Scraping the barrel for just blue troops

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#1

I couldn’t find any other posts like this so maybe it’s just me but…

Since I was first able to start working with troops I have been short on only one color, blue. I have more of every other color, ranging from one to four stars, than I am able to use.

This shortage has been from the beginning so I haven’t used more of the blue. By the time I pulled my second four star blue troop, I had at least three four star troops of every other color. For one more reference, I have zero blue and at least 150 one star troops of every other color.

Is this a normal occurrence?

Thank you in advance.

#2

Every player I’ve talked with is short in one color or another when it comes to troops. For me, that’s red – 2 years and 6 months later, I only have 4 red 4* troops. I have at least 6 in every other color.

I’m not sure how long you have been playing, but the Hero Academy level 9 allows you to retrain any 4* troop into another type (most likely another color, but it’s possible you could retrain into same color different type). It takes a long time to get to this building though, since the costs and time to upgrade your base get rather high.

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I would greatly recommend saving all your Epic Troop Tokens for the Ninja Tower. This event comes every two months, and adds Ninja 4* troops to the portal. You can’t get these troops anywhere else, not even from the Hero Academy. The odds of getting 4* troop are slightly higher.

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#3

My shortage is weirder!

I have 6 or 7 green 4 star troops. I have a huge shortage of green 1 and 2 star troops.

No purple mana troop (and just got my first yellow mana a couple weeks ago), but no shortage of trainers there!

Fortunately my HA9 will be done in a week and a half. Unfortunately I didn’t calculate out the food resources needed as carefully, so my storage is insufficient — need to get my second one more level and 3rd 5 more.

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#4

Unfortunately, it’s definitely a normal occurrence…
I’m one of those players too, I’ve been playing for almost 2 years (since January 2019) and up until now I’ve only got 2x 4* blue troops, one mana and one crit. In all the other colors I already have at least 8x 4* troops each.
I’m even running HA9 hoping to get them from there, so far no luck.

Yes, it’s definitely possible . My first retrain was CRIT Purple into Mana Purple. :rofl:

But when it comes to feeders(1*- 2*) , I’m short on purple ones… I have a hard time getting them . :woman_shrugging:

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#5

You are the one in a billion. Congrats!

I had a similar thing happen, my first 7 mana troops were all purple, none of any other color. I forget the probability, but it was something like 1 in a billion.

I recommend using Hero Academy level 4 and 6 to level that RNG with feeders out a bit. HA 9 helps with 4*. Over time, it does level out but that will help a lot.

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#6

For feeders, I believe blue is my slowest. Red however is even more cursed, in that I’ve played a little under 2 years and have no red 4* troop yet. My red feeders are just sat collecting dust! :sob:

This is despite pulling a total of 23 4* troops. I have at least 4 in every over color, 9 of which are purple. 9!! And HA 9 isn’t helping in the slightest. Not only is it not helping me, I suspect the damned thing may well be mocking me. As shown by the first 4 results I got after it went into production:

Purple crit troop --> Green crit troop (First attempt, fair enough)
Green crit troop --> Purple mana troop (Ok now, enough of that)
Purple mana troop --> Green crit troop (seriouslly?!)
Green crit troop —> Purple Crit troop (…)

This legit happened. If green pops in 5 days time that HA is getting converted into a hunting lodge. :man_facepalming:

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#7

It sounds to me like you are doing pretty well. For my part Recruits II and the epic hero tokens have given me all of mine.

#8

Awesome, thanks so for the insight folks. I’m only on stronghold level 22 right now. Armed with the info about HA though, I can adjust my priorities.

Holding out for the Ninja tower on the epic troop pulls is brilliant. One of those “why didn’t I think of that” scenarios.

I find it fascinating how so many people can have different strategies on the same game. I think little differences like these may be one of the catalysts. Then I have to wonder, did they do that on purpose? LOL

Thanks again guys.

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