1.Place your HQ at a hard to reach position with defenses covering the area around it ? front, back and sides.
2. Protect your defensive structures with non-essential buildings by placing them near, but not touching them. Also simultaneously protect your non-essential buildings with your defenses as each building destroyed gives the enemy gunboat energy.
3. Leave a small spacing (1 square) between buildings, especially defensive structures. If you don?t, Artillery can hit multiple buildings if the building?s edges or corners are touching.
4. They can kill all your buildings except your HQ and you?d still win.