Campaign guide: all 30 battles

By Nishanthan Janarthanarajah · Updated 23 October 2026

The campaign is a chain of 30 hand-made battles against named warlords, from Bandit Goro in the rice paddies to the Shogun's castle. It mixes 15 open-field battles, 5 castle sieges where you storm a walled fort, and 10 castle defences where you hold your own wall against waves. Three are boss battles (☠) with enemy heroes.

Stars and rewards

Every battle has three stars: win, keep your statue or keep above a health threshold, and finish under a time limit. A star opens the next battle and each new star pays 60 war coins, so replaying for three stars is the fastest way to afford heroes.

Every battle

#	Battle	Warlord	Type	Battleground	Briefing
1	Rice Paddy Skirmish	Bandit Goro	Field battle	Mountain Vale	A ragtag band. Learn the ropes.
2	River Crossing	Captain Ishi	Field battle	Misty Marsh	Archers guard the ford.
3	Night Raid	Goro's Brothers	Defence	Mountain Vale	Bandits storm your new wall at night. Man the towers.
4	Burning Village	Raider Kuma	Field battle	Golden Plains	They charge at the horn. Hold the line.
5	Mountain Pass	Lady Oyuki	Siege	Snowfield	A walled pass: archers on four towers, blades behind the gate.
6	The Snow Gate	Oyuki's Avengers	Defence	Snowfield	Two battering rams come for your gate.
7	Shrine of Ashes	Monk Tetsu	Field battle	Blossom Valley	A pincer closes on whoever stands in the centre.
8	Frozen Lake	General Fuyu	Field battle	Snowfield	A wall of glaives on the ice.
9	Siege of the Lake Fort	Fuyu's Rearguard	Defence	Snowfield	Three waves across the ice.
10	Salt Road	Merchant-Lord Hoshi	Field battle	Red Desert	Hired archers, well paid.
11	Red Desert Dunes	Scorpion Akai	Field battle	Red Desert	Fast, hot and merciless.
12	Desert Outpost	Akai's Riders	Defence	Red Desert	Cavalry, rams and a catapult.
13	Castle Gate	Daimyo Kurogane	Siege	Mountain Vale	A true castle. Rams for the gate, catapults for the towers.
14	Bamboo Maze ☠	Shadow Hana, Mistress of Spears	Field battle	Ember Dusk	Her spear-wall never stops moving, and two heroes ride with her.
15	Bamboo Stockade	Hana's Spear Clan	Defence	Ember Dusk	Catapults outrange your towers.
16	Thunder Plateau	Raiden	Field battle	Golden Plains	An elite wedge that never misses the flank.
17	Harbour of Ghosts	Admiral Shiro	Siege	Misty Marsh	Forty archers: twenty on the towers, twenty behind shields.
18	Harbour Watch	Shiro's Marines	Defence	Misty Marsh	Marines and rams out of the fog.
19	Ember Fields	Warlord Homura	Field battle	Ember Dusk	A hundred blades, all running at you.
20	Twin Peaks	The Brothers Yama	Field battle	Snowfield	Two wedges, one from each peak.
21	Mountain Keep	The Yama Host	Defence	Snowfield	Rams first, cavalry through the breach.
22	Obsidian Keep	Kurogane the Elder	Siege	Volcanic Wastes	Black walls and twice the elite guard.
23	Blood Moon Bridge	Oni Mask	Field battle	Ember Dusk	Nothing crosses the bridge alive.
24	Blood Moon Vigil	Oni Mask's Horde	Defence	Ember Dusk	Wave after wave until dawn.
25	Storm Coast	Typhoon Rin	Field battle	Misty Marsh	The storm breaks on your statue.
26	Lantern Festival	Empress Kiku	Field battle	Blossom Valley	Thirty elite. Beautiful and lethal.
27	Festival of Fire	Kiku's Loyalists	Defence	Blossom Valley	Thirty elite behind four rams.
28	Dragon Spine	Ryu the Undefeated	Field battle	Golden Plains	He has never lost. Yet.
29	Throne of Glaives ☠	The Shogun	Siege	Volcanic Wastes	The Shogun's castle, all four champions and every tower manned.
30	The Last Stand ☠	The Shogun's Ghost Army	Defence	Volcanic Wastes	Four waves, two champions, every engine of war.

Tips for the campaign

Train to the army cap before each battle. Survivors come home; the fallen must be retrained in the barracks.
Defences come in waves: man all four towers with Archers or Bombers before the first wave and refill them in the breather between waves.
For sieges, bring battering rams for the gate and catapults for the towers.
Boss warlords bring heroes. Save your own hero ability for when theirs appears.

Campaign questions

How many battles are in the campaign?

30: 15 open-field battles, 5 castle sieges and 10 castle defences, including 3 boss battles.

How do I unlock the next battle?

Earn at least one star in a battle to open the next one. Replay any battle to collect all three stars.

How do stars work?

Each battle has three objectives: win, keep your statue (or keep) above a health threshold, and finish under a time limit. Every new star pays war coins.

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