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7. Monsoon season is the worst.
I was wondering if you had any advice on doing well in the new RA mode, I'd like to give it a proper go because the mode is interesting but I kind of struggled with the last version. Mostly with being efficient with resource gathering and getting my base built properly for eneny attacks. Even just a quick list of basic tips would be super helpful, thanks!
Sure thing, a quick and dirty on RA Wiseposting:
A basic understanding of math takes you a long way. What this means is, every time you go on any deployment, no matter how small, you are using resources: Six pieces of Rice at the bare minimum (for 2 energy drinks), and an Act, of which you get two per day. So that's the baseline of what you are spending outside of whatever else you bring, such as Wood Harvesters (7 Wood per unit plus 1 Stone), Crabbie Pumpies (10 Wood per unit), and so on. If you use a Harvester, getting 7 Wood out of it is just enough to break even, any more Wood you get on top of that is what you are actually bringing in. Basically, make sure you are actually not losing resources on each outing.
For the love of god, use your resources. Yeah, you need to accumulate resources to level up your HQ, but you also need to use them for Gameplay. For the low low cost of 2 Stones and 2 Water, you can make Urban Barriers that reroute enemies. For the pitance that is 5 Wood, you can make Battlements, which are your own deployable Ranged tile. For 8 Wood, you can craft a Reactive Barrier, a 5 Block wall that can hold light and medium enemies for a bit while you deploy everything else and build your DP, as RA2 maps open very fast for the most part. These are insanely powerful tools and when I hear someone struggling with RA, my first guess is that they are not using these tools. You can shape any map to suit your intent. If you can't understand how strong that is, then you are not ready to tackle this gamemode, which, actually, leads me to the next point:
This IS endgame. Like, endgame endgame. Besides using the game mode's mechanics, it's also expected that you know your team building besides "I can deploy Surtr, Ch'ung and Mlynar, and win". It's absolutely not going to work if you don't know how else to to build a comp and take on challenges harder than Do Damage To It Without Minding Anything Else. That and the raw requirements in terms of number of Operators to truly enjoy all bonuses within the game mode (like Expeditions and Logistics).
Learn to do maps as efficiently as possible: Try to master getting all the animals or resources in any given map, you are using Food and an Act to do anything, make sure to get as much as you can out of it, how to go about each given hunting or resource map, which units, how much to spend on Gatherers and Watch Towers, etc. This ties in on point one. Battlements allow you to put ranged tiles to burst resource tiles more easily, too.
Cook food and use it. Food is incredibly powerful and gives you a lot of flexibility on what you want out of each individual unit: More Block and bulk, more SP generating, more Attack, less DP cost and redeployment timer, food is just VERY powerful and by not cooking and eating these stat boosting meals, you are very much making your life harder for you. Experiment at first to discover recipes, then start cooking what you need for whatever task you need.
INTERCEPT. Intercepting is attacking enemies before they reach your base. If you lose in your HQ, you lose. If you lose anywhere else, you just keep going and whatever enemies died remain dead. You don't need to kill hordes on the first fight, you just need to thin them and make each subsequent fight easier. Why fight 230ish enemies all hitting you at once when you can attack them, thin that out to maybe 160 then 120 then to 33 and then actually defend against a fraction of them with a LOT more leeway? You can just make a team that has no intention of actually winning and instead just aims to kill as many enemies as quickly as possible before you inevitably leak the boss. Figure out your own strategies and use structures and traps you can craft.
These would be the six fundamental maxims for RA2, I would say. You can use Urban Barriers to make mazes on maps and set up kill points and other things, but that's a whole other post.
Sometimes I go to those MCYTkin/fictive blogs and say some wild shit and sign off as the weirdest character for whatever I said
Things that could've happened if Lancer was in on the secret
Short conversations between Ghost King!Danny and in the know!Lancer
Mr Lancer had found out a while ago that Danny Fenton is Danny Phantom when he saw him transform, not that Danny really cared, it was his senior year and he was already so over the whole secret identity thing.
He was tired, overworked, and a king.
He could care less about his identity.
But having his teacher know about his… extracurricular activities had already proved to be much more lucrative than he first thought.
“A ghost ate my homework,” Danny said, completely serious as he looked at Mr Lancer.
“Which one?” the teacher asked, the poor guy, he had probably been teaching for eons now, and yet Danny didn’t doubt that he got the slot of ‘worst student I’ve ever had to teach’.
He’d be lying if he said it didn’t make him just a tiny bit proud.
“A blob ghost, it accidentally swallowed my work, if you still want to see it, here you go.” Danny placed the ectoplasm-covered paper in front of his teacher, wincing at the loud squelch it made as it hit the table, but otherwise not saying much.
Mr Lancer just sighed before waving him off, accepting that this was how it was going to be.
“I accidentally froze my school work while fighting yesterday's ghost,” Danny said, handing in his homework, frozen completely solid.
“Thank you for saving the city,” was all Mr Lancer said, accepting the homework and putting it in the microwave.
“So let me get this straight, you can’t make it to school tomorrow, because you have to go to court?” Mr Lancer asked, ignoring the incredulous looks his fellow teachers shot him as he pressed the phone closer to his ear.
“I know this is super inconvenient, but it’s really important,”
“At least tell me you’ve done nothing wrong,” he said with a sigh, pinching the bridge of his nose.
“Not this time!” he could hear the grin on Danny’s face, “But I’m kinda like a judge in the ghost realm, so,”
Great.
One of his students was a judge.
In the ghost world.
Just great.
“No,” Mr Lancer said.
“Oh come on!” Danny whined.
“No,” he reiterated.
“They’ll be no trouble, I swear,” Danny promised.
“I won’t let Johnny 13 and Kitty sit in on one of my classes,”
“But they’re super nice! And Kitty really loves this literature stuff, don’t you want a student who actually listens?”
“...fine, but just this once!”
“Mr Lancer, I just got a call saying that two kingdoms are about to fight, may I take care of that?” Danny asked, grinning as he ignored his classmates staring at him.
“Not if it’s the Dragon kingdom,” Mr Lancer said, not fazed at all as he continued to read.
“It’s the Far Frozen and the medieval one,”
“Still no,”
Danny sighed, sulking as he slid down in his seat, pointedly ignoring Mr Lancer for the rest of the lesson.
“We need to borrow Fenton,” Skulker said, already grabbing Danny by the arm.
“Can it wait till the break?” Mr Lancer wasn’t even worried as the rest of the students stared wide-eyed.
“I’m afraid not, kingly duties and all,”
“Fine, but bring him back before the end of the school day,”
“No promises,”
“You can’t just… not go to school for a week due to ghost stuff,”
“Day of the dead is a whole thing Mr Lancer! We need at least a week to prepare for it,” Danny argued.
“Can’t they do it without your help?”
“I’m kinda the king, it’s pretty important for me to be there, I have final say and all,”
“...fine, but I expect a written essay about it, four pages, at least,”
“You’re the best!”
“Danny, please take off your crown, you’re distracting your classmates,”
“Sorry,”
“You’re late,”
“I’m dead,”
“Why didn’t you do your homework?”
“I died,”
“You-”
“Dead!”
“You can’t just use the fact that you’re dead as an excuse for everything,”
“Wow, insensitive much, I literally died dude,”
Lancer: Danny, you can't just get your ghost people to write your essays, I know that some of them lived it, but you should still be the one to write it
Danny: what makes you think I didn't write it?
Lancer, holds up a screaming papyrus with glowing ghost text on it:
Danny: yeah okay, that’s fair
Things that could've happened if Lancer was in on the secret
Short conversations between Ghost King!Danny and in the know!Lancer
Mr Lancer had found out a while ago that Danny Fenton is Danny Phantom when he saw him transform, not that Danny really cared, it was his senior year and he was already so over the whole secret identity thing.
He was tired, overworked, and a king.
He could care less about his identity.
But having his teacher know about his… extracurricular activities had already proved to be much more lucrative than he first thought.
“A ghost ate my homework,” Danny said, completely serious as he looked at Mr Lancer.
“Which one?” the teacher asked, the poor guy, he had probably been teaching for eons now, and yet Danny didn’t doubt that he got the slot of ‘worst student I’ve ever had to teach’.
He’d be lying if he said it didn’t make him just a tiny bit proud.
“A blob ghost, it accidentally swallowed my work, if you still want to see it, here you go.” Danny placed the ectoplasm-covered paper in front of his teacher, wincing at the loud squelch it made as it hit the table, but otherwise not saying much.
Mr Lancer just sighed before waving him off, accepting that this was how it was going to be.
“I accidentally froze my school work while fighting yesterday's ghost,” Danny said, handing in his homework, frozen completely solid.
“Thank you for saving the city,” was all Mr Lancer said, accepting the homework and putting it in the microwave.
“So let me get this straight, you can’t make it to school tomorrow, because you have to go to court?” Mr Lancer asked, ignoring the incredulous looks his fellow teachers shot him as he pressed the phone closer to his ear.
“I know this is super inconvenient, but it’s really important,”
“At least tell me you’ve done nothing wrong,” he said with a sigh, pinching the bridge of his nose.
“Not this time!” he could hear the grin on Danny’s face, “But I’m kinda like a judge in the ghost realm, so,”
Great.
One of his students was a judge.
In the ghost world.
Just great.
“No,” Mr Lancer said.
“Oh come on!” Danny whined.
“No,” he reiterated.
“They’ll be no trouble, I swear,” Danny promised.
“I won’t let Johnny 13 and Kitty sit in on one of my classes,”
“But they’re super nice! And Kitty really loves this literature stuff, don’t you want a student who actually listens?”
“...fine, but just this once!”
“Mr Lancer, I just got a call saying that two kingdoms are about to fight, may I take care of that?” Danny asked, grinning as he ignored his classmates staring at him.
“Not if it’s the Dragon kingdom,” Mr Lancer said, not fazed at all as he continued to read.
“It’s the Far Frozen and the medieval one,”
“Still no,”
Danny sighed, sulking as he slid down in his seat, pointedly ignoring Mr Lancer for the rest of the lesson.
“We need to borrow Fenton,” Skulker said, already grabbing Danny by the arm.
“Can it wait till the break?” Mr Lancer wasn’t even worried as the rest of the students stared wide-eyed.
“I’m afraid not, kingly duties and all,”
“Fine, but bring him back before the end of the school day,”
“No promises,”
“You can’t just… not go to school for a week due to ghost stuff,”
“Day of the dead is a whole thing Mr Lancer! We need at least a week to prepare for it,” Danny argued.
“Can’t they do it without your help?”
“I’m kinda the king, it’s pretty important for me to be there, I have final say and all,”
“...fine, but I expect a written essay about it, four pages, at least,”
“You’re the best!”
“Danny, please take off your crown, you’re distracting your classmates,”
“Sorry,”
“You’re late,”
“I’m dead,”
“Why didn’t you do your homework?”
“I died,”
“You-”
“Dead!”
“You can’t just use the fact that you’re dead as an excuse for everything,”
“Wow, insensitive much, I literally died dude,”