Map Rules

Club Penguin Armies Map

Invasion Rules

1. Army Size Requirements:
  • In Room 1, the invading/defending major army must have at least 10 members present for invasions at any point of it, while the invading/defending small/medium armies must have at least 5 members present at invasions at any point of it, for it to be valid.
  • For rooms 2 & 3, the required size is at least 2 troops online.
  • If an army fails to reach the requirements in a room, then the battle concludes. If both fail, then the battle is considered a tie.
2. War/Ordinary Invasions:
  1. All the land an army owns will automatically be locked while at war. Thus, armies will not be able to transfer or release land.
    • In addition, land will also be locked as soon as a singular non-war invasion is scheduled on it.
  2. The invasion of a capital server can only be scheduled once an army has no servers in its possession.
    • After the capital invasion has been scheduled, it may proceed regardless of whether the army that owns it obtains more land.
  3. If the defending army does not show up, the invading army will be declared victors after they have remained online for 10 minutes.
  4. Armies can only schedule 3 invasions at any given time, with only 2 of these invasions being against another army.
  5. Armies can only invade land that is adjacent to the land they currently own, unless they use an item. If an army not on the map wishes to join it, then it can invade any land.
  6. Upon successfully invading a server that contains items in it, the invader gains these items, as long as they abide by the item cap.
  7. Opposing army leaders must be informed of the invasion with a ping in the invasion scheduling channel right after it has been posted. Using the GaryBot to schedule does that automatically.
  8. A war can end in two ways:
    1. If the winning army in the conflict decides to issue a force treaty against the losing army, it should be placed within 48 hours of the capital invasion concluding; if it is not, the winning army will lose its right to enforce a force treaty. Extensions can be provided, giving the army an extra 24 hours if a proposed treaty has been invalidated (admin discretion).
    2. If the winning army in the conflict decides NOT to issue a force treaty against the losing army, then the war concludes right after the capital invasion is verified, when successful.
3. Time Zones Rules:
  1. An army cannot schedule more than one invasion against the same army during the same time zone area; this would be EU, US, and AUSIA.
  2. Invasions must be scheduled at least 2 hours apart.
  3. The following table is the official Club Penguin Armies time zone table.

4. Free Land Invasions:
  1. Armies may only schedule one freeland invasion per day.
  2. Any army whose nation has fewer than 10 servers is allowed to gain servers through non-hostile methods (freeland invasions and server transfers). Once an army has accumulated 10 pieces of land, they must invade via hostile methods to gain more.
  3. An army that is invading a Freeland has to submit 2 screenshots for it to be successful. The first at the scheduled time, including a timestamp, with 5 troops if the army is S/M, and 10 if it is Major. The same process should be repeated but 10 minutes after the scheduled time.
5. Other Regulations:
  1. Armies will have a 7-day grace period upon (re)joining the map.
  2. Armies must use CPA: Battleground for map battles.
  3. An army is NOT allowed to indefinitely reschedule invasions. There will be a limit of 3 times per invasion. This rule will apply to all types of invasions, including free land and wars. If an army reschedules an invasion more than 3 times, the invasion will be deemed invalid.
  4. Raids are allowed in any army events, practice battles, and war battles, apart from tournament battles.
    • In Club Penguin Journey, raids are not allowed in the Blizzard server.

Economy system

  • Each army earns 100 coins per week per server, and 200 for its capital.
  • The map has 3 Hotspot servers that change each week and generate x coins instead of 100/200. Currently, x = 300 coins.
  • Fog of War setting: Armies do not know how many coins other armies have. Army leaders can check their army’s balance in their threads on the Discord server and make purchases there.
  • Armies can do trades with coins and can involve the economy in treaties. An army can earn up to 5000 coins from other armies per month.
  • Upon occupying an army’s capital, the invader steals 100% of the defender’s balance, without the 5000 coins limitation of the rule above.
  • An army cannot have more than 10000 coins at any time.
  • In order to be part of the economy system, an army needs to have land on the map.

Items

There are 6 items, with different prices and uses. Items are used by the armies privately, in their threads. When an army has been targeted, they get notified.

  • Ships :
    • Allows armies to invade coastal land.
    • Stored in coastal servers.
    • Maximum allowed per army, at any point: 5.
    • They disappear after use, regardless of whether the invasion is successful or not.
    • Cost: 400 coins.
  • Planes:
    • Allows armies to invade any land.
    • Stored in any server.
    • Maximum allowed per army, at any point: 5.
    • They disappear after use, regardless of whether the invasion is successful or not.
    • Cost: 800 coins.
  • Bombs/ Nukes:
    • Upon usage, armies select the target server, then the item disappears from their inventory.
    • Stored in any server.
    • Can be used against all servers, including self-owned.
    • Maximum allowed per army, at any point: 3.
    • They require a plane to be used, which does not get destroyed after usage.
    • For Bombs: The targeted server will not generate income for a week. Additionally, items in that server will not be able to be used for that week.
    • Bomb cost: 600 coins.
    • For Nukes: The targeted server will not generate income for 4 weeks. Additionally, any items stored there will be destroyed.
    • Nuke cost: 1000 coins.

Server Ownership

Armies will be given the option of renaming non-legacy servers (i.e., servers not listed in CPAB), as long as the names are appropriate. The administration has the power to refuse any names that they deem inappropriate. 

  1. An army must not request a name change of a server if another army has scheduled an invasion on it.
  2. Armies can change the server name immediately after a successful free land invasion.
  3. Legacy servers CANNOT be renamed.
  4. Armies can only obtain 50% (+1) of any/all available land pieces (not including locked land).
    • If an army is below this cap before it declares war, then the war goes on normally without limitation. As soon as the war is over, if it owns more servers than the cap, it will have to release or transfer some servers to go back down. If they are right at the cap, they won’t be able to declare war on the map, only to be declared.

Judging Rules

Club Penguin Armies is partnered with Army Judging Board, the independent organization for judging within the army community. Here you can find the Judging Process and the Battle Guidelines. 

  • The invading army must request judges in the appropriate AJB channel, following the format, at least 24 hours before a battle. 
  • Ideally, land invasions against another army have 3 judges, with tournament finals having 5.
  • Vetoes happen in accordance with the AJB guidelines.
  • A tier system regarding the number of overtime rooms exists:
    • Capital invasions: Up to 2 overtime rooms
    • Non-capital invasions: Up to 1 Overtime room
  • In the case that a tie occurs, the defending army keeps its territory.
  • In the case of an insufficient number of judges, Head Judges can fill in as judges, with unaffiliated HJs not being vetoable.
  • In the rare event that there are no judges for an invasion, the invading army has to record the battle, starting from the time it was scheduled. Then, a leader of the army has to send the recording to the Head Judges, who will verify the result.

Discord server map Rules

The format for declaring an invasion in #invasion-scheduling, if you don’t want to use the GaryBot, must follow the layout below:

Army Names: Army A vs Army B (Only Army A if the invasion is for freeland).

Invasion of Server: Frostbite

Date and Time: Tuesday 30th November 3PM EST

Ping the army leaders of the defending army (For freeland there is no ping needed)

  1. Armies must give at least 24 hours’ notice for an invasion, and cannot schedule more than a week in advance, unless there is a tournament with special rules.
  2. All server transfers must be stated clearly in #server-transfers, and only become valid once the receiving army has accepted. (Subject to war terms). Apart from server transfers, armies can transfer coins to each other.

General Battle Terms

All battles are required to follow the general battle terms. If any army is found to be in violation of these terms, then it will be subjected to penalties based on the severity of the violation.

The General Battle Terms are as follows:

  1. No multi-logging, botting, or any other means of any unfair increase in an army’s size.
  2. No blackmailing.
  3. No doxing in any form or DDoSing.
  4. No server bot raids, including defacing army servers and websites.
  5. No reporting other people’s accounts in-game to stop them from attending battles, unless a rule is broken.
  6. No toxic tactics (attacking someone’s race, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, etc.)

War Terms 

A war must include a legitimate declaration outlining the terms, and at least one invasion scheduled and carried out (this includes if one side no-shows) to be valid. The final decision will be up to the judgment of the administration.

The invading army can set the terms for the invasion/war.

  • It is against the rules to create war terms that result in an auto-loss for the opposing side, or terms that result in giving the declaring army an advantageous position. If both sides agree to nonordinary war terms, they will be upheld. Nonetheless, the validation of war terms is entirely up to the Administration.
  • Armies are allowed to put terms such as “If armies fail to show up in X consecutive battles, it will constitute the forfeit of the war.”, with the number X being 7 at a minimum.
  • 1v1 war terms, preventing outside declaration or intervention in the conflict, are enforced by Club Penguin Armies. Specifically, Small/Medium armies can freely invoke the term in their declarations. Major armies can only use it when declaring to other Major armies. This means that a Major army cannot declare a 1 vs. 1 war against an SM one.
    • Singular invasions (non-war) can also invoke the 1v1 term.
  • When a war is a 1v1, allies and visitors are automatically not allowed, even if they are veterans. This can’t be changed. Dual-enlisted people can be allowed or not, depending on the declaration. If they are not mentioned at all in the declaration, then they won’t be allowed either. People who are not part of an army can attend for either, but they are not allowed to switch sides. Affiliations count at the time of the declaration and onwards. If someone switches armies after the declaration has been issued, aiming to attend, they will not be allowed to. Reminder that the Advisor ranks count as enlisted ranks.
  • ‘No loopholes’ war term is NOT enforced by Club Penguin Armies.
  • It is allowed to acquire up to 3 freeland servers during a war.

Treaties

  • Armies can sign mutually agreed treaties (such as peace treaties and non-aggression pacts) for as long as they desire, with CPA upholding them.
  • Force treaties can only be upheld for up to 4 weeks.
  • In addition, force treaty terms such as “no raiding”, “no invading” are only applied when it comes to the Map and the Map battles.
  • When making a force treaty, armies are not allowed to impose changes such as mergers, colonization, leadership, web, or server changes. ‘Fun’ terms are not enforced.
  • All treaties must be published in #treaties, with the involved parties being pinged in the channel. The validation of treaties is subject to the Administration’s discretion.
The content on this page was last updated on October 15th, 2026 (20:18)