[A Guide] Battle Hero Success for Anyone
Gnilraps
Department of Game Mechanics
Day 1,417 of the New World
7 October 2011
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With the recent addition of the daily Bazooka/Energy Bar bonus for completing Military Unit missions, it is now possible for any Citizen to attempt a Battle Hero medal.
However, without a sound method, a weaker player can blow his wad foolishly. 16 Shells would like to provide the following:
EVERYMAN'S GUIDE TO BATTLE HERO SUCCESS
1: Get into a Military Unit. Anything but American Eagle Division is fine. However before you join just any MU, find out from some of the members if their regiment captains are putting up orders early and changing them promptly throughout the day. If your MU is dropping the ball on orders, it will cost you big time.
2: Know your math. You should be prepared to lay down somewhere close to 400,000 in influence in order to hope for a BH. Now before you drop your jaw, consider that a person who can do 415 damage with a Q5 weapon is capable of putting up over 400,000 in a single battle if he accomplishes his MU mission for 3 weeks and saves his bazookas and energy bars (and this does NOT account for any additional bazookas he has picked up during those 3 weeks). In short, it is entirely realistic for someone who has been playing for only a few weeks to hope to achieve a BH medal.
MATH OVERVIEW
Each day you accomplish your MU mission, you add 15,000 plus 7 times your damage/hit. If you do 1000/hit, your MU mission grants you 22,000 potential damage. You can easily BH every three weeks.
LONG VERSION OF MATH
The way to figure your math is as follows: First know your damage/hit. (It is not necessary to use Q5 weapons in pursuit of a BH medal, it is just easier). There are a variety of ways to know your damage/hit, but the easiest is just to observe it when you fight. (My best advice is to add eRepublik Advance).
Once you know your damage/hit, you can start plugging the numbers into the following formula:
(# Bazookas x 15000) + (((# Energy Bars x 7) + Hits/Mini) x damage/hit) = Total Damage
The sense behind this formula is as follows: each bazooka is worth 15K damage and eats 3 of the 10 hits from each energy bar. So each energy bar is worth 7 hits at whatever your normal damage/hit is. Then you add the damage from your regular number of hits (I will discuss maximizing this below).
An example: my daughter is currently capable of doing 357 influence per Q5 hit. If she makes her MU bonus every day for 3 weeks, she will be able to make 381,759 influence today (and more than that after 3 weeks of saving up due to strength/rank increases).
So her formula today wold be - (21*15000) + ((147+40) * 357) = 381,759
Ideally this equation should be somewhere near 400,000. Why? Merely through my observation that in the current climate 400,000 can get you a BH if you choose and act wisely. But of course a higher number is better. So given the right circumstance, a BH is possible even for her provided she is able to come up with 38 tanks and 250 Q5 food.
Of course if you can do this same 357 damage barehanded, you could shoot for a BH without investing in any tanks at all.
3: Know how to maximize your hits/mini. I am able to hit 85 times in a single Mini Battle. (Yes, it is possible to hit as many as 99 in one mini, but those circumstances are impossible to repeat multiple times daily. This guide is for the Everyman.) How do I get 85? Like this:
I have a Q5 Town Center (500 health), a +100 health buiding, and a +50 health building. So I can store 650 health. I can store an additional 100 health in my green health bar meaning fully loaded I have 75 food fights. If I spend 10 of them within the first half hour of a Mini Battle, I will recover 10 more before the Mini has ended, meaning I can hit 85 times in a single mini. (So in the formula above, my hit/mini would be 85)
This dynamic becomes more important to BH strategy the higher your damage/hit gets.
But the basic strategy is of utmost importance for any BH hunter if you want to maximize your chances at a Medal. Why?
4: Don't commit to a Mini too soon. Once you have stored your energy bars and bazookas, pick a day when you can babysit your computer for a while. If you are careful and are willing to spend a day doing this you will succeed.
Pick a mini that is in its first 20 minutes, and does not already have a BH who is out of your reach. Fight 10 times. Then come back in an hour. If after that time someone else has put up more damage than you can do, look for another mini in its first 20 minutes and start again. Your carefulness has cost you nothing.
5: Commit in part to a Mini Battle. When you return after an hour, if the current BH has significantly less than the damage you are sitting on, you've got your chance. Unload the rest of your food fights (making sure there is enough time left in the battle to be able to fight the large number of times you are about to be fighting!).
Once you've unloaded all your food fights, look again to make sure you still have a chance, because you are about to commit your load. You might check to see if the current BH is online. If he is, and if his # of kills is a low number, you might want to back off... strong players often have enough damage in reserve to unload an extra 35K (or FAR more) easily if they are playing cat and mouse.
6: Go ALL IN! (almost) Once you decide to go "all in", go to your inventory and assemble all your bazookas. (PROTIP: Do NOT assemble them too quickly. You must wait 3-5 seconds between each assembly or else eRep will stupidly perceive your actions as an attack thus locking you out of being able to login for 10 minutes. Then it's bye-bye mini).
Now you're loaded. Go wild. BUT. Keep your eye on the score. If someone else jumps in too, you may have to cut your losses and wait for another day. And if you do not need to blow your entire wad, don't. At this point it is a race you only have to win by 1. It pays to get yourself safely enough in front so that you can watch for any movement beneath you. But if you can score your Battle Hero Medal and retain some of your energy bars, do it.
(PROTIP: It makes no real difference at this point if you use a bazooka on a strong or weak enemy. You are merely accumulating damage by clicking, and your final tally has only to do with how many times you clicked the Fight button, not how many times it took you to kill a particular enemy. So don't waste precious time switching weapons. If you can save a bazooka for your last available click, do it, but it may be more trouble than its worth.)
Screenshot courtesy of Garmr
GOOD LUCK and HAPPY HUNTING!
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and getting your butt into a military unit.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled clicking
Comments
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you need to understand that your bazooka comes ready made from the MU mission, therefore if you fight daily you may accidently use you bazooka before you want to.
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Nice article. Voted! Already subbed! Shout my current article would you?
"Look again to make sure you still have a chance, because you are about to commit your load."
I LOLd.
Good article, I see a mistake there though, the maximum number of fights in a minibattle is not 85 but 94. I do it all the time with 94, I let you figure it out for yourself.
Another thing, I would not advise any n00b to start fighting after one hour from the start of the minibattle, this will definitely piss off the current Battle Hero, they all have energy bars just in case. If you're the little guy in the game, do not try to slam dunk over the big guy just because the maths are apparently in your favor. You don't know how many bazookas and EB he has in reserve. And it is perceived as something very impolite and treated as such. I would go all in from the very beginning, but with over 500000 damage, I would not advise somebody who can do only 400000 to try it. And choose a RW in South America, UAE, Saudi Arabia, don't try Cyprus or Poland vs Germany.
"Anything but American Eagle Division is fine."
This gets my vote.
Radu Pangaiu, you are wrong too. Maximum food hits can be more than 94, even more than 99 in one mini.
I let you figure it out for yourself.
Great topic Gnilraps!! Awesome!
Good advice. Thank you 😃
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They are talking about mini's which are more tightly contested.
nekrofila, in very particular situations, maybe you can do more than 94 NO GOLD fights, which is not the same thing as FOOD FIGHTS, as you said. I'm talking in general, at any given time, you can't do more than 94 food fights.
Gnilraps, I'm talking about regular mini's, 1 hour and 30 min, 1800 - 0.
Boated.
Good Article! good to know about not building bazookas too fast.
I cannot seem to barehand when I have bazookas in my inventory, am I missing something?
You can't switch from any weapon to no weapon.
If you want to stockpile the bazookas, no more bare-handed combat. Every hit you do for the 3 weeks(? too lazy to check the math), you have to do with a weapon.
very good
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Well ok if you fight in a mini that crosses reset and you have a house, you can add 5 fights that way.
Then if you reset your clock with 64/65 with about 45 minutes to go in the current mini, you can have 99 food fights in the Next mini.
94 food fights plus 5 non food fights, house is not food, anyway, that is a particular situation.
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Why would you do hits in the first twenty minutes and not just at the end of a battle when you know you can beat the current BH?
you do 10 hits to get more food fights in.
good article. voted
Eminently sensible
@Radu Pangaiu, To knock someone out of their 1st BH to get your 300th or even 10th is kind of a dick move unless it is an important battle. When I was chasing I laid off one because the current leader didn't have one yet. I didn't get it. What Gnilraps said about waiting in between assembling bazookas sunk me.
you know you get a bazooka not 1 of each bazooka parts. The only thing you can save up from mu mission is bars. and Aed is #6 mu of America, and past week the mission was all against Spain. You are only upset because pth founded it.
Try sending a PM to the current battlehero in front of you, and ask them to lay off.
On more than one occaision, if the battle was in hand, I have saved the rest of my damage for the next mini, just because someone asked me to. Of couse if we need my damage to win...no dice.
This seems like a good place to spam, thanks!
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/noob-reaction-to-last-erepublik-changes-1877714/1/20
Very Informative
Now that's a great article o/
I would only leave out trashing the AED
creitzell, I totally agree with you, that's my point, do your damage in the first minutes so you don't have to upset anybody. dick move or not, is very impolite to try stealing a big guy's medal. they react in different ways, they are not the same, what do you do, gamble he's a good guy and he will understand you? maybe he will. or not.
Do not hunt the Newbies!
A Lowlevel who collects his EBs and Bazookas for a month and looses "his" BHM in the last seconds leaves the game with a relativly high percantage.
And who buys your food, your tanks, your LC-Offers in the future?
Who admires your strength and MR?
Act selfish! Stay calm!
Do not cut of YOUR future in this game.
Note that now everybody in any MUs get a bazooka and a cookie daily, so given the number of active players and the number of BH medals available daily, it is highly unlikely that the damage needed would remain as low as ~400k. Expect a steady rise in that instead.
Actually, Lex and Norbengo, if AED paid more attention, they wouldn't have been fighting on the WRONG SIDE OF THE SPANISH BATTLE LAST NIGHT...and you guys wonder why it's difficult to get OMS. 😛
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lol..AED..hope they get their shit rite...Voted for the article
Nice1 Gnilraps!
I think im gonna use this Guide for the german Guide-Libary, if thats alright...
were you also the one who made the sell usd for gold guide or did you just shout it? if so you need to quit makin guides selling USD I went from 1 out of 10 fails to 1 out of 10 succeeds now my BH plan is public knowledge these things should be for the smart not the masses. also this will bring down our damage saving EB's people won't rank up as fast bringing down their daily damage and the saved big damage will be used on battles no one cares about for easier BH's
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