Strike First: New Server Starter Sprint

Complete guide to the beginner 'Strike First' event in Last Asylum: Plague: Sanctuary milestones, Blight purging, military progression, rewards, and major mistakes to avoid.

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The Strike First event is the premier onboarding sprint for new servers and starting commanders in Last Asylum: Plague. Triggered immediately upon account creation, it serves as your primary growth accelerator during Week 1: completing foundational milestones awards an abundance of free diamonds, speedups, recruit tickets, and hero shards.


🎯 Event Overview & Task Structure

Strike First functions as a tiered milestone checklist tied directly to your Sanctuary progression and early-game combat preparedness:

  1. Sanctuary Milestones:

    • Upgrading your Sanctuary to Lv.5, 8, 10, 12, and 15.
    • Each milestone unlocks massive caches of free diamonds, building speedups, and essential resources.
  2. Blight Purge (Monster Hunts):

    • Eliminating roaming undead mutants and Blight Walkers on the world map.
    • Yields research speedups, Raven essence, and hospital recovery supplies.
  3. Military Mobilization:

    • Training tier 1, 2, and 3 troops (T1–T3).
    • Expanding barracks capacity and unlocking additional march slots.
  4. Tavern Recruitment:

    • Spending Normal and Advanced Recruitment Tickets.
    • Unlocking foundational heroes (Celia, Bella, Arthur).
  5. Arena of Fate Debut:

    • Participating in server-wide arena duels to establish an early PvP ranking.

🎁 Milestone Rewards

Full completion of Strike First delivers game-changing starter value:

  • Diamonds: 5,000+ free diamonds.
  • Advanced Recruitment Tickets: 20+ tickets for Tavern summons.
  • Hero Shards: Fragments for UR Arthur (tank) and SSR Celia (support).
  • Speedup Bundles: Tens of hours in universal, building, and research speedups.
  • Antitoxin Reserves: Crucial serum to elevate your core carry’s level immediately.

⚠️ 4 Fatal Beginner Mistakes to Avoid

1. Blowing Free Diamonds on Standard Tavern Pulls

The single biggest mistake new players make is dumping free diamonds into standard recruit pulls. Do not do this. On Day 8 of your server, the UR Ranger Cynthia’s Lucky Wheel arrives — 7 days of one free daily spin plus a 10-spin milestone that dumps 10 fragments — a full copy. Cover the gap with ~1,500 diamonds (3 extra spins) and the hero is yours; pull nothing before Day 8.

2. Disorganized Construction Queues

Do not waste building queues on vanity upgrades or unnecessary resource plots. Always inspect the prerequisite buildings for the next Sanctuary level (typically Wall + Research Lab or Wall + Barracks) and upgrade strictly along the critical path.

3. Wasting Stamina Outside Event Windows

Only hunt the specific monster tiers required to trigger milestone completions. Conserve remaining stamina for double-dipping opportunities.

4. Premature PvP Raiding

Attacking neighboring player bases during Week 1 fills your Infirmary with wounded troops, consumes valuable healing food, and stalls Sanctuary upgrades. Keep your peace shield active and focus entirely on PvE development.


📋 Quick Start Checklist

  1. Unlock the second builder queue immediately.
  2. Maintain 24/7 research queues focused on the “Base Development” tree.
  3. Keep barracks constantly training troops in manageable batches.
  4. Join an active Top-5 alliance: member assistance taps shave off hours of construction timers.
  5. Claim all Strike First milestone rewards before the event timer expires.

🎥 Video guides

Curated video guides and strategic breakdowns from community creators

📝 Text Transcript 6:54 (414 сек) ▼
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Hey guys, what's up? I am Prrenobbs from server 90 back with a new video of lastm plague. So today in this brand new video, I'm going to discuss about one of
the event which you get in the first uh 3 days in this game whose name is strike first. So this strike first event is personal point reward event and alliance
point with some more ranking rewards where you just need to kill some elite blight which is like your rally and you kill the you can say monster here they
call it a light blight.
I do not know who has told them to put this kind of name but yeah you need to kill it and get the points for yourself and your alliance members. Right now if
you will see here then I have just 152k points. It will take me nearly 1 hour to get 284k points. The reason with 284k point is we will be getting five UR
omnihero swords and we will even getting more three pieces and yeah earlier also we have got some more pieces. We are also getting some leather which is used
to craft uh equipments.
We are also getting recruitment tickets also from here which can help us recruit more and more heroes. And at the end we are getting Celia which is a purple hero
in this game and some antitoxin also which can help you uh upgrade your heroes. So you can say that this event is completely related to hero and their
equipments and their upgrades no matter if it's purple, if it's orange and all.
So yeah, this event is beneficial for all kinds of monsters. So there you need to actually follow a strategy so that you can claim all the rewards. You will
see I'm just killing level 9 or lower lower level of monster. I will take you to the reason why I am doing this. Let's go to the mail and let's open a report.
You can see we have a lot of reports available here. Let me open a level 14 report here.
I will click on view details. And if I go to the battle statistics, you will find out that I was not able to easily defeat him. And in the meanwhile, I have
also lost some troops. So you need to do nearly 100 nearly 100 rallies or nearby that. So if you are doing 100 rallies and if you are losing 100 troops at a
time then you will lose 10k troops just for killing all this elite blight and this is really not a good thing that you will be losing troops because your
alliance can kick in the initial days saying your power is less but yeah overall you might be too much powerful but they will just say oh man he has no
troops he has no power but they do not know actually. So yeah, uh try to kill below level 10 which is really going to help you a lot uh because uh they are
not going to give you more bonded troops or or check out your total power and uh battle accordingly. You will still see I'm losing a huge amount of troops here
also even. Okay, this was at level 13.
Uh let's see a level 9 report. I will just go to view details battle statistics. You will see I'm just losing 15 troops here. So I will be losing some
less troops and even at the same time I will be getting less points too. Uh 500 less points. But 500 points is not going to give you a big difference.
Well, let us assume I I will just go with two different scenarios here. You can see if I defeat level 1 to 10 a light bllight captain I will get 1,000
points. 11 to 13 will give me500 points.
14 to 16 will give me 2,000 points. 17 to 20 will give me 2500 points. 21 to 25 will give me 3,000 points and 26 to 30 will give me 5,000 points too. At the
same time if you initiate the rally then only you are going to give this uh you are going to get this point. In case you are joining the rally, you will be
getting this member rewards. Killing higher level of uh you can say light blight is going to give you more rewards. Even when you are offline and
uh uh luckily you join any rallies, you are going to get all these rewards from there. So this is really going to help you a lot.
Proceeding ahead, we have just seen personal points rewards. Let's see the alliance point rewards. Alliance point rewards also consist of pretty much
bigger rewards which consist of diamond which consist of Celia's gift and it can help you get some more alliance contribution points and some resource
chests. But you are going to get purple refined iron from here which is really going to help you a lot in up in making higher level of equipments and at the
same time you can get some other rewards same time you can get some other rewards too.
Well, let's let's proceed ahead and let's uh do one scenario. You can see we need 285k points in total and you know if you do a rally you will require 20
stamina. So you will if you multiply this by 100 so 2,000 plus 1,000 for killing level 1 to 10 ellight blight captain. So 3,000 points I am getting
for one attack and there are total 285k points which we can we need to achieve in this event. So what I'm going to do I'm going to open a calculator right now
and you can see 285k points divided by 3,000. So if even if you just kill level 1 to 10 elite blight you just need to kill just 95 elite blight in total. But
you know you if you are killing level uh uh you can say 11 to 13 then you just divide this by 3500 and you can see you need to kill 81 elite blight in total.
So this is really not a huge amount in 3 days to kill this much amount. No not really a huge amount of elite blight you need to kill. They are really small
number of elite blight and if you successfully kill them then really guys this is going to be a big achievement for you. This is like going to help you
get more you are hero omnis in the beginning days and you can obviously become more powerful too. Best of luck guys and we will meet soon again in a
new video with some new tips and tricks.
Till then bye-bye. Thank you. See you Till then bye-bye. Thank you. See you soon.
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Hey guys, what's up? I'm Pranavs from Survival 90 back with a new video of Last Asylum Plague. So, today in this brand new video, I'm going to take you
through something interesting.
You know that I have completed 24 hours in this game.
And uh soon will be entering on the second day. Soon you can say within next uh few hours also maybe.
So, yeah.
What you should do in your early 24 hours. We will be talking about each of them. So, you can say the early game in this Last Asylum Plague is critical for
building a strong strong foundation. So, this guide is going to provide you seven main tips to grow quickly, avoid attacks, and progress efficiently. Let
us start with the first thing. The first thing is expanding your base early. What does this actually mean? This actually mean here is you can see here. Like
there are some monsters available which you will need to kill and you can expand your base further. So, you need to do it
until and unless this does not disappear. The reason behind that is this all things this explorer camp, this watchtower, then we have private stable.
This all things gets unlocked as soon as you start progressing and start you can say unlocking this all bases. You just need to clear all this
you can say uh plagues which is around your base to unlock more spacious and new features.
Even expansion unlocks important elements guys. Even this Raven Nest, this Curio Hall, this private stable, even this research lab was unlocked when
I have you can say killed the plagues beside this.
So, you need to go and you need to explore this all area. So, not only that, clearing all these places and that, clearing all these places and unlocking
uh new spot is again going to give you some supply chests which also consist of purple equipment. Uh and even more spaces allows faster construction and
resource production. So, keep all this thing in mind and proceed forward. Let's move to the second tip. So, the second tip is basically you just need to focus
on your one of the main squad in the initial days. So, you will get three different squads for free and one of squad will be paid initially. So, yes.
What I mean here is you you can deploy five heroes in a single formation. And you can you should just focus on your five main heroes.
The second thing guys, avoid leveling up this blue heroes. You can see we have few blue heroes available here. Now, the third point.
You can say that this all blue heroes will be obsolete quickly. They will be just removed.
As a beginner, the heroes like Marlena and Arthur is really powerful. But as you will enter after the first capital war, you will find out that the faction
which is Ranger will become more powerful because they can counter the another faction which is faction barrier. And since most people use the
barrier barrier faction, you it will be like you can easily defeat them if you are using Ranger. Even if you have a difference of 1 or 2 million of power at
a higher level like if you are at 8 million and the opponent is at 9 million formation power, you can easily defeat formation power, you can easily defeat them.
You can say that in the early days uh this barrier is good. But as soon as you progress ahead in this game, this Ranger is going to be the next meta of heroes.
The third thing.
Track your progress.
You can say that you can use your mobile phone, your notepad, or whatever it is to track your progress. So, this is really going to help you identify where
you are weak. Even even as a new player, developers has provided you this place.
You can come here and you can look it out that oh out that oh uh I'm too low at training soldiers. So, I should train more soldiers. People at my
headquarter level or you can say my sanctuary level, they are quite powerful. But compared to them, my building power is too less. My hero
power is at least 51%. My research power is 85% and my troop power is just 4%.
And you can see my Raven level is 100% which is quite good. But yeah, if you want to increase your more power, then you should keep on enhancing each and
everything at a similar everything at a similar items.
Okay. The But here you should also organize your planning for a long-term growth. You might see my training soldiers are quite low in power. The
reason behind that is I am continuously training troops but in a different sequence. Right now uh my troop training speed is quite low. But but wait a
second. I'm not going to use a single speed up here. You know in future alliance dual event will come. That event is going to require enormous
amount of speed ups. So, at that moment I'm going to use the speed up and train troops faster. So, this is like organizing and planning.
It is going to improve my long-term growth. Now, the fourth tip. Complete chapter at daily tasks. So, basically uh there are some tasks which you might
have seen when you have started this game. So, keep on completing them, getting the rewards, and even you can see this is also one of those chapters
only because it can give us more recruitment tickets, more resource supply boxes, and also some more diamonds too. So, this you should keep
on doing this tasks. And even this daily tasks, this is one of the must to do task. The reason behind that is you can get lot of speed ups from here. You
cannot say lot of speed ups, but yes, even a small small small small amount of speed ups daily can at least give you in future more speed ups. So, you can see
you can get trained trade agreement and covert order.
Then we have other other items also which you can get from here. So, you should not miss a single item from this daily tasks because daily tasks are
quite easy to do and you can easily achieve 100 points without putting putting much efforts. You can see I have scored 215 points without much effort.
So, yes, you can also do it guys. Go ahead and do it because it it helps you unlock all the reward chest at just 100 points.
And we have already discussed what does this includes. Now, you have seen there we have trade contract. Uh this feature is going to unlock in 1 day and 9 hour.
After that only we will be able to see that we can use that trade contract that we can use that trade contract here.
here. Well, fifth thing is related to something related to pack. So, I will recommend you you can purchase the starter pack.
And even this is the starter pack which I have also not purchased which is going to give you custom avatar frame. I will be purchasing it soon. You can see just
$1 and you can get Marlena from here.
Confirm Marlena hero just at $1. So, yes, you can go and you can get it. Not only that, it also includes some recruitment tickets as we have seen. But
if we will see, then we are also going to get some VIP points from here. Well, if you will ask me what is the another valuable item, I will recommend you at
least one extra building queue is really going to help you. Even one will be helpful. You might not go for three pieces. Just I have three, but
yeah, you can go with the two two pieces too because two is also enough as a beginner. So, I will recommend you that you can purchase extra builders too
you can purchase extra builders too here.
Well, let us proceed ahead and let us see some other features which is going see some other features which is going to uh you should focus on your first 24
hours in this game.
Okay. So, we will also keep on continuing our progress further guys so that we do not lack behind also even if something happens. You can see we have a
black ops here.
Keep on sending your troops in this black ops because this is also going to give you you can see you are hero on you can say universal hero omni shards. And
at the same time this gear stone. If you will merge this gear stone to a orange piece, then you can even craft orange equipment from here.
Well, let's move to the sixth and the most important point. As you will progress ahead in this game, you will unlock the alliance feature. Key So, you
should join the top alliance. The benefit of joining a top and active alliance. Okay.
You should not only join top alliance.
That alliance should also be active. So, let us discuss what is going to be the beneficial there. You will get a tons of help and you can see it still I am
collecting the rewards which my alliance members has you can say they have killed the zombies and they have got these all rewards.
This is the first thing. The second thing, whenever I start any buildings and all I can get more help and more helps. More faster helps you can say.
They are going to help me super faster and that's really going to help me a and that's really going to help me a lot.
Access to different alliance events. You can see here like you can rally and you can kill this big big big monsters in the world maps.
And even right now not not a lot of event has started but we have a serve strike first event from where you can see that depending on your alliance points you
can get enormous amount of rewards which also includes Celia's gift and this gift is really really too much good. Even purple refined iron is there. So if you
will merge four of this refined iron I think you are going to get one of the orange quality and 750 orange quality is going to help you craft
orange quality of equipments. So yes, this is really beneficial. For beginners this event is a must to do event. So please join strong strong and active
alliance which is really going to help you a lot.
you a lot. Well, now most important thing, the benefit of alliance joining a better alliance. You alliance joining a better alliance. You know,
even when when people are killing all these monsters you are also getting some alliance points to in between. So what is the benefit of that alliance points?
You [snorts] will you can if you will go to the alliance shop then we have a lot of items available here. We have you are
hero omnistars, we have this raven essence and even we have this raven gear chests. So these two item raven essence and raven gear chest is really essential
for everyone to purchase because it's going to give you hero attack, hero defense and all and really going to help you a lot. Even you can get some
tempered steel which is used to craft orange equipments. Even some survivor tokens and some other kind of speed ups too which is really really
beneficial for your growth. So yeah, if you want you can go ahead and purchase some of the items from here like this raven essence is one of the compulsory
item to purchase and even this raven gear chest is one of the compulsory item to purchase. If you want initially this UR hero omnistars is also one of the
must item to purchase. So I will tell you I will recommend you this three items is one of the most important item even in your mid bay or even in your
long term growth.
Well, let's let's move forward and let's talk about one last thing how does the strong alliance and active alliance help. So they protect members from
attacks. If an powerful member has came to attack you they might reinforce you and they can save you from those attacks. All right,
the last and the seventh thing seventh tips which I'm going to tell you for the first 24 hours. Like prioritize essential building upgrade. The first
thing guys, as you know, this training ground. Keep on upgrading training ground to higher level so you can unlock higher level of troops for the even for
the battle prospectives.
The second thing guys, drill ground.
Sorry sorry barracks. Keep on upgrading this barracks so that you can hold out more more and more troops for your formation for the battle
prospective too. The third thing, keep on upgrading your alliance hall too because it is going to you can say increase the number of help
which you can get from your alliance members. So yes, this is really really going to help you a lot.
Avoid upgrading unnecessary building initially in the initial days at least.
Or and obviously your main focus should be upgrading your sanctuary to higher and higher levels at least till you unlock level eight at or you can say
till you unlock level seven troops. You can see I can unlock level seven troops at level 20. So yeah, at least till level 20 you should keep on focusing
till you can say upgrading your sanctuary continuously. Well, let us wind up this video and I will just tell you that in the first 24 hour expand
your base, you can say expand your sanctuary, build one strong squad for the battle, join a strong alliance and boost your sanctuary upgrade as fast as
possible. This is really going to help you a lot even in the battle, even in your alliance to get some benefits and all. Well, I wish you best of luck and
we will meet soon again tomorrow with a new video with some new tips and tricks.
Till then bye-bye. Thank you. See you Till then bye-bye. Thank you. See you soon.
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❓ FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best F2P team in Last Asylum: Plague?

The canonical F2P squad is Arthur, Daskal, Marlena, Harper, Claire (all Warriors — mono-faction gives +20% HP/ATK/DEF). Arthur is free from day 1; the $1 Marlena top-up is considered the best value in the game. Daskal arrives in the first Era of Revival season (day 120+).

What should I upgrade first?

Sanctuary first, always — it gates every other building and your hero level cap. Then Training Grounds, Barracks, Research Lab, Infirmary, Wall. Keep the Builder’s Hut at Sanctuary level until Sanctuary 15 for free construction speedups.

When does Marlena unlock?

Day 66 for free — or immediately via the $1 starter top-up. Save UR shards so she lands at 8★ right away, then push 10★.

How do I get Cynthia as F2P?

Cynthia arrives via the Wishing Wheel on day 8. Save diamonds from day 1 (skip everything else) — ~11,500 diamonds total, and always spin ×10 (single spins waste tokens).

How do I get antitoxin?

Antitoxin Workshop + Stable production, every building upgrade completion, Falcon Quests (nearly all of them), Covert Ops and Caravan Trade (including plundering others’ ops — up to 5/day), and Blight/Elite Blight hunts (10/20 stamina). Events pay large amounts.

Why did my plunder income drop to almost nothing?

You hit the daily plunder limit: below the limit 100%, from 1× the limit you keep only 15%, from 1.3× only 5%. It resets at 02:00 UTC. The limit scales with Sanctuary level (2.5M at Lv.10–12 up to 30M at Lv.30) and rises immediately when you upgrade Sanctuary. A yellow triangle under your Might shows the status.

What should I buy in the shops?

Sanctuary/Expedition/Alliance shops: Crow Essence and UR Hero Omnifragments first. Honor shop is for gear blueprints only (never epigraph chests there). All shops restock Monday.

Are diamonds worth spending on speedups?

Only the VIP-shop 8h speedups are considered acceptable purchases — and only after hero resources. Community rule: never dump diamonds into speedups over hero wheel events (Cynthia day 8, Joker after day 15).

What faction should I build?

Warriors are the best early game (free Arthur/Harper shards, $1 Marlena). Rangers peak mid game (counter Warriors). Warlocks are the best late game but need heavy long-term investment. Mono-faction (5 heroes of one type) is the current meta because UR epigraphs buff a single faction.

How does Claire SSR→UR conversion work?

Opens on Era Day 8. She lands at 6★ and the run to 10★ costs 1,600 SSR shards (each substage costs 2× the SSR price). There’s a team-buff dip between 6★–9★ — skip it by banking Hall of Honor levels before converting (Lv.60→8★, Lv.100→9★, Lv.160→instant 10★).

How do I redeem gift codes?

In-game: Avatar (top-left) → Settings → Gift Code. iOS or web: log in at the official redemption page with your linked Facebook/Google account, pick server and character, enter the code.

What are the biggest beginner mistakes?

Upgrading everything equally instead of one main squad; judging heroes before high stars (Marlena is the classic late bloomer); splitting Awakening materials across heroes; wasting gems on VIP levels over hero wheels; skipping daily plunder (~27M resources/day); letting stamina cap.

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