The most effective strategy is a high-damage, high-speed build that allows you to eliminate elite enemies before they reach you. According to expert perk testing , focusing on these specific upgrades is recommended:
Here is the blueprint for building a new Empire strategy centered around this mechanical marvel.
Here is a review of this new build, why it works, and why it might be the most fun you can have in the current patch.
Build a single, thick wooden tower surrounded by double gates. Place Calliope inside this tower. Her sonic cannon range extends by +2 when garrisoned.
Build new, she had learned, meant more than reconstructing a vanished world. It meant composing a future from the scraps of the past—assembling not only machines but practices, not only shelters but shared rules for tending them. It meant counting not the dead but the hands willing to make.
Mitigates her natural short range, allowing her to hit special infected like Spitters from a safer distance. Health/Armor