Scoring: KvK Points and War Merit

Two separate currencies measure you this season. KvK Points come from acting on the map and split three ways. War Merit comes only from killing, and only from killing troops of Tier 4 and above. Neither one decides the season — the Lv 8 Sacrificial Stone does — but both decide what you take home from it.

KvK Points, and its three tracks

Rules → Regular Content → KvK Points, verbatim:

“In the Judgment Hall, you can earn points through various actions. Points are divided into Member Credit, Battalion Points, and Team Points. Points will affect the distribution of ranking rewards of the corresponding rankings list, and determine the stage rewards you can claim in Achievements.”

Track	Whose number it is	Where you see it
Member Credit	Yours	Your own ranking lists and Achievements
Battalion Points	Your Battalion's	Battalion Ranking
Team Points	Your Team's — both kingdoms together	The Team screen and Team Ranking

One action can feed more than one track. That is the practical consequence of a three-way split, and it is why occupying ground beats roaming: a building your Tribe holds credits you, your Battalion and your Team on the same tick, where a march that kills nothing credits none of them.

War Merit, and the Tier 4 floor

Rules → Special Rules → War Merit, verbatim:

“In Kingdom Mayhem, killing enemy Troops from opposing Teams earns War Merit. Different Troop tiers correspond to different amounts of War Merit. War Merit can be exchanged for uncommon items and War Materials in both the [War Merit Shop] and [Supply Shop]. (Only killing Troops Tier 4 and above will earn War Merit.)”

Three rules sit in there, and the bracketed one at the end is the one that catches people:

• Only enemy-Team troops count. Your Team is two kingdoms; neither of them is a source of War Merit.
• Only Tier 4 and above count. A field of dead Tier 3 troops pays nothing. If you are farming kills for merit, you are farming real armies.
• Higher tiers pay more. The game says tiers correspond to different amounts without printing the table, so treat a Tier 5 kill as worth more than a Tier 4 and plan accordingly.

War Merit is spent, not banked for score alone — see currencies and shops. And your War Merit Ranking inside your Team is what the settlement reward reads, which is covered on settlement.

What pays, on the map

Source	What it pays	Note
Killing enemy-Team troops	War Merit	Tier 4 and above only
Lunar Eclipse Sacrificial Stone	Continuous points to the occupying Team	Contestable every 48 hours, for a 2-hour window
Solar Eclipse Sacrificial Stone	Continuous points to the occupying Team	Contestable every 72 hours, for a 2-hour window
Bone Priests	Points and other rewards	Levels 56 to 65
Underworld Riders	“a large amount of rewards”	Levels 21 to 25, rally only
Manors	Campaign Points, at intervals	A separate currency — see Manors
Chronicles quests	Stage rewards	Solo, Tribe and Battalion families

Achievements is four ladders, not one

The Achievements button on the hub's bottom row opens four parallel tracks, and most players only ever scroll the first one:

• Personal achievements — your own actions.
• Battalion achievements — what your Battalion did together.
• Team achievements — both kingdoms' work on one ladder.
• Occupation achievements — ⭐ not a reward list but a ranked grade, and the grade you finish on sets a hard ceiling on your Season Summons. See settlement.

The personal rows are tiered ladders, each repeating at a higher target — the first three ask you to occupy two Manors at Lv 5 or above, to contribute to Tribe building in the Judgment Hall, and to hold a Lunar or Solar Eclipse Sacrificial Stone for a cumulative duration. All three are occupation targets, not kill targets, which tells you what the game thinks this season is about.

⚠️ The English names of the four tabs and of the Occupation grades have not been read, so this page describes the structure rather than naming the rows. Open all four tabs on arrival — three of them are easy to miss entirely, and a ladder you never looked at is a reward you never claimed.

Where War Merit is actually paid

You will not find a War Merit counter ticking up on the map. The game prints it on the battle report, as a line reading “War Merit Medals earned in this battle”, with the figure for that fight. One real report on this battlefield paid 2,858,840 for a defense that killed 63,299 troops and lost 61,633; another paid 121,378 for a much smaller fight.

Two things follow. Read your battle reports — it is the only place the season tells you what a fight was worth. And the numbers are large and they scale with the kill, so one real engagement against a real army is worth more than a week of safe marches.

The Eclipse Stones are the only continuous income

Every other source on that list pays once, when you do the thing. The two Eclipse Stones are different: “After occupying it, all members of the same Team within the area will continue to receive corresponding points.” They are also the hardest to hold, because they are only contestable in a two-hour window every 48 hours for the Lunar and every 72 for the Solar. Two hours, once every two or three days, is a scheduled event — put it in your Tribe's calendar and bring everyone.

For a tribe leader

• Audit your roster for zero War Merit before settlement, not after. Anyone on nil is about to get nothing, and it takes one kill to fix.
• Own the Eclipse windows. They are the only points that accrue while nobody is clicking, and they are the only capture with a clock you cannot negotiate.
• Point your low-might members at Bone Priests. They pay points, they need no rally, and they keep accounts contributing that cannot hold a line.
• Remind members that Achievements must be claimed. Unclaimed stage rewards are the quietest loss in the season.