Guide
Planning Black Gold Battlefield in Dark War: Survival
Black Gold is won in the hour before it starts. Alliances that decide their roster, their positions and their phase orders in advance move as one; alliances that improvise spend the event arguing in chat. The Black Gold Battlefield Planner exists to turn that preparation into something you can actually send to your team.
What to decide before the event
- Who is actually playing. Names, not intentions. The planner holds up to 20 starters and 20 substitutes so the bench is explicit rather than assumed.
- Which team each player is in. Teams are colour-coded and renameable, so “Team 2 holds the north objective” means something on the map instead of in someone's head.
- Where everyone sits. Shelters are placed on the real battlefield grid around the permanent objectives, and the planner refuses placements that overlap another shelter or a blocking structure.
- What happens in each phase. The timeline lets you write the plan as a sequence — opening positions, the push, the hold — with objective assignments per phase.
Why a plan beats a briefing
A written briefing is read by half the alliance and remembered by fewer. A map is read by everyone. Because the planner mirrors the actual battlefield layout, a member can look at the image once and know their spot, their team and their objective without a single question in chat.
Alignment and distribution tools keep formations tidy without dragging each shelter by hand, and the whole plan exports as a PNG for chat channels.
A note on strategy claims
There is no single correct Black Gold formation, and anyone selling one is guessing. What consistently helps is being decided in advance and being able to show it. For the same discipline applied to your home layout, see the hive layout guide, and use the Server Time guide so nobody misses the start.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the Black Gold Battlefield in Dark War: Survival?
- It is a scheduled alliance battlefield event fought on a dedicated map with fixed objectives. Success depends far more on preparation — who is playing, where they sit and what they do in each phase — than on individual power.
- How do I plan Black Gold with my alliance?
- Use the ATLANTIS HUB Black Gold Battlefield Planner. You build a roster of up to 20 starters and 20 substitutes, split them into named teams, place shelters on the real battlefield grid around the objectives, then write a timeline of phases with the orders for each one.
- Can I share a Black Gold plan with my team?
- Yes. Plans can be saved and exported as a PNG image, which is the format most alliances drop straight into their Discord or in-game chat so every member sees the same picture.
- Does the planner tell me the best strategy?
- No, and it deliberately does not pretend to. It validates placement — shelters cannot overlap each other or sit on blocking objectives — and gives you formation tools, but the strategy is yours and your alliance's.