Building Armies and Heroes
 

Priority focus for armed forces

It is important to choose a priority focus for your armed forces. Do you want to have a stronger aircraft, tank or infantry force.  I have focused on my air force and so I have levelled up by aircraft training facility faster than my tank training and infantry training facility. When I use speed ups, I only use them on my aircraft training so that I get more T8 aircrafts than T7 tanks or T7 infantry. I will continue to built by Airforce quicker than my other 2 armed forces because that is the easiest way to get a stronger attacking force.

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Each construction Day, I level up the military centre and then the aircraft training facility.

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I then focus on levelling and ranking up heroes that will give me aircraft bonuses.

Building APCs (the things that look like tanks)

To increase the strength of your armed force, you need to build your APC (armoured personnel carriers). There are three ways to do this (1) increase your garage level, (2) to increase the APC level through gears and (2) adding on and levelling up APC parts, particularly smasher and destroyer parts.

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First try to keep the level of your garages in line with the level of your headquarters. There is an increase in either attack power or defense for each level of your garage. 

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Second, use gears to increase the level of your APC, the higher the level of the APC the higher the number of troops it will carry (this increases every 10 levels) and the more heroes that can occupy the tank (each hero also increasing the number of troops). The greater the number of heroes the better your attack will be, and more heroes means more special skills applied to the APC.

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Third, add smasher parts or destroyer parts to all APCs. Smasher parts are easier to level so if you can add smasher parts to the top 2 APCs and destroyer parts to the 3rd APC that will be beneficial. Continuously level these parts by making, winning or buying carbon and or steel and using it to level up the parts. 

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Each  level for the parts has a skill that is increased as you increase the level of the part. Some new skills are opened at different levels 11, 26 and 71. There are also set effects that opened up when you have 3 or 5 parts of the set at a certain level on the same APC. For example, I currently have Thunder strike (a damage factor increases of 1000) on my 1st APC because I have 3 parts at level 46 and when I get 3 parts to 71, I also get a destructive might boost or 100%. When i have all 5 parts at 71, I will have 30% of my KIA troops converted to grievously wounded

Season Mastery

As this will change at the end of the season in 6 days. I will not bother to write this one up yet.

Hero ranking and levelling based on armed force choice

If you want to increase the strength of your top tank then you want it to match your armed forces choice to the faction you build first. Though you will not be able to benefit from the special skills in other tanks related to the weaker armed forces if you are predominantly building one armed force over the others but in the short term it is better to forgo that benefit to get a stronger army quicker. Universal skills however will benefit the use of that armed force in another tank.

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Airforce - Fanatics Focus with priority ranking of Hagrid and Gold Level  Hua Mei (level 50) & Hanzo and Goliath (level 30) to increase your training speed and special skills directly related to Airforce attack.

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Tanks - Mafia focus with priority ranking of Kevin & Gold level Morgan (50) & Khoi and Sonny (30) to increase your training speed and special abilities directly related to tanks.

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Infantry - Federal Guard focus with priority ranking of Shelton and Gold level Bob (50) & Gru (30) to increase your training speed and special abilities directly related to infantry.

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Please note blue level Bob extends the unit training cap of all armed forces and Dwayne increase mercenaries for all and reduces training cost whilst increasing the training cap for all as you increase his rank.

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Research

Research offers important increases to attack power, defense, propulsion (speed), troop load, troop health, training speed and more. The yellow tabs in your research or tech centre are the ones that you want to slowly research over time. Look into each one and decide what research would currently best improve your armed forces.

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As you can see. I maxed Elite troops early on and then I completed most of Military strategies not worrying to level up the last options as they applied to tanks and infantry. Then I moved on to Seige to Seize to benefit ruin capture, but I am switching between this and peacemaker currently.

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Please note that you will need gears to research these tabs. You may choose to focus your gears on increasing the hero number and therefore troop size in your tanks first. It is especially important to focus on getting at least 1, but if possible 2 5 hero tanks before focusing on this research.

Other things that can help

There are other ways to increase the attack power and defense of your APCs and heroes. The most notable are HQ talents and skins. More will be added to this section later.