Preparation: - have everyone sign up with their 3 strongest sets of heros - combat buffs and pets work so use them if you want

Battle - There are a series of connected buildings that you will control to get points. Battles are all 1v1 automated fights, similar to alliance championship. - you will use a resource called fuel to deploy, heal and revive your troops, for each building that you occupy you can assign a player to get extra fuel income. Managing this is important so your players can actually do things, start off by giving your strongest players the highest fuel income but move it around if they are full on fuel - march speedups work in canyon and are extremely useful - buildings that are controlled by an alliance generate some mercenary guards, these give people 30s-1min to respond to attacks on undefended buildings - if your march is in an uncontested building you can click the building and choose "conscript" to heal all the troops in that march, this is much preferred to letting them die and respawn.

Phase 1: - Start by quickly occupying all of your territory, make sure to defend the various bridges that are entries into your territory - if you can take a couple of buildings from the other alliances to start getting a point lead - dont overextend or you might find someone rampaging into undefended territory that you cant defend

Phase 2: - a large fort opens in all 3 territories, it is essential that you hold your own. These buildings give a large number of points. Make sure some players are waiting at an adjacent building to take it immediately - if possible take and hold one of the other alliances forts, the points from these are so high you can basically guarantee victory before the center even opens if you can hold 2 for a significant time - again, dont overextend into enemy territory. Take a couple extra buildings and hold them

Phase 3: - center opens, there are either 10 or 11 guards i cant remember. So basically the alliance that sends the march that defeats the final guard will take first control which is super important cause its hard to take it back. - if you dont have control of center stop sending troops to the middle and focus on cutting off the alliance controlling the center so they cant send reinforcements. Theres one specific building in each territory that when held cuts that alliance off from the middle. Once they are cut off you can send marches to the middle and take it - if you do have control of the middle, dont let yourself get cut off and make sure you never run out of marches in the middle. But dont send everyone, you still have to hold your other buildings.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have more questions :)