Can I lose any ships to 3 star a Ship Challenge

sadly, yes.

You can't lose any. Which makes reinforcements pointless. Which is poor game design.

"Indominable_J;937077" wrote:
You can't lose any. Which makes reinforcements pointless. Which is poor game design.

not entirely
clearing the battle with help of your reinforcements > not being able to clear the battle at all.
personally i'd rather sim a lower tier than having to battle manually, but that's just me.

If someone is trying to three star a challenge, reinforcements really are pointless and should not be required to start the battle.

"Noval749;937088" wrote:
If someone is trying to three star a challenge, reinforcements really are pointless and should not be required to start the battle.

+1

For real just let me dump all my resources into 5 dark side ships and be done with it! it is so tedious to 4*/5* 8 dark side ships.

"Darkjoe1990;937093" wrote:

"Noval749;937088" wrote:
If someone is trying to three star a challenge, reinforcements really are pointless and should not be required to start the battle.

+1

For real just let me dump all my resources into 5 dark side ships and be done with it! it is so tedious to 4*/5* 8 dark side ships.

It's 8 5* ships that can be a combination of light and dark. Not just 8 dark.

Edit: it is kinda stupid that you don't need more than 5, if you're trying to 3* it. But you need 8 to unlock it.
Of course we want to 3* and SIM it, never to battle it again.

So wait why do people always say they need dark side ships at 5* to get Zeta's?

Because you need 5* Executerix for zeta challenge.

"Darkjoe1990;937307" wrote:
So wait why do people always say they need dark side ships at 5* to get Zeta's?

Because you need them to get Tarkin's Ship in order to do the zeta tier

"leef;937081" wrote:

"Indominable_J;937077" wrote:
You can't lose any. Which makes reinforcements pointless. Which is poor game design.

not entirely
clearing the battle with help of your reinforcements > not being able to clear the battle at all.
personally i'd rather sim a lower tier than having to battle manually, but that's just me.

Normally, yes, but with this being the only other place to farm zetas in the entire game than the awful exchange rate in the shipments, this is a case of poor game design. If I have to 3* a tier, then I will not ever use reinforcements, so why am I required to use them