**Rush Tech for better production of Wood, Food Nutrition, The mining one is to expensive to take this early**

Don't lose more than 2 people before Winter, ignore hospital tech as long as possible

Rush House II as you only need 6 total for 120 people, don't build any houses until then

Ignore industry tech except for factory 1 and gas masks which you need somewhat early but not to early

Invest in food early and always pay off the marauders until you can't in winter (Exception is if they want your women as the stability decrease is to great) This makes not loosing troops much easier.

Expand only at a moderate pace so your troops aren't to spread out, there are plenty of resource clusters don't necessarily grab far out structures before you are ready and have some walls for choke points.

Take combat 1 after house 2, ignore the rest of the combat tree for a while and get your walls up before winter. Build one fort 1 at your choke point

Always accept refugees to get your maxed 110 pop and almost always let people go with food to get the +5 stability back. Ignore the politics tree outside the initial politics which you can take if you need a stability hit somewhat early to keep accepting workers. don't even unlock the map as you can't afford to send people and barracks tech is to expensive to research to before winter.


Only send people on fuel/people missions

When winter starts you should have walls around almost the entire starting map, 1 entrance with a fort 1, 5-6ish greenhouse 2, 3 coal, 1 Factory.

You will have to prob take repression tech at some point near this part if not a little earlier. You should not need to go any further in this tree. I never got anything else.

Pay the Army food every time, make sure you have 5-6ish greenhouses and 3.5 Kitchens to feed your people and be able to pay the 100 food each time. I was able to pay up until day 125 or so, and then stopped.

Rush Ammo 1 and Combat training 2 for Forts II as you will need the ammo for your smg's. You should have enough smg's just from things looted on the map.

Set defenses up in an X around your fort 1, two fort 2 in front and 2 watchtowers behind it. You will be adding machine guns in the fort 1 and the watch towers come early late game. Place your reg troops behind the fort II's and in front for the fort I

Rush House IV and start replacing House II

Have at least two field hospitals as you will take injuries and the occasional death. Ignore the rest of that tree you need nothing there. Even church is useless as stability should be fine letting the occasional person go with food.

Start researching Helmet 1 and Armor II and get just enough production to protect your troops and then switch to ammo 1 until you have about 2500, this should be enough to last until Ammo II/III

Finish research on greenhouse 3 and bar and switch over from 6 Greenhouse II to 3 Greenhouse III at -29c. This guzzles fuel so we need to switch to hunting cabin soonish.

When you get to -30 c you should have all end game houses, 3 Greenhouse III, 1 Bar, 2 Factory, Half or more of the new map behind your fences, research started down the stationary machine gun path.

Research Ammo II and Ammo 3, get your stationary machine guns up and going.

Research Helmet II and Armor III, produce the armor at Factory II, helmet at a factory I, and ammo II/III at the third factory. Once you have 30-45 armor III/helm II move your people to resource gathering.

Don't worry about building weapons, you will naturally get Ammo II guns from the dead marauders.

Rush the hunting cabin to help keep up with food costs and turn off one of your greenhouses as you will run out of fuel.

Add an extra watch tower w/machine gun or two to defenses if you start loosing people on the reg

Enclose all but the bottom strip of the map in your base

Tip for expanding is to cut almost all production except for food right after an attack and send them all out to build fences. This gets done surprisingly quick this way then reassign them to production. Make sure to send the army guys out to protect them from animals.

Do fuel and people missions when ever you get them

Finish your barracks if you haven't. I built mine right after -30c as I was down to 4 people. training I and II help as well for your losses but most of my people are much higher rank

This is the point I'm at now, I just finished weapons 3 and have started producing the best machine guns in the game. Chowder will be about my last thing.

Things I never researched

Nades - They blow my walls up and even though you can take out a whole troop they are simply to random for me.

Medicine/Virus Cure/Church - No zombies mid/late game, medicine has no use??? Didn't need church as my stability is about 75-80 and sitting still

Scaffolding/Prison/Torture/Propaganda - Stability is fine, do you have to feed prisoners???. I read on forums propaganda center can get the army attacks to stop,. I might try it out this game.

Assault/Sniper II and II, I went machine guns instead, maybe snipers are better you tell me :)

Production efficiency 2 - Not really making much stuff super late game