Headquarters

"The Headquarters is the nerve center of your base. Upgrading the HQ unlocks new base buildings and upgrades. If your HQ is destroyed, the attacking enemy wins the fight and can steal your resources. The HQ receives damage whenever one of your base buildings is destroyed."

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Level 1	Level 2-3	Level 4	Level 5
Level 6	Level 7-10	Level 11-16	Level 17-20

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Special Headquarters

These Headquarters are owned by certain characters. They have the same mechanics and health as a regular Headquarters.

Dr. Terror's HQ	Lt. Hammerman's HQ
Level 1-20	Level 1-20

Summary

• If the Headquarters is destroyed, the attacker wins the battle, the Victory Points, and all of the resources that were at risk.
• The higher the level your Headquarters is, the more buildings you will unlock.
• The higher the level your Headquarters is, the higher the level you can upgrade your buildings to.
  • Troops, Defensive Buildings, and Gunboat Weapons unlocked at or before HQ level 6 have 20 levels, while those unlocked later follows this pattern: (HQ level that unlocks it) + (its maximum level) = 26. For example, the Scorcher is unlocked at HQ level 18 and has 8 levels. The exceptions to this rule are the Gunboat weapons that are upgraded by effect duration (Flare, Shock Bomb, and Smoke Screen).
• Upgrading your Headquarters is also a good defensive move because it significantly increases the amount of health that the Headquarters has. Whether a Warrior rush wins or fails is heavily dependent on the amount of health that the Headquarters has.
• To upgrade your Headquarters to a higher level, you may need a higher experience level.

Headquarters Damage

• When all of the Buildings on a base except for the HQ are destroyed, the HQ will have 30% health remaining.
• That 70% damage is distributed evenly across all the buildings on the base, so if a base has many buildings, then each building will do less damage.
  • Example: A base has 10 buildings plus the HQ, so each building takes away 7% of the HQ's total health.

• The only exception is when there are 3 or fewer buildings on the base besides the HQ. In this situation, the damage that each building deals to the HQ is capped at 20%.
  • Example: A base has 3 buildings plus the HQ, so when those 3 buildings are destroyed, the HQ will have 40% of its health left.

• These rules do apply to Outposts and Power Cores as well.

Upgrade Differences

• When starting your base the Headquarters appears as a structure with stone walls, a wooden roof, a flag at the side, sandbags lying on the ground and a tripod on the roof
• At level 2, the Headquarters gains more sandbags on the ground and on the roof and crates against the wall. A small part of the roof has blue boards.
• At level 4, more blue boards and sandbags are added to the roof.
• At level 5, the antenna gains a top, and the front entrance gains a white outline and a wooden door.
• At level 6, the roof changes entirely, becoming blue entirely except for the center. It gains a pole on top, and the three crates are replaced by one, larger crate.
• At level 7, the Headquarters gains a blue corrugated metal roof, a hatch on the roof and 3 poles at the back.
• At level 11, the Headquarters gains reinforced blue steel plating as a roof and a satellite dish on the top.
• At level 17, the Headquarters' satellite dish turns dark grey and becomes bigger, and it gains a signal pole. A lock appears at the front door, and hazard tape is on its bottom. The crate is replaced by 3 orange tubes.
• Headquarters that are owned by Lt. Hammerman or Dr. Terror do not undergo any visual changes at all.

Unlocks

At each new Headquarters level, new Buildings, Troops, and/or abilities are unlocked. This table lists each unlock by Headquarters level.

HQ Level	Unlocks
1	New New New New x2 (New) New New New New
2	x1 New New x1 x3 (New) New
3	x1 New New
4	New x3 x1 New New
5	x1 New New
6	New x1 New x3 x1 New
7	x1 New x1 x1 New
8	x1 x1 x1 x3 New
9	New New x1 New
10	New x1 x1 x1 New New
11	x1 x1 x1 x3 New
12	x1 x1 x1 New x1 x1
13	x1 x1 New
14	x1 x1 x1 x3 x1 New
15	x1 x1 New
16	x1 x1 x1 x1 x1 x1 New
17	x1 x1 x1 New x3
18	x1 x1 x1 New
19	x1 x1
20	x1 x1 x3 x1 x1

Trivia

• If a lot of enemy base Buildings remain after the HQ is destroyed, they will blow up faster.
• Upon upgrading the HQ to level 2, the Heavy says that the HQ is finally large enough for him and his compatriots, suggesting that untrained troops are housed in the HQ until they are trained.
• The HQ has a basement of sorts where all the loot, Power Stones, and island prisoners are held, released when an HQ is destroyed.
• The HQ is the only building whose wreckage has anything but debris.
• To upgrade your HQ to level 4, you need to build the Radar.
• When the player attacks either by landing troops or damaging structures, all of the Blackguard villagers will rush into the HQ to hide.
• Following the "Revenge of the Magma" update, the HQ started burning as it took damage. However this was reverted in "The Flame Wars" update since the burning effect now means that the building is being burnt by the Scorcher and is taking damage.
• If you destroy the HQ right after a mortar (or any other defense in general) shoots, your troops will be damaged (or destroyed) by the fired shell (or projectile), despite that the buildings have already started to explode. The battle will be won even if the mortar shell (or projectile) kills your last remaining troops.

Building Size	Special Ability
5x5	If destroyed, the battle is won.

Level	Health	Storage				Upgrade Cost			Upgrade Time	Instant	XP Lvl Needed	XP Gain
		Gold	Wood	Stone	Iron	Wood	Stone	Iron
1	10,000	3,000	2,000	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0	1
2	11,000	3,000	2,000	N/A	N/A	600	N/A	N/A	5m	7	1	1
3	12,000	3,000	2,000	N/A	N/A	1,900	N/A	N/A	1h	32	1	7
4	14,000	3,000	2,000	N/A	N/A	5,900	N/A	N/A	2h	62	3	13
5	16,000	3,000	2,000	N/A	N/A	13,000	N/A	N/A	5h	120	9	17
6	18,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	N/A	25,000	N/A	N/A	6h	154	11	19
7	20,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	N/A	33,000	5,800	N/A	7h	198	14	20
8	23,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	N/A	49,000	9,800	N/A	8h	243	16	22
9	26,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	81,000	17,800	N/A	10h	325	18	26
10	29,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	126,000	30,000	8,000	12h	437	21	28
11	33,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	197,000	50,000	16,000	14h	564	24	34
12	38,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	268,000	97,000	28,000	18h	742	27	37
13	43,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	400,000	189,000	50,000	22h	988	30	40
14	50,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	570,000	340,000	97,000	1d	1290	32	46
15	58,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	790,000	690,000	189,000	1d 4h	1762	34	54
16	70,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	1,350,000	1,020,000	370,000	1d 8h	2417	37	64
17	85,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	1,900,000	1,700,000	740,000	1d 12h	3284	41	73
18	100,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,690,000	2,220,000	1,410,000	1d 16h	4260	44	77
19	120,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	3,300,000	3,000,000	1,970,000	1d 20h	5143	46	81
20	140,000	3,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	3,700,000	3,600,000	2,830,000	2d	5941	47	83

Economy Buildings

• Buildings Available
• Maximum Levels

Upgrading your Headquarters unlocks the following number of Economy Buildings; see the page for each building for details.

Headquarters - Maximum Number of Buildings

HQ Level	Residence	Sawmill	Quarry	Iron Mine	Gold Storage	Wood Storage	Stone Storage	Iron Storage	Vault
1	1	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
2	2	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	1
3	3	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	1
4	3	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	1
5	3	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	1
6	3	1	-	-	1	1	1	-	1
7	4	1	1	-	2	1	1	-	1
8	4	1	1	-	2	2	1	-	1
9	4	1	1	-	2	2	1	1	1
10	4	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1
11	5	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1
12	5	1	1	1	3	2	2	1	1
13	5	1	1	1	3	2	2	2	1
14	5	1	1	1	3	3	2	2	1
15	6	1	1	1	3	3	2	2	1
16	6	1	1	1	3	3	3	2	1
17	6	1	1	1	4	3	3	2	1
18	6	1	1	1	4	3	3	3	1
19	6	1	1	1	4	3	3	3	1
20	6	1	1	1	4	3	3	3	1

Upgrading your Headquarters allows the following buildings to be upgraded to these levels; see the page for each structure to learn what each upgrade brings.

Headquarters - Building Max Level

HQ Level	Residence	Sawmill	Quarry	Iron Mine	Gold Storage	Wood Storage	Stone Storage	Iron Storage	Vault
1	2	2	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
2	3	3	-	-	2	1	-	-	1
3	4	4	-	-	3	2	-	-	2
4	5	4	-	-	4	3	-	-	3
5	5	5	-	-	5	4	-	-	4
6	6	5	-	-	6	4	1	-	5
7	6	6	1	-	6	5	2	-	6
8	6	6	2	-	7	5	3	-	7
9	7	7	3	-	7	6	4	2	8
10	7	7	4	1	8	6	4	3	9
11	7	7	5	2	8	7	5	4	10
12	7	8	6	3	8	7	6	5	11
13	8	8	7	4	9	8	7	5	12
14	8	8	8	5	9	8	8	6	13
15	8	9	8	6	10	9	9	7	14
16	9	9	9	7	10	10	9	8	15
17	9	10	9	8	10	10	10	9	16
18	9	10	10	9	10	10	10	9	17
19	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	19
20	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	20

Support Buildings

• Buildings Available
• Maximum Levels

Upgrading your Headquarters unlocks the following number of Support Buildings; see the page for each building for details.

Headquarters - Maximum Number of Buildings

HQ Level	Landing Craft	Gunboat	Sculptor	Radar	Armory	Submarine
1	2	1	-	1	-	-
2	2	1	-	1	-	-
3	2	1	-	1	-	-
4	3	1	-	1	1	-
5	3	1	1	1	1	-
6	4	1	1	1	1	-
7	4	1	1	1	1	-
8	4	1	1	1	1	-
9	5	1	1	1	1	1
10	5	1	1	1	1	1
11	5	1	1	1	1	1
12	6	1	1	1	1	1
13	6	1	1	1	1	1
14	6	1	1	1	1	1
15	6	1	1	1	1	1
16	7	1	1	1	1	1
17	7	1	1	1	1	1
18	7	1	1	1	1	1
19	7	1	1	1	1	1
20	8	1	1	1	1	1

Upgrading your Headquarters allows the following buildings to be upgraded to these levels; see the page for each structure to learn what each upgrade brings.

Headquarters - Building Max Level

HQ Level	Landing Craft	Gunboat	Sculptor	Radar	Armory	Submarine
1	2	2	-	1	-
2	2	3	-	2	-	-
3	3	4	-	3	-	-
4	4	5	-	4	1	-
5	5	6	1	5	2	-
6	6	7	1	6	3	-
7	7	8	2	7	4	-
8	8	9	2	8	5	-
9	9	10	3	9	6	2
10	10	11	3	10	7	3
11	11	12	3	11	9	4
12	12	13	4	12	10	5
13	13	14	4	13	11	6
14	14	15	5	14	13	7
15	15	16	5	15	14	8
16	16	17	6	16	16	9
17	17	18	6	17	17	10
18	18	19	7	18	18	10
19	19	20	7	19	19	10
20	20	20	8	20	20	10

Defensive Buildings

• Buildings Available
• Maximum Levels

Upgrading your Headquarters unlocks the following number of Defensive Buildings; see the page for each building for details.

Headquarters - Maximum Number of Buildings

HQ Level	Sniper Tower	Machine Gun	Mortar	Cannon	Flamethrower	Boom Cannon	Rocket Launcher	Shock Launcher	Mine	Boom Mine
1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-
3	2	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	3	-
4	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	6	-
5	3	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	6	-
6	3	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	9	-
7	3	2	2	1	-	-	-	-	9	-
8	4	2	2	2	-	-	-	-	12	-
9	4	2	2	2	1	-	-	-	12	-
10	4	3	2	3	1	-	-	-	12	1
11	4	3	2	4	2	-	-	-	15	1
12	5	3	3	4	2	1	-	-	15	2
13	5	4	3	4	2	1	1	-	15	2
14	5	4	3	4	3	2	1	-	18	3
15	6	4	3	4	3	2	1	-	18	3
16	6	5	3	5	3	2	2	-	18	4
17	6	5	3	5	4	3	2	1	21	4
18	6	5	4	5	4	3	2	1	21	5
19	6	5	4	6	4	3	3	1	21	5
20	6	5	4	6	4	4	3	2	24	6

Upgrading your Headquarters allows the following buildings to be upgraded to these levels; see the page for each structure to learn what each upgrade brings.

Headquarters - Building Max Level

HQ Level	Sniper Tower	Machine Gun	Mortar	Cannon	Flamethrower	Boom Cannon	Rocket Launcher	Shock Launcher	Mine	Boom Mine
1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
3	4	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
4	5	2	3	-	-	-	-	-	2	-
5	6	4	4	-	-	-	-	-	3	-
6	7	6	5	2	-	-	-	-	4	-
7	8	7	6	3	-	-	-	-	5	-
8	9	8	7	4	-	-	-	-	6	-
9	10	9	8	5	2	-	-	-	7	-
10	11	10	9	6	3	-	-	-	8	2
11	12	11	10	7	5	-	-	-	10	4
12	13	12	11	8	6	2	-	-	11	5
13	14	13	12	9	7	4	2	-	12	6
14	15	14	13	10	9	5	4	-	14	8
15	16	15	14	12	10	6	5	-	15	9
16	17	16	15	14	11	8	7	-	17	11
17	18	17	16	16	13	9	8	2	18	13
18	19	18	17	18	14	11	9	4	19	14
19	19	19	18	19	15	12	11	6	20	15
20	20	20	20	20	17	14	13	9	20	16