Your first days in Lordrush set the pace for everything that follows. This roadmap covers what to prioritize early, in plain order, so you build a strong foundation instead of scattering your resources. Exact costs and numbers change as you level, so this guide focuses on the habits and priorities that matter, and points you to the site's calculators for the precise figures.
Start with your Town Center
Your Town Center is the heart of your base and the main gate on your progress. Buildings, features, and events unlock only after your Town Center reaches a required level, so raising it should be your steady priority. Whenever you are unsure what to do next, look at what the next Town Center level unlocks and work toward it.
Keep something building at all times
Idle build time is wasted progress. Try to always have a construction or a research running before you log off, even a small one. Line up the next upgrade so your builder is never standing still. Over a week, those "always busy" hours add up to a real lead over players who let the queue sit empty.
Learn your four resources
You will spend most of your time managing four resources: Bread, Wood, Stone, and Iron. Production buildings keep them flowing, such as the Sawmill for Wood. The habit that separates strong players from the rest is planning: check the cost of your next big upgrade before you spend, and hold back what you will need instead of emptying your stores on the first thing available.
Build a balanced army
Troops come in three types, each trained in its own building: Infantry in the Infantry Camp, Lancers in the Lancer Camp, and Archers in the Archer Camp. Each type trains through ten tiers, starting from the Rookie tier, and you unlock higher tiers by upgrading that camp. Rather than pouring everything into one type, keep all three moving so you are ready for different situations.
To see exactly what a given tier costs in resources and time, and how many troops your speed-ups can finish, use the troop training calculator.
Recruit and deploy heroes
Heroes are recruited one or ten at a time and come in three rarities: R, SR, and SSR. Each hero has a type that matches a troop type, plus two separate skill sets:
- Conquest skills are combat abilities used in battle.
- Expedition skills support your economy and squads, for example boosting a resource building's output or reducing the damage your squads take.
Read a hero's skills before you invest resources in them, since a lower rarity hero with the right skill can outperform a flashier one for your current needs. You can browse every hero, with rarity, type, and full skill list, in the hero database.
Heal your soldiers instead of losing them
When your troops are wounded, send them to the Infirmary to heal rather than letting them be lost. Keeping your army intact is far cheaper than retraining from scratch, so watch your Infirmary capacity and heal before it fills up.
Join an alliance early
An active alliance is one of the biggest boosts to a new account. Alliances open group content and battlefields you cannot reach alone, and helpful members can speed up your builds and answer questions. Join one as soon as you can, and actually take part rather than sitting quietly.
Do your dailies
Log in each day for your login rewards, and clear your Daily Missions for a steady stream of resources and speed-ups. These small, consistent gains compound faster than occasional big pushes, and they cost you only a few minutes.
Plan your gear mastery
As your heroes grow, their gear mastery becomes a major source of power, and the upgrade materials are expensive. Working out how much you need before you start saves a lot of wasted resources. The Forgehammer and mastery calculator does that math for you.
Catch the Burst of Life event
Early on you will see a limited event called Burst of Life, and it rewards you for the one thing this whole guide is about: growing your power. As you raise your Town Center, keep building, and train troops, your Total Power climbs past the event's milestones and you collect gems, resources, speed-ups, and a permanent Town Center skin along the way. It only runs for a week, so time your bigger upgrades to finish while it is live. The full milestone list and the timing trick are in the Burst of Life event guide.
Grab active gift codes
Do not leave free rewards on the table. Check the gift codes list regularly and redeem the active ones for resources, speed-ups, and other boosts that give your first days a head start.