How to Create a Guild in Command An Army: Costs and What Guilds Do

What Guilds Are

Guilds are the persistent social layer Update 2 shipped on September 19, 2026. Before that patch, every server was a separate session; guilds let players organise under the same group across sessions. What is confirmed about the system:

The system is real and playable today; the fine print is where the documentation stops. The Update 2 overview records exactly which rows shipped and which were never published.

How to Create a Guild

1. Fund it first. The only verified free Gem income is codes: the active codes list checked October 7, 2026 carries fourteen working codes — GUILD pays 300 Gems and the Update 3 code GUILDFIX pays 5,000 plus 10 Skill Crystals.
2. Open the Guild panel in the live client and use the create option.
3. Check the current creation cost in the panel before confirming — the reported 15,000 Gems predates Update 3 and is exactly the kind of number a patch moves.
4. Name the guild and set up roles — naming and custom roles are the confirmed management features.
5. Invite members and use the banner display to make the guild visible in matches.

The code redemption walkthrough covers step 1, and the Gems math behind why codes carry the fund is simple: Update 2 cut match Gem earnings by 30%, so the four 300-Gem codes that shipped with it were effectively a compensation package.

Create or Join: Which Is Worth It?

The economics point one way:

Unless you specifically want founder control, joining delivers everything guilds are confirmed to do at no documented cost. Creating is a founder project — budget it like the banner, not like a feature purchase, and check the unit acquisition overview for what else those Gems could buy.

What Guilds Do Not (Yet) Do — As Far As Anyone Knows

No published source — official or dated third-party — documents member caps, permission levels, guild upgrades, guild-versus-guild modes, or gameplay benefits of any kind. That absence is a finding, not an omission: the Ranked ladder and the Skill Tree economies are documented per-player systems, and nothing published ties them to guild membership. If a future update adds guild benefits, this page grows a section — until then, the honest answer to “what do guilds do” is the confirmed social layer and nothing more.

Sources

Guild system features and the community-tested 15,000-Gem figure: the Update 2 overview, which preserves the source boundaries. Code rewards: the codes page, checked October 7, 2026. Everything not listed as confirmed above is unpublished — check the live Guild panel.