Morale in Top Heroes is one of the most important hidden stats in the game, yet many players overlook it. It directly determines how strong your troops are in battle, and higher morale not only boosts survivability but also grants powerful attack multipliers.
In this guide, we’ll break down exactly what morale is, how it works, and all the ways you can increase it for long-term dominance.
Top Heroes Morale Guide – How to Increase Troop Power and March Size
Morale appears at the top of your battle report and represents the overall strength of your march, determined mainly by troop level and march size.
The benefits of morale are huge. If your morale is higher than your opponent’s, you gain an attack boost up to 300%. For example, a march with 6.8 million morale against an enemy with 6.2 million morale will deal roughly 1.09x more damage, just from morale alone. This can decide the outcome of battles even when raw stats look close.
Factor 1: Troop Level
Troop level is the foundation of morale. The higher your troop level, the stronger your base morale will be. There are three main ways to upgrade troop levels:
- Barracks: Each faction barracks (Horde, League, Nature) determines the highest troop level you can produce.
- Arms Race Preparation Tech: Found in the Research Cottage, this tech tree unlocks new troop levels at the very bottom. Maxing it out is essential for reaching level 10 troops.
- Brilliance Institute: Once your castle reaches Brilliance Level 2, you unlock the Brilliance Institute. This enables troop level 11 and provides permanent morale boosts.
In short: Barracks → Arms Race Tech → Brilliance Institute is the progression path to max troop levels and morale.
Factor 2: March Size
The second key factor is march size—how many soldiers you can bring into battle. Larger marches directly translate into more morale. There are many ways to increase march size:
Hero Levels
Each hero level adds more soldiers to your march. Simply leveling up your heroes gradually raises march size.
Statues
- Faction Statues: Scale with your castle level and boost march size as well as faction stats.
- Hero Statue: Houses runes that can add large march bonuses. Examples include:
- Soldier Attack Rune: +50 march size
- Queue Attack Rune: +143 march size
- Soldier HP Rune: +march size bonuses
Research
Under Queue Boost research, multiple tech nodes increase march size. Progressing down this path grants big cumulative boosts along with attack, HP, PvP damage, and speed increases.
Brilliance Institute
Further march size increases are unlocked here, stacking with troop level upgrades.
Lord’s Traits
After level 40, the Warlord Trait Tree offers faction-specific march size increases.
Decorations
Certain decorations (especially faction-specific ones) add march size either individually or through set bonuses. Prioritize sets that match your main faction.
Castle Skins & Effects
- Some skins like Cloud Castle raise hero level caps, which indirectly boosts march size.
- Others, such as Springtime Cottage or Tower of Chaos, directly grant march size increases (general or faction-specific).
- Castle effects, though smaller, still add +1 march size each.
VIP Levels
Reaching VIP 12 provides permanent march size bonuses.
Villagers
Assign villagers strategically to statues, queues, and barracks for march size bonuses.
Brilliance Levels and Morale Jumps
One of the biggest hidden boosts to morale comes from upgrading to higher Brilliance Levels. Each brilliance level in your barracks increases troop morale by +100 and boosts all soldier stats (attack, HP, march speed, and resource load).
For example, moving from base barracks to Horde Brilliance Level 1 raised morale from about 5.8 million to 6.7 million, showing just how significant brilliance upgrades can be.
Morale is the hidden power multiplier of Top Heroes. It ties directly into troop level and march size, making it the single biggest factor in determining battle outcomes.