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Evony General Covenant Guide

The General Covenant is where Historic Generals can unlock buffs, for both themselves and account-wide, by establishing a covenant. There are currently limited Covenants in the game, although it is believed to apply to every Historic General.

What is the Covenant in Evony

Evony General Covenant Guide - Screenshot 2023 11 30 205713

A covenant is an ‘agreement’ between Generals. First you must specify what covenant you would like to unlock, which costs covenant stones. Then you have to collect the appropriate Generals outlined in a Generals covenant section, and then reach a set number of total basic attributes for each of these Generals. One this occurs the covenant buff is automatically activated. I recommend waiting for further information, and using covenant stones to unlock covenants for which you can easily obtain.

What are Basic Attributes

Basic attributes are a Generals Leadership, Attack, Defense, and Politics. These attributes can be increased through levelling your general (check out our guide on how to do this easily here), enhancing, and cultivating.

Required Basic Attribute Levels

The required basic attribute levels to unlock a covenant is the sum of all the covenant generals. This means that you do not need all four Generals in order to unlock a covenant, just the main general, and any others you need to increase the amount of basic attribute levels you have to unlock a covenant (although having all four makes it a lot easier). The basic attribute levels required for each covenant are as follows:

  • Level 1 – 10,000
  • Level 2 – 12,000
  • Level 3 – 14,000
  • Level 4 – 16,000
  • Level 5 – 19,500
  • Level 6 – 22,500

Evony Covenant Stone

Covenant stones can be earned through completing daily activity quests:

  • 50 Activity Score = 1 Covenant Stone
  • 80 Activity Score = 2 Covenant Stones
  • 110 Activity Score = 4 Covenant Stones

The Covenant Stones can also be bought in packs in some servers, but not every server yet (as of 12th of Dec 2023).

Screenshot showing Covenant Stones from Evony: The King's Return.

Each level of Covenant requires 50 Covenant Stones to establish.

Buff Types

There are two types of buffs available through covenant:

  • General Specific: These buffs only apply to the General which has the covenant attributed unlocked (In the example below, it only affects Napoleon Prime – none of the other Generals used to make up that Covenant).
  • Unconditional: These buffs apply account wide and do not need the general assigned, or in a march etc.

Whether a covenant attribute (buff) is general specific or unconditional, is shown through the following icons:

Screenshot of Covenant screen for Napoleon Prime highlighting how the covenant attributes work.

These covenant attributes offer both PVE and PVP buffs and debuffs. This may hugely impact the rankings of Generals.

Covenant Tool

This tool will allow you to enter your generals, and it will output your progress through all of the Covenant’s. Check it out here: https://theriagames.com/evony-covenant-tool/

Conclusion

In conclusion, as of time of writing (12/11/2023) it is too early to tell yet the full impact of this game, but it certainly seems like this will be very impactful for buffs if every Historic General is to have a covenant unlocked. I would assume it will have a similar roll-out as General Ascending in terms of new ones come with it, and they will add the ability to older generals as time passes.

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WWO
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1 month ago

https://theriagames.com/evony-covenant-tool/:

Queen Tamar: Boudica -> Queen Boudica
Babur: Amir Tumir ->Amir Timur

[Not To be nitpicky, but when Ctrl-F searching … it matters.]

Missing: Presley O’Bannon, Irene d’Arneau, Lafayette, Matsunaga Hisahide, Shaybani.

[Can’t tell from game whom their convenanters (covenantors?) are. If there is a way to see component generals of a covenant, it would be useful if the article(s) mentioned it. Assume no (component) general in inventory at the time.]

Why it matters – especially ‘early on’, the number of generals one can hold at any given moment is limited – perfectly dismissing a general, that will -eventually- be used in a covenant, lets one save the general slot until then. IF one knows which generals to keep so.
– the lock symbol on the convenant button at least indicates the general is part of a covenant, but there is no way to see who’s covenant.

WWO
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1 month ago

Christina: Wallenstein is labelled as Gustavus Adolphus (in my English language of the game.)

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Akechi, Francis I: grount -> ground

{FYI, I expect / anticipate / encourage deletion of these correction comments, once effected.}

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1 month ago

Niccolo Piccinino: Lorenzo de Medici -> Lorenzo de’ Medici (add “‘”)

Rostam: Tishtriya -> Tishtrya (del “i”)

Presley O’Bannon: Washington (non-Prime), Alexander Hamilton, Irene d’Arneau

Irene d’Arneau: Andrew Jackson, Edward Teach, Presley O’Bannon

Lafayette: Winfield Scott, George A. Custer, Washington (Prime)

Matsunaga Hisahide: Takeda Shingen, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Akechi Mitsuhide

Shaybani: Amir Timur, Subutai, Babur