Thread: "New" upcoming game: Armor Blitz

Well lets be honest here, if you want a "Game" like what you described, you go play Civ. or DoW (not the shitty 3rd one though), etc.
Most of these games are ment to be super casual where you are not required to actually "play". You set up your team and let the auto combat do its thing. No one can expect Xcom when coming into these games. Thats not what Browser games of this type set out to do.

Personally I would like to see some variety in AB. Heck they could even to few Tower Defense maps, where you deploy your tanks on a winding path, they dont move, lets say they are elevated or something, and the enemy sends enemies towards you general.
Or maybe a map where you can employ only Light tanks, and have to rush enemy positions. The map would be twice the size in length, and you would have to send your troops charging. Another one could be a hold the line mission where you can use only Heavy and Artillery tanks, and the enemy would send non tank units - Monsters (some reskinned creatures), at you and you would have to hold the line. offensive general abilities would be turned of and you could use only Heal and Defense up for example.
I mean there are options. Something to break the monotone line combat just like you mentioned.
But I suppose thats not what AB set out to do, I guess. Its supposed to be farily simple mobile game in the first place, so I do get it that improving on its aspects must be compatible with the mobile version, and they might be reluctant to change the formula that is already working.

I like the idea of Being able to upgrade tiles to some degree and assign tanks that could "work" the tile would be a interesting concept so that you bench sitting units have something to do.
It could for example give you things like placeable neko turrets, bunkers, mines etc. Just like what the enemy corruption gets, you could place some "annoyance" structures and items on the field before the start of the battle. The workable tiles would create these items - Imagine something like a hybrid between Factory and scouting, where multiple girls would be creating the item for a certain amount of time. It might cost some resources, and depending of how many girls and of what rarity are working on it, the building time might be reduced, or you would get a higher chance of getting better item (lets say there would be a 10% chance to get the big bunker Tower instead of the small neko turret, or something of that sorts")
Yeah those would some cool things to break the boring monotone feel of the game, even if a little bit.
PoC is another thing by itself though, but... ah well.

Originally Posted by Myrdin

. . . you want a "Game" like what you described, you go play Civ. or DoW.

I DO really enjoy playing dawn of war.
. . . Well hell, you've twisted my arm.

Originally Posted by TreadNaught

I DO really enjoy playing dawn of war.
. . . Well hell, you've twisted my arm.

As do I.
Dark Crusade is my favorite of them all, despite how good DoW 2. Soultstorm was Ok, Sisters and Deldar were fun, but I felt like the addition of pseudo flyiers didnt do good for the game, and the stroy telling was several notches weaker than in Dark Crusade (especially the character personality and speech you always got from them in DC was much worse in SS)
For how old it was, that game did so many things right.
Heck they even added the Tau and Necrons, something these titles normally either skip over coz - Posterboys, Space elves, Green Gitz and normal Humies are almost always the basic standard - or you have to wait for expansions.

EDIT:

So got enough event items togather before the event ends to do the 40% chance pull and - lo and behold - lady luck smiled on me and gifted me with T-62 !
This girl looks amazing ! I like her since she appeared in the main story. Her stats, at least in my oppinion are great for what is she supposed to be -a fast, back up tank with huge basic in build evasion.
And just to clairfy for the haters - this is the first time I got a 5* from any of those "4-5 Tank" pulls. Every single time I got a 4* Tank, or 4* Emblem. So this girl is literally my first when it comes to those type of event pulls.

What are your thought on her ? What emblems should I go for ? Seems Evasion and Accuracy to buff her survival as well as get her above 100% acu (she has 99% as base value) and the last one... HP ? She is not a fighter, she is a back up "oh shit I need to deploy something fast, to reach and protect my gun line" type of tank in my oppinion.

Originally Posted by Myrdin

As do I.
Dark Crusade is my favorite of them all, despite how good DoW 2. Soultstorm was Ok, Sisters and Deldar were fun, but I felt like the addition of pseudo flyiers didnt do good for the game, and the stroy telling was several notches weaker than in Dark Crusade (especially the character personality and speech you always got from them in DC was much worse in SS)
For how old it was, that game did so many things right.
Heck they even added the Tau and Necrons, something these titles normally either skip over coz - Posterboys, Space elves, Green Gitz and normal Humies are almost always the basic standard - or you have to wait for expansions.

EDIT:

So got enough event items togather before the event ends to do the 40% chance pull and - lo and behold - lady luck smiled on me and gifted me with T-62 !
This girl looks amazing ! I like her since she appeared in the main story. Her stats, at least in my oppinion are great for what is she supposed to be -a fast, back up tank with huge basic in build evasion.
And just to clairfy for the haters - this is the first time I got a 5* from any of those "4-5 Tank" pulls. Every single time I got a 4* Tank, or 4* Emblem. So this girl is literally my first when it comes to those type of event pulls.

What are your thought on her ? What emblems should I go for ? Seems Evasion and Accuracy to buff her survival as well as get her above 100% acu (she has 99% as base value) and the last one... HP ? She is not a fighter, she is a back up "oh shit I need to deploy something fast, to reach and protect my gun line" type of tank in my oppinion.

I was a Necron player on TT, so I also preferred DC over any other DoW title. And I also got T-62 from one of my Soviet Packs. I agree that she's gorgeous. I haven't figured out exactly what emblems I want on her, but at this point she's one of my 'too low to matter, just grind XP for now' tanks. But eventually extra evasion will be paramount. Other than that I don't know.

Third Soviet Pack result: 5* IS-7 Vitaliya. The Packs turned out to be a pretty good deal for me...only one 4* and that was another KV-8. Not that I'll use a Heavy in the platoon at all, but she's one of the freaking hot ones.

Total 5* haul for the the duration of the event:

Event:
IS-7 Vitaliya (Pack)
T-62 Yuliya (Pack)
3X Object 279 Ulyana (Candy Canes)
3X ASU-57 Polina (Ornaments)
PT-76 Eliza (Core Exchange)

Non-event, but added during the event timeframe:
Centurion Mk V Catriona (Research)
M48 Patton Angela (Research)
ARL44 Amelie (Login)
IS-3 Alyona (Factory)

This brings my total number of discrete 5*s to 24. If anyone 'hates' my luck that's fine, but you really should want it to be possible to clean up as a FTPer. Also, I only had the cores to spend on Eliza because I declined to purchase RNG cornucopia during the Thanksgiving event. As I see it, I picked my battles wisely.

Oh, and my 5* emblems were Valor and Evasion...I think they're both going to go on Yuliya.

Also, can we PLEASE get our own Armor Blitz subforum now?

@Myrdin: I'd personally recommend Valor (Attack Speed), Evasion and Hope (HP) as your emblems. Probably have Accuracy as a secondary on one of them. Her active (Haste) buffs AS in addition to move and evasion, so she'll not only rush to the front but do a good amount of damage too. HP and Evasion are obviously for survival. Secondary stats to look for are Damage, Evasion, HP and Damage Reduction. Critical stats are always good too of course

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Third Soviet Pack result: 5* IS-7 Vitaliya. The Packs turned out to be a pretty good deal for me...only one 4* and that was another KV-8. Not that I'll use a Heavy in the platoon at all, but she's one of the freaking hot ones.

Total 5* haul for the the duration of the event:

Event:
IS-7 Vitaliya (Pack)
T-62 Yuliya (Pack)
3X Object 279 Ulyana (Candy Canes)
3X ASU-57 Polina (Ornaments)
PT-76 Eliza (Core Exchange)

Non-event, but added during the event timeframe:
Centurion Mk V Catriona (Research)
M48 Patton Angela (Research)
ARL44 Amelie (Login)
IS-3 Alyona (Factory)

This brings my total number of discrete 5*s to 24. If anyone 'hates' my luck that's fine, but you really should want it to be possible to clean up as a FTPer. Also, I only had the cores to spend on Eliza because I declined to purchase RNG cornucopia during the Thanksgiving event. As I see it, I picked my battles wisely.

Oh, and my 5* emblems were Valor and Evasion...I think they're both going to go on Yuliya.

Also, can we PLEASE get our own Armor Blitz subforum now?

Perhaps if you made an account and logged in to post the mods might think it was worth a sub forum. As it is we have so many Unregistered posts that it's hard to say if you are one lazy person or many. If it's many then we would get our own sub for AB if you all became less lazy. It's not like you have to use your real / game / nutaku name here if you don't want too so it can't be a privacy thing.

Yeah, I've been over this on the FKG subforums. It might have even been with you, but even with your exalted name attached, I can't remember...which should tell you something about the importance of a forum name. Why do you care so much whether or not I attach a name to my posts? I don't depend on some library of past posts to make my points carry weight in other posts...each post either carries sufficient weight to stand on its own or it doesn't. I find this further anonymity within an anonymous forum to be a novel experience, and I feel no obligation to change that to satisfy your anal-retentive need to put a label on everyone. But to satisfy just a bit of your curiosity...some of the anonymous posts here are not mine. There are at least two other anonymous posters here

In any case, we're up to 137 pages of AB posts and only a tiny bit of it is lame attempted no-name shaming. Even though I've never played it, Mononofu has 139 pages. This is more than enough activity to justify a subforum for each. The rest in here are all under 40 pages. Meanwhile, it has been a full week since the last post in the PPS subforum, and all the way back to November for OI. The mods should know to do this on their own.

Originally Posted by Zandel

Perhaps if you made an account and logged in to post the mods might think it was worth a sub forum. As it is we have so many Unregistered posts that it's hard to say if you are one lazy person or many. If it's many then we would get our own sub for AB if you all became less lazy.

Hey! I may be lazy, but my reason for not logging in has nothing to do with laziness. I like the freedom to disengage. To evaporate into another name when people get dogged or argumentative.

That said, it does seem to be a fairly small number of frequent posters. Plus I'm not sure how much benefit a dedicated sub forum would be. Most of the game information is handled well enough by the wiki, though some things (like accuracy effecting scouting dps) are non obvious enough that it would be good to have in a sticky. It's definitely a game where a 'new player pitfalls' outline would save trouble.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This brings my total number of discrete 5*s to 24. If anyone 'hates' my luck that's fine, but you really should want it to be possible to clean up as a FTPer.

I don't hate your luck, but I do hate mine. I just barely managed to scrounge up enough bells to burn that I could reserve 50 ornaments / candy canes towards a second soviet pack... and got two SU-152s. So my efforts and cores turned into 50 blueprints.