Farming with L36 Hooligans

Hooligans are one of the best units for brainfarming in the World Zombination.

Hooligans for all your brainfarming needs

Brainfarming is replaying a campaign city in order to get brains for raiding and research. Brainfarming works especially well when you can borrow a unit and just use the borrowed unit (and none of your own) as you can play as long as you want without using up your unit stamina.

Hooligans are capable of brainfarming in many cities on hard and expert.

Different cities give different pay-offs in terms of brains - they also take different lengths of time to complete.

Silencer from Reddit Brains kindly let me use his spreadsheet to input data for Maelstrom's level 36 Hooligans to see what the brain per second pay off was for each city. I put in five times for each city (most cities I played a number of times first to make sure I was getting a fairly consistent set of times before recording five times as having a bit of practice can make a difference to times.)

Here's the spreadsheet (sorry it goes over the edge - it's either that or making it teeny tiny and unreadable):

The best brains/second pay off comes from Lima on Hard (40 brains/second).


Lima on Hard is also easy to play, but if you are still looking to level up, you might be better playing Mexico Expert as you will get more trophies.

(As for level 50 Hooligans with an AOE attack, it may be that Mexico Expert gives a better pay-off in terms of brains, but Silencer currently needs more data to work that out)