Boom Beach: Much Tougher Dr T Tropical Island

The HQ24 defenses are now making their way onto Dr T and it’s brutal. On my secondary account, the level 6 Dr T base shredded my Grank-Med combo, which probably was due to me lacking the Armory 23 upgrades and another GBE statue.

My primary account handled the level 6 Dr T fine with no casualties. Pretty much the trick was to shock and go left after destroying the Boom Cannons and temporarily ignoring the Shock Launcher since it was positioned in the right corner. After that use smoke and move my guys into a corner while slowly pecking away at the other defenses.

Of course, my primary account does have the Armory 23 upgrades and is close to level 24, which should be finished sometime later today. I’m not sure of the cost of the next level of Barrage (it hasn’t been updated on the Boom Beach wiki) but I might try to use my boat resources if I’m under (I should be close).

Needless to say, the first attack with my secondary account was pretty frustrating. I think if my main account couldn’t handle it then I would almost say that the new defenses are overtuned on Dr T. But this just convinces me even further to push for HQ24 and go after that 11th statue for another +17% GBE. Also, I’m considering getting rid of my two defense statues in favor of more GBE. After all +51% extra GBE unboosted is no laughing matter.

The only thing about keeping the Ice statues is that for Hammerman day, I find that I am able to commonly handle the last assault, which is worth it since it provides a juicy number of prototype parts. Also, my main account hasn’t had too many problems defeating opponents with my current amount of GBE and setup.

I feel that the extra GBE won’t give me too much of an advantage in situations where I would run into problems honestly. In those situations, I think it’s just better to switch troop types and try a different strategy. But again, I haven’t run into those situations just yet.

Now, what may convince me to change my statue layout is if my map becomes overrun with high level PVP bases. My secondary account has been seeing mostly 65+ bases, which at this point in time, is difficult without going to a smokey Hooka or Warrior strategy.

Either way, until that moment occurs, I’m planning to stick with my current setup. Perhaps, in the future, I might try something else such as Tank-Bombardier-Medics. For now, I just don’t think it’s worth the change.

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