Empires & Allies: Tips, Tricks, and Strategies

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Finished reading our review and decided you like the look of Empires & Allies? We thought we’d help you out by throwing a few handy tips and tricks your way, to ensure you don’t feel so much of a newbie any more.

Starting Out

• Resources are everything- In Empires & Allies, you’re mostly focusing on fuel and supplies. Fuel is supplied by oil derricks, while supplies come from supply drops.

• At this stage, supplies are slightly more important - Supplies enabling you to build and upgrade structures, so focus on that a little bit for now.

• In both cases, always favor storage over production- You can easily chip away at a mission to earn more resources, but you’re always limited to how much you can stash away.

• It’s expensive, but save gold to put towards a second engineer- That way, you can build and upgrade things twice as efficiently.

• Focus on achievements - Gold is earned from a few different ways, but achievements are a particularly good way of going about it. Focus on completing as many of those as possible. Some of them really won’t take long to do.

• Join an alliance as soon as you can- You have to build an alliance building to do this, but it doesn’t cost too much. Being part of an alliance means you can share resources and speed up each other’s building work. Plus, it can be fun to work together.

• Create a confusing base - Treat base building like a form of puzzle for your opponent. Make it convoluted and tricky to negotiate.

• Set up defenses to weaken attacking forces - Place plenty of towers and land mines amongst this puzzle, to weaken your enemies before they get to anything important.

• Place walls extensively in order to slow your enemy down - Wall off towers for maximum efficiency and watch as your guns mow down enemies stuck amongst the defenses.
  
  

Attacking

• When planning an attack, scout ahead - Plan accordingly, both in terms of what troops to use and in terms of where to strike first. Aim to take out enemy turrets before anything else.

• Learn what troops work best in what scenario - For instance, rangers are particularly effective against spider drones, while the Striker VI armored vehicles work well against aircraft.

• Timing is everything - It’s not always wise to drop all your troops at once. Eking them out and unleashing the strongest first, before releasing the weaker units is often a better idea.

• Deploy your troops carefully- Once your HQ is Level 4, you can place troops one a time rather than en masse. It’s important to learn when this is the most effective method of deployment.

• Use your command points well - If you place gunship attacks or missile strikes between multiple structures, you can sometimes take out enough buildings to immediately use another strong attack like it.

• Flares are essential - Use flares to redirect your troops, especially when they’re coming under fire from turrets.

• Keep an eye out for barrel caches - Attacking barrel caches can create a chain reaction of explosions, sometimes taking out a huge amount of an enemy base without requiring much firepower. Take advantage of this!

Empires & Allies

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad Released: 2015-05-05 :: Category: Game

FREE!