Pay to win with small wait timer.
Well, let’s start with the main lie “no waiting time” in the game, it takes 1 hour of a high enough lvl city to produce 700 units… I was firing with the 100k+ within a few minutes of play, so you can’t train and can’t growth without actively engaging in fighting, that is how you get your troops. Win a settlement, win a bunch of troops, how many? No idea, there is no rhyme or reason, is just exponentially A LOT. Is the game pay to win? ABSOLUTELY, you can buy gems, gems will give you strategic advantage by letting you scout multiple enemy settlements, allow you to gather your forces with 1 click rather then a bunch, and in a game that is “real time” this is very over powered. Beyond that, and the absolute MOST pay to win factor, you can use gem to revive dead troops, meaning that you can steam rolê your momentum into a loosing battle and still win, that is all within about 20 minutes of play! Beyond that there are other payed systems that make sure your equipment is optimised, ways to growth faster and so on! 100% pay to win. There is also the “no waiting” thing with sending troops, is all good and cool when you are small, no more then a few seconds, but when I got attacked by a player from afar with SEVERAL TIMES the amount of troops in one attack that I had in my whole kingdom (the game will very very very quickly become one sided to those who play/are more experiences). That attack was going to take already a few minutes to arrive, meaning the more you play the more you wait and so on. Granted, much better then many 6h timer games, by a LONG shot, but saying there is no wait on the adds was just a lie.