This game is not always part of Epic Week, but has been featured in 2023, 2024 and 2026.
In this game, Moa has trained and equipped thousands of walruses for battle, but they need leadership to know what to do with their new skills and gear. When you enter the game for the first time, Moa will appear and assign you your company of 100 walruses.
The map that you are playing on varies from year to year, but waluses always start in Base Camp. Wherever it is for the year, Base Camp is represented by a tent icon.
Moving Around
You can get started in this game very easily. Just double-tap any hex to plan a route there.
Note that you will get an ETA for travel time to that location when making your plan, and you can influence it slightly by choosing what your walruses prioritize on their trip. Speed is the fastest, but you'll get the least random events (which might lead you to find items!). Foraging is the slowest, but you'll have a higher chance of random events and finding items.
If you want your walruses to keep repeating the same route back and forth, mark "Repeat on loop"
If you want to draw your own path, click and hold on your walrus brigade icon, and drag out the path you want them to take.
If you're happy with the plan, click "Give Orders"
Your walruses will not move instantly - it can take minutes for walruses to switch hexes, as each hex represents miles of territory. Different types of territory take different amounts of time to cover, with ocean being the very fastest and mountains taking the longest.
If your Current Activity section shows something other than "waiting for orders" your walruses have received their orders and are Working On It.
Do I Need to Be There?
The game keeps running whether you have it open or not, so you do not need to stare at your walruses for however many hours it takes them to complete their orders. You can assign them a looping route and then just check back in on them now and again if you like. Spend the rest of your time fighting monsters, working on solving riddles, entering contests and other ways to enjoy Epic Week.
Let them sweet blubber bois do the hard work for you.
Getting Items
Random finds
Each time your walrsuses switch hexes, they have a chance for something to happen in the new hex. This might be combat if the area is infested with enemies, but it can be other kinds of random events, too. Occasionally, this may be a random item. What items you can find is influenced by the type of terrain you moved into.
Harvest points
The fastest and most reliable way of getting items is by going to a harvest point. See below for community lists of harvest points per year. They tend to look like these sorts of things on the map:
Walruses on a hex containing a harvest point will gradually fill up their inventory with the item(s) that can be found there. Some resources are faster to extract than others (for example: mining is hard work, and takes longer than gathering flower petals!)
Take them back to base camp
When your walrus company arrives back in camp, everything that is in their inventory will be transferred to your inventory. You can then use the items for crafting, donate them to the armory, or throw them into collection symbols as required.
Looping between base and harvest points
If you set up a loop that starts/ends on base camp, and starts/ends on a harvest point, your walruses will travel to the harvest point and stay there until their inventory has no more room in it. They will then travel back to base camp and stay there until they heal back to 100% health. They will then repeat until they reach 0% health or until you give them new orders, potentially giving you frequent new item infusions into your inventory throughout the event.
Equipping Your Walruses
How your walruses perform on the maneuvers you assign them will be influenced by how you equip them. You can re-equip them while they are in base camp.
You can see what different mixes of kit will do to your speed, combat bonus and carry capacity before deciding.
Low Health = slower travel. Heal up in base camp!
Injured walruses have a harder time moving around.
There are random events that can happen that restore small quantitites of health, but the best and fastest way to heal your company is to send them back to base camp where they can be seen in the veterinary hospital tent.
Keep Them Moving!
Remember: Your wallies will take a nap if they have no orders. If you want them to keep attacking a specific hex once they arrive, make them loop back and forth over two hexes so they don't just form a heap and snore.
In this game, Moa has trained and equipped thousands of walruses for battle, but they need leadership to know what to do with their new skills and gear. When you enter the game for the first time, Moa will appear and assign you your company of 100 walruses.
The map that you are playing on varies from year to year, but waluses always start in Base Camp. Wherever it is for the year, Base Camp is represented by a tent icon.
Moving Around
You can get started in this game very easily. Just double-tap any hex to plan a route there.
Note that you will get an ETA for travel time to that location when making your plan, and you can influence it slightly by choosing what your walruses prioritize on their trip. Speed is the fastest, but you'll get the least random events (which might lead you to find items!). Foraging is the slowest, but you'll have a higher chance of random events and finding items.
If you want your walruses to keep repeating the same route back and forth, mark "Repeat on loop"
If you want to draw your own path, click and hold on your walrus brigade icon, and drag out the path you want them to take.
If you're happy with the plan, click "Give Orders"
Your walruses will not move instantly - it can take minutes for walruses to switch hexes, as each hex represents miles of territory. Different types of territory take different amounts of time to cover, with ocean being the very fastest and mountains taking the longest.
If your Current Activity section shows something other than "waiting for orders" your walruses have received their orders and are Working On It.
Do I Need to Be There?
The game keeps running whether you have it open or not, so you do not need to stare at your walruses for however many hours it takes them to complete their orders. You can assign them a looping route and then just check back in on them now and again if you like. Spend the rest of your time fighting monsters, working on solving riddles, entering contests and other ways to enjoy Epic Week.
Let them sweet blubber bois do the hard work for you.
Getting Items
Random finds
Each time your walrsuses switch hexes, they have a chance for something to happen in the new hex. This might be combat if the area is infested with enemies, but it can be other kinds of random events, too. Occasionally, this may be a random item. What items you can find is influenced by the type of terrain you moved into.
Harvest points
The fastest and most reliable way of getting items is by going to a harvest point. See below for community lists of harvest points per year. They tend to look like these sorts of things on the map:
Walruses on a hex containing a harvest point will gradually fill up their inventory with the item(s) that can be found there. Some resources are faster to extract than others (for example: mining is hard work, and takes longer than gathering flower petals!)
Take them back to base camp
When your walrus company arrives back in camp, everything that is in their inventory will be transferred to your inventory. You can then use the items for crafting, donate them to the armory, or throw them into collection symbols as required.
Looping between base and harvest points
If you set up a loop that starts/ends on base camp, and starts/ends on a harvest point, your walruses will travel to the harvest point and stay there until their inventory has no more room in it. They will then travel back to base camp and stay there until they heal back to 100% health. They will then repeat until they reach 0% health or until you give them new orders, potentially giving you frequent new item infusions into your inventory throughout the event.
Equipping Your Walruses
How your walruses perform on the maneuvers you assign them will be influenced by how you equip them. You can re-equip them while they are in base camp.
You can see what different mixes of kit will do to your speed, combat bonus and carry capacity before deciding.
Low Health = slower travel. Heal up in base camp!
Injured walruses have a harder time moving around.
There are random events that can happen that restore small quantitites of health, but the best and fastest way to heal your company is to send them back to base camp where they can be seen in the veterinary hospital tent.
Keep Them Moving!
Remember: Your wallies will take a nap if they have no orders. If you want them to keep attacking a specific hex once they arrive, make them loop back and forth over two hexes so they don't just form a heap and snore.
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