Stacking calculator

Sizes every stack in a march so it carries a deliberate health ladder: the lower the tier, the more health its stack holds, so that is the one the enemy goes for and your best troops are the last to fall. Sized for a run at an epic monster; other fights want a different order and will get their own page.

March

What the game shows you. Leadership houses trained troops, Dominance monsters and Authority mercenaries — three separate bags, so what one holds costs the others nothing.

LeadershipDominanceAuthorityMargin

How much more health the first stack you want to lose carries than the last. It is spread across the loss order, so every stack sits a little above the one that falls after it.

At zero they all come out the same size and which one the enemy eats first is the game's choice, not yours. It does not need to be much — the sizing trims whatever the rounding puts out of place — and 5.5 % is the figure the community calculators grew up with.

%Monster discount

This one stands in for a health bonus you have not typed. A monster carries health from the Monsters Boost tree that this page cannot see, so its real stack is fatter than the figures here say, and the sizing hands it more monsters than it needs.

The discount takes that back: monster stacks are sized as if each monster held this much more health than its panel says. 10 % is the figure the community calculators use.

It is the quick way, and it is the less exact one. Fill in the real health bonus of every group you are fielding — the + ❤️ % beside any troop — and this stops being used, because then the page knows the true number instead of standing in for it.

%Siege engine top-up

The same thing, the other way round. A siege engine gets less health bonus than the troops around it, so it arrives thinner than its six times strength suggests, and the sizing gives it a smaller stack than the order wants.

The top-up hands it back: siege stacks are sized as if each engine held this much less health than its panel says, which makes the stack bigger and keeps the catapult where it belongs — first to fall. 10 %, same as the discount.

And the same trade: type the real bonuses in and this stops being used.

%Monster batch

This one is about Dragon Coins. An attack on an epic — and on nearly everything else, bar the odd event that says otherwise — costs you a tenth of your dead for good: the temple brings back the rest, that tenth is gone.

Lose twenty monsters and eighteen come back. Lose twenty-one and eighteen come back, the same eighteen, and the extra one is simply spent. A monster trains in the barracks like the rest, but it wants Dragon Coins on top of its Silver, and coins are far harder to come by — so it pays to send them in whole tens.

Put a batch size here and monster stacks are trimmed down to the nearest one;leave it at zero and they are not. It only trims, so the march still fits, and a stack too small to hold one whole batch is left as it is.

Order of loss

Which of your troops the march spends first — drag them into the order you want. The default suits epic monsters: the siege engines first, then the trained troops tier by tier — specialist ahead of guardsman in each — then the monsters, and the mercenaries last of all. A CP run wants another order, and this is where to change it.

Pick some units and the order shows up here.

It only decides ties inside a tier. The tier below always falls first, whatever this says.