Rush vehicle and car machine guns. I dont even use towers anymore. Just have a bunch of trucks with machine gun mounts that lay waste to the swarms. Also build a small warehouse where the hordes come in so the machine guns can auto reload.

Nice Gobeers, not tried that yet, I was setting up a kill zone in the middle of my base and I'd pull out spear user squads as bait and they all rush them with guys gunning them down on all sides. And I can slip the guys back in a Hospital that they stood near. I'll have to try the trucks.

Yeah thats what I did too in the beginning but custom cars with machine guns are so much more efficient. I dont build walls until I get the fortified ones (the best ones). The gates help. I try to build so that roads are clear so my vehicles can move around my base easier. Its a fun game. Looking forward to see what others are doing.

I used polearm alot mid game to clear story base swarms. When 3 swarm hit daily ammo become low very quick. So have 6 to 8 squads of polearm can one shoot any horde. Problem is the wall. Don't build them as the cause horde to build up into huge group.
Just need to go hide in your building when they group up and target single horde when possible. It much much more interesting than fighting with heavy machine gun.
I even have them rush apc and destroy it. Just keep healing with medic kit .

scavaging teams with vehicle should stay close to each other, I don't stop at night so it help to focus and keep them out of trouble. Lairs and raider base is very dangerous for these team as night fall, they suddenly rush out and kill your team next door. So to avoid checking all over the map. Busy keep them close for better management

Layout trick. Early stage group up with Towers/gate at the center of your base for concentrate firepower. Hordes will head for any living thing or towers instead of buildings if no one shoot from them. Use squad to lure them if they decided to attack building instead of guard towers.
I perfered gate as they have more hp.

Love all the feedback keep it coming please, so many ways to run this :D.

I really hope they go deep on the squad RPG, I will voice one small blah its tiny though. I do hate how you can SKILL up a new squad and they come out MAXED in that skill seems a bit defeated for the guys that have been knocking down homes / scavaging and working up those skills LOL. But all good forgive teh RPG'er in me.

Early game, place multiple basic towers (wood/metal) with overlapping ranges so hordes face crossfire. Use vehicles to kite hordes or bait them into tower ambushes, minimizing damage to vehicles and squads.

As game progresses, towers should transition from pistols -> shotgun -> sniper rifle. Assault rifle eats too much ammo.

Spam tiny warehouses for faster scavenging, building, repairs, plus ammo/fuel and loot drop-offs. Add a few tiny repair huts to auto-rebuild them. Defend only major warehouses in central IFZ, ignore the rest.

Rush food to cannery, be sure to use fertilizer; once food is plentiful, prioritize other tasks.

Keep some squads home to defend against raiders or clear horde-infested buildings. Assign scavenging squads separate houses in the same area for mutual support and optimal fuel-to-loot ratio.

Manually unemploy scavenging workers before "get some rest" so they're already in IFZ before sunset, otherwise they bait random hordes in to IFZ risking important buildings.

If you need to set up perimeter prior to reinforced walls/gates, use line of metal tower in close proximity, and be ready to provide backup with squads in vehicles.

Reinforced perimeter wall/gates keep out raiders and make handling triple swarms (an that other stuff that comes) much easier. I've found max 5 wall units between gates works well.

Spam barbed wire where attacks are most frequent to slow/damage incoming threats. In critical areas, use multiple rows of barbed wire. The direction matters; you ideally want incoming threats walking along the row so they're hitting as much barbed wire as possible.

If your map has streams or rivers, building perimeter wall along those gives you an extra layer of delay for incoming threats (except in winter when water freezes).

Late game I tend to have most squads with 3 assault rifles and one sniper rifle, all wearing riot gear, and in a pickup truck with heavy machine gun, fuel tank, turbocharger, and spikes. I put them behind walls near small warehouse to shoot at incoming threats.

I have a "slasher squad" with metal plate armor and polearm weapons specifically for clearing out the occasional horde sleeping in a building.

Regardless of enemy, you always get better results when there's multiple squads/towers attacking same target. Oh, and never underestimate the power of several vehicles with spikes driving through a swarm.

Thanks a ton, awesome advice in there. I must be researching WAY to slow. I made it way over 100 days my last play through and I didnt even get to the ability to have or make my own cars/trucks with guns. I didnt even make guns yet All my stuff went to like building efficiency and food production I'm clearly not researching the right things.

引用自 DannyboyWPG：

Thanks a ton, awesome advice in there. I must be researching WAY to slow. I made it way over 100 days my last play through and I didnt even get to the ability to have or make my own cars/trucks with guns. I didnt even make guns yet All my stuff went to like building efficiency and food production I'm clearly not researching the right things.

You should be able to get most needed R&D with 20+ scientists, especially if you always rush faster research 1st and use your squads to get all the easy Tech Books for R&D points.

Thanks Diarmuhnd I'll try focus more on that, next play through :D.