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Holding a garrison

Castle battle, KvK: how to keep a garrison strong, wave after wave.

🛡️ The rule

  1. Read the label above the building: the requested ratio and the joiner hero.
  2. Open the garrison ratio.
  3. Send 100% of the most missing type, using your saved squads. And repeat, non-stop.

1The right ratio is not enough

In a garrison, the infantry is on the front line: it takes almost every hit. The cavalry, behind it, takes hardly any. If everyone sends their usual march, even at 50/10/40, dead infantry gets replaced with a bit of everything. We add horses even though none have died, and the cavalry swells with every wave. The garrison stays full, but it is no longer worth much.

Start1 token = 50,000

✗ Everyone sends 50/10/40✗ 50/10/40 for all

Inf / cav / arch ratio50/10/40
100 %Strength

✓ Everyone fills the gap✓ Fill the gap

Inf / cav / arch ratio50/10/40
100 %Strength

Two garrisons of 1,000,000 soldiers, both at 50/10/40. Same leader, same stats. Archers near the walls, infantry on the front line.

Sending the right ratio is not enough. You have to send what the garrison is missing.

2Reading the label and the ratio

Label 50/10/40 - Gordon above a turret
1The label is shown above the building.
Building screen, magnifier button to the right of the Squad line
2In the building screen, tap the magnifier button, to the right of the “Squad” line.
Troop type ratio window: 18%, 45%, 36.99%
3The troop type ratio window shows the share of each type in the garrison.

3What to send

Compare the garrison with the label, and send the type that is furthest below.

Label50/10/40
Garrison18/45/37

Infantry is missing and there is far too much cavalry:

100% infantry

Most of the time infantry is missing, sometimes archers, almost never cavalry. Prepare two saved squads:

100% infantry
100% archers

Send reinforcements non-stop during the battle, and glance at the ratio before each one.

4The R4 label

50/10/40 - Gordon

Format: ratio - joiner hero. The ratio depends on the garrison leader, hence a label on each building. The R4s keep it up to date during the battle, every time a building is taken or the leader changes. If two heroes are listed (Gordon/Chenko), either one works, in any mix. Each garrison leader prepares their label before KvK on the Stats & composition page (goal “Garrison”), from their own screenshots, and gives it to the R4s. Against a rally leader whose report you have, the Simulator (goal “Garrison”) works out the label against them.

For the joiner hero, only the first four reinforcements (at equal skill level) bring the skill of their first hero. Put the hero from the label as first hero of your saved squads, so you never have to think about it. More details on the Rallies page.