Kingdom Guard's Beginner's Guide: Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for Glory

Welcome, your majesty! As a new monarch, your goal is to establish your kingdom while protecting it from the never-ending assaults of monsters and rival monarchs aiming to destabilize your reign. You have an army of faithful archers, goblins, and elves, as well as a plethora of great heroes, to aid you in your journey.

Kingdom Guard is an unusual title that is half time management, part base building, and all extremely light. This Tap4Fun app is available on both iOS and Android platforms and is a pretty simple game. Kingdom Guard, in instance, might be described as a lite version of other empire builders such as Evony: The King's Return or West Game.

While Kingdom Guard lacks the depth of the later two games, it is also fairly simple to play, making it a good stepping stone as well as an entertaining game in its own right.

To help you get started, we've put together a comprehensive Kingdom Guard beginner's guide, complete with tips, tactics, and strategies for saving the planet!

Rush Past the Tower Defense

Much of the game is restricted based on how far you've progressed in the tower defense mode. As a result, it's critical to go through the tower defense section as rapidly as possible. Fortunately, the tower defense system may be played with minimal user interaction.

Units in Training and Merging

The majority of Kingdom Guard's tower defense gameplay involves merging units, and it's up to you to keep merging units even as additional adversaries arrive. The merging formula is simple: two similar units of the same tier can be merged into a unit one tier higher. Two level 1 archers are converted into one level 2 archer, and so forth. The higher the tier of a unit, the better its performance.

You can train new units for a modest amount of gold by hitting the train button at the bottom of the screen. While this does gain experience, you will not use the tower defense money for anything else.

Discarding Units and Merge Slots

As you progress through the tower defense game, additional merging spots will become available. These not only allow you to train more troops, but they also increase the amount of space available for unit merging.

However, it is still feasible that there will be insufficient slots. Instead of merely standing there doing nothing, you can discard a unit by dragging it to the blue magic circle in the lower right corner of your merge panel.

Merge Automatically

Merging can rapidly become boring, especially if you're continuously bombarded by level 1 troops. You can mitigate this by using Kingdom Guard's auto merge function. You can enable auto merge for a limited number of times by watching an ad.

Auto merge performs exactly what it sounds like: it merges units in your reserves. It should be noted, however, that auto merge does not merge troops that are already on towers. You'll need to go a step further and purchase an elite monthly card for that. With actual money.

Towers of Units

To begin fire, each unit must be put on a tower. What isn't immediately obvious is that these are not long-term commitments, which means you can remove a unit from a tower at any time. To speed up the merging process, you can merge units on towers.

Heroes in Action

You'll soon be able to place heroes on the field as you progress through the tower defense levels. Heroes, unlike normal units, can be positioned on the route and will automatically combat opponents that approach them.

The Egg of the Dragon

The tower defense section's ultimate goal is to hatch the dragon egg. This is accomplished by finishing all of the chapters and their associated tasks. It is important to note that quest requirements are not retroactive — if the current chapter requires you to promote a unit or level up a hero, activities made before to getting that quest will not count. Keeping this in mind, it's advisable to conduct activities only when the egg directly demands them.

Completing these activities also earns you resources like as money, stone, jewels, and other items. When the egg hatches, you'll have entrance to the Dragonden.

Growth of the Town

Your town is your economic and military center. Each structure in your town has a specific purpose, and we'll take you on a quick tour of the early game facilities.

Castle

The castle serves as the Kingdom Guard's headquarters. Castle upgrades are critical since they affect many things, including the initial level of new troops, the maximum level units can have, the maximum level of heroes you can fight, and the maximum level of monsters you can fight.

Upgrading your fortress necessitates the use of both stone and gold.

Chronicle

The chronicle highlights server-wide accomplishments that everyone can benefit from. It makes no difference whether you're in an alliance or not – as soon as your server achieves the goals outlined in the chronicle, everyone on the server can claim them. These are things that you would regularly complete when playing the game, so it's really simply a matter of perseverance.

Tavern

You can find additional heroes to join your cause at the tavern. You get one free advanced recruitment per day and five free normal recruitments each day, both of which are gated behind ads. Because hero cards are required not just to recruit new heroes, but also to level up existing heroes, it is in your best advantage to frequent the tavern.

Barracks

When you reach a certain level, you will be able to upgrade your four troop types directly at the barracks. This substantially enhances their performance, so putting resources into your units is always a good idea, and we'll go over this in more detail later.

Academy

The academy lets you to buy passive skills that improve almost every element of your kingdom. Fortunately, research in Kingdom Guard is immediate, but you must pay with both gold and skill shards. It's also worth noting that the level of your castle influences which skills you can buy.

Dragonden

The dragonden is distinct in that it is obtained through the egg hatching quest rather than just completing tower defense stages.

Once born, your dragon will be a significant asset to your troops on the battlefield. Because of its cloning abilities (the game's words, not mine), the dragon can accompany multiple units at the same time. To carry the dragon with you, you'll need to unlock attendants through the academy.

The dragonden also serves as the upgrade interface for your dragon. You may boost your fire-breathing friend's strength and even raise its tier by feeding it dragon runes and gold. As if that weren't enough, the dragonden passively generates extra runes to help you gain strength faster!

Vault

Even while you're not playing, the vault continues to earn gold for you. While the vault already has a decent gold generating pace, you may increase it even more by assigning heroes to it, at the cost of unlocking each slot for a hefty amount of Gems.

It should be noted that there is a limit to how much gold the vault may hold before it must be physically emptied.

Obtaining Resources

While Kingdom Guard is a very streamlined game with only a few major resources, such as gold, stone, and gems, you will still require a large number of them.

Gold

Gold is a global money that may be used to pay for a variety of items in Kingdom Guard, such as unit upgrades, castle construction, training units, and so on. Because gold is so widely used, there are numerous ways to obtain it - completing egg quests and daily quests, server chronicle milestones, playing the TD, or gathering in gold mines are just a few examples.

Stone is a resource that can only be used to improve your castle. While stone has only one function, don't dismiss it because renovating your castle is critical to increasing your battle strength.

Gems

Gems are the premium currency of Kingdom Guard and can be used for a variety of purposes. There are numerous ways to obtain Gems, most of which are obtained through both daily and one-time tasks such as hatching the Dragon Egg.

Quests

Quests in Kingdom Guard are divided into two types: one-time, chapter-based quests and daily quests. While quests have been mentioned several times throughout this guide, you should be aware that daily quests do not provide rewards. Each daily mission adds to your activity bar, and to redeem your prizes, you must tap the chests above the daily quest list.

Observing Commercials

Advertisements for prizes are standard practice. Kingdom Guard has a variety of prizes available in the free rewards section, which may be accessed via the second button in the upper right. The title is deceptive; nothing is ever truly free, and you'll have to sit through several advertisements to acquire your treats.

The more stages you complete, the more items you may claim here, so it may be in your best interest to blitz through the game's stages to maximize your daily freebies.

Profit from Global Accelerations

Global speedups are occasionally available. These are critical to leverage since they enhance your passive income and just make everything move faster – all for the modest expense of watching an ad. Seize the opportunity if you see those large fast forward symbols!

Attack Mobs at Random

On the world map, random mobs will spawn. Each of these creatures has a level; the greater the level, the more difficult it is, but the nicer the things they drop.

Green ogres drop archer books, red orcs drop wizard books, blue trolls drop ice mage books, and gremlins drop goblin books for each type of monster. These mobs not only drop unit exp books, but also money and stone.

You must first enhance your fortress to boost the highest level of creatures you can battle before you may attack a mob. You must defeat a mob of the greatest level you can fight in order to enable fighting for higher levels of creatures.

To fight level 10 mobs, for example, you must first defeat a level 9 mob, and so on. To assist you in locating targets, use the search function in the lower right corner of the screen to display mobs of your specified type and maximum level.

Attacking these beasts necessitates the dispatch of heroes. It should be noted that heroes can only bring units of the same type into battle. Monsters have their own element, therefore the 30 percent attack boost from exploiting flaws applies here as well.

You must pay with action points to dispatch armies. You can store up to 200 action points, which regenerate over time.

Choose Your Fights With Your Neighbors

Yes, you can assault other players for resources as well. You can scout a player ahead of time to get a readout on them, but you can also order an attack without scouting. Be warned: there will be repercussions for attacking other players, especially those who are part of a powerful alliance.

You cannot attack or scout a player while they or you have a shield up. You begin with a shield that lasts about three days and can be manually cancelled by taking an offensive action against another player.

Titans

Titans are powerful hordes that must be defeated through alliances. When attacking a titan, you'll be asked to rally your alliance rather than going it alone. These giants have immense battle strength, so you'll need all the assistance you can get. If you do manage to take it down, there's a ton of gold and resources waiting for you, and the person who started the fight has a larger chance of earning uncommon goodies.

As you may have noticed, in order to start or join a titan fight, you must first form an alliance.

Gold mines deserve special notice because they are one of the finest ways to collect a significant amount of gold at once. The wilds, on the other hand, are considered neutral territory, so anything goes. If you decide that the risk outweighs the reward, you can tap any mine you're currently occupying and order your units to return sooner.

Strengthen Your Army with Stone

By strengthening your combat power, you'll be able to take on tougher levels and fiercer adversaries on the globe map. However, there are numerous ways to improve your units.

Investment in Units

You can upgrade your units at the barracks by spending unit exp books and gold. Each item spent delivers a minor performance increase, but entirely filling out the upgrade bar raises a unit's tier.

Promoting units to higher tiers provides a significant power boost because higher tier troops not only perform far better than its earlier incarnations, but they also acquire access to powerful talents that they deploy immediately on the field!

While you will require a large number of unit exp books, don't worry — the higher tier ones may be obtained by surrendering a set amount of books from the tier below it. For instance, 5 tier 1 books result in 1 tier 2 exp book.

Weaknesses and Strengths

Each form of unit has both strengths and weaknesses in relation to something. When a unit attacks a unit it is strong against, its effective attack power is increased by 30%. This is a huge boost that can either tip the scales in your favor or convert what appears to be a simple skirmish into a slugfest.

Heroes Show the Way

Heroes are powerful individuals in your kingdom who serve as both fighters and commanders. Heroes can be obtained through the tavern or as event rewards.

It should be noted that leveling up heroes necessitates the sacrifice of other hero cards. Similarly, you don't actually obtain heroes; instead, you get cards that you may subsequently swap for a hero. Make sure you're exchanging cards for the heroes you want and just utilizing your throwaway heroes to level everyone else up.

You can raise the star rank of a hero by surrendering cards of the same hero. This not only provides them a significant power boost, but it also unlocks additional skills that can be used in regular combat or the tower defense game.

Create an Alliance

Alliances are highly crucial in Kingdom Guard - not only will you have a consistent pool of allies to call on when the time comes, but you'll also be able to take use of a number of benefits.

Alliance Gifts and Alliance Wars

The alliance war menu keeps track of who has been attacking your alliance members and whether there are any ongoing rallies against titans.

If your alliance defeats a titan or a member of your alliance purchases certain things from the cash store, every member of the alliance will be eligible for an alliance gift. These typically include vital resources, so make sure you're not all take and no give — at the very least, participate in rallies whenever possible!

Territory of the Alliance

You can claim land for your alliance and get access to new structures by constructing an alliance stronghold. This is a major undertaking, so please contribute whatever you can to assist your alliance in raising its flag and staking its claim to the planet. Other structures include obelisks, which expand your alliance's realm, and dragon nests, which provide gold to all members every week.

These structures can only be placed by the alliance commander and high-ranking officers.

Alliance Technology

The technological tree of your alliance provides passive boosts to both the alliance and its members. Every member of an alliance can contribute to the present research project by providing either gold or gems (no prizes for guessing which generates more advancement) (no prizes for guessing which yields more progress). Furthermore, your alliance's leader and high-ranking officers can highlight a technology that they want everyone to focus on.

While some projects require significant resources to accomplish, the rewards are far-reaching, so contribute to your alliance's research whenever possible.

Alliance Store

All services performed to your guild will earn you some silver, which may be used to purchase stuff from the alliance store. Items in the store are refreshed on a regular basis, and you can occasionally discover really good deals on things like advanced recruitment cards, city shields, dragon runes, or high tier unit exp books.

It's worth noting that there's a daily and a weekly store, both of which can be accessed from the top of the alliance store screen.

Continue to Strive

Your kingdom will not be constructed in a day, just as Rome was not. While the path to greatness is lengthy, we hope we've provided you with enough information to help you lay a firm foundation that can weather the growing pains of a nascent kingdom.

That concludes our Kingdom Guard beginner's guide. If you have anything to add, or if you have some tips of your own that you'd like to share with us, please leave a comment below!