There is no wounded queue in Total Battle. Casualties do not limp off to recover — they die, and the Temple is where you decide what to do about it. That distinction is the whole of this lesson, because it turns every fight into a purchase decision made after the fact.
The Temple, and the two prices
Dead troops go to your Temple, and what it costs to bring them back depends on how they died.
- Defensive deaths — troops killed defending your city — revive with silver, up to around 75% of them.
- Offensive deaths — troops killed on your own marches — cost gold, or Sacred Potions, which the Temple produces passively up to a capacity.
- Some losses are irretrievable regardless. Not everything comes back.
Silver you can farm. Gold you mostly buy. That asymmetry is why defending is cheap and attacking is expensive, and it quietly shapes how experienced kingdoms fight.
Delete and retrain
Here is the doctrine that separates a player with a silver problem from one without.
Experienced players delete their fallen cheap troops and retrain them with silver rather than reviving them with gold. Retraining a full army runs roughly 30 million silver — which sounds enormous until you price the gold equivalent, at which point it is the bargain of the game.
So the rule has a shape:
Never spend gold or potions on cheap troops. Delete them, retrain with silver, and save revival currency for the troops that are genuinely expensive to replace — high-tier guardsmen, griffins and mercenaries.
For scale, silver is under constant pressure from three directions at once: about 30 million for a full army rebuild, another 30 million a week on mercenary exchanges, and up to 30 million a day during heavy tournament play. A silver-farm city producing 84,000 an hour is not an eccentricity. It is somebody who did this arithmetic.
The windows that change the price
The prices above are the default. They are not fixed, and this is where most of the available value sits.
Ruthless Slaughter lets attacking losses revive for silver instead of gold. Thirst for Battle halves the gold cost of revival. Dark Omens fighting comes with a −90% silver revival cost, no irretrievable losses at all, and no gear damage.
When one of those windows is open, a fight that would have cost real money costs almost nothing. When it is closed, the identical fight costs full price.
So schedule the fighting, not just the winning. Big heroic and epic hunts belong inside a cheap-revival window. Outside one, the same hunt is the same result at several times the price.
Spend when spending scores
The mirror image of cheap fighting is expensive-looking spending that pays twice.
Banked speedups, tokens and experience chests are worth exactly the same on a quiet Tuesday as during a scoring tournament — except that during the tournament they also generate points. Opening them outside an event is the same expenditure for half the return.
- Bank speedups, tokens and XP chests as they arrive. Do not open them on sight.
- Watch the calendar for a tournament that scores the thing you were going to do anyway.
- Open everything inside the window, so one spend counts twice.
- Fight inside a cheap-revival window, so the losses cost a fraction.
Not a reduced bonus — nothing at all until it is repaired. Every strike in battle costs a point of durability, so gear you have been fighting in is quietly worth less than the numbers you remember. At zero it cannot be repaired and must be replaced, destroying any enchantment on it. If your strength looks wrong before a big fight, check durability before you check anything else.
The meta in one line
Event timing is the largest free multiplier available to any account, at any size, at any spending level. It costs nothing to learn and nothing to use.
Fight when revival is cheap. Spend when spending scores. Everything else is detail.
Knowledge check
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What happens to troops killed on your own attacking march?
CorrectNot quiteThere is no wounded queue. Defensive deaths revive with silver; offensive deaths cost gold or potions, and some losses never return.
What do experienced players do with fallen cheap troops?
CorrectNot quiteA full army rebuild is roughly 30 million silver—far cheaper than the gold equivalent. Gold is saved for genuinely expensive troops.
When should you schedule big heroic and epic hunts?
CorrectNot quiteThe same fight costs a fraction of the price inside those windows. Outside one, you pay full rate for the identical result.
What bonus does damaged equipment give?
CorrectNot quiteDamaged gear gives nothing. At zero durability it cannot be repaired at all and must be replaced, destroying its enchantment.
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