Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest: How to Optimize Trials Refresh

To get the most value from the Trials refresh in Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest, push your march to the highest possible stage—especially past major milestone floors—before resetting. The Trials system lets you battle through ascending combat tiers without suffering permanent unit loss. When your army hits a wall and cannot progress, triggering a refresh resets the active climb back to the beginning while preserving your highest cleared milestone, allowing you to sweep previously conquered floors for immediate Trial Tokens, crafting materials, and Warpstone.

When to Trigger a Trials Refresh

Clearing milestone and boss checkpoints permanently increases your baseline sweep yield. If your march stalls right before a milestone floor, holding off on a refresh until you can apply temporary buffs or finish relevant research will yield better recurring returns than resetting early.

Maximizing Trial March Combat Power

Because trial battles do not permanently consume troops, you can deploy your strongest offensive setups without fear of warband attrition:

• Balance your march composition: Deploy resilient frontline infantry or monstrous units to absorb damage while backline ranged units and cavalry deal sustained damage. Avoid single-unit-type marches that stall against balanced defensive waves.
• Select combat-oriented warlords: Use warlords that boost overall army health, armor, or damage output against neutral units. Pairings such as Slambo or Vilitch the Curseling offer strong sustain and damage to break fortified waves.
• Equip combat Champion gear: Swap out Champion gear dedicated to construction, crafting, or training in favor of your best combat equipment before pushing deep into the Trials.
• Activate capacity buffs: Use march capacity boosts to field more units, directly increasing your total damage output and survivability against higher-tier trial bosses.

Spending Trial Tokens in the Trials Shop

The Trials Shop provides a consistent route to acquire warlord fragments without spending Warpstone. Spend your tokens according to this priority:

1. Warlord Shards (Highest Priority): Focus on shards for warlords that match your primary combat specialization. Concentrate on one warlord at a time until you unlock them or hit target star ranks.
2. Rare Crafting Components and Speedups (Secondary Priority): Spend surplus tokens on high-tier crafting materials or research speedups to accelerate ritual milestones.
3. Basic Resources (Avoid): Never spend Trial Tokens on standard map resources like Food, Wood, Iron, or Lead, as these can be gathered or raided easily in the open world.

Mistakes to Avoid

• Letting refresh timers sit idle: Once you reach your progression ceiling for a cycle, refresh promptly. Leaving a capped run unrefreshed wastes scheduled reset opportunities and reduces your weekly token income.
• Forgetting to sweep: Always claim your sweep rewards immediately after a refresh or before the daily rollover so you do not lose that cycle's currency.
• Spending Warpstone on premature manual resets: Do not spend premium Warpstone to force additional refreshes unless your march power has increased enough to conquer a new milestone tier. Rely on scheduled refreshes while your research and troop training progress naturally.