Winning strategy
Winning points structure
Following the variable points structure outlined below, it’s essential to employ a strategic approach to secure victory match by match, rather than risking the outcome solely on the final day, where the strongest adversary may likely dominate.
Winning strategy
Securing victory in the Alliance Duel VS necessitates meticulous planning of moves and timely execution of activities. Certain days even allow for advance preparation, as elaborated in the subsequent sections.
Activity timing
Here is a schedule detailing the optimal timing for various actions to maximize points in both the duel and the arms race.
| Area | Action | Day | Arms Race Phase |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buildings | Upgrade  | 2, 5 | City Building |
| Buildings | Use Speedups (construct speedup or generic speedup, any length)   | 2, 5, 6 | City Building |
| Truck | Dispatch Legendary Truck (Golden)  | 2, 6 | |
| Secret mobile squad | Start Legendary Secret Mission (Golden)  | 2, 6 | |
| Food/Iron/Gold | Gathering    | 1 | |
| Soldiers | Training, upgrading | 5 | Unit Progression |
| Soldiers | Use Speedups (training speedup or generic speedup, any length)  | 6 | Unit Progression |
| Hospital | Use Speedups (healing speedup or generic speedup, any length)  | 6 | |
| Technology Center | Complete searches | 3, 5 | Technological Research |
| Technology Center | Use Speedups (science speedup or generic speedup, any length)  | 3, 5, 6 | Technological Research |
| Valor Badge | Consume valor badges by launching researches of section “Alliance Duel”, “Intercity Truck” or “Special Forces”  | 3 | Technological Research |
| Drone | Use Drone Combat Data points  Use of drone parts  | 1 | Boost Drone |
| Drone | Open Drone Data chip chests in inventory (starting from day 85, not to be confused with Drone Component)     | 1 | |
| Drone | Open Drone Component chest in inventory (not to be confused with Drone Chip chests) (any chest level)     | 3 | |
| Heroes | EXP boost  | 1, 4 | Hero advancement |
| Heroes | Use shards to increase hero class    Use skill medals to increase hero skill  | 4 | |
| Heroes | This is available starting from Season 1 – The Crimson Plague: You can both use universal exclusive weapon shards or Hero specific Exclusive Weapon shard to obtain these points (e.g. Kimberly’s Exclusive weapon Rocket Shadow).   | 4 | |
| Tavern | Use the Legendary Recruitment Tickets in the heroes section to recruit heroes (not to be confused with recruit survivor).  | 4 | Hero advancement |
| Tavern | Recruit Survivors (to not be confused with recruit hero)  | 2 | |
| Radar | Perform mission that consume stamina  | 1, 3, 5 | Boost Drone |
| Attacks/Rally | Stamina consumption | 1 | Boost Drone |
Strategic Preparation
Certain activities grant points upon completion, enabling you to initiate them the day before they are required and finish them during their respective phase to maximize points:
- For the days in which radar missions are rewarded, stack the missions to the maximum the day before.
- For the days in which gathering food/iron/gold reward points, start the gathering the day before making sure it will end in the new day (before starting the gathering it indicates how much it will take).
- During the days when upgrading buildings rewards points based on their power increase, it’s beneficial to upgrade numerous buildings beforehand in previous days and leave them in a state of gift wrapping. This is because building power is only boosted upon opening the gift package and also Duel VS points are given at that moment.
- For days in which research rewards point, start a long research the day(s) before so that the research ends in those days. The points are rewarded when clicking on the completed research icon.
Don’t open Drone Data Chip and Components chest when they are in inventory, as in day 1 and 3 those activities make you gain points.
Enemy Buster Preparation
The last day of the duel rewards points for killing troops of your opponents, so it is important to prepare for this day.
Offense Preparation
- During the week try to upgrade barracks to the highest level possible to unlock training of higher level troops.
- Train as many troops as you can, as you will need them during the war. The best would be to use your training speed ups during Day 5: Total Mobilization to maximize points.
- Buy training speed ups and healing speed ups.
Defense Preparation
- Buy shields (or spare resources to buy them) to use for the 24 hours of the last day. (Else you will need 1500 diamonds for 8-hour shield!!!)
- Remove troops from your defense lineup, so that even if you get hit you will lose a small amount of troops compared to how much you lose if you have defense up and get defeated: go in your base, click on the wall, click on
, remove the checks on the squads to remove them from the defense lineup.