Expansion

#Taking free land

Early on, the free land around you is the most profitable: it costs few troops and raises your troop maximum and your income. Attack it in small waves (moderate slider) and let your troops regrow between attacks.

#Moving on to neighbours

Once the free land runs out:

1. Tribes (bots): weak, no alliances, perfect for growing.
2. Weaker neighbours: watch the leaderboard and the player panel (troops, gold, buildings).
3. Focus on one side at a time: a long border is hard to defend.

One more city means a higher troop maximum: when you have no more land to take, building cities is the best way to keep growing.

#By sea

A coastline opens up landings: send troops to any coast, including a distant island. Think about ports (trade income, warships) and warships to hold the seas. See Units.

#Map objectives

Some games place objectives on the map: zones worth holding for the whole game.

• They appear one minute into the game, with an announcement, so no one can rush them from the start.
• To capture a zone you must own most of it for 15 seconds (the ring fills up while you hold it).
• Each objective you hold gives +15% gold and +5% troop growth.
• Only half of the objectives count toward your bonus (2 of 4, 3 of 5 or 6), so no one gains by simply holding them all.
• They exist in solo, private and public games. Ranked, 1v1, 2v2 and the daily race have none. The creator of a game can turn them off.

In Conquest mode, the objectives are the victory condition.

#Zones and starting distance

Players start at a minimum distance from each other. In Versus mode, each team starts in its own zone, a mirror image of the other, away from the centre.