Thread: "New" upcoming game: Armor Blitz

I have no problem with you whaling...you're keeping our FTP game alive. Has it resulted in you breaking into the top PoC ranks?

Q1: I would drop the heavies...all of them. But that's just me. I feel they're too high cost, too slow, too low DPS, and the HP is just delaying the inevitable while you struggle to get enough gears to drop a replacement. Though if you drop them all at the same time you may suffer from decreased platoon performance. Someone better with Heavies than I am would need to prioritize them for you.

Q2: Put Catriona in there right away. In my platoon her performance level is equal to other 5* M tanks 4-6 levels higher than her own. With her huge range she can follow behind your deathball and you won't have to worry so much about her relative fragility. You already have one of the Arty-Chans, but as we discussed earlier in the thread it may not hurt to have two 'I win' buttons. Don't have any experience with Polina yet, but she sounds intriguing. Other than Edna, who hardly ever dies, I'm not too fond of Haste tanks unless you don't mind sacrificing and repairing them. My goal in most cases (end event tiles excluded) is to make it through a map without losing a single tank, and I never actually plan on throwing one away.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I have no problem with you whaling...you're keeping our FTP game alive. Has it resulted in you breaking into the top PoC ranks?

Q1: I would drop the heavies...all of them. But that's just me. I feel they're too high cost, too slow, too low DPS, and the HP is just delaying the inevitable while you struggle to get enough gears to drop a replacement. Though if you drop them all at the same time you may suffer from decreased platoon performance. Someone better with Heavies than I am would need to prioritize them for you.

Q2: Put Catriona in there right away. In my platoon her performance level is equal to other 5* M tanks 4-6 levels higher than her own. With her huge range she can follow behind your deathball and you won't have to worry so much about her relative fragility. You already have one of the Arty-Chans, but as we discussed earlier in the thread it may not hurt to have two 'I win' buttons. Don't have any experience with Polina yet, but she sounds intriguing. Other than Edna, who hardly ever dies, I'm not too fond of Haste tanks unless you don't mind sacrificing and repairing them. My goal in most cases (end event tiles excluded) is to make it through a map without losing a single tank, and I never actually plan on throwing one away.

1) My standard deployment is Conqueror -> S-51 (unless enemy deploys on different lanes and then it's Pershing) and I rarely lose Conq unless it's either the last event map or above level 60 in PoC, so I find her durability sufficient to get the deathball rolling. That said, I'm certain 4 heavies is too many.

2) Catriona and Katy seems like a good swap in for two heavies, Polina I'd like to slip in for the airdrop and 2-cost benefits, but not sure who else to drop (probably will keep Conq and Object for heavies)

By the way, I can break top 1% in PoC unless I'm short on oil, which generally only happens if I go on a Jingle Bell farming/tank leveling spree.

Originally Posted by IvanLedah21

By the way, I can break top 1% in PoC unless I'm short on oil, which generally only happens if I go on a Jingle Bell farming/tank leveling spree.

Cool...I'm sitting on the fence between 10% and 11%...half the time I get it, half the time I don't. Not too terrible for FTP, in my opinion, but I can't get past 'enemy level 60' yet. Which is odd, because unless there's a huge glut of players in my exact position that's a lot of ranking difference for just one map.

Personally I would keep 2 heavys, but it depends on which one.

My two active heavys are Cerys who has the massive damage reduction for pretty long duration (not invulnerability like Mouse mind you), which I use as the opening leader with Victoria in tow as siege TD.

Next I have Alyona who is the support Heavy. I keep her in reserves when I need to reinforce a position that requires a tank that can withstand.
Movenemt emblem and her own active ability are good enough for that. Though I have been considering swapping her in for something else, so far she has performed well and fits my style of running multiple fronts.

Personally I am not picking up Katyusha. I dislike Minnie already to a point. The AI for this type of tank is super wonky, and her "setup" animation take so long you often depleate 1/4 of her active, simply by the fact that the first target dies and she needs to go through the whole fckn animation to redirect. She is amazing when she works, and sucks balls when she doesnt. And the sheer preparation for this takes to much effort and can backfire rather quickly (many times she has been killed by random AOE bs and insta gibbed before even using her one trick pony of a power).
Having two of these, while nice on paper, would be to much of hassle for me to execute.
I´d much rather wait and pick up one of the premium Artillery tanks, or a TD/Medium that has good siege skill like Catriona and Victoria.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Cool...I'm sitting on the fence between 10% and 11%...half the time I get it, half the time I don't. Not too terrible for FTP, in my opinion, but I can't get past 'enemy level 60' yet. Which is odd, because unless there's a huge glut of players in my exact position that's a lot of ranking difference for just one map.

This is interesting, I usually just stopped after completing stage #29 and I always get into the 5-7% (sometimes 9%) by reset. I suppose the score multiplier helps a lot.

Originally Posted by Shieun

This is interesting, I usually just stopped after completing stage #29 and I always get into the 5-7% (sometimes 9%) by reset. I suppose the score multiplier helps a lot.

Yeah, but evidently you've figured out a better mix of time/combat bonus than I have. Lately I've been giving up time bonus in the early stages to try to get more combat bonus...but after the level increases significantly I have to just do my normal all-out blitz.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yeah, but evidently you've figured out a better mix of time/combat bonus than I have. Lately I've been giving up time bonus in the early stages to try to get more combat bonus...but after the level increases significantly I have to just do my normal all-out blitz.

well... i really just auto-ed my way to 24-25, then manual with deploying everything as fast i could.

I still don't get about Scouting. Am I suppose to scout using H-Units since they have High Durability?

@Myrdin, your point on Minnie/Katyusha is valid, which is why I generally use Minnie in two situations:
A) Boss killing
B) Deathball wrecking when I do NOT have multiple medium tanks/TDs out (since then you end up wasting half her skill on enemies killed by your other tanks). Pop her behind a heavy and let her rip, basically. Usually kills enough to let me get a few mediums/destroyers out and build up deathball.

Whether the above uses validate using both is debatable.

Originally Posted by IvanLedah21

Polina I'd like to slip in for the airdrop and 2-cost benefits

I started experimenting with Polina, and I must say if she's got backup by an oncoming deathball that can overtake her and you time it right, her airdrop does really well. I haven't lost her yet on a lvl 39 map and I started her at lvl 3.

The only thing that will suck is that I just KNOW they're going to pull the lame 'wholesome story' bullshit with her.