the process.
  4. Be Quick: While you’re reducing the soldiers at a ruin, an opposing alliance can swoop in, defeat you, and take control. It’s crucial to occupy nearby ruins quickly to position yourself for stealing adjacent ruins.
  5. Attack Strategy:
    • Check the soldier count at the ruins before attacking.
    • Enable "Auto Attack" when you arrive at a ruin to engage automatically. Don’t forget this step, as neglecting it can leave your troops idle.
    • After capturing a ruin, turn on "Auto Defend" to protect it.

Returning to Base:

  • If your soldiers are depleted, you will automatically return to base. You can also choose to travel back to resupply if needed.

By following these strategies and keeping track of your soldiers and ruins, you’ll maximize your chances of success in the competition!

A simple step by step Guide to help follow the sequence of events during game play.

Game play and strategy.
We start by going to the ruins next to our base and occupying them.
This creates the paths we need to get to higher value ruins.
When you travel to a ruin it can take a while.
The closer ones are fast but further out can be as much as 4 minutes to get to.
There are acceleration flag boxes you can buy and they get you to the ruin you are going to attack quicker so you can surprise the other soldiers.
Each flag reduces travel time by 50%. They offer these flags in the store for 40 gold but you can buy a bunch using event points in the event store during the day.
Each ruin has a number of soldiers you have to defeat in order to occupy it, even if no opposing forces are there, It takes a long time to get through these soldiers.
More of our people joining the fight speeds it up.
Once you get through these soldiers the ruin flips to our alliance and the ruin soldiers reset.
So, it takes a while to capture a ruin from another alliance. You have to first beat the alliances soldiers and the ruin soldiers.

 KEY POINT!
While reducing the ruin soldiers another alliance can swoop in, defeat you, and finish killing off the ruin soldiers to take ownership.
This makes it important to gang up on our ruins next to the base right away to quickly make them ours.
Then we are in position to steal adjoining alliance's ruins as they are trying to claim them.
Let that alliance kill off almost all soldiers and then go grab it.
 Acceleration flags help for these sneak attacks.
The game shows that you are on the way to a ruin and the travel time, so, its tough to surprise someone at normal speed.
When you see attacking forces on the way to our ruins check their soldiers and if we have enough defending the ruin to defeat them. If not, beef it up with more soldiers.

IMPORTANT KEY POINTS.
You can check the total defensive/attacking forces and values by clicking their ruin.
When you go to attack a ruin make sure you turn on auto attack when you get there or you will just sit and not defeat the ruin soldiers.
We had a number of people go to take a ruin, not turn on auto attack, sign off, and just sit for hours.
Also, when you have captured the ruin turn on auto defend.
When you expend all the soldiers you are carrying you get sent back to base so you can resupply.
 You can also travel back on your own if you are low on soldiers and see that you have accumulated more at base camp.