Squad 2: levels, cost and upgrades

Squad 2 adds a second march queue, letting the city run two marches at once: gathering and reinforcing an ally, for instance. The number of free covert-ops dispatches counts by squads as well. The building unlocks after Sanctuary level 8 and goes up to level 30. Only one can be built. Levels raise: squad March Speed↑.

Levels and cost

Reference levels of the building: what it gives, how much Might it brings and what the next step costs. Cost grows faster than the payoff: the last five levels take 79% of the total build time.

Level	Squad March Speed↑	Might	Cost	Time
1	0.7%	400	Grain 59, Timber 59	under a minute
5	2.7%	2,300	Grain 14,340, Timber 14,340	10m
10	5.2%	6,000	Grain 385,400, Timber 385,400, Herb 59,080	4h 19m
15	7.7%	16,500	Grain 3,236,000, Timber 3,236,000, Herb 545,600	16h 41m
20	10.1%	44,600	Grain 29,430,000, Timber 29,430,000, Herb 4,694,000	3d 17h
25	12.7%	109,400	Grain 136,200,000, Timber 136,200,000, Herb 22,150,000	16d 14h
30	15.1%	257,400	Grain 728,800,000, Timber 728,800,000, Herb 120,800,000	76d 23h

Full upgrade

Taking the building from level 1 to 30 costs Grain 2,529,347,669, Timber 2,529,347,669, Herb 413,100,420. Pure build time without speed-ups: 299d 4h, that is, about 10 months.

How to use it

The second march queue arrives with the first level of the building: 59 Grain, 59 Timber and under a minute of work. Everything else Squad 2 gives comes down to march speed, which grows from 0.7% to 15.1% and costs 299 days 4 hours of pure build time. The building therefore goes up on the day Sanctuary level 8 opens, while the levels are added later.

Level 8 also unlocks the Watchtower with its 350 days of construction and the instant Curio Hall. Squad 2 does not compete with the tower for the queue: its first level closes in under a minute, and by that minute the whole point of a second queue is already in hand. All thirty levels cost 2,529,347,669 Grain, the same amount of Timber and 413,100,420 Herb.

Free covert operation dispatches are counted by squads, two per squad, so the second queue raises them from two to four. The top operation pays 12,177,000 hero EXP, and doubling the dispatches gives more than the 15.1% of speed at level 30.

Squad 4 shows up earlier, at Sanctuary level 5, but its queue stays shut without the monthly pass, while Squad 3 waits for level 20. From level 8 to level 20 Squad 2 remains the only addition to the number of marches. A full upgrade is worth 257,400 Might, as much as Squad 1 carries.

Related pages

• All buildings
• Build calculator: an upgrade queue from building levels

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