So you want a Battle Hero medal huh?
Mr Knee
The Battle Hero medal, or the BH Medal from now on, is one of those medals that anyone with a bit of planning can achieve, and aside from the e-penis moment, the 5 gold isn't too bad either. Until you manage the first one, then going for it can be quite nerve wracking thing - especially if you become unsure if you'll make it over the line in time. This article will hopefully give those who wish to attempt one but unsure if you are up to it an indication if you should go for one.
Please note that this guide won't guarentee you a BH medal, but will hopefully enable you to decide if you are capable for trying for one. Obviously if you go for a BH medal the same time as someone else then one of you will miss out.
So what resources are needed?
The minimum you want are:
20-34 Bazookas
15 or more energy bars
Half a dozen Q5 (or Q6 weapons)
A handful of Q1-Q4 weapons.
Your daily health being close to full in terms of amount of recoverable health via food.
The 'zookas are obviously going to do the majority of the damage and will do 600k with the minimum 20 bazookas. Having 34 will give you a million of damage. How many you need depends on your usual fighting strength. If you are the sort of person who can do, say, 5000 damage under normal fighting with weapons conditions, then you can make do with just 20 usually. If you are less than a year old and barely manage a thousand etc, then you need closer to 30.
I'd recommend getting close to 30 regardless as it is better to own 30 bazookas and only use 25 (and save 5 for next time) than to own 25 and falling short by 100k of damage (or 3 and a bit extra bazookas).
Having used up your bazookas, you may be required to fight using normal weapons to top up your damage and pull you over the line - especially if someone else is also going for high damage.
How do I get hold of all those resources?
Unless you are prepared to donate a load of real life money and then use your gold to buy additional bazookas parts when eRepublik offers them, then the best and only practical way is to join a military unit and save up the bonus bazookas and energy bars you get. The other bonus is that by fighting 25 times per day, you'll also rapidly increase your military rank and gain a load of bonus damage. Oh, and your country will appreciate the appearance on the battlefield. Most military units offer free food and weapons so it is relatively cheap, but might require the newer less powerful players to log on multiple times and use the hourly health regeneration to complete the mission.
Ok, so I have the resources, but where do I fight?
Firstly, never attempt to go for the BH medal when eRepublik are offering cheap bazookas parts in the shop, nor if there is some mission which involves doing damage or defeating so many enemies in a time period. Quite simply you'll be competing against a load more people who either have a load of bazookas or are fightinh extra hard. It'll just mean the amount of damage you'll need to do to get the medal rapidly increases.
-- Finding the right battlefield is key. Avoid any battle that involves any of the large countries. People will be tanked up and fighting hard to win key battles. Plus you'll find the Alfagrems on the battlefield who can lay down millions of damage without blinking.
-- Ideally look for a war between two smaller countries - especially if the battle is taking place when one side is in the wrong time zone. eg, consider fighting in Australia if it happens to be midnight there.
-- There will often be battles where one side is dominating the battle. Wait until one side is leading 1400 to nothing (or something next to nothing) where the winning side is 60%-40% winning or more. If the highest damage person on the losing side is approx 400k or less, then that might be the battle for you.
Ok, so you've found a low key battle where the highest damage on one side is 400k and the winning side is up to 1400 or slightly more and seem certain to win. Take a look at previous rounds in the battle to see if the current damage level is avaerage or so rather than much higher than normal. By waiting late in the battle, you can quickly sprint into the lead and then hopefully jog over the line before anyone else can catch you. GET READY TO FIGHT.
I usually watch for 30 seconds and look at those doing damage on my 'side' in the battle. Is there anyone suddenly laying down 10k damage? Do they stop after 3 x 10k hits or so they seem to be hitting repeatedly with bazookas? If they stop after a bazooka or two then look on the stats on who has done the top 5 damage in the battle. And keep note if the people in case anyone in that top five list starts fighting again.
So, you have your battle, no one else seems to be using a load of bazookas and none of the people in the top five damage is active. This is your Leeroy Jenkins moment...
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK
I tend to stop using bazoookas the moment I have a margin of 90k (or 3 bazookas) over the second placed person. To cover yourself, start to use some of your Q5 weapons and top up the damage. Keep an eye on the other people fighting and take note if someone starts to use bazookas extensively or the person in 2nd place starts to fight again.
- Oh, and if you are matched against someone who is half dead and can be dispatched with a single shot with a Q-somethign weapon, then use the weapon and save the bazooka for those with full health.
If someone else does appear to also start up with the bazookas, then start to use some of yours and top by by 100k and then look at the top 5 damage list again and judge. Sometimes a person fires up and uses a load of bazookas but will run out before they are able to catch you up and will start to do normal Q5 weapon damage. Depending on how much damage they can then do with Q5 weapons, and how much you can do, I'd recommend continuing using Q5 and only use a bazooka when they are within 50k of damage. If they are doing a significantly more damage than what you can do, use 3 bazookas and watch and repeat once they get within 50k. If they are able to do close to 10k damage normally, then use bazookas and don't pause.
Since you are waiting until near the end, hopefully the battle will be over within five minutes or so and the other person won't catch you up. Unfortunately there are a few big player bum-wipes who like to see smaller players going for the BH medal and will deliberately snatch it off you for fun...
And best of luck in going for the medal....
EDIT: Just to clarify on the basis of comments below, if the top damage people are active on the battlefield or other people are clearly doing repeated bazooka damage, don't fight. I point you to the second paragraph prior to the ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK line. Stealing other people's BH Medal attempts is neither big nor clever and you should only attempt it if other people aren't clearly going for one.
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you got a nick that's great for using arrow to the knee joke.
some people would die for that
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>"A handful of Q1-Q4 weapons" ???????
You're not trying to kill more opponents, that's irrelevant for BH purposes; you're trying to maximize the amount of dmg. So Q6s are the only way forward. And weaker players rely more heavily on bazookas than stronger players.
Also, the Gentleman's Protocole on BH's is "first come, first served". Which means that if you intend on getting the BH for the round, make it clear from the very beginning and put a reasonable amount of dmg, then expand it later on as the battle dynamic requests. If you are the kind of guy that pops in on a round after 1hr of fighting, and try to snatch the BH from the dude that has been there from the start, chances are you'll get your ass kicked. And if the guy is stronger than you, then chances of noobfag getting pwned are over 83%. This way of behaving is quite disgusting and tends to piss off the fine oldfag gentry a lot.
It's pretty easy to win a battle hero for UK as they don't put up any resistance whatsover when they are attacked or in a RW.
There are always three RW's in play so damage is split big time, just go to the each of the RW in Irish colonies in UK and Canadian colonies in UK and French colonies and UK and find the battle closest to completion and fight in it. You may need to use an energy bar or two but that should be about it.
Good luck earning a RW medal though, fighting in three at a time is a damage drain big time, and it really hurts your image with allies when you spend your domestic damage split three ways to lose three RWs.
EPUK FAIL!!!
😁^ trolololo Addy Lawrence epic trolling
Please pay attention to Maegalodonus:
"Also, the Gentleman's Protocole on BH's is "first come, first served". Which means that if you intend on getting the BH for the round, make it clear from the very beginning and put a reasonable amount of dmg, then expand it later on as the battle dynamic requests. If you are the kind of guy that pops in on a round after 1hr of fighting, and try to snatch the BH from the dude that has been there from the start, chances are you'll get your ass kicked. And if the guy is stronger than you, then chances of noobfag getting pwned are over 83%. This way of behaving is quite disgusting and tends to piss off the fine oldfag gentry a lot."
It pisses me off so much when some bazooka hero comes in the final minutes and steals my BH. I NEVER fight in the final minutes of a round unless it is needed. I ALWAYS fight in the first minutes to establish myself for the BH medal.
Stealing a BH is incredibly rude, disrespectful, an in poor taste! Do not do it!!!!
LOL UK FAIL
TemujinBC and Maegalodonus
Re: First come first served.
The problem is, if you look into a battle late on and the highest damage is done by someone who has done 200k of damage then is that a serious BH medal attempt? What about if the damage is 300k? Or 400K? At what level of damage would you consider a person's damage to be normal battle damage to become "BH Medal attempt" ? I put the level at less than 400k myself.
And in my defence, I do point out that the person should look out to see if the top damage people are actively fighting or if anyone else is doing repeated 10k damage hits beyond a bazooka or two.... (I'd edited to clarify that point further)
In terms of Maegalodonus's comments about only using Q6 weapons and not Q1 etc, the formulas in the wiki concerning damage does suggests that using Q6 weapons causes only marginally more damage in terms of what is added to the score. The extra firepower of Q6 weapons primarily effects how much of the opposition's health is damaged and therefore how quickly you kill them and get damage added to your score. If you can destroy a damaged opposition with a Q1 weapon, then why should smaller players waste money using a Q6 weapon that does overkill? Everything else being equal, an opponent who is presented to you with only 20% health will net you 20% of the influence you'd get if they were at 100%. The extra few points you get on only 20% health with a Q6 weapon is next to nothing, but the cost of a Q6 weapon is more significant to the newer player.
Fuck, Tem. I said I was sorry for stealing your BH in eIreland months ago. LET IT GO!
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Also Mr. Knee you will never see TemujinBC guarding a 200k BH let alone a 400k BH. That's not even his food fights.
Important info for Bazooka Heroes:
Tem never fights in the final stages of a round so when you see him in the BH position, that is your best chance of getting a BH medal if you use up all your zookas and energy bars!!!!
You will never find any true warriors holding onto a BH with 200-400K of dmg. If you do see someone with 600-800K + and the battle is in hand, don't keep hitting with bazookas to steal a medal.... that's F*%#ed up! Now, if the battle is not won, and by you doing 600-800K damage to change the course of the battle I suggest a PM or IGM (whatever you want to call it) to the person to ask them to hit more and tell them your intentions. I won't lie and say I've always done this, but I never try to steal from anyone, and I refuse to take a BH from someone who has already established themselves... it's not only rude, but really bad form!
Usually a CH will cost you at least a couple of million, I hate it when people try to steal from me, and if I can, I will double you up, just to make you look stupid for trying to steal... JUST DON'T DO IT!
WTF!? Is it just me or have the eR laws changed? Since when is it better to finish off an enemy (if it is a 1hit) with Q1 instead of Q6?
@Mr.Knee: lets say 1 hit with a Q1 weapon = 1200
1 hit with a Q5 weapon = 2000
Now, if you use Q1 to kill an enemy that has full health and it takes you lets say 5 hits it will amount to 6k, right? With Q5 it would probably be 3 hits making it also 6k but you would save up 2 hits. Now keep this in mind as we get to an enemy with low health and he is a 1hit even with bare hands. Using a Q1 you make 1.2k but with Q5 it is 2k, you lose 800 points! It doesn't matter how many hits it takes to finish him off, 1hit with a Q5 > 1 Q1 hit. The enemies are just illusions, they only count for the missions from admins and for the mercenary medal but when it comes to damage points it makes no difference if you kill a guy with 10 hits or if you kill 10 guys with 1 hit, the damage is the same. To make it even clearer... If you get 10 enemies (in a row) with low health and you use Q1 to kill them each time you will get 12k but with Q5 it will be 20k. It is not a waste to finnish them off with a Q5 or Q6 because you paid for the damage the weapons make... Sheet I don't even know if what I just wrote makes any sense, need to sober up. I'll just quote Maegalodonus: "You're not trying to kill more opponents, that's irrelevant for BH purposes; you're trying to maximize the amount of dmg."
Oh happy new year guys : )
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If you can count, get one million in weapons+food/energy, fight in a Resistance war that is not a key war(no other countries will come to the rescue.
Only hit in the last 15-30 min. Keep checking if you have a healthy margin.
Preferably get 2 million or more and take 2x battle hero. this gives you a campaign hero in most cases.