🪓 Viking Vengeance
Viking Vengeance guide
Twenty waves of raiders, forty minutes, one alliance holding the line. Which waves actually decide your score — and the reinforcement play most alliances miss.
Viking Vengeance in one breath: a recurring alliance defense event (typically Tuesdays and Thursdays, ~40 minutes) where 20 escalating waves of Vikings attack your members and, twice, your alliance HQ. A wave is defended when your side kills at least half its troops. Score comes from smart reinforcement — not raw power.
The wave map — where the points live
All twenty waves count, but five of them decide your event:
| Wave | Target | Why it matters |
|---|
| 7 | Online members only | First of the three highest-scoring member waves |
| 10 | Alliance HQ | First HQ siege — garrison must hold |
| 14 | Online members only | Second big member wave |
| 17 | Online members only | Third and hardest member wave |
| 20 | Alliance HQ | The finale — biggest siege of the event |
The detail that changes everything: waves 7, 14 and 17 target online members only. An online city stuffed with alliance reinforcements soaks a huge wave and converts it into points; an offline or empty city just doesn't get the chance.
⚠️ Wave targeting and schedules can shift with game updates — confirm against your own event screen and battle logs.
The strategy: turn your cities into kill-boxes
- Be online, visibly. Since the big waves only hit online players, every member logged in during the event is another target the alliance can farm points through.
- Reinforce before 7, 14 and 17. Pile reinforcements into the online cities that can hold them — kills scored by reinforcements are the event's biggest point source. Coordinate who gets stacked in alliance chat before the wave lands, not during.
- Empty the barracks. Troops sitting at home in someone else's wave earn nothing. Send them out as reinforcements so they're where the fighting is. Community consensus
- Garrison heroes matter. Your city's Guard Station heroes buff every troop defending there — including the reinforcements your allies parked with you. Put your three strongest defensive heroes in before the event.
- Save your best for the HQ sieges. Waves 10 and 20 hit the alliance headquarters — that's where your strongest defenders and hero lineups should be committed, especially for the wave-20 finale.
The 50% rule: a wave counts as defended when at least half its troops die. That's why concentration beats dispersion — five heavily-stacked cities that each butcher their wave outscore twenty half-defended ones.
Heroes & setup Community consensus
This is a defense event: garrison and defensive-buff heroes carry it, and community guides converge on a short list of top garrison anchors. Rather than freeze a list that shifts every patch, check the current defensive picks in our ranked data before the event:
➡️ Hero tier list (garrison role) · Hero database
Rewards
Defended waves feed both individual rewards and your alliance ranking, and the headline payout is Governor Gear crafting materials — one of the steadier sources of the mats behind the gear scores in our Gear Planner. Twice a week, forty minutes, materials you can't reliably farm elsewhere: it's among the best time-for-value events the game runs.
The R4/R5 two-minute brief before each run
- Ping the alliance ~15 minutes out: "Vikings at [time] — be ONLINE." (A copy-ready event reminder does it in one paste.)
- Name the 4–6 stack cities for the member waves and tell everyone else to send reinforcements there.
- Confirm Guard Station heroes are set in the stack cities.
- Assign who reinforces the HQ for waves 10 and 20.