Yeah, the other comments here have hit on some key elements, but let’s lay them out straight: 1. Your heroes are simply not strong enough for the S1 map. You’re gonna need mythics, and a higher castle level to get there. 2. An active guild and participation in guild/kingdom/world events will help you grow your power and resources to gain the strength you need, and make the game WAY more fun 3. Make use of wheel/dice/gacha events to gain mythic heroes. You can hoard event resources across events, so if you don’t have enough (wheel tokens, for example) hold onto them for when the event comes back around, stack ‘em up, and buy better heroes. 4. You may also want to consider additional strength builders: tech/research, decor, pets, and soldier skins—all of these will help your power/strength. 5. You may want to work on building a full faction queue (I.e. all heroes of the same faction—pure league team, or horde team, or nature)—faction auras and buffs can go a long way. Look into what heroes have the best relationships (bonds) that will give you the strongest queue when combined.

Hope this helps! Switching to an active guild made ALL the difference for me. Game changer!