To avoid resource shortages and progression bottlenecks in Heroes of History: Epic Empire, follow a strict upgrade order for your city while maintaining a balanced core hero team. Upgrade your Main Hall first, focus immediately on gold and food production buildings next, and finish with your military facilities. Simultaneously, spread your experience materials across your entire active formation instead of over-investing in a single hero.
City Expansion and Building Upgrade Sequence
Managing city infrastructure requires balancing space expansion with structured construction. Clearing debris and obstacles inside your territory unlocks necessary building slots, but expanding without a plan leads to resource deficits.
To maintain steady income for construction and troop production, execute upgrades in a three-step cycle whenever your Main Hall advances.
| Priority | Building Focus | Primary Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Main Hall | Central Administrative Hub | Unlocks higher building upgrade caps and new city expansion tiers. |
| 2. Resource Facilities | Gold & Food Nodes | Generates hourly passive income to fund construction, training, and upgrades. |
| 3. Military Facilities | Training & Combat Buildings | Expands troop capacity and military upgrades once economic production is stable. |
Prioritize upgrading gold and food production nodes immediately after every Main Hall upgrade. Raising your hourly passive output ensures you have the sustained income required to pay for high-cost military facilities later.
Hero Team Development and Campaign Progression
Hero upgrades directly dictate how far you can push into story campaign chapters. Campaigns serve as your primary source for early-game upgrade materials, hero shards, and specific stage drops.
- Distribute Experience Materials Evenly: Allocate training books and advancement items across all five active team members. Keeping your front-line units and support characters at similar level thresholds prevents high-level campaign enemies from rapidly wiping out under-leveled support units.
- Evaluate Skill Synergies: Review newly recruited historical figures for complementary abilities. Position your strongest defensive units in the front line, and test different hero rotations if a stage battle fails.
- Farm Targeted Campaign Stages: Before starting campaign battles, check the drop preview for each chapter. If your city construction or hero advancement requires a specific material, farm stages where that item is listed as a primary drop to complement your passive city income.
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