Fleet Shard Mafia
Years ago when crystal income was moved to GAC from arena, the reasoning was said to be because of shard chats/mafias blocking others out and ruling the payouts. The same is true for fleet, so why h...
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I'm currently ranked #18 in my Fleet Shard. And I hover anywhere between 8 - 20. I've been in this range for a while now?
In regards to the Levi information, that's good to know. Not sure if I have the relic mats yet for that. But bumping Malgus, SA and SET up to r8 until I can get POW and MQG to r9 for their AB to acquire droid brains sounds like a good plan.
The priority is SA to R9. With Levi matches, you have a coin flip on who goes first with their capital ship. Next to move is SA's ship. If you have R9, you go before anyone lower. If you and your opponent have R9, it is a second coin flip. If you lose the first, but win the second, you can still win a high percentage of the time. My typical move is basic with SA, bombs with bomber, then swarm attack with malgus. Sometimes swarm attack removes their bombers protection. Then you hit it with SA's special. You are really trying to kill bomber before the enemy can reinforce. If they bring in Palp shuttle, you can be largely screwed if you had lost the opening coin flip. You can try phatom/mk6 back to back, or just tie dorito to try to hit under protection to try to get ahead in ult race. If you lose both coin flips, it can still be doable, but a lot harder. That is where getting your other two starters to r9 can help. I have only bothered with SA to r9 just for the second coin flip.
This is ...not the best advice. Relic levels to win coin flips are not necessary and for most people will be a poor use of relic mats.
instead of following this path, just take your tank out of the starting lineup in favour of the Mk6, which uses 1-Health stacks instead of a standard health pool. Because that ship can never be at less than 100% health, the enemy Levi/Sith ships can never gain TM by hitting it. And because it's very low health, the enemy ships will preferentially target your interceptor -- the AI doesn't understand stacks. It assumes that 1-Health means that the interceptor is an enemy that they can finish off quickly.
With your tank gone and your interceptor in, the AI targets the interceptor and gains no TM. Your squad gains TM because you're hitting ships with a health pool. Bring in Dorito as your first reinforcement and don't use your AoE until you get your bonus turn (on your bonus turn you ignore protection). That gives you a massive TM boost for all the ships you're taking under 100% health.
And, of course, the enemy Fury will use its heal to bring all the enemy ships back up to 100% health so you can gain TM from them again.
You will always outrun the enemy even if you lose the opening coin flips. You will always take control over the enemy Levi. There are a very, very few random situations in which you get 2% dodges or other specific bad luck happening multiple times, and in those cases you might time out. You will never get your fleet killed, but you might time out. It hasn't happened to me since the very first time I played this strategy, but that's because I was thinking way too much between moves. That wasn't even bad luck. Just me being slow. Several times since then I've had it come down to less than 20 seconds, but never actually timed out except the once. So ... it can happen, but it should be very, very rare.
I already stated it isn't the best use of relic mats. While the Mk6 counter makes offense a lot easier, it isn't a guaranteed win if you lose both coin flips, and it gets eaten alive on defense.
My point is that to get noticed in a lot of these shard chats, you need to both climb consistently and make your fleet as difficult as possible to defeat. If they have trouble beating you, then they might want to bring you in to the fold as to not have to compete against you.
it isn't a guaranteed win if you lose both coin flips, and it gets eaten alive on defense.
It may not be a guaranteed win, but as I said elsewhere, I have never lost in hundreds of battles, save the very first time I tried it when I was putzing around making notes about how everything worked and ended up timing out. TBH, it just doesn't need that much detail in the strategy. Beat up on the tank, then on Sith Fighter. Time your Hangar Sabotage for after the AI brings in the enemy Mk6. Use the Dorito AoE only on its bonus turn. Then, win -- hundreds of times in a row. So... it's as close to guaranteed as I need it to be.
As for defense, just use your last fight of the day to put your defensive configuration back in.
I have seen in videos where they have different fleets based on what your enemy fleet has (in regard to mirror matches). If I'm reading what you're suggesting, then you're saying that you should just start: Fury, MK6, and Sith Fighter - regardless of the other Levi's fleet composition. 1st Reinforcement: Dorito. 2nd Reinforcement: Sith Tank
To do this, are there particular mods that you should have on your team? Not all of my ships have maxed out their abilities yet. Will that matter? Is there a particular Star level for the Levi? Should I speed rush it to 5*? Or should I go crazy and get to 7 (which will be quite expensive).
*** Note: I don't have my Levi yet. I need this is next PG to finally get Fury unlocked. Fortunately, that happens on 8/19. Once I have that well in hand, I can then go for the Levi event on 8/20. ***
My Levi was quickly to 7 stars and I didn't discover this until after reaching that, so I can't vouch for performance below that. You should try it once or twice and see if it works.
you're saying that you should just start: Fury, MK6, and Sith Fighter - regardless of the other Levi's fleet composition. 1st Reinforcement: Dorito. 2nd Reinforcement: Sith Tank
Correct starting lineup. The reinforcements won't matter a ton. Personally my favourite reinforcement is Scimitar, because he can stealth everyone else to guarantee that the enemy focusses on your Mk6.
Even with gaining as much TM as possible, sometimes the enemy will get off Sabotage the Hangars before you can get out your 2nd reinforcement. In that case sacrifice a ship that you don't care about. Could be the Bomber-tank or the Emperor's Shuttle so that you can bring in one you do care about next time. If you prefer the Bomber to the Scimitar, at least make sure you don't bring it in until the enemy Sith Fighter is dead.
Remember the tank has health, which means it can go below 100% health, which means that as long as the enemy has a Sith Fighter, it can use attacks against your tank to gain TM.
Timing Sabotage the Hangars is crucial. The AI generally brings out their Mk6 as their first reinforcement. Let them. Sabotage the Hangars cannot insta-kill the Mk6 (it only loses a single stack, just like normal damage). As soon as they bring out the Mk6, then hit them with StH so that they can't bring out any more ships. In most cases the timing works perfectly anyway and you don't have to hold on to StH more than a single turn (when you'll be bringing out your own 1st reinforcement).
Dorito is a good attacker to help finish off the tank. Make sure you understand the TIE Dagger "Vengeance" mechanic. Do not use the AoE earlier, so that when you get your bonus turn you can use it to maximum effect. (On the bonus turn but ONLY on the bonus turn, Dorito ignores protection, which means taking multiple enemies below 100% health, which means more TM for your side.)
Kill order is:
- Bomber/tank
- (take stacks of Mk6 below 30 if currently above)
- Sith Fighter
- Fury
- Mk6
You shouldn't need to take stacks off the enemy Mk6 too many times. You'll be keeping Retribution on your own Mk6 as often as possible which will get rid of a stack now and then, as will the Dorito AoE.
Don't use your Sith Fighter to remove stacks from Mk6. SF is too valuable elsewhere b/c it ignores protection against debuffed enemies.
You should refine your own opening moves, but I never use SF's special unless the ship I'm targeting has yellow or red health (so I get the bonus damage), and I always use Fury's multi-assist on turn1 against the enemy tank. That will inflict protection disruption about half the time. If it lands, the battle becomes that much easier. As long as your Mk6 goes before Fury, it works to use your 2nd special first. This sacrifices 3 stacks, which are precious, but you gain Retribution, which lets you counter, which gives you +10 stacks if under 10 and you have the multi-assist from Fury, which will also allow Mk6 to gain +10 stacks if under 10. So there should only be a brief moment under 10 stacks. Your Mk6 will never get to use its insta-kill, but it will be fine.
