Bazooka Stashing For Battle Hero For Cash Considered Harmful (Truly Long Title)

Day 1,459, 02:53 • Published in USA USA • by pure_evil
"Well, du-u-u-h!"

- Random person.

We interrupt your scheduled Congress-bashing for a different type of useful information.



Short version:

If you think stashing bazookas and then going after a Battle Hero achievement is a good way to make cash, I have some bad news for you...

(And if you don't like the whole wall of text, just go for the last section. It's all there... but you'll miss some boobs)



The Achievement
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Ah, the battle hero achievement.

If you browse through a few players' profiles, you're likely to see them having one, two, or 1178 (and still counting) of these medals.

You're even more likely to receive a message on your Friends feed, stating that your friend X stepped on a pile of slain enemies to claim one - by being the most influential fighter in a round of a battle of USA vs Serbia.

________________________________So, you naturally want one._______________________________



And who can blame you - you're not only helping our country a lot - but you also get 5 gold out of it.



The Requirements

So, what does it take?

If you're too lazy to read the wiki, and/or actually need this explanation:

You need to do more damage in a round (mini battle) than the next guy on your side, endure a nerve-wrecking few minutes of furiously monitoring the battle - in case someone decides to steal your medal - and post it on your Feed so that everyone gets to envy you.

Now, I won't go into the details of what battle to fight in, when to fight (last few minutes vs beginning and end vs continuously), etc.

Instead, I'll try to keep you safe from choosing the most obvious way to try to get it, in case you want to actually make cash out of the whole thing.

If you, however, want the medal itself - and don't mind paying for it, doing what I say you shouldn't is actually the quickest and RL-cash-friendliest way to get the achievement.

Now, you're probably familiar with the other medals.

Merc medal aside (too lazy to ponder and calculate it, meh.), they all require you to do something and get rewarded gold if you manage the feat:

: Be online every single day for 30 frikking consecutive days and work.

[^ Erep considers the hardworker image link "malicious" ^]

Train every (other) day and get a Super Soldier at some point.

: Write articles, containing a lot of boobs, and have 1000 people reach consensus that the boobs and/or articles are good.



(Did you know? Scientists claim that every time you don't subscribe to a paper with an article containing boobs, your GF's bra contents shrink in volume by a little. True or false? Wrong question. The real question is: Do you dare risk it?)

The Battle Hero achievement is not a straightforward way to get 5 Gold by investing less, unlike those medals. To get it, you actually have to do a lot of damage (Influence? You've got to be kidding me.).

Your total damage output per single mini is generally the result of your strength, rank, weapon, and, (duh!) number of times you actually push the Fight button.

NE also plays a role.

Now, just how much influence you do per click - well, there are influence calculators out there, or you can just push that red button and figure it out yourself, right?


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Assumptions/Parameters/Values:

1. You don't have 8000 or more Strength and a rank of National Force***. You're more of a 4000 or below Str, Field Marshal or lower rank kind of fighter.

2. You need about 450 000 bazooka damage for the medal.

This is just the bazooka damage, and we assume you can use your remaining wellness + candy (energy) bars with tanks to reach the actual influence needed. It's also a good idea to keep some bazooka damage as a reserve - in case someone tries to steal your medal,you being able to dump, say, 90 000 influence in the last few seconds, is a good thing.

So, bazooka count = 15.

3. We completely ignore the cost of the battle itself.

That is correct - those tanks and food you'll burn fighting the real battle are left completely out of the equation. It's a nice way to simplify things, and hey, if you want to help out my argument by bringing the medal cost up - be my guest.

4. One tank costs 30 USD.
Needz moar accuracy? Factor in other tank prices, no problem. Adding precision is a good thing - for you. Simple numbers - simple math.

5. You're not in a commune.

If you are, substitute the number of tanks needed with the ones you need to buy. Might turn out to be profitable for you, eh?

6. It takes you 3 tank hits on average to score a kill. Yes, some need 1, others need 4-5. 3 is normal and slightly optimistic enough.

So, 25 kills per daily order = 75 fights = 15 tanks.

7. Food burned on Daily Orders is completely ignored. This is to offset any reasonable downward fluctuations in tank prices, you micromanaging every hit using cheaper weapons, etc.

8. Assembled bazookas from new missions are ignored. So, you have 4 more? Guess what - the other BH candidate probably does as well. Influence requirement for the BH goes up and what-not.

9. 1 Gold will get you 1000 USD, and the medal - 5000 USD.

Gold price has been hovering around that number, so... why not?



Walk in. Want medal. What do?

The thing is, chances are your per-click damage is low. I have 3,682.64 Strength (.64. Really?!), and a rank of General**. My unarmed hit is 918, and with a tank I do 1837. For a maximum total of about 2020 per hit with NE factored in. I'll need 223 (2. ).

That's a whopping 2230 wellness, and as I have theoretically 750 available at most times (500 town center +50 building + 100 stored + 100 to recover in one hour), I need about 15 energy bars just to get there.

Enter the bazooka.


The great equalizer. One bazooka - three clicks, three kills, 30 000 damage, strength and rank are thrown out the window.

How to get it?
Well, you can scavenge parts from battles, and with some luck manage to get enough. Look at your parts collection and you'll realize why that might be considered a bit difficult, maybe even a slow process.

-or-

You can get one every day by completing the Daily Order in a Military Unit. (+ one Energy bar for tank damage in the BH battle)

The obvious thing one is tempted to do, is:

Stash the Daily Order bazookas and duke it out two weeks later.



The Problem?

You cannot fight unarmed if you have a weapon.

So, suppose you've got 1 Bazooka fighting barehanded.

One down, 14 left to go, right?

-but-

you need to fight with a weapon to keep the Bazookas unused.



Enough blabbing, do some maths for a change!

Using the numbers from above:
14 days x 15 tanks = 210 tanks x 30 USD = 6300 USD.

So, you've got 1300 USD less than the BH award will get you.

And, again, we're not taking into account the food needed for recovering 10500 wellness (14 days x 75 fights x 10 wellness). Or, the cost of the BH battle itself.

This sort of explains why after 2 BH medals in 2 weeks, I was reduced to begging for 70 USD to buy a land. This, and higher income tax...

Oh, and did I mention that getting the medal is not 100% certain deal, so you can actually burn a whole Q4 RM Company worth of USD for nothing - thanks to someone else? I'm sure I wrote that somewhere...



Bottom line: If you're chasing the BH - and are in it just for the Gold - going at it the obvious way is a Bad Move.



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Special credit goes to cowkiller3 for shouting out the idea of going after the BH medal this way (though, he didn't state that he had making cash in mind) - and making me think about why I was broke.

Also, to FreedomFightr for expressing interest in such an article.

I've burned all my bazookas since then and I am keeping only the candy for the day that BH truly becomes within reach.