Puzzles and Survival: Troop lineups for beginners!

A guide on understanding how to manage your troop lineups, make smart decisions for military tactics regarding hero and troop setup. More of a newbie guide than anything, this video aims to close the gap between the more experienced war-monger and the casual player. As always if you have any questions leave 'em in the comments below! Like the video if it helps you and subscribe for more content like this! Thanx for watching!
*Note: I was hoping to have this video posted before my alliance (NDD) Non Ducor Duco participated in tonight's Reservoir War event, unfortunately my timing was not perfect and I am posting after the event. Hopefully everyone will still find the information useful for future events! Shout out to state 16!
(And yes, we won our Reservoir War!)

[@T3f4n]

Man! Thanks for the video. Keep going, there is almost no good information about this game for beginners and middle players.

[@ValenceRing]

Thanx for watching! I think the game can be daunting at times and I will keep trying to make it less so.

[@WColdblooded357W]

This is helpful. I'm a new player and am struggling a little bit with the mechanics so I'm gonna be watching more of your content

[@ValenceRing]

Awesome! Of course if you have any questions let me know. You can also join my discord server if interested. A lot of knowledgable players are in that too. I'll add an invite here: discord.gg/mz4E3hRz

[@TheMsiaddict]

Thank you.

[@ValenceRing]

My pleasure! Thanx for watching!

[@Nina01.]

Thank you for your explanation! I have been playing this game for 3 months but I know very little about strategy. What state are you in??? Is there still available slots in your alliance? 😄

[@ValenceRing]

Hey! Thanx for watching! I am in state 16. My alliance is currently TheWoodshed, we are full at the moment. Not too long ago we had two big alliances merge. Feel free to message me in game at ValenceRing though maybe I can point you in a good direction!

[@fsanchez6160]

Hey great videos. I subscribed a month ago watching your videos I have 2 questions. I'm shooter based. When it comes to your troops does it make sense to have more than one type of soldiers and is it beneficial? Meaning like I have 30,000 t7 shooters that I just unlocked and 49,000 t6 shooters, is it beneficial having more than one type or just promote them to one tier altogether. 2nd question, My main shooter lineup is Eph, Griffin, Hartwell, Malcom and Bard bc I don't have any other 5 star shooter heros, does mixing them up with troop heros make more sense because I see you have shooters mixed with troop heros like Mars, Marlowe or Meyers? Stats wise. Thank you!

[@ValenceRing]

Having all troops at the highest tier is the best choice unless you are training tier 1 troops as sacrifices or for a quick jump in total troop size. Otherwise the highest tier is the strongest. And there is no other benefit to lower tier troops. As for hero lineups it can help to use general troop type heroes to fill in the gaps where you don't have a stronger troop specific type of hero. You can also try different hero lineups and see what works best. Good luck!

[@curtisbinder3580]

So can you do a specific on supporting ... Because it's confusing as hell

[@ValenceRing]

I'll see what I can do.

[@wendyalexander3904]

Hi I have a question. To boost my troop size is it best to promote all my lower level troops? I'm still at t7 but feel my troop size is low. Thanks a bunch!!

[@ValenceRing]

T7s is a tricky area. Usually because you're growing stronger and have more room for troops but havent been able to train fast enough to keep up with the growing need. I tend to recommend promoting at t7 until all troops are t7. BUT if your troop count is too low (cant send max marches due to lack of troops) then i recommend training new t7s as often as you can especially for dailies then save your promotion for events such as day 4, 6 and 7 of global ace commander or break loose training events etc. Once you reach tier 8 you definitely want to make sure you dont have a bunch of t1s and t2s around lol but some straggling t6s and t7s wont be the end of the world. By t9 you should have all t9s and full marches. My opinion of course.

[@wendyalexander3904]

Thank you so much!

[@ValenceRing]

Happy to help!

[@sandychandra1122]

I am going to focus my troops on rider. My ally say it is more efficient just focus on 1 type of troops. Is it possible I just upgrade the rider building only? I see that most of your building lvl is all about the same. I feel like it takes lots of rss if I have to upgrade everything. Like I focus on rider, why do I have to upgrade vehicle/shooter building? When going zombie lair/war, I just use rider. Kind of pointless if I increase the troop lvl for shooter/fighter.

[@ValenceRing]

I understand your point. The problem isnt wanting to upgrade everything equally. It really is because the game is designed in such a way as you have to. So for certain hq levels other building also have to be a certain level. Your wall for example. Sometimes it's a specific camp such as rider camp or fighter camp. So as you go through the levels you will find at certain points that just about all your buildings have to be the same level as your HQ to get it to the next level. So the game designers built that in specifically to prevent someone from say spending all their rss just on their HQ and rider camp until they had t11 riders. This would be too easy and could potentially lead to players that are overpowered. So it is designed to create a form of balance and equality. Hope this helps!

[@josephasal354]

Sir what is the best hero in wall def,and what troops good for lairs and raiding sanctuary?

[@ValenceRing]

It all depends. Best hero for the wall is atropos. Other then that you want troop boost heroes in the wall like requiem meyers etc. The best troops for lairs are the ones with the best boosts. Riders cause the most casualties but if your riders are weak doesnt matter. So it all depends on what heroes you have. What's your strongest troop and who you are going up against. All are good in the right circumstances.

[@josephasal354]

@@ValenceRing thank you very much sir for responces and tips 😇😇😇 hope more blogs and giving idea for like me beginer 😇😇😇

[@ValenceRing]

@@josephasal354 happy to help! I might not have all the answers but I try to put the info out I do know! Thanx for watching!

[@curtisbinder3580]

I'm fighter strong but I keep getting 800 different comments on what I should be sending...I was told that Rider support Fighters but here it's saying Shooters support Fighters...if you could do a specific on Fighters that would be awesome and show you attacking sanctuaries and how we should know what to send would be great

[@ValenceRing]

Part of the problem with this is that it varies on a case by case basis because everyones stats are different. And everyone has a different experience. It would be nice if it was always exactly the same but there are too many factors and it never seems to be consistent. Just focus on your strongest troops and heroes, always improve your stats and test and see what works best for you and your team. Good luck!

[@johnathanpersinger5295]

How do you get the higher march count for your troops? Im at 161k with level 28hq but another person in my alliance has 189k base set of troops with a 28hq.

[@ValenceRing]

So there are quite a few heroes that boost march size. There is tech in the research center for it, eva has an upgrade for it as well. HQ is the main way especially early on.

[@johnathanpersinger5295]

@@ValenceRing Ok. I noticed i am lacking 10k by not having Leah and Otto not at 131 yet so still lacking elsewhere. The Eva will only go up by 1k each time it looks like otherwise no clue. I will have to work on it in some way

[@ValenceRing]

@@johnathanpersinger5295 theres a lot of ways enhancing heroes also increases the march count. So +1 leah vs +3 leah is a big jump

[@kingofzed7558]

What ways can you boost VIP points quicker outside of spending diamonds? It is taking me an age to get more points!

[@ValenceRing]

Diamonds is probably the quickest way but I always use some of my alliance coins in the alliance shop. Otherwise try to watch for a few events that drop them and making sure log in at least once every day. I think its after 30 days you start getting 600 vip points daily. Take that plus purchasing 4 times the 100 vip points in alliance shop is 1k vip points per day without effort.

[@thomasbauer3871]

Hi Valance Ring I hope you read this message was the only way to wrote you …sorry for my bad English I comes from Germany My question was how you build so many troops ?? I was Hq Level 26 and have only 203.890 Tausend troops and you have 1.7 Millions I have all my 5 Bootcamps allways of the self Level than my HQ And I look all your videos and learn from dear I see that you build all days 250 troops Level 1 but in any time you must upgrade them or not ?? Please help me with my question how you build and training troops Regards Redviper6569

[@ValenceRing]

On days with training quests I would train a lot of troops at a time. That's all there is to it. A lot of speedups for training events.

[@curtisbinder3580]

your focus wasn't really on setting up troop supports like the video said...honestly could have been better that's why I'm asking you to redo another video..there were so many things you missed on explaining

[@ValenceRing]

Sorry for the confusion. I'll see what I can do.

[@aimlesslywanderinglife3808]

Why would you make the video and not tell us how to actually boost the stats? You showed us but never even told us how to boost those stats at the beginning