Alliance of Glory: Top 10 Tips
Learn how to gain resources and avoid being zeroed in this addictive mobile SLG. Think State of Survival, Guns of Glory gameplay with a magical, medieval bent.
1. Make friends
Alliance of Glory is not a game you can play by yourself. At least, not well. You need teammates to help you protect your city and become more powerful.
On your first day, check out the list of top alliances in your region. Get into the best one that will have you. Some alliances require 100k or 150k power before you’re allowed to apply. Spend some time upping your power so you can join these top-level groups.
Don’t join an alliance just to be in any old alliance. Some features (like building an Alliance Center) only open if you have multiple people playing and contributing. Being in a dead alliance won’t bring any benefits. Active alliances can help with everything from speeding up construction to taking down bigger monsters. You can’t rally if you’re the only active player.
The top alliances on every server are likely to be filled up at any given time. That’s okay. Work on getting your power up first. Once you fulfill the requirements, ask in chat if there are any spots opening up in your desired guild. Alliance officers regularly cull inactive players to make room for people who will contribute.
2. Don’t make enemies
The flipside of making friends is avoiding making enemies. Depending on when you start playing, there might be players and alliances with a million power while you are working on your first few hundred. If you’re super annoying or aggressive in chat, some players will wipe you out because it’s funny. It won’t cost them anything except time to find your base (and potentially a teleport scroll for easier raiding).
If you have a larger goal in the game, like getting 500k power, making even one enemy can set you back significantly.
Yes, there is a protective bubble for new players, but it won’t save you forever. Joining an active alliance is both the best offense AND defense. Your alliance speeds up your timers while discouraging drive-by plunderings.
3. Avoid using troops while fighting in the field
This is a super common tip shared in forums and chat. Here’s what it actually means:
In your city, you can train several types of troops from infantrymen to siege weapons. On the world screen, you can assign troops to accompany your hero characters in battles. Press the hero portrait on the lower right side of your screen to see the hero and the troops associated with them.
Then, press on the hero in the field to drag the troop number down to zero. Save the change by pressing anywhere on the screen EXCEPT the cancel button. (Hitting the Cancel button takes your heroes out of the field entirely. When you put them back in, the troops come back, too.)
Don’t press the Quick button! That just fills up your troops with new fighters to replace injured ones.
The reason that you don’t put troops in the field is that the troops can get injured. Then, you need to use resources and time to heal the troops back to full health. Heroes don’t need any recuperation time and can be sent out repeatedly as long as you have the stamina.
In other words, damage to your troop turns into damage to your resources. Avoid this extra resource drain by using heroes only.
4. Kill monsters. And keep killing them.
Killing monsters is the most efficient way to get resources (food, wood, stone, and ore). Go to the world screen and look for monsters. You can either manually drag the camera around to look or use the magnifying glass to automatically find hot monster singles in your area.
Fighting with no troops, only heroes, brings your power down a bit. Therefore, fight a few levels below the rank you’ve unlocked. If you can use the magnifying glass to find monsters that are level 8, you probably want to look for monsters that are level 6 instead.
There are daily and recommended quests for killing these monsters. Some monster-killing quests give out stamina jars. As long as you’re only sending out heroes and not troops, you can fight monsters almost indefinitely. The fights cost stamina, but reaching quest benchmarks rewards you with more stamina.
One exception to the no-troop rule: some quests reward you for killing monsters of a certain level. You can equip your troops to complete the quest of killing 3 monsters at level 8, but make sure to put them away afterwards.
5. Focus on only a handful of heroes
You can only put three heroes in each lineup, and they can’t overlap in categories. For example, you can’t put Grand Chief with War Lord. Check the tiny class icons in the top left of the portrait on the Hero screen.
You get your first lineup immediately, then the second one fairly soon after. Three heroes in two lineups is six heroes. (You can unlock a third rally slot eventually, but your priority should be your chosen six heroes.)
Hero level is limited by your Monarch level. My strategy is to level my first six as high as I can, then save the XP scrolls. When I hit a new Monarch level, my stockpile can instantly level up a few heroes to the new tier, instead of getting a bunch of heroes only halfway.
6. Don’t neglect seemingly unrelated game mechanics
Alliance of Glory has a lot of moving parts. You’ve got your campaign, puzzles, alliance quests, daily quests, event quests, research, monarch talents, and the list goes on. Each part of the game feeds into the other. If you want to do better in the campaign portion, then you have to kill a ton of monsters in the field to get the XP to level up yourself and your characters.
If you’re trying to get level 16 guild hall, you can’t focus just on building. Make your troops strong so they can go into the world and kill monsters. Monsters have a chance of dropping resource boxes, and you need a literal ton of resources to upgrade your buildings.
Researching technology also boost construction speed. Your Technology Center will change your personal stats. In Alliance Technology, contribute resources and gold to unlock buffs for everyone in the group.
Depending on your goals, it may be worthwhile to put a few of your free gems into your VIP level. Earn gems through quests, then level up to VIP 3 to get a 5% construction speed boost.
Explore every part of the interface to make sure you’re getting every boost available.
7. Change your name!
Everyone starts the game with the default tag of Monarch, plus a bunch of random letters. It’s free to change your name and you can do so almost immediately. Just tap the hero portrait in the top left corner of the screen, then hit the pencil next to your monarch name.
Why is it so important? Well, having a basic Monarch name indicates you’re either new to the game or you don’t know what you’re doing. Both are enticing flags to other players looking for resources. A player with a Monarch name, no alliance tag, and a level higher than 5 is the holy trinity to aggressive players. They see you as free resources with no downside.
8. Don’t burn out your device
Alliance of Glory can take a toll on your phone, especially if you’ve got an older model. I used to go months without having my phone die on me. After I got this game, I ran out of battery three times a day. Keep your charger handy so you don’t have the same issue.
The game can get fairly laggy, too. If you’re playing for a long session, you’ll probably have to close the game a few times and even restart your device. Besides being annoying, the lag can have a real impact.
Some puzzles depend on barriers and sliders moving at a precise time. If your game is lagging, you won’t have the correct timing and you won’t be able to pass the level. It’s not just you! Fix it by restarting your device or playing the puzzles at the start of your gaming session, not the end. You’ll spend 99% of the time killing monsters anyway, but the puzzles are a nice distraction.
9. Spend a few dollars, strategically
Like any mobile game, Alliance of Glory has lots of goodies to entice you to spend some cash. There’s nothing wrong with spending a little money to level fast. Personally, I spent $5 on the Monthly Card then another $5 on 2,000 gems. This unlocked two tiers of Rising Path, which gives extra resources depending on how many gems you purchase.
Since my goal was to level my guild hall fast, this $10 saved me a ton of time and headaches. For the price of a movie ticket, I got way more than 2 hours of entertainment (and all the theaters are closed here anyway).
10. Be lucky
This one is going to hurt, but it’s true. Alliance of Glory works like pretty much everything else in life. The earlier you get there, the easier it is to have an impact. If you are one of the last ones to arrive in your region, you’re going to have a harder time.
And joining an alliance? Part of that involves luck, too. I played a few hours my first night and got into a top five alliance. If I didn’t get into that alliance, I might not still be playing this game.
Don’t get me wrong; I love this type of game for addicting and grindy gameplay. There are a million moving parts and lots of things to do. But ultimately the game hinges on the people you play with and around. And that’s just luck.
“Rhinos are beautiful and loyal. Orcs are rude and reckless. Men are full of lies.” — Rhinoceros Hunter
