Season 2 · Expedition to England
Windsor Castle: The Win Condition
Windsor Castle sits at the dead center of England, and the game states the season's victory on it: the Victory Emblem goes to the last tribe occupying Windsor Castle when the expedition ends. Everything in the back half of the season is a move toward Saturday.
- Know your Windsor date. It is node 5 on your kingdom's timeline, and nothing can be done about it before then.
- Clear the Royal Guards first, every time. The tiles beside the castle feed its defenders a Moral Defender buff. Kill the Royal Protectors, Royal Swordsmen and Royal Guard Captains, then rally the castle.
- Bring the whole tribe. One recorded garrison was over 25 million troops, every one of them Tier 6.
- Take it late rather than early. Holding it on the final day is what wins; holding it in week four is only points.
What holding it pays
| While you hold it | Value |
|---|---|
| Tribe Points | +550 per minute — 33,000 an hour, 792,000 a day |
| Kingdom Points | +550 per minute, on the same clock |
| Damage dealt | +3% |
| Damage taken | −3% |
| One-off, to every tribe member | A reward bundle including a 3,000,000 point award |
A full day on Windsor is worth over three quarters of a million Tribe Points on its own. Against the Occupation Achievement ladder, where the top tier asks 40,000,000 Tribe Points, that is a meaningful share of a tier from one building.
When you can take it
- First contest: timeline node 5, the Windsor Castle node.
- After that: every Saturday 00:00 UTC to Sunday 00:00 UTC. The map tooltip on the castle reads Capture: 00:00 UTC.
- It is a Hallowed Castle for every other purpose, so it also counts toward your tribe's Occupation Achievement tier.
What defends it
Windsor is not an empty tile. It carries a standing garrison and a ring of guard tiles:
- The garrison. Tier 6 throughout. Treat it as a full-tribe rally, not a solo march.
- Royal Guards tiles. The units on them are labelled Royal Knight on the map. While they stand, the castle's defenders carry a Moral Defender buff — the game's own help text says to defeat them first to make the castle easier to attack.
The emblem
The Expedition to England Victory Emblem is described in game as "a symbol of glory awarded to the last Tribe that occupies the Windsor Castle in the Expedition to England." It is awarded on the tribe, and the details show in the Tribe UI. This is the only thing in the season that is phrased as winning it.
- Don't attack with the guard tiles alive. The Moral Defender buff is the difference between an expensive win and a wipe.
- Don't celebrate an early capture. Only the last tribe holding it at the end takes the emblem. Everything before that is practice and points.
- Don't send marches in piecemeal. A 25-million Tier 6 garrison does not care about your timing.