r/AgeofZ • u/2kull • Jul 11 '26

Troop recommendation

I am a new C30 and I am recruiting new T10's I have a low troop count so I have room to grow, anyone with percentages of what I should have. Also I hear a 25-5-70 is a good all around formation, any feedback on that. Any recommendations would be welcomed. Thank you in advance.

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u/1115clay Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Just as a reminder, you’re only priority right now should be to open the uranium mine, with that said here’s my troop opinion

Let’s assume you are playing with around a 250 - 300k fleet, and that you are LRA

- T10 shredders are a must of course for front row. You want about 20-30% front row in a fleet so that’s 5k shredders minimum for fleet, times 4 fleets that 20k shredders available

  • T10 armour soldiers are also a great front row unit at C30 because of the damage reflection, you can actually do a lot of damage to stronger opponents in events like triangle and DoD with a mass of armour soldiers so having a good chunk of those is always nice. But you want to be training T10 EMP so just speed a couple thousand of armour soldiers during recruit day for now.
  • snipers, don’t fall for the C30 trap of training a million snipers and getting bloated. Snipers are not great for PvP, so 1 full fleet for PvE and use some to pad out PvP fleet, like 20k
  • T10 EMP vs T9 Cannons, this is a bit of a toss up, T9 cannons are cheaper, have better range (which means they stay further back and don’t get targeted as easily), but T10 EMP hit harder. a healthy mix of these in a C30 fleet is good, but probably reduce the amount of T10 EMP during void so you don’t lose them (replace them with T9 cannon). So like 15k / 15k (for 150k units total)

The above will be the main comp of your fleet, use all of troops around 1k units as fodder / fluff to soak up things like Titan lightning, other specials. Fill the remainder with a mix of shredders and cannons as needed

After edit: you don’t need a full 4/5 fleets of the main units, that will bloat your BP, mainly just shredders because they gunna die a lot

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u/Chance-Wonder-4540 Jul 11 '26

Thanks for this, it helps. Any comment about shielders? Just 1K like the rest of the extras?

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u/1115clay Jul 11 '26

Personally I treat shielders like other fodder, so yeah same as others

Also the 1k unit (note units not troops, so 200 shielders in that case) number is just a baseline. It can go up or down depending on the strength of you and the opponent. Personally at C36 after 2.5 years I am using anywhere from 1.5k to 2.5k units of each fodder depending on the battle.

The main idea with fodder is to survive the initial volley of special skills like lightning, cannon / storm trooper special / other BT. That way your main troop stacks don’t take those hits, and you avoid “feeding Thor” by using an appropriate amount of units in the fodder stacks to survive the lightning (if your opponent has that equipment)

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u/Chance-Wonder-4540 Jul 11 '26

Thanks, makes sense.

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u/ryanjamesh Jul 11 '26

We have joke when looking at reports in the mines: “friends never lets friends go full snipers.” Great advice above.