Tactical Master Research Calculator

No, but 6,000,590 badges makes the full tree a long-term commitment. A whale can move through it faster; an F2P player needs to be more selective. You do not need to finish the whole branch in one push. Work toward bonuses you will use, and leave room in your badge budget for unfinished troop training.

That is the order I would recommend for a developed account: build up the troop-training branches before making Tactical Master your main badge sink. Start with your main troop class rather than spreading badges evenly across three teams you do not use equally. If the other classes are still weak, compare what their next levels give you before committing to an expensive Tactical Master node.

For Tactical Master's combat bonuses, it is the branch I would look at first once troop training is developed. But Army Expansion is not a zero-power tree: community cost tables list research power gains as well as troop-capacity benefits. It does not use badges, though it still costs RSS and research time. If capacity is holding you back, it can be worth doing. These trees solve different problems and compete for Lab time, not the same badge budget.

For a combat-focused account with developed troop training, I would look at Tactical Master next. Age of Steel has a different job: development and support, including building unlocks and production, healing or speed benefits. Those can matter if your account is stuck on that side of progression. Compare the next available upgrade and what it gives you; a larger whole-tree power total does not prove every level is a better purchase.

The tracker totals 6,000,590 research badges across 33 nodes and 470 levels. That covers Tactical Master itself, not Army Building or the building upgrades needed to reach it. Your remaining cost depends on the levels you have already completed.

Recharge Shield (II), Crippling Strike and Bulwark each cost 507,060 badges to max. Together that is 1,521,180 badges, roughly a quarter of the entire branch. Those are whole-node totals, not single-level prices. Treat the last stretch as a separate project rather than assuming the early levels reflect the cost of finishing.

Yes. Community cost tables also list electricity, Zents and research time. This tracker tracks badges, bonuses and listed research power; it does not calculate those RSS costs or timers yet. Having enough badges is not the same as having everything needed to complete the research. Check the in-game cost panel before starting a level.

There is no reliable fixed number of weeks for every account. Dividing your remaining badge cost by the badges you can spare each week estimates the badge-saving time, not the completion date. RSS, Lab upgrades, research speed, alliance help and speedups also matter. A steady pace you can afford is better than draining your badges just to push the completion bar.

The branch includes Troop ATK, DEF and HP; field and siege bonuses; healing speed; march speed; and destruction value. It also has flat ATK and DEF bonuses for Blood Rose, Wings of Dawn and Guard of Order heroes. The final combat nodes include Troop DMG and Troop DMG Resistance. The flat hero values are not percentages.

Match the bonus to how you play. Field Training and Camo Coating are relevant to field fights; the siege nodes serve assaults or defenses; the faction nodes matter to the heroes you use. Follow the unlock path shown in your game first. This tracker lets you enter levels independently, so it is not proof that you can skip earlier nodes.