Introducing the new Guild Battleground Trials!

Overview

How Trial Difficulties Work

How Trial Rewards Work

The Guild Battleground Stores

FAQ

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 August 14th 2025, with the start of the next Battleground season on all worlds, 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 you begin a season, 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'.

Scaling Adjustments
To reduce the time investment in Guild Battlegrounds, we will also apply some scaling adjustments! The changes are designed to reduce the time you need to spend fighting and negotiating without reducing rewards.

The required progress on provinces will be reduced

• Copper League: 40 ➡️ 20
• Silver League: 70 ➡️ 35
• Gold League: 100 ➡️ 50
• Platinum League: 130 ➡️ 65
• Diamond League Volcano: 220 ➡️ 110
• Diamond League Waterfall: 200 ➡️ 100

The attrition scaling has been adjusted
The new maximum attrition has been reduced from 300 to 150, while still keeping 41.325% enemy army boost and 405 goods the max.
This means you will have more difficult fights and more expensive negotiations earlier.

To compensate for this, we have massively increased the rewards from each encounter, by handing out a new currency instead of the usual rewards: Battleground Coins.

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.

The updated conquest rewards for the ongoing Championship can be found here: GbG Championship 9: Battle for the Somerset Hospital!

Please share all your experiences and questions in the official feedback thread on Discord. 

Thank you for your commitment. We'll see you on the battlefield on August 14th!
Your Forge of Empires Team

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