TOTAL BATTLE | BEST TROOP STACKING STRATEGY VS ARACHNE SWARM

Strategy Against Epic Monster Squads. Arachne Swarm. Gain More Valor and Spend Less Reviving Troops. Level stacking troops in planned attack to increase the number of attacks in a battle.
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In this video I put together a strategy of level stacking presented to me by @balooc2 an original supporter of the channel. The idea behind the strategy is to insulate your mercenaries. By calculating the number of hit points/health points (HP), of your troop levels, you can make sure your soldiers are the first to strike or die. Since the first hit is 50/50, we are loading up guardsman to be the strongest troops. The more we can insulate our mercenaries, the higher the likely hood is the mercs can strike multiple times before dying in battle. After the first 3 levels of troops strike, the battle is random.
***PLEASE NOTE THIS STRATEGY ONLY WORKS AGAINST EPIC MONSTER SQUADS
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0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Turning on "Bonuses"
1:40 - Captain Select
2:55 - HP Calcs to Set Up Army
5:35 - 1st Attack of Arachne Swarm
6:25 - Attack Summary Review
8:58 - 2nd Attack of Arachne Swarm
9:25 - Attack Summary Review
12:30 - Outro. "Like & Subscribe"

[@JackHammerJoe]

Strategy - Battling the Swarm and taking a risk with only Mercenaries - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoGmmWB-Zatql7c

[@Precio70]

Great video!!!! I have been learning a lot, and I will try the “reinforcement” strategy next time.

[@JackHammerJoe]

Glad it was helpful! Hopefully it works out for you. Since making the video I have learned that there are different number of monsters in each Epic Squad. So make sure to insulate your Mercs beyond the number of Monsters. For Arachne it is 8. I believe I said 3 in my video. Always something to learn in this game! Thank you for watching and commenting. And please, come back and share the results and if you learn something new in your fights or in the game. I'm sure we could all use the help!

[@antoniusgroothuizen9308]

Not too bad. you brought in health for your discussion. Now look at the cost of silver and time for training squads/layers of equal health for a guardsman level, and the one below it. You will find that the lower level squad/layer costs more to train. This is why I recommend changing your attacks so that the highest level of guardsmen attack first. You will get more for your silver/time. The way the order of the battle is determined: the squad with the most strength of the side which has the strike, will hit the squad with the most health of their opponent. All research, talent, and hero, captain, equipment, artifact bonuses that are sent are used.

[@JackHammerJoe]

I will try this in a new video and see how it plays out. Thank you. I end up just deleting the low level troops. I only revive them if I’m making a video. I try to gear these videos more toward newer players players with not a lot of resources

[@Jim8457]

Attacking with the highest level of guardsmen doesn't make sense. You will lose more of them in the first strike from the Epic monster and leave fewer strikes of them, read fewer kills, later on. Also, with an attack at the Arachne Swarm, you will lose all your troops anyway, whether you start with higher-level troops or lower. You will have to revive them all.

[@JackHammerJoe]

Thanks for commenting. I appreciate the dialogue. Someone also shared with me that they prefer waiting until near the end of Arachne because some of the squads have been killed off. Instead of 8 squads, there may only be 5 or 6 squads remaining which means you don’t trade as many strikes back and forth before the random “run/string” of attacks happens

[@justthe5ofus224]

very nice!

[@JackHammerJoe]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@theridgewoodfarm]

Love this game

[@miguellunetta9437]

Ótimo

[@JackHammerJoe]

obrigado. agradeço por você assistir e comentar

[@balooc2]

quick sidenote that was brought to my attention. the reason why i claimed it was just 3 attacks then all your units attack at once, was because i didnt do my testing on arachnee. arachnee has 8 units, so you trade blows unit per unit until one of you runs out of units, then you attack with the rest. i didnt know this because i dont do arachnee, i mostly do doomsday and rise of the ancient because it brings in more valor, they also only have 4 units. So check the amount of units the epic has. in this case the results would had been the same since it was arachnee event, but if it was done on say doomsday event, it would had generated more valor and exp!

[@JackHammerJoe]

Thank you. I'm going to do more of these. They seem to be received well in the community. One day I will set up a "live" play through of daily activities (or something like that). I hope you will join!!!

[@balooc2]

@@JackHammerJoe most certainly. until then :)

[@Jim8457]

I have tried your example, and I tried stacking them from low to high guards' level together with high to low health level, but I received quite a lot more points by stacking them from lower guards to higher guards with the mercenaries at the end.

[@JackHammerJoe]

@Jim8457, thanks for sharing. I think it becomes a bit of a crapshoot depending on which of the 8 Arachne Squads strike and which of your troops they take out. Definitely the longer your strong troops last, the more points you will get. Appreciate you watching and sharing your results

[@julsallen9722]

A little note for you, you can’t use reinforcements on Epics, and you can have better results if you go to the Arachne wen it’s stacks already die and it has 6 or less

[@JackHammerJoe]

Very good. Thank you for more insight. There is SO much to learn in this game.

[@gsikids2781]

I think you can in the Swarm

[@arturroch1474]

Ok

[@JackHammerJoe]

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment

[@houstonfirefox]

A little complicated but good information!

[@JackHammerJoe]

Yes it is complicated. Most of the time I just send my troops to their slaughter. People were trolling me for not understanding the mechanics of the game, so I put this together to show the strategic way to attack to optimize. It is time consuming and honestly I have only done it when I make the videos. Appreciate you watching and leaving a comment. :)

[@houstonfirefox]

@@JackHammerJoe Thanks for putting this out there Joe! New Sub! I think most of the time, for regular monsters, it wouldn't matter much but like you said, when throwing your troops into the meatgrinder it is best to optimize the attack strategy. If they are going into the Netherworld, never to return then best to get the most out of them right? Great strategy guide 😃

[@JackHammerJoe]

Thank you for the sub! Very much appreciated. I’m learning also that the monster squads within the epics are stronger versus certain types of guardsman than others. I haven’t dug in deep enough to figure it out and match up appropriately to see how much of a difference it makes. I’ll have to do it in a future video. Thanks for the open discussion!

[@lexc8714]

What would be your advice to play this game smartly: as in not spending real money and spend least time to lvl up captains and retrain troops? I buy the cheapest deal for construction. But still trying not to attack other players cities. But then I fail to gain much CP. Now I only revive captains and those contract merchanaries. But retraining troops may take days. Struggling to speed up for events

[@JackHammerJoe]

Hi @lexc8714. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂. Probably the best piece of advice I could give you is to search for a clan with a HIGH might. Reach out to one of the Superiors and see if you can join. They will teach you the game and you will receive A LOT of daily rewards, bonuses, resources, speed up’s! For Valor I like Arachne best for small players because you can take all 3 captains. your high ranking captain and bring lower captains to rank them up. This increases your might and overall strength. CP is hard to come by. This is another piece where a large clan helps. During Clash of Throne you can send your army to be a reinforcement of one of your large clan mates and gain CP that way. I have collected nearly 3B CP over the past 2 months this way. Hopefully this was helpful 😬

[@JesusBelloPerez-ce6sl]

👍🏻

[@JackHammerJoe]

Thank you for the thumbs up!!

[@mustafayunlu45]

Ji

[@JackHammerJoe]

Thank you for watching and commenting. Very much appreciated!!

[@istvanportik5179]

where can I find this table so that it can be accessed?

[@JackHammerJoe]

It is just an excel file on my desktop I created. I’ll look into posting it somewhere for a secure download

[@Jim8457]

How would you stack if you were a Total Battle beginner? Let's say, you only have level I and II guardsmen. And the same mercenaries as in the video. Where would you put your mercenaries?

[@JackHammerJoe]

Total beginner will be tougher. You probably would not want to play against the Swarm as they have 8 groups for attack. Try Doomsday which I believe only has 3. Same strategy you would need to figure out how much might you can take, then calculate according making sure your Mercs are 4th in strength. I have another video where I only attack with a low level captain, mercs, and level 1 troops. Go through my TB playlist. It’s one of the first videos

[@janeygenraam7923]

What do they mean with 3g people?

[@JackHammerJoe]

Level 3 Guardsmen

[@1grungeboi]

Arachne is a horrible event and I don't even waste my time with it because the VP is trash compared to Ancients. I only build stacks for the ancients because I'll take an Epic that starts with 4 stacks all the way down to 2 with a 60% bonus on VP and EXP all day and only prep for it

[@JackHammerJoe]

Thanks for sharing. I love the Swarm. Especially for building up low level captains.

[@1grungeboi]

@@JackHammerJoe if you need to then go ahead but it's still a horrible event based on the stacks the epic has and the fact that it has mercs that have a boost strictly for the event is trash. I'm in a large clan that puts the Ancients as number one priority with a requirement of points based on Guardsmen level and a silver penalty paid for no participation

[@JackHammerJoe]

Yes we too prioritize the Ancients event with strategies of which troops to send based on level. It’s the best for acquiring clan chests. I believe each player that participates can open up to 15 chests for the clan.

[@stabby_monday]

You have maybe 8% decent info here and 92% utter crap. Please dont provide advice when you dont actually have a handle on true game mechanics yourself. You create countless amounts of frustrations for other players who either have to help correct the misinformation you provide, or for those wondering why they just aren't growing. And for the love of god... YOU CAN NOT CLAN MARCH ARACHNID.. that button is on every attack screen, that doesn't mean you can do it. DO BETTER

[@JackHammerJoe]

Thanks stabby. Appreciate you taking the time to vent your frustration here. We’ve helped countless players grow in this community and created a very positive environment. We already covered the clan march part if you would have stepped off your high horse and read the comments before posting 😂😂😂. Again, glad you stopped by and commented to help the channel keep growing.

[@stabby_monday]

@JackHammerJoe so as a content owner you were made aware of your mistake and instead of cutting a seriously inaccurate piece of info from your video you chose to leave it to the reply of comments. Bravo. It's not a high horse.. its a tired one. I stand by my statement. Do better

[@JackHammerJoe]

Yep no re-edit required. It’s a simple hey this doesn’t work. I’ve free played this entire game and grown to 16m might in 7 months. Players have skyrocketed since the start of my channel after failing to grow at all. Not all of us want to pay to play and preach our superiority. The community here is obviously not for you and that’s fine. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and helping this channel.