User blog:Neil233/Survival Strategy

Getting to Wave 50 in survival mode may seem daunting and is certainly time consuming, but it isn't as hard as most people think. Follow these quick tips to last longer in survival. Above all, contribution and collaboration among players is KEY.

Army Tips
If everyone follows these tips, among all 6 players you would have 60 tanks, 60 planes, and 78 soldiers.
 * Get a Soldier House, Plane House, Tank House, and a few research centers, and max out your unit capacity. After you are done, SELL YOUR RESEARCH CENTERS!
 * Get a full army of tanks, planes, and soldiers.
 * You can do different things with your soldiers:
 * Repair: Get a bunch of repairmen in humvees and heal buildings.
 * Jugs: Get a bunch of Juggernauts
 * Snipe: Get a bunch of snipers to take out enemy soldiers.
 * Humvee: Put your soldiers in humvees for better mobility. You can also put a medic to help heal.
 * You can do different things with your planes:
 * Mothership: Get a bunch of motherships. This option is more expensive but does more damage.
 * Space Fighters: Get a bunch of space fighters. This option is cheaper, has more total health, but does less damage.
 * Stealth Bombers: Get a bunch of stealth bombers, and attack enemy soldiers that fall behind from the main army. Stealth bombers cannot be targeted by soldiers. Make sure to steer clear from other units which can destroy your bombers.
 * Don't get heavy planes. 

Building Tips
In all, this is how you should utilize your buildings: Play on the Moon map for best results. Double mansion may also be very good (only 12 power plants to get to 220 income) but I have to test it out.
 * ONLY use Nuclear Plants. Use about 15
 * Surround the capture point with Forts, Command Centers, and Headquarters. Protect them with shield generators if you want. DONT PUT OTHER BUILDINGS: they take up valuable space.
 * Move your Spawn Command Center to the capture point. Every building counts!
 * A short distance away from the capture point, put your production buildings (e.g. Barracks, Tank Factory), as well as a hospital cluster. Have one player contribute one hospital.
 * 15 Nuclear Plants
 * 1 Plane House, 1 Soldier House, 1 Tank House
 * 1 Production building
 * 1 Hospital
 * 5 Defensive buildings Forts or Command Centers, move your spawn CC to the middle.
 * DON'T KEEP RESEARCH CENTERS!

I sometimes see players sell nuclear plants in order to get more building capacity, but this is a mistake. You should have at least 200 production to carry you though late game, and you should sell other buildings that are useless (e.g. spawn command center, research centers).

Using these tips, I often see that I have more defensive buildings, more income, and a larger army—all at the same time—than other players.