How a reading is made
Where every figure on this site comes from, what a standing is, what a window means, why retention is read beside a season seat, and what each figure is a figure of.
Every sentence on a commander, alliance or warzone page is built from the figures on that page and nothing else. This page says what those sentences stand on. The words themselves are on the definitions page; this page is about the readings made from them.
The source
Every figure is read from what the game shows every commander: the leaderboards, alliance rosters and map, as they see them. A warzone's power, kills, hero power, unit power, HQ and alliance boards are the game's own boards. An alliance's roster is the roster the game shows to anyone who opens that alliance. A warzone's map is the map any commander in it can pan across. Nothing here comes from a login, an upload or a screenshot, and no page asks for one. The record begins on 7 July 2026, on the same day for warzones, commanders and alliances. What counts as a board and what counts as a roster are set out in the definitions.
A reading and an absence
A figure that has never been observed is drawn as a dash rather than as zero, and a sentence that would need that figure is left out. The length of a reading is therefore the count of figures its subject has. Two zeros are real: a commander who has killed nobody has 0 kills, and a base holding no troops has 0 unit power. Every other zero is an absence, and no sentence is built on it. The definitions give this its own word, observed, and state it again under kills and unit power.
A standing
A standing is a place on one named board in one warzone, printed with the size of the field it is a place in. "#14 of 1,204" is the fourteenth seat on that warzone's power board among the 1,204 commanders observed on it, and "top 1%" is the same fact rounded once. A commander is placed only on their home warzone's board, and only when their own power was observed there. An alliance is placed on its warzone's alliance board the same way. Where a board came back at its own depth, the sentence states that depth and leaves the denominator out. A share of the board's power is stated only when the whole board is in hand, and the boards themselves are at commanders and alliances.
Windows
Change is stated over a named window, or over the days a record covers. "Over the last 28 days" means the newest reading against the reading closest to 28 days before it; the sentence is written only when the record reaches back that far. A shorter record is stated as what it is: "over the 19 days on record". A move under half a percent either way is stated as held. Where two figures share one sentence they share one window, measured between the same two readings. The activity figures on a warzone page are over the window they name, 7 days, and a growth seat in a season cohort is by power added over 7 days. Growth is the sum of positive gains and is a sum rather than a net change, which is why it is stated beside its rank and as a sum.
Retention is read beside the seat
Of a warzone's fifty strongest commanders 28 days ago, two numbers are taken: how many are still ranked on it at all, and how many still hold a top-fifty seat. The pair is read as one of four words, held, climbing, left or drained. It is written only beside where that warzone sits in its season cohort by power added over 7 days, because the seat count on its own inverts: a board nobody climbs is a board whose seats do not turn over, so a warzone with the least movement in a cohort can hold the most seats. A board can also lose most of its fifty and refill them within days, which reads as the same low count. The cohort seat is what tells those two apart, so the word and the seat are one reading and are drawn together.
The top of the board
The strongest commanders in the game are drawn from many warzones and many alliances, and across the head of that board power is close to level: the first seat and the last hold power of the same order. Kills across those same seats are not level at all; they run far wider. That is why a commander's sentence compares kills against the nearest seats on the board rather than power: where power is a plateau, power places a seat and kills tell it apart. The seats themselves are on the commander board, where the spread is printed with its own figures beside it.
Population
How big a warzone is comes from its map. Every mark on the map is counted, most of them bases; the boards hold the commanders strong enough to be ranked. Those are two different counts of two different things, and a warzone's own page draws both, as two figures with their own words. A count of commanders who gained power over a window is placed against the commanders it could be assessed over, and both of those numbers are printed so the rate is the reader's to take. Every warzone's map size is on the population board.
What each figure is a figure of
Each figure on this site is a figure of one thing, and that one thing is what its sentence states. How concentrated an alliance's power is, is a share of one board at one moment, and it is printed with the depth of the board it was taken over, because a share taken deeper is a different number about a different field. How many of a warzone's strongest commanders are still seated is a count over 28 days. The two were measured against each other across the league and do not move together, so each is drawn on its own and neither stands in for the other. An activity rate is the count of commanders whose power rose against the commanders that count could be taken over, which is why it is printed as those two numbers. A seat count is a reading of a board and is drawn beside the trajectory seat that gives it its direction. A season, a group and a cohort are the game's own schedule for a warzone, and each is drawn as the schedule it is.