Barbarian Battles
Rise of Kingdoms Guide
Searching for Barbarians and trying to defeat them is a quick and easy way to boost your resources with a chance to game a small amount of gems for free too.
To get started, tap the magnifying glass which is in the bottom right of the screen while in the map view, then select Barbarians, adjust the level that you want to search for, and then go.
You can then tap the barbarians that you find and choose to attack them, assign your troops and click the march button. You will also see an estimate that the game makes of your chances of victory, comments such as 'Victory in the bag' generally means you'll win the battle with not so many injuries.
As well as resources, defeating barbarians is a great way to pick up Tomes of Knowledge which can be used to upgrade your commanders. To do this go to the Commanders tab, then select a Commander and tap on the green plus icon to utilise these tomes of knowledge to upgrade your Commander.
Each attack on Barbarians does use up some action points, but you do have lots, and they are restored over time. you will also sustain some injuries, so there will be a resource cost to heal your troops at the hospital too.
For more advanced techniques to attack barbarians, check out this page of our guide: How to Attack Barbarians Efficiently for a selection of best commanders to use and how to chain attack barbarians using one lot of AP for multiple barbarian groups.
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