Lords & Ladies, a brand-new era is about to begin in March of Empires. With Update 84, we will officially welcome the legendary world of Vikings into the game, but that is only the beginning. We are adding 4 characters from the Viking saga to the game. Ragnar and Lagertha as Champions & Rollo and Floki as Commanders. The biggest addition arriving with this update is an entirely new system that will reshape how you build and command your armies: Commanders. COMMANDERS ARE HERE 🔥 Starting with Update 84, players will be able to recruit and strengthen powerful Commanders that can be assigned directly to your troops and defense squads. Each Commander comes with unique bonuses, abilities, and progression paths that will allow you to customize your army like never before. At launch, there will be 7 Commanders in total:
• 5 Rare Commanders
• 2 Legendary Commanders inspired by the Vikings - Rollo and Floki!
Each Commander specializes in a specific unit type:
⚔️ Swordsmen
🛡️ Spearmen
🏹 Ranged
🐎 Cavalry
💥 Siege
You will be able to recruit a Commander using just 1 Tome and continue upgrading them through a deep progression system featuring:
• 90 total levels
• 6 ranks
• 6 stars per rank
• Unique abilities and powerful stat boosts 📚 Three new resources are also arriving with the update:
• Tomes → used to recruit and rank up Commanders
• Wisdom → used to level-up your Commanders
• Virtues → used to upgrade Commander skills and specializations These resources can be obtained through multiple gameplay spaces such as event shops, alliance shops, and in-game offers. ✨ A brand-new Virtue system will allow you to shape your Commander through different paths:
• Warfare
• Utility
• Special
Commanders will strengthen your squads directly by increasing attributes such as Attack, Health, Offence, and Defence. Some will even feature completely unique effects and combat mechanics. You can deploy up to 3 Commanders in a march and in your castle defense squad, opening the door for entirely new strategies and combinations. Battle Reports will now also display the Commanders involved and the abilities activated during combat. ⚡We are also introducing new equipment attributes:
• Stackable Army Offence - Gain +% Army Offense for 30 minutes after defeating another player at any location with your Champions leading the army. This effect stacks up to 5 times.
• Stackable Army Defense - Gain +% Army Defense for 30 minutes after defeating another player at any location with your Champions leading the army. This effect stacks up to 5 times.
• Deadly Strike - Gain +% Army Offense on the next attack. Cannot occur again for 10 minutes.
• Gem Bonus - Increases the bonus of any gemstone socketed into this item by +%.