Many years have passed since the lands of the Empire knew the sorrows of a great war. Her subjects had already forgotten what it was like to be terrified of enemy legions trampling their native land, burning villages, and destroying cities. And although the Empire’s enemies have not decreased much since then, the clashes have been limited to local skirmishes. Most of the inlands were finally able to experience peace and establish a peaceful life. And all this due to the wise leadership of Her Majesty. The Empress’s subjects do not need to know what is known only to her, and to those few who are in charge of her affairs. The truth was that the shadow of a great war, the likes of which no one had ever seen, was looming darker than ever before. However, its darkness was visible only on the horizon, where the stubbornness of the unfettered barbarians had been holding back the march of the steppe horde for many years. Too proud to accept outside help, they will fight to the very end, no matter what it may be. Whether their Stronghold will fall or not, no one can predict for sure. But relying on the will of fate is too risky. The tribal khan must learn what awaits him if he ever plots to start a full scale invasion!
Fearless Lords and Ladies, the Empire calls upon you! She now needs your combat skills more than ever! By the order of Her Majesty, Warlord Grammith is gathering an expedition to the distant and hostile steppes in order to demonstrate to the long-standing and uncompromising enemy of the Empire, the power of valor and courage of her best sons and daughters! Anyone wishing to join this glorious campaign should prepare their army and their best ammunition - they will certainly come in handy.
Combat Briefing:
- All Lords and Ladies of combat level 5 and above are invited to participate in the expedition.
- The battles will take place with the participation of your own personal army.
- Important! At each battle stage, there will be a choice of 3 opponents: one ordinary and 2 difficult ones.
- Important! You can challenge the ordinary opponent in any artifacts, enchantments have no effect.
- Important! You can fight one of the difficult opponents either in artifacts from the shop with non-working enchantments (AfS), or in any artifacts without restrictions (FFA) with the sum of the modifier power of at least 40. The minimum combat level for FFA battles is 12.
- Important! Fights against difficult opponents are mutually exclusive. After defeating one of them, the other becomes unavailable.
- Each battle will grant you event points, for which you can bestow magical enhancements on your army (valid only within this expedition).
- The number of event points you receive will grow as you move along the map
- New! Starting from the 20th battle stage, you will be able to reset all enhancements for 5,000 gold.
- Important! A total of 100 battle stages will be available with gradually increasing levels of difficulty. Battle stages 51-100 will be limited to 100 attempts, including fights against both difficult and normal opponents.
- New! Once the limited attempts are exhausted, the difficult opponents in the corresponding section of the expedition will become unavailable for attack, and it will only be possible to complete the expedition in battles on normal difficulty from then on.
- Important! All difficult opponents up to the 50th battle stage inclusively are identical for all players of the same combat level, faction, and class.
- Important! At battle stages 51-100, the enemy factions will be the same for all players of the same faction and class, regardless of their combat level, but with a difficulty coefficient factored in.
- The enemy in regular battles is always selected individually based on the current strength of the player’s army, taking into account the event points earned. Defeating this opponent will allow you to advance further on the expedition map, but the option to return and challenge one of the difficult opponents for the remaining event points and gold will remain.
- Clearing each battle stage will give you its valuable reward only once; additional wins for improved results will only give you the remainder of event points and gold for that stage.
- On the first day, only the first 10 battle stages will be available, with an additional 10 stages added each following day.
- The expedition will last 12 days, till October 1 inclusively.
- The Empire will additionally award a trophy artifact and an event achievement to all Lords and Ladies who defeat the enemy at the 10th battle stage. The durability of the trophy artifact will depend on the number of event points earned.
- No other awards in addition to the ones listed here are planned.
Important! During this event, the "Battle Exhaustion" system is in effect. Starting from the 15th turn of any battle, the Lord’s or Lady’s “Mana recovery” talent and the troop abilities "Life Drain" and "Battledive" will cease to function for units in the Lords' and Ladies' armies, and all enemy units will gain the ability "Attentive", as well as an increase in initiative and speed. Notifications corresponding to this exhaustion will appear as a warning 1 turn before and at the onset of exhaustion.
During this event you will be able to earn up to 20 parts of Fear Lantern and up to 20 parts of Heaven Amulet!
- The top 75 military clans and all of their active members will be specially rewarded. Awarding will be based on the clans’ final ranking, in which the final result will be equal to the sum of event points gained in battles of the top 100 clan members.
- All unblocked Lords and Ladies of successful military clans will be rewarded if they bring at least 16000 points to the clan!
- If a Lord or Lady leaves or is evicted from a military clan, the clan loses all the points the Lord or Lady gained for that clan, if they rejoin the clan, all the points will be returned to the clan.
- Important! It will be impossible to leave one’s clan on the last day of the event and until the rewards have been given out.
- Important! From the second day of the event and onwards, military clans may accept no more than three players per day while the event lasts- Important! Once you defeat the 50th battle stage, you will be temporarily unable to join any military clan while the event lasts.
Rewards for active members of top-ranking military clans:
| Clan rank | Reward | Glory | | 1 | | 1,500 | | 2 | | 1,300 | | 3 | | 1,100 | | 4 | | 1,000 | | 5 - 8 | | 900 | | 9 - 13 | | 800 | | 14 - 20 | | 600 | | 21 - 30 | | 500 | | 31 - 45 | | 400 | | 46 - 60 | | 250 | | 61 - 75 | | 100 |
Personal rewards for the top 5,000 Lords/Ladies based on the expedition results:
| Lord/Lady rank | Reward | | 1 - 50 | | | 51 - 100 | | | 101 - 200 | | | 201 - 400 | | | 401 - 650 | | | 651 - 1000 | | | 1001 - 1500 | | | 1501 - 2250 | | | 2251 - 3000 | | | 3001 - 3750 | | | 3751 - 5000 | |
May the enemy fear your fearlessness! |
