Troops – Obtain, train and upgrade soldiers in barracks and drill grounds

Troops (soldiers) are fundamental to the game in several aspects

• Every time you make an attack or rally with a team, a number of soldiers join it, based on the level of these soldiers the attack power increases
• Soldiers are needed to ensure that you can defend your base if attacked by opponents.

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Troops levels

The soldiers have different levels, from 1 to 10 (also called T1… T10), each of which has different characteristics, the higher the level the greater the power. [I will shortly extend the guide with further details for each of those values.]

Characteristics of the soldiers

Characteristic	Meaning
Power	It is the power that each individual soldier of this level contributes to the team when attacking or defending
Troop Load	Indicates the amount of resources that a soldier of this level manages to “steal” when attacking a base.

Obtain soldiers

Soldiers can be obtained in the following ways:

• Operation Falcon – Special Ops
• Soldiers training in the barracks

Operation Falcon special operations

By completing Special Operations in Operation Falcon you can obtain many soldiers without spending resources.

IMPORTANT: Special Ops give you soldiers based on the maximum level you can currently train with the barracks, so before doing Special Ops make sure you have leveled up at least one barrack to the maximum level. See next paragraphs for barrack->troop level schema.

Soldiers training in the barracks

Training soldiers through barracks consumes resources and takes time proportionally to how many soldiers are trained and what level they are.

Each barracks, depending on its level, can train soldiers of different levels. Read further on how to manage the upgrading of soldiers and consequently how to update barracks levels.

Barracks level requirements

Below is the list of soldier levels and which barracks level allows you to train such soldiers

Soldier level	Barracks level
1	1 or higher
2	4 or higher
3	6 or higher
4	10 or higher
5	14 or higher
6	17 or higher
7	20 or higher
8	24 or higher
9	27 or higher
10	30 or higher + search for X units

Additional barracks

You can obtain an additional barracks by completing the relevant research in the technology center in the Development section :

Drill Grounds

Once the soldiers have been trained they will go to drill grounds (the further you play the more drill grounds you will have). From here you can see how many soldiers you have and what level.

Upgrading soldiers

Soldiers participate in attacks and provide power so it is important to always upgrade them to the highest level, but there is a trick on how to do that and at the same time earn many more points for Arms Race and Duel VS. The total amount of time and resources spent is the same.

Some ground rules regarding soldiers training and upgrading are:

• A barrack can train soldiers only up to a specific level that depends on the barrack level, see paragraphs above for the levels
• A barrack can upgrade a soldier level but the upgrade can only be from any lower level to directly the maximum level the barrack can train. So for example if you have a barrack level 24 (that allows you to train up to level T8 soldier ) and you have a soldier level 3, that barrack can only do an upgrade level T3->T8.
• The time and resources needed to train a soldier directly to a level or passing through multiple levels is the same (+- some seconds).
• Points for Arms Race: Unit Progression and Duel VS: Day 5: Total Mobilization are earned each time a soldier reaches a level, being it from a direct training of because it was upgraded to that level
• You can have up to 4 barracks, just adapt this approach to the number of barracks you have

To score more points for Arms Race: Unit Progression and Duel VS: Day 5: Total Mobilization the training of soldiers should be stepped and the maximization of those points can be reached only if your barracks follow a certain rule of how you level them up.

Given the Barracks level requirements expressed in the previous paragraphs, you will want to arrange the barracks so that the highest level one unlocks a higher soldier level than the next barracks in descending level order. So DON’T upgrade blindly your barracks to highest level.

Example:

First Barracks: Level 27+ so to unlock soldier Level 9
Second Barracks: Level 24+(but lower than 27) so to unlock soldier Level 8
Third Barracks: Level 20+(but lower than 24) so to unlock soldier Level 7
Fourth Barracks: Level 17+(but lower than 20) so to unlock soldier Level 6

Now follow these steps to obtains a T9 soldier:

1. use any of the barracks to train T5 soldiers
2. use the fourth barrack to upgrade the soldiers : T5->T6
3. use the third barrack to upgrade the soldiers : T6->T7
4. use the second barrack to upgrade the soldiers : T7->T8
5. use the first barrack to upgrade the soldiers : T8->T9

Now lets compare the points using a direct training of T9 and one stepped, and for this I will use the following points schema for Duel VS Total Mobilization, but the same logic applies to Arms Race Unit progression.

As you can see using the stepped approach you earn x4 times the amount of points in this case for each single soldier.

Below a video that shows you how to do a soldier upgrade.