Season 1 City Warfare

First-city-battle prep checklist

Use this as the alliance’s run-up to the first Wednesday or Saturday battle, not as a substitute for the rules further down the page.

1. Capture a Lv.1 Military Stronghold first. The first Stronghold an alliance takes must be level 1. You cannot declare war on a city, or attack it, until you hold an adjacent Stronghold. Garrison enough troops for the capture to reach 100%; too few and progress is too slow and the capture fails. After a first capture, you can expand into adjacent Strongholds and cities.
2. Confirm the alliance itself can declare. It must be more than 24 hours old and have more than 20 members (21+). Only R4 and R5 can press the declaration, and only on Wednesday or Saturday. You may declare on only one city at a time, and at most twice that day.
3. Time the R4/R5 declaration on Wednesday or Saturday, not the day before. If the window is closed, the adjacent Stronghold still matters — it is what lets you declare when the window opens. Use the war-declaration timer on your server for the exact open and close of that window.
4. Plan garrisons for both the Stronghold you already hold and the city you want. After a Stronghold is taken, Stronghold Garrisons spawn; other alliances must defeat all of them before they can attack it. Once city durability is gone, points from defeating the city’s garrison and from demolition decide the winner, so a declaration without a garrison-and-demolition plan is only half a plan.
5. Pick the first city on purpose. Lv.1 cities are listed as available from day 2, with declare / recommended power of 341,000, and they carry a first-occupy reward. Higher levels open later (days 5, 9, 12, 16 and 19) and jump sharply in recommended power. First-occupy rewards also rise with city level, so the first fight is often a Lv.1 or Lv.2 city you can actually fill, not the highest level on the map. Capturing a Lv.1–5 city raises your Stronghold limit by 1.
6. Leave time to distribute Alliance Loot after you win. R4 and R5 can distribute it through the Alliance Contribution Ranking, and anything still held is cleared at the end of the season countdown. You cannot declare or attack Military Outposts once settlement begins. Warzone city capture status itself is not reset at season end.

Military Strongholds

Military Strongholds are where Victor the Cult Leader trains elite zombies. Alliances capture them for their first Alliance territory and to launch attacks on cities.

Season 1 also has a Stronghold Protection Period:

• After an unclaimed Stronghold is captured, its protection lasts until the next battle window.
• After a claimed Stronghold is captured, its protection lasts until the first battle window on the next war-declaration day after capture.

Capturing cities increases the alliance’s Stronghold limit by 1 for each Lv.1–5 city captured, and increases the Stronghold capture limit in the target warzone. Each warzone has its own independent Outpost capture limit, with an initial limit of 3.

Declaring war, and how a city is captured

Conditions for a declaration:

• War declaration is only available on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
• Only Alliance R4 and R5 members can declare war.
• The alliance must be established for over 24 hours.
• The alliance must have more than 20 members (21+).
• You must capture an adjacent Stronghold to declare war on a city. You also cannot attack the city until an adjacent Stronghold is captured.
• An alliance can only declare war on one city at a time.
• An alliance can declare war up to 2 times per day.

Once Durability is depleted, points earned from defeating the garrison and demolition are tallied. The alliance with the highest total gains control of the city.

Occupation limits:

1. Within the same warzone, an alliance can capture up to 4 cities simultaneously.
2. When capturing cities in other warzones during the season, all other warzones share the same capture limit, with a maximum of 4 cities.
3. Capturing cities increases the alliance’s Stronghold capture limit in the target warzone.
4. Each warzone has its own independent Outpost capture limit. The initial limit is 3.

Capture higher-level cities to gain more Influence and increase your alliance ranking. Alliance Loot belongs to the alliance and can be obtained by capturing cities. Abandoning a city has a 1-hour cooldown: you cannot abandon another city within 1 hour.

City levels and first-occupy rewards

Season 1 has six city levels, labelled Lv.1 City through Lv.6 City. Each lists a death rate of 0.2 and a rally limit of 5. Declare power and recommended power are the same number at each level. The Day column is the listed availability figure for that city level.

City level	Day	Declare / recommended power	Shown value	Alliance Loot
Lv.1 City	2	341,000	100,000	10 (20 in other warzones)
Lv.2 City	5	597,500	200,000	20 (40 in other warzones)
Lv.3 City	9	907,500	300,000	30 (60 in other warzones)
Lv.4 City	12	1,358,500	400,000	40 (80 in other warzones)
Lv.5 City	16	3,031,000	500,000	60 (120 in other warzones)
Lv.6 City	19	4,672,500	1,000,000	80 (160 in other warzones)

Higher-level cities grant more Influence. Named cities include Shelter, Scavenger Market, Water Purification Plant, Iron Fortress Town, Fortress Arsenal, Military Airfield, Nuclear Power Plant and Missile Launch Base; this guide does not map those names onto the six levels above.

City level	First-occupy rewards
Lv.1	10× Hero Return Recruitment Ticket; 2× Immune Protein 10,000; 2× Uranium Crystal 10,000; 10× 5-min Research Speedup; 10× 5-min Building Speedup
Lv.2	10× Hero Return; 4× Immune Protein 10,000; 4× Uranium Crystal 10,000; 20× each 5-min Research and Building Speedup
Lv.3	10× Hero Return; 6× of each 10,000 resource item; 30× each speedup
Lv.4	20× Hero Return; 8× of each 10,000 resource item; 40× each speedup
Lv.5	30× Hero Return; 10× of each 10,000 resource item; 50× each speedup
Lv.6	40× Hero Return; 15× of each 10,000 resource item; 60× each speedup