Research & HQ

Complete data one click deeper: HQ Construction — Full Table (1–35) · Research Badge Costs — Full Tables (all 6 trees) · Tech Tree Stats — What Every Tree Gives (verified live) · Army Expansion Research — Full Data (Season 3)

Research trees

104 nodes across 6 badge trees — plus Army Expansion, the 7th tree arriving with Season 3 (see below).

Tree	Nodes	Max level	Total badges	Share of all badge spend
Hero Training	13	10	39,590	1.2%
Siege to Seize	18	20	267,375	8.3%
Alliance Recognition	19	20	356,770	11.0%
Fully Armed Alliance	18	20	492,920	15.2%
Field	14	20	594,430	18.3%
Unit Special Training	22	20	1,488,100	45.9%
All trees	104		3,239,185	100%

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Hero Training is the cheapest complete tree by a wide margin — 1.2% of total badge spend for a fully finished tree. Obvious early target.

Unit Special Training is 46% of all badge spend in the game. Budget for it accordingly; it’s the long pole.

Unlock requirements

Tree	Requires
Hero Training	HQ 8 + Lab 8
Siege to Seize	Lab 8 + Elite Troops 100% + Military Strategies 40%
Field	Lab 8 + New Home 100% + Elite Troops 100% + Military Strategies + Siege to Seize 100%
Fully Armed Alliance	Lab 8 + New Home 100% + Season 1 alliance requirement

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Army Expansion — the Season 3 tree 🆕

The 7th research tree unlocks on day 50 of Season 3 (your base must also have HQ 33 + Rapid Growth 50%; it becomes visible at Rapid Growth 30%). It is paid in Electricity and Zents, not badges — and it is by far the biggest resource sink in the game: 26 nodes, 310 levels, 19.06B Electricity + 17.16B Zents, 11,031 days of raw research time. For scale, the whole tree costs 6× the Zents of the entire HQ 1→35 run.

What it gives at full completion: +2,500 Troop Capacity, and per unit type: Attack +20, Defense +20, Camp Training Capacity +60, Training Speed +40, Training Cost Reduction +10.

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The tree is front-loaded with its best value — the first Troop Expansion node gives +300 capacity for 113M Electricity; the same +300 costs 4–6× more at its later twins. Full node-by-node and per-level tables (all costs and times) are on the sub-page: Army Expansion Research — Full Data (Season 3)

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What the tech trees actually give you ✅

All 19 tech trees’ Stat Overview panels were read from the live game (2026-09-11) — the full stat list for every tree is on the sub-page below. The headlines:

• Unit-type ATK/DEF stacks high across trees. A fully researched account carries roughly +250% ATK and DEF per unit type from techs alone (Unit Special Training 60% + your unit’s own tree 50% + Fully Armed Alliance 40% + Siege to Seize / Peace Shield / Field 20% each + Elite Troops 15% + Army Building 20% + more).
• The situational trees are huge in their situation: Field gives +60% Field Troop ATK/DEF, Siege to Seize +60% in siege attacks, Peace Shield +60% in siege defenses (plus 80% wall durability recovery). These only apply in their context — which is why the same troops feel very different attacking a city vs defending one.
• Flat hero stats come from two trees: Hero Training (All Heroes’ ATK/DEF +500, faction heroes +200, and the +20 units led per hero) and Tactical Master (faction heroes’ ATK/DEF — +1,500 at 74% progress and still growing). Together they are exactly the “Techs” line you see in a hero’s stat breakdown popup.
• Alliance Recognition is the Alliance Duel tree: +300% all duel points plus +100% to every point source, doubled chests 1–9, and +1 reward tier — on top of 50% gathering speeds and training speed.
• Age of Steel is now complete (its final nodes add Reservist Cap 2,000 and raise Healing to 60%); Tactical Master is the one tree still in progress (74%) — its faction-hero values keep growing. A 20th tree, Leader’s Will, is visible in-game but still locked — it unlocks when Tactical Master reaches 80% research progress.

HQ construction

Levels 1 → 35. Hero level cap = HQ level × 5.

HQ	Hero cap	Raw build time (this level)
28	140	82d 22h
29	145	107d 18h
30	150	140d 01h
31	155	136d 22h
32	160	164d 08h
33	165	197d 05h
34	170	226d 19h
35	175	260d 19h

Full 1 → 35 run: 14,084M Wood · 14,084M Food · 2,821M Zents · 21.1M Steel · 1,542 days of raw build time before any construction speed bonus.

Those times are before speed bonuses — construction speed % is what makes the late HQ levels survivable. The reference CSV has per-level resource costs, the buildings each level unlocks, and cumulative time.

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Where construction, research & training speed come from ✅

All three speed tooltips read live from the same account (2026-09-20). Every line is additive — the game simply sums them:

Source	Construction	Research	Training	Where it comes from
Techs	155%	100%	162%	your own research trees
Alliance Techs	10%	10%	12%	alliance tech donations
Building	61%	70%	99%	building levels
Heroes	40%	40%	210%	hero passive skills (training: the camp’s trainer heroes)
VIP	30%	20%	25%	VIP level
Alliance Cities	10%	—	—	holding alliance cities
Refugee	100%	100%	258%	refugee residents (training: camp Instructors — these scale with stars)
Decorative Building	35%	25%	—	Stargate (construction) / Pharaoh Monument (research)
Total	441%	365%	766%

The training tooltip is per unit camp — its Heroes and Refugee lines depend on which trainer heroes and Instructors that camp has assigned.

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The formula is exact: actual time = raw duration ÷ (1 + speed%). Verified to the second against live buttons — a 16d 10:26:11 raw build shows 3d 00:54:31 at 441% construction speed (÷5.41), and a 19d 20:35:42 raw research shows 4d 06:29:36 at 365% (÷4.65). At these levels, every extra 100 points of speed still shaves ~18% off your remaining timers.

Two practical notes: there is only one decoration of each growth type (Stargate for construction, Pharaoh Monument for research) — nothing to stack, just max the one you have. And the Refugee line (+100%/+100%/+258%) is among the biggest single sources on the list — refugee residents, especially Diplomats and camp Instructors, are speed infrastructure, not a side system. See the Refugee guide.

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Alliance Duel

Nine chests per day at rising score thresholds. Day 1–5 rewards:

Chest	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Daily total
Score needed	20k	80k	300k	550k	840k	1.5M	2.2M	3M	6M	—
Badges	20	30	45	30	60	120	75	150	300	830
Enhancement Alloy	—	—	10,000	—	—	20,000	—	40,000	40,000	110,000
Orange Fragments	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	2
Orange Skill Books	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	10	10	20
Purple Hero Fragments	—	—	3	—	—	5	—	—	—	8
Duel Master Supply Box	—	—	2	—	—	3	—	5	5	15

On x2 days everything doubles — 1,660 badges and 220,000 Alloy in a single day.

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Chests 8 and 9 carry all the Orange Fragments and Orange Skill Books, and 80,000 of the 110,000 Alloy. The jump from chest 7 (2.2M) to chest 9 (6M score) is where the real rewards live — worth planning duel days around.

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Every research node’s per-level badge cost, the full HQ table, every tech tree’s complete stat list, and the complete Army Expansion cost tables are on the sub-pages below.

HQ Construction — Full Table (1–35)

Research Badge Costs — Full Tables (all 6 trees)

Tech Tree Stats — What Every Tree Gives (verified live)

Army Expansion Research — Full Data (Season 3)