Likely the most difficult play style to achieve, a balanced player strives to use troops and goods equally.

Balanced (with a subtle preference to goods or fighting).

Troops and attack are important to you, but you’re not adverse to using goods here and there to help yourself along. If your guild does GvG, you’re likely to help by planting DAs because you’re not as keen to fight on the maps (or you’re mobile based and it’s too difficult to fight with your device). Occasionally, you might ransack your neighborhood, but it’s not as common for you. You like to fight as much of GE as possible, if not all of it and you might even fight a lot of the continent map.

This play style is one that enjoys fighting, but maybe not as much as the previous style.

You rarely use them elsewhere, except to maybe trade with guild mates to help them out. In essence, the only thing you need goods for is the tech tree and certain quests. You might even be your neighborhood’s worst nightmare. You probably fight most, if not all of GE if your guild participates in GvG you like to tear up the maps fighting and it would be unthinkable of you to negotiate the continent map.

This play style will focus mainly on brute strength to get by wherever possible.

Someday, you might even have enough of a goods empire amassed to be a seller of goods.

You probably negotiate most, if not all of GE you farm goods for the treasury to help with GvG if you’re in that style of guild and you might negotiate to gain sectors on the continent map.

This play style will focus mainly on using goods to get by wherever possible.

Goods-Based GE/GvG Goods Farmer/Negotiator.

This usually falls under one of a few of categories (or a combo of sorts): Determine Your Play Styleīefore anything else, figure out what your play style is. You’re welcome to read the entire article and really learn about all the GBs in the game, or you can skip around to the ones that interest you and/or match the play style you’ve decided is what you most closely align with. The original one is still good for the absolute basics of planning, but this one will be what really gets into the nitty-gritty. This really wasn’t a comprehensive list of all the GBs in the game though, nor did it truly discuss which play style(s) they work best for. At the inception of this site we released an article on what GBs were right for you.

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