How to Get Started With Ian’s Ballads
To get started with Ian’s Ballads, it will pop up as an event in your events tab. Then tap on go to start the event. It will bring you to the main screen where you can adjust difficulty level and get a preview of each raid boss’ skills.
It is also a smart idea to make some tweaks before starting the campaign like activating your runes, titles and even War Frenzy to further increase the damage done by your commanders, since they don’t do that much in the scenario.
When you are ready to start, you will be matched with three other players as seen below.

You will be working with the other 3 players in cooperative effort to defeat the barbarians and to eliminate the raid bosses to advance. Since the matchmaking is random, I recommend you to try and pair with stronger players for better gaming experience.
What are Ian’s Ballads Game Rules?
There’s some game rules you need to be aware of when playing Ian’s Ballads event. Getting to know them can be especially beneficial to your knowledge in advance when it comes to your turn to do the event. Here’s the game rules for Ian’s Ballads:
- You have a timer limit and must complete before it hits zero.
- All governors can dispatch up to one army at a time.
- You only can get Chieftain’s Reward once per event.
- You can’t heal your troops while your squad is in a battle.
- To pass through the gate, you must defeat the raid boss guarding it.
Game Difficulty and Barbarian Buffs
Base Camp

Base Camp is your starting point in Ian’s Ballads. This is where all of your army and governors are located at. You can prepare your commanders and troops at Base Camp before dispatching them on the map. To dispatch your army, press and hold on the Base Camp for one second.
You will see white circular ring rotating around the Base Camp that indicates it is ready to dispatch your army. Although, you only can dispatch your army when your allied governors and you are not in a battle.
Resting Campsite

The Resting Campsite is another structure that you should also use to your advantage. They are located throughout the map and is the forward point where your commanders rest. You also can get additional reinforcements and troops if your army loses the battle.
Here’s how the Resting Campsite works:
- They serve as forward points after reaching a certain progression.
- Once your army has been defeated, they will return to the nearest Resting Campsite.
- Troops that’s fully healed can be dispatched once again.
- Resting Campsite can’t be utilized while you are battling against a raid boss or any barbarians.
Before you can use the Resting Campsite, you need to activate it first. This can be done by commanding your army to activate the Resting Campsite. You will know that it is activated when the flames disappear from the tower.
Medical Camps

And lastly, you can heal your troops by transforming your army into temporary medical camps. To do this, just tap on the healing camp icon located on the bottom right corner of the screen.
Once activated, your army will set up a healing camp site and start healing your troops in the progression. This is a nice game mechanism to know and useful to know if your troops ever start falling low on health.
Best of all, you can set up medical healing camps as often as you want to. There are no restrictions on how often you are allowed to. But make sure to meet the timer requirements.
Ian’s Ballads Raid Bosses
There’s 3 main bosses in Ian’s Ballads event that you need to defeat each in order to receive the ultimate rewards. Each boss has their own special skills and you must perform dodges, silencing, and mitigating their damage. Let’s dive deep in each bosses:
Conclusion of Ian’s Ballads

To sum this up, Ian’s Ballads isn’t a hard event once you get the ball rolling. You will need to use your raid awareness, be cautious about stacks and pulling the barbarians. If you have nuking commanders as I recommended, you don’t have to be scared about dying at all. Because you can respawn and switch to a different commander if you prefer.
Here’s a few tricks before you enter Ian’s Ballads raid event to make it a lot easier:
- Use army expansion to expand your troops’ maximum capacity.
- Use a damage rune to increase the damage done.
- Go with an alliance title & skill.
Though, you can only do Ian’s Ballads to get one-time rewards. Which means if you do it on the easiest difficult level and obtain rewards. You can’t get rewards again. So, you will want to go for the hardest difficult level to maximize your rewards. (P.S, you can lower the difficulty level if it’s too hard for you).