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Post by Indominable J on Aug 20, 2017 18:33:57 GMT
This post is going to try to simplify and explain some of the information coming out about territory battles. As such, it will be modified as time goes on to reflect the latest information we've received. The information contained here is thus subject to revision as I'm proven wrong about things repeatedly more information comes out. Let's start at the beginning. Overview: - Territory Battles takes place over 6 phases. Each phase is currently designated to last 12 hours, and to be tied to 6 am Guild Leader's time (Pacific time -- unclear if it's PST/PDT or will change). There has been massive blowback on the forums regarding this timing issues, so the devs indicated they would talk it over.
- Each Phase has 1 or more territories (P1 has 1, P2 has 2, P3-6 have 3). Each of these territories has missions contained therein, and each territory has a possible 3 stars up for grabs (so 45 total stars for the 6 phases).
- Stars are earned through the accumulation of territory points. As a guild, we need to get at least one star in a territory to unlock the next territory in its path.
- Wait.....what do I mean by path? Let's go to a picture:
- See the arrows going from the highlighted portion (P2) to the middle grey areas? That's the path. So as you can see, P2 is divided into 2 territories. The northern territory can unlock the northern and central territories in P3. The southern territory can unlock the southern and central territories in P3. So if we got 1 star in the northern and none in the southern, in P3 we would be able to do the northern and central territories in P3, but NOT the southern in P3. We would, however, have the option to do the southern territory in P2 again.
How Do We Get Stars?
- Stars appear to be a function of territory points.
- As you can see from the top of the image, for whatever phase this is, 5.73 million territory points are needed to get a star. It appears that there are two ways get these points.
- Way #1: Troop deployment. At the beginning of each phase, you deploy your roster across available territories (see below for more information on that). The power of each character gives territory points.
- Way #2: Missions! Missions are the things we will be doing inside the territories. Missions can have various rewards, but some of those rewards are territory points.
- Why do we care about stars? Well Star #1 is easy -- we want to unlock additional territories. Why do we care about additional stars? The more stars we accumulate, the better the overall rewards will be.
Mission Types: - There are three types of missions identified so far: Combat Missions, Platoon Missions, and Special Missions
- Combat Missions involve (wait for it....) fighting. Each combat mission involves fighting six waves of enemies. Territory points are earned throughout, so if you don't complete all six waves, you still earn points. These missions have certain character requirements. Most often, those requirements are LS or Rebel, but some may require a specific character.
- Platoon Missions appear to simply be a character assignment mission:
 - Essentially a platoon is supposed to be comprised of 15 SPECIFIC characters. Each member can assign one or more characters to a platoon, but there appears to be a per person cap of 10 characters (see the upper righthand corner of the image). As platoons are filled we gain territory points, and come closer to unlocking a bonus that helps later on in the territory battles.
- In addition to the characters being specific, there will be a minimum star level (that increases each phase)
- The third type of mission is Special Missions. Special Missions have strict character requirements, and do not award territory points. Instead, they have special rewards. The example given is that there is one special mission that gives Rebel Officer Leia shards -- for every guild member that completes that mission, everyone in the guild gets a shard.
How Do I Know Where to Deploy? - This is probably the biggest issue we face. Think of TB as a guild-wide game of Risk, but more complicated. Knowing where (and how much) to deploy is equal parts record-keeping, experience and guessing. Luckily, we're slowly getting the hang of it
 - The first thing to keep in mind is that units refresh between Phases. So anyone you use in P1 becomes available again when P2 hits.
- The second thing to keep in mind is that you are able to either A) assign a toon to a platoon OR B) use that unit on a single mission in each phase.
- Phase 1 is pretty easy. Deploy every single unit you can to the only territory that exists in P1.
- Phases 2 through 6 become trickier. The officers keep a careful record of every phase of every TB fought since the beginning, and we have a spreadsheet with formulae to help us determine where to do final deployments at which point in the day (based on where we are points-wise, how many players are left to do combat missions, and a number of other variables). We update the numbers periodically throughout the day, do a gut-check, and issue guidance on the TB Announcements channel on where final deployments should happen.
So What Does This All Mean? - Damned if I know.
- Umm, I mean....
- Increasing Galactic Power is good. Working on Rebels is good -- seemingly for everything in this game, but especially Territory Battles. Even though Empire won the battle of Hoth. Ahhh, revisionist history.....
- There should be more information coming out over the coming weeks, presumably before TB lands. I'll update this as information comes out. Stay tuned!
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Post by Indominable J on Aug 26, 2017 15:18:01 GMT
Ok, time to update, as there's a little whole shitload more information out there. Let's dive into it: First, territories: as discussed above, there are 15 total territories on the map: 1 in phase 1, 2 in phase 2, and 3 in each of phases 3 through 6. In P1 and P2, you will only be using characters. In P3-P6, the northern territory is ships, while the central and southern territories are characters. Second, star requirements: the phases have escalating star requirements. P1 requires 2 star characters, and the requirements increase each phase until you hit 7 stars in P6. For ships, it's slightly different. When ships come into play in P3, there are two different requirements: 3 stars for deployment/combat missions, and 4 stars for platoon missions. Each increases by territory until you get to P6 and need 6 stars for deployment/combat missions and 7 stars for platoon missions. More specific information will be addressed below. Third, character requirements: for all character missions (combat, special, and platoon), you will be limited to light side characters, with additional possible restrictions as discussed below. That's right -- all those dark side characters you've diligently worked on? They are useful for deployment ONLY. For ships, you can use both LS and DS ships, primarily because there are like 3 ships in the game. HOWEVER, for phases 3 through 5, it looks like you can only use Ackbar or Mace as your capital ship; for P6, you can use any capital ship (as long as it's 6 star). What about specific units? Aren't we required to have CUP and Ugnaught at 7* G44? Well yes, if you want to be cool. No, if you are just concerned about territory battles. There are, however, several specific units/sub factions required for specific missions: - Hoth Rebel Soldier: Required at 3* for a combat mission in P2; required at 4* for a special mission in P3 (with Captain Han); required at 5* for a combat mission in P4
- Hoth Rebel Scout: Required at 4* for a combat mission in P3; Required at 6* for a combat mission in P5
- Phoenix: A phoenix squad is required at 6* for a combat mission in P5
- Captain Han Solo: Required at 4* for a special mission in P3 (with Hoth Rebel Soldier); Required at 7* for a special mission in P6 (with Rebel Officer Leia)
- Commander Luke: Required for a special mission in P5
- Rogue One: A squad of Rogue One characters is required at 7* for a combat mission in P6
- Rebel Officer Leia Organa: Required at 7* for special mission in P6 (with Captain Han)
Next up: More info on Missions!
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Post by Indominable J on Aug 26, 2017 15:53:27 GMT
As discussed in the first post, there are three types of missions: Combat, Special, and Platoon. Each is important in different ways. Combat Missions: - Combat missions involve you killing (or being killed by) enemies. They are 6 rounds each, with the difficulty escalating round-to-round. Combat missions involve a variety of enemies, including some that are "elite" units (identifiable by a buff icon) who you should generally target first.
- Points are acquired each round, so even if you lose in the third/fourth/fifth/sixth round, you will contribute points for what you have completed.
- As identified above, certain missions require a certain character or characters. If you don't have the character at the right star level, you can't do that mission. You can still do other missions, of course, that you meet the requirements for.
- Using a character in a combat mission deploys that character to the territory in which they were used. We'll get to what that means later.
- These missions can be HARD. There are times in the videos where g11 teams are not completing in p5. How do we make it easier? See Platoon Missions, below.
Special Missions:
- Special missions appear in phases 3, 5, and 6. In these, you are also killing enemies. Special missions are only three rounds, and also involve elite units.
- Special missions do NOT give territory battle points. Instead, they give a special reward -- in P3, ROLO shards, in P5 and P6, extra tokens for the TB store. These are earned per person completing the mission, and the whole guild reaps the rewards. NOTE that unlike combat missions, if you lose, no reward is acquired.
- These missions all have specific character/star requirements. That being said, the most important one is the P3 one that awards ROLO shards -- it requires a 5* Captain Han and a 5* Hoth Rebel Soldier. In the videos, a high gear squad with a g2/3 Captain Han can complete.
- Again, using a character in a special mission deploys that character to the territory in which they were used.
Platoon Missions: - Platoon missions might actually be some of the most important missions on the board.
- Platoon missions simply require assigning people to squads. No fighting, no nothing else.
- Each squad is 15 characters. These squads are all LS, and random every time. The stars required escalate by phase.
- Notably, it's not 15 unique characters. So a single squad could require multiples of the same people. And there are 6 squads per platoon mission. So rare characters could be required in bunches.
- Devs have confirmed that CLS will not be required in any platoon, nor will a character that is otherwise required for a specific mission in that phase. So in P3, for example, Hoth Rebel Soldier will not be required for a platoon mission.
- Platoon missions have two rewards: territory points and buffs/debuffs. What, pray tell, do I mean? Well for every two squads we complete in a platoon, either our characters gain some sort of a buff for the next phase or the enemies suffer some sort of a penalty. The buff/debuff increases as we complete more platoons. So completing platoons will be critical for our future success in the battle.
- Now while platoons will have star requirements, there is no level or gear requirement -- so your lv 1/g1, 7* CUP will be as useful in a platoon mission as a lv 85/g11 7* CUP. This feeds into the strategy as will be discussed later on.
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Post by Thann Solaar on Aug 30, 2017 1:01:06 GMT
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Post by Thann Solaar on Oct 16, 2017 18:39:39 GMT
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