Ever since the Empire gained access to the sea, it began to play a quintessential role in its operations - fishing, trading, prospects for new discoveries. However, together with the many advantages, the sea typhoon also brought with it its own problems. One of which are the pirates that confidently took the front and centre stage. A band of hopeless scoundrels and ruthless cutthroats, ready to kill for just a handful of gold, or even just for a sip of the bottle. No matter how vigorously the Empire scorched this disease, the embers rekindled over and over again while the one flaring them up remained at large.
Fyrin Redbeard, more known as Captain Redbeard - a vile traitor and the most greedy swindler in all the high seas. A murderer, thief, and liar - an ideal role model for the entire pirate brotherhood, both among the many comrades and equally among the large number of those who want him dead. But his death should not be the moment a new leader is born. As a caution to everyone else, Redbeard has to face imperial justice! And to suffer the punishment for all his vile deeds against the Empire!
The only thing left to do was to find and capture the elusive pirate leader. The devilish luck has been smiling upon him for a long while, but its grace is not eternal.
Lords and Ladies, the Empire seeks your help! By the order of Her Majesty the Empress, you are entrusted with the task of setting out on a dangerous expedition to uncharted sea islands in order to track down and capture the pirate leader Fyrin Redbeard, also known as Captain Redbeard. The one appointed as responsible for the expedition results is the dwarven leader Tolgar. Before departure, it is imperative to get your personal armies battle ready and arrange for your best equipment!
Combat Briefing:
- All Lords and Ladies from combat level 5 are invited to participate.
- The battles will take place with the participation of personal factional army.
- Important! At each battle stage, there will be a choice of 3 opponents: 1 ordinary and 2 difficult ones.
- Important! You can challenge the ordinary opponent in any artifacts, enchantments have no effect.
- Important! You can fight one of the difficult opponents either in artifacts from the shop with non-working enchantments (AfS), or in any artifacts without restrictions (FFA) with the sum of the modifier power of at least 40. The minimum combat level for FFA battles is 12.
- Important! Fights against difficult opponents are mutually exclusive. After defeating one of them, the other becomes unavailable.
- Each battle will grant you event points, for which you can bestow magical enhancements on your army (valid only within this expedition).
- The number of points you receive will grow as you move along the map.
- Starting from the 20th battle stage, you will be able to reset all enhancements for 5,000 gold.
- Important! A total of 80 battle stages will be available with gradually increasing levels of difficulty. Battle stages 41-80 will be limited to 80 attempts including fights against both difficult and ordinary opponents.
- Important! Once the limited attempts are exhausted, the difficult opponents in the corresponding section of the expedition will become unavailable for attack, and it will only be possible to complete the expedition in battles on normal difficulty from then on.
- New! Completing the 45th battle stage will unlock the ability to drop a part of the progress and return to the 41st battle stage. The number of attempts will be renewed. You can only do up to 2 drops in total.
- Important! All difficult opponents up to the 40th battle stage inclusively are identical for all players of the same combat level, faction, and class.
- Important! At battle stages 41-80 the enemy factions will be the same for all players of the same faction and class, regardless of their combat level, but with a difficulty coefficient factored in.
- The enemy in regular battles is always selected individually based on the current strength of the player’s army, taking into account the event points scored. Defeating this opponent will allow you to advance further on the expedition map, but the option to return and challenge one of the difficult opponents for the remaining event points and gold will remain.
- Clearing each battle stage will give you its valuable reward only once; additional wins for improved results will only give you the remainder of event points and gold for that stage.
- On the first day, only the initial 10 battle stages will be available, with 10 new stages added each subsequent day.
- The expedition will last for 11 days, through February 1 inclusive.
- The Empire will additionally award a trophy artifact and an event achievement to all Lords and Ladies who defeat the enemy at the 10th battle stage. The artifact’s durability will depend on the number of event points scored.
- No additional rewards other than those listed in this announcement are planned.
Important! During this event, the "Battle Exhaustion" system is in effect. Starting from the 15th turn of any battle, the Lord’s or Lady’s 'Mana recovery' and 'Spirit link' talents and the troop abilities 'Life drain' and 'Battledive' will cease to function for units in the Lords’ and Ladies’ armies, and all enemy units will gain the ability 'Attentive', as well as an increase in initiative and speed. Notifications corresponding to this exhaustion will appear as a warning 1 turn before and at the onset of exhaustion.
During this event you will be able to earn up to 10 parts of War Cloak and up to 10 parts of Magma Shield!
As well as up to 10 parts of War Cloak, based on expedition results.
- The top 75 military clans and all their active members will be specially rewarded. Awarding will be based on the final clan ranking, where each clan’s final score will equal to the sum of points scored by its top 100 members.
- All unblocked Lords and Ladies of successful military clans will be rewarded if they bring at least 25,000 points to their clan.
- If a Lord or Lady leaves or is evicted from their military clan, the clan loses all of that member’s points. If the member rejoins the clan, their points will be returned to the clan’s score.
- Important! Leaving the clan on the last day of the event and before the award ceremony is forbidden.
- Important! Admission to military clans from the second day of the event is limited to 3 Lords or Ladies per day.
- Important! Lords and Ladies who defeat the enemy at the 40th battle stage will not be able to join any military clan until the event is over.
Rewards for active members of top-ranking military clans:
| Clan rank | Reward | Glory | | 1 | | 1,500 | | 2 | | 1,300 | | 3 | | 1,100 | | 4 | | 1,000 | | 5 - 8 | | 900 | | 9 - 13 | | 800 | | 14 - 20 | | 600 | | 21 - 30 | | 500 | | 31 - 45 | | 400 | | 46 - 60 | | 250 | | 61 - 75 | | 100 |
Personal reward for the best 5,000 Lords and Ladies based on the expedition results:
| Lord/Lady rank | Reward | | 1 - 50 | | | 51 - 100 | | | 101 - 200 | | | 201 - 400 | | | 401 - 650 | | | 651 - 1000 | | | 1001 - 1500 | | | 1501 - 2250 | | | 2251 - 3000 | | | 3001 - 3750 | | | 3751 - 5000 | |
Onwards to a journey! |
