Season 3 · Asgard’s Trial
Do and Avoid
The habits that win Asgard and the mistakes that lose it, in one place. The hard rules at the top are written into the season and are not opinions. Everything after them is what kingdoms who have run this season do differently from kingdoms who have not.
The four hard rules
These are game rules, not advice. Plan around them or lose marches to them.
| Rule | What it costs you if you forget |
|---|---|
| The Rainbow Bridge requires Tier 5 troops. | Tier 4 marches cannot cross. From chapter 11, half the map is closed to them |
| Friendly fire is off inside the occupied Divine Beast Garden and Servant's Residence. | You cannot clear a same-team unit blocking you. Route around it instead of planning through it |
| Gates are single direction access. | A push through a Gate has no way back through that Gate |
| Preparation buffs expire when the war ends. | Nothing you bank in preparation is permanent progress — so there is no reason to hold back |
Do this
- Hold ground rather than raid it. Buildings pay Tribe and Kingdom Points every minute. A building taken and lost in an hour paid you an hour.
- Restore the Kingdom Fortress fast. The task opens two hours after capture. Finishing it quickly lets the kingdom choose its territory color and switch on extra power-ups sooner.
- Win the Fort race on day 0. Whoever builds first is in the better position, and every minute counts.
- At the Divine Beast Garden, send combat troops first and your scoring squad last. Expect to fight for the field the whole window. Keep spares nearby. Put a house next to the Air Dock.
- Agree the capture-and-hold plan before the second Gate. Lose there and you cannot leave your zone until your team's kingdoms link up.
- Break healer garrisons in one push. Huldra's Sacred Shrine and Valkyrie's Sanctum refill. Waves feed them.
- From chapter 16, route through your whole team's air docks. Not just your own kingdom's. It is one of the biggest swings in the season.
- Clear every chapter before its deadline. Quests are scored only while their chapter is open, and nothing carries forward.
The season's two hardest stretches
Days 13–15 and days 27–29 — the Initial Phase and Mid-Phase Settlements. Three days each, four quests each, and the main rewards are kill points. Attacks come across the bridge hour after hour. At chapter 11 nobody even duels over the pass, because nobody wants to hand the enemy points.
If you are going to be awake, organized and stocked at any point in the season, be it then. Everything else can be caught up; these cannot.
What experienced kingdoms do differently
- They settle territory before the fight. At the chapter 12 Gate there are almost no fights, because the kings divided the ground in advance. Agreeing beforehand is not weakness; it is how you avoid paying the enemy in kill points for ground you were going to split anyway.
- They alternate the Divine Beast Garden. Kings sometimes agree among themselves to take turns rather than grind each other down over a 50-a-minute building.
- They count the kingdom's War Merit target per head. 58.5 million by day 15, divided by active players, is a number a tribe can act on. "Fight more" is not.
- They stop farming when the bridge opens. The middle zone becomes a combat area at chapter 11, and gatherers there are free War Merits for the other team.
Don't
- Don't bring Tier 4 anywhere that matters after chapter 11.
- Don't grind a healer garrison in waves. You are feeding it.
- Don't send your scoring squad into a contested field first. Clear the opposition, then score.
- Don't farm in the middle zone after the bridge opens.
- Don't spend bridge passes on anything but the fight during a settlement chapter.
- Don't leave wounded in an overflowing Infirmary. Overflow is dead, not delayed — and three of your six preparation rungs exist to prevent exactly this.
- Don't let Manor holdings lapse. Seven Chronicles quests want Manors, at rising levels, and they are all Solo quests.
- Don't assume another season's rules apply. Asgard's buildings, currencies and stages are its own.