The Defense view lists every threat across your account in one place.

Each village has its own defense rules.

Enable defense automation toggles automation for the village.Minimum resources to protect skips nearly empty villages.Minimum troops to dodge ignores stacks too small to bother moving.Threat Responses splits behavior by attack type.Notifications controls when alerts fire outside the app.The response model is per threat level, not one-size-fits-all.
Raid rules light when the village is expendable.Clearing, Siege, and Chiefing responses for villages that matter.Tip: Protect capitals and hammers aggressively. Feeders rarely need more than basic raid rules.
The dashboard shows incoming attack counts before you open Defense.

Minimum threat level on low-value villages to cut noise.Notify on actions when you need confirmation that dodges or spend-down rules fired.For schedule tuning around ownership and activity windows, pair this with the Schedules and Safety guide. For first-time account setup, start with Getting Started.
Choose Natural or Fixed schedules, read achieved coverage, and align agent timezones, browser locale, and randomized browsing in Vangrd.
Chain actions, branch on conditions, and loop over villages, then run your automation on a timer, a schedule, or on demand with Vangrd workflows.
Let Vangrd read the marketplace in every village and take the offers worth taking, with merchant reserves, a live preview, and per-village rules.