Boom Beach

Title: Boom Beach
Platform: PC, Mac, Android, Apple
Developer(s): Supercell
Release Date: 2008
Genre(s): Strategy, conquest, app
Online/Single player: Online
Rating: 4/5

Info

Boom beach is a game developed by Supercell. It is similar to their previous game Clash of Clans, but still differs quite a bit.

Campaign

In the campaign you have to defeat the evil general Hammerman, who has amassed armies to conquer the world. The Blackguards, they're called. You start off in a small piece of the world, and as you defeat Hammerman's armies, you need to upgrade your radar in order to move further into the world.

Multiplayer

Among the Blackguard, there are also players in the same campaign that you need to defeat. They are a lot stronger than the Blackguard, but defeating them gives you huge rewards.

Units

There are a lot of types of units, like sharpshooters, zookas, tanks, medics etc etc.

Different units have different perks. The sharpshooter is weak, but he can be delivered in huge numbers. Zookas have great damage, but their health is really crappy. Tanks have great damage and health, but they take huge population, and can only be deployed a few at a time.

Different enemies calls for different strategies. If you're up against a lot of sniper turrets, then a good combination is to send in zookas and heavies. Heavies absorb the damage, and zooka deals them.

Dr. Terror

Almost every day an evil doctor named Dr. Terror appears on the map. His technology allows his weapons to duplicate, making him stronger every time you defeat him. If you manage to beat his ten levels though, you win. He will still appear again even after you've defeated him.

Defeating Dr. Terror gives you a lot of resources.

Hammerman Attacks

Hammerman Attacks is an event that happens when you reach a certain point in the game. When this happens, Hammerman attacks your home base with an enormous fleet that is indeed VERY powerful. He is very tough to beat, and you only get three chances to defend against him.

Statues

Statues gives you boosts. They are presented as life statues, which improves production, ice statues, which improves buildings, magma statues, which increase the efficiency of your troops, and dark statues, which can give Boat Energy or increases chance to find power dust. They can also be built with three different types. Idol is weakest, Guardian is balanced and Masterpiece is strongest.

A Life Idol can for example give you a 4% production increase, but a guardian can give you 11%. It varies though, and you may get different percentages even though they're the same type.

Statues are built with crystals that you can either earn or gain from defeating enemies.

Home base

Your home base is the center of everything. Here you can train units, build and improve production and defensive buildings, and upgrade your army from the Armory. When a player attacks and successfully destroys your home base, you lose a lot of resources. Therefore its important to always keep a good defense. 

Resource bases

Resource bases are basically colonies. When you conquer a resource base, it will ship resources to your base, depending on how high leveled it is. Every time either you or an opponent takes a resource base, the defenses on that island is improved. There is however no way to either build or improve buildings there otherwise.