Well, it depends on the way you do it. I usually do the first few waves on the beginning, tweak my team a bit depending on what I learn from the first battles. When I began to take too much casualties and fear of losing a battle I switch to leveling the team.
Then for two weeks I do my dailys battles only with that team, which in itself I consider a part of the event as it's a very unusual team.
And in the last week I go back to go as far as I can in the waves.
True it's less intensive than other events, but it's far less grindy and I like that.
It's a little too late for this one (well, there's still one more day), but just so you're all aware for the next cargo train event, you CAN try again as long as you DIE to an armoured train. If you reset out by like, refreshing your browser or force closing the app, the battle dissappears. At least in my experience (tested a few times... not willingly, mind you. Argh...)
Maybe this is their solution to people trying to avoid repair bills on losing battles.
Ah, now that this event is over, I have a whole bunch of level 30+ light and arty tanks (that started this event at like, level 5) that I won't be using again until the next cargo event, lol. Saved up expedition maps + exp boosters levels pretty fast (relatively at least for this game)
Thanks to this event, I finally got to elite my chieftan and AMX (started at 10% boost for each) for the "low" cost of 1.5k cores (and a bunch of level 30 arties and light tanks that will now sit in the reserves). I've been whaling the gacha for so long trying to elite those two (and ended up with a lot of other 20% boost 5* tanks that I never had before in the process). Whew.
Last edited by TiamatRoar; 02-02-2020 at 10:22 PM.
The battle also disappears if you leave afterwards to wait out repairs. Whatever their reasons it lands somewhere between petty and spiteful game design. Locking the retry for a day, having a five or ten core retry cost, or using the expedition damage system would have done.
I'm just going to hold out for an event where I can get some emblems. Leveling did nothing to help me progress in this event. I guess I'll need to level some defense tanks in other classes in case this ever shows up again. It's like this event will never end! Like a ghost event. Woo.
Nice... but a bit pricey. For myself I didn't reset the event and thus ended with something like 8 or 9 Pvt. Hans which allow me to get Lowe at 10% and Julie at 8%. Both of them had allready a bit of boost and I choose to only give 1% upgrade to tanks under 10% in fear of getting a copy when I would be just under 20% and kind of losing 9 Hans.