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← Squad 3: levels, cost and upgrades
**Squad 3** adds a third march queue, and it opens much later than any of the other squad buildings. Every queue works every day, so over a long run it returns more than a one-time pile of speedups. The building unlocks after Sanctuary level 20 and goes up to level 30. Only one can be built. Levels raise: squad March Speed↑.
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Unlocks at | Sanctuary level 20 |
| 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% | 500 | :res-grain: Grain 59, :res-wood: Timber 59 | under a minute |
| 5 | 2.7% | 2,500 | :res-grain: Grain 14,460, :res-wood: Timber 14,460 | 10m |
| 10 | 5.2% | 6,000 | :res-grain: Grain 374,500, :res-wood: Timber 374,500, :res-herb: Herb 61,210 | 4h 19m |
| 15 | 7.7% | 16,500 | :res-grain: Grain 3,265,000, :res-wood: Timber 3,265,000, :res-herb: Herb 576,300 | 16h 41m |
| 20 | 10.1% | 44,800 | :res-grain: Grain 30,820,000, :res-wood: Timber 30,820,000, :res-herb: Herb 4,951,000 | 3d 17h |
| 25 | 12.7% | 109,200 | :res-grain: Grain 138,300,000, :res-wood: Timber 138,300,000, :res-herb: Herb 23,020,000 | 16d 14h |
| 30 | 15.1% | 257,400 | :res-grain: Grain 740,300,000, :res-wood: Timber 740,300,000, :res-herb: Herb 120,900,000 | 76d 23h |
## Full upgrade
Taking the building from level 1 to 30 costs :res-grain: Grain 2,540,862,951, :res-wood: Timber 2,540,862,951, :res-herb: Herb 417,324,550. Pure build time without speed-ups: 299d 4h, that is, about 10 months.
## How to use it
Squad 3 unlocks at Sanctuary level 20 and remains the only building of that level. The third march queue arrives with the first level, for 59 Grain and 59 Timber, while a full upgrade to level 30 costs 2,540,862,951 Grain, the same amount of Timber, 417,324,550 Herb and 299 days 4 hours of building.
The gap from the earlier squads is wide: [[building-squad-1|Squad 1]] opens at Sanctuary level 4, [[building-squad-4|Squad 4]] at level 5, [[building-squad-2|Squad 2]] at level 8. For twelve Sanctuary levels the city lives on two free queues, and the third one arrives when less than half of the road to Sanctuary level 30 is left.
Two more [[covert-ops|covert operation]] dispatches come with the queue, since they are counted by squads: three squads make six dispatches instead of four. March speed grows to 15.1% at level 30, as much as the first and the second squads give.
Raising all three squads to level 30 costs about 898 days of pure build time, close to two and a half years. Their Might matches as well, 257,400 each, so the order of upgrading is decided by which queue stands idle more often. Level 30 alone costs 740,300,000 Grain, the same amount of Timber and 76 days 23 hours.
## Related pages
- [[buildings|All buildings]]
- [Build calculator](/en/wiki/build-calc): an upgrade queue from building levels