Season 2 · Expedition to England
Heroes, Restrictions and What You Fight
England bars some heroes outright. The Rules screen carries a Season Restrictions tab listing every hero allowed in, and the game's stated reason is fairness — "to ensure all Chiefs can engage in fair competition." Check your roster against it before you relocate, not after.
- Open Rules → Season Restrictions during the preview. The grid shows portraits in rarity-coloured frames, not names.
- Hover every hero you plan to bring. Hovering opens a card with the hero's name, troop type, role and specialty. It is the only way to read the list.
- Check the corner badges. Each portrait carries an S1 or S2 marker showing which season the hero came from — they are season markers, not levels or stars.
- Build around what is allowed before the war, because a barred hero is barred for all 45 days.1
Confirmed on the allowed list
| Hero | Troop | Role | Specialty | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lagertha | Infantry | PvP | Basic Attacker | S2 |
| Yulmi | Archer | PvP | Counterattack | S2 |
Both sit in the first row of the grid. The remainder of the roster is portraits only, so read your own screen rather than any list — including this one.
What you are fighting
England's garrison is not one enemy type. Each has its own level band, and several quest families count only one of them:
| Enemy | Where | Levels seen |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Guards | Across England; the Scourge Eradication and Eliminate Enemies quests count these | Lv 36 – 45 |
| Glorious Iron Cavalry | Counted by Direct Confrontation and Joint Siege | Lv 12 – 15 |
| Avenging Scythe Knights | At Bloody Monasteries | — |
| Temple Executioners | At Desolate Temples | — |
| Royal Protector, Royal Swordsman, Royal Guard Captain | Around Hallowed Castles — these are what feed the Moral Defender buff | — |
| Royal Knight | The guard units on the tiles beside Windsor Castle | — |
| Manor Leaders and Manor guards | At Manors; the Leader's first defeat pays a large reward | Manors Lv 4 – 8 |
| Griffins | Preparation only, in Stage I: Trials | — |
Two things about garrisons
- Windsor Castle's garrison is Tier 6 throughout — one recorded defence ran to over 25 million troops. It is a whole-tribe rally, not a march.
- Moral Defender is removable. The game's own help text says to defeat the Royal Guards, Royal Swordsmen and Royal Guard Captains around a Hallowed Castle first, to make attacking it easier. This is the single highest-value piece of combat advice in the season.
- Don't build a march around a hero you have not checked against Season Restrictions.
- Don't read the badges as levels. S1 and S2 mark the season a hero belongs to.
- Don't open on a castle with its guard tiles intact.
1 The allowed roster grew between builds of the season — 30 portraits in the earlier recording, 34 in the later one. Treat the grid on your own screen as the only authority on who may enter.