1.8k gold, Save up for Gally or Orkan?

ALSO! NOT BUYING 5th SLOT!

The Galahad. It is awesome, and if you give it a Taran and two Magnums, you can get really far. I can kill about 2 heavy robots with mine in one battle.

Orkans is the weapons effective against shield bot, if you see a lot of Gary, Galahad, Lancelot, Rhino in your league? Orkan is perfect weapons to counter them. If there are a lot of energy shield like Carnage, Fujin or Ancile? Orkans is pretty week against them. It is still pretty good to have at least 2 Orkans in your hanger, when you see there are too many shield bot in the battle? It is the time you deploy your Orkan bot. But Don't deploy your Orkan bot if there are many energy shield bot.

Galahad is a great bot, which has strategy against almost every bot. Except mid range splash, which can kill Galahad easily. It take sometimes to master pilot a Galahad, because you need different way to play against all different type of bots.

They are probably one the best value Au purchase currently. Which one first? Depends if you want a bot that can last a long time against none splash damage bot, or you want a weapon that can kill shield bot fast. So I choose others, the choice is your. You probably will buy them both eventually, just which one first.

I haven't reached a point where I need it, only silver 3 man.

Get the 5th slot
Seriously - the 5k Au you spend on it gives you HP and firepower boost that no upgrade can offer. Just think of the upgrades to your hangar you would need to balance the potential addition of, say PDB Griff.

If you are all like "no 「fluffernutter」ing way im gonna get that 5th slot 「female dog」 piece of 「dookie」" then go for Lance

Grinding for 5th slot without great bots (at least Galahad) is dull. This is game. Having Gareth and Galahad before 5th slot is pretty much guaranteed to be 100% worth it in basically every way.

With great bots, it's usual to have 4 bots last the entire game. Especially if you make the 4th something like RDB Griffin with great survivability brought by range and escape jump.

Let me disagree with you.
Maybe I went a bit of opposite extreme, but I spent my gold in following order: 4th slot, Aphids, Gepard, 5th slot, 2xOrks, Gala, 2xZeus and eventually Gary...then lost 1.3k Au on last event but that's another story
Point is it's doable and brings a biggest punch to the hangar. Not only the added HP+damage, but versatility of added bot, one that is not your typical line-up. Such added bot means new tactics and flexibility to better match tactics to different maps. All in all just the fact of this extra bot and tactical advantage it offers, does greatly increase the hangar potential across all maps.

After grinding for above purchases, I'm not sure what would be my next Au expense. I'm not inclined on getting Fury or Lance as I find them rather boring and despite their firepower and overall potential, very limited in terms of possible tactics. At the end i may get a skin for Gala or something equally silly

more or less what i did too except after fourth slot i bought a gareth. Gave me more often than not the beacon cap award every game and has since paid himself off more than once.

Have to admit a Gareth is a great investment. Only 1.250 gold for one of the best bots in the game.

I also agree that running the Galahad is SUPER fun, and if you're playing for fun factor then get it. It is a viable bot in any league, so it's a good start to master piloting it. I actually won 4000 gold on a gold chest in the Lunar event which I used to unlock the fifth slot. I am SO glad I didn't sacrifice the fun factor of the game to grind all the way to 5000Au without any new bots/weapons to try. Talk about depressing...

Now I have lots of fun bots, I actually don't mind grinding my way to 5000 again for a fury