Field Manual · Node War Guides

Black Desert Online Node War Guides

Practical, officer-facing writing on rostering, tier composition, Discord automation and post-war statistics — drawn from how Project Athena actually runs Node Wars.

BDO Node War Roster Guide: Building a Winning Composition

What each roster group actually does, why Mainball/FFA is a remainder rather than a number you type, and how bench overflow keeps a full war from turning people away.

Read the guide

How to Track Guild League Scoreboards in Black Desert Online

Turn an end-of-match screenshot into per-player statistics: OCR extraction, the date-plus-time match key that prevents double counting, name reconciliation, and CSV export.

Read the guide

How to Set Up a Node War Discord Bot (Step-by-Step)

A complete first-run walkthrough: invite, /set-nwchannel, /event create, what the signup buttons do, how the 60-second scheduler posts on time, and how weekly recurrence rolls.

Read the guide

Node War Tier 1 vs Tier 2 vs Tier 3: Roster Sizes and Composition

Side-by-side capacities for every tier and weekday, why Tier 2 and Tier 3 swap specialists for a Flex group, and the exact rule that decides who gets benched when a roster is cut down.

Read the guide

Where to start

If you are setting up for the first time, read the bot setup walkthrough first and have a roster posting within the hour. If your guild already runs wars and the problem is composition, start with the roster guide and then size it against the tier comparison. If you are trying to work out who actually performed last night, go straight to scoreboard tracking.

Every guide is written against real behaviour rather than aspiration — the capacity figures, the scheduler interval and the overflow rules described here are the ones the software implements. The complete command and configuration reference lives in the documentation, and the home page is the two-minute overview.

Run your next Node War with Project Athena

Project Athena is free. Sign in with Discord, pick a server you administer, and you can have a roster posted before your next war window opens. The documentation covers every command, and the home page is the short version.

Sign in with Discord