Imitation Game day usually proves to be a good day for upgrades. Today though, only one account received an upgrade as my other one is just finishing up its 4th max level Boom Cannon. During this time though, I did get embarrassed when a solo Pvt Bullit beat my level 72 base because my prototypes expired and that my normal HQ layout got overridden by the Rain Maker layout.
Once again, Imitation Game was fairly easy where I got it in two attacks. With having maxed out Barrage and the Tribal Boosts in effect, the lower level Boom Cannons really didn’t stand much of a chance. Not that I’m complaining but when you are able to BART down the stage 4, you know you’re having a great day.
Depending on how much resources I can score by Sunday, I might attempt for my main account to use the resource boat. I figure that if I’m close enough for an upgrade, I might as well go for it. People who tell others that you should never touch your resource boat only reveal half the story because they probably don’t want you to upgrade anything while they hope that they can either assault you or keep you ignorant. Again, the story when it comes to things like resource boats or even the daily rewards is that if you have it available, use it. Otherwise, it’s a waste. Only refrain from touching a resource boat when you’re some distance away from upgrades or if you’re trying to target a super expensive upgrade like a new HQ level.
On the positive side, both accounts currently have either finished upgrading all the Armory abilities or have just started on them. Meaning my Smoke Screen on my secondary account has just begun. That means, I can start saving gold for my Tribal Boosts again.
On my main account where I’m playing Warships, I managed to max out my Barrage the other night and am making progress towards 5ER. I’ve read people saying not to move into 5ER and just save keys to plow straight into 6ER. With roughly 10 days left of Warships, I’m thinking I might just go into 5ER to pick up Medics. I’m still losing a fair number of troops but my battles have been much better since I can now Barrage mines. I think with Medics, I ought to be able to survive a lot more and have a stable troop load out.
The real question is whether to use Rocket Launchers. At 40 keys it’s an expensive gamble. I did just max out my Cannons and might even start upgrading the last two levels of Boom Cannons while I farm keys. I think at this stage, I probably just invested wrong with Everspark rather than Kavan early on so I might have to just sacrifice Rocket Launchers for a while.
The thing is that I am playing a different meta since my intent is to minimize my troop losses without Instant Training. That makes getting my boxes a lot smoother than say doing the Heavy rush or Heavy-Zooka metas. I don’t plan to go for Rocket Choppas nor Seekers though. So at least with those, I can save on keys. But I might just stay in 4ER to farm up enough keys to unlock up to Medics for 5ER.