Welcome to part 12 of our guide to solo defense turtles. This part will be a discussion of recent game updates and what they mean for turtles, and give an opinion on whether MZ has killed off the solo defense turtle once and for all. As a reminder, this is a multi-part series, as outlined in the 11 parts below. ...
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 – Wall traps (Part 9)
Welcome to a very special episode of BrickBusters. In this article, we are going to explore some common myths around traps, and see if we can bust those brick myths once and for all. If you are not quite sure where you are, this is part 9 of our guide to Solo Defense turtle accounts, and this one will be ...
Read More »Guide to Solo Defense Turtles in Game of War – Strategy (Part 8)
Guide to Solo Defense Turtles – Strategy (Part 8) Welcome to part 8 of this guide to building a solo defense turtle. Recent parts of this guide looked at potential composition of 5 different balanced armies, then tested those 5 models of army composition in Part 6. Each of them was proposed as an army with a balanced composition of ...
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 Traps in Game of War
Everything You Need to Know About Traps in Game of War: Fire Age Traps are very powerful. They take little damage from troops, deal out lots in return and help keep your own troops alive. However, you can only build 125k of them. This guide should tell you everything you need to know about traps including how they work, their stats relative ...
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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