Best Last War Survival Guide: Season 3 Week 2 Complete Walkthrough, Tips & Strategies

Before chasing the major Week 2 events, make sure your Golden Realm basics are active. Oasis Project, also called Greening the Land, uses recon planes to convert desert tiles into green land. Expansion must connect back to an unlocked city, so random isolated tiles will not help your alliance map control.

Archaeology is the other weekly foundation. Keep donating coins into the project because server-wide progress unlocks broader rewards over time. These systems are not flashy, but they create the route and reward base that lets the rest of Week 2 work.

Desert Treasure is a Week 2 mini-game built around a grid of stone bricks. Use Archaeologist Hammers to smash bricks, reveal hidden relics, and complete the required relic set on each board. Once the board requirement is complete, you unlock a vault with high-value season rewards.

The best rewards include Mithril for seasonal building upgrades, Universal Exclusive Weapon Shards, speed-ups, and high-level resource chests. If you run out of Archaeologist Hammers while stuck on a board, check the Desert Bazaar and spend event currency on more hammers so you can finish boards instead of leaving vault rewards unclaimed.

Return of the Dead should feel familiar if you played earlier Last War seasons, but Season 3 scaling gets much harsher as your alliance moves closer to the Capitol. The event runs on Tuesdays and Fridays, sending Zombie Bosses from uncaptured cities toward your Alliance Center.

There are 30 waves total, with a new wave spawning every minute. Do not treat this as a set-and-forget defense. Your strongest active players should be online, watching garrison health, and manually rotating damaged teams out before they are wiped. A wiped team can expose the Alliance Center to heavy damage.

Capitol-side waves are especially dangerous. In the final waves, marches below roughly 35 to 40 million power can be completely wiped, so leadership should plan who holds garrison slots before the pressure peaks.

Trade Posts open at 12:00 server time except on Wednesdays and Saturdays, which remain standard War Days. Each post works like an independent store where players can spend Diamonds on premium items. Higher-level posts carry better inventory, so Level 5 Trade Posts are especially valuable.

A Level 5 Trade Post can offer items such as Oil, Weapon Shards, Alliance Compasses, and Trap Landmine Refills. The key capture trick is that you do not need adjacent alliance territory. Teleport onto the Contaminated Land around the Trade Post, then attack from there. This also allows aggressive alliances to fight for Trade Posts in other Warzones.

Captured posts have a hidden economic upside. When players spend Diamonds at your post, part of that spending is stored as tax. Once the items sell out or the post is abandoned or reset, the tax becomes a Golden Egg. The Trade Post Governor, usually the Alliance Leader, can share that diamond value in alliance chat.

Season 3 turns Engineer from a mostly passive building and farming class into a real tactical support profession. In Week 2, the strongest Engineer value comes from movement, base durability pressure, area control, and defensive fighting around alliance structures.

Contaminated Land Teleport grants one free advanced teleport for Contaminated Land every 47.5 hours. That saves 1,500 Diamonds and is perfect for joining Trade War fights without burning a normal teleport. Fragile Spell is the major offensive skill: when your Desert Protectors attack and defeat an enemy base, the target base's maximum durability is permanently reduced, such as from 10,000 to 5,000.

Sandstorm creates a 9-by-9 area for 10 minutes that slows enemy marches by 20 percent. Place it around Trade Posts or the Alliance Center to buy time for reinforcements. Sand's Protection improves hero defense while fighting within Alliance Center range, and Truck Expansion increases the Iron, Food, and Coins carried by trucks by up to 25 percent, including special seasonal trucks.

Season 3 Week 2 is less about one isolated event and more about alliance coordination across several systems. Golden Realm objectives feed map progress, Desert Treasure feeds seasonal materials, Return of the Dead tests defensive discipline, Trade War rewards fast positioning, and Engineer skills decide whether your alliance can control contested ground.

The simple plan is this: keep Oasis Project and Archaeology moving, spend hammers until Desert Treasure vaults are claimed, rotate garrisons during Return of the Dead, use Contaminated Land to contest Level 5 Trade Posts, and make Engineers actively support the fight instead of sitting as passive builders.