Best Total Conquest Commands

This page is the command tier list. The parent tier list hub ranks habits and openings; this page ranks card families. We use the family names confirmed across public roundups and recorded matches — missiles, mortars, Navy SEALs, air strikes, plus production and movement orders — and rank them by what they do in the open beta, not by hype.

The full bucket system lives on the command roster. The deep dive on a specific card family is on the command types page. The missiles guide is the practical rule for any strike.

S-tier: city-targeted strikes when you can walk in

Pick	Why it sits here	When to fire
Missile on a city you are entering	Shrinks garrison, lets your send win	Always have a stack in motion
Mortar on a city cluster	Wider area strike than missile	Use to break two stubborn defenders
Navy SEALs raid on a city	Strike with ground flavor	Same as missile; pick whichever you rolled

S-tier strike rules are universal: target the city you will enter this cycle. A strike without a follow-up send is a firework. The how to capture cities page walks the follow-through.

A-tier: production orders on held cities

Pick	Why it is A and not S	When to fire
City production bonus	Strong but only on a tile you still own in two minutes	After you have secured the city
Recruit surge	Big burst, locks a stack on one city	When you are the map leader and want a counterattack buffer
Region bonus	Smaller boost, can hit countryside	Use as a bridge between cities

Production orders look boring in a first-look video. They win maps because the win condition is map control, not kills.

A-tier: movement orders

Pick	When it earns A	Failure mode
Forced march	When your siege is racing a rival reinforcement	Speeds up the wrong stack
Redirect	When you can reroute toward a city	Reroutes into a meme fight on countryside
Rapid deployment	When the counterattack is incoming	Wastes a stack on a tile you already hold

Movement orders are not a license to walk your entire garrison across the map. Keep the floor. Move the overflow.

B-tier: defense orders

Defense orders only earn B because they do not win the map by themselves. They protect a lead.

• Shield / fortify. Reduces incoming damage for a window. Strong if you are ahead; weak if you are behind and need cities.
• Emergency troops. Spawns a garrison on a city under siege. Saves a match, never opens one.

Fire these late, not minute one. The how to win pile-on section is the right context.

C-tier: intel without commitment

• Scout / reveal. Shows the garrison of a region. Useful but only if you follow it with a decision. Scout then siege.

Scout without action is a wasted turn.

D-tier and below: common traps

• Strike on countryside because a video asked “do we just nuke people.” First-look joke. Real cost.
• Production on a tile you abandon. Loss.
• Movement on a doomed stack. Redirect a stack you can still save, not one that already lost.
• Holding a defensive order minute one. You are not the leader yet.
• Firing an unclear card. Blank is a beta hitch. Hold. Report on the Roblox community. See beta notes.

How this ranking changes

LDS Fighting has not published rarity data or drop rates. The ranking here is a rule of thumb: city-targeted strikes when you can walk in, production orders on held cities, defense orders late, intel only with follow-through. When the beta publishes a catalog, we will add names and keep these buckets.

If a future patch reorders the shop or changes command availability, this list gets a new dated row on the patch history page.

Pair this with the rest of the wiki

• First read the how to play loop so you understand the production clock.
• Then read the commands and upgrades economy page.
• Save command types as the reference you open when a card does not fit any bucket.
• Spend rolls with the troop-split planner so the order lands on a real overflow send.

Best commands are the ones that change the city count. City count is the scoreboard. Everything else is firework.