Build and Conquer Tier List

Three scenes, not one global S row

The listing order is empty plot → neighbourhoods and roads → farms and shops → factories → power plants and water → research, vehicles, missiles, tunnels. Official copy: a strong economy wins wars; a strong military protects what you built. That sentence is the rank logic.

Research Tiers 1–3 on this wiki are a Community planning frame (basics / production / military tech). They are not this Build and Conquer tier list. Do not merge those frames.

Opening economy is the first scene most searches actually want — Build and Conquer best buildings before anyone has a military menu.

Housing is S because shops need residents

Community HUD recaps open Housing → Apartments. Packing hints (~32 pop finished, ~48 after an upgrade) stay Community / Unverified. Use them only as density, not as a wage model. Expensive housing is more value *to the shops*, not a cash building by itself — that match lives on economy.

Do not S-rank a Mall or Supermarket label here. Those HUD names are Unverified shop tiers. The listing kind is shops. Place them if the menu shows them; do not pretend they have official rates.

Once people live on the road, the next scene is not “more apartments.” It is whether power and water can keep that S row running.

Siting is a rank tool

Community layout parks plants off dense housing and factories on a spur. That is not an official blueprint; the map lives on city layout. Exact draw stays TBA. Nuclear as a HUD name stays Unverified — the listing kind is power plants.

A city that looks rich but blacked out is not solvent. Unpowered jobs idle Build and Conquer workers. Idle workers starve shops. That chain is why plants jump the Build and Conquer best buildings row the moment demand exists.

If the temptation is still “one missile will solve income,” the next section is the early-missile scene — it stays C until manufacture has a city behind it.

Missiles can rise after the home plot is solvent

Community recaps say the first military options show around city level 2, with a population gate near 250. Treat both as Community / Unverified. Even then, early guns are described as expensive relative to a poor plot. Defense before pressure is the recap habit — details on military.

The missile chain (SRBM → GLCM → MRBM → Hypersonic BM) is a later manufacture path on missiles. Hit counts stay unverified. Ranking Hypersonic BM as a global S here would be fan fiction.

When cash, food, and power survive a full construction cycle, you pick the next spend from the situation table — not from another game’s unit roster.

One question before every queue

Name the scene. If you cannot, you are about to S-rank a C spend. Catalogue the actual listing kind on buildings before you promote a HUD label.

Community crash repair stays the same as the economy page: power and water, then food, then idle workers into jobs, then shop cash, then production. Military waits.

If the HUD shows a name this wiki will not S-rank, the Unverified fence is next.

Why the fence exists

BETA menus move. Promoting Mall, Nuclear, or a bunker stack as required Build and Conquer best buildings would mix this wiki with Command & Conquer base lists and iOS BNC Studios trees.

If your session shows Supermarket under shops, place it as a shop-tier building and keep stats TBA. If your session does not show Nuclear, do not hunt a fan cost.

Scan the mistake table so a pretty HUD row does not become a global S.

One habit that prevents most of them

Before you queue, say the scene out loud: opening, grid, or early missiles. Then pick the colored row for that scene only.

When that habit sticks, place the S-rank opening loop on the plot instead of arguing about a fake global ladder.