You start with a level 1 castle. There are 10 regular upgrades, and then three more super powerful ones. With every upgrade, you collect gems faster and faster. To battle, you must buy soldiers with the gems you collect. There are to ways to do battle- regular, and quikfight. On regular the computer will individually ask you how many of each kind of the soldiers that you have you'll want to use on each flank. Quikfight will show sliders representing the percent of each of the 6 soldier types you want to use. set them to the desired amount and press space to submit. to evenly divide your soldiers on quikfight, use 30, then 50, then 100.
ATTENTION! WHEN DOING BATTLE YOU MUST SUBMIT YOUR ANSWER BEFORE CLICKING THE NEXT BUTTON! this update features a highly improved battle system. click the knight icon in the upper left corner to show or hide your list of soldiers press q to toggle quikfight