The Alliance Exercise in Last War, also commonly called Marshal’s Guard or Marshal’s Exercise, is a recurring cooperative event where the entire alliance has 30 minutes to deal as much damage as possible to five Marshal tanks. Unlike many PvE activities, you cannot simply attack the targets alone. Damage is dealt through three-minute alliance rallies.
The basic strategy is to prepare before the event, donate Construction Parts for the alliance damage bonus, position close to the Marshal platform, and recall every useful squad. During combat, launch your own rally with a weaker squad while using your strongest squad to join other players’ rallies. Keeping those formations moving continuously is more important than repeatedly waiting for your strongest squad to lead.
Alliance Exercise is a 30-minute rally marathon. Recall your squads before it starts, donate enough Construction Parts to reach the alliance damage bonus, launch rallies with a weaker squad, and use your strongest formation to join rallies with the shortest remaining timers. Consistent rally cycles usually matter more than one oversized attack.
How Alliance Exercise Works
Alliance leadership controls the event. R4 and R5 officers choose the difficulty and schedule the start time, ideally when a large portion of the alliance can participate.
The event follows three practical stages:
| Stage | What Happens | Main Priority |
|---|---|---|
| Selection | R4/R5 chooses difficulty and schedules the exercise | Select a level the alliance can clear reliably |
| Preparation | Members donate Construction Parts and prepare squads | Maximize the damage bonus and recall troops |
| Battle | Five Marshal tanks appear for 30 minutes | Keep three-minute rallies running continuously |
Alliance Exercise commonly returns every few days, but event cadence and available difficulty tiers can vary with server progression or game updates. Check your live Events screen and alliance announcements for the current schedule.
Alliance Exercise Difficulty Levels
Current versions of Alliance Exercise provide multiple difficulty tiers, extending up to Level 12 on progressed servers. Higher levels have tougher Marshal tanks but also improve the available rewards.
The highest unlocked difficulty is not automatically the best choice. Your alliance should prioritize reaching all five alliance reward stages rather than selecting a tank level that consumes troops without producing enough total damage.
When Should You Increase Difficulty?
Move up when your alliance clears the current level consistently and still has comfortable time remaining. If the final reward phase is only reached at the last moment, improving coordination first may provide better results than immediately increasing enemy strength.
Consider:
- How many members regularly attend.
- Whether members remain active for the full 30 minutes.
- How quickly rallies fill.
- How much time remains when Reward Stage 5 is reached.
- Whether troop losses are becoming difficult to replace.
- How many strong rally participants the alliance can field simultaneously.
Consistently reaching Reward Stage 5 on a manageable difficulty is usually better than failing a harder level. Increase difficulty after your alliance has both the combat strength and rally coordination to handle it.
Construction Parts and the Preparation Phase
Before combat begins, alliance members can donate Construction Parts, sometimes described as wrenches in older translations. These donations increase the damage dealt during the exercise.
The current preparation system can provide up to a 25% alliance rally damage bonus, reached through collective Construction Part donations.
Members should contribute before the exercise begins rather than treating the preparation stage as optional. The bonus applies across the alliance, so improving it benefits every rally during the 30-minute battle.
Recall Your Squads Before the Start
About five to ten minutes before the event, recall formations that are:
- Gathering resources
- Mining
- Excavating
- Participating in unnecessary map activities
- Occupied in unrelated rallies
A squad deployed elsewhere cannot immediately be used for Marshal rallies. Losing the first several minutes because your best formation is marching home can significantly reduce your personal damage and the alliance’s total rally count.
Move Close to the Marshal Platform
The Marshal platform should ideally be positioned close to the main alliance hive. Members should also remain reasonably close to it.
Shorter march times mean squads return faster after each attack, which allows them to enter another rally sooner. Across a 30-minute event, repeatedly saving even a modest amount of marching time can result in additional attacks.
Alliance Exercise Rally Rules
Once the battle begins, the platform is replaced by five Marshal tanks.
The most important combat rules are:
- Solo attacks are not available.
- Attacks must be performed through rallies.
- Alliance Exercise uses three-minute rallies.
- One player can initiate only one personal rally at a time.
- A player can join multiple rallies when enough squads are available.
Because the rally starter’s squad spends the three-minute countdown waiting, your strongest formation should usually not be the squad sitting inside your own rally timer.
Best Rally Strategy
If You Have Two Squads
- Use your weaker squad to start a three-minute Marshal rally.
- Use your strongest squad to join another member’s rally.
- Prioritize rallies with the shortest remaining countdown.
- When your squads return, immediately repeat the process.
If You Have Three or More Squads
Use your weakest practical formation to launch your personal rally. Keep your strongest squads available to join other rallies as often as possible.
This works because the squad launching your rally spends time waiting for the countdown. Your highest-damage heroes create more value when they repeatedly enter rallies that are already close to departing.
Prioritize Officer Rallies
Rallies led by alliance officers can provide additional event bonuses. Under the current system:
- Normal R4-led rallies can provide a 2.5% bonus.
- R5 and eligible R4 role holders can provide a 5% bonus.
When several rallies have similar timers, joining an officer rally can therefore improve your damage contribution. When one rally is about to depart and another still has most of its countdown remaining, however, keeping your squads cycling may still be more important.
Why Short March Times Matter
A three-minute rally timer is only part of the total cycle. Your squad must also travel to the rally leader, attack, and return.
A player located far from the Marshal platform can create two problems:
- Their own squads spend more time traveling instead of fighting.
- A distant squad can delay a rally if its arrival takes too long.
Rally leaders can inspect participants and remove a formation whose travel time is holding up the departure. This should be used selectively to preserve the event’s attack rhythm rather than leaving an entire rally waiting for one distant player.
Offline Participation and Auto-Rally
Current versions can provide an Offline Participation or auto-rally function. When enabled, the system can automatically place an available formation into alliance rallies if you cannot remain online throughout the entire event.
This is useful as a backup, but active participation is still more efficient because an online player can choose better rallies, manage squad timing, heal troops, and redirect formations immediately.
Feature behavior can vary with server version, so check the Alliance Exercise interface before relying on auto-rally.
Best Heroes for Alliance Exercise
Alliance Exercise rewards sustained PvE damage. Your strongest developed formation will generally outperform an underbuilt squad assembled solely because it looks ideal on paper.
Useful heroes include strong damage dealers such as:
Support heroes such as Marshall can also be valuable because improving the output of the rest of the formation can produce more total damage than simply inserting another weaker attacker.
Your optimal squad ultimately depends on the heroes, stars, skills, gear, Drone progression, Exclusive Weapons, Awakening, and other systems currently developed on your account.
War Fever: Optional Extra Damage
War Fever can provide an additional 1% damage bonus. Players can activate it shortly before Alliance Exercise by scouting or performing another qualifying hostile action against another Commander.
This is optional rather than required.
You can participate in Alliance Exercise while shielded, but activating War Fever through scouting or another hostile action will remove the shield. Skip the War Fever bonus if preserving your shield is more important.
Alliance Exercise Rewards
Alliance Exercise has both alliance rewards and individual rewards.
Alliance Reward Stages
Total damage from the alliance fills a shared progress bar with five reward stages. Reaching Reward Stage 5 represents the main alliance completion target.
Everyone benefits when the alliance produces more total damage, which is why even lower-power members should participate instead of assuming they cannot contribute enough to matter.
MVP Multiplier
The alliance reward system also includes an MVP-based multiplier. As the best individual score reaches the required thresholds, the multiplier applied to alliance rewards can increase, reaching as high as 10x.
This gives the alliance another reason to help its strongest damage dealers maintain efficient rally cycles rather than allowing their best squad to sit unused.
Individual Rewards
Personal rewards are based on your own damage contribution. Exact thresholds change with difficulty, so use the reward screen for the current target rather than comparing your score directly with someone playing another Marshal level.
Healing During Alliance Exercise
Marshal battles can produce wounded troops. If your available forces begin dropping during the 30-minute window, use short healing batches instead of placing your entire hospital into one long healing queue.
A practical approach is:
- Open the hospital after troops return.
- Select a manageable healing batch.
- Start healing.
- Request Alliance Help.
- Repeat as necessary during the event.
Frequent alliance help can reduce short healing queues quickly and return troops to active squads without forcing you to wait through one large timer.
Best R4 and R5 Alliance Exercise Strategy
Leadership has a major influence on the result. A simple officer checklist is:
- Select a realistic difficulty. Prioritize reliable Reward Stage 5 clears.
- Schedule for attendance. Choose a time when the largest number of active members can participate.
- Position the platform well. Keep it near the alliance hive.
- Remind members to donate Construction Parts.
- Tell members to recall squads before the start.
- Discourage unrelated rallies shortly before and during the event.
- Keep officer rallies circulating. Members can benefit from their rally bonuses.
- Watch delayed marches. Remove distant squads when they are preventing timely departures.
- Review the result afterward. Use remaining time, reward stage, and damage performance to choose the next difficulty.
Common Alliance Exercise Mistakes
- Skipping Construction Part donations: This gives up an alliance-wide damage bonus.
- Leaving squads gathering: Your formations should be home before combat starts.
- Parking far from the platform: Excessive march time reduces how many rally cycles you can complete.
- Trying to attack directly: Marshal tanks are attacked through rallies.
- Starting with your strongest squad: Your best heroes then spend much of the event waiting through your own rally countdown.
- Ignoring short rally timers: Joining rallies close to departure keeps your strongest squad fighting more often.
- Launching unrelated rallies: This ties up formations during a short 30-minute event.
- Allowing distant participants to delay rallies: Remove a squad when its march would significantly postpone departure.
- Choosing difficulty too aggressively: Completing all five reward phases is more useful than failing a higher level.
- Ignoring healing: Wounded troops can gradually reduce formation strength as the event continues.
Optional Faster Starting Point
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FAQs
What is Alliance Exercise in Last War?
Alliance Exercise, also known as Marshal’s Guard or Marshal’s Exercise, is a cooperative alliance event where members use rallies to deal as much damage as possible to five Marshal tanks during a 30-minute battle.
How often does Alliance Exercise happen?
It commonly returns every two to three days as part of the recurring event cycle. Timing can vary by server or version, so check the live event schedule.
How long does Alliance Exercise last?
The combat portion lasts 30 minutes.
Can you solo attack Marshal tanks?
No. Damage is dealt through alliance rallies, and Alliance Exercise uses three-minute rally timers.
Should I start rallies with my strongest squad?
Usually no. Start your personal rally with a weaker formation and use your strongest squad to join other rallies so it spends more time fighting and less time waiting through your own countdown.
What do Construction Parts do?
Construction Part donations increase the alliance’s damage bonus during the exercise. The current preparation system can reach a total bonus of up to 25%.
What is Reward Stage 5?
The alliance progress bar contains five reward stages based on total damage. Reward Stage 5 is the main completion benchmark for the alliance.
What is the Alliance Exercise MVP bonus?
The strongest individual performance contributes to an MVP multiplier applied to alliance rewards. The multiplier can reach as high as 10x when the required damage threshold is achieved.
Can I participate while shielded?
Yes. Alliance Exercise itself does not require dropping your shield. However, activating War Fever through a hostile scouting or combat action will remove it.
What is the best Alliance Exercise formation?
Use your strongest developed PvE damage formation. Prioritize your best attackers and useful support while accounting for the hero progression, gear, Drone systems, and other upgrades currently available on your server.
Conclusion
The key to the Last War Alliance Exercise is keeping rally downtime as low as possible. Donate Construction Parts, move close to the Marshal platform, recall your formations before the event, and launch your own rally with a weaker squad while your strongest heroes continuously join other attacks.
At the alliance level, prioritize consistent Reward Stage 5 clears before moving to a harder difficulty. Strong officer scheduling, short march times, efficient healing, and disciplined three-minute rally rotations can improve results more than simply choosing stronger tanks and hoping raw power compensates for poor coordination.
For more alliance strategies, event walkthroughs, and progression advice, explore our additional Last War Survival guides.
