Best Troop for Defense? Why?

[StarTrekAlliance]

Since all the recent upgrades and rebalancing, which Troop do you folks think is best to load up the War Bases with during World War? Why is that particular troop best?

 

[Gears]

Alliance usually donate Field Howitzer/Heavy Artillery to City Center during World war.

 

[Cannibals]

High end armored cars are good defense for lower ages.

 

[NateTheGreat]

Armored cars are high damage vs enemy troops plus high durability and speed. Some combination of machine gunner, heavy artillery, heavy tank, and armored cars. Depends on ally gate cap and who is going to attack the base.

 

[StarTrekAlliance]

Thoughts on Bazookas? We use those frequently as they do good damage and are tough.

 

[Persia]

Basically howitsers that can defend themselves. Great troops, I feel like they were overlooked prior to the rebalance.

 

[oddin]

I usually fill bases with HRPG and some times with a combination of zooks and AC

 

[kilgore_trout]

I've seen helicopters chew up attackers pretty easily in mp. It's hard to say in war though, because any veteran attacker should be expecting to use their planes to take out anything that comes out of the TC.

 

[sileepuppee]

I see a lot of people use mk7 Ht which I suppose is good for lower lvl bases where the attacker doesn’t have access to betrayal but despite being a massive force, it’s still just one single unit and when used in higher lvl bases, they are easily stolen via betrayal or shot down with planes. I think what’s donated really depends on the higher lvl player but the minimum should be cannon types like howitzers/field/heavy arts. My preference is mixing up the troops usually having heavy rpgs and maxed armored cars. Anything can be shot down with planes but because there’s a speed difference it can make planes miss. Because there are several units, you can’t steal them all and people tend to grab the normal tc defenders so that’s also a factor. In lower lvl bases, attackers can’t barrage them all whereas even heavy arts can be taken down with 2-3 barrages and some ranged attackers. Of course as long as oil isn’t an issue people tend to always go factory units as they move up alliance levels.