Good fllets being the disadvantage in GAC

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I'm confused. What's the difference if it's in the back or front? Doesn't change anything really expcept possibly getting stuck behind their front wall and not being able to use your ships.

"Joebo720;c-2151228" wrote:
I'm confused. What's the difference if it's in the back or front? Doesn't change anything really expcept possibly getting stuck behind their front wall and not being able to use your ships.

You have answered yourself already. You can block ship node access with squad defence, you can't block anything (except fleet node itself) with ships. This would put (if ship GPs are the part of matchmaking system) fleet heavy rosters in disadvantage in GAC.

I guess. Think most will put their heavy D on the south wall as it is worth more points and that's where you really want to get the stop.

Of course. But advantage in squads gives you possibility to block something (no matter if it's south or north), advantage in ships doesn't.

Case scenario (again assuming that ship GP matters in matchmaking) - you have advantage 150k GP in ships, your opponent 150k in squads. Let's assume 150k means one unbeatable team (so your unbeatable fleet and opponent's unbeatable squad) and other battles give similar banners. Who will win?

"Joebo720;c-2151238" wrote:
I guess. Think most will put their heavy D on the south wall as it is worth more points and that's where you really want to get the stop.

I put my strongest stuff on the front bottom. You know top back is going to be a fleet, and you can see front top. The only area that is a mystery is back bottom. If you go front top first to get to their fleet, you risk using up teams that should be used in the back bottom.

Clear front bottom, see what they're hiding in the rear, then go for the rest.

I don't have an opinion on whether fleets should be front or back. Front would be interesting to see, but we're four rounds into this GAC and no opponent has even attacked me yet, (not because I'm scary, just because they don't care--I'm emminently beatable) and I feel like if fleets were up front even fewer people would care. But I see why they should be up front, plus I like fleets and have several good ones so it'd be nice to use them.

"Salv;c-2151242" wrote:
Who will win?

Guess it could be interesting. Though i can't say i ever remember a fleet pivoting a match. Granted mine is decent in my bracket but i guess if someone ignored fleet it could help. Small sample size of just me.

Solution, stop investing on fleet. fleet is boring, anyway

As someone who didnt ignore fleets, I 1000% disagree, want fleet to be fun? Max out hyena bomber and vulture droid and watch 7* negotiators get slaughtered by a 5* malevolence, pretty satisfying as a ds fan, it's even more fun with a 7* malevolence.

Yeah, by-in-large I always looked at fleets as something CG needed me to work on to help fleet playing suck less. I didn't expect the extra 100,000-200,000 fleet GP I have to be something that just unnecessarily pushes me to a higher GAC division with little benefit. It would be nice if somehow I could bring more of my fleet into the 2 GAC fleet battles in Division 3, which I am only 20,000 GP away from leaving. I can see why fleets are the unwanted red-headed stepchild for many players, with apologies to all red-headed stepchildren out there