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🛡️ Becoming a defender
Apply to defend for another clan with their invite code, see what approval actually gives you, and understand how and when you get paid.
Another clan has asked you to defend their CP runs, or you want to offer. Either way the route is the same: they give you a code, you apply with it, their clan admin approves, and you appear in their books with an account of your own.
The one rule that surprises people comes first. A defender is never a member of the clan they defend for. You are the player from outside who puts troops in that clan's CP city for their members to farm. If the player you pick is already in the clan, the application is refused — that is not a bug, it is the whole shape of the role.
Applying
Their clan admin finds it under CP RUNs → CP Settings, in the Defender Invite Code card. It looks like DEF-A1B2C3D4-2026. It is not public — anyone holding it can apply, so it is shared privately.
Find the Apply as Defender card and type the code into Clan Invite Code. The menu also carries CP RUNs → Apply as defender, which opens the same form on a page of its own. Capitals do not matter. Once it matches, the clan's name appears with Valid code · select your player; if it does not, you get No clan matches this code yet — check the code with the clan admin.
Select Your Player offers only players of yours that are not already in that clan. If the list is empty, that is why. Press Submit Defender Request and then Confirm & Submit.
When an application is refused
| What you are told | Why |
|---|---|
| Invalid invite code | No clan holds that code. Most often it has been regenerated since you were given it — ask for the current one. |
| Player cannot be defender for their own clan | The player you chose is a member of that clan. Pick a different player, or none of yours qualifies. |
| Player is already an active defender for this clan | That player already holds a live defender account there. Nothing to do. |
| You already have a pending defender request for this clan | One open application per player per clan. Wait for the decision, or cancel the first one. |
What approval gives you
When their clan admin approves the application, three things happen at once:
- A defender account is created for your player in that clan, starting at a balance of zero. It appears on your own My CP account page as a tile marked Defender, next to your ordinary member accounts.
- Your player becomes selectable as the defender when they create a run.
- Your application under My Requests flips to Active.
It does not make you a member of that clan, does not give you access to their pages, and does not touch anything in the game. It is a role in their CP books and nothing more.
How you are paid
The share is set on each run, not on you, so it can differ from one run to the next. There are two models:
- A percentage of what that run collected from its participants. When the tank is also on a percentage, the two must add up to 100% — a clan's defaults start at 50% each.
- A fixed amount of Silver, paid in full regardless of how much the run brought in.
Nothing is credited while a run is open. When the clan admin closes it, your payout is written to your defender account as a positive balance, meaning you are owed that much. It stays owed until someone pays you and the payment is recorded.
You are the one who records it. On My CP account, the Record Payment Received card lets you pick your defender account under My Receiver Account, choose the Payer (Player), the Currency and the Amount, and press Record Payment. Both sides move together: their debt shrinks and your receivable shrinks by the same figure.
Your run history for that clan sits in the Runs as Defender card, with the Cut agreed on each run and the Receivable once it has closed.
▶Deep dive — why a defender's balance is sometimes a Silver or two off
Percentages of whole Silver amounts do not always divide evenly. After a run is closed the portal checks that every balance in that clan still sums to zero, and if it is fractionally out it writes a small correcting line, described as a rounding adjustment, to the defender's account. It lands on the defender by design — the alternative would be to spread fractions across every participant. It is a bookkeeping correction, not a payment, and it is always tiny.
Runs where one side is paid a fixed amount are handled separately: whatever the run over- or under-collected is settled against the clan vault before the rounding check runs, so a fixed-payment surplus never quietly ends up on your account.
Being stood down
A clan admin can revoke a defender at any time from their Defender Management page. Revoking is not deleting: your player can no longer be picked for new runs, but the account stays, the balance stays, and every past transaction stays exactly as it was. That matters when they still owe you. They can restore you later and nothing is lost.
Defenders who never sign up
Not every defender uses the portal. A clan admin can create a ghost defender by hand — an account under the defender's exact in-game name, with a balance and run history like anyone else's, but with nobody logged in behind it. If a tile on your page is marked Ghost defender, that account was created that way and has since been matched to your player. It behaves identically to an ordinary defender account.
Common questions
Can I be a tank in my own clan and a defender somewhere else?
Yes, and it is common. What you cannot do is defend for the clan your player is a member of. If you have two players, one can defend for another clan while the other plays runs at home. The two keep separate accounts and separate balances — they never offset each other.
The code I was given no longer works.
Codes can be regenerated, and the moment a new one is issued the old one stops matching anything. Ask the clan admin for the current code. Applications you already submitted are unaffected by a regeneration — they stay pending and can still be approved.
How much will I earn as a defender?
It depends entirely on the run. Either a percentage of what that run collects from its participants — which is unknown until it closes, since it follows from the CP everyone earned — or a flat Silver amount agreed in advance. The figure is shown on the run itself, and after closing it appears as Receivable in Runs as Defender on your My CP account page.
I was approved, but I cannot see the clan's runs anywhere.
Available CP RUNs lists runs from clans you are a member of, plus any run where one of your players has actually been named as tank or defender. Being an approved defender does not by itself put their whole schedule in front of you — a run appears once you are on it. Your account tile and past runs are always visible on My CP account.
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