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Catastrat B.O [Best Eco]

By Cataclaw

This guide will tell you the most efficient way of boosting your economy.

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Maps or Levels, Multiplayer, Secrets, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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1 May, 2016 @ 6:15am

1 May, 2016 @ 6:24am

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Build Order

1. Build Refinery closest to your main oil field
2. When it is finished, sell it ASAP and build a new Refinery on the same spot.
3. Barracks as close to your natural expansion as possible
4. Motor Pool as close to your natural expansion as possible (When finished build a Harvester)
5. 2nd Refinery @Natural Expansion (While the harvester being built)
6. Power
7. Tech Lab
8. Spam Motor Pools for sweet tank spam

Best saturation for one oil field is 2 harvesters and 1 refinery as close to the oil field as possible.
This is the best economical start you can have. See GameReplays 8-Bit Armies economical analysis.

Thanks to Netput for telling me about the refinery trick.

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Revenio 16 May, 2016 @ 11:59am

If the refinery is close enough, you'll only ever need 2 harvesters per refinery. The time it takes to fill one harvester up is roughly the same as it takes to empty a harvester. So, if the travel distance is minimal, then you'll nearly have a constant stream of cash from that refinery from only 2 harvesters. Anything more is usually a waste.

If there's more distance though, more harvesters might be viable, although, you'd end up with a difficult to protect cargo train of harvesters that isn't ideal at all.

EliteJuan 7 May, 2016 @ 7:31pm

3 harvesters per refinery is plenty or they get backed up and blocked

Daedalus 1 May, 2016 @ 3:56pm

I like to spam 5 harvesters to overwhelm other player's harvesters, and also because it quickens the process of getting the oil to the refinery.

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