I'm under the impression it can be done with a legendary, provided you SAC at the beginning and upgrade hospitals. I finally have a legendary so I can try it (in a couple weeks) and report back.

@ panieri / At current progress without Phase 4 upgrade, it's quite difficult to score top ranking in wzib so only hope I can wish for is through spins I guess.

@ shadowhawk / Hope that works and pls let me know if you succeed :) I tried Evan0 s 2IM route before with Legendary ACB A$B TW Epic HB SAC but got stuck at some point and failed miserably, which made me waste my precious IM 😢

Edited 2025-11-07 01:35:25

I have super-ascended an eighty-seventh time.

Boon chosen: 20% faster digs

Total boons:

* +1200 AP at startup
* +1200% AP from levels
* +26 artifact carryover
* +1 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (4): A$B, A^B, CB, MeD
Insane (4): RCB,  TW, IM, AV
Legend (4): SAC, MCB, HB, SC
Legend (4): BMB, TMB, TW^s, AV^f

Epic (3): SAC^s, DB, HD^u
Epic (2): {TS, SD}^f
Rare (4): MB, IV, DB^s, SS^f
Unco (3): OV^u, IV^s, SM^f

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

Upcoming: upgrade an epic

2x IM clears for Hex are very accessible, even a Legendary A$B is tons. I switched to those after maybe two or three 3x IM Hex clears at most. If your artifacts are weak (MD, MCB, CB), you may need a few drafts and/or a CRA to get to the Eastern Paraguay money cache, from there it plays the same as the 3x IM Hex. 100% ICM is probably mandatory, which you might not otherwise have.

It's the 1x IM Hex path that's more difficult and needs some thrust via better artifact support. 0.48 IM (ie, a Legendary IM) Hex paths are also viable if you're careful and have strong artifact support (and probably require late P4).

Once I had a Legendary IM, I would do a 1x IM Hex and then a 0.48 IM Hex, then HCCC and done.

I've already been doing 0 IM Hex since 3rd super ascension. It just takes about a month of army camp waiting :)

Thank you, fancypants. Seems like your method is similar to that of Ivan0 s guide. (https://www.warzone.com/Forum/688408-hex-routes) Guess I will try again with this method and see if I can pull this off.

282 SA: +2250%AP, 25 artifact slots, +16900AP

Added also a couple more +25%APs to skip OT
Current SA cycle for me Tutorial,War Of The Worlds,Peloponnesian War,Sengoku,FL,HOT,HScandi,HRoR

Edited 2025-11-12 11:42:27

I have super-ascended an eighty-eighth time.

Boon chosen: 20% faster digs

Total boons:

* +1200 AP at startup
* +1200% AP from levels
* +26 artifact carryover
* +2 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (4): A$B, A^B, CB, MeD
Insane (4): RCB,  TW, IM, AV
Legend (4): SAC, MCB, HB, SC
Legend (3): BMB, TMB, TW^s
Legend (2): HD^u, AV^f

Epic (2): SAC^s, DB
Epic (0): {TS, TS, SD, MR}^f
Rare (4): MB, IV, OV^u, DB^s
Rare (3): {SS, CD, DH}^f
Unco (2): IV^s, MCB^?

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

Upcoming: upgrade a rare

300 SA: +2300%AP, 25 artifact slots, +18500AP
Current SA cycle for me Tutorial,Peloponnesian War,FL,HOT,HScandi,HRoR.

I have super-ascended an eighty-ninth time.

Boon chosen: 20% faster digs

Total boons:
* +1200 AP at startup
* +1200% AP from levels
* +26 artifact carryover
* +3 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (4): A$B, A^B, CB, MeD
Insane (4): RCB,  TW, IM, AV
Legend (4): SAC, MCB, HB, SC
Legend (3): BMB, TMB, HD
Legend (2): TW^s, AV^f

Epic (3): SAC^s, DB, MB^u
Epic (2): {TS, AC}^f
Rare (3): OV, IV, TW^f
Rare (2): {SC, DB}^s
Unco (1): MB^s

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

Upcoming: upgrade an epic

I have decided to stop doing the 3200bp grind for the rare artifact.
With dig speedups and my current rare stockpile it should be okay.

325 SA: +2300%AP, 37 artifact slots, +19700AP, 1 dig speed

Important announcement:
I have decided to pump artifact slots to 40 then spam dig speeds to collect remaining insanes while doing remaining post-SA level tech runs.

I have super-ascended a ninetieth time.

Boon chosen: 20% faster digs

Total boons:
* +1200 AP at startup
* +1200% AP from levels
* +26 artifact carryover
* +4 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (4): A$B, A^B, CB, MeD
Insane (4): RCB,  TW, IM, AV
Legend (4): SAC, MCB, HB, SC
Legend (3): BMB, TMB, HD
Legend (3): TW^s, MB^u, AV^f

Epic (2): SAC^s, DB
Rare (3): OV, IV, MB^su
Rare (2): {SC, DB}^s
Rare (2): {TW, SD}^f
Unco (1): MB^f

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

Upcoming: upgrade a rare

I have super-ascended a ninety-first time.

Boon chosen: 20% faster digs

Total boons:
* +1200 AP at startup
* +1200% AP from levels
* +26 artifact carryover
* +5 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (3): A$B, A^B, CB, 
Insane (3): MeD, RCB, TW
Insane (3):  IM, AV, SAC^u
Legend (3): MCB, HB, HD
Legend (2): MB^u, TW^s

Epic (3): SAC^s, DB, SC^d
Epic (2): {TS, DT}^f
Rare (2): OV, IV
Rare (2): {DB, MB}^s
Unco (2): {BMB, TMB}^d
Unco (1): IV^s
Comm (2): {DB, TD}^f

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

Upcoming: upgrade an epic

edit: oops, artifact list was wrong

Edited 2025-11-22 04:19:04

The x1 IM on HEX is accessible @125% AP without phase 4, but Leg A$B, Rare SAC, x5 FC, clan request and good coordination are necessary.

@awaythro I see you're picking dig speed like I did. I had no choice but to pick that route, if you can avoid it, do so, it's horrible and you get around 1/4 of the expected value.

I only want enough so that I can get enough artifact bulk from digging to replace the rare that I used to get from grinding to 3200bp. Napkin math suggests six dig speedup boons will suffice at my current play speed, and I'm almost there now.

Edited 2025-11-23 22:01:11

@ swchanghee I screwed up my first hex by going for the eastern sakha money cache before the central sakha army cache. Had to use a third IM on snow to save the run. Thus my second hex had 20% hospitals, but the score screen told me I saved 3.7T from hospitals while I had 1.2T armies left over so that didn't make a difference.

That qualifier out of the way you can indeed take hex on with only a legendary A$B and no tier 4 advancements. I use Ivan0's path but use a legendary SAC to start to avoid blowing a bunch of powers or relying on CRA, with about 200% camp improvements but that's overkill. I also didn't bother triple striking vyazempsky.

Something that might be an issue is you should be sure to capture Australia manually because you will need that money to buy mercs at the end.

Edited 2025-11-24 01:41:57

Thanks for giving me the confidence to try 1 IM hex geforce, just did it! Legendary SAC instead of powers.

367 SA: +2300%AP, 40 artifact slots, +19700AP, 40 dig speed
Last SA for at least a while

I have super-ascended a ninety-second time.

Boon chosen: +25% AP from levels

Total boons:
* +1200 AP at startup
* +1225% AP from levels
* +26 artifact carryover
* +5 artifact dig speed

Artifacts carried over:

Insane (3): A$B, A^B, CB
Insane (3): MeD, RCB, TW
Insane (3):  IM, AV, SAC^u
Legend (3): MCB, HB, HD
Legend (3): MB, SC^u, TW^s

Epic (2): SAC^s, DB
Rare (3): OV, IV, BMB^u
Rare (3): {DB, MB, IV}^s
Unco (2): TMB, DB^f
Unco (3): {SC, HD, BMB}^s

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

Upcoming: to be determined

I have concluded that five dig speedups is sufficient for now.
But I'll have to ditch some spares if I want to upgrade a rare.
I'm not sure I can maintain the epic-rare-repeat cycle.

Edited 2025-11-25 20:03:08

Fourth SuperAscention.
Total boons:
* +50% AP from levels
* +2 artifact carryover