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Take a look at some of Boom Beach's offensive strategies. Everyone has their own troops and gunboat weapons to attack the enemy to plunder the land and resources, of course, you also need to look at the defense strategy to protect your territory.

Offensive Strategies





Meat ShieldUse Troops with high hitpoints as a living shield or meat shield for troops with low hitpoints. Troops like the Heavy or Scorcher can take a lot of hits and can therefore be used as a shield for other more vulnerable troops like the Zooka or Rifleman.Start your attack by deploying some Heavies. The enemy defense attacks the first target within reach (in this case the Heavies) and the other troops behind the Heavies can target the enemy defense from a safe distance.This strategy is especially useful with defensive structures that can easily terminate Troops with low hitpoints, like the Rocket Launcher and Machine Gun.SnipingAttack with Heavies and Riflemen and use Flares to direct them around the reach of enemy structures towards the Headquarters. This technique is usefull with base layouts with the Headquarters in the far back with little or no defense behind it. Be carefull with defense with a long range like the Boom Cannon, Mortar and Rocket Launcher.Rush or RushingAttack the beach with a large number of Troops, mostly Riflemen. Because of the enormous amount of targets the single-shot defenses like the Cannon, Boom Cannon and Sniper Tower have no chance of terminating all Troops.This strategy is especially effective with a lot of single-shot defenses. Be careful with defense that does splash damage like the Mortar, Flamethrower or Rocket Launcher. Large numbers of Troops can easily be terminated by these defensive buildings.Smokey Zooka

Use the impressive firepower of the Zooka! Load all your Landing Craft with Zookas and boost your Gunboat Statues so you have plenty of Gunboat Energy. Then start your attack by deploying all the Zookas at once and flare them towards the Headquarters. Cover there path with Smoke Screens just like the technique below with the Warriors. Once the smoke is gone the Zookas will start firing at the Headquarters and deal serious damage! Be very carefull with splash-damage defenses like the Rocket Launcher, Mortar and Machine Gun. Best is to Shock Bomb them while your Zookas are in range.





Defensive Strategies



Defend Your Headquarters

To win the battle, the attacker has to destroy your Headquarters. When the Headquarters is destroyed, everything else blows up and the attacker is rewarded with Resources stolen from you!! Therefore, you need to defend your Headquarters at all costs. A large portion of your Defensive Buildings should overlap this important building.



Protect your non Defensive Buildings

The Sawmill, Gold storage, etc. All of these buildings are worthless to you when it comes to defending your base. But this doesn’t mean you can just ignore these building and place them anywhere you want. For every building the attacker destroys, they get 3 Energy for their Gunboat. This makes them important to the attacker, and therefore they are important to you! To avoid this, place these buildings within range of your defenses, and in spots where the attacker won’t easily destroy them.



Space between buildings

If the corners of two, three or four buildings are touching each other, one Artillery Shell can damage all of them at once by shooting at the spot where the buildings touch each other.

Look at the picture below, if your defenses are placed like on the left, the attacker can shoot an Artillery shell right in the middle. If the buildings are placed like on the right, then this is no longer possible.







Also think of spreading out your Defensive Buildings. Even with some space between them, dont pack them all together. At Headquarters level 7, Shock Bombs are unlocked. These are fired from the Gunboat, and they disable defenses within a 3.5 unit radius. If you place your Defensive Buildings close together, a large group of them can be disabled at once. So by spreading your defensive buildings you can avoid this.





My own base layout





Pros: Immediately attacks the Troops from the first the moment they step off of the Landing Crafts. The attacker has very little time to react.

Cons: The Headquarters is placed very close to the sand, making it an easy attack for Warriors and Smoke Screens.









Optimize your Layout

Watch the replays

The replays will show the weaknesses of your Layout. Try and learn from it.



View other bases

While scouting, always keep an eye out to see what kind of layouts other people at your level are using? You can compare your own base with them, or maybe you will spot an perfect Layout for yourself.



Attack your own Base

Of course this is not really possible, but try and imagine that you’re attacking yourself. How would you attack your own base? Make adjustments to your Layout out based on those thoughts.