Thread: "New" upcoming game: Armor Blitz

Originally Posted by Jeffrey Uy

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

Light for Oil
Medium for Currency
Heavy for 4 slot items
Tank Destroyer and Artillery for emblem drops

You dont need high durability, the durability damage you take that is not checked against your DPS is % deduction based anyway. Just make sure you have healthy balance of durability and dps. You'll need about 2000+ durability and 200-300 dps on your tanks to survive 8 hours + scouting.

Longest my tanks been out is about 16 hours, but I've heard some people goes for like a day or almost two.

Also dont forget accuracy emblem provide multiplier on top of your displayed dps for scouting. I think one of the defensive sub stats also provides extra durability, but i'm not sure which ones.

Light tanks are best for scouting overall because oil is more useful than metal or currency (unless you're at the stage where you want lots of emblem chances) but they die quick due to low durability.

High durability lets you scout longer, with heavies being best for if you're going to work or something. While the non-dps check damage is % based, once you go over 8 hours the dps checks start getting larger and larger so high durability is still useful if you need a tank to last 10+ hours (my own record is a 5* level 38 heavy that lasted 21 hours; that was more just to see how long it could go than to be useful)

Stats to put on scouting tanks, ranked from best to worst:

HP > Damage > Accuracy > Damage Reduction > Attack Speed > Evasion > Damage Bonus > Crit Chance > Crit Multiplier

0 effect: Penetration, Range, Movement, Rotation

Side Note: Are we SURE accuracy buffs scouting? I know its impact on dps is minimal, and is mainly used for countering evade tanks

Originally Posted by IvanLedah21

Side Note: Are we SURE accuracy buffs scouting? I know its impact on dps is minimal, and is mainly used for countering evade tanks

Pretty sure. I've checked the dps value with and without accuracy emblem when I sortie Pansy out last time. Without accuracy emblem = no multiplier, with accuracy emblem = multiplier present to the value of accuracy (e.g. 150% accuracy = 1.5 multiplier on display dps for scouting).

Images of my Pansy on the link. First bar without accuracy emblem, second one with accuracy emblem. You can see that my Scouting dps on the second image increased from 264 to 370 (approx 1.39 multiplier) because of the accuracy emblem. While first one doesnt display the multiplier effect (because I removed the accuracy emblem)

https://imgur.com/a/Km4GJ

Originally Posted by Shieun

Pretty sure. I've checked the dps value with and without accuracy emblem when I sortie Pansy out last time. Without accuracy emblem = no multiplier, with accuracy emblem = multiplier present to the value of accuracy (e.g. 150% accuracy = 1.5 multiplier on display dps for scouting).

Images of my Pansy on the link. First bar without accuracy emblem, second one with accuracy emblem. You can see that my Scouting dps on the second image increased from 264 to 370 (approx 1.39 multiplier) because of the accuracy emblem. While first one doesnt display the multiplier effect (because I removed the accuracy emblem)

https://imgur.com/a/Km4GJ

Well, damn, that's really good to know. Accuracy's effect on normal dps is almost 0 lol.

Minnie and Katyusha are low dps, high burst dps units. That makes both of them EXTREMELY valuable for doing the Devonis Stun sHell map that comes up regularly in PoC. No other tank can make as much use out of the sparse seconds of mobility.

Fortunately I just barely managed to snag a Minnie from the Halloween event. Soviet packs have only given me four stars I already own because of course they have.

Originally Posted by IvanLedah21

Light tanks are best for scouting overall because oil is more useful than metal or currency (unless you're at the stage where you want lots of emblem chances) but they die quick due to low durability.

High durability lets you scout longer, with heavies being best for if you're going to work or something. While the non-dps check damage is % based, once you go over 8 hours the dps checks start getting larger and larger so high durability is still useful if you need a tank to last 10+ hours (my own record is a 5* level 38 heavy that lasted 21 hours; that was more just to see how long it could go than to be useful)

Stats to put on scouting tanks, ranked from best to worst:

HP > Damage > Accuracy > Damage Reduction > Attack Speed > Evasion > Damage Bonus > Crit Chance > Crit Multiplier

Why is oil more important than the others? Uhmmm... how will I know of the stats when scouting? The only things shows there are DUR and DPS.

BTW, what should I spend on Cores? You know those red Hexagonal Shape Thingy?

Originally Posted by Jeffrey Uy

Why is oil more important than the others? Uhmmm... how will I know of the stats when scouting? The only things shows there are DUR and DPS.

Oil is XP, and XP is the longest pole in everybody's tent...at least until people start maxing out their tanks.

That should be enough said, but if it isn't, when using oil to get XP, you also have chances to get emblems. The more oil, the more chances at emblems you get. If you don't get emblems, you get tanks that can be converted to more XP. Metal isn't ever in abundance (for some people), but compared to another tank level the benefits of using it to upgrade tanks is so minimal that it hardly even matters if you max out a tank or leave it at zero bonus. And currency is just trash, even compared to metal. Yes, 'eventually' you'll want max level on both your relationship bonuses and your emblems, but you should never go out of your way to work specifically on either if the opportunity cost is that you get less oil.

My lights bring back enough emblems, cores, and currency to keep me comfortably supplied. I can't imagine I'd be able to run all the maps I do with the pittance I'd get from TD/A scouts. And H/M scouts? Forget it.

As for your edit...spend cores on opening factory slots and expanding your tank storage. Once you've done this (storage expansion will be an ongoing thing), cores are best used for events. Either you buy supplemental event currency with them to make up for not being able to finish all the event tiles or you can purchase the extra event tanks directly with them (for this event, PT-76 and/or Katyusha). Once your 'basic game needs' are taken care of, they're basically just another event currency.

If you're FTP, I don't recommend spending them on any recruiting. That's whaling territory.

Currently my oil is at 945 / 3000. I guess I made a mistake on leveling up at Lv 4 spots.

Still learning to play this game and thanks for info. (Although, still confused @_@)

Originally Posted by Jeffrey Uy

Currently my oil is at 945 / 3000. I guess I made a mistake on leveling up at Lv 4 spots.

Well, you won't be able to get 6,000 oil capacity until you already know what you're doing. But you should be driving toward the oil derrick at the top of the map (lvl 32, Locally Sourced) for 5,000. It isn't really THAT big of a mistake, but you may have screwed yourself out of some oil and that would have held you back. You can recover from it if you catch up to the tiles you can finish. If that doesn't get you past the next oil derrick, you haven't done yourself much of any harm at all, just the marginal increase in XP per oil spent that you get on higher level tiles.

Overall, in this game there's a balance between sandbagging and striving...you benefit the most from doing the hardest level tile you can finish, but you also don't want to waste time or resources on repairs while you still have more oil to spend. So you need to find the highest level tile you can complete without losing any tanks and farm that. As your tanks get to higher levels, you adjust to higher tiles. If you get close to the end of your play session, you can do a run on the highest tile or try a new tile, then let the repairs go on while you're away from the game.