Third super. Artifact slot
Leg AV, SAC, TW, ACB, TS

Only took me two months.

Thanks fancy pants I'll think about HB vs TW as my artifact this time.

geforce, I save the hards until I get up to USA or I find I don't have enough mercs. Is the threshold for enough mercs only another 50% AP? I do already skip hard China, trisk, hard trisk, hard Europe, and have resolved to skip USA this time. I find Australia to be faster than anything near it. hard RFRE is about as fast as replaying the 2 previous hard at this point.

Should I stop artifacts for 2 supers in order to get to 100% AP? Advice appreciated.

What's your current arti setup and AP%?

HRome is much easier than HScandi. It's much more generous with money and also has lower AM requirements. The main catch is you need to figure out the cache surf at the beginning, but once you have that it's also faster than HScandi.

HOT on the other hand is exceptionally easy, much easier than OT (substantially lower AM requirement). It is a little tight on money though (needs full IASV and MD).

@ShadowHawk
At your level, I used to play HFL, HOT, HS and HRF right away, the hardest one is HFL (for lack of APs). You need to use powers to speed up your progress, if you spend them well there is more than enough to go all the way to 100 supers and well beyond.
At +75% AP with Leg. AV, Leg SAC, Leg A$B, I solved HFL like this:

Phase 1
Increased Army 80%
Joint Strike Maxed (25%)
Additional Mercenaries 65%
Phase 2
Increased Alloy Value 40%
CW rewards: 15% AV, 15% MD, 15% AC, 23% AP

Gislic L9, SACp+request to market 1, get until market 4 and the 6 hospitals you can upgrade. HU1, load all mortars and shoot twice.
Midway through HU1, SACarti to Vablow L13, collect drafts.
Get last hospital and market, raid for Silver+Alu with all smelters, mine techs and Shadambuzzler L5+Gaspo L11. HU2 + all merc camps except 3 biggest ones, empty draft pool, shoot all mortars twice again.
Clear the level with caches first, buy all mercs, upgrade Vablow.

I noticed you have the same setup except your A$B is only Epic. This will leave you with 5B armies less. If your mortars shoot above 50%, you should be good, otherwise you'll need to take some more drafts at the end. HU3 will only save you 2.1B at best, so be mindful that emptying your draft is the faster option. Your mileage may vary slightly depending on the routes you take.

It's a bit of a pain, but from that point forward everything becomes way easier (and faster) if you spend your AP wisely.
Have fun!

Edit: misread mr_fancy_pants comment

Edited 2025-08-09 20:00:39

SA 10 +25% AP
total: +100% AP, 8 slots

I have super-ascended a sixty-ninth time.

Boon chosen: +100 starting AP

Total boons: +925% AP, +25 arti, +700 AP

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (3): ACB, ACB, CB
Insane (3): MeD, RCB, TW
Legend (4):  AV, SAC, IM, MCB
Legend (3):  HB, BMB, TMB
Legend (2):  IV, SC^u

Epic (3): OV, DB, TS
Rare (2): HD, MB
Rare (3): {IV, SC}^s, HD^su
Rare (2): {AC, DAC}^f
Unco (2): {MB, DB}^s

^f:fodder, ^u:upgrade
^s:spare, ^d:downgrade

Upcoming: upgrade a rare

75th Super, +25% AP
74th Super, Artifact Slot
73rd Super, +25% AP
72nd Super, +25% AP
71sth Super, +25% AP

- 24 extra slots, +1200% AP, +300 AP -

My second attempt with Idle Premium ended around SAsc #73, with a grand total of 28 Supers during the month it was active. This time it tripled my speed instead of just doubling it, bringing me comfortably over the limit of +1100% AP and hospital upgrades don't impact my speed any longer.

fancy pants is that the advancements only, my leg artifacts would be good enough? I will need to figure out the cache surfing then.

geforce thanks for the tip! my start was a bit slow; I don't know why I had less money than you described for army camps so I had to burn some FCp but this is a great speed boost clearing this level before doing all the non-hardens.

HOT is tight on money with just Leg AV and full IASV + MD. Either you can do some cache juggling at the end or go for full ICM as well (which is cheap and you'll want for Hex anyways), which should be enough. A decent MD arti also works, among other things.

For HRome, the cache surf is very easy with a Leg A$B, but IIRC still workable with Epic. If you're tackling it early on, you'll want to smelt 3x Lanthanum Bars for the cache tech. There is Lanthanum ore available from a SEAD arena (alternatively, it's not awful to mine), and there's Thorium ore available from several resource caches, meaning you only need to mine Lead ore. The mining + smelting is quite doable in the 2h upgrade window for L2 hospitals, and progressively easier in 4h if you're going for L3 hospitals still, or potentially longer if you're also using a Leg+ TW. You will want to have HFL done first (for the mine doubler) if you're planning on mining. Leg AV gives tons of money here, even Epic AV should be comfortable (I don't remember, it's been a long time). No other powers or artis necessary. I'll leave the rest of the details as an exercise to the reader.

118 SA: +1825%AP, 25 artifact slots, +2200AP:

Now I'm doing SA per day. I'll add +25% till 1900% then restart +100APs.

Super #2

+25%, +1 art
Kept IA$B, ITW, LAV

11th super , took artifact

Insane qs,av,acb,a$b.
Leg hb,cb,tmb
Epic sac

I was thinking about writing a question about strategy, but it's not a big deal, so I'm asking here in the comments.

Currently, super ascension is available. Should we excavate more artifacts, make a legend, and super ascend? Or should we find an epic and speed up the super ascension right away? I'm hesitating what I should take with me.

Leg(4) ACB, A$B, AV, MD
Epic(2) RCB, TS
Rare(6) CB, TD, SC, SC, DB, OV
Uncommon(2) MCB, FH
Common(3) CB, ACB, BMB
Poor(4) EC, TS, AC, A$B

It's okay to get at least one epic from WZIB, but since I don't have SAC and TW, I'm only eating 20BP every time. I'm giving up WZIB epic. And I'm digging up common as fast as I can, It never collect better one...(ex: SAC, TW) they're not coming out. BP is close to 1600, so I'm thinking about collecting 3200 and getting one Rare.

I'm thinking about what to take if I ascend. Or maybe I should choose AP25% since it's not much...
What's a little funny is that when I bought a premium, hospital upgrades and mortar time are reduced, so I feel like the need for a Speedy Crafters artifact becomes incredibly important.

Edited 2025-08-16 16:31:38

Throwing away Legendaries is really awful. In your situation dongpa, I'd probably suggest bringing your A$B up to Insane (you're less than one Epic away) and then taking AV for your second artifact (probably at Epic), then +25% AP.

Thank you! @mr_fancy_pants

But first of all, I have to eat one more legend to make some Insane artifacts... I'm thinking about getting one epic for a quick SA in this term.
Epic Speedy Crafter, Hospital Discount, Hospital boost, Cache boost
It's a concern among these.

I only need to get one epic. This is very... conflicting.
First of all, I do common (just wish for SAC or TW) while I'm awake, and epic 3% before I go to bed, but this happened because I actually got epic once at 3%. How much need times, for one epic? It takes a little less than 3 hours to actually dig up a common with premium subscriptions and AP consumption. (About 2 hours and 50 minutes)

Anyway, I've been looking forward to everything I'm digging right now and collecting one by one, so I think I'll have no choice but to get another legend... I'm crying about how long it'll take to collect one epic...I'm torn about my plans every hour...

Edited 2025-08-16 16:49:55

I have super-ascended a seventieth time.

Boon chosen: +100 starting AP

Total boons: +925% AP, +25 arti, +800 AP

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (3): ACB, ACB, CB
Insane (3): MeD, RCB, TW
Legend (4):  AV, SAC, IM, MCB
Legend (3):  HB, BMB, TMB
Legend (2):  IV, SC

Epic (4): OV, DB, TS, HD^u
Epic (2): {TS, RCB}^f
Rare (2): MB, DB^su
Rare (3): {IV, SC, HD}^s
Unco (1): MB^s

^f:fodder, ^u:upgrade
^s:spare, ^d:downgrade

Upcoming: upgrade an epic

@dongpa

I would reccommend waiting to dig more artifacts and super with a Insane Army Cache Boost and a Epic Alloy Values/Epic Army Camp Boost, and 25% AP.

You should also get the Phase 4 Advancement Auto Dig, so you don't have to align digs around your schedule.

In the meantime you can just sit on hex or do the tech achievements i guess

@riskboy88
Thanks a lot

Going to Hex, it's almost impossible to clear levels after Super Ascend. Any tips on getting there?
and... Does auto-dig just attempt random digging?

get 10 skip levels one way or the other
Look up Hex Earth thread somewhere here [more than one, but one has maps]
Look up how to do assault plateau
Profit.