Age of Origins Strongest Commander Event

This Age of Origins Strongest Commander Event is a big Event and you need to pay attention to it.

The Strongest Commander Event Consists of 5 Events

First 4 events are randomized from the following: build, gather, recruit, and zombies. The 5th event is the Kill Event. 

Each phase has a ranking reward and 3 tiered prizes. The last prize includes 500 gold so try to get the gold chest during each phase!! There is also an overall reward for the entire event. Top prize is something like 35k gold and 180 hours of speedups among other fun presents. You should try to save all your speeds and items for the strongest commander as getting a high rank gives great rewards!

Build and Research Phase, 1 Day

You get points for COMPLETING buildings and research (including garage and wall defense). Do not use speeds if the building will not complete. 90 points for each 1 BP. Bigger points for longer construction times. 

The way to cheat this event is to upgrade your city hall and city wall before the event starts. You do not know what day the build event will occur so some gambling and luck are needed. If the city hall takes 5 days to build then I would start the building 3 days before the strongest commander event and hope the building phase is in the first 2 phases. This is a 50/50 gamble. You could start 4 days early or 1 day early to change your chances and the required number of speeds needed to complete. The perfect situation would be to start your building 1 second after 5 days before the event, and then the build event is the first phase and 1 second into the event you get tons of points without using any speeds. You then get the whole day to complete other buildings. Try to do this with city hall and city wall as they are the longest construction times. 

The event also gives points for completing research. Again, same tactic. Remove officers, start your longest research before the phase starts and try to get free points. Do not forget to apply officers before you start using your speeds (use both M. Medici AND Ginger, use both Doc Gray AND Hacker)! Change your commander tree to development to take advantage of the building and research speeds! 

If available, ask the president for a position which increases research or building speed.

Recruit Phase, 1 Day

Same as the build and research phase, you gain points by recruiting troops. Higher level troops get more points. 

Same strategy as before, start your ïrecruitments to end 1 second after the phase starts so you get many points for free. Use Loreline AND Sergeant Barney. IMPORTANT: troop promotion does not count! Do not waste speeds on promotion! Try to recruit your highest level troops for the most points. Change your commander tree to war and take advantage of the 15% recruitment bonus. 

If available, ask the president for a position which increases recruitment.

Zombie Phase, 1 Day

You get points for killing zombies. Pretty easy. Kill the highest level zombies you can. Try to start the phase with 100 fuel available. Your commander skill tree should be in development with the recover mobility skill available and as many points into recover mobility as you can. Use your war item "urgent fleet" to increase your zombie attack speed. 

You can teleport to one of the major cities to kill the largest monsters faster. Do not teleport to the capital, you will be stuck in the mud!! The tactic for zombie kill is to use the black market every day to buy fuel. If you have the gold, refresh 20x a day and buy everything you can. Use the auto kill feature to kill hundreds of zombies while you sleep. 

If available, ask the president for a position which increases zombie attack fleet speed.

Gather Resources Phase, 1 Day

You get points for gathering. This is the most boring phase. Hope that this phase is first otherwise you will have a boring week. 

Again, same strategy. You want to start the event phase with your troops finishing their gathering 1 second after the day starts so you begin the phase with massive points. The longest resource to gather is GOLD so you will be trying to get your troops into the highest level gold mine you can. NEVER research spelunking. Send your fleet to the gold mine to get a time (example: 18:12:06) and then record the time it takes your fleet to reach the mine. City level and prosperity give gathering boosts so smaller cities have first choice unless you hide them (can decrease your prosperity level before the event starts). Subtract 1 second and when the daily present clock reaches this time, send your fleet to gather gold. Use your "recall all" skill as soon as the phase begins to quickly recall your troops and get the points for gold. 

You then want to look at your statistics and see what you have the best % for gathering. For most people this is food or oil depending on your research and commander skill tree. You will then want to gather food or oil during the phase and recall your troops before the end of the event. Points are earned at the time gathering ceases, not when your troops return to your city. You only need to recall your troops 1 second before server reset at the end of the event. You do not get points if your troops are still in the mine at server reset. Do NOT use your gather speed bonus while gathering gold, use it when you send your troops back out during the phase. 

If available, ask the president for a position which increases gathering speed.

Kill Event, 3 Days

Yes, 3 days of killing. You get points for killing higher level troops, so team up and go after big targets! You get less points for repeat attacks and defense. Troops level 1-3 do not give points! Do not attack a city with 100k units that only has level 3 troops. You give them points and destroy your army for no reason. You can make trap farms to try and lure others into this fate. Remember to use your attack and health bonuses. Use battle fog when you are fighting and be sure to apply a shield when you are offline. Attack efficiently, send fake attacks, defend well!