I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS GUIDE! I only wish I had found it earlier. I want to help those who desire higher-aged troops - and especially Hover Tanks!
To all concerned: I'm VERY HAPPY to have Hover Tanks (and Rail Guns too) while my city is in Progressive Era. And you will be too! And that's why I suggest that anyone still in Iron, EMA, HMA, LMA or Colonial - Age-Up to Indy (and save as many Techs as you can on that Tree - until finally entering into Progressive, via the Tech Tree) ===> BEFORE following this Guide. Why?
I'm in Progressive and do GE 1-5 in about 45 minutes on the first day. And in GE5, I don't negotiate or even build anything. I simply "Defend" - and that entire Level only takes me about 5 minutes. (I always use Auto-Battle, because it's FAST AS HELL compared to Manual.)
In GBG, I RULE (also Auto-Battling) - because I'm using units 5 AGES above my Prog Era enemies!!! (And more thanks to this Guide, I do have some Arctic Future and Oceanic Future units as well - even 7 Ages above the enemy!!!) => Nevertheless - Hovers STILL do better than any of those. All I ever use now is 1 Hover & 7 Rogues => and I ROCK the map, withstanding 100+ Attrition!!!
Surely, having all those "other troops" is nice (and MG Teams will help A LOT along the route toward Hovers, as is already explained in this Guide). --- But once you get Hovers, "Nothing Else Matters". (Hmmm, I can't help hearing the lyrics to that Metallica song in my head right now - LOL!)
One thing I would like to clarify though is UBERhelp1's wording about a place in "Part 3 / CE Troops" where he says to "Skip the provinces that are marked in red." (These are Salfah and Suqqah.) Better said: AVOID THESE TWO LIKE THE PLAGUE - Don't even SCOUT them (unless asked to, which case is also covered in this Guide).
Again - unless specifically asked to - just STAY TO THE RIGHT (the East), complete the Map and then board the ship to the next Era.
Having sucessfully finished getting all the Advance-Aged Troops possible, I've since satisfied "Truth or Dare", and have moved on. I was expecting to somehow get back in the Storyline to where I could get some Contemporary Era Troops by finally Scouting and Taking those two Sectors I "skipped" earlier. However, that never happened.
Instead, I became "Tech Blocked", as was expected - even though I implicitly followed the Guide on "Returning to the PME Questline". (I gather I would only have gotten those troops if I had first Aged Up to PME or something prior to following this Guide.)
But no matter - as I wouldn't be using those anyways. As I said - HOVERS ARE ENOUGH! I'm happy now just to have 2 Recurring Questlines "feeding each other", plus a Quest I shall never complete - because I plan to CAMP in Prog forever, where I RULE the battlefield!
A big thanks to UBER (et all) for this wonderful and marvelous guide!!! I have friends in Jupiter Moon who are simply amazed at my power - who regret NEVER HAVING KNOWN this guide even existed! => I'm trying to tell EVERYONE about this - long before they even get to Colonial Age.
Okay - I've said quite enough, so I'll shut up now. I only hope I've been of some help - by writing up this "labor of love".
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PS: My subtitle is now: "General Bulldozer, the Gallant" - and for short, that's "GBG" - LMAO!!!