Kingshot: When to Promote Golden Infantry in Strongest Kingdom

Wait until the troop training stage of the Strongest Kingdom event before promoting your troops to Golden Infantry in Kingshot. Unlocking the prerequisite research enables the upgrade, but spending speedups outside of competitive event windows forfeits massive milestone rewards and leaderboard point progression.

Why Timing Golden Infantry Matters

Golden Infantry (Tier 10) serves as the primary defensive frontline in Kingshot. Combat mechanics direct incoming damage to infantry squads before backline archers and cavalry take hits. Upgrading from purple Tier 9 units increases base health, defense, and damage mitigation, which extends battle duration and allows offensive hero skills to cycle more frequently.

Because upgrading to top-tier units requires an immense investment of training speedups and raw materials, executing your promotions during the correct event phase yields the highest return on investment.

Strongest Kingdom Phase Alignment

Strongest Kingdom rotates through specific daily phases. Aligning your military upgrades with the correct event day ensures that every spent speedup contributes directly to reward chests and server ranking points.

Promoting existing Tier 9 units during the troop training phase yields superior event point efficiency per speedup minute compared to training fresh Golden units from scratch.

Promoting Tier 9 Units vs. Fresh Recruitment

When your promotion queue unlocks, prioritize converting existing Tier 9 infantry over training new Golden units from zero.

• Cost and Time Efficiency: Upgrading a Tier 9 unit to Golden requires only the difference in time and resources between the two tiers. This allows you to cycle through more units and secure higher event point totals with fewer speedups.
• Frontline Integrity: Converting your standing Tier 9 infantry removes weaker frontline layers from your city. If your garrison holds mixed tiers, lower-tier units take casualties faster, weakening your defense. Upgrading the existing stock guarantees your frontline consists entirely of high-durability troops.

Once your active Tier 9 infantry stockpile is fully upgraded, dedicate any remaining speedup reserves to training fresh Golden Infantry.

Preparation and Speedup Optimization

Executing mass promotions during the event requires stockpiling resources and stacking speed bonuses before consuming speedups:

1. Keep Bag Resources Sealed: High-tier promotions require substantial quantities of meat and grain. Leave resource packs unopened in your inventory until the queue begins to prevent warehouse depletion and enemy raid losses.
2. Stack Speedup Buffs: Activate recruitment speed talents, secure kingdom titles that boost training efficiency (such as Minister of War), and ensure alliance territory buffs are active.
3. Request Alliance Help: Start batch queues only when alliance members are active to clear help requests, reducing the baseline time before applying universal or training speedups.

Garrison and Battlefield Deployment

Golden Infantry requires significant resources and healing speedups to recover in the hospital. During Strongest Kingdom battle phases:

• Station your Golden Infantry as the primary frontline anchor in alliance fortresses and key rally structures where shared defensive buffs reduce casualty rates.
• Avoid keeping Golden Infantry exposed in your castle without an active peace shield during enemy cross-server kill events.