Following the quests is probably the most basic thing you should do in Deadwalk – they’ll point you to the right direction if you don’t know where to start. By doing this, you will also be ensuring yourself of more gold, more experience, a solid army, as well as a good home base. You’ll also end up learning the game more, as you’ll be talked through both basic and advanced steps.
If your production buildings aren’t producing like they should, you should attack resource tiles, which you’ll find scattered on the map. Send a bunch of troops so that you can gather more resources – fortunately, you won’t have to manually go to that point in the map with the resource tile, though you may have to wait a bit.
The so-called “fog of war” element is present in Deadwalk, which means you really have to do a lot of exploring in order to know your surroundings. That would also mean visiting all areas that have a red exclamation point. On the positive side, this could be a sign you’ve got some loot, but on the negative side, this could also designate an enemy. Basically, this is a hit-or-miss situation where you could either find treasure or zombies, but if you consider that killing more zombies will give you more experience points, we’d suggest that you explore all those exclamation points despite the risk involved.
Regrouping can be done anytime during a mission. Simply tap on the Go Back button, and you’ll return to the base camp. This would allow you to train new soldiers while healing the ones you currently have. Be sure you’ve got all bases covered, no pun intended, before you return to battle. You’ll return to the exact same place where you had left off previously, so if you feel that you have to regroup and get your team together, there’s nothing wrong with doing that, as long as it’s necessary.
Your secret bonus is hidden in the silver box with a red star on it, and you can find this box on the left side of the main menu. Tap on that box and you can get new resources at random. As for this box’s cooldown period, it will all depend on the type of reward you received, and how big the reward is. Bigger rewards, of course, would mean a longer cooldown.