Talk:Gameplay Strategies - How to become a top ranked player and win Redmin!!/@comment-128.199.75.236-20170226074040

You can actually use high end troops for farming providing you use them sensibly and not let them die (because if they survive the raid, they will return to your starport)

I've been using an all-Imperator army for farming in the levels 30 to 40's. I hardly lose a single imperator and lets me farm over and over with zero downtime. I often farmed 2 million resources each in just half an hour!

Level 40's and higher, I've been using a mix of Imperators and Dragonflies which is better against tougher bases and does quicker work of the enemy base, usually farmed 3 million resources each in half an hour.

I've tried an all-SS8 army but it's not as good as the all-Imperator or Imperator+Dragonfly army. You need C4 roaches so the SS8's don't march around the walls and get killed. Waiting for C4 roaches before an attack gives you downtime. An all-SS8 army is only quite effective against bases with either no walls or poorly designed wall layouts.

An Imperator+Dragonfly army can be used to attack even if some units are still incomplete (as long as you have three Imperators and at least fifteen Dragonflies). Dragonflies only take 45s to build so by the time the previous battle is over, they are completed. Again, very little or zero downtime even against tough bases.