Battle on the Isles. Forts

Forts are Castles that are located on the Royal Isles. Forts become available during the "Battle on the Isles" Tournament. Neutral troops – Isle Guards – and resources can be found there.

There are 30 Forts on the Royal Isles in total: six Forts for every pair of Orders that are participating in the Tournament. Forts can belong to:

• Your Order. These have a green marker. You can send reinforcements to them and set traps there (one trap in each Fort).
• The opposing Order. These Forts have a red marker. During battles, you can attack them, as well as send Raids or scouts to them.
• Other Orders. Their Forts have a gray marker, and you cannot interact with them.

All Forts are located in the depths of the Misty Woods. Lords' Towns cannot be placed in these lands and have Inaccessibility active at the same time.

A Fort's level is determined randomly at the beginning of each phase. This level affects the amount of resources and the number of Isle Guards in the Castle, as well as the number of points the opposing Order will earn for destroying the Fort. Forts can have nine levels in total.

During each phase, opponents' Forts can differ in terms of their levels, but the sum of the levels of one Order's Forts will always be equal to the sum of the levels of the other Order's Forts as of the end of all phases of the Tournament, so that the Orders can earn an equal number of points. 

You can view a Fort's level in the Fort window during the preparation periods and during battles themselves.

You can interact with Forts in different ways during each Tournament phase:

• The waiting period: you can only view information about a Castle.
• Preparation for an attack: during this period, an Order cannot perform any actions in Forts, just as during the waiting period.
• Preparation for defense: Inaccessibility is activated in all Forts, and your Order members can send reinforcements to the Castles that belong to your Order (and the Master and Counselors can also set traps there).
• Assault period: Forts become vulnerable to attack, Raids, or espionage. The defending Order members can still send reinforcements to their Castles and set traps there.

Successfully attacking Forts allows you to do the following:

• Earn Trophies of Arms for killing enemy warriors and the neutral troops that guard the Castles
• Plunder resources
• Earn points in the Tournament

A Fort can have one of two statuses: intact and destroyed. If a Castle is successfully attacked at least once, it catches fire. The defending Order cannot send reinforcements to a burning Castle.

The attacking Order can still send troops to a Fort that has been destroyed until the remaining resources run out. After that, it is not possible to attack the Fort or send Raids to it.