There is a long history of video game creators having a bit of fun, hiding little jokes in the form of ‘Easter Eggs’. For example here is a nice list of the top 100 easter eggs in video games. There is also a bit of a history of games having hidden abilities that require unlocking, with one of the best ...
Read More »Guide to Solo Defense Turtles in Game of War – Hero Gear (Part 11)
Welcome to a very much belated Part 11 of our guide to Turtle Accounts in Game of War. This part will be focused on the relative importance of various boosts to a turtle, and discuss what it means for your approach to putting together a set of hero gear for your turtle. Part 10 of this guide looked at ways ...
Read More »Guide to Turtle Accounts in Game of War – Combat Boosts (Part 10)
Welcome to Part 10 of our guide to building a solo march turtle. This part of the guide will be focused on the interaction between your defensive army strength and combat boosts, and the way in which they measure up against the attackers army and combat boosts. It builds upon the work already posted on this site in the Guide ...
Read More »Guide to Solo Defense Turtles in Game of War – Troops (Part 5)
Turtle Accounts Part 5 – Troops Welcome to part 5 in a series of articles on designing a turtle account to take full T3-4 solo marches. This is the one you have probably been waiting for: training an army…… This is where we currently are up to. We have given an overview of the goals of a single march turtle ...
Read More »Guide to Solo Defense Turtles – Game of War – Hospitals Barracks Villas (Part 4)
Welcome to Part 4 of our series of articles on how to build a solo defense turtle account designed to take solo T3-4 marches. Part 1 was an introduction, Part 2 discussed the fundamental core of research for turtle accounts, and in part 3 of this series, we briefly gave some guidance on which buildings are and are not useful ...
Read More »Guide to Solo Defense Turtles – Game of War – Buildings (Part 3)
In Part 1 – Introduction and Part 2 – Research of this series discussing considerations when building a solo defense turtle, we talked high-level about design philosophy and how you can exploit some key asymmetries when taking hits, as well as the core foundational importance of combat research for regular troops and regular traps. This article will talk a little ...
Read More »Guide to Turtle Accounts in Game of War – Research (Part 2)
Guide to Research for Turtle Accounts In part 1 of this guide, we introduced the concept of a turtle, and put forth a little argument as to why it can be fun to build and play in a turtle account when your kingdom gets around to playing in the Kingdom vs Kingdom Kill Events. One of the guiding principles in ...
Read More »Guide to Solo Defense Turtles – Game of War – Introduction (Part 1)
How to Build the Ultimate Solo Defense Turtle / Trap Account in Game of War This is the first part in our 13-part series of articles on building turtle or trap accounts (from now on we will just call these turtle accounts) that are designed as solo defense against solo attack marches. This guide is all about setting up your ...
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