War and Order: How to Reach Castle S1 and Unlock Tier 13 Angels

To reach Supreme 1 (S1) Castle and unlock Tier 13 (T13) Angels in War and Order, you must complete Castle 35 progression, prioritize your Wall and Angel Sanctum queues, and reserve your Azerite exclusively for these milestone upgrades before spending it on research branches.

Castle S1 Upgrade Prerequisites and Building Order

Advancing past Castle 35 into the Supreme tier unlocks higher building caps, increased base stat limits, and advanced troop tiers. Because construction timers and resource costs expand drastically at this stage, focus construction queues strictly on prerequisite structures:

• Castle Wall: Keep your Wall level matched with your Castle to satisfy the immediate structural requirement for the S1 upgrade.
• Angel Sanctum: Upgrade your Angel Sanctum to S1 immediately after the Castle finishes to unlock Tier 13 Angel recruitment.
• Support Facilities: Upgrade resource depots and hospitals only when required by storage maximums or prerequisite checks.
• Construction Boosts: Activate development equipment loadouts, apply kingdom buffs, and request alliance assists right before starting the timer. Time major completions during realm-wide building events to recover speedups.

Azerite Allocation Priorities

Azerite is the primary bottleneck for Supreme-tier progression and cannot be collected from standard resource tiles in unlimited quantities. Sinking Azerite into non-essential research delays your troop unlocks. Prioritize your Azerite budget using the following order:

Acquire regular Azerite supplies by participating in realm events, completing high-tier trials, and competing in alliance events. Do not invest Azerite into secondary tech trees until both your Castle and Angel Sanctum reach S1.

Deploying Tier 13 Angels

Tier 13 Angels offer single-target burst damage, bypass standard armor values, and provide healing or resurrection mechanics to protect frontline stability. Because training T13 units requires significant resources and time, integrate them into your forces gradually:

• Retain Lower Tiers: Keep your existing Tier 11 and Tier 12 Angels as defensive buffers rather than dismissing them.
• Layer Formations: Position lower-tier units forward to absorb initial enemy strikes while your T13 Angels deal damage from protected layers within the march.
• Gear and Beast Skills: Equip beast skills and artifacts that amplify holy damage and angel survivability to reinforce their effectiveness against enemy infantry.

Testing Formations in Elite Wars

Elite Wars offers structured, alliance-level combat where you can verify troop ratios and combat logs without losing units permanently in open-world combat.

1. Deploy Protective Frontlines: Position Infantry and Guardian layers ahead of your Angel corps to absorb initial burst damage.
2. Add Magic Backlines: Pair T13 Angels with high-tier Mages to split damage output between magic and piercing damage.
3. Inspect Casualty Reports: Check combat logs after each battle. If T13 Angels suffer high casualty rates early in the fight, increase your frontline infantry ratios.
4. Align Rally Roles: Coordinate with alliance leaders to ensure statutory angel buffs do not overlap with duplicate debuff skills.

Post-S1 Resource Protection

Upgrading to Castle S1 increases your visibility as an attack target during cross-realm conflicts and kill events. Protect your investment by following these defensive habits:

• Store unspent wood, food, stone, and iron in item bags rather than holding open warehouse resources that can be looted.
• Keep your hospital capacity high enough to accommodate your primary march to prevent permanent troop losses during defensive rallies.
• Activate peace shields whenever your castle is left unattended during hostile kingdom events.