Earning Merits

Military Merits are spent in the shop to purchase military gear and dust used to enhance equipment.

You earn Military Merits by competing in the tourney daily. You can compete 15 times a day every 15 minutes - without using diamonds to speed up. Whether you win or lose you get merits. You get twice as many by victory but even a loss is better than not competing. Make sure you're competing as often as you can daily.

However, you can also earn Military Merits by doing battle on the battle screen - something I know many of you don't realize. Even if you've completed a battle you can go back and do it again and earn merits over and over again. You have 20 military orders each day you can use so make sure you are doing the HIGHEST level battle you can and just do it over and over again to earn merits. The merits you earn are based on the level of the battle. You also earn hero experience from these battles as well.

Between the tourney and the battles you have the potential to earn a couple thousand military merits daily depending on your level.

And u can earn many hero exp in battle mode too, to get military merits is a quick increasing streng mode ^^.

If you find yourself low on troops or coins, I tend to pick lower battles in the battle screen that always end in heroic victory.
That way you hardly lose any troops but still gain merits and experience. (and the chance of a gold coin card)