Total Battle Captains
Think of captains in Total Battle as role switches rather than permanent picks. You are not hunting for one “best” captain; you are building a small toolkit of four or five and swapping the right one in for the job at hand.
The table below maps each role to its primary and secondary pick, so you can grab the correct captain for crypts, monsters, PvP, or gathering before you march. Pair that with your heroes and their talents, and level the captains you actually use rather than spreading progress thin.
Specialty Reference
Section titled “Specialty Reference”| Role | Primary | Secondary |
|---|---|---|
| Army Strength | Cleopatra | Aydae |
| Army Health | Ramses | Sofia |
| Melee | Leonidas | - |
| Mounted | Alexander | - |
| Ranged | Minamoto | - |
| Flying | Wu Zetian | - |
| Monsters | Ingrid | - |
| Specialists | Logos | - |
| Scouts | Proscope | Xi Guiying |
| Engineers | Brann | - |
| Crypts | Carter | - |
| CP Bonus | Dustan | - |
| VP Bonus | Doria (caps at Lv300, no effect on epic monsters) | - |
| Raids | Amanitore | - |
| Epic Monsters | Hercules | - |
| March Speed | Tengel | - |
| Gathering | Stror | - |
| Food/Training | Helen | - |
| Research | Farhad | - |
| Construction | Aurora | - |
Unlocking Captains
Section titled “Unlocking Captains”Collect fragments from Summoning Scroll events. Collect free scrolls daily. Batch Elite Scrolls to 10 before summoning. Save scrolls for Summon Mastery Events, which give bonus fragments for key captains. At Hero ~12, focus fragments on the 3–4 captains you actually use.
Priority and Usage
Section titled “Priority and Usage”New players: Carter → Farhad → Aurora → Stror. Add Hercules and Doria for VP events.
How to level up captains
Section titled “How to level up captains”Level 45 is the first meaningful threshold. It unlocks the captain’s faction buff, which is the point at which a captain starts paying for itself across your whole account. Push every captain you actually use past 45 before chasing higher levels on any single one.
Carter, the most important captain
Section titled “Carter, the most important captain”Only use for crypts. Equip Tomb Raider gear (start blue/purple, aim red/gold), or Omniscience for Epic Crypts, and socket Crypt Exploration Efficiency gems on every slot. Push to Star 7 and enough XP to clear Lv20+ crypts in one march. Slot the Torch of Olympus artefact once available (best-in-slot for crypts; manage artefacts from the slot in the upper-left of the captain screen).
Full crypt mechanics, hit math, Tar management, and the research/talent path live on Crypts.
Support
Section titled “Support”Stror (gathering), Aurora (construction), Farhad (research), Helen (paid; food/training speed, very valuable long-term).
Combat
Section titled “Combat”Amanitore is the top priority combat captain for any group-march activity: clan raids, CoT, Ragnarök Day 1, kingdom wars. Unlockable via TinMan personal rewards, so grind her fragments there early. After Amanitore: Cleopatra (army strength, best for solo vs. epics), Aydae (strong vs. players, can outperform Cleo in PvP), Leonidas (PvP swordsman buffs). Troop-type specialists: Alexander (mounted), Minamoto (ranged), Wu Zetian (flying), Ingrid (monsters), Brann (engineers, less needed once you have flying units).
Utility
Section titled “Utility”Proscope (scouting), Dustan (CP), Doria (VP), Hercules (solo epic monsters), Tengel (march speed).
Session flow
Section titled “Session flow”Log in → Aurora (building) → Farhad (research) → Carter (crypts) → Doria (VP event) → Hercules (epic monster).
Who is the best captain for crypts in Total Battle?
Carter. He is the dedicated crypt captain and the most important pick for that job: equip Tomb Raider gear, socket Crypt Exploration Efficiency gems, and push him to Star 7 with enough XP to clear Lv20+ crypts in one march. Only use him for crypts.
Which captains should I skip?
Ignore Ye Ho-Sung, Bernard, Lucius, and Brunhild. Each is an inferior version of Leonidas, Minamoto, Alexander, and Wu Zetian respectively, so put your fragments into the better captain instead.
How many captains do I need?
Build a toolkit of four or five and swap them by role rather than levelling everything. Once you reach Hero level 12, focus fragments on the three or four captains you actually use for crypts, monsters, PvP, and gathering.