Strategic Doctrines & Grotto Improvements

Strategic Doctrines

Commanders were added to the game, strategic Doctrines! With their help, you can accelerate the development of your own base and temporarily improve your troops!

What are the Doctrines?

The strategic Doctrines are special temporary improvements that can boost the effectiveness of certain game aspects, which include: the productivity of resource buildings, the effectiveness of the study of science, the characteristics of basic and factional troops.

How to use the Doctrines?

To use strategic doctrines you need to move the mouse cursor over the Academy and select the “Doctrines” tab.

Inside, you will see three columns:

• Resistance
• Allied Faction
• Clan (will be available in a near update)

In each of these columns, only 4 strategic Doctrines can be inserted. Initially, 2 cells for Doctrines are available in Resistance column (one immediately after the construction of the Academy, and the second opens upon reaching level 26 as a player). In the Allied Faction column, only 1 tab is available (also immediately after the construction of the Academy). The remaining cells for both columns can be opened using spheres of the fraction or by purchasing it.

How to assign or activate a Doctrine?

All Doctrines available for use are displayed below the columns.

They are of the following types:

• To increase the productivity of your resources
• To accelerate the study of scientific materials
• To increase the capacity of various buildings and warehouse
• To increase the characteristics of the base troops and/or faction troops

To use a Doctrine, you need to move it from the “Doctrines” Store to a free cell in one of the columns.

Note: The Doctrine must correspond to the column in which you want to place it. You will not insert the Doctrines of the “New Order” faction in the Resistance column and vice versa.

What is the duration of these Doctrines?

After you have inserted the Doctrine in the cell, it starts to work and bring you a boost for 1 week. After this period, it is deleted. It is impossible to cancel the Doctrine to put it back in the warehouse, or to put it on hold to activate later.

Can we replace a Doctrine that is activated by another?

You can insert a Doctrine into a slot that is already occupied, but at the same time, the Doctrine that was in it and was active will be lost. Before this action, a special window will appear, which will warn you about these consequences.

Can we use the same Doctrines?

You cannot insert identical Doctrines into one column. For example, it is impossible to put Doctrines in all 4 slots in the Resistance column to increase the production of Ionite by 6%. In this case, it is allowed to activate one such Doctrine in the Resistance column and one exactly the same in the Allied Faction column, because they are not considered identical to each other, because they belong to different types (Resistance and Allied Faction).

What happens to the Allied Faction Doctrines, if I change of Faction?

You can see in the “Doctrines” Store you have only those Doctrines that belong to your faction. If, for example, you play for the Red Monarchy, you can only see the Doctrines of the Red Monarchy, even if you also have the Doctrines of other factions.
When changing the Faction, those Doctrines whose faction you have chosen become visible. And the Doctrines of the previous fraction become invisible, respectively.
If you have activated a Doctrine of a faction, for example, of the New Order, and you decide at this moment to switch to the Forgotten Legion, then the working Doctrine of the New Order will stop working and disappear, and the slot in which it was - will become accordingly free.

What happens to the Doctrines slots in the Allied Faction column, if I buy them and then change Faction?

The purchased of these (2-4) slots are tied to the faction itself. That is, you need to buy them for each faction separately. If you purchase the 2nd slot for the New Order, then for the Red Monarchy and the Forgotten Legion, you will need to buy it too.

Where can I get the Doctrines?

At the moment, they will be available as a reward for PvP Rating Seasons, Faction Seasons and Clan seasons. Also, you can use our offers to buy them.
It is also planned that they will be in Faction and Events stores.

If you are one of the curious who want to see all this in action, here we give you a couple of Doctrines ready to use:

For Facebook:

[Short Link] http://bit.ly/334WU2k
[Long Link] https://apps.facebook.com/iron_rage?ref=bonusb5dd80996cdccaz

For Kongregate:

https://www.kongregate.com/games/Enixan/iron-rage?ref=bonusb5dd8099dd1e89z

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Grotto Improvements

• The contents of the chests from the "Vendor" in the Grotto, which can be obtained as a result of the exchange, have been changed. Now, equipment drawing is guaranteed to drop out of chests in accordance with the rarity of the chest itself. That is, when you open the chest for 5 items, you will receive a equipment drawing for ordinary equipment. And when you open a chest for 25 items, you will become the owner of a legendary drawing.
• The same applies to materials for the Ardheim factory. The higher the quality of the chest, the better the materials will fall out of it.
• The same applies to Equipment crafting materials.
• Increased the probability of falling out an equipment from Vendor
• Increased chance of getting repair kits. Now from the chests, you can get BRK / MRK / SRK or spare parts.
• Flywheels / resonators / keys / city plans now drop out guaranteed.