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With the new mechanics.. If 1 brazier covers my whole claim.. do I only need one?

If it covers your whole claim, walls and the tiles next to the walls, then yes - it would be enough.

You should build more than one in case it gets destroyed- but not the mass numbers you used to.

2 is better than one
3 is better than two...

IF the are they cover is insufficent you may have a point which the attackers can breach your walls whilst under fire by 1 brazier at 1/2 or more reduced damage.. fair enough.

More time and effort should be put into protecting your brazier than spamming them..

Couple of walls around a brazier in the centre of a segregated base, with plenty of obstacles around it should make people think twice before even bothering to disable it..

Dont forget a tactic to drain the brazier of coal will be much easier if they only need to drain 1 brazier at half damage, than 1 brazier at full damage, if this tactic is viable.

DemonEyes wrote:IF the are they cover is insufficent you may have a point which the attackers can breach your walls whilst under fire by 1 brazier at 1/2 or more reduced damage.. fair enough.

More time and effort should be put into protecting your brazier than spamming them..

Couple of walls around a brazier in the centre of a segregated base, with plenty of obstacles around it should make people think twice before even bothering to disable it..

I agree that defending the brazier is more important than spamming them. but in the end defenses take more space than braziers.

DemonEyes wrote:Dont forget a tactic to drain the brazier of coal will be much easier if they only need to drain 1 brazier at half damage, than 1 brazier at full damage, if this tactic is viable.

If they damaged one and chose to drain the other you bought your sell some time cause if there was only one to begin with you already lost your base when they damaged it.

Cawalox wrote:2 is better than one
3 is better than two...

Not anymore. Depending on placement you may seriously nerf your defenses by placing more braziers.

He means per cluster I think. I'd stick with at least 4 per cluster, to minimize the number of raiders that can bash a brazier at once without destroying disabled ones.

OP asked for a base which can be covered with one brazier. Sure if you can place more without overlapping that would be better solution, that way you could maximize the damage. But as Potjeh pointed out, even in the case of bigger bases you should cluster them but clusters them self shouldnt overlap.