Join the new world

This is a re-publish of an article I wrote earlier for my native Australia. I apologise for the English, but can only write well in it.

I'm not going to bore you with a recount of the rules, but have a look and see what stakes the military units that try are playing for. I hope this encourages you to further efforts!


So, for Day 1... The top 10 regiments by token scores.





With a leading score of 2,049 tokens, the prize tiers are estalished at:

Gold tier: 1,844
Silver tier: 1,434
Bronze tier: 614


If you need a reminder about the prize divisions, go and read the Aussie DoE article on it.


I haven't seen an exact number for the Day 1 prize pool quoted anywhere. It's somewhere in the vicinity of 130,000 gold the last I saw (the perils of day change being 3 pm in the afternoon during a workday).





So, how much did each regiment earn for their efforts?


Well, only El Octavo Regimiento made the gold tier. Well done to those guys, banking 91,000 gold amongst the 50 members (1820 each, if you're numerically challenged).


Two regiments made the silver tier. They split 39,000 gold, or 390 gold to each member (don't delude yourself, these guys all have 50 members).


Six regiments divide up the booby-prize. That is, 2167 gold to each regiment, or 43 gold to each member.





Did the Chileans just score some epic bank, or are they throwing good money away in the pursuit of a dream? In other words was it worth it?


I'll put my best guesses here, so you can all ridicule them in the comments. My uncompetitive efforts in D1 seem to show that you need 100 kills or so to be fairly sure of a rank in the top 5 kills of a battle (so, 1 token). If you repeat this over 9 battles in a campaign, you'll take a top 5 campaign ranking too if there is any justice in the world. So, 900 kills for 13 tokens. Do it again. And then again. That's 39 tokens, and another 3 for passing the 1500 kill milestone, giving us 42 tokens contributed for each member. El Octavo Regimiento averaged 42 for each member yesterday, so it's about right.


2700 kills is about 81,000 energy and therefore 8,100 Q7 weapons (or 900 bazookas and 9000 energy). These are all powerful and established MUs, so we can assume 6 CC/Q7 weapon. Or 10 gold per bazooka, if you want to fiddle and optimise the results.


These guys will all be running at least a Power Pack for 500/hour energy recharge. 12,000 energy from food at a cost of 0.03 CC/energy gives 360 CC. The other 69,000 energy will come from 345 double EBs. That sets you back 950 gold with the discounted price.


Total cost? 950 gold plus 49,000 CC. 1125 gold, with an exchange rate of 1 gold = 280 CC.


The prize? 1820 gold each.


700 gold for a day off work/study isn't a bad day's clicking. Well played to El Octavo Regimiento! Everyone else? Try harder you lazy sods...


Your take home mangled cliches: Go hard, or go home. And don't bring a knife to a gun fight.