About Blockades

What are blockades?

Blockades are indicated by a big red ring around the castle.

What does a Blockade do?

Blockades will delay any enemy Primarchs that pass through the Castle for a period of time. The delay period scales with Fort level.

Changes introduced with the Eclipse season:

• Blockade Times Reduced: This GPF-driven change will be a substantial reduction to blockade times. The goal is to make Atlas more active and fun while still giving attentive gatekeeping a chance to intervene and protect those behind them. New blockade times are as follows:
  • Level 3 Fort: 2.2 minutes
  • Level 6 Fort: 3.48 minutes
  • Level 9 Fort: 4.74 minutes
  • Level 12 Fort: 6 minutes

Changes introduced with the Frozen Chaos Season: Going live on January 31, 2022

(from https://forums.wardragons.com/t/blockade-time-updates/149264)

• Blockade time for all castle levels and fort levels will be 30 seconds.
• If an enemy primarch performs an aggressive action, all primarchs belonging to the offending primarch’s team and alliance already at the same castle location have their blockade time increased by 6 minutes.
  • Aggressive action is defined by:
    • Initiating an attack (battle result does not matter)
    • A Trapper using the trap ability
  • Defending your base from an attack does not count as an aggressive action.
• Blockade time can only be extended once per primarch per visit
  • The aggression penalty does not stack on the same visit.
  • If a primarch leaves and returns to the same castle, their blockade timer can be extended again.

How does one activate a Blockade? 

A Blockade is automatically activated once a Fort is built on the castle, and at least one Castle Guard is hired to that castle. 

What happens to Blockades when Shields activate?

Blockades are disabled when a Shield is active, and vice-versa. Event Shields will also disable Blockades.