Start Here · 8 lessons
Build the habit before you build the account.
Start Here teaches the decision-making habits that protect your shards, gems, speedups, materials, and money before the deeper Academy subjects get specific.
Progression is not power
Learn why visible power and useful account progression are not the same thing.
Read lesson →Resources you will wish you saved
Learn which resources deserve a plan before you spend them.
Read lesson →Build for your account
Understand why the right answer changes with budget, role, state age, and goals.
Read lesson →Events are progression
Make the upgrades you already need pay you back through smarter timing.
Read lesson →Troop types have jobs
Learn why Infantry, Lancers, and Marksmen cannot be treated as interchangeable power.
Read lesson →Buildings unlock value
Choose building upgrades by the job, unlock, or progression gate they solve.
Read lesson →Think before building heroes
Evaluate heroes by access, role, longevity, replacement timing, and total investment.
Read lesson →Before-you-spend checklist
Use Frost's repeatable decision system before spending scarce resources or money.
Read lesson →How to use this path
New player? Go in order. Experienced player? Challenge the rules.
These lessons are foundations, not commandments. If your experience tells you an exception exists, that is exactly the kind of nuance Frost wants the deeper Academy sections to explain.