Whiteout Survival Hall of Chiefs Guide (2026) — Max Your Points

Hall of Chiefs rewards players who know the scoring system. Here's how to maximise your points every cycle and walk away with the best rewards.

What Hall of Chiefs Is

Hall of Chiefs (HoC) is a state-scoped competitive event in which players earn points by completing specific in-game actions during themed daily stages. Each day, the scoring rules change — one day rewards troop training, the next rewards hero ascends, the next gear upgrades, and so on. Points feed two parallel leaderboards plus a per-stage milestone track, and rewards pay out in gems, speedups, resources, mythic skill manuals, and hero shards of the featured Season hero.

It is the first sustained competitive event most players encounter, and for the windows in which it runs it is generally the highest-yield event on the calendar — especially for free-to-play (F2P) and low-spend players who plan ahead.

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Lifecycle: When It Appears, When It Ends

Hall of Chiefs first appears early in a state's lifecycle and recurs on an approximately two-week cycle. Once a state participates in its first State vs State (SVS) event, Hall of Chiefs is permanently replaced by King of Icefield, which uses a similar daily-stage structure but adds cross-state competition.

Approximate server-age milestones relevant to the HoC lifecycle:

The Day-80 figure is approximate — actual SVS timing varies by roughly ±7–21 days based on state activity and progress. States that enter SVS slightly later than usual sometimes get one additional Hall of Chiefs cycle that the timing would otherwise have skipped.

The practical implication: Hall of Chiefs is a finite resource. A typical state sees it run a small number of times before it disappears for good, so each cycle deserves preparation rather than improvisation. As your state approaches the SVS window, the calculus shifts further — there is no point hoarding stockpiles across cycles you may never see.

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Format Evolution

The event's structure has expanded across iterations. The earliest occurrences ran fewer days and included a Beast Slay stage; subsequent versions replaced beast hunting with a dedicated Gather Resources stage and added a Chief Gear Upgrade stage. The current standard is the 7-day format, which is what most established states will see and what this guide treats as canonical.

Key structural differences worth knowing:

• Earliest format: Shorter event; included Beast Slay stage (rallies on Polar Terror, defeats of Level 1–30 beasts). Higher gathering yields per unit. No Chief Gear Upgrade stage. No Hero Gear stage.
• Intermediate format: Replaced Beast Slay with Gather Resources; introduced Chief Gear Upgrade and Hero Gear Essence/Widget scoring.
• Current 7-day format: Reorders the opening stage to Power Boost (construction/research). Adds a final Hero Development stage on Day 7 that uniquely awards points for speedup consumption — a mechanic absent from earlier iterations.

If your state is on its first or second HoC, your stage list may differ from the breakdown below. Point values for actions that exist across iterations have remained broadly consistent.

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Core Mechanics

Daily Stage Rotation

Each stage lasts exactly one day and rotates at server reset. Stage Ranking points reset to zero with each new stage; only Total Ranking accumulates across the full event.

Two Leaderboards + Milestones

Milestone rewards include gems, speedups, resources, and mythic skill manuals. Specific thresholds and tier rewards are not publicly documented and may vary; the four-tier structure itself is consistent.

Stage Ranking Eligibility

To appear on a stage's Stage Ranking leaderboard at all, a player generally needs to clear roughly 50,000 points during that stage. This threshold is consistently reported but should be treated as approximate — it may vary by event iteration or game version.

First-Place Reward (Stage Ranking)

The daily first-place Stage Ranking reward is heavy in gems — commonly cited at 20,000 gems per stage. Treat the exact figure as approximate. Across a 7-day event, this means the gem prize pool for #1 finishes alone is large enough to justify coordinated rotation strategies in some states (see Coordination, below).

What Counts as a Point-Scoring Action

Every point comes from a discrete in-game action: training one troop, using one hero shard, raising one point of power, gathering one unit of a resource. Aggregate points for a stage scale linearly with action volume — there is no documented hard cap on stage points, only the practical caps imposed by your available resources, speedups, and time. The strategic implication: stages reward depth of stockpile, not cleverness — the player with more saved shards, more saved widgets, and more banked construction projects wins.

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Point Values Reference

These are the canonical per-action values. Strategy sections below back-reference rather than repeat them.

Troop Training (all iterations)

Promotion rule: Promoting a troop from a lower tier to a higher tier awards the difference between the two values, not the full value of the target tier. T8 → T9 = 1,485 − 1,130 = 355 points per promoted troop. This rule has significant strategic implications (see Troop Promotion Math, below).

Hero Development Stage

Power Boost Stage(s)

In the earliest 5-day format, the opening day was titled "City Construction" and awarded 45 points per power for both Construction and Research (rather than 30). The current 7-day format opens with Power Boost at the 30-point rate.

Gather Resources Stage

Chief Gear Upgrade Stage

Beast Slay Stage (historical)

The Beast Slay stage appears only in the earliest iteration of the event. If your state is on its first HoC and this stage is present, the broad shape is: defeating Level 1–30 beasts and rallying Polar Terrors are the two scoring activities, with rally hunts yielding substantially more per action than solo beast defeats. Specific point values from this stage are not well-corroborated across sources; treat any figures cautiously and verify against the in-game point list when the stage is live.

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Yield Hierarchy

Not every action in the event scales equally. The single most important strategic insight is the gap between spend-resource yields and grind-action yields — using one stockpiled item is often worth tens of thousands of times more than one unit of routine grind.

Per-action yields, ranked:

The strategic consequence is that stockpile management is the dominant lever in this event. A player who arrives at HoC with a deep reserve of shards, widgets, essence stones, and speedups will outscore a player with twice the daily activity but no stockpile. Most of the prep section that follows is built around this single fact.

A secondary consequence: D-tier and E-tier actions are background filler. They add up over the course of a stage — gathering 24 hours of resources during Day 4 will clear milestone tiers — but they should not crowd out higher-tier actions on the days when those tiers are scoring.

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Strategy: Maximising Points

Pre-Event Timeline

Hall of Chiefs rewards hoarding. Most of the highest-yield actions are things you would do anyway during normal play — but doing them during the relevant stage multiplies your effective output many times over. Treat the cycle as a 14-day operation, with the previous HoC's end as the start of prep for the next.

~14 days out (start of prep window):

• Stop using hero shards. All shard ascends from this point forward are deferred to the next event.
• Stop using Lucky Wheel spins. Bank any free spin tokens that arrive.
• Stop spending Hero Gear Essence Stones and Widgets.
• Stop spending Chief Gear upgrade materials.

~10 days out:

• Begin queuing low-tier troops in bulk for later promotion. Use cheap food/wood and minimal speedups — these are slow-baked over the prep window, not crash-trained.
• Stockpile speedups across all categories (general, training, research, building, healing). Day 7 accepts any speedup type.

~7 days out:

• Bank a major construction project. Have it sitting at "ready to start" status, not started.
• Bank a major research project (separate from the construction project — you want both).
• Confirm Chief Gear materials and Hero Gear materials are still untouched.

~3 days out:

• Confirm troop pre-train batch is large enough to feed Day 3. Target: enough one-below-max troops to absorb a full day of promotion queue activity.
• Confirm shard inventory.
• Confirm speedup stockpile. The most useful single metric is "total speedup minutes available" — for context, every 60 minutes of speedup consumed during Day 7 is worth 18,000 event points.

Day 1 of HoC:

• Start the banked construction project so its power gain credits during Day 1's Power Boost window.
• Start the banked research project. Time it so the bulk of its power gain falls in Day 1; if it's too large, save the second half for Day 4 (Gather Resources, which awards 45 per Research power — higher than Day 1's rate).

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Stage-by-Stage Tactics

The 7-day format runs in this order. For each stage, the structure is: what scores, how to prep, how to execute, what to skip.

Day 1 — Power Boost (Construction & Research)

• What scores: Power gained from completing construction upgrades and research projects (30 points per power each), plus power from troop training/promoting (20 points per power).
• How to prep: Heavy banked construction project ready to fire. Heavy banked research project ready to fire. Avoid finishing big upgrades the day before — those points are forfeit.
• How to execute: Start the banked projects at the earliest opportunity within the stage window. Use speedups to push their completions inside the window. A single major upgrade on a mid-game or late-game building can produce thousands of power points; doing this even once typically clears multiple milestone tiers on its own.
• What to skip: Do not waste shards on this day. They score zero here.

Day 2 — Hero Development

• What scores: Lucky Wheel spins (90,000 each), hero shard ascends (4,000 / 14,000 / 35,000 by rarity), and gathering at 3 points per (50 Meat / 50 Wood / 10 Coal / 2 Iron).
• How to prep: Two weeks of shard hoarding. Banked Lucky Wheel spins. Heroes positioned so that ascending them is actually possible — you need the carry materials (medals, badges) lined up to convert the shards.
• How to execute: Order of priority by points-per-action: Lucky Wheel spins first, then Mythic shards, then Epic, then Rare. Run gathering marches in the background — they are filler, not strategy. Aim to clear the eligibility threshold and as many milestone tiers as your stockpile supports.
• What to skip: Direct construction or research finishes. They do not score on this day. If a banked project is mid-completion, pause speedups on it until tomorrow, when you can defer or until Day 5 (which also accepts power-gain).

Day 3 — Train Troops

• What scores: Direct training of any troop tier (90 to 1,960 per troop, by tier). Troop promotion at the differential rate (e.g., T8→T9 = 355 per troop).
• How to prep: Pre-trained inventory of one-below-max troops. This is the single most important prep step for this stage.
• How to execute: See Troop Promotion Math below. The short version: run promotion in your queue rather than direct max-tier training, until your promotion stockpile is depleted, then top up with direct training.
• What to skip: Do not train T1–T5 troops for the points value alone — the per-troop yield is too low to justify the queue slot when higher tiers or promotion are available. The exception is if T5-and-below is what your facilities can produce in volume and you need filler points to clear a milestone.

Day 4 — Gather Resources

• What scores: Gathering at 3 points per (50 Meat / 50 Wood / 10 Coal / 2 Iron), plus a generous 45 points per Research power.
• How to prep: A second banked research project, if your tech tree supports it. Otherwise, just have gathering marches available.
• How to execute: Keep all march slots gathering on cooldown for the full day. Fire your second research project if you have one — the 45-per-power rate on Day 4 is the highest power-conversion rate in the event, beating both Power Boost stages.
• What to skip: Construction power does not score on this day in the 7-day format — only research. Do not finish a building upgrade today expecting it to count.

Day 5 — Power Boost (Hero Gear)

• What scores: Exclusive Hero Gear Widgets (100,000 each), Hero Gear Essence Stones (50,000 each), and standard power-gain rates (30/30/20 for Construction/Research/Training).
• How to prep: Saved Widgets and Essence Stones from at least the full prep window, ideally longer. A second banked construction project if Day 1 was already saturated.
• How to execute: Spend every Widget and Essence Stone you have. The 100,000-per-Widget rate is the highest single-action yield in the event — if you are choosing between using a Widget on Day 5 or any other day, the answer is always Day 5. Run any leftover banked construction or research as a secondary scoring vector.
• What to skip: Do not save Widgets "for later" — there is no later. The event will end and you will have spent them on a non-event day at zero event points each.

Day 6 — Chief Gear Upgrade

• What scores: Chief Gear score increases (500 points per score point gained).
• How to prep: Saved Chief Gear upgrade materials. Pause Chief Gear upgrades for the full prep window.
• How to execute: Spend all banked materials in the stage window. The conversion is fixed — there is no clever play here, just deferred-consumption discipline.
• What to skip: In the 7-day format, this stage does not include the bonus Construction/Research/Training power-gain points that the intermediate 6-day format included. Do not bank construction or research projects expecting them to score on Day 6.

Day 7 — Hero Development (final, 7-day format only)

• What scores: Hero shard ascends at the standard rates (4,000 / 14,000 / 35,000), plus the unique speedup-consumption rate of 300 points per minute of any speedup used.
• How to prep: A reserved portion of the shard stockpile, separate from what was spent on Day 2. A large speedup stockpile across all categories. Long-running target actions that can absorb large speedup blocks (heavy research projects, long building upgrades, long troop training queues, large hero exploration runs).
• How to execute: See Day 7 Speedup Deployment below. The arithmetic is straightforward; the operational care is in making sure speedups are consumed during the stage window and applied to actions that can absorb their full duration.
• What to skip: Do not start Day 7 with no banked target actions. A 1-day speedup with nothing meaningful to apply it to is a 432,000-point opportunity lost.

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Troop Promotion Math

The point value of a promotion is the difference between the two tiers, not the full target value. Direct T9 training awards 1,485 per troop; T8 → T9 promotion awards 355 per troop. On per-troop arithmetic alone, direct training looks dominant by roughly a 4-to-1 margin.

Speedup time scales differently. Promoting a troop generally consumes a fraction of the time and resource cost of training one from scratch at the higher tier. The result is that points per minute of speedup is typically higher via promotion. Community calculations place the ratio at roughly 1.6× to 1.8× in favour of promotion for T8 → T9, with similar dynamics at adjacent tier gaps.

A stylised illustration of why this works:

The exact ratio depends on:

• Your training speed buff (alliance tech, hero skill, gear, research)
• Your training capacity (number of barracks slots active)
• Whether direct training at the higher tier is gated by Iron supply (Iron is typically the binding constraint at high tiers; promotion bypasses much of it)
• Whether your one-below-max stockpile is large enough to feed the full stage

Practical takeaways:

• Pre-train aggressively. The bigger your one-below-max stockpile, the longer your promotion run lasts, and the more of Day 3 you spend in the high-efficiency mode.
• Run promotion first, direct second. Start the stage with promotion. Switch to direct training only when your stockpile is depleted or your queue is otherwise idle.
• Don't skip direct training entirely. If your stockpile runs out mid-stage and you still need to clear milestones, direct training fills the gap. The per-troop value is high — just lower than promotion's per-minute value.
• Verify against your own numbers. The 1.6×–1.8× figure is a community-derived ballpark; your specific buffs may push it higher or lower.

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Lucky Wheel Strategy

The Lucky Wheel is the highest-yield action in the event after Widgets. Each spin during a Hero Development stage is 90,000 points, with no documented diminishing-returns or per-day cap on spin scoring.

The arithmetic is straightforward but the prep window matters. If you have access to spin-related events, free spin tokens, or earmarked gem reserves, the Hero Development stages are where those conversions pay off. A few practical points:

• Spins on Day 2 and Day 7 score equally. If your stockpile is large, split it across both stages rather than dumping it all on Day 2 — Day 7's milestone tiers reset, meaning you'll need to clear them again.
• Spins outside Hero Development stages score zero. Pause all spin activity for the full prep window.
• The gem-to-spin conversion rate fluctuates with in-game promotions. If a discounted spin event lands during your prep window, that is the moment to commit gem reserves — not during the stage itself.

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Hero Shard Banking

Hero shards used outside the Hero Development stages award no event points. The cost of a casual ascend during off-event days is the loss of 4,000 to 35,000 event points per shard, depending on rarity. For Mythic shards in particular, this is a significant discipline issue — if you have a hero one ascend away from a milestone, the temptation to push it during normal play is real, but for an event-active player it is almost always wrong.

Two things to be careful about:

• Auto-collect. Some hero shard rewards are claimed automatically on collection. Make sure you understand which sources go straight to your inventory (good — the shards are still bankable) versus which trigger an immediate ascend (bad — the points are lost).
• Carry materials. Shards alone do not score. To convert a shard into points, you need the corresponding hero ascension materials (medals, badges) lined up. Bank those alongside the shards.

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Day 7 Speedup Deployment

Day 7's 300-points-per-minute rate is, on a per-resource basis, the most powerful conversion in the event. The full conversion table:

A handful of operational points control whether you actually capture this:

• Speedups must be consumed during the stage. Applying a 1-day general speedup to a building upgrade that completes 2 days later means the upgrade benefits but only the portion of the speedup applied during the stage scores. Apply speedups to actions that are both in-flight and able to absorb the full duration.
• Any speedup type counts. This is significant. Specialty speedups (training, research, building, healing) that are otherwise hard to use efficiently all convert at 300 per minute. If you have a stockpile of training speedups but no troops to train, queue a promotion or direct-train batch large enough to absorb them. If you have research speedups and no active project, this is the day to fire a long banked research.
• Target actions must be long enough. A 1-day speedup applied to a 30-minute construction completes the construction instantly and burns the rest of the speedup. The consumed speedup duration still scores, but the speedup itself is gone with no in-game progress to show for it. Target heavy projects: long research, long building upgrades, long troop training queues.

A worked example. A player enters Day 7 with the following stockpile:

• 8 × 1-day general speedups
• 15 × 8-hour general speedups
• 30 × 1-hour training speedups
• 6 × 1-day research speedups

Total speedup minutes: (8 × 1,440) + (15 × 480) + (30 × 60) + (6 × 1,440) = 11,520 + 7,200 + 1,800 + 8,640 = 29,160 minutes. At 300 points per minute, that's 8,748,000 points — assuming all of it is consumed during the stage on actions that can absorb it. Realistically, slippage on inefficient applications might cost 5–15% of that, but the order of magnitude is correct: a player with this kind of stockpile is not contesting Top 100 on Day 7, they are contesting Top 10.

The takeaway: speedup discipline during the prep window is the single most leveraged decision a serious HoC player makes. Every 1-day speedup spent during routine play in the two weeks before the event costs 432,000 forfeit points.

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Stage Priority Framework

Most players cannot fully execute every stage. Resources are finite, prep windows compete with active gameplay needs, and stockpiles are uneven. If you have to choose where to concentrate, this is a defensible priority order:

1. Day 5 — Power Boost (Hero Gear). Widgets and Essence Stones are the highest single-action yields in the event. If you have Widgets, use them here.
2. Day 2 — Hero Development. Lucky Wheel and Mythic shards.
3. Day 7 — Hero Development (final). Speedup conversion. Highest-yield use of stockpiled speedups anywhere.
4. Day 3 — Train Troops. High points-per-speedup-minute via promotion if you have pre-trained inventory; lower priority if you don't.
5. Day 1 — Power Boost (Construction & Research). Banked projects yield well here, but the absolute point ceiling is lower than the spend stages.
6. Day 6 — Chief Gear Upgrade. Fixed by your gear material stockpile. Easy to execute, but the ceiling is whatever your bank holds.
7. Day 4 — Gather Resources. Generally background activity, with the exception of the 45-per-power Research line if you have a banked project to fire.

Three caveats:

• Adjust to your stockpile. If your shard inventory is thin but you have a wall of Chief Gear materials, your priority list looks different. Sort by where your relative resource depth is greatest.
• Stage Ranking competition varies by day. In some states, Day 5 attracts the heaviest spenders and is the hardest day to rank on; conversely, Day 6 may be lightly contested. Watch your state's first-cycle results to calibrate.
• Milestone tiers are independent of leaderboards. Every stage you contest, your first job is to clear all four milestone tiers — those rewards are guaranteed. Rank rewards are competitive and only worth chasing on stages where you have a realistic shot.

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Coordination & Rotation

Top 100 finishes on the daily Stage Ranking are achievable for most active mid-tier players who clear the eligibility threshold and execute one or two of the strategy points above. They do not require coordination.

The #1 daily Stage Ranking position is a different question. The reward is heavy in gems, and in many states a small group of top players are realistically the only contenders for it. Some alliances coordinate explicitly: each top player takes one stage, deliberately under-spending on the other days to avoid contesting their alliance partners. Across a 7-stage event, this can spread several first-place rewards across the alliance rather than letting one or two players win them all.

Whether this works depends entirely on state and alliance culture. A few practical conditions for rotation to be worth attempting:

• Roughly comparable spending capacity among rotators. A whale and a low-spender cannot meaningfully rotate — the whale wins by default whenever they choose to.
• Explicit, named rotations. "We'll figure it out" rotations break down quickly. Each stage should have a single named contender, agreed in advance, with the others publicly committing to under-spend.
• Trust and repeated play. First-cycle rotations on a new state often fail. By the third or fourth cycle, established alliances with shared history are far more likely to hold the agreement.

The stages most amenable to throttling are those with flexible scoring vectors — Hero Development (Day 2 and Day 7) and Train Troops (Day 3) are easy to throttle because you control exactly how many shards or troops you commit. Power Boost stages (Day 1 and Day 5) are harder, because the points come from completing major upgrades that you may not want to delay.

The failure mode is straightforward and worth being honest about: someone defects, the rotation collapses, and the player who tried to under-spend on their non-rotation days gives up Stage Ranking position for nothing. If you suspect your alliance partners are likely to defect, do not rotate — play full effort every stage and treat the gem prize as competitive rather than coordinated.

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Total Ranking vs Stage Ranking

The two leaderboards reward different play patterns:

• Stage Ranking rewards burst spending. You can win — or rank highly — on a single stage by concentrating resources into that day's scoring vector.
• Total Ranking rewards sustained scoring across the full event. The Top 100 is a cumulative-points race; Top 10 in particular (which awards Generation hero shards — Jeronimo in Generation 1, Philly in Generation 2) generally requires consistent execution across every stage.

For most F2P and low-spend players, the realistic plan is to:

• Clear the Stage Ranking eligibility threshold (~50,000 points) on every stage. This unlocks Stage Ranking rewards across the full event and is achievable on most days with modest preparation.
• Concentrate resources on one or two stages where your stockpile gives you a real shot at a high Stage Ranking finish.
• Treat Total Ranking as a secondary goal — Top 100 overall is achievable for committed mid-tier players, but Top 10 is a high bar that often requires significant spending or unusual efficiency.

The 4 milestone tiers per stage are independent of leaderboards and pay out to anyone who crosses them. Hitting all four tiers on every stage you contest is generally a higher-value target than chasing leaderboard ranks for many players. The compounding effect across a 7-stage event means a player who reliably clears all four tiers on every stage often out-rewards a player who places in the top 100 on one or two stages but misses milestone tiers elsewhere.

A realism note from observed player behaviour: F2P players consistently report that Top 10 in Total Ranking is extremely difficult without spending, while milestone tiers and Top 100 stage finishes remain accessible with disciplined preparation. The shape of the reward distribution favours the spend-tier above yours; this is worth absorbing before you commit serious stockpile to a Total Ranking push.

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Edge Cases

• First HoC on a new server. Format is the early variant; Beast Slay stage exists; gathering yields per unit are higher than later iterations; no Chief Gear or Hero Gear stages. Pre-event prep is more limited because you have less time to stockpile and because lower-tier troops and modest hero rosters cap your ceiling on the spend stages. Focus on what you have — if your hero roster is thin but you've been gathering steadily, the Beast Slay stage and early Power Boost are more accessible than Hero Development.
• State approaching SVS unlock. If your state is in the Day 60–80 range, the next HoC may be your last. Empty your stockpile rather than carrying it across cycles. Speedups and resources that would otherwise be spent on a future HoC should be deployed in full on the current one, since King of Icefield will replace HoC permanently after SVS.
• Joining a state mid-prep. If you arrive in a state with HoC starting in 3 days, you've missed most of the prep window. Focus on whichever stages your existing resources happen to align with — whatever you brought from your previous state, plus whatever activity you can compress into the remaining days. Treat the cycle after this one as your real optimisation target.
• Hero generation transition. If your state is around Day 40 and the Generation 2 heroes are about to release, the Top 10 Total Ranking reward for the next cycle may be Philly shards rather than Jeronimo. The structural mechanics do not change, but the value of a Top 10 push depends on which hero you actually want.
• Cycle skipped due to event collision. Hall of Chiefs occasionally gets shifted or skipped to make room for major game-wide events. If your state has gone notably longer than two weeks without HoC, do not assume your prep timeline is broken — the event will return, often with adjusted timing. Continue hoarding.

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Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Spending hero shards or Lucky Wheel spins outside Hero Development stages. Single largest preventable loss in the event. Forfeits 4,000–90,000 event points per resource.
• Finishing major construction or research the day before Power Boost. The points are lost. Bank the project; start it on the stage.
• Direct max-tier training without pre-trained promotion inventory. Leaves significant points-per-speedup-minute on the table during Train Troops.
• Running speedups freely on Day 7. Every minute of speedup spent during this stage scores 300 points. Plan your speedup applications so they consume during the stage, on actions long enough to absorb their full duration.
• Spending Hero Gear Essence Stones and Widgets ahead of Day 5. These are the highest-yield Power Boost items and should be reserved for the dedicated stage.
• Banking construction or research for Day 6. In the 7-day format, Day 6 only scores Chief Gear. Construction and research power do not count. Banked projects belong on Day 1, Day 4 (research only), or Day 5.
• Ignoring milestone tiers in pursuit of leaderboard rank. The four tiers per stage are easier to clear and pay reliably; rank rewards are competitive and per-stage.
• Skipping the threshold. Stage Ranking eligibility cuts off below the ~50,000-point line. If a stage is contested and you are sitting at 45,000 with the day closing, push the last 5,000 — even with low-yield filler actions, the rank rewards above the threshold typically more than justify the effort.
• Carrying stockpile across the SVS boundary. Once your state enters SVS, HoC is gone for good. A stockpile saved for the HoC cycle that never comes is wasted.

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Summary Checklist

Pre-event (start ~2 weeks out):

• Stop using hero shards
• Stop using Lucky Wheel spins
• Stockpile speedups across all categories
• Save Hero Gear Essence Stones and Widgets
• Save Chief Gear upgrade materials
• Pre-train large batch of one-below-max troops
• Bank a heavy construction project (for Day 1)
• Bank a heavy research project (separate; primary deployment Day 1, with overflow for Day 4)
• Confirm hero ascension carry materials are aligned with shard inventory

During event (7-day format):

• Day 1 — Fire banked construction/research
• Day 2 — Lucky Wheel + heavy shard spend; gather in background
• Day 3 — Promote first; switch to direct training when stockpile depletes
• Day 4 — Fire any second banked research; run gathering marches on cooldown
• Day 5 — Spend all Hero Gear Essence Stones and Widgets; run any leftover banked construction/research
• Day 6 — Spend all Chief Gear upgrade materials
• Day 7 — Spend remaining speedups during the stage on long-absorbing actions; spend remaining shards

Cycle repeats roughly every 14 days until SVS opens, at which point Hall of Chiefs is replaced by King of Icefield.