Build Better Walls

In this guide I will show you how to build a kick ass wall by making one small change to the base layout. This will ensure you kill 99% of all bugs with no galactic brain super theory. Literally, one small change and you have a kick ass defense.

🇫🇷 French Version here by Quetzalc0atl. Thanks for the translation.

Step 1: Stop building dumb walls

Do not build a wall at the very edge of the base. Here's why:

• 👎 You can't shoot bugs at the base of the wall
  
• 👎 Sentry Guns inside the wall can't shoot directly down either
  
• 👎 The wall blocks line of sight for everyone else
  
• 👎 A worker bug can kill it
  
• 👎 You look like a smooth brain (even the brain bug wont eat your noggin)

Step 2: Use a bunker and build the wall deeper

Literally, just build the wall slightly deeper inside the base and cover it with a bunker.

• 🧠 Build a bunker at the edge of the base
  
• 🧱 Build the wall half a square inwards, run the wall as far as it needs to go
  
• 🐜 When the bugs attack a single Bastion can defend the entire wall solo
  
• 🥇 Feel like a winner
  
• 🚶‍♂️ Virgin bugs walks home in shame

Top down perspective

Step 3: Add extras to make a super wall

Bonus extras; the short walls add a lot of durability to entire wall. Do not underestimate the power of a buffer zone!

• 🤖 Add a sentry gun in the middle of the wall. Will kill everything for you
  
• 🧱 Build Short Walls 1/4 towards the edge (at the edge works too)
  
• ⛔ This creates a buffer zone to delay the bugs from getting to the main wall
  
• 🎯 Add any Sensor Beacons or Shock Beacons in front of the short walls

Top down perspective

Screenshots

💯 Perfect walls:

🥈 Slightly different but same principle:

That's it! Now go kill bugs on top of your gigachad wall!

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[CKY]

Came back after a long while. Really really heartening to see the game where it is now. Thanks for the building tips!

[EternoDC]

xD

[Hoogebangers]

Lol, what could've been common sense for some of this stuff, I am super happy you made this to enlighten us! I even fail to do the deed correctly when I build off of another's layout... Same thing applies to some of the base defense/horde missions, especially the ICE area... Swear people intentionally block the view in the middle for no reason... Like I can shoot across to help you, but not when you build a wall or a bunker in an unnecessary area literally right in the middle of the kill zone.... funny the time I won one of those, (out of the like 4 times I've played that map), we didn't have anything outside... Just me and some other Tanky dumms.

[Akira Sovu]

You're right, but getting people to build right and efficiently is like herding cats.

[Arqeph]

Even though i do not deny that wall should be placed better, i still do not understand why people want to cover EVERYTHING. "All the base belong to us".....
You can place a gate inwards and then a bunker right next to it, then build outwards from that point. Doubling protection of whatever it is that you want to protect.
And if people present a case that this will create problems with the inferno bugs, they aren't a problem, you just don't know how to deal with them.

Build from inwards outwards and make funnels, so far i experienced you can even make a gauntlet like some kind of tower defense and the bugs will ignore a lot of the walls whilst trying to traverse the shortest route with the least resistance.
Don't use electric fences as a border to stop bugs, instead use it as a side wall that does not block the bugs from where they want to go, this will stop the bugs from attacking them yet they still get zapped.

Make the bases a bit compacter, then it is easier to manage.

[ScrambieBambie]

Also, these days people deploy in such places or jump on walls, and can cover everything ...gunner bugs will hit you either way, even behind walls.
Most important TIP you can use, is to place bunkers to wall off most important places or as super defence around objective...
...remove bug corpses so they don't use them as stairs/ramps,
...leave corpses of bugs on top of objectives so they wall them off from bugs,
...leave doors open to fuel bugs into dedicated choke points,
...place and use towers to get on buildings and map environment,
...i hear doors are magnets for bugs, so place them inside the base as second line, and only walls on the outside.

[ScrambieBambie]

Quite outdated...but was valid in situations back in the day.
Carnage update changed a lot.
Not 1/2 square, but full 1 square in the back, bunker takes 2...except if you consider a bunker 2x2 to be a square.
Half-walls were quite strong back in the day, now only if engineers spam them, and by them can be build outside of base grid.
Turrets should be placed deeper, in the corners. Otherwise they get destroyed fast. Their overall firepower is low, so its best to place them deeper as second line of defense if some small shits get through, so players not waste time and get distracted hunting down workers running inside of the base.

[TheMasterFALE]

Goddamn beautiful.

[Nari]

thanks!

[Arrowwolf245]

putting the wall in the middle of bunker, I seen only once. Player do not seen to understand the puting the at the front of the bunker create a dead space that only explosion can clover. the problem was one the ancient build had to deal with. they did the same thing put tower (bunkers) half way out of the wall. so they could arrow down at the base of the wall and along the length of it. https://imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/73217478/original/4d4990b740/1590055855?v=1