In one of my recent games, I ended up with what I thought were bad rolls for specialists. I ended up grabbing a relatively early Engineer because I would have lost a key battle. A few days later, I ended up doing the same thing, resulting in me having two Engineers.

I combined two thirds of my drillers with both Engineers and a Helmsman. This allows me to chase down subs at 2x speeds while avoiding all combat loses so long as I win the battle.

For example, here's me taking over a mine, chasing down an escaping sub of 144 drillers, capturing a factory with a power of 30 and returning to the mine while only losing 10 drillers due to my opponent's General effect.



I'm now in a nearly unstoppable position to take over his two nearby mines in the next day or so.

Crazy! Double Engineer was strong already, it didn't need a speed bonus, haha.

Even stronger would be 2x Engi + General

I don't actually think the General is better in this case. He's only 1.5x speed boost, and the 10 drillers you get killed off for free doesn't count for much when you just get all your drillers back anyway.

Besides, you can still have the General sitting somewhere else giving the 10 driller bonus.

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I just can't imagine how bad your opponent felt when he saw your crazy combo !

I played against ron in one game who used a similar combo. As I was without an assassin or double agent, my only hope was to go directly after his Queen.

I currently have a Double Engineer, Helmsman

then I have a third engineer with my queen so my armada attacks and wins it gets 125% back. So attacking MAKES me drillers lol its amazing

bimmer28 wrote:I currently have a Double Engineer, Helmsman

then I have a third engineer with my queen so my armada attacks and wins it gets 125% back. So attacking MAKES me drillers lol its amazing

You've been lucky man ! The probability to get 3 foreman in a single game is really small ...

But remember ... A single assassin can make the difference here, and these engineer promotions cost an arm

the game lasted almost 10 days so went through a lot of cards