Age of Origins: Best Officer Setup for LRA Cities

To optimize a Long Range Attack (LRA) city in Age of Origins, focus your officer experience, star fragments, and skill books entirely on backline damage, frontline Melee durability, and total fleet capacity. Upgrading Mid-Range or pure Melee damage officers dilutes scarce development resources and weakens your Snipers and Cannons during high-stakes combat.

Core Warfare Officers

An effective LRA setup requires a balance between offensive ranged amplification and defensive frontline shielding. Snipers and Cannons produce the majority of your army's damage, but they cannot fire effectively if your frontline meatshields collapse early in battle.

Simon (Warfare - Offense): Enhances Long-Range unit attack power directly, increasing volley damage against enemy frontlines.
Aeon (Warfare - Offense): Supplies complementary offensive Warfare stats that help eliminate opposing targets before enemy units reach your backline.
T-Med (Warfare - Defense): Boosts Melee HP, substantially extending the lifespan of frontline Tanks and Infantry.
Alexandria (Warfare - Defense): Grants Melee defense and damage reduction, ensuring your protective wall survives multiple rounds.

Key Strategy Officers for March Size

Troop count functions as a core damage multiplier in battle mechanics. Increasing march limits allows you to field more damage-dealing ranged units while maintaining enough frontline troops to absorb incoming fire.

Major Morgan: Increases command capacity, expanding the overall number of units allowed in offensive marches and rallies.
Saki: Compounds march expansion and boosts reinforcement limits alongside Major Morgan.

Officers to Avoid Upgrading in an LRA Build

Do not invest Officer EXP containers or Purple Officer Fragments into Mid-Range specialists or Melee-damage commanders. Mid-Range units suffer heavy losses in standard LRA march compositions, meaning stat boosts allocated to them provide no benefit to your backline Snipers and Cannons.

Officer Category	Priority LRA Focus	Commanders to Leave at Base Level
Warfare (Offense)	Simon, Aeon	Kingsley, Eric, Butterfly
Warfare (Defense)	T-Med, Alexandria	Pure Melee-Attack focused officers
Strategy (Command)	Major Morgan, Saki	Single-unit auxiliary marshals
Director / Economy	Passive resource collectors (stars only)	Non-combat active EXP sinks

Conserve high-tier fragments and officer books by leaving Kingsley, Butterfly, and Eric at level one.

Skill Book Priorities

Once your primary officers unlock skill slots through star promotions, equip combat books tailored to ranged output and tank durability:

Long-Range Attack: Equip this first across your offensive warfare officers to apply flat percentage multipliers to your highest-tier Snipers and Cannons.
Fleet Size Extensions: Place march capacity expansions on Strategy commanders to increase total troop deployment.
Melee HP: Equip on defensive warfare officers such as T-Med to reinforce your frontline barrier.
Long-Range HP: Slot into secondary slots to protect backline troops against counter-battery fire.

Recycle duplicate or off-spec skill books—such as Melee Attack, Mid-Range Defense, and gathering speed—into Skill Experience points. Reinvest those points directly into leveling your Long-Range Attack and Melee HP books.

Recommended Upgrade Progression

Follow this four-phase sequence to maximize the efficiency of your officer roster:

Recruit Core Ranged Officers: Acquire Simon and Aeon through elite recruitment, exchange events, or nation stores, raising their base levels to activate foundational LRA boosts.
Unlock March Boosts: Promote Major Morgan and Saki to two stars to unlock their initial fleet expansion skills.
Strengthen Frontline Defense: Promote T-Med and Alexandria, directing fragments toward T-Med to raise Melee HP percentages.
Refine Skill Slots: After Simon and Morgan achieve three-star breakthroughs, open secondary skill slots and equip upgraded Long-Range Attack and Melee HP books.