Combat / PvP

Army Upkeep

A standing army isn't free to keep around. Every minute, your troops cost a small amount of $BREAD in upkeep, paid automatically. This is what stops the game from becoming a race to stockpile an enormous army you never use.

Upkeep is soft $BREAD only. It is pulled from your spendable balance and never touches anything cashable.

Small armies are free

If your total army is 250 troops or fewer, you pay no upkeep at all. New and casual players are never charged for keeping a sensible garrison.

Big armies pay sharply more

Past the free allowance, upkeep is strongly progressive — the cost per troop climbs as your army grows. A modest army pays a low rate, while a giant 15,000-troop horde pays a much higher rate on each of those extra troops. The bigger the army, the more each new troop costs to maintain.

You can never go broke from upkeep

Upkeep is built so it can't bankrupt you:

It is capped at 35% of the income your garrisons earn that tick, so an active army always stays net-positive.
It will draw a little from your saved balance if your income can't cover the cap, but only down to a safety cushion — it never drains you dry.
Anything still unaffordable is simply waived. Upkeep is never debt and never goes negative.

Trimming your upkeep — the My Army panel

If your army is bigger than you need, open the My Army panel from the menu. It lists every bakery and farm that has troops, shows your total army and its upkeep, and lets you disband troops in bulk to bring the cost down. You can also disband from a single bakery's Troops tab.

Disbanding doesn't refund anything — the troops are gone — it just removes them from your army so they stop costing upkeep.

If you're paying upkeep you don't want, the fix is simple: shed the troops you aren't using. An army you actually fight with pays for itself; an idle horde just bleeds $BREAD.