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**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↑.
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Unlocks at | Sanctuary level 8 |
| How many can be built | 1 |
| Max level | 30 |
| What it gives | 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 | :res-grain: Grain 59, :res-wood: Timber 59 | under a minute |
| 5 | 2.7% | 2,300 | :res-grain: Grain 14,340, :res-wood: Timber 14,340 | 10m |
| 10 | 5.2% | 6,000 | :res-grain: Grain 385,400, :res-wood: Timber 385,400, :res-herb: Herb 59,080 | 4h 19m |
| 15 | 7.7% | 16,500 | :res-grain: Grain 3,236,000, :res-wood: Timber 3,236,000, :res-herb: Herb 545,600 | 16h 41m |
| 20 | 10.1% | 44,600 | :res-grain: Grain 29,430,000, :res-wood: Timber 29,430,000, :res-herb: Herb 4,694,000 | 3d 17h |
| 25 | 12.7% | 109,400 | :res-grain: Grain 136,200,000, :res-wood: Timber 136,200,000, :res-herb: Herb 22,150,000 | 16d 14h |
| 30 | 15.1% | 257,400 | :res-grain: Grain 728,800,000, :res-wood: Timber 728,800,000, :res-herb: Herb 120,800,000 | 76d 23h |
## Full upgrade
Taking the building from level 1 to 30 costs :res-grain: Grain 2,529,347,669, :res-wood: Timber 2,529,347,669, :res-herb: 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 [[building-watchtower|Watchtower]] with its 350 days of construction and the instant [[building-curio-hall|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-ops|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.
[[building-squad-4|Squad 4]] shows up earlier, at Sanctuary level 5, but its queue stays shut without the monthly pass, while [[building-squad-3|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 [[building-squad-1|Squad 1]] carries.
## Related pages
- [[buildings|All buildings]]
- [Build calculator](/en/wiki/build-calc): an upgrade queue from building levels