Strike Forces

At HQ4, players unlock strike force, the ability to recruit and assign allies (friends and alliances members) to their home and war base structures or troops to temporarily enhance their combat capabilities, and to make them stronger and faster.

To use Strike Force, tap on the icon, which has two swords in a shield, in the bottom left corner of the screen, to expand the Strike Force slots. When the slots are empty, just simply click on any open slot to import your alliances members into them. Same with the Facebook slots, click on Blue F slots to import your Facebook buddies into them. Once people loaded into these slots then you can drag them onto a buildings or troops on your base to activate the Strike Forces.

If you don’t have Facebook friends then you’d better find some, or you will leave these Blue F slots vacant. I recommend you talk to someone in alliance chat to see anybody willing to add you as Facebook friend.

Offense: (Home Base only)

• Assigning allies to Troop Tarmacs will boost your offensive Unit’s Health and Damage.
• Assigning allies to your Weapons Command will boost three Command Points you start with for each battle!

Defense: (Home and War Base)

• Assign Allies to your Defensive Weapons to boost their Health and Damage.

BTW, many clans asked me which defensive buildings should Strike Forces be applied. It actually has no exact answer for that. However, when doing Strike Force in a base, I suggest players assign them onto Domes because most of the time attackers aimed Command Strikes at Metal Rain, Ion Canon, Artillery or Patriot. If you assigned Strike Forces onto these defenders I mentioned above, then you will possibly waste your Strike Forces once they got destroyed.

On the other hand, many folks think there must be better idea to assign higher rank clans as strike forces, since they have stronger offense/ defense abilities. (That was including myself !) However, I recently found out there actually no different in their rank. From Zynga official answer, regardless of the game level or HQ level of the player you will be assigning, the effect of Strike Force in your base will remain the same. 

Therefore, please make sure you guys assign different allies as your strike force each time, to give everybody a fair chance getting their Strike Force Reward crates.