My order of preferences for artifacts is something like:

S tier
These should be your top priorities, and you should be willing to sacrifice anything else below to achieve those 3 artifacts in that order:

• Legendary Alloy Values: This is the top priority of everything since it allows you to do market strategy effectively. Don't make it insane yet.
  
• Rare Hospital Boost: Save armies; it is fairly easy to get. Don't upgrade over rare since it only provides marginal benefits.
  
• Insane Army Cache Boost: Who doesn't like lots of free armies?
  

A+ tier
Very useful throughout the whole game.. Always try to keep those around. These are also prime candidates to upgrade to insane after S-tier above is completed.

• Army Camp Boost: Very helpful during the early stages so you can get to the markets faster.
  
• Cache Boost: A worse version of army cache boost.
  

A tier
Useful, but not as good as A+ as these here are more situational.

• Supercharge Army Camp: For battles and has synergy with clan requests and free cache powers.
  
• Time Warp: For battles, skipping hospital upgrades and speed up digs and artifact upgrades.
  
• Mercenary Discount: This saves a decent amount of money on some levels.
  

B tier
A bit less good and even more situational than tier A.

• Resource Cache Boost: More money during early levels and help you get some techs faster.
  
• Tech Discount: Help you get techs faster.
  
• Speedy Crafters: Reduce the wait time for crafting on some levels.
  
• Money Cache Boost: More money but for later levels, and generally worse than RCB.
  

C tier
I would try to keep those when combining fodders, but the benefits are quite marginal.

• Draft Boost
  
• Army Camp Discount
  
• Mine Boost
  
• Bonus Money Boost
  
• Territory Money Boost
  
• Ore Values
  
• Item Values
  
• Speedy Smelters
  
• Hospital Discount
  

Honorable Mentions
These are quite specific if you want to target Hex and post-super levels.

• Triple/Quadruple Strike
  
• Inspire Mercenaries
  

D tier
Everything else except...

Meme tier
Why do those even exist?

• Fog Buster
  
• Field Hospital
  
• Discount Army Camp/Mine/Hospital
  

Edited 4/26/2025 23:11:02

Thank you. I was thinking between Army Camp Boost and Supercharge Army Camp, but is ACB a bit more beneficial for early growth? Also... Could SAC be a bit negative because of the cooldown?

In order to solve the terrible clear time (it takes several days in the early maps) after SA soon and until the early growth, is ACB the solution?

Edited 1/30/2025 13:19:51

It depends. Is it slow to get to the first market, or are you running out of armies after buying all mercenaries?

For the first case, ACampB will help, but I think it is better to just use SAC+FC power to jump-start a level. Believe me you will have a surplus of those powers in the future, so better use it when they are the most useful.

AcacheB just gives you free armies that you can't obtain otherwise and that is always useful in all stages.

Edited 1/30/2025 14:26:33

Thanks! I'll should choose leg SAC instead of ACB!

More than epic for SAC is seldom needed.

But your choice.
I also selected stuff others did not.

16th super for Chillhouz. 25% AP.

Total: 300% AP, IAV, IM, IACB, IA$B, ITW, I$B, ISAC

@dongpa. No I meant you could just use SAC powers and FC powers. In your case I'd pick ACampB over SAC.

@PkmX
haha thanks. than I'll choose leg ACB. that's better for me

I have super-ascended a thirty-eighth time.

Boon chosen: +1 artifact carryover

Total boons: +450% AP, +20 artifact

Artifacts carried over:

* Insane Army Cache Boost
* Insane Army Camp Boost
* Insane Cache Boost
* Legendary Alloy Values
* Legendary Mercenary Discount
* Legendary Supercharge Army Camp
* Legendary Time Warp
* Legendary Resource Cache Boost
* Legendary Money Cache Boost
* Legendary Territory Money Boost
* Legendary Ore Values
* Epic Bonus Money Boost (wzib; upgrade)
* Epic Inspire Mercenaries (upgrade)
* Epic Triple Strike (usual HCCC)
* Rare Hospital Boost
* Rare Speedy Crafters
* Rare Item Values (upgrade)
* Rare Bonus Money Boost (old; backup)
* Uncommon Mine Boost
* Uncommon Hospital Discount
* Uncommon Army Camp Discount (upgrade)
* Uncommon Mine Discount (new; fodder)

Upcoming: gather fodder for BMB and IV rebuild

I guess I should “proclaim” here that I super ascended for my first time? Do y’all still actually record first timers? Anyway… happy to have made it! (I took with me my legendary AV and an epic SAC), and chose the 100AP perk.

(I super ascended in Nov 2024 actually). It then took me until Jan 30, 2025 to make my first “post super ascension- ascension”

Edited 1/31/2025 06:16:29

Wait, someone actually took the +100 AP as their first super ascension boost?

90th Super Ascension

Total bonus: +1725% AP, +400 starting AP, 19 total slots

Artifacts:
Insane Army Cache Boost
Insane Army Camp Boost
Insane Hospital Boost
Insane Cache Boost
Insane Draft Boost
Insane Alloy Values
Insane Resource Cache Boost (upgrading)
Legendary Supercharge Army Camp
Legendary Time Wrap
Legendary Mercenary Discount
Legendary Resource Cache Boost
Legendary Tech Discount
Legendary Money Cache Boost (upgrading, filler)
Legendary Triple Strike (upgrading, filler)


Almost forgot to post here.

This series achieved the first sub-1day super ascension for me, and most supers are hovering at a bit more than 24 hours depending on much time I can play.

For artifacts, I'm hoping to upgrade either SAC or TW to insane next, but so far the RNG hasn't gifted me with a corresponding epic, so maybe the next will be money cache boost.

I will probably start taking +100AP at around 100th super. My analysis is that +25% AP vs +100 AP basically boils down to whether you want to optimize the gameplay before or after Feldmere. The accumulated AP from tutorial to finishing Feldmere is 485.14 AP, which means +25% AP of that (121.285AP) starts to tips over the +100AP you get.

By 100th super, I should be able to get 150% additional mercenaries by the time I reach HCCC, and getting more +25% AP won't help much since the next way to get more armies directly is in phase 4.

Interestingly, the hardest levels turn out to be Final Earth and Siege of Feldmere, both of which still don't have enough army for me after draining all caches/mercenaries/drafts.

mn mn mn

I have super-ascended a thirty-ninth time.

Boon chosen: +25% AP

Total boons: +475% AP, +20 artifact

Artifacts carried over:

* Insane Army Cache Boost
* Insane Army Camp Boost
* Insane Cache Boost
* Legendary Alloy Values
* Legendary Mercenary Discount
* Legendary Supercharge Army Camp
* Legendary Time Warp
* Legendary Resource Cache Boost
* Legendary Money Cache Boost
* Legendary Territory Money Boost
* Legendary Ore Values
* Legendary Bonus Money Boost (upgrade)
* Epic Inspire Mercenaries (sidegrade)
* Rare Hospital Boost
* Rare Speedy Crafters
* Uncommon Item Values (downgrade)
* Uncommon Mine Boost
* Uncommon Hospital Discount
* Uncommon Mine Discount (sidegrade)
* Uncommon Efficient Smelters (fodder)
* Common Hospital Boost (fodder)
* Common Resource Cache Boost (fodder)

Upcoming: collect fodder for IM and IV

Finally finished my third SA. I had the AP for a while, but was waiting to upgrade my artifacts.

I'm taking the +1 artifact this time around.

Past bonus: +20% digging speed, +25% AP

Artifacts: Insane: AV, SAC, TW

28 supers: +450%AP, 12 artifact slots:

P.S. Second SA that I'm doing only 1 Hex bc of IMs (or lack of them).

Just did 2nd Super

1st super 3 Artifacts Insane AV Insane TW Insane ACB

2nd super keeping Insane QS

will probably focus on AP next super

SA #6:

Im hoping for a TW next.

Edited 2/11/2025 10:18:46

100th Super Ascension

Total bonus: +1975% AP, +400 starting AP, 19 total slots

Artifacts:
Insane Army Cache Boost
Insane Army Camp Boost
Insane Hospital Boost
Insane Cache Boost
Insane Draft Boost
Insane Alloy Values
Insane Resource Cache Boost
Insane Time Wrap (upgrading)
Legendary Supercharge Army Camp
Legendary Time Wrap
Legendary Mercenary Discount
Legendary Tech Discount
Legendary Money Cache Boost
Legendary Triple Strike
Legendary Mine Discount

Finally, the 100th super.

I think it is about time to start taking +100AP instead.

There is now enough AP that doing hardened Scandinavia (and regular far land) is no longer required, and enough to finish HCCC with just 2 or 3 drafts.

Right now it is still about 1 day per super, give or take depending on how active I'm playing. Most of the time is actually waiting for army production to get to the first market. This is probably going to be slow to improve as I already have insane ACampB and draft boost artifacts, so the benefits from advancement are quite marginal.

For artifacts, it is just a matter of getting SAC/MD/MCB/TD to insane (preferably in that order), and then grab a second TW, and maybe an army camp discount, mine boost or BMB/TMB. The rest seems too niche to be useful.

I have super-ascended a fortieth time.

Boon chosen: +25% AP

Total boons: +500% AP, +20 artifact

Artifacts carried over:

* Insane Army Cache Boost
* Insane Army Camp Boost
* Insane Cache Boost
* Legendary Alloy Values
* Legendary Mercenary Discount
* Legendary Supercharge Army Camp
* Legendary Time Warp
* Legendary Resource Cache Boost
* Legendary Money Cache Boost
* Legendary Territory Money Boost
* Legendary Ore Values
* Legendary Bonus Money Boost
* Epic Inspire Mercenaries
* Epic Triple Strike (HCCC fodder)
* Epic Supercharge Mine (WZIB fodder)
* Rare Hospital Boost
* Rare Speedy Crafters
* Rare Item Values (upgrade)
* Rare Hospital Discount (upgrade)
* Rare Efficient Crafters (WZIB fodder)
* Rare Quadruple Strike (WZIB fodder)
* Uncommon Mine Boost (sidegrade)

Upcoming: upgrade IM and IV