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• Headquarters (HQ) — the heart of your base; sets the max level for every other building. Upgrade it first — everything else is gated behind it.
• Laboratory — unlocks and runs research; required for almost every HQ upgrade past level 8. Keep it busy.
• City Wall — no real stat benefit; it's purely a required prerequisite for HQ progression at several levels.
• Alliance Center — needed for HQ upgrades and for Helping Hands (alliance helps), and required to upgrade Rally Centers, which raise your rally member cap and rally damage %.

• Assaults Camp — trains Assaulters; you can only have one, and leveling it raises training speed and the number of troops trained per queue.
• Shooter Camp — trains Shooters; unlocks at HQ 10 and repeats through the cycle.
• Rider Camp — trains Riders; unlocks at HQ 11 and repeats through the cycle.
• Training Ground — increases your alloy income (not training speed); unlocks at HQ 8.
• Emergency Hospital — heals wounded troops after battle; critical for SvS. Unlocks at HQ 9.

• Farmhouse — produces food passively — the most-consumed resource, so keep it up.
• Lumber Mill — produces wood, needed for most upgrades.
• Power Plant — produces electricity for research and advanced upgrades.
• Warehouse — protects resources from being looted — higher level shields more.

• Military Center — increases your troop count (not attack/defense); unlocks at HQ 6.
• Radar — improves the enemy detail you see when scouting; it does not extend map visibility. No need to level past 17. Unlocks at HQ 5.
• Bookstore — boosts building and research speed as it levels; no other stats.
• Villa — same as the Bookstore: building and research speed only, no other stats.
• Rapid Growth — reduces construction timers; unlocked via HQ Management research — one of the best QoL upgrades.

• Order — upgrade HQ, Lab and Troop Camps first — don't spread across every building at once.
• Hospital — keep it high — troops saved in battle are troops you don't retrain.
• Warehouse — often overlooked — if you're being farmed, upgrading it protects a lot of resources.

• Rock–paper–scissors — each faction beats one and loses to one.
• The wheel — Guard of Order beats Wings of Dawn · Wings of Dawn beats Blood Rose · Blood Rose beats Guard of Order.
• No best faction — it depends entirely on what the enemy runs.
• Before a fight — check the enemy lineup and field the faction that counters the majority of their heroes.