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Boom Beach: Should You Build A Weapons Lab Early On?
Weapons Labs are one of the most expensive buildings in the game. The lower level one was reduced in price during the patch that introduced both the Grappler and Hot Pot prototype defenses. But with the high cost that rivals equally critical buildings when introduced, is it worth spending the resources?
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Boom Beach: Are Statue Storage Useful for Lower Level Bases?
Statue Storage buildings weren’t initially available when I started playing Boom Beach. About midway through, they made an appearance and at first they seemed like a luxury item due to the high cost. I mean why build one of these when you can work on a Machine Gun, right?
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Boom Beach: The Mistake of Not Using Resources to Level Immediately
Over the past few days, I managed to accumulate a fair amount of gold, which I had planned to use for upgrading my Medics to level 8. Currently, my Grenadiers are being worked on, which requires roughly 4 more days of waiting. I figured that I wouldn’t get attacked too much and not lose too…
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Boom Beach: Finally Defeated Hammerman 40 and Gearheart 45
It took me a while on my high level account to get to Hammerman 40 and Gearheart 45. Part of my procrastination was to get more of my troops and gunboat offenses up. Another aspect was to avoid getting the 5 VP and push myself too much. However, since this is an all troop at…
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Boom Beach: The Brutality of Leveling Underleveled Landing Craft
Landing Craft are some of the most important and expensive support type of buildings to upgrade, especially once you hit the upper mid game (~HQ16+). Right now, I’m getting my last landing craft (of my seven) to 15. From here on out, it becomes a lengthy grind towards 19.
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Boom Beach: Are Ice Statues Useful?
I find it oddly common where many bases contain Ice Statues. The most popular proposed play strategy in Boom Beach is to go purely offensive and worry about defense only once you’ve finished hitting HQ 22. If that’s the case, why are there so many Ice Statues, especially MP defense ones? Are they really that…
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Boom Beach: Why Keeping Your Armory Upgraded Is Critical
Your Armory is one of your most important buildings to maintain as you gain levels. Around the midgame maintaining your Armory starts to take its toll in competing for valuable resources with your base, Gunboat, Statue, Vault, Radar and other critical defenses like Rocket Launchers and Boom Cannons. Because of the high cost in resources…
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Boom Beach: The Advantages/Disadvantages of Tanks-Grenadiers-Medics Combination
I have two accounts where I’m using the Tanks-Grenadiers-Medics combination. My second account originally was intended to switch towards a Warriors type but I’ve had little to no success with Warriors whereas my Granks/Medics have been my favorite staple so far. What makes this troop combination so good and where are the issues?
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Boom Beach: How Well I Did During the October Event
This is my third time doing event I believe. The first few times, I really had zero clue about how it worked and just viewed it as a special loot pinata. This time around I’ve been following a few streamers and getting a better idea of how to approach the event. That said, I still…
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Boom Beach: PSC Statue or Not?
PSC (Power Stone Chance) statues are an interesting type that I’ve read as being labeled for “advanced strategies.” Are they worth employing in your grouping? Or should you just try them whenever you receive one? Also, when should you boost them? I’ll attempt to answer these questions from my own experience.