A2R Toolbox

Quick Start

A2R Toolbox helps plan two jobs: Epic marches with balanced troop stacks, and Citadel siege volleys with catapults. Enter your capacity, bonuses, and target, then pick units in Detail view. Use the floating button to switch between Detail and Summary.

The screenshots below follow the same order a player would use the app.

Troop Stacking

Troop stacking means sending several unit tiers together instead of only your strongest tier. The app balances selected units so each stack aims for similar effective damage. This helps spread losses, reduce retraining cost, and make repeated epic attacks more consistent.

Epic March Steps

1. Prepare your Hero and ensure you remove any equipment that might alter unit statistics.

   

2. Remove any Captains you aren't using for the attack. Their passive presence in the city can alter unit stats and cause calculation errors.

   

3. Enter your Leadership. Include Dominance and/or Authority thresholds if you plan to deploy Monsters or Mercenaries.

   

4. Select the Epic type you want to fight from the dropdown menu. If your specific target isn't listed (such as seasonal kingdom or special event targets), you can enter its stats manually. Tip: some non-standard epic monsters reuse the same stats as standard epics, so check the dropdown first before typing custom values.

   

5. Configure your Global Modifiers for shared stat increases. This includes your account's total Strength vs Epics % (from artifacts like the Ghostflame Lantern) and your Dragon Strength to Army %. Enter your full Dragon Strength here even if the dragon cannot join the march; The engine will automatically remove it from the final calculation if you uncheck the Dragon included box.

   

6. Select the units you want to include in your stack, then open the Army Bonuses accordion for that tab.

   

7. Save your configuration as a preset using a descriptive name. This allows you to instantly reload your exact troop selections and modifiers before repeated attacks.

   

8. Verified Accuracy: You don't need to manually calculate anything — the engine handles it all. Below is a real-world comparison proving how closely the app's optimized distribution matches actual results.

   

   

Citadel Siege Steps

1. Set up your Hero using the same guidelines as Epic marches (remove combat gear that modifies troop stats). Tip: Global Strength vs Epics % modifiers are automatically ignored by the engine in Citadel Mode.

   

2. Select Citadel siege from the top toggle, then enter the total number of defense walls you need to break.

   

3. Configure your Global Modifiers. Enter your full Dragon Strength % here even if it is not joining the current march. The engine will automatically ignore Epic multipliers and calculate your raw Citadel siege stats

   

4. Compare the app estimates with the actual in-game results.

   

   

Bonuses

• Global Modifiers Shared across all unit tabs. This includes your Strength against Epic %, the Dragon included in march toggle, and your Dragon Strength to Army %.
• Strength against Epic %: Use this to input bonuses from sources like the Ghostflame Lantern artifact. You can find this total value on any unit's in-game statistics screen.
• Army Bonuses The raw Strength % values specific to the active troop tab. This number should reflect your total in-game stats, which already bundle your talents, research, equipment, and permanent account bonuses together.

What The App Does Not Do Yet

• Full Battle Simulation: The engine estimates per-stack damage and kill thresholds, but it does not yet simulate the full battle sequence. Real reports can differ slightly because enemy retaliation, wiped stacks, repeated attack rounds, and leftover enemy counts are handled by the game.
• Mercenary Bonus Rules: Special mercenary multipliers are not fully modeled yet. Mercenaries currently calculate using their base damage values until more reliable in-game data becomes available.
• Defensive Stats & Survivability: Health mechanics, defense ratings, and Dragon Health to Army % are not yet factored into the current distribution algorithms.
• Double-Damage Chances: Unit double-damage chances are not currently simulated. Because of this, "lucky hits" in-game can result in slightly better performance than the app's conservative estimates.

Summary View

• Detail: select units by category and tier; each card shows the current count and stack damage.
• Summary: selected units are grouped by tier and sorted by stack damage so the most important stacks are easy to review.
• Dice icon: marks stacks tied for the highest total damage in your army. Those stacks have the highest chance to be eliminated first.
• When an epic target is selected, Summary can show estimated kills and a warning if a stack's damage is too low to defeat a single enemy unit.

Presets

Presets store the active mode, stat inputs, selected units, Global Modifiers, Army Bonuses, epic target, and citadel wall count in this browser only (local storage)—nothing is uploaded.

Use the preset dropdown to load a saved setup. The action buttons are ordered the same way as the toolbar:

• Reset: Clears stats and unit selections, returns the dropdown to -- Load Preset --, and opens Detail view. Saved presets are unchanged.
• Save: Enabled once the form has values worth saving (stats, walls, selected units, or modifiers). Use Update to overwrite the selected preset or save under a new name.
• Delete: Removes the selected preset after confirmation.
• Export: Needs a preset selected; copies an a2r-preset: share code (v4 includes mode, wall count, modifiers, bonuses, and epic target).
• Import: Adds Imported: ... and loads it. Older codes still import with sensible defaults.

Pro Tips

• Below G3? Just send your best troops and mercenaries; stacking matters more as your account grows.
• Start simple: pick your 2-3 best Guardsman tiers first. Add monsters from matching tiers when you want more damage without spending Leadership.
• Adding too many unit types lowers the damage of each stack. If a stack shows no epic kills, try fewer tiers or stronger units.
• You can add more than the recommended amount of troops. If you're lucky, they can secure extra kills, but it is not guaranteed.