This is how I do first half of a year.
January - Make 5 burrows and either buy a brainer day one or wait to build mess hall.
February - Day one, buy runts up to 50 total and if cash allows 1-2 brainers. If no mess hall, try to build one in middle of month so you can research guild wars mission before month ends.
Now it's s big rush to get Large barracks.Depending on cash condition slowly add brainers. 1-2 a month. Fill remaining space with runts and remove them one by one if needed.
Until now I did not consider making dedicated farm bases. So I would only expand when alchemy was near.
Hi everyone, your tips have been very helpful so far, i found simply planning out and getting 2 brainers every month until June to max it out worked out nicely. But i have a question now.
^ in the above quote Ultimoos suggests building 5 Burrows and rushing the large barracks. So my question is, if i build 4 burrows in a 2x2 pattern, can you build the large barracks ontop of those 4 ? I know you can do it for similarly sized facilities, but i have never dared to try and experiment incase it doesn't actually work.
Edit: I realized shortly after posting that my question may not be that wise either way, as i would need to have 40 excess crew space to actually perform the upgrade if it's even possible. I suppose it still doesn't hurt to know if it's possible or not.