User blog:Gagateam/Guild War: Alliances Strategies

I observed some strange things in the Guild War:


 * Two Guild splitting the victory 1200 to 1200
 * One Guild loaning some strong players to another to avoid demotion to Bronze

Nexters support stance on the subject was:"Hello! Agent Theresa here! Nice to meet you! All players (and guilds) are free to use any kind of cooperation to gain an advantage, that is not prohibited. This is the social aspect of the game, our team doesn't interfere with it. If you have any other questions - please, let me know! Sincerely, Theresa Player Experience Team"

So the purpose of this blog is to List all means by which you can benefit from inter guild cooperation.

Prohibited behavior Nothing you can do in the game is prohibited, except of course the things listed in the Terms of Service.

The game mechanic however, might make some things impossible.

In Gold league a player changing Guild must wait The end of the week to be allowed to participate in the Guild War. In Silver and Bronze league, there is no delay.

Available information

The information available to the player is also not the same.
 * In Gold League, you do not know which Guild will be your opponent except on Friday when it's the only opponent you didn't battle yet.


 * In Silver and Bronze league, You know every one of your opponents after the Saturday matches.

Alliances Strategies

Information Sharing

When faced with the enemy formation, some information is hidden until the attack is started. by sharing information about the missing information with other guild, you can select the best attacker to maximize points.

Forcing the promotion of an allied team

Conditions Time to completion: 1 week
 * having 1 bridge troll.
 * being in the top 6 in the Silver league

Forcing the demotion of a weak team

The same strategy used for forcing the promotion of allied team remains applicable. You may however have an hard time convincing the unwitting Bronze Guild to accept your help. Time to completion: 1 week

Forcing the demotion of the best team in your league

Conditions Time to completion: 1 week
 * having six teams part of your alliance, having 1 bridge troll.

Hostile server take over, taking control of the 10 Silver league slot

Conditions Time to completion: 5-10 weeks
 * Condition: having 2 bridge troll available.

Demoting a gold team to bronze

Conditions Time to completion: 2 weeks
 * Having control of the 10 Silver league slot
 * Having 3 bridge troll available.

Keeping a weak team in gold Once the team is in gold, the strong player can go back to supporting the promotion of other weak teams. Since all team in silver agreed to loose the match to the now Gold team, there is no more risk of demotion. This also doesn't require more big player.

Demoting a second gold team to bronze This seems much harder to accomplish, as the number of High level player requirement start to be big.