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Shield up! Don't be an easy target

An unshielded Sanctuary doesn't just cost you troops. While you sleep, it hands the enemy free points, drains your alliance's strength and puts your teammates' troops on the line.

Published · 3 min read

Two Sanctuaries side by side, one safe under a blue Shield and one on fire

You wake up to this

You log in. Your mail is full of battle reports. Your Barracks are half empty, your Infirmary is packed with Severely Wounded soldiers, your resources are gone, and your Might has dropped.

Weeks of training, gone overnight. You didn't even get to fight back.

That's bad. But it's only half the story.

Your alliance lost too

Scroll up in alliance chat.

It's Duel Saturday. Every soldier of yours the enemy defeated was points for them. While you slept, you were the easiest points on the map, and the other alliance knew exactly where to find them.

Your teammates saw you being hit and came to help. They sent their own troops into a fight they didn't choose, and some of those troops didn't come back. Your R4s spent the night firefighting instead of running the Duel.

And now, when the alliance needs a rally, you've got nothing to send. Neither do the teammates who tried to save you.

Now multiply it

One unshielded member is a bad night. Twenty is a disaster.

Twenty easy targets every time your server gets raided. Twenty Sanctuaries feeding the enemy points in the Duel and the Kingdom War (what most players call KvK). Twenty players spending the next week rebuilding instead of growing.

The alliance gets stuck in a loop: train, get hit, rebuild, get hit again. Meanwhile, the alliances that shield up keep growing, and every week the gap gets bigger.

That's how alliances lose Duels they should have won. Not in the big fights, but in the quiet hours, one unshielded Sanctuary at a time.

Losing troops isn't the problem. Wasting them is.

Losing troops in a rally your alliance planned? That's the game. Those troops bought something.

Losing them because you went to bed without a Shield? They bought nothing. Worse, they bought points for the other side.

Before you go offline

  • Shield up, and check it lasts the whole time you're away.
  • Bring your troops home. A Shield protects your territory, not troops marching or gathering outside it.
  • Don't attack while it's up. Attacking drops your Shield, and you'll have to wait before you can use another one.

It takes ten seconds.