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Here is my current base. It does relatively well. Stops most warrior raids, and the occasional TMed or Hooka who slips up. It's also intimidating enough that I only get attacked by people 1-4 levels above me. Looking back as far as I can go in my log, I'm at 4 defends, 7 losses. What I'd like to know: Is this about the best defensive win/loss ratio I can expect for HQ15, or is there a configuration that might get better results? 
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Nov 11, 2014 21:15
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Yeah, I wanna go for it soon. I'm just paying the price for evenly upgrading all my troops since the beginning. My armory's only lvl 11, and that makes farming tough and slow. I'll have to hold onto loot for a long time to build up enough to make the jump. (Hence my interest in alternate layouts) Update- Never mind. I was being overly pessimistic.  Terror Loot + Clearing my map (seriously, like only 1 enemy left), plus ***gems*** was more than enough! Morton Haynice fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Nov 12, 2014 22:02
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HQ upgrades are basically the one thing I use them on. That's almost all the gems I saved since the start of HQ15. Ironically I didn't need them to buy resources, I used them to finish a 14 hr radar upgrade. No way was all my loot gonna sit in storage that long. It didn't occur to me til later that the smartest thing to do would have been to cancel the radar, buy the HQ, and sit on the rest for the duration. Oh well. Time to start again.
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Nov 13, 2014 00:12
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What about the submarine? I find it's pretty cheap and a nice return on investment. Or should I be devoting every cent to troop upgrades? For that matter, what about the radar? I'm at lvl 14, with 3 of 8 new regions explored. Should I forget map expansion for now too?
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Nov 13, 2014 20:20
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Yeah, that seems to be workable. It's a terror day and I had more than enough to finish my map, send a sub, and buy an upgrade. I guess I'm just surprised by the "focus on one tactic" emphasis in Boom Beach. In Clash of Clans, you're usually using 5-7 different troop types per battle. So when I started BB, I assumed it was gonna be the same. You know, "Upgrade everything and move on to the next armory level." Only in the past week have I learned that's not how you're supposed to play the game. It's been kind of a shock, and it'll be another couple weeks before I'm caught up. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, Jm20. I'll try to give an update once I've had time to properly implement this new upgrade strategy.
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Nov 15, 2014 22:55
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Just got 7 big purple crystals I wanna spend, but am wondering: Is there any way to predict what type of statue bonus you'll be getting? If it makes any difference, my last three dark statues (in order) were GBE, GBE, and RR. Additionally, my dark masterpieces were RR and RR. Took so long to get 'em. Wanna do this right, if I can. I'm hoping for either GBE or PSC. Morton Haynice fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Nov 22, 2014 |
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Nov 22, 2014 17:34
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+34% GBE! Yes! Replacing a 13% GBE Guardian, too. (Net gain: +9 Energy)
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Nov 23, 2014 14:02
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A couple weeks ago I posted I'd hit a wall. Evenly-upgrading all my troops had severely limited my attacking power, and my HQ was too low for my level. Thanks to some good advice from folks here, today my base looks like this:  Those are my tanks upgrading to lvl 7. Still a little behind, but leagues and leagues better than before I decided to focus on them. Now I can always farm the resources for whatever I need. Basically if you're at that hump, there's hope if you just press a little further. Thanks thread!
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Dec 17, 2014 18:58
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I can't remember if this one is HQ15 or 16, but I had great success with this layout: Even if it's 15, you can probably swap some structures and still make a variant work. HTH!
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Jan 12, 2015 01:06
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