Empires and Allies is a fairly new game to the “Clash of Clans Genre”. It has been gaining a tramendous amount of popularity due to the increased feature set from your typical clash of clans game. With a new game comes new strategies, priorities, and goals. As the leader of a top 200 alliance and someone who has had great success at the game, I feel that I can share some early game strategies and priorities for new players. This quick guide will take you from HQ level 1-9. HQ level 9 is a great goal because it will be the place where you finally feel like you can both attack and defend effectively.

Attacking & Resources

Your main source of resources is by attacking. Always do quick match whenever possible. It will get you medals and that’s what makes us a good alliance, medals. When Quick Match gets to difficult for you, switch to doing the NPC battles.

Base Priorities

Always be researching Accept that you will lose in defense for a while. It’s ok. Just retalliate and get your medals and resources back. Rush to HQ level 8. This gives you tomahawks and level 4 tarmacs which are both very very important for offense. To accomplish the above you will need to constantly be upgrading your resource storage buildings. You should max out your bunker first at every HQ level so that it protects a higher % of your resources from being raided. Once you are able to, upgrade all tarmacs to level 4 Upgrade HQ to level 9. Once you are level 9 HQ you will stay there a while. It gives you everything you need to be offensive and defensive. Spend up to a week researching and upgrading all of your defenses. Switch 2 (NOT 4) Domes to the laser.

Attacking

Use your command abilities first to hit has many defensive structures as possible. You want to get enough extra command points to do a 2nd A10 and 1 missile. Use Tanks if your opponent has a lvl 8 or lower HQ. Low level bases are weak to tanks and the tanks will walk all over them. Bring 1 or 2 squads of infantry to handle spiders. Once you hit level 8 HQ bring at least 1 set of tomahawks. They rape things.

Protecting Resources

Until you hit level 9 and get your defenses up to a good level you should expect to lose many defenses. Assuming you’re in a good alliance: Before you goto sleep you should use all the resources you can and give the rest away. If you’ll need resources in the morning then put in resource requests as well. Pending gifts are safe resources that can’t be taken from you.

Strike Forces

You should be sure to have your alliance and facebook strike force slots always in use. Your friends/allies get a care package when you put them in your strike force. Whenever possible, put your strike force on your tarmacs and Weapons Command building to give your offense a boost in battle. Whenever you won’t be online for a while you should put your strike force team on defensive buildings to give your defense a boost.