Weapon Thoughts: While the Katana is the obvious best choice for your Ground General, it's not easy to come by. In the meantime you can use either the Ares or Achaemenidae Sword as they have identical Ground buffs. The only difference is the debuff. Armor Thoughts: The Freedom Hero Armor has Ground Attack, Defense, and HP buffs, making it the best choice. Although the Furinkazan Armor isn't too far behind, it just lacks a Ground Attack buff. If you have neither available to you, Fearless Ares or Achaemenidae works just fine. I would lean towards Achaemenidae because if I'm going to make a Fearless Ares Armor piece, it's likely going to end up on a Sub General instead. Boots Thoughts: While the Furinkazan Boots are the obvious choice here, not every will have access to them right away. The Courageous Ares and Achaemenidae become your next best choices. Which one you pick really comes down to whether or not this slot will get you a set bonus. If this slot doesn't get a set bonus it really comes down to whether or not you want to burn 800 badges for the Ares. Helmet Thoughts: The Furinkazan Helmet is considered the superior option because HP is more important than Defense. But if you don't have it, the Freedom Hero Hat is a nice backup. If you have neither, the Courageous Ares Helm will work in the short term Pants Thoughts: Weird one here, the Fearless Ares Pants are actually the best in slot for Ground. This is works well if you have another Ares peice for the set bonus. If you need to complete a Furinkazan set bonus, and this is the only chance you have, it's not that far behind. Ring Thoughts: The Furinkazan Bracers are the only choice for your Ground General. The only other option that gives you Ground buffs is the Fearless Ares Ring which is already a bitch and a half to unlocked. And even then it's not that good!

Bow Thoughts: While the Plantagenet Golden Bow is the superior option for your Archer General. It is not available to the majority of players. In the case that you don't have it, the Ares Bow is the next strongest option. I see many new players make the mistake of thinking the Achaemenidae is better because it requires a higher Forge level. But the Ares Bow has better marching buffs. Armor Thoughts: Again Plantagenet takes the top spot, unfortunately the only other option that helps your Archers at all is the Courageous Ares Armor. Boots Thoughts: Freedom Boots reign supreme due to them having a huge Marching Archer Attack buff. No other boots have an Archer Attack buff, but you can pick up a Archer HP buff from either Fearless Ares or Achaemenidae if you don't have the Freedom Boots Scroll. Helmet Thoughts: The Han Dynasty Helmet is far better than the Fearless Ares due to the higher Archer Attack, as well as an all troops HP buff as well. Don't get discouraged if you don't have the scroll through. The Ares Helm is still a very strong piece of gear. Pants Thoughts: Plantagenet wins out again by a slim margin! But fear not! There are other Civilization Gear options that are perfectly viable. The Freedom Pants give a strong Defense buff as well as they could unlock a strong set bonus if you also have the Freedom Boots. The Furinkazan Pants also give a defense buff along with the Archer Attack buff but won't get you a set bonus. If you don't have access to any of these pieces, the Courageous Achaemenidae Pants will also sneak you in some Archer Attack buffs in the meantime. Ring Thoughts: The Plantagenet Ring is the clear choice for your Archer General. A strong Attack buff as well as a March Capacity buff go a long way towards making your Archer march as strong as possible. In the meantime, the Fearless Achaemenidae Ring will work wonders until you can replace it with the Plantagenet. At that time, it becomes a hand me down to a sub gen!

Well it seems that Barbarians will be a repeating event so here we are! Arctic Barbarians Invasion can be found here in the same menu as your Eggs, Daily login, ect while the event is active. By navigating to the Monarch Scores page you can see that you only have a certain number of "chances" a day. I put chances in quotes because it's a little misleading. What it really means is that you have 10 SUCCESSFUL hits on a Barbarian Castle per day. So if you hit one and lose, it does not take one of your "chances." Picking a Barbarian: First off, there are 6 levels of Barbarians. Most people over K30 are going to ignore levels 1-3 and mainly be looking at 4s as thats where the real points start. While you may be tempted to just rally the biggest ones with your friends and occupy those. You might be costing yourself points. Save your chances for ones that you can max out the maximum occupying power for. You can see the minimum and maximum march power for points in each City by visiting its Info menu. The reason you want to use your chances only on one's you can max is because the max points from a level 4 is more than the minimum points from a level 5. For example, the 158mil power level 4s give 3824 points per second when your march in it is max or higher. Whereas the same power march will get you half if that in the lowest power requirement level 5. Bigger alliances that have people who can march 150mil+ power at a time might look at rallying the bigger level 5s since they can all fill the requirements for max points. Killing a Barbarian: Time to test out your Arch march. Have some fun, as the damages taken from Barbarians is very little compared to if you took the same test in SvS or battlefield! With a really strong Archer buff (1100%+) you can potentially solo the weakest level 5 which is the 334mil power as it has lower buffs than the 314mil power one. If you can't do that, then search for level 4s of 105mil+ power as those will give you the most bang for your buck. I'd say you need around 800% archer attack buff for the 158s, but the 105mil could easily be done with 600%. Make sure you are using a properly layered Arch March that is heavy on the t12s as you would in any PvP situation. How I've found to get a ton of points: Your chances are only used if you actually participated in the battle for the city. So if someone else hits a Barbarian and opens it, you can Occpy it without using one your chances. If 3 people in your alliance open 10 105mil+ Barbarians, that's potentially 30 chunks of passive points for you to gain while you do dishes or take a shower or make a Guide on Arctic Barbarians 😉. Rewards: First place has some pretty heavy rewards and the top 10 in general isn't to shabby. Top 5 is what gets that beautiful Jade Castle that everyone wants. But along the way you will get Barbarian Chests as rewards for point milestones. In the end if you make it all the way through, it comes out to a nice chunk of gems for you to spend just for doing something super passive.