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Swagbucks: Call of Dragons

December 12, 2025 Kasanje Leave a comment

Last Updated: Feb 15th, 2026

Upgrade buildings and technologies, train troops, gather resources, expand your territory. Command your dragon and lead your allies to victory in massive fantasy warfare.

Reaching the T4 Troops and 3M Power goals is achievable, so a possible $196 in rewards, before expenses.

Complete stated goals in 30 days to earn up to $1,406.20. (https://www.swagbucks.com/games/apps/1666338/call-of-dragons?rb=69384823)

My Progress

Day 26

I made it! Tier 4 Troops are unlocked. When I submit my ticket, I will claim credit for the T3 and T4 ($112) goals. I will wait a day, to give time for it to credit normally before sending a ticket.

I ran out of speedups and had to keep chasing all the weekly events to get small boosts and Gems to spend on speed ups in the Goblin Merchant, Alliance Store, and the VIP store.

I maxed out the Titans Legacy pack at level 80, which unlocked a perpetual reward that cycles between speed boosts and Gold Keys.

Titan’s Legacy is a season long growth pack not included in the required purchases for this offer. It has a free tier and a premium tier for $4.99.

I decided to spend the extra money because it included many speed up items and would be active for 60 days, more than covering the time I would need to finish the offer.

Day 23: I managed to upgrade the citadel to a metropolis (level 21), this unlocked several rewards from the Growth pack, Titan’s Legacy, the Great Halls event, and construction goal rewards. Over 10k gems were included and also several days worth of upgrade speedups.

HQ Upgrade from 20 to 21 (8 days 11 hours)

I forgot to check which researches would be needed to get the Tier 4 troops and so I am behind on the research. There is maybe a months worth of upgrades I still need to finish, so I won’t likely get to T4. In hindsight I should have been researching those items up to this point weeks ago.

Around a months worth of speedups were needed to clear the research for T4 troops.

Day 16: I’ve reach 2M Power and have started the Citadel 19 upgrade (5d 8hrs). I quit CS alliance and joined Gaia after a lot of toxic behavior by leadership. I’m not the first it seems; I’ve found a bunch of comrades with similar experiences. I got to join and complete an Elite ROC raid. Nice prizes and bounties.

Day 10: I messed up. I misunderstood the VIP levels and I was already at 7 when i spent an additional 17.5k Gems to upgrade it.

The Honor chest was $19.99. I had read it was good to get to VIP 8, but I think I would have preferred to use those Gems on resources or speed ups.

Reimbursement on the Honor chest was $25, so a $6 profit. I hit the 1.5M Power goal. Level 3 Troops still hasn’t credited.

Day 6: Power is 1.2M currently, I should have T3 Troops ($12) in the next 2 days. That should put me above 1.5M ($5) for the goal, I need 4k more Gems to reach VIP 7 to get the Honor chest ($25).

Day 4: Closing in on 1M power now. It looks like the VIP 7 honor exclusive will be around $25, considering the increase in cost from ranks 4-6. My Alliance mates have posted several good guides that I have included here. Best Pet, Commander Pairings, and HQ Requirements.

Day 3: I went ahead and made two additional purchases. I bought a 99 cent pop up deal and the 9.99 Insight Rune for Titans Legacy. Unfortunately, these purchases did not count towards the Purchase Payback, so I did not get more Velyn tokens. I am up to VIP 6 now.

Day 2: I am on day 2, with 380k Power. The 1M power objective is unlikely. I’ve spent $20 and received $19 in reimbursement. I still need to buy the VIP7 chest, but that provides $25 in reimbursement. My goal will be 3M power and Tier 3 Troops.

Offer Terms

Must be installing Call of Dragons for the first time to receive SB.
In-app purchases and upgrades are available.
Award will pend for 10 days

Objective	Reward
Upgrade your city to level 8	0.70
Reach Power 300k	2.00
Reach Power 500k	2.50
Purchase Efficiency in Market’s Worker Support (5 Days to complete)	6.00
Bonus: Reach Power 1M (3 Days to complete)	10.00
Reach Power 1.5M	5.00
Purchase Growth Fund (10 Days to complete)	10.00
Reach Power 3M	30.00
Make First Purchase	3.00
Purchase Honor Exclusive after reaching VIP 7	25.00
Reach Power 10M*	300.00
Reach Power 20M* (30 Days to complete)	900.00
Reach Tier 3 Troops (30 Days to complete)	12.00
Reach Tier 4 Troops (30 Days to complete)	100.00

*It is likely impossible to complete the 10M/20M goals in the timeframe given. Engage at your own peril.

Strategy

Some players, on Reddit, report being only able to reach 5M power after 30 days of game play and heavy spending, while others have said they reached 1M+ in 3-4 days.

Reaching 20 Million Power in Call of Dragons involves massive troop training (especially T5), completing all research at the College of Order, upgrading buildings to high rank (Level 25), leveling heroes, acquiring War Pets, and maximizing speed-ups and resources.

This was my status sheet on day 26 of play, having managed to unlock T4 troops in research, but not having converted all my units.

With full conversion, my power level would have been 4,012,136.

Tip: New players are encouraged to build out Magic Heroes and Units or Marksmen for ranged DPS. They can be used to support melee armies in your alliance, while also being easier to maneuver away from combat if you are targeted. The Fire/Frost legendary heroes are easily acquired.

Just focus on a primary unit type for combat and use the Arms Exchange feature in Events to swap other units types for your primary. This way you can produce all unit types and then convert them into your primary.

I had 100k mage units on Day 10, and 37k Work Elks. I later swapped 15k Mages to Infantry to help the Alliance for some challenges.

The only exception to this are the Work Elks. Keep them for gathering.

Armies are limited to a single unit type and will typically synergize with the abilities of the hero and deputy hero. Multiple armies can be deployed in unison covering each type (infantry, archer, tank, cavalry).

Cavalry units don’t become become available until Sanctuary level 10. They can however be gained earlier by trading with Camps (Work Elk). These initial cavalry units are meant for gathering and have a high load capacity.

In the event panel, you may swap units of the same tier. I swapped my infantry/tank units for the Tier 1 Cavalry to increase my gathering efficiency.

Key Strategies for High Power Growth

Troop Training: Train high-tier troops (T4 & T5) for massive power gains; T5 troops give 100 points in events like Strongest Lord.
Research: Finish all research in your College of Order as quickly as possible, as this adds significant power.
Building Upgrades: Upgrade every building in your city to level 25 for substantial power boosts.
Heroes & Pets: Level up your heroes and acquire powerful War Pets.
Resource Management: Use speed-ups and resources efficiently to accelerate all these processes.

This video goes over all of the methods for increasing your power rating.

Offer Spending

Some of the goals require a purchase, which may be a good choice given the limited 30 day offer terms.

The Honor Exclusive may be a bit costly. Typically, high VIP levels in mobile games is one of the most lucrative avenues for monetization.

At each rank of Honor, you are prompted to purchase an exclusive pack that includes Liliya’s Tokens. This is the method to upgrade the Legendary starter hero from the First Purchase.

Objective	Reward	Cost (USD)
Efficiency in Market’s Worker Support	6.00	4.99
Growth Fund	10.00	9.99
Reaching VIP 7	Daily Prize	Spend Gems
Honor Exclusive at VIP 7	25.00	19.99

A workaround will be logging in daily to receive a small amount of Honor points, and by swapping your Gems for Honor experience points.

Any remaining levels may be acquired through the extra worker and growth fund purchases.

Purchasing the extra worker will fulfill the requirements of “Purchase Payback” which provides an additional legendary hero (Velyn), and 20 Keys to summon more heroes.

Rank	Honor (Cumulative)	Exclusive Cost (USD)
0	0	Free
1	200	0.99
2	400	1.99
3	1,300	1.99
4	3,500	4.99
5	6,000	4.99
6	11,500	9.99
7	17,500	19.99
8	35,000	49.99
9	75,000	?
10	?	?

Power Levels

Power comes from Buildings, Heroes, Pets, Artifacts, and Research. Your basic recruited hero and their equipped pet and artifact will provide a moderate amount of power.

The Citadel provides 91,451 Power at level 16.
Resource Buildings are worth 10,181 at level 16 (4 each = 162,256).
Tier 5 troops are worth 10 Power each (2M Tier 5 = 20M Power).

At high ranks (4 Stars), a legendary hero may provide a power score around 100k. It will would likely be difficult to gain such powerful heroes in just 30-days. Blue heroes were around 30-40k power at level 30s and 4 stars.

While a building at max level can provide around 725k power, we will not be reaching those levels in the course of this offers timeframe.

Our first mission will be to complete the level 8 town upgrade on the first day. This can be achieved by using some of the free resources and speed up items new players receive.

On the first day we can also buy the extra worker and the growth pack to clear both of those objectives.

Strategy 1 (Long-term): Save your gems for purchasing VIP points. At VIP level 8, we get a permanent 2nd research slot which will speed up our power gain.

Strategy 2 (Short-term): Gems should be used to exchange for Gold Keys. In the early game the fastest way to reach 1M power by day 3 is to summon heroes.

Upgrading the castle from 8 (town) to 16 (citadel) takes 385 hours or 16 days. You will need 6,072,100 Gold and Wood, and 2,507,790 Stone to complete the upgrades to the main building alone.

There will be additional resource requirements to upgrade pre-requisite structures. Expect to have all other buildings upgraded to level 15.

Buildings do not provide much power until they reach level 21. At levels 20+ buildings provide 30-50k power each when fully upgraded.

Using Gems

Farming Gems

Farming gems can be easy or hard, based on how many players are on your server.

After you learn Gem Prospecting in Internal Affairs, you can send heroes to gather gems. But with many players, competition can be tough.

New players should focus on permanent technologies and other resources first, and start gathering gems once they reach max technology and city hall levels.

Events and Quests

Many events and quests provide gems as rewards. To gather gems over time, it’s important to complete as many of these as possible.

Examples include special events, NPC battles, and daily quests. Joining a whale alliance, where spenders buy bundles and give out free chests with opportunities to win gems, can also help.

Buying Packs

Spending real money on packs usually includes gems. Bundles like Growth Fund, Monthly Pack, and first purchases in the Gem Market can give you many gems. Growth Fund is especially good as it offers a large number of gems, but you need to reach upgrade milestones to receive the rewards.

Growth Fund $9.99
Monthly Pack $2.99 or $4.99
First Purchase $0.99

HQ Upgrade Requirements

◈ CH2–3: None
◈ CH4: Lv.3 Wall
◈ CH5: Lv.4 Wall, Lv.4 Mint
◈ CH6: Lv.5 Wall
◈ CH7: Lv.6 Wall, Lv.6 Swordsmen Camp
◈ CH8: Lv.7 Wall, Lv.7 Alliance Center

(Unlocks T2/Unlocks 3rd Legion)

◈ CH9: Lv.8 Wall, Lv.8 Lumber Mill
◈ CH10: Lv.9 Wall, Lv.9 College of Order
◈ CH11: Lv.10 Wall, Lv.10 Ballista Factory
◈ CH12: Lv.11 Wall
◈ CH13: Lv.12 Wall, Lv.12 Alliance Center
◈ CH14: Lv.13 Wall, Lv.13 Mana Refinery
◈ CH15: Lv.14 Wall, Lv.14 Storehouse
◈ CH16: Lv.15 Wall, Lv.15 College of Order

(Unlocks Flying Unit/Unlocks T3/Unlocks 4th Legion)

◈ CH17: Lv.16 Wall, Lv.16 Abbey (3d 17hrs)
◈ CH18: Lv.17 Wall
◈ CH19: Lv.18 Wall, Lv.18 Storehouse (5d 8hrs)
◈ CH20: Lv.19 Wall, Lv.19 Alliance Center
◈ CH21: Lv.20 Wall, Lv.20 Alliance Market

(Unlocks T4/Unlocks 5th Legion)

◈ CH22: Lv.21 Wall, Lv.21 Knight Camp
◈ CH23: Lv.22 Wall, Lv.22 College of Order
◈ CH24: Lv.23 Wall, Lv.23 Celestial Temple
◈ CH25: Lv.24 Wall, Lv.24 Alliance Market

(Unlocks T5 Units)

HQ Upgrade Rewards

HQ 12: 2x Gold Keys, 12x 10-Minute Building Speedup, 12x 10-Minute Training Speedup, 2x Basic CP Recovery (100), 100k Gold, 100k Wood, and Emoji.

HQ 13: 13x 10-Minute Building Speedup, 13x 10-Minute Training Speedup, 2x Basic CP Recovery (100), 100k Gold, 100k Wood, and Emoji.

HQ 14: 1x 7-Day Speedup, 14x 10-Minute Training Speedup, 2x Basic CP Recovery (100), 100k Ore, 20k Mana, and Emoji.

HQ 15: 15x 10-Minute Building Speedup, 15x 10-Minute Training Speedup, 2x Basic CP Recovery (100), 100k Gold, 100k Wood, and Emoji.

HQ 16: 16x 10-Minute Building Speedup, 16x 10-Minute Training Speedup, 3x Basic CP Recovery (100), 100k Ore, and 20k Mana.

HQ 17:

HQ 18:

HQ 19:

HQ 20: 1x 7-Day Speedup, 20x 10-Minute Training Speedup, 3x Basic CP Recovery (100), 100k Ore, and 20k Mana.

HQ 21: 21x 10-Minute Building Speedup, 21x 10-Minute Training Speedup, 4x Basic CP Recovery (100), 100k Gold, and 100k Wood.

Guide to Creating a Farm Account

by (GAIA) Atenea.

What is a farm account?

A farm account is a secondary account whose main purpose is to produce resources (wood, gold, mana, and food) to directly support your main account.

1️⃣ Creating the farm account
Create a new account from the Settings → Character management.
Choose the same kingdom where your main account is located.
Try to join a nearby alliance, preferably one located in your same region.

2️⃣ Faction choice
The best faction for a farm account is:
🏹 League of Order (Humans)
Balanced development.
Efficient buildings.
Ideal for accounts focused exclusively on economy and gathering.

3️⃣ City development (priority)
Upgrade only what is strictly necessary to produce resources.
Key buildings
🏛️ City Hall
🌲 Lumber Mills
🌾 Farms
🪙 Gold Mines
🔮 Mana buildings
Research
Prioritize only Economy and Gathering research.
Avoid military or defensive research.

4️⃣ Recommended commanders
Use gathering commanders only:
🔹 Invest only in Gathering and Economy talents.
🔹 Do not spend experience on combat commanders.

5️⃣ Proper troop usage
Train only the troops needed for gathering.
Keep low-tier troops.
Do not develop advanced military structures.

6️⃣ Efficient gathering
Keep your marches always gathering.
Take advantage of resource nodes within alliance territory.
Use gathering boosts only if they are free.

7️⃣ Protecting the farm account
Place the city inside alliance territory.
In case of conflict:
Withdraw troops from nodes.
Avoid confrontations.
Prioritize not losing troops.

8️⃣ Resource transfer
To transfer resources to your main account:
Both accounts must be in the same alliance.
Use the Alliance Bazaar to transfer resources safely.

Community

The Facebook and Discord pages will often feature contests and game trivia. It is easy to get small rewards for participating in these activities.

This was my entry for Ruby’s Christmas Outfit.

CoD Redemption Codes

Codes expire 7-30 days after being released. Check the official Facebook page for new codes.

image displays the location of the settings menu option to redeem a game code for a prize.

TIP: The codes are not case sensitive.

Code	Expires	Contents
CODTHX1127	12-31-25	1x Universal Artifact Key, 2x 60-Minute Training Speedup, and Level 2 Choice Resource Chest
SSSVIP8888		2x Silver Key, 150k Gold, 150k Wood, and 112.5k Stone.
SSSVIP7777		60-minute speedup, 60-minute building speedup, 150k Gold, 150k Wood, and 112.5k Stone.
SSSVIP6666		1x Silver Key, 60-minute training speedup, 8-hour enhanced gathering, and 1 Epic Medal.
PLAYCODPC		30-minute training speedup and 8-hour enhanced gathering.
SVIPDRAGON		2x Silver Key, 150k Gold, 150k Wood, and 112.5k Stone.

Heroes

Call of Dragons was developed by the same company as Rise of Kingdoms and the heroes in both games are essentially the same. The combat system is also the same.

You will have a primary hero that leads the army and a deputy hero that provides Skill (attack) based bonuses. The deputy hero does not lend their talents to the fight, only their skill effects.

Make sure you save the Blue Tokens to improve the skills of your lower tier heroes. New skills unlock every 10 levels.

Upgrade Legendary heroes first to improve your battle efficiency, but afterwards upgrade the blue heroes. They can provide around 70k Power each with maxed out skills and artifacts equipped.

Hero Specialties

Each hero has 3 specialties which may include:

Gather
Support
Overall
Marksman
Peacekeeping
Precision
Magic
Skills

Fighters

Combat Heroes excel at PvE and PvP combat. Their skills deal direct damage to foes and include a finisher in most cases.

Gatherers

These economic heroes get a bonus to gathering specific resources and these bonuses can be improved upon in the Talent Tree.

Heroes with the Gather specialty, will have a skill that improves gathering speed in general and also boosts a specific resource gathering speed.

For example, Pan’s Tier 2 Skill, “Secret of the Trees,” provides the following bonuses when upgraded.

Gather Speed (%)	Wood Gather Speed (%)
1	4
2	6
3	8
4	10
5	12
7 (awaken to unlock)	15 (awaken to unlock)

Campaigns

Expeditions

This is the idle reward portion of the game. It includes a mini auto grid-battler system with room for 6×6 fights.

Each squad can have two heroes, a pet, and a single unit type. The units should complement the heroes being deployed.

At mission 11, players can activate the double speed option. At mission 30, the multi-battle option can be toggled, which automates the expedition. It will keep fighting until you lose a battle.

The chest on the main screen can be tapped to claim current accumulated rewards which include gold, wood, stone, exp tomes, and hero tokens.

Expeditions are independent of world map battles and can be completed while heroes are out gathering or fighting.

Behemoth Trials

This is a mini battle campaign trail with manually controlled battles. Some trails use tactics and will require some thought on how to advance.

After clearing a Main Stage, you will receive 1-3 star rating, along with corresponding Loot bonuses. You will receive rewards for clearing a Main Stage for the first time.

In Main Stages, you will use your own Heroes, combat units and buff effects. In the Side Stages you are only able to use preset Heroes, combat units and buff effects.

The higher your Loot bonus and the longer you wait, the more Loot you will receive (idle rewards). Loot will accumulate for up to 24 hours, so remember to claim it in time.

The first time you beat Main Stage 5, you will unlock the Auto-Battle feature. Auto-Battle cannot be used in Escort, Tower Defense, Boss, or Side Stages.

The first time you beat Main Stage 10, you will unlock the Multi-Battle feature. Multi-Battle cannot be used in Escort, Tower Defense, Boss, or Side Stages.

During Behemoth Trials, feel free to allocate your Legions as you please, as they will not die or have their numbers reduced. Trial Store items will be refreshed at midnight each day.

Trial Coins can be used at the Trials Store to buy various Hero Tokens and items.

Tournament of Champions

This is an Arena for PvP. You can create a team of up to 5 legions (HQ dependent) and battle other players lineups.

First start by setting a defense team to handle opposing attacks and then create an offense team. You get 3 attempts each day to battle other players and can spend Gems for extra attempts.

Reaching higher tiers will provide rewards.

Roots of War

Roots of War Guide

This is a mini map battle with set regions to fight over. The goal is to collect energy from the map by gathering resources.

Special mana stones will spawn at set intervals. A team member will pick it up and then walk slowly to a central drop off location. Team members will need to escort the caravan to the location to prevent attacks by the opposing team.

If your team does not have a sufficient number of players present, you can get blocked in by a strong enemy and prevented from accessing the map for the duration of the event.

Roots of War Rewards

2x Silver Key, 1x 60-Minute Training Speedup, 10x Level 1 Choice Resource Chest,

10k Level 4 Reserve Legions, 1k Gems, 10x G1 Hero Token,

25x 60-Minute Training Speedup, and 10x Level 3 Choice Resource Chest.

Wall Map

The floating compass above the city wall takes you to the storyline game. This works similar to the expedition but requires you to navigate the heroes on a mini-map and battle enemies in real-time.

You can use any of the heroes you have unlocked and raising their levels will improve the success rate for these missions.

Missions are gated by the level of your Sanctuary (Citadel).

The Best Pet for your Hero

Commander Pairings

In this decree, the best hero pairings are listed. Feel free to do your own research as well on google.

Note: An “x” in the number of the skill means it doesn’t matter since the skill is not relevant to the open field.

Tip: Pressing the Lock button when viewing skills will allow you to select which skills to allow to be leveled up. Otherwise, point distribution will be random.

Magic Legions

✿ 5×51 Liliya + 5111 Velyn
✿ 5×51 Liliya + 5111 Waldyr
✿ 5511 Waldyr + 5111 Velyn
✿ 5511 Waldyr + 5111 Alwyn
✿ 5511 Waldyr + 5111 Theia
✿ 5111 Hosk + 5555 Liliya (for the whales)
✿ 5511 Atheus + 5111 Theia (flying units)
✿ 5511 Atheus + 515x Kregg (flying units)
✿ 5111 Theia + 515x Kregg (flying units)
✿ To make any magic march a bit more tanky, you can add a 5×22 Eliana as a secondary.

Infantry Legions

✿ 5×11 Garwood + 5×22 Eliana
✿ 5×11 Garwood + 551x Bakhar
✿ 551x Bakhar + 5111 Nika
✿ 551x Bakhar + 5×22 Eliana
✿ 5111 Kregg + 55×1 Ordo (only for engineering purposes! And make sure to have Kregg with engineering talent tree)
✿ I don’t add Madeline here because we haven’t had her Fortune Wheel, but she is OP, if you do get her at a later stage, use her as primary with any commander above or Hosk.

Cavalry Legions

✿ 5×11 Emrys + 5×11 Bakshi
✿ 5×11 Emrys + 51×1 Alistair
✿ 5×11 Bakshi + 51×1 Alistair
✿ 5×11 Bakshi + 5×11 Emrys
✿ 5×11 Alistair +5×22 Eliana
✿ Sorry cavalry mains, there are not many options for you to use.

Marksmen Legions

✿ 5111 Kinnara + 5×11 Gwanwyn
✿ 5111 Kinnara + 5111 Nico
✿ 5111 Nico + 5×22 Eliana
✿ 5111 Nico + 5511 Kregg (good for pvp and engineering!)
✿ 5111 Nico + 5111 Hosk (for the whales)
✿ 5×11 Gwanwyn + 5511 Kregg
✿ 5×11 Gwanwyn + 5111 Nico

Beast Battles

I missed the bear fight, but I did take part in the Thunder Roc normal battle. I died in the water during the first fight, but survived during the second normal battle. I did not have time to join the Elite Roc fight.

Different time zones were a difficulty in this game. Most players were 5-9 hours away.

Thunder Roc

The strategy uses two teams Sun and Moon. Use Discord for voice chat and party management (alliance chat if you can’t use Discord).

Members will send their best legion to participate in the battle. For Normal Roc, T2 and T3 units are fine. But for Elite Roc, only T3’s should be used and you want a minimum of 45k units.

Teams are divided evenly between Sun and Moon with designated Tanks and DPS members. The Roc battle area is a circle divided by land paths in a quadrant.

The Roc will target different quadrants during the fight.

During the fight, if your legion gets targeted by the Red ball (Roc’s attack), your screen will flash red. When this happens, walk your legion to the middle. When the Red ball touches the water, it will become electrified and do heavy damage to any legions present in the targeted quadrant.

Multiple legions may be wiped out if players are not properly coordinated.

During the fight, Dispel stones will appear that will remove the shock from the water, heal members legions, and stun the bird. For the Normal Roc, 8 players are needed to activate the stone. In Elite Roc, 13 members must activate the stone.

After the Roc has been stunned, players can safely attack it.

Tank role during the raid: Tanks will need to keep the Roc in the center of the field. Don’t let it get into the puddles of water. It the Roc does its charge in the water, it will kill half of the people in that puddle.

Multiple rounds of avoiding the Red ball, running from shock water, activating dispel stones, and attacking the Roc will occur. After the Roc has been defeated, players will purify it by targeting the body.

Individual rewards are issued for the top 5 members who deal the most damage during the fight. Alliance-wide rewards are issued regardless of member participation in the event.

Rank	Reward
1	6 Gold Keys, 10 Silver Keys, 3 Basic CP Recovery (100)
2	4 Gold Keys, 8 Silver Keys, 2 Basic CP Recovery (100)
3	3 Gold Keys, 6 Silver Keys, 1 Basic CP Recovery (100)
4	2 Gold Keys, 4 Silver Keys, 1 Basic CP Recovery (100)
5	1 Gold Key, 2 Silver Keys, 1 Basic CP Recovery (100)

Hydra

Mana Stones

Has a timer.
Green Stone
Used for healing.
Use when necessary to restore the squad’s health.

Poison Cracks

Circular cracks will appear under players’ feet.

Gaming

Game Guide: Mecha Domination

June 30, 2024 Kasanje Leave a comment

“For centuries, this world has been plagued by wars and massacres, until you, a valiant commander emerge.”

Got a new Build & Battle title available through Swagbucks for $61.25 in total rewards. (This is a low reward. Best wait until it doubles or triples in value).

We do have an advantage though. This title is actually from the same developer as Puzzles and Conquest, Survival, and Chaos.

Level 30 is the end game and we are not likely to reach that stage within the 30-day time limit on this offer. The level 26 stage may be possible, but will likely require the spending objectives to be completed.

It is a play on the post-apocalyptic, State of Survival style games but instead of zombies, you have these Dinosaurs with robotic parts. It looks like someone in development really liked Transformers: Beast Wars.

There are two purchases required for the full prize. The current valuation for this offer is low, and it would probably be better to wait for a better reward tier list. The final two goals are $30 and the purchases are $20, so you will only get $11.25 from this offer if you don’t spend money on it.

So we know what to expect to some degree.

Warning!

There are AI bots actively trying to scam players into stopping this game. This is discussed on both the Facebook and Discord channels for the game. Some of the Alliance Leaders you encounter in the game will be bots.

If your Alliance leader says you need to add them on Discord to stay in the Alliance, this is a scam. The bot will send you a faked screenshot of server maintenance taking 15 days to complete. It will then try to get you to play a different game. The bot uses AI and may seem like a real person.

Offer Terms

Must be a new user of the app to earn SB.
Reach all levels listed below within 30 days of installation to earn Up to 6,125 SB.
The award will pend for 10 days

Direct link to offer: https://www.swagbucks.com/offer?oid=24262&rb=69384823

Goals

Goal	Reward
Install	0 SB
Reach City Hall Level 5	25 SB
Reach City Hall Level 9	50 SB
Reach City Hall Level 12	100 SB
Buy the HQ Level-Up Pack within 24 hours after Level 12	500 SB
Reach City Hall Level 15	150 SB
Buy First Top-up Deluxe Gift	1,500 SB
Reach City Hall Level 18	300 SB
Reach City Hall Level 20	500 SB
Reach City Hall Level 26	1,000 SB
Reach City Hall Level 30	2,000 SB
Total	6,125 SB

Offer Goals

Strategy

We have limited time to reach our goal, so we will want to stock up on resources and speed boosts. You can find these items in the Shop and other menus throughout the game.

Resources can be gathered by your troops on the World Map or by attacking other players. It may be a good idea to get some 8-hr Shields for the Killing event that usually takes place in these games.

You can spend Diamonds (premium currency) to buy resources for cheap in the VIP shop. I saved my first initial 8,000 Diamonds and used them to unlock the Advanced Supply Pack. This will pay me back my Diamonds over a week and I get various other items as a bonus.

I used maybe 4,000 Diamonds to upgrade my VIP rank to 2 for the extra economic bonuses and access to additional VIP Shop items. I was able to buy some VIP Points in the Alliance Shop.

Unfortunately, you don’t get VIP time extension items without paying money or Diamonds. There is a free boost, so you will have maybe 3 days of VIP.

I would suggest saving up to get the 30 days of VIP.

Effect	Cost (Diamonds)
24h VIP	600
7d VIP	3,600
30d VIP	12,000

VIP Activation Costs

2nd Builder: To unlock the second building queue you can either make a purchase in the shop for 4.99 USD or you can spend Diamonds to “rent” the extra slot for 48 hours for 1,200 Diamonds.

Alliances

As with any multiplayer game, you will benefit from joining an Alliance and taking part in group activities. You can get some construction timer discounts from fellow members as well as free items from everyone completing daily tasks. In addition, there are many Alliance-based events to take part in.

The Alliance Glory tab will include some prizes that become available as your members complete their goals. Gold buttons on your taskbar (bottom-right) are shortcuts to Alliance functions such as Help, Building, and Battles.

Player

In addition to setting your Avatar image, you can change your character model. This is purely ascetic and will not affect gameplay. In the Settings panel, you can disable notifications, enter game codes, and access your game achievements.

Stamina: Your bar will display as full at 200 points of Stamina. Each day you can get a refill of 80 points from the Airship building. There is no maximum or cap on the amount of Stamina you can accrue. The highest amount of Stamina I reached was 620 points.

Commander Gear: At HQ level 22 you gain access to crafting and equipping gear for your commander. Six pieces of gear can be made and equipped. They boost the stats of your combat troops.

Heroes

Unlike the other games in this genre, we do not have people as heroes, instead we get mecha dinosaurs. The game uses a merging mechanic to upgrade the dinos to higher tiers (colors). You will mostly capture dinosaurs on the world map and then use the copies to upgrade your main unit.

Dinosaurs have both Exploratory and Military bonuses that will impact your city and armies. These can be upgraded with Skill Manuals.

Capturing is always a success up through level 7 beasts, but starting at level 8 you will need to use a “net” item with a varying success rate. These can be collected by completing your Daily Tasks. Level 8 and higher beasts are likely to be Blue or Purple rarity.

Tip: The Sickleclaw has a Passive ability that increases construction speed. At max rank, you get 15% off. You will want to hunt the Sickleclaw to get extra copies for upgrading.

Pyodra can increase Research speed by a maximum of 20%.

Caesar is only available in Advanced Hunt or through purchases. You may find Caesar on the World Map, however capturing it requires a Beast Lab at level 20.

Upgrading Dinosaurs

The process is pretty straightforward. Your dinosaurs start as Green and you will need three (3) additional green copies to upgrade the dino to Blue. Once you hit Blue you just need an extra Blue to make a Purple. To upgrade a Purple, you need four (4) more Purple copies.

This will get you your first Orange dinosaur. My first orange beast was the Dune Crawler. An early game event gives you a bunch of Purple copies.

CORRECTION: After 9 Orange pips, the cost increases to 2 Orange copies per pip, for a total cost of 15 Orange copies to reach Red.

Base	Upgrade	Quick Alter
4x Green	1x Blue	40x Green = Orange
2x Blue	1x Purple	10x Blue = Orange
5x Purple	1x Orange	45x Purple = Orange (1* T3)
15x Orange	1x Red	45x Orange = Red2

Each completed Star (*) represents an increase in the dinosaur’s stats.

If you consistently complete your daily capture task, you can likely upgrade 1-2 dinosaurs up to Red during this offer. But it is not necessary to complete the deal.

HQ Upgrade Requirements

I skipped the Tutorial levels for the following chart. I forgot to screenshot some levels. My building time numbers may differ some from yours based on timer reductions from bonuses.

A player in chat lamented that the upgrade time from HQ 22 to 23 was almost 8 days!

Note: I was not scrolling down on the upgrade screen, so the list is missing the Oil amounts for levels 12 through 19.

My construction Speed bonuses increased over time, and I received a 50% boost at level 22. This took 3.5 days off the timer.

Level	Buildings	Resources	Time (Approx.)
7	Alliance Hall 6	48k Food/Water	00:16:19
8	Rider Grounds and Beast Lab 9	131k Food/Water	01:27:15
9
10	Rider Grounds and Beast Lab 9	482k Food/Water	07:24:57
11
12	Beast Lab 11	1.96M Food/Water and 67.2K Steel	10:34:58
13
14	Rider Grounds and Beast Lab 13	2.97M Food/Water and 216K Steel	15:41:36
15	Ranged Ground and Beast Lab 14	4.62M Food/Water and 458K Steel	19:07:58
16	Research Institute and Beast Lab 15	6.6M Food/Water and 867K Steel	1d 01:10:49
17	Fighter Grounds and Beast Lab 16	9.68M Food/Water and 1.76M Steel	1d 09:36:07
18	Rider Grounds and Beast Lab 17	13.5M Food/Water and 2.64M Steel	1d 19:41:32
19	Ranged Grounds and Beast Lab 18	17.8M Food/Water and 3.63M Steel	2d 08:00:58
20	Research Institute and Beast Lab 19	23.1M Food/Water, 5.17M Steel, and 887K Oil	3d 05:49:09
21	Fighter Grounds and Beast Lab 20	29.9M Food/Water, 7.15M Steel, and 1.54M Oil	3d 23:53:15
22	Rider Grounds and Beast Lab 21	38.1M Food/Water, 9.79M Steel, and 2.53M Oil	5d 12:47:20
23	Ranged Grounds and Beast Lab 22	49.3M Food/Water, 13.8M Steel, and 4.07M Oil	7d 12:22:02
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HQ Leveling Requirements (up to Level 23)

The Headquarters Level-Up Pack will display on-screen after finishing the HQ 12 upgrade. If you close the window, you can reopen it by tapping the countdown timer on the right side of the screen just below the Events button.
The Deluxe First Top-Up is priced at $19.99, but we only get back $15. I decided not to buy it.

Town Layout

I found another player using this layout, so I did my best to copy the design. It is much easier to upgrade the resource buildings with this layout.

Airship

You can collect 80 Stamina points from the Airship facility each day. Additionally, the facility will provide 5-minute speedups periodically throughout the day. I placed it near the center of my base to make it easier to select and see.

Each day you may also claim a Secret Crate bonus by entering the correct code. The Airship should give you the code in the dialog, but this is not always noticed. Your best option is to check the World Chat log to find the code or ask other players in your Alliance.

Codes

You can find codes for the game both on the official Facebook page and their Discord server. There are links to both in-game.

To enter them just tap on your Avatar and then go to Settings and “Gift Code.”

If you are playing on iOS, you will need to use their code redemption website since the Apple Store no longer allows apps to include code redemption options in-game.

The following codes were active when I started playing (July 2024).

Codes are Case Sensitive
MCDBEER2024
DC15KFANS
DC20KFANS
DC25KFANS
FB50KFANS
FB60KFANS
FB70KFANS
FATHERS2024
Mother’s Day and Children’s Day codes are Expired
They said an 80k Facebook Fans code would be released

Mecha Domination Codes

If you have access to either Facebook or Discord you should make sure you enter all of their contests on those platforms. You will need your UID which can be found in your settings.

The rewards can be useful when completing offers. I know for Sea of Conquest the Facebook rewards came in really handy near the end of that offer.

Bugs

There are a few UI bugs, most notably that the Military and Exploratory categories are backward. You’ll also notice the chat window does not separate the text, so you will see World Chat and Alliance Chat on the same screen.

Final Result

I was partway through the upgrade to HQ level 23 when the offer expired. I did not make any purchases. I earned a total of 11.25 USD for my time. Not really worth the 30 days I spent working on the offer but perhaps you will do better or maybe they will raise the reward.

Gaming

Game Guide: Sea of Conquest

March 5, 2024 Kasanje 8 Comments

Command your ship and dominate the vast ocean! Reach the below events within listed days and earn up to $654.27

Available on FreeCash

Offer Terms

$0	Open and play the game
$0.35	Reach Flagship level 6 in 12 hours
$0.97	Reach Flagship level 9 in 1 day
$1.74	Reach Flagship level 11 in 2 days
$12.68	Purchase any $9.99 package, complete in 1 day
$2.78	Reach Flagship level 13 in 4 days
$4.17	Reach Flagship level 15 in 10 days
$20.50	Purchase any $19.99 package, complete in 3 days
$45.17	Purchase any $49.99 package in 3 days
$23.63	Reach Flagship level 21 in 20 days
$180.70	Reach Flagship level 28 in 25 days
$361.40	Reach Flagship level 30 in 28 days

I did it on MyPoints

Upgrading the Flagship is how you will complete the offer objectives. The Flagship is the equivalent of the Castle or Headquarters in other games.

I think the best strategy is to max out your Flagships’ Cargo space and Sailing speed by building Storage and Oarsmen Quarters (+5% Speed). Then find the most lucrative Auto-Trade route, and keep your ship running 24/7. You can send your Heroes to collect resources for hours at a time.

I installed the game on March 4th and finished two objectives. After completing the 2nd objective, I purchased the $9.99 Artisan pack that includes a 3rd builder queue.

As you can see below, I received reimbursement for my purchase. On MyPoints, the valuation is generally 150 points = 1 USD. So, the 2,125 pts were actually worth $14.17.

Starting with the 3rd objective, I did receive early credit before reaching the goal. The level 14 reward went pending upon reaching level 13.

Note: I only made it to 19. After that, the build times on facilities increased to 3-4 days, and I ran out of time. I received 8,194 points or 54 USD from this offer.

Intro

This one is a bit more involving compared to other Build and Battle titles like State of Survival or West Game. Unlike the other games, your ship is the HQ and it’s mobile, so you can move around the map as needed to gather resources and grind out levels.

The first two objectives are easy to clear on the first day. It starts getting slow to upgrade your facilities after level 8. The upgrade time went from 1 hour to 8 hours, a big jump up.

Probably the first thing you should do is get all of your Storage Rooms built and upgraded to level 3. In the early game, you have very little Cargo space for carrying plunder. This can limit your ability to gather enough Gold to upgrade your ship(s).

I’ll continue to update this post as I progress…

Player

You will have a player avatar and character levels associated with your account. You gain EXP from fighting pirates and completing missions.

Your Hero’s maximum levels are limited by the players’ level. The heroes get EXP from items. Hero skills can be upgraded with items. Land battles, gathering resources, and crewing ships are the different functions in which you will deploy your heroes.

Your ship’s Hit Points are refilled by resupplying the ship with crewmen from the reserves.

Heroes

Using the Echo Conch, you may gacha summon to get new heroes or extra shards of ones you already have. You will get 1 Free summon each day in the United Front option.

Conch Summon	Epic (Guaranteed)	Legendary (Guaranteed)	Hero
United Front (Normal) [Echo]	Every 10 summons	Every 100 Summons	Lester, Sharky, Cordelia, and Ahab (Legendary)
He Who Returned (Limited) [Hymn]	Every 10 Summons	Every 80 Summons
Bullet Storm (Limited) [Hymn]	Every 10 Summons	Every 80 Summons	Bones (Legendary) and Cursed Ed (Epic)

Summon Rates

Your heroes can be equipped on your ships to improve their stats and fighting ability. Importantly, the Constitution value of heroes equipped to your Flagship will increase its Hit Points.

Most guides suggest placing Armstrong in the Gunner position, Ahab as Captain, and Madame Lulu as the First Mate.

The number of heroes you can equip for your ship will depend on its level. You can also place heroes on your support ships.

Upgrading Ship

Note: The Construction Materials Room provides a % discount on upgrade timers. The average time I have listed below does represent my timers having purchased the 3rd builder slot. The total discount I received was 45%.

Ship Level	Gold Cost	Requirements	Average Time
10	500k	–
11	1 million	Galley 10 and Distillery 10
12	1.5 million	Captain’s Quarters 11 and Enlistment Quarters 11
13	2 million	Astrologer’s Chamber 12 and Sick Bay 12
14	2.5 million	Liaison Office 13 and Drill Hall 13
15	3 million	Galley 14 and Mess Hall 14
16	3.5 million	Captain’s Quarters 15 and Enlistment Quarters 15
17	4 million	Astrologer’s Chamber 16 and Sick Bay 16
18	4.5 million	Liaison Office 17 and Drill Hall 17	3 days 7 hours
19	5 million	Distillery 18 and Galley 18	3 days 14 hours
20	5.5 million	Enlistment Quarters 19 (prereq. Mess Hall 18) and Captain’s Quarters 19	3 Days 18 hours
21	6.5 million	Astrologer’s Chamber 20 (prereq. Construction Materials Room 19) and Sick Bay 20	4 days 8 hours
22	7 million	Liaison Office 21 and Drill Hall 21

Ship Upgrades

In addition to your Flagship, your fleet may encompass 4 extra smaller ships. These slots become available as you level up your Flagship. You will receive two extra ships for free, and one can be unlocked by completing the first Pirate Kings Trail event.

When you craft a ship there, you have a chance for it to be critical and get an Epic or Legendary result. All stats are random, and it is possible to get a terrible ship. The same is true of your ship equipment.

Support Ships

Support ships can be separated from the fleet by pressing and holding their icons and then dragging them to an empty spot on the water. This will disengage the ship from your fleet.

This is useful for when you want to place a boat to guard a Sentry Tower or if you want to hunt monsters with your Gang, but still be able to leave your Flagship in Auto-Trading mode.

After my Support ships reached level 13, I stopped upgrading them to save Gold. The Flagship upgrade costs got so high that I didn’t feel comfortable spending the resources on the little Support ships.

Equipment

Your character does not equip gear, but you can equip the ships in your fleet with 4 different items (Cannon, Sail, Helm, and Figurehead). I suggest waiting until you get Lvl 12Legendary gear before you enhance the equipment.

You can exchange tokens for random Legendary Ship Parts in the Cartographer’s Corner.

Each day, you can kill Sea Monsters 5 times to get rewards. The level 12 Krakens can drop Legendary equipment.

The stats on equipment are random, and it is possible to find a Rare/Epic item with better stats than a Legendary of the same type. You want to get stats in Whole Numbers and avoid the ones that give a Percentage (%) bonus.

So hold onto your gear and compare the pieces before deciding which ones to dismantle. When you dismantle the equipment, you will receive Starlight Shards that can be used to enhance your gear.

Sails: You can use dyes, obtained from your Gang, to color your ships’ sails for a little customization. The paint does not provide a bonus on its own and is only cosmetic in nature. However, you can add the logo of one of the Trading Guilds to your sails, and this will provide extra reputation points whenever you battle other ships on the map.

Infamy

Killing Players, looting resources, and plundering Merchant Ships will accrue Infamy. The higher the Infamy Level, the more penalties you will receive. At the maximum level, you will not receive any resources from attacking other ships.

PvE

Attacking Merchant Ships and Smuggler Ships will build up your Infamy rather quickly. They are a good source of cooking and brewing items, but there is some risk of getting too much infamy.

PvP

The game employs Bounties for players with any Infamy points. The player who sinks a bounty will receive a gold reward. You can tap on the Red Skull icon on your hot bar to view your Infamy level and the bounties associated with each level.

Players with a bounty are considered to be fair game for killing, regardless of whether an Alliance or Truce is in effect.

Artifacts (Triggered Abilities)

Eye

This is an instant teleport option that can be used to quickly move to an Ally or a Port. This is good for helping out friends being attacked in PvP or for helping to clear monsters when they are on the other side of the map. There are 5 uses each day.

Horn

The horn will temporarily speed up your ship and allow you to cut down on transit time. This will refill charges every 15 minutes, and the ability has a 15-second cooldown between uses.

Compass

The compass has two functions. First, it can be used to find Treasure from maps. The treasure will be a bunch of trading goods that can be sold for a pretty penny. You get 20 uses of the compass each day (refills over time).

Secondly, the compass can be used to reveal the land at hidden ports. Afterward, you may clear each of the Mist Incidents for the Port by checking all of the Landward Quests and the Maritime Incidents.

You may either use a single compass to clear the fog and then manually clear each incident, or you may spend 3 compasses to automatically clear the island and receive all rewards. The automatic method does allow you to clear distant ports you have not yet visited.

Once all ports on the map are 100% cleared, the entire sea area you are in will be cleared of Fog.

Hourglass

This tool will allow you to skip ahead 2 hours’ worth of game time. It is useful when you have lots of Food or Drinks queued up and for construction projects. It can be used once every 12 hours.

Exploring the Map

When you visit a port for the first time, you may tap on the compass icon on the island to “make acquaintance” with the port. This will reveal a large portion of the mist from the map and will allow you to complete any Mist Incidents on that island.

You can also complete Mist Incidents on the water if you come across them while exploring, as long as they are connected to a port. However, for Incidents that are physically inaccessible but still visible, you cannot clear them.

Clearing Incidents will reward you with resources and other goods. Completing all Incidents available at the port will give additional rewards.

Plunder

Plunder and Search will reward regular items while Worship will provide a permanent stat bonus that can stack the more Temples you visit in the Sea.

Salvage

For the Salvage Incident, there is a simple trick to get all gold barrels for a perfect run. Just make sure to tap the screen as the gold barrel reaches the marked island in the picture.

Worship

You may unlock a permanent bonus to your stats by visiting Worship sites. Each site features a particular pan-Mesoamerican deity that will bestow a % bonus once all torches have been lit.

Fishing, Cooking, Brewing

You can use the Fishing function from anywhere; however, schools of fish will drop specific fish at a higher rate.

Epic (Purple) and Legendary (Orange) fish will only show when a bar appears on the left side of the screen during fishing. You have to time the indicator to land in the blue bar area to catch the fish.

Cooking

A complete list of Food/Drink recipes can be found below. The Distillery works the same as the Galley for cooking food. Just throw in the ingredients to see what you can make. Once you complete a recipe for the first time, you can collect Emeralds from the catalog.

The Quick Cook/Brew function can be used to craft food from known recipes.

Food crafted in the Galley is also used for the Pirate Revel Event, which rewards players with 2.6 million gold for full completion.

Galley Recipes (Food)

There are multiple combinations that all give the same result. To save on space and sanity, this list will only include the most basic of combinations from my own list of recipes. Your list may vary depending on the various combos you make, but it is all relative.

Tier Legend:

Uncommon

Rare

Epic

Legendary

Name	Tier	Ingredients	Supplies	Selling Price (Gold)
Burnt Fish	Common	2 Eggs, 2 Milk	+15
Greasy Cake	Common	1 Egg, 1 Milk	+15
Salted Fish Soup	Common	1 Fresh Water, 1 Rare Fish	+15
Rare-grilled Fish	Common	1 Rare Fish	+8
Slimy Ice Cream	Common	1 Milk	+8
Burnt Egg	Common	1 Egg	+4
Canned Broth	Common	1 Fresh Water	+4
Tough Meatballs	Common	1 Raw Meat	+48
Rotten Fruit Salad	Common	1 Berries	+24
Mushy Tortilla Chips	Common	1 Maize	+24
Raw Fish Taco	Common	1 Maize, 1 Rare Fish	+30
Raw Minced Meat Taco	Common	1 Maize, 1 Raw Meat	+24
Undesirable Food	Common	Wheat	+1
Ordinary Fried Fish	Uncommon	1 Epic Fish, 1 Milk, 1 Egg	+30
Ordinary Fish Soup	Uncommon	1 Fresh Water, 1 Epic Fish	+30
Ordinary Cake	Uncommon	1 Egg, 2 Milk	+24	120
Ordinary Grilled Fish	Uncommon	1 Epic Fish	+20
Ordinary Ice Cream	Uncommon	2 Milk	+20
Ordinary Fried Egg	Uncommon	2 Egg	+10
Ordinary Broth	Uncommon	2 Fresh Water	+10
Ordinary Fish Slices	Uncommon	2 Legendary Fish	+96
Ordinary Meatballs	Uncommon	2 Raw Meat	+210	1.0k
Ordinary Fruit Salad	Uncommon	2 Berries	+105
Ordinary Tortilla Chips	Uncommon	2 Maize	+105	525
Ordinary Fried Fish Taco	Uncommon	1 Maize, 1 Epic Fish	+168	840
Ordinary Minced Meat Taco	Uncommon	1 Maize, 2 Raw Meat	+168	840
Fresh Fish Slices	Rare	3 Legendary Fish	+128	640
Freshly Fried Fish	Rare	1 Legendary Fish, 1 Egg	+56	280
Hot Fish Soup	Rare	1 Fresh Water, 1 Legendary Fish	+56
Nicely Grilled Fish	Rare	1 Legendary Fish	+48
Freshly Baked Cake	Rare	3 Egg, 1 Milk	+40	200
Freshly Made Ice Cream	Rare	3 Milk	+36	180
Freshly Fried Egg	Rare	3 Egg	+18	90
Hot Broth	Rare	3 Fresh Water	+18	90
Fresh Fruit Salad	Rare	3 Raw Meat	+216
Freshly Made Tortilla Chips	Rare	3 Berries	+108
Freshly Made Fried Fish Taco	Rare	3 Maize	+108	1.0k
Freshly Made Meatballs	Rare	1 Legendary Fish, 1 Maize	+216	1.0k
Freshly Made Minced Meat Taco	Rare	3 Maize, 1 Raw Meat	+216
Tasty Fish Soup	Epic	2 Epic Fish, 1 Fresh Water	+72	360
Yummy Grilled Fish	Epic	2 Epic Fish	+64	320
Smooth Ice Cream	Epic	4 Milk	+64
Nice Fried Egg	Epic	4 Egg	+32	160
Delicious Broth	Epic	4 Fresh Water	+32
Fluffy Cake	Epic	2 Egg, 2 Milk	+64	320
Appetizing Fruit Salad	Epic	4 Berries	+192
Delicious Fried Fish Taco	Epic	1 Maize, 2 Epic Fish	+384	1.9k
Delicious Minced Meat Taco	Epic	2 Maize, 2 Raw Meat	+384
Tender Fish Slices	Epic	3 Legendary Fish, 1 Rare/Epic Fish	+192	960
Wonderfully Fried Fish	Epic	2 Epic Fish, 1 Egg	+72	360
Luscious Meatballs	Epic	4 Raw Meat	+384	1.9k
Crispy Tortilla Chips	Epic	4 Maize	+192
Exquisite Fish Slices	Legendary	4 Legendary Fish	+384	1.9k
Crispy Fried Fish	Legendary	2 Legendary Fish, 1 Egg	+104	520
Divine Fish Soup	Legendary	1 Epic Fish, 1 Legendary Fish, 1 Fresh Water	+88	440
Finger Licking Grilled Fish	Legendary	1 Legendary Fish, 1 Epic Fish	+80	400
Sumptuous Cake	Legendary	1 Egg, 3 Milk	+96	480
Heavenly Fried Fish Taco	Legendary	2 Legendary Fish, 1 Maize	+600
Heavenly Minced Meat Taco	Legendary	1 Maize, 3 Raw Meat	+600

Sea of Conquest: Complete Galley Recipe List

Distillery

The interface for the Distillery is the same as the Galley. You can combine fruits and water to craft beverages in different tiers.

I was unable to craft any legendary brews in the first ocean area. I believe you will need special ingredients that either come from other (internal) areas or from Merchant ships.

The Pirate Revel event does include a list of beverages that will be needed to get all the rewards.

Distillery Recipes (Drinks)

There are multiple combinations that all give the same result. The descriptive text of each drink can be seen as tips on which ingredients you should use to craft the drink.

To save on space and sanity, this list will only include the most basic of combinations from my own list of recipes. Your list may vary depending on the various combos you make, but it is all relative.

Tier Legend:

Uncommon

Rare

Epic

Legendary

Name	Tier	Ingredients	Supplies	Selling Price (Gold)
Ordinary Wine	Uncommon	1 Grape	+24	480
Ordinary Tequila	Uncommon	1 Agave	+24	480
Ordinary Rum	Uncommon	1 Sugar Sorghum	+24	480
Ordinary Vodka	Uncommon	1 Potato	+24	480
Ordinary Gin	Uncommon	1 Juniper Berry	+24	480
Ordinary Whiskey	Uncommon	1 Barley	+24	480
Regular Beverage	Uncommon	1 Fresh Water	+2
Premium Wine	Rare	2 Grapes	+32	640
Premium Tequila	Rare	2 Agave	+32	640
Premium Rum	Rare	2 Sugar Sorghum	+32	640
Premium Vodka	Rare	2 Juniper Potato	+32	640
Premium Gin	Rare	2 Juniper Berry	+32	640
Premium Whiskey	Rare	2 Barley	+32	640
Ordinary Gin & Tonic	Rare	2 Barley, 1 Water, 1 Sugar	+64	1.2k
Ordinary The Sailor	Rare	1 Potato, 1 Orange, 1 Juniper Berry	+64	1.2k
Ordinary Hot Toddy	Rare	2 Barley, 1 Sugar	+64	1.2k
Ordinary Gin Fizz	Rare	1 Juniper Berry, 1 Soda	+64	1.2k
Ordinary Homeland	Rare	1 Grape, 1 Juniper Berry	+64	1.2k
Ordinary Gaucus’s Kiss	Rare	1 Barley, 1 Sugar Sorghum,	+64	1.2k
Reserve Wine	Epic	3 Grapes	+40	800
Reserve Tequila	Epic	3 Agave	+40	800
Reserve Rum	Epic	3 Sugar Sorghum	+40	800
Reserve Vodka	Epic	3 Potato	+40	800
Reserve Gin	Epic	3 Juniper Berry	+40	800
Reserve Whiskey	Epic	3 Barley	+40	800
Premium Gaucus’s Kiss	Epic	1 Barley, 2 Sugar Sorghum,	+96	1.9k
Premium Hometown	Epic	1 Grape, 2 Juniper Berry,	+96	1.9k
Premium Gin Fizz	Epic	1 Soda, 1 Juniper Berry, 1 Lemon	+96	1.9k
Premium Gin & Tonic	Epic	1 Juniper Berry, 2 Tonic Water	+96	1.9k
Premium Tequila Sunset	Epic	2 Agave, 1 Orange, 1 Soda	+96	1.9k
Premium Lonely Queen	Epic	1 Agave, 1 Lemon	+96	1.9k
Premium The Sailor	Epic	3 Potato, 1 Orange	+96	1.9k
Premium Hot Toddy	Epic	1 Barley, 1 Sugar, 1 Water	+96	1.9k
Premium Mojito	Epic	1 Sugar Cane, 1 Lemon, 1 Sugar	+96	1.9k
Divine Gin Fizz	Legendary	1 Juniper Berry, 1 Lemon, 1 Sugar, 1 Soda	+192	3840
Divine Gin & Tonic	Legendary	1 Juniper Berry, 3 Tonic Water	+192	3840
Divine Tequila Sunset	Legendary	1 Soda, 2 Orange, 1 Agave	+192	3840
Divine Lonely Queen	Legendary	1 Lemon, 3 Agave	+192	3840
Divine The Sailor	Legendary	2 Orange, 2 Lemon	+192	3840
Heavenly Hot Toddy	Legendary	2 Barley, 1 Water , 1 Sugar	+192	3840
Divine Gaucus’s Kiss	Legendary	2 Sugar Sorghum, 2 Barley	+192	3840
Heavenly Hometown	Legendary	1 Grape, 3 Juniper Berry	+192	3840
Divine Mojito	Legendary	2 Sugar Cane, 1 Lemon, 1 Sugar	+192	3840

Sea of Conquest: Complete Distillery Recipe List

Mess Hall

Any food items that have been crafted may then be sold in the Mess Hall on board your Flagship. Alternatively, you may save the food to supply your ship.

Gold generated in this way doesn’t earn much unless you are selling Legendary Dishes. Also, keep in mind that you cannot sell Food immediately using the Mess Hall.

The cabin can only process sales in a limited number of sales each day. Upgrading the Mess Hall will improve its function. You may collect your current earnings by tapping on the green icon in the Mess Hall cabin. This source of Gold comes in stacks of 50.

Items

Like most mobile games, they all have different names for the same items used in-game.

Name	Effect
Sunshine Cigar, Royal Cigar, Master Pipe	Used to improve the Skill Level of Heroes
Starlight Shard	Can add 100 EXP to Ship Parts
Emerald	Premium Currency
Sea Soul Stone	Increases Hero EXP by 1,000 (Obtained in Trials)
Single Piece Vol. I	Increases Hero EXP by 20.
Single Piece Vol. II	Increases Hero EXP by 100.
Single Piece Vol. III	Increases Hero EXP by 500.
Single Piece Vol.IV	Increases Hero EXP by 2,500.
Single Piece Vol. V	Increases Hero EXP by 10,000.
Guild Commemorative Coin	Grants 10,000 Reputation points with the selected Guild.
Smuggling Warrant	Use it to purchase goods in the Black Market.
Retrofitting Tools	Helps allocate storage space for the Cargo Hold and Supplies Hold even at sea.
Advanced Ship Part Chest	Select a specific type of Ship Part. 100% chance of level 16-20 Legendary tier items.

Item List

Trials

This is the standard AFK rewards campaign. It is mostly played using your Heroes on the Land, but there is a ship battle option. The ship battle cannot be completed while you are auto-trading, but the land battles can be.

The AFK rewards include EXP for your Heroes and Wood/Iron for construction and upgrades. Completing stages will reward Echo Conch and other items.

Earning Gold

Exchange: The Rogues Rumble PvP fights reward tokens that can be swapped for Gold and other items. You can access the challenge by tapping on your Avatar.

A recent update improved the UI and added ship battles as an option. The rewards were significantly boosted, and new items have been added to the exchange.

Trading (Manual): You can purchase a hold full of goods and sail to a different port to sell them. You will get a good price if the goods being sold are different from those available on the island. The further you have to travel, the greater the earnings per trip. Additionally, as you unlock higher Tiers of Relations with the various NPC Guilds, you will get access to higher-quality goods for trading.

Combat: When you pick up loot from pirates or from Treasure stashes, you can sell it at a port.

Auto–Trader: In the trading interface, there is an option to enable automatic trading. This is a good option when you are going to log out. It can take 1-2 hours to complete a 50-stop trading route. The 100-stop option is pay-to-play only.

Smuggler Tickets: When you complete Daily Tasks, you will receive these tickets, which can be used at Black markets to get Goods for free. You can then sail to a distant port and sell them for a big profit.

Remember, the further you travel away from the purchasing port, the larger the profits will be when you sell the Goods.

Other sources of Gold are completing missions on islands, player quests, fighting pirates, attacking merchant ships, and selling unwanted items. Attacking Smuggler ships is a great way to pick up some extra cash. These ships carry the same Goods you find in the Black Markets.

Resources can be gathered by your heroes even if you are not docked at the port. Just select the resource site and send your heroes to liberate the facility. They will stay and mine the resources until it is empty. Resource sites will go on cooldown for a while before being usable again.

Gangs

These are SoCs equivalent to an Alliance. You can make daily Donations, speed up research or construction, and complete tasks to earn tokens that can be exchanged on the market for rewards.

As the game progresses, your Gang will start capturing territory by attacking the low-level ports around the outer edges of the map. After capturing a port, your Gang can get Sentry Towers. You will receive rewards for helping your Gang capture territory.

The goal is to capture Sentry Towers in a line from your starting port, and on to a level 2 port, then a level 3 port, and finally to the Gates into the Inner Ocean area.

There are limits to how many Sentry Towers can be held by the Gang at any given time. Either the Leader or any R4 Gang member may abandon a Sentry Tower to make room for new ones to be captured.

Making alliances with other Gangs is the preferred way to navigate the early game. I suggest joining the biggest Gang in your corner of the sea and helping them to stay in the top ranking. An active Gang will generate a steady flow of resources from regular activities as well as from other players purchasing Premium content.

Treasure of the Tides

This function can be found in the Daily Tasks panel at the top of the screen. Once the window is open, tap on the calendar page marked “7.” The tasks shown here will be completed through normal gameplay, and at the end of the week, you will receive rewards depending on how high your chest is. Level 20 is the maximum and will provide:

40 Emeralds, 1 Hymn Conch, 2 Echo Conch, 25Single Piece Vol. IV, 6x 30min Construction Speedup, and 6x Stargazing Speedup.

Squad Raids

This is a big sea monster battle against a raid boss (Kraken). You can take a team of 4 players into a 20-minute-long fight that comes in 3 different difficulty levels. If you are beaten, you can revive and resupply before heading back to the fight.

I would advise you to not use the automatic matching system. if a player is AFK, this will prevent your group from being able to enter the fight, and in Matching mode, there is no way to remove the AFK player from the party.

You can challenge each difficulty level up to 3 times per day for rewards. After the 3rd fight at a difficulty level, you can continue to raid, but you will only receive Honor points. There is a Leaderboard that tracks how fast your team beats the boss.

Completion Difficulty	Monster Lair Rewards
Easy	20 Emerald, 1 Random Ship Part, 2 Royal Cigar, 5 Starlight Shard
Hard	30 Emerald, 1 Random Ship Part, 3 Royal Cigar, 10 Starlight Shard
Hell	50 Emerald, 1 Random Ship Part, 3 Master Pipe, 20 Starlight Shard

Monster Lair Rewards

Voyage of Four Seas

This new function can be found by tapping on your Avatar on the top left of the screen.

There will be a set of missions that you can send your heroes out to complete. The missions each have different requirements to dispatch a team.

The rewards can include Speed Up items, so I highly recommend doing these.

Events

Sailboat Racing

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3
Upgrade Astrology Chamber to Level 15	Upgrade the Drill Hall to Level 15	Flagship Reach Lvl 17
Upgrade Sick Bay to Level 17	Participate in Squad Raid 1 time.	Upgrade the Liaison Office to Level 15
Upgrade Drill Hall to Level 17	Light up Star Sign – Sea Lion	Upgrade Liaison Office to Level 17
Upgrade the Mess Hall to Level 15	Light up Star Sign – Rusty Anchor	Upgrade the Enlistment Quarters to Level 15
Upgrade Enlistment Quarters to Level 17	Light up Star Sign – Fish Spear	Upgrade the Sick Bay to Level 15
Upgrade Mess Hall to Level 17	Light up Star Sign – Goblet	Complete Trial – Chapter 8, Stage 10 of Season 1
Complete the Trial – Chapter 10, Stage 10 of Season 1	Light up Star Sign – Squid	Complete the Trial – Chapter 10 Stage 10 of Season 1

Sailboat Racing Event

Showdown of Gangs

Showdown of Gangs: This is the big PvP battle among the top Gangs on your server. It is worth watching the battle in real-time as the game will randomly reward lucky viewers with the Echo Conch and Golden Conch.

Also, betting can be quite lucrative. Absolute power doesn’t necessarily guarantee victory. The way the tiered battle is set up, it is possible to waste heavy hitters in the early stages and lose out in further rounds.

In my Gangs’ case, our power level was 1-2 million points lower than our opponents, and the provided odds were quite against us; however, we managed to beat the opposition and won many coins on the bet.

I was able to swap my coins in the Parlor for 2.75 million Gold. I should mention, though, that I had been buying up coins before the event became available. The Parlor exchange panel is available even when the event is not active.

Azure Promise

Azure Promise: This beginner event is available for everyone. Login for 8 consecutive days to claim rewards. Epic hero Will is available on the 2nd day.

Pirate Kings Trail

Pirate King’s Trail: This is a recurring event lasting 7 days that rewards players with the Crimson Sentinel (Epic Ship) and Madame Lulu (Healer) during the first week.

Power Rush

Power Rush: Be the strongest pirate o’ the seas! Raise your Power rating to the set levels to receive a reward.

Undead Revenge

Undead Revenge: Ghost ships will spawn on the world map. Just attack them to get points for the event. Return to the event page to collect your rewards based on how much total damage you managed during the combat phase. The ships will spawn every 2 hours or so, and your cumulative damage will count towards the final reward.

Pirate Revel

Pirate Revel: You can reap handsome rewards if you can serve all the orders they want by the recipes before the countdown ends. If you fail to serve all the orders, the relevant rewards will be delivered, given the orders you’ve fulfilled, and the rewards will be delivered via Mail. This event rewards 2.6 million Gold for a full completion.

Sea Voyage

Sea Voyage: This is a 30-day event that includes multiple tasks that will provide points. There are lots of nice rewards for this event.

Point Tasks	Points Earned
Visit new Ports	+10
Find Treasures marked on the Treasure Maps	+10
Discover new Fish species	+5
Get new recipes for Dishes and Drinks	+5
Recruit new Heroes	+10
Get new Ships	+20
Complete Mist Incidents	+1

Sea Voyage Rewards

Lord of the Seas

Lord of the Seas: This is a weekly event that includes a “killing” period for PvP battles. Each day features a different task: Collecting Gold, upgrading Cabins, recruiting Heroes, completing Star Gazing, and other tasks.

Grand Odyssey (Server Story)

Grand Odyssey: This is the server event, and it is tied to the age of the world you are playing on. You can check the rewards in-game.

After 10 days of gameplay, the Grand Odyssey story advanced to chapter 13, and the gates into the central seas opened. After this occurred, my Gang started getting hit by all the Whales (big spenders). We struggled initially, but did manage to capture some territory.

You can expect to get sunk often in the inner sea. The trade routes will give 2x to 3x the amount of gold, even on short routes, as compared with the starting zones. You will also start getting more Reputation items and other Food items for the Epic and Legendary Drinks from the Distillery.

Misc. Tips

Tapping on the ship icon on the right will center the map on your Flagship.

Maritime Incidents may be completed without unlocking the associated island. This way, you can save your daily compass usage. Just tap on the island Flag.

You may either tap on a location to order your ship to go there, or you may drag a line (path) from the ship to where you want to go.

Sailing into the fog must be done manually by dragging a path.

Your ship’s crew will consume Food to keep up Morale and improve ship function. At zero food, the crew will abandon the ship. You can toggle on/off a function to automatically use food while at sea. At the port, your crew will not consume food, but you can only stay for a limited period.

Staying at a Port will protect you from attack by other players. This is similar to using a Shield in other games.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War

January 29, 2023 Kasanje Leave a comment

Update 01/09/25: New Terms and competing offers from FreeCash and Swagbucks.

FreeCash Terms

This offer is available on FreeCash for $357 with a 90-Day time limit.

Main Goals

Meet the following milestones within the 90 day offer period to receive corresponding cash rewards.

Limited Reward: Reach Castle Level 26 in first 7 days to earn $87 prize.

Reward	Goal
$0.00	Install and open the game
$0.17	Complete Castle Level 3
$0.43	Complete Castle Level 5
$0.90	Complete Castle Level 8
$1.73	Complete Castle Level 12
$3.45	Complete Castle Level 16
$6.97	Complete Castle Level 20
$12.75	Complete Castle Level 24
$30.75	Complete Castle Level 27
$60.75	Complete Castle Level 29
$130.50	Complete Castle Level 31

Daily Rewards

Reward	Goal
$0.90	Play on 15 Different Days
$2.63	Play on 30 Different Days
$6.08	Play on 60 Different Days
$12.75	Play on 90 Different Days

Alternatively, the offer is available on Swagbucks at a reduced value and with restricted time limits.

Swagbucks Terms

Play Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War and complete Castle Level 30 to earn 5,215 SB! There is a 30-Day time limit for this offer.

Must be installing Pirates of the Caribbean for the first time to receive SB.
In-app purchases and upgrades are available.
BONUS REWARD – Complete Castle Level 25 Within 7 Days
Award will pend for 10 days

SB Offer Link: https://www.swagbucks.com/games/apps/1672713/pirates-of-the-caribbean?rb=69384823

Offer Goals

Goal	Reward
Install	–
Complete Castle Level 5	$0.10
Complete Castle Level 8	$0.20
Complete Castle Level 13	$0.35
Complete Castle Level 16	$0.50
Complete Castle Level 18	$1.00
Complete Castle Level 21	$2.00
Complete Castle Level 23	$4.00
BONUS REWARD: Complete Castle Level 25 within 7 Days.	$10.00
Complete Castle Level 27	$8.00
Complete Castle Level 29	$10.00
Complete Castle Level 30	$15.00
Make First Purchase	$1.00

Game Strategy

The game runs top-down like similar games in the genre. Your town is located on a small island and you will use Ships to battle monsters, gather resources, and complete storyline missions.

Your ships will be crewed by pirates that you train at the Pub. You’ll need to make weapons for the pirates, and cannons for any ships you build as well as cannons for upgrades to your Gate (town wall).

You will be limited in the number of ships you can have in your harbor depending on the level of your Dock. Ships are built at the Shipyard and then launched into the port.

I wouldn’t suggest replacing your ships with higher-tier ones unless a mission objective requires it. You will get upgrade parchments later on that can be used with Gold to tier up your ships to Galleons.

Every day you can speed up any construction timer by 100 minutes, up to 10 times by watching a short 20-second advertisement.

You also get similar advertisement speedup options available when healing pirates, upgrading ships, crafting gear, and the Free Daily Rewards.

The daily rewards have 10 stages that will reward you with 100 Gold each on the first 9 and then 1,000 Gold on the last one for a total of 1,900 Gold each day.

Sink attacking ships at your Gate (Wall) to earn speed-up items

Gathering Resources vs Production at Island

The basic resources in the game are Food, Lumber, and Silver.

The silver mostly gets used to upgrade ships and gear until the later stages of the game.

I found gathering resources to be incredibly slow, the same can be said for Producing resources in your town. The skill boosts you get from leveling up barely make a difference in the speed.

If you look below, you can see that a level 10 Farm produces much more resources than the upgraded Lumber Mill and the Silver Mine.

I would suggest only building Farms. You can build a single Lumber Mill and Silver Mine to complete the corresponding missions.

You can handle most of your early game Food needs this way and then you only need to focus on Gathering Lumber from islands. You should get plenty of Silver from mission rewards and Events.

When your power level sparkles tap on it to get chests with loot

Monster Hunting

The best way I found to get resources was by using the Monster Hunting function.

You can send out your ships to hunt critters or merchant ships and you will get good rewards when you win. Better yet, you can turn on the Hunting Streak which sets your ships on auto-pilot, they will keep hunting monsters of a set level until you either run out of Stamina or use Auto-mode.

Some Events run weekly and require you to hunt monsters using Tacticians of set Elements like Fire or Wind. I received a chest with 100,000 Gold from this Event.

I was able to skip a couple levels with all the Gold I got.

Use stamina refills whenever you utilize the Auto-Hunt function

Alliances

Alliance: Your guild or clan will be able to help with speed-ups and boosts to gathering within the territory of the alliance fortress.

You will also receive Chests every time someone completes various tasks in the game or buys something from the Store. It’s also good to keep plunderers away if you are in an active Alliance.

VIP System

VIP: You will start the game at VIP level 1.

At the basic level, you get a 5-minute free speed-up to complete buildings. At level 2, this speed increases to 7 minutes. It’s not particularly appealing.

A good thing though is that you will get all of the Gold rewards from the previous tier that were unclaimed. So about 3,000 Gold, which can be very useful in the early game for upgrading your Castle.

In addition, you will be able to use the “Claim All” function on Alliance chests so that you are not tapping forever claiming them.

To reach VIP 2, you will need to acquire 50 VIP Points.

When I first checked my VIP level it said I had 30 Points accrued, although I couldn’t remember how I got the first 30 points.

You will get 45 Gems as part of the Tutorial which can be spent on a Shop item that gets you 10 VIP points.

Theoretically, this would mean that you would only need to spend $1 on a basic pack in the Shop to level up your VIP ranking.

For just a dollar you can raise your VIP level and get 3,000 gold

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Game Guide: Puzzles & Survival

October 22, 2021 Kasanje 4 Comments

This is a variant of Puzzles & Conquest but with Zombies.

Update 2023: I am updating this guide to match the current offer terms on both Swagbucks and MyPoints. You have 30 days to complete the offer. It utilizes the Tiered Objectives method, allowing you to stop at any point you decide.

You may have read my guide to Puzzles and Conquest; this one is a reskin of that game, or maybe the other way around? If you have completed the other offer, you won’t have any trouble completing this one.

The rewards shown below are using the MyPoints calculation of 150 points = $1.

Unlock a 5-star hero = 500 points ($3.33)
HQ Level 11 = 1,700 ($11.33)
HQ Level 16 =4,250 ($28.33)
HQ Level 23 = 20,400 ($136)
HQ Level 31 = 34,000 ($226.67)
Total Reward = 60,850 ($405.67)

Puzzles & Survival offer terms and conditions from the MyPoints website as of year 2023.

My total spending on this offer

If you are not already a member of Swagbucks, MyPoints, or InboxDollars, I strongly recommend signing up. These sites are a great source of extra income for spontaneous purchases.

Game Strategy

Put most of your Talent points into the Economy skill tree. The Fast-Build ability will reduce construction time by a considerable margin. Make sure you first activate the ability and then start the construction. It also works with Research timers.

Alliances

Find an alliance early on and don’t fret about jumping to a different one if there are not many active players. If the alliance leader has not set a custom name or their power level is lower than your own, you may need to either switch alliances or depose them and take over the alliance yourself. Construction speed boosts and Shields may be purchased through the alliance shop. These are useful for completing the offer.

Don’t worry if there is no one online when you want to raid. The game will provide assist marches to your raid, allowing you to successfully solo Monster Lairs.

You just need enough troops to win the battle. Hero fragments for Chester, Otto, Flint, and Requiem can all be acquired from battling monsters on the world map.

I would advise you to focus mainly on the raids as they provide Chests that contain large amounts of Player EXP. You can also save your chests to open only during events that require you to collect specific resources or hero fragments. Often, having a cache of chests available will make the difference in reaching the highest tier of Daily or Weekly events.

Hero Types

Just as with Puzzles & Conquest, I really want to stress that you need to focus on your Economy heroes. They will reduce your construction resource costs to zero; the same goes for Research. You will get a bonus to your Lord’s experience gain, Free Time on building speed-ups, and big boosts to resource-building outputs, as well as gathering speed and marching speed.

You will need 10 fragments to unlock and add a hero to your collection. Skill unlocks are based on hero level (31, 71, 131).

The strength of the skills is based on the Enhancement Tiers shown here.

Unlock = 10 Fragments
First Enhance = 10 Fragments
Second Enhance = 20 Fragments
Third Enhance = 35 Fragments
Fourth Enhance = 50 Fragments
Fifth Enhance = 75 Fragments

Special Hero List

Got a nice visual display here to help. The heroes you want to focus on are as follows:

Kento (2 Star): Take Kento to level 31 and stop. Enhance whenever you get enough fragments or whole pieces.

Xavis (2 Star): Take Xavi to level 31 and stop. Enhance whenever you get enough fragments or whole pieces.

Flint (3 Star): Take Flint to level 31; you can even go to 71 if you want the extra bonus. Enhance whenever you get enough fragments or whole pieces.

Chester (3 Star): Take Chester to level 31, you can even go to 71 if you want an extra bonus. Enhance whenever you get enough fragments or whole pieces.

Otto (4 Star): Take Otto all the way to 71. He is also good at the Campaign.

Varvara (4 Star): She is also good to take to 71 and get the full bonus. As a 4-star, she will fight well in the Campaign.

Anahita (3 Star): She gives Free Speed on timers. The only other way to get this benefit is by getting higher in your VIP rank.

Other Economy heroes can be leveled to either 31 or 71 as needed. Your Combat heroes, including Fighters, Riders, Shooters, and Vehicles, don’t necessarily need to be leveled up. You should select a team of five to serve as your primary heroes for all battles. These heroes you will want to level to the max as resources permit.

Strategy Continued

This guide was originally for doing the offer without spending money. However, the current offer terms do require spending some money, in my opinion. I would suggest spending $4.99 on both the Builders and Researchers gear sets. They will reduce the Resource costs for all construction and research up through Headquarters level 16.

In my first attempt at this game, it took me 5 days and all my resources and speed-ups to get to HQ level 15. Sadly, I missed out on the extra bonus at the end of the Beginner event. I still got my 5-star hero, but not the extra fragments to enhance him. It takes 2 days to upgrade from 15 to 16, with about a 14% Construction Speed boost. You get the War set of Gear for free initially and can start crafting Gear at Forge level 16.

I would strongly advise not using the Recycle option to try to unlock a 5-star hero. The stat bonuses you can get from your 2 and 3-star heroes are worth more than the combat advantages a 5-star hero may impart in the early game. Also, after the beginner event ends, 5-star heroes can be acquired through weekly events and various minigames.

Something else to note: the 5-star hero unlocked through the beginner event can be upgraded if you manage to reach HQ level 17 before the event ends. This will require rushing the construction, as the building time exceeds the time limits of the event.

Fox’s Test

Fox’s Test is an event that occurs 3 times a week at set intervals. Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. Here are a portion of the potential questions and the corresponding correct answers. This list is by no means exhaustive. There is an unsorted mess of a list available at AppGamer.

Question	Answer
Why do mosquitoes need blood?	Lay Eggs
Where was the first stamp issued?	UK
Ice skating was first intended to be..?	Vehicles
What constellation is Altair located in?	Aquila
What happens to the speed of a falling object the longer it falls?	Faster and Faster Until It Lands
Which of the following is not an available function in the game?	Super Weapon Refinement
Which of the following is true about an Alliance showdown?	Attempts will not be returned once quitting the quest.
In what country is the Pyramid of the Moon located?	Mexico
How many types of talents does a commander have?	3
What does Freon cause?	Damage the Ozone Layer
Which country hosted the first FIFA World Cup?	Uruguay
What will you get upon resetting a Hero?	All
What deficiency causes Scurvy?	Vitamin C
what will you need to use to clear stages during a campaign?	AP
Who invented the telephone?	Alexander Graham Bell
What happens if you convert items in your bag?	Items will turn into diamonds or resources
Which of the following items can you not use diamonds to purchase?	Troop Training Cap Up
Which of the following is not a function of the bank?	Resource Transport
What is Mars’ career?	Auto Racing
Which of the following positions does Fox hold?	President of the National Association of Medicine
What does Chia-hao want to do?	Save more people
Which of these is the greenest energy source?	Solar
What is the first organ to age in the human body?	Thymus
Which of the following is true about the Trials of Survival?	Grant EXP Bonus upon unlocking Path to Glory
What color is the blood of an earthworm?	Red
What is the nature type of Tomoyo?	Purple
Why did Marshall become permanently lame?	Saving His Son
What’s the relationship between Chae Seoyun and Nam Hayul?	Adoptive Mother and Daughter.
Which of these is not a Nobel Prize Category?	Mathematics
What hero will you encounter in Eclipolis?	Barbie
Where is the Ugly Duckling from?	Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairytales
How much does an adult human brain weigh?	1400g
What is the most recently established Nobel Prize?	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
What inspired William G. Morgan to invent volleyball?	Basketball
When can you embark upon a Hero Challenge in the Ruins?	Monday
Which of the following is not a function of a research lab?	Obtaining Hero Fragments
What is the largest organ in the human body?	Skin
Which of these best describes the origins of the marathon?	Wars
What is the most northerly capital in the world?
What did Griffin wish to do?	Always be there for his daughter.
Which country invented tanks?	UK
What was Marshall’s official designation?	Machine Gunner
What is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust?	Aluminium
Who was key in developing a vaccine in The Last of Us?	Ellie
Who is the sheriff of Glinton?	McCarty
What is the birthplace of the Olympic games?	Ancient Greece
How did McCarty finish the bandits off?	Gun
What’s Chester’s weapon?	Three-Way Valve
What does Chester like to do?	Smoke
What is the component of gastric acid?	Hydrochloric acid
What country does Greenland belong to?	Denmark
What is the largest island in the world?	Greenland

Answers to Fox’s Test

Other games in this franchise include Puzzles & Conquest and Palace & Puzzles.

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Game Guide: Puzzles and Conquest

October 10, 2021 Kasanje 7 Comments

There are varying versions of this game offered on Swagbucks and other platforms. This guide is for an older offer, but the gameplay tips are still very valid.

Puzzles & Conquest is a Build & Battle mobile game that incorporates Match3 mechanics for story progression.

This one is potentially a money maker, although you can do it without a purchase if you’d like. Puzzles & Conquest can be found in the SB Live app and it should be listed for at least 1,981 SB.

Offer Terms

Offer Terms require you to reach Castle level 15 and to acquire a 5-star Hero to get the full reward.

Total spending for the offer

P2W

Very easy. After you complete the tutorial there will be a pop-up offer to buy Lucifer Hero for $4.99, he is a 5-star hero.

Beyond that, you only need to reach Castle level 15. You will get a large cache of Gems when you buy the pack, which can be used to speed through building upgrades to reach castle level 10.

F2P

If you are going for the full reward and don’t intend on spending any money on packs or heroes this is what you’ll want to focus on.

Your Economy heroes will give big discounts on Building/Researching Costs, Construction Timers, Troop Training Capacity, Gathering Speeds, and Resource Output Speed.

Our goal is to get the Castle up to 15 ASAP and clinch the 800 points in the Beginner Event: Saurland’s New Dawn. This will earn us our first 5-star hero.

Summoning

You will need 10 Fragments to initially summon the Hero. The bonus the hero provides is based on their Level and Enhancement Rank.

Heroes can achieve 8 Ranks from collecting Fragments; however, the Economy heroes only go to 5th rank.

For this offer, you will want to collect Scarlet, Harald, Sakhir, Albertus, Lamassu, and Elros.

You get 5 free summons per day at the Basic level and 1 free rare. You also get 1 free Deluxe summon every 2 days. Playing in the Campaign will also earn you basic summon tokens as well as Blitzing the campaign missions for rewards.

Several events will play out in the first week that will provide additional summoning opportunities.

Tips & Tricks

You should wait until you have 9 tokens available and then do the discounted (10x) summon option.

You will get both Fragments of Heroes and also have a chance at a “whole” hero. Since we don’t need to clear many levels of the Campaign for our strategy you won’t need to only level up Good heroes.

Just focus on getting your Economy Heroes all up to level 31 and then Enhancing them with your collected fragments.

Recycling

In the Hero tab under Bag, you can Recycle hero fragments that you do not need.

You will get points for each recycled fragment and these in turn can be used to get the Economy fragments. If you exchange your Military fragments for Economy, you will get a large amount.

Hunting

You can Hunt Monsters on the world map to get Scarlet and Nilesh fragments.

Monsters levels 1-9 will drop Scarlet and 10-19 have a chance at Nilesh or more likely Scarlet. Getting Scarlet to max rank is easy due to the numerous drops of her fragment in the game.