Age of Origins Global Conquest Guide: Seasons, Star Core & Strategy

Part of the Events series:

• Void War Guide: The other cross-Nation war, with very different stakes.
• Events Overview: The full calendar.

Quick Answer

• Global Conquest is the game's cross-server season: Nation-vs-Nation battles across Preliminaries, Semifinals, and Finals, with the top 16 Nations by Season Points advancing from the Preliminaries.
• Matched Nations fight on a fresh battlefield map for the Star Core; each round has 3 battles, you can join up to 2 per round, entry is free, and up to 250 commanders per Nation take the field.
• The rule that changes everything: troops are only wounded, never killed, and auto-recover after battle.
• Season Points accrue from your Nation's ranking each round; individual season rewards pay on your own point high-water mark.
• During your Nation's Global Conquest week, the Capital War is suspended — the ruling alliance keeps power for the week.

What Makes Global Conquest Different

The game has two cross-Nation wars, and they reward opposite mindsets. Void War is a knife fight — real troops die, denial is a strategy, and half the skill is knowing when not to fight. Global Conquest is the tournament version: a seasonal points competition on neutral ground where losses are wounds, not deaths, and everything auto-heals when the battle ends.

Read that rule again, because it inverts the entire risk calculus this handbook teaches everywhere else. In Global Conquest there is no feeding, no healing bill, no reason to hold your best marches back. The correct aggression level is maximum, every battle, with your absolute best troops — the hide-your-troops doctrine is off-duty for the week.

The Season Structure

• Preliminaries → Semifinals → Finals, played as rounds of group matches. Your Nation earns Season Points from its ranking in each round, and the Top 16 Nations advance out of Preliminaries.
• Each matched round drops the Nations onto an all-new map to contest the Star Core — the central objective the fighting revolves around.
• Three battles per round; you may enter up to two. Up to 250 commanders per Nation can participate, entry costs nothing, and same-Nation commanders can't attack each other.
• Individual rewards key off your highest Season Points when the season closes — showing up to your two battles every round is the whole individual game.

How to Actually Be Useful

Because deaths are off the table, contribution is about presence and coordination rather than caution:

1. Enter your battles. Both of them. With a 250-commander cap and free entry, a Nation's real constraint is turnout. The Nations that advance are the ones whose mid-sized accounts show up, not just their whales.
2. Fight the objective, not the kill feed. The Star Core is the scoring spine; treat fights as contests for position around it, the way rally discipline treats targets — coordinated pushes beat scattered brawling.
3. Bring the real army. Best tiers, best officers, best formations. The no-death rule means the only thing you can lose is the round.
4. Coordinate in alliance channels. Battlefield maps reward grouped movement and timed pushes; 250 solo commanders lose to 100 organized ones reliably.
5. Mind the calendar quirk: your Nation's Capital War pauses during its Global Conquest week — server politics freeze, which occasionally matters more to your alliance's plans than the event itself.

Where It Fits in Your Season

Global Conquest is the closest thing the game has to a pure esport: no attrition, no economy damage, just Nation-scale coordination measured against strangers. It's also a diagnostic — Nations that flop here are seeing their turnout and coordination problems in lab conditions, and those same problems will cost real troops next Void War. Treat the season as free rehearsal with prizes, slot it into the banking rhythm (no material costs means nothing to bank — just show up), and spend the week being exactly as aggressive as the rest of the game teaches you not to be.