Alliance Mobilization Guide and the R4/R5 Leadership Playbook

01Alliance Mobilization — task strategy

• ❄Format: a 6-day, monthly task event. You draw personal tasks, complete them for personal points plus alliance league points.
• ❄Task quality is the game: tasks come in blue / purple / gold tiers, and gold tasks are worth a multiple of blue ones. The core reroll discipline: reroll low-value tasks you’re not already positioned to finish, and never burn rerolls in the first hour when your task board is still flexible.
• ❄Take tasks you were already going to do. A gold “train troops” task during a troop-scoring week is double value; the same task forcing off-plan spending is a trap wearing a gold border.
• ❄Coordinate at alliance level: officers should post which task types the alliance is short on daily. League placement is a team score — ten members optimising alone lose to forty members optimising together.
• ❄Late-event discipline: in the final 24 hours, complete what’s completable and stop drawing. Unfinished tasks at the buzzer score nothing.

02Run the event calendar like a timetable

The full answer to “how to run an alliance as R5” is mostly scheduling. Bear Hunt every ~48 hours — run two traps so both time-zone halves of the alliance can attend, and make the Explosive Arrowhead donation call before every single hunt (the +25% attack bonus resets each time). Foundry registration (30+10) closes before matchmaking; post the roster early. SvS preparation has 5 scoring days with a different currency each day — publish the week’s spend-plan on day zero, not day three.

03Alliance tech: donations with a published priority

Alliance technology (Growth / Territory / Battle trees) is researched from member donations, and members donate more when they can see the plan. Publish the donation priority: Growth first for a young alliance (it compounds everyone’s progress), Battle branches timed to land before SvS battle phase. A visible queue beats a silent one — donation fatigue is usually information fatigue.

04Helps, gifts and the quiet income

Embassy helps shave every member’s timers daily; alliance gifts from member purchases redistribute value across the whole roster — a structural reason mid-spending alliances retain F2P members well. Officers set the norm: helps are a login ritual, not a favour.

05Know the exit and transfer rules before you need them

Leaving and joining interacts with event lockouts — you generally cannot contribute to a new alliance’s events immediately, and state transfer requires leaving your alliance first. The transfer cycle itself runs roughly every 4–7 weeks in three phases (Pre-Transfer 3 days → Invitational 2 days → Open Transfer 2 days), costs 1–50 Transfer Passes by your Transfer Score, and passes can be earned from the Alliance Shop at 150,000 Alliance Tokens (1 per week). Alliances that plan a move together — agreeing the target state, the power cap implications, and the week — arrive intact; alliances that improvise scatter. An R5 who publishes the transfer plan a full cycle ahead is offering the single most valuable service in the game.

06Recruitment that works on a private server

• ❄Recruit on the event calendar: “Bear Hunt twice a day, both time zones, Foundry roster open” is a stronger pitch than power numbers — it tells a migrant exactly what their Tuesdays look like.
• ❄Reserve migration slots before a new State opens. New states open on a fixed rhythm; alliances that pre-register a roster land as an organised bloc on day one, which is when the first Castle races are actually decided.
• ❄Give officers defined jobs: one R4 owns the event calendar, one owns tech donations, one owns recruitment. Named ownership is the difference between an alliance and a chat group.