What to upgrade?

[Eddie F1]

I have 24 hours before 4 workers are free and 135,000 oil

Do I..
1. Upgrade airfield to Level 2 and get a Zeppelin (and get rid of Old Man quest)
2. Upgrade Factory to Level 3 and get a Heavy Tank
3. Upgrade Castle while I don't need generals
4. Get a Bunker from the Store.

Using moto raiders and engineers, so none of the above are mission critical, but might be very soon....

 

[Redgar]

Airfield I think. It may be hard to loot without it after the update. Ht is kinda useless now may be after it gets an upgrade. i'd suggest bunkers or factory after airfield. Castle is useless and long to upgrade. I put it only to dump oil

 

[Redgar]

Zeps is a pure profit as dbuk said, once per 45 mins you may take some extra storages usually. Sometimes it brought me extra 400k gold, so it is a priority right after you learn not to launch it accidentally )))

 

[Gambrinus]

i had the same option a few days ago, and i went with the airstrip upgrade. zeppelins are pretty awesome, and the future of war is all about air superiority.

 

[dbukalski]

Zeps is a pure profit as dbuk said, once per 45 mins you may take some extra storages usually. Sometimes it brought me extra 400k gold, so it is a priority right after you learn not to launch it accidentally )))

Haha god i hated accidentally launching zeppelin. Probably did that like 20 times. That being said

factory working with tb will make factory usable again. Even more than that. U can shift some of the barracks training time over to factory to lower ur total taining time. So i can see sitution where zeppelin stays a every 45 min bonus. And factory is a 24/7 bonus

But airstrip has more potential to be the game changing component for 5starring. It brings something new to the battle. Where factory is minor boost to existing capabilities. Except for sabateurs their special

Both airstrip and factory will be big players after update.

 

[Hunter Killer]

I had to make that choice a few days ago and upgraded the factory. Given it will fall under training blessing after the update, there may be more potential to use factory units again. I'll upgrade the airstrip afterwards. Castle is a long way down, when I actually have workers to spare.

But I built the 2 bunkers before, so if you haven't you may consider that as well. It has saved me from getting 5-starred a few times already. And to me, one star is worth 7 medal loss most of the time so I'm happy building a little more defense to help my net medal amount per day.

 

[Eddie F1]

Option 5 should have been 'Build nothing' to start freeing up 14 workers for the revolution

Probably airfield though - it's only 3 or 4 days until the next 4 workers are available for factory (assuming I can raid 120,000 more oils)

 

[Danix den Andre]

Airfield, planes are extremely useful for 5starring

 

[firedancer]

Votes Airfield.

 

[Endril]

I would recommend 1, 2, 4 then 3. Especially in the current situation with force close. Attacking is the only option.

Endril

 

[dbukalski]

I put castle (defense and offense generals) ahead of bunker (only defense)

 

[Hunter Killer]

I put castle (defense and offense generals) ahead of bunker (only defense)

It depends on the level of the generals I guess. I have Napoleon level 1 so not much to do with him. And the IA upgrade for castle doesn't do anything to generals, it just adds hp and dps to the building or did I miss anything?

 

[dbukalski]

U want to get castle out of the way as soon as possible. Because some day ull be upgrading it. And then ull lose general offense capability. Ur generals will be upgraded some day. Losing generals will be negative impact on ur offense. Just like u need to upgrade temple asap with crowns. Not because upgrading temple adds to offense. But because upgrading it is losing offense.

Theres no way to know how much generals will contribute to a consistent 24/7.... 5 star army. Maybe their cooldown will always prevent them from being part of non crown users offense. Or maybe theyll be critical. Best not to be caught with pants down if they turn out to be critical

Tldr. Castle is part of ur offense capability so it takes precedence over defense structures

 

[Hunter Killer]

Just as you said, I'm a non-crown users so generals are only for defense. I can't afford lose them in battle and actually it doesn't fit the raiders strategy anyway. So castle is a defensive building for me and from a defensive point of view, it comes after bunker because of the cooldown period. I get attacked 3 times a day (8h peace treaties) and lose 2 generals on each defense. So on my third defense, I have no generals left. Bunker is more consistent from that point of view for me.

 

[Redgar]

I chose different approach and upgrade only critically needed offence and trying to catch up with defence faster so it reaches certain level I described in tactics chapter. So if I don't need temple, why I should upgrade it now? May be there will a break when I won't play so I put it then. The same is with generals... It will take month before they r upgraded enough for me.

I put castle to dump oil and wasn't happy about it. If I see a game changer blessing, yes I may crown temple. Other than that, gates, storage, mercs do not have priority for me.

 

[Hunter Killer]

Sorry why not gates? I would even maxed out all my gates to lvl 13 before upgrading more walls to lvl 10. Their hp are so low comparatively to the walls at similar level. So if you upgrade walls, I would upgrade gates first and have a 2-3 level difference.

 

[Redgar]

Oh I meant alliance gates. Regular gates I am not upgrading caz my markets are too low, so they are lvl12 I think. But it's all about base design what matters more or less on defence

 

[dbukalski]

Imo because u will always lose defense and never win a defense. And because defense happens 1-3 times in a day(unless broken pt). But attack happens up to 150 times in a day. Even a minor benefit like alliance gate, trade good storage which is part of ur offense in different ways take priority over defense.

If u bring crowns into it. And say someday ull crown whatever u need...well crowns throw all need for strategy out the window

If someday they fix close app or defense starts to matter then we can reasses. But i deal with whats hapening in the game. It will be a while before offense stops being 100x more important than defense

 

[Redgar]

Well, it still matters on how many stars you loose and the last two defences i had I've lost less than 1k gold in total from 124k available, so it saves me some on medals and gold and will matter in alliance wars if its gonna be star based.

I am not gonna spend money heavily, but I may invest some on new age coming if BHG makes it right.

 

[Eddie F1]

Thanks for the suggestions - gonna get me a Zep.