Grand Arena Hitting Last an Advantage?

Mt last GA was dope. Both of us waited till there where 20 mins left and he attacked and I did right after. I had to count banners as I fight very very fast cuz time was running away.


I admit I felt little pressure but it got him cuz he did 3 mistakes and he was leading at one moment.
He had better toons for attack and I had weaker def. He died ?

If the points and attacks were revealed after the 24 hours had passed it would no longer be an issue

"DarjeloSalas;c-1956672" wrote:
There is one situation where going last can be an advantage (though I’m sure many will see it differently to me).

- player A has cleared all of B’s teams except for a revive team, like NS.
- Then player A needs to go and do something in real life, like mow the lawn or administer medicine to an angry hippo.
- Player B comes on and clears all of A’s teams, but does so inefficiently. Player B is ahead of A, but by a small margin.
- Player A returns to the game and realises that he just needs to clear that NS team, no matter how many attempts it takes, to win the round.
- Player A sends in his Imperial Trooper team, who are not always 100% successful at beating NS.
- It starts brilliantly! Zombie killed twice. Then MT is killed! Then Spirit! The troopers are still all alive, but most have plague.
- Now player A faces a tough decision. Zombie, Daka and AV are all pretty healthy. It’s Shore trooper’s move, and it will be Daka next. Will Shore get the assists to kill another NS? Or will the NS survive and Daka revives MT and Spirit next turn?

Since player A KNOWS that he doesn’t need to clear the NS first time, he can let the battle time out. Goodbye MT and Spirit. No need to take the risk that all the hard work is undone.

Who is still using troopers for ns? I thought everyone had moved on to cheesing them with gr.

"Kyno;c-1956717" wrote:

"EduardoCadav;c-1956710" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1956693" wrote:
The game is world wide, there is no time that works for everyone.

Come on Kyno, read the OP's suggestion which is the topic of discussion. "There is no time that works for everyone" is exactly countered by his/her suggestion of rotating start times.

You need 62 points in a battle, can you please explain how knowing this makes getting those points easier in battle?

@EduardoCadav
I replied to this post >>>

"CordycepsX;c-1956675" wrote:
How about this.... a player sets an absolute FU defence. Both revans, GG, padme, etc, etc. Their best 8 teams straight onto defence. Then waits. If u full clear, they lose. If u don’t, they know exactly how many banners they need with whatever offence they have left. Their whole strategy revolves around hitting second. I’m not saying it’s an unfair strategy, it’s quite good, actually. The only thing I was asking originally is why not make the starting times fair for everyone?

And his/her suggestion for making it fair for everyone is rotating start times as laid out in their original post.

Anyone that would feel "pressured" by the number of banners needed probably wouldn't beat you anyways.
Either you win or you lose. It's that simple.
I always hit first and 70% of the time my opponent doesn't even attempt to fight back.
Either you have a bigger punch or your opponent does, it doesn't matter who hits first. The bigger swing gets the knockout plain and simple.

I went first and i cleared the whole table got 1536 banners or so in total. My rival went after and took 3 tries to beat one of my squads, cleared 2 territories and then failed to beat one of my squads on another territory (the third one) leaving my fourth territory intact. So there you go, that's the advantage of attacking first and the disadvantage of attacking second.

Make whatever you want of it.

It's not an advantage.

Knowing what you need in order to win is going to force you to use more understrength squads to make up the lost points. That's going to lead to riskier and riskier behavior and eventually it'll cost the tardy attacker.

Conversely, attacking early can be an advantage because if you wipe them out fast enough they're just going to see the large gap and figure it's not worth it to go for the win and instead just go for feats.

Long story short--Don't worry about it. It's just a game and you should get some fresh air.

"CordycepsX;c-1956675" wrote:
How about this.... a player sets an absolute FU defence. Both revans, GG, padme, etc, etc. Their best 8 teams straight onto defence. Then waits. If u full clear, they lose. If u don’t, they know exactly how many banners they need with whatever offence they have left. Their whole strategy revolves around hitting second. I’m not saying it’s an unfair strategy, it’s quite good, actually. The only thing I was asking originally is why not make the starting times fair for everyone?

Happened to me today, I like to play offensive, I set up decent defences that are hard to undersize , and 1 defence team. Today I got an FU squad with a faster bast and malak, all up front.. couldn't clear the malak, opponent took multiple attempts on most my teams, but capped the FU strategy by not touching the last back territory because he got the points needed.
People like that have a special place in Mustafar.

Its definitely an advantage when one or both parties are unable to full clear, otherwise, it adds a lot of pressure on the opponent to undersize or use teams that aren't safe just to get those extra banners

I view inconsistent start times as a big problem. It's easy to get into a routine of making all your actions either in the evening or in the morning, but rotating back and forth is gonna have a lot of people occasionally missing actions.