It's unknown whether there will be any changes, but this blog post will walk you through the way it used to run.
Major changes from 2016 (since the below post was written in November 2015) include:
- The troop pet regenerates 15 minutes after it is defeated. During this time your troop will be able to hit the flag before being required to defeat the pet again. Regenerating troop pets has been confirmed for March 2017.
- Damage against the troop pet received 3x trophies and damage against the flag received 4x trophies. (This means 3 or 4 trophies per 1000 damage respectively).
- Donating specials to heal your troop also gave you 10000 trophies for each special.
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Troop Wars is an even where you compete with you troop against another troop in one hour battles every 4 hours.
Troop Admin's Role
When Troop Wars first begins as an event, the admins of your troop will have between 1-2 hours usually to sign your troop up for the four hourly matches. If your admins are inactive, or asleep, you may miss a few matches before they come into the game to sign you up.
For admins: To sign your troop up, click on the event "E" on the top left corner of your screen once the event begins. Click on the "Manage Schedule" button and select all six match times on the "War Schedule" to allow your troop maximum participation. Close the schedule and let your troop know that they are signed up.
Top of the Event Screen (left) and the War Schedule pop-up (right)
In the first match, everyone is randomly paired against another troop. Thereafter, you'll be matched according to the troop trophy tiers - either the troop immediately above or below you on the tier rankings. That this may mean that an active but low PR troop may be matched against a relatively inactive but high PR troop. In this manner, the battles may not feel "fair", however they are fair based on your troop's trophies so far.
When are the matches?
You can view the "War Schedule" after your troop admin has signed your troop up. Note that the time given until the next match here is rounded down. In the above right screenshot of a War Schedule, the next match is stated as being in 3 hours, however the actual time will be 3 hours and 34 minutes based on the "current time" shown in the UTC timezone.
An easier method is to click on the Troop Wars location on the Battle Camp map. A pop-up will show letting you know how long you need to wait until the next match begins. When the screenshot below was taken, there was just under 3 hours until the next match (2.94 hours to be exact - note that the number after the decimal is a fraction of an hour, not actual minutes!)
Click on the Troop Wars area between matches to find
out when the next match will be.
Entering Troop Wars
When a match has begun, you'll be able to enter the troop wars environment. In the middle of the screen you'll see a Ranger who keeps a running tally of how many trophies each troop has won so far. On one side you'll see your troop pet (the same one you pet and feed) standing in front of your troop flag. On the other side, you'll see the equivalent for the enemy troop.
My troop pet and flag on the left, Ranger in the middle,
enemy troop pet and flag on the right.
How to Play Troop Wars
The aim of each troop wars match is to win more trophies than the other troop. Trophies are earned initially by battling the troop pet in one minute battles. If your troop defeats the enemy troop pet, you'll then move to battling the enemy troop flag, which will earn you twice the number of trophies. If your troop wins the match, your troop tier trophies will be increased by twice the individual trophies won in that match. However, if your troop loses the match, your troop will only receive 70% of the individual trophies earned in the match.
To battle the troop pet, click on it and the pop-up shown in the screenshot below will appear. The timer in the top corner will show how much time is remaining in the one hour match. Below this you'll see the percentage of the troop pet that has been defeated by your troop so far. In the screenshot below, the troop pet is 26% defeated. There is a small warning message showing below this that warns you to check the match timer before starting your battle. If you do not complete your one minute battle before the match ends, you'll lose your energy and won't gain any trophies. (Ensure that you allow enough time for any combinations or actives that trigger after the minute ends). The slider at the bottom of this pop-up allows you to select how much energy you want to use in the battle - energy use above 5 gains an additional bonus.
Old Advice: When battling the enemy troop pet you'll earn 2 trophies for every 1000 damage done.
New Advice: When battling the enemy troop pet you'll earn 3 trophies for every 1000 damage done.
Pop-up will appear after clicking the enemy Troop Pet
Once the troop pet is defeated, it will disappear from the troop wars screen. You'll now be able to click on the enemy troop flag to battle it. For every 1000 damage done against the troop flag, you'll receive 4 trophies.
New Advice: Troop pet will regenerate after 15 minutes and you'll need to defeat it before you can battle the troop flag again.
Pop-up will appear after clicking the Enemy Troop Flag
(after the Troop Pet has been defeated)
Within the Troop Pet Battle
The troop pet battle runs the same as any other battle against a single monster. You'll see a timer at the top of the screen countdown from 60 seconds. The health bar below the pet will show you how much health remains and what element the troop pet is (also obvious from the colour of the troop pet!)
Battling the Troop Pet
Be aware that if the enemy troop pet is defeated during your minute, by yourself or a troopmate, your battle will end. You'll need to use additional energy to start a new battle against the flag.
If the enemy troop has raised their troop pet up to level 10 (by feeding it specials), it will be evolved and will gain some minor active abilities (snipe/leech/heal for fire/leaf/water). These actives aren't likely to affect your team's health, however they do add a slight game delay when they activate. At level 25(?) troop pets can further evolve and gain additional skills. Evolved pets look bigger on the screen than unevolved pets.
Within the Troop Flag Battle
The troop flag battle runs the same as any other one minute single monster battle, as shown in the screenshot below. The difference is that the flag has unlimited health and so no health bar is shown. The troop flag will have the same element as the troop pet had been. There is no information on the troop flag screen about what element the flag is. Instead you'll need to communicate this information with your troop so that everyone can take advantage of the element bonus and avoid the element reduction. (For example, a fire monster will have an element advantage against a leaf monster but an element reduction against a water monster).
No monster will have an event bonus against the troop flag!
Battling the Troop Flag
How much stone will I win for each energy?
(Thank you to Gibi Gibi for suggesting this section!)
Troop Wars and Battle Royale all reward attacks with both trophies and stone. In both cases, the amount of stone won is completely random, however it will be multiplied by the amount of energy you used. If you're planning on using a lot of energy within a short period, consider using a Stone Finder booster (found in the backpack of your inventory) to double the stone you will win! This is the fastest way to earn stone within Battle Camp.
Healing your Troop Pet
If you click on your troop pet (before it's defeated and disappears from the screen), you'll be given the option to donate specials to heal your pet.
Old advice: My biggest piece of advice is to never heal your troop pet during troop wars! You won't earn many trophies for this and your troop pet won't heal significantly and you'll lose a special that otherwise could have been fed to your troop pet to help gain it a long-term health boost as it levels up.
New advice: Throughout 2016, donating each special to your troop pet earned you 10000 trophies.
Pop-up will appear after clicking on your own Troop Pet
In the screenshot above, my troop pet has 91% health. All of my fire/water/leaf specials are tallied and listed here. Do not automatically click "Heal" as ALL of your fire/water/leaf specials will disappear from your inventory permanently! Instead, click on one of the specials shown on the pop-up. A new screen will appear allowing you to select a special from your inventory. Any special with a blue tick will be donated when you press the "Heal" button. Note that you'll receive the same small health improvement regardless of whether your special has been leveled up, or whether it's potent/charged/energized.
Selecting which specials to use to heal the troop pet during a match
The "Shop" button that appears when you click on the troop pet, as well as the "Help" button in the above screenshot, will both open up the special grab store. For 25 gold, you can randomly spin a special. (You can also access this anytime by clicking on your troop pet in troop hall, choose the "Feed" tab and then the "Help" button).
The Special Grab Store can be found during TW by clicking on your troop pet and then the "Help" button. You can access this anytime from the Help button on the "Feed" tab after clicking on your troop pet in troop hall.
Reminder: Please feed specials to your pet to gain a long term health boost instead of a tiny temporary healing gain during a single battle!!
Event Monsters
Troop wars event monsters can be won in the usual ways - through the event spin in the event information screen (click the E in the top left of your screen), or through the game store, or through lucky spin opportunities that will randomly appear from the troop war screen after battles.
Event Grab will give you a chance to win an event or regular monster for 50 Gold
Troop wars event monsters have a limited advantage during events. They each receive their event bonus only against one element of the possible troop pets (fire against a leaf troop pet, leaf against a water pet, and water against a fire pet). They do not receive any bonus at all against any troop flag. Furthermore, they only have a bonus every second troop wars event. These event monsters are catagorised as being "old set" or "new set" as shown in the lists below, and their event bonus will be rotated between the two. When one set has an active bonus, the "E" in the top left of their picture in your inventory will become blue.
"Old Set" of Troop Wars Dogs (Pennypop & BCrank lists)
"New Set" of Troop Wars Dogs (Pennypop & BCrank lists)
In general, without their bonus active, these monsters are weaker than most monsters in the game, most especially the old set of troop wars monsters.
General Strategies
It's useful to have a couple of players in your troop that have event monsters to help you defeat the troop pet so that everyone else can gain the double bonus on the flag.
Most advanced players have found advantage in using a (preferably single/mono element) team of either 5 snipes or 4 snipes and either a swap/eswap. In both methods, only make a single 3 gem non-attack match each turn to avoid attack animations and to reduce the cooldown on your snipes. In the last few seconds, activate your swap/eswap if you have one, and in either method match as many attack combinations as you can for one last big turn that may go into overtime.
Over time, progressively feed specials to your troop pet as you play to help it level up, gain more health and eventually evolve. This will make your troop pet harder to defeat during Troop Wars events.
Click on your troop pet & then the Feed tab to feed specials to your pet to
level it up. The "Help" button will open a Specials Spin for 25 gold.
Other Event Information - Event Tab
During any event, you can click on the blue event "E" in the top left hand corner of your game screen. This will bring up more information about the current event.
The event tab always has an orange "Enter Event" button that will bring up the Battle Camp map with a big orange arrow showing you where the event is taking place. The timer below this tells you how much longer the event will run. The "Manage Schedule" button allows your troop admins to sign you up to the six daily matches. This button will display as "View Schedule" if you're not an admin.
Top of the Event Information Screen
The Event Spin button will open the Event Grab
The following section provides a summary of the rules of the current event, as well as the active/passive combination of reward prizes.
Rules for the November 2015 event
Below this is a listing of the benchmark trophy rewards. These are prizes that you'll receive in your inbox when you gain each level of trophies. Below that (not shown) is a listing of all of the tier prizes.
Benchmark Trophy prizes from November 2015
Clicking on the "Individual" tab will show you how many trophies you currently have, as well as what prize tier you are currently in. Note that the tier is subject to a four hour update delay.
Individual Tier Rankings and Prizes
Clicking on the "Troop" tab will show you how many troop trophies (won at the end of the match and not equal to the sum of individual trophies in your troop) your troop has and which tier prize corresponds to the troop tier you're in. The troop tier shown is also subject to a four hour update delay.
Troop Tier Rankings and Prizes
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ReplyDeleteIs everyone in your troop suppose to win the troop event goal rewards regardless if they participated of not? I can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere.
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