New Player Guide

Two setup jobs are worth doing before your second match, and both are already written up in full. Don't skip them: some settings are VERY important as they can provide crucial information.

Choosing your class in Conqueror's Blade is like any MMO: go for something you enjoy, not just what's meta. Think about what kind of playstyle excites you: do you want to chase down heroes, frontline, or support units? Start with a strong temporary class that's viable regardless of the meta thanks to its strong base kit, then, once you have a feel for the game, take time to pick a main using the hero weapons tierlist. You can test classes with the Master-at-Arms NPC.

Once you're ready to lock in your main class, check out the hero guides forum from top players of each class (on Discord). Since there's limited customization and no unique build, following these top players' builds closely is recommended to make the most of your hero.

Hold the frontline

You anchor the fight up close while your warband does the work around you. This is also the strongest warband lane for a new player: the honor tree below rushes you straight to Stalwart ("Goat, rush ASAP") and Claymore, and later the seasonal Spartans ("meta, beginner-friendly, high carry, strongest frontline right now").

Chase them down

Picks, flanks, and punishing anyone out of position. The rush goal below literally builds you a cav lane: Coutiliers early as your T2 cav, then a T5 like Liao's Rangers ("a very OP and easy cav right now") or Yorkist ("very broken and can be rushed").

Fight at range

Pressure from a distance and make blobs regret existing. Zykalian Militia ("Best T3 Exotic") is the very first stop on your honor path, with Rattan Vipers as a later filler. On the hero side, Musket's job on the tierlist is "Anti-exo & Range".

Command first

If commanding is the fantasy, your units do the carrying and your hero exists to enable them. Positioning beats mechanics here: anti-cav anchors like Fortebraccio (an "okish anti-cav" you pass through on the rush) and later Sunward Phalanx ("the best anti-cav of the game") reward reading the map over clicking fast.

As a new player, one of your main goals is to build a functional and versatile warband by level 200. Like hero builds, there isn't a lot of diversity, but you do have options, so select from meta units while prioritizing those you enjoy. Flexibility is crucial in Conqueror's Blade: adapt your units based on your team's needs, map, and meta.

The honor tree rush

Main goal: rush Stalwart + 1 cav. Take this path, in order:

1. Zykalian Militia "Best T3 Exotic": your first real unit, and it stays useful.
2. Condottieri Guards "Bad": a toll on the road. Unlock and keep walking.
3. Fortebraccio "Okish anti-cav": fine while you pass through.
4. Stalwart "Goat, rush ASAP": the destination. Everything above exists to get you here.
5. Then rush Claymore in the honor tree (requiere masterie but are goated too!).
6. Later fillers: Rattan Pikemen or Coutiliers (T2 cav) / Rattan Vipers.

Seasonal unit priorities

As soon as you can select a season! The goal grows to: rush Stalwart + 1 cav + 1 current meta seasonal unit. New to how seasonal units work? That FAQ entry covers it.

The best season to do as a new player is Echo The Unbroken Song. It will give you: enough crafting materials with new player quests for a full crafted set; a good horse to have as a new player; a T5 (gold unit) selection box, best choice in order: Liaos / Phalanx / Modao; and a doctrine V (max lvl) selection box, best choice: Rattan Poison (really make rattans be able to kill T5 and insane blob impact), Linebreaker if you are reaper/zerk/claymores player, Unit DMG V by default if not for the other 2.

Then it's usually best to try and go for the current season, since reaching its T5-5 stage unlocks a special token only available if unlocked during the premier of the season.

Good seasons after all of this

Priority is top to bottom. Go look at gameplay for each unit and decide what u like.

• Roses: Yorkist cavalry is very broken and can be rushed.
• Sparta: go for the T5 Spartans: meta, beginner-friendly, high carry, strongest frontline right now.
• Scourge of Winter: Liao's Rangers is a very OP and easy cav right now, but at this point you may have many cav already.
• Alexander: T4 Companion Cavalry (okish cav), T5 Sunward Phalanx (best anti-cav of the game).
• Eternal: T5 Yanyuedao Cavalry (best special cav of the game, usually meta in every situation due to their passive dealing 70% dmg ignoring dmg reduction of enemy units).
• Wolves of Ragnarok: the T5 Shieldmaidens is micro intensive but very rewarding.
• Dragonrise: T4 Wuwei Mansion Guard (okish flank unit).

Additional tips

• Free leadership doctrines at level 100 and 300 (EU/NA only).
• Fame Envoy (capital cities) gives +732 leadership stuff (can't repair) for blue and purple lock.
• Use the T4 box from the new player quest on one of the 2 cav if not done yet; if all done already: Spear Sergeants.
• Save all mastery scrolls and XP medals for your Stalwart first and then purple cav.
• Season 4 also offers great rewards from Wages of War / Song of Battles, including free T3/T4 units, XP medals, and skill books.
• Join a house for mentorship, bonuses, and faster progress.

From levels 0-200 you'll primarily engage in tutorials and easy matches, often against bots (typically 5v5, with bots filling empty slots). While teaming up with higher-level players can bypass bot matches, these low-pressure games offer valuable advantages: they let you build a strong warband, easily complete seasonal challenges and quests, achieve high scores for substantial XP gains, and prepare for full 15v15 matches starting around level 200.

You'll max out your hero's attributes quickly, usually by level 80-100. How XP flows into your units, the shared XP pool, and the fastest ways to farm it are all covered in one place:

Follow the path above and by the time real matches start you should be able to field: Stalwart / Liao's Rangers or Sunward Phalanx / purple cav / filler T2 unit, hopefully you got lucky during your leadership crafting as a new player. This warband is very competitive and wouldn't look bad in any ranked games, even top elo.

You can replace and adapt with units you like much more, but going for this warband is a secured way to the path of improving and being a good value for your team! Cross-check anything against the ranked tierlist before you invest.

There's no magic set of instructions that'll make the game click instantly. There are too many variables in every situation. I can't just say "shields in front, DPS follows": it's far more complex than that, and that kind of advice is useless most of the time because so many factors come into play. What I can give you is the approach I'd take to learn the game if I were starting fresh today.

Record and review your games, yes even as a casual

Reviewing your own gameplay speeds up your learning curve massively. Just one game a day, and you can watch it sped up so it only takes ~10 min. Grab something like Medal or Nvidia ShadowPlay (if you have an Nvidia GPU), both clip with minimal performance hit. Then look at your fights and ask: "Why did I die there? Could I have played it differently? Should I have taken that fight at all?"

Information is king

From there, knowing how to take fights comes naturally. It shifts a lot with the meta and feels overwhelming at first, but your game-reading builds from experience faster than you'd think: you'll instinctively feel the difference between a good and bad fight, and even when you mess up you'll learn from it.

Where to grow next

Conqueror's Blade is more enjoyable with others, so unless you have friends already playing, or even if you do, I highly recommend joining a house. It's a choice nearly every player endorses as their best decision when starting out; houses also recruit on the official Conqueror's Blade Discord. Please don't hesitate to ask questions on the Discord: there are no bad questions, and the entire community started somewhere. If you have feedback as a new player that you'd like the devs to hear, share it with me and I'll pass it along.