Requirements
Requirements can include:
- alliance must already have a foreign territorial foothold;
- a controlled Military Stronghold must directly connect to the target City;
- R4+ / management handles declaration;
- Use the target City’s countdown to plan how long you have to complete the capture after declaring.
Limits
Check these Expedition rules in your active event before declaring:
- Check how many City declarations remain for your alliance on this eligible day.
- Check the separate Military Stronghold capture limit before planning multiple attacks.
- Confirm the holding limit for Cities your alliance controls in other warzones.
Before planning your route, check how much City capacity remains.
- Check the home-warzone, foreign-warzone and total City limits in the active City List.
Scheduling
The City-protection rule now matters more than ever:
- protection ends at 12:00 server time;
- after the six-full-day period, Warzone Declaration pushes the endpoint to the next eligible Wednesday/Saturday declaration day.
This means Week 4 leadership should maintain a protection calendar, not a list of approximate capture dates.
Declaration-day leadership checklist
Before declaring:
- Confirm Stronghold connection.
- Confirm City is actually attackable on the live timer.
- Confirm the alliance has a City declaration left.
- Check whether another City siege is already active.
- Pre-position active attackers.
- Confirm hospital/troop recovery readiness.
- Plan what happens if the City is captured — route, protection, defense and holding-cap implications.
After capture:
- Record the exact live protection countdown.
- Check the new Stronghold holding capacity.
- Confirm whether the City improves the route toward Lv6 / Capitol.
- Prepare defense/diplomacy before the next declaration window.