Introducing the new Guild Battleground Trials!

Overview

How Trial Difficulties Work

How Trial Rewards Work

The Guild Battleground Stores

Fellow Beta Testers,

Get ready for a fundamental shift in Guild Battlegrounds. We are excited to announce a major update poised to redefine strategy and rewards in GBG. On July 10th 2025, with the start of the next Battleground season on the Beta server, we will be rolling out Battleground Trials.

This update is designed to put more power in your hands, allowing guilds to customize their level of challenge and, in turn, earn rewards that match their ambition and performance.

Here are the key headlines from this upcoming release:

Choose Your Challenge with Battleground Trials
The foundation of this update is the new Trial system. Before a season begins, you can now select a Trial Level. This single choice will determine the difficulty of the next day (applied after attrition reset at midnight), directly scaling the strength of enemy armies and the complexity of negotiations. This puts the power in your hands to decide just how
intense you want the competition to be. A new difficulty can be selected for each day.

For a complete look at the new difficulty modifiers and formulas, please refer to our deep-dive article: 'How Trial Difficulty Works'.

Re-imagined Rewards: Earn Battleground Coins
We are replacing the current conquest reward system. From now on, the rewards you gain from every fight and negotiation will be tied directly to your chosen Trial Level. Higher trials will yield more valuable rewards, faster.

The centerpiece of this new system is three new permanent currencies:

• Battleground Silver Coins
• Battleground Gold Coins
• Battleground Platinum Coins

These coins do not reset between championships and will be your key to unlocking a vast arsenal of prizes.To see exactly how rewards scale with each trial level and what you can earn, check out our detailed guide: 'How Trial Rewards Work'.


Your hard-earned Battleground Coins can be spent in two brand-new stores, each serving a unique purpose:

• Battleground Season: Using Silver Coins, this store offers seasonal items and its purchase limits will refresh with every new season.
• Battleground Championship: Using Gold and Platinum Coins, this store offers a permanent selection of current and all previous main and minor GBG reward buildings, allowing you to fill gaps in your city's collection.

For a full inventory list and details on how these stores operate, please see our dedicated article: 'The Guild Battleground Stores'.

Important: A Note on Mobile vs. Browser Testing for This Season

As we prepare for the release on July 10th, we must share some crucial technical details regarding platform availability for this first season. Testing on current mobile versions (1.311 and 1.312) has shown that the feature is not yet fully compatible.

Here is what this means when the feature releases:

• Browser: The feature will be fully complete and functional. You can select Trials, earn new rewards, and use the stores.
• Mobile App (Beta & Normal): The feature will be deactivated. Playing Guild Battlegrounds on a mobile device will default your experience to Trial 1 difficulty and use the old reward system (current balancing). You will not be able to select a Trial Level or access the new stores from the app.

We are aware of a side effect of this: a player could theoretically select a high Trial (e.g., Trial 30) on their Browser and then switch to the Mobile App to complete encounters at the much lower Trial 1 difficulty. While this is not intended, it will be possible for this first season only.

This situation is temporary. We will be forcing an update to version 1.313 before the start of the next season on July 24th, which will bring the full feature set to mobile and resolve this discrepancy. Therefore, to ensure you can fully test the Battleground Trials feature as intended, we strongly recommend playing Guild Battlegrounds on your BROWSER as much as possible during this upcoming season.

This is a significant evolution for Guild Battlegrounds, and we are counting on you, our most dedicated players, to put it to the test. Your strategic feedback is crucial to refining this feature.

Please share all your experiences and questions in the official feedback thread on Discord. We will be actively monitoring the discussions and will compile all common questions into a comprehensive FAQ.

Thank you for your commitment. We'll see you on the battlefield on July 10th!
Your Forge of Empires Team

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