SPECIALIZATION
Engineering Specialization – Guide
The Engineering Specialization focuses on massive wall defense and high-damage catapult attacks.
With the right boosts, research, and gear, this becomes one of the strongest and most reliable builds in Total Battle.
Below are the 10 essential steps to fully optimize your Engineering setup. Applying all of these will give you the maximum strength possible for this specialization.
Top 10 Requirements for the Strongest Engineering BuildTop 10 Requirements for the Strongest Engineering Build
1. Strategic City Placement: Place your city on a Marshland, Volcano, or Mountain tile for the best Engineering bonuses.
2. Hero – Matemhain: Use Matemhain as your primary Engineering Hero for the best performance.
3. Captain – Brann: Assign Captain Brann, who provides strong synergy with Engineering troops and catapults.
4. Academy Research – Army Modernization (Boost): Upgrade the Army Modernization boost to increase overall troop efficiency.
5. Academy Unlock – Engineering Corps I: Unlock Engineering Corps I to activate core Engineering units and combat bonuses.
6. Hero Talent Points – Battle Tactics Tree: Invest talent points into the Battle Tactics tree to increase offensive capabilities.
7. Hero Talent Points – Economy Tree: Add points to the Economy tree for material generation and improved crafting potential.
8. Forge – Skillful Engineer Equipment: Craft the full Skillful Engineer gear set to enhance catapult strength and wall defenses.
9. Forge Workshop – Enchantments: Apply the correct Workshop Enchantments to amplify Engineering performance even further.
10. Forge Workshop – Gems: Add Gems to your gear/equipment to maximize boosts and complete the perfect Engineering build.
Engineering Build – Detailed Guide
1. Place your City on a Marshland, Volcano or Mountain tile
Placing your City on a marshland, Volcano or Mountain tile will give you a + bonus to health and strength of fortifications. These tiles have different bonuses. Make sure you choose the maximum +90% bonus tile, if possible.
2. Get Matemhain Hero
Matemhein is thé hero to get when your focus is on the engineering specialization build. He gives a +200% bonus to Engineers’ strength and health. Also he will reduce the delay for rebuilding walls to 30 seconds.
3. Get captain Brann
Brann is thé captain to get, as he gives a + bonus to Engineering corps’ health and strength. The higher his level, the higher his bonus. Leveling Brann to 80, for example, will provide a bonus of 80%. See under 5. how to get Brann.
4. Research Academy-Boost Army Modernization
Researching Army Modernization gives you the following boosts:
- Strength of fortification I, II, III, IV, V
- Health of fortification I, II, III, IV, V
- Siege engines’ strength I, II, III, IV, V
- Siege engines’ health I, II, III, IV, V
5. Research Academy-Unlock Engineering corps I
Researching Engineering corps I gives you the following boosts:
- City Walls I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
- Catapults I, II, III, IV, V and Ballistae VI, VII
- Captain Brann
- Siege engines’ training costs I, II, III, IV, V
- Siege engines’ march speed I, II, III, IV, V (not essential)
- Siege engines’ carrying capacity I, II, III, IV, V (not essential)
6. Put Hero talent points into Battle Tactics tree
This will give you the possibility to boost:
- Tile bonus I (20/20: need 26 points)
- Tile bonus II (20/20: need 51 points and hero lv 65)
- Tile bonus III (20/20: need 76 points)
8. Forge – Equipment crafting Skillful Engineer
Forging this equipment gives following boosts:
- Depending on the quality of the equipment it will boost
- Engineer Corps’ health and strength for
- + 1,5% (quality: poor)
- + 3,0% (common)
- + 5,0% (uncommon)
- + 8,0% (rare)
- + 12,0% (epic)
- + 17,0 % (legendary)
- + 23,0% (ascendant)
- + 30,0% (godlike)
- The chance for engineer corps to deal double damage will increase proportionally with
- +0,1%
- +0,2%
- +0,3%
- +0,4%
- +0,5%
- +0,8%
- +1,2%
- +2,0%
- You can further enhance boosts by wearing 6 pieces on hero and/or 3 pieces on 1 or more captains.
Notice that the bonuses will sum up !
9. Forge – Workshop Enchantments
Use these enchantments (see pictures) to get the desired boosts:
- Increase health of fortifications (A)
- Increase strength of fortifications (B)
- Increase health of engineer corps (C)
- Increase strength of engineer corps (D)
The above enchantments have different qualities and boosts:
10. Forge – Workshop Gems
Use these gems (see pictures) to get the desired build boosts:
- Zephyrite (A) : increases the strength of fortifications
- Argulite (B) : increases the health of fortifications
- Jade (C) : increases the strength of siege engines
- Alexandrite (D) : increases the health of siege engines
The above named gems have different qualities and boosts:
Engineering Build Outcomes of upgrades
The outcome of the previous named boosts and upgrades will be a (huge) gain in health and strength of your engineering corps, siege engines and city walls. The more upgrades you did, the higher the effect will be. You can see the effect of the boosts on your engineering corps and sieges in your battle reports. Here we show an example of an attack on monsters with catapults led by captain Brann.
Under capital statistics you can see the effect on your City walls. Here we present some examples for City’s Walls IV and V.
