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Attacking Rebel Targets in Mobile Strike

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Attacking Rebel Targets in Mobile Strike

Rebel Targets are non-player characters that can be attacked for rewards, which can be a variety of gold, mods, and cores/attachments (I’m assuming). Every time you send your commander to attack them, your commander will bring back at least one item or prize, sometimes more. The higher the level of the Rebel Target, the better the prizes or items will be. To attack them, you click on, or tap one of them depending on your device.

You will be presented with this screen, on which you can select “Attack Once,” or “Maximum Attack.” Attack Once is exactly what it sounds like, your commander will attack one time. If you click Maximum Attack, your commander will attack the rebel target several times at once. The amount of times you can attack is dependent upon your Commander tree research, as it can increase your maximum energy and reduce the cost of energy per attack.

By attacking once multiple times, you can increase the Rebel Target Bonus Streak, which adds a boost to your Commander’s Rebel Target Attack Boost, which lasts for an hour, which you can see below. The more times you attack consecutively, the higher the boost rises. The boost also increases if you choose Maximum Attack and do not defeat the Rebel Target in one maximum attack.

When Rebel Targets are defeated, the alliance that did so is awarded a gift. There are sixlevels of Rebel Targets:

Basic (Gray) – a Level 1 gift is awarded to the alliance that defeats it.

Standard (White) – a Level 2 gift is awarded to the alliance that defeats it.

Specialized (Green) – a Level 3 gift is awarded to the alliance that defeats it.

Advanced (Blue) – a Level 4 gift is awarded to the alliance that defeats it.

Elite (Purple) – a Level 5 gift is awarded to the alliance that defeats it.

Legendary (Orange/Gold) – a Level 6 gift is awarded to the alliance that defeats it.

The higher the level of the gift, the better it will be. The higher the level of the Rebel Target, the more XP is awarded for attacking them as, as well.

The timer that flashes under Rebel Targets will count down to zero and they will disappear and respawn if they are not defeated before the timer expires.

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What is a Jumper Account?

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What is a Jumper Account?

A jumper account is an account that is built up to headquarters level 5, including in terms of research, commander xp, and resources/gold in one state, then teleported to a brand new state in order to have a leg up on others that are beginning their accounts from scratch in that new state. It is quite commonplace in Game of War, but as there are many players that play both games, or formerly played Game of War, the practice has crossed over to Mobile Strike. Note that your base must stay at headquarters level 5 until you teleport to your desired state, otherwise the beginner’s teleport will no longer function aside from being usable in your current state. You should also note that you can only jump states twice, since you only have two beginner’s teleports. Since you should first teleport to the state your main account is located in when starting your jumper account build (so that your main account can support your jumper account with resources). You will only be able to jump states once more so be positive you want to move to a given state when you think your jumper is ready. There won’t be another chance to teleport states if you change your mind.

General Principles

You want to amass as much gold, and as many speed ups and clickable resources as possible while staying at headquarters level 5, as speed-building/researching/training (particularly at higher troop tiers) gets resource-intensive rather quickly. The following sub-headings will touch on the major points for each aspect of game play.

Commander Goals

You should aim to have your commander at, or as close to level 50 as possible, as this will help speed up researching, construction, troop training, and most importantly, allow you to fill the desired combat areas on your commander tree and equip the best combat gear right off the bat. Look for Commander XP sales in the gold store, but be careful to spread out purchases so that the price per pack stays lower. This means generally a couple of weeks between purchases, give or take.

Research/Buildings

When building your jumper account, you should max out the available research at headquarters/research facility level 5, and build mostly barracks inside your city so you can build troops up quickly when you enter your new state. You want as many barracks as possible, and as an added plus they are not a major burden to tear down since they are only level 5. Once you teleport to your desired state and want to move past headquarters level 5, you’ll need to knock several of them down for other required buildings.

Troops

You should aim for at least 500k T1 when you teleport to your new state, but a million or more would be even better. If the nerf limits are the same as in Game of War (limits placed on the combat effectiveness of lower tier troops at a certain numerical cap to discourage people from building only lower tiered troops), as long as you stay below 5,000,000 T1 you don’t have anything to worry about. I have yet to see anything about the nerf/troop cap for Mobile Strike and 5 million T1 is unfathomable to most people with a max troop queue of around 4,000, so it isn’t something most players will need to worry about. See below, for an example.

Why Would You Want a Jumper Account?

There are a variety of reason; the most obvious is to make you one of the major power players in the new state right from the start. This helps to you establish yourself as a contender for the control point by being strong enough to join one of the major alliances immediately, and will allow you to sprint to T2, T3, or eventually T4 troops in relatively quick succession. It allows you to jump right into combat once you teleport to your new state, and since most people that build one have a main account in the first state to feed the jumper resources, the initial mundane building can typically be finished more quickly.

You can also seek out and join a dedicated jumper alliance when you first start building your jumper account. A jumper alliance is an alliance made up of all jumper accounts (likely not from the same state) that will all port to a previously agreed upon state at a given time (usually some months in the future). Once the jumper alliance chooses and teleports to the newly-established state they choose, it will establish itself as one of the top alliances in that new state as all of the members of the jumper alliance will have a considerable advantage over the casual new players likely populating the new state assuming they have been building a dedicated jumper account.

This is also the only way at present to join your friends in a different state, as the ability to teleport between states permanently is otherwise unavailable.

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Attacking Combat in Mobile Strike – A Beginners Guide

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Attacking Combat in Mobile Strike – A Beginners Guide

One of the trickiest things in Mobile Strike combat is working out what is a good attack and what is a poor attack. There are a lot of things to take into consideration:

Troop Numbers
Troop Types
Boosts
Commander Level
Equipment
Headquarters Level

A good attack is one where your combination of all the above factors is much stronger than your opponent’s, resulting in lots of kills for you and few for your opponent.

Many players just use power level to assess whether someone is safe to attack. This can be helpful early on, but later in the game power level can mean many different things (and some players deliberately keep their power level low to bait attacks).

Obviously scouting your opponent is the best possible away to assess your chances but in the absence of that, there are a few tips that may be helpful. Due to the huge number of variables I have had to generalise a lot, but hopefully this will be useful as a starting point.

Power Level

If you power is the same or lower than your opponent then you should almost never attack. Attacking an opponent of equal power is normally a bad idea – they will have hospitals to rescue their troops, and as the attacker you will not. It should go without saying that attacking someone with more power is always a bad idea (unless of course you have scouted them and know that they have few or no troops).

If you have significantly more power than your opponent then it is an indication that it might be safe to attack. However, this alone is not enough information to guarantee a safe attack as some players deliberately keep their power levels low to bait attacks (this is known as a trap account). The only way to be certain is to scout them, but if they are using anti-scout then you will have to use some of the following to increase your level of certainty.

Stronghold Level

A player cannot upgrade their Research Centre higher than the level of their Headquarters which gives you an indication of how strong their research is. Two important researches are:

HQ Level 8 – For Tier 2 Troops

HQ Level 15 – For Tier 3 Troops

If you have significantly higher power AND a higher troop tier than your opponent then this is good sign that you will in the battle but still not guaranteed. Keep reading….

Is Their Commander Present?

The Commander contributes a large number of boosts to the battle. Some boosts are permanent regardless of where the Commander is (e.g. Combat research), but most are only applied when the Commander takes part in the battle. This includes all the boosts from Equipment, Commander Skill Points and Commander Research. As such, if you can see that the commander is not present (perhaps they are out farming, have been captured or in a ghost rally) then that is a huge boost to the chances of you winning the battle.

What Gear are they Wearing?

If their Commander is present then the next question is what level are they and what gear are they wearing? A high level Commander means more skills points as well as access to better gear (in particular if they are Level 50). Tapping on your opponent will allow you to sneak a look at their Commander and see what gear they have. Is is all golden legendary gear? Maybe should think twice about attacking.

Troop Numbers

The maximum number of troops you can attack with a single march is 250,000 (or 375,000 with a march-size boost) or 2.375m for a rally. All things being equal, it is hard to win the battle if you don’t have significantly more troops than your opponent (adjusting for the fact that higher tier troops are much more powerful than lower tier ones).

Attacking Someone Multiple Times

The one exception to all these rules is if you have many more troops than your opponent and plan on attacking him multiple times. You might lose the first few battles but once you get their troops numbers down you may be able to win all the remaining battles and kill all their troops.

Conclusion

Combat in Mobile Strike is very complex and it can be very difficult to determine the outcome of a battle. It can take a long time to train troops and they are expensive so don’t throw them away casually. Use the information available to you and take your time weigh up the risks and likely outcome.

Good Luck!

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How to Efficiently Train Troops in Mobile Strike

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How to Efficiently Train Troops in Mobile Strike

Troops are an important part of Mobile Strike. Mobile Strike is fundamentally a game about combat and combat requires troops. Because of the way that the combat math works, it is basically true to say that you can never have enough troops. There is a safety in numbers effect so that the more troops you have, the fewer that you will lose. Once you accept that you will be training a lot of troops in Mobile Strike, then it’s worth investing the time to learn how to do it efficiently.

This guide will cover the key concepts that you need to know in order to train troops as effectively as possible.

Rule 1 – Always be Training Troops

This is probably the most important rule. Time is one of the most valuable resources in Mobile Strike and in order to make full use of it, you always need to be training. This means knowing when your Training Ground queue will finish so that you can log back on to re-start it. The exception to this is very early on in the game when you don’t have enough resources and have to choose between training, construction and research (hint: always choose the one the most benefits your economy, which normally means research or construction). Later on, if you do run out of resources then ask your alliance to help you out. Any good alliance should appreciate how important it is to keep the training queue full and send some resources your way. Similarly, help your teammates when they need resources for troops.

Rule 2 – Focus on Troop Training Speed Boost

Troop Training II is the holy grail for Troop Training

Troop training speed is one of the most important economic boosts. It can save you a ton of speed ups in the long run and give you a huge troop advantage over your competition. There currently isn’t any gear that boosts Troop Training Speed (but keep checking in here for if/when some if released), but the Troop Training I and Troop Training II Commander Skills give you a huge boost. Outside of combat scenarios you should always have these maxed out as soon as you are able to. The other way of boosting Troop Training is through building and upgrading banks. A common city set-up is to have around 5 banks – this will give you a nice Coin income as well as a 125% troop training speed boost when you get them up to level 21.

Rule 2 – Make Sure your Training Ground Queue is long Enough to Make it Through the Night

A 5 minute training queue is only long enough for a cat-nap

Some people set an alarm to restart their Training Ground queue when it ends in the middle of the night. Whilst this works for some people, most of you would prefer a good night’s sleep so focus on getting your queue to be at least 8 hours long (or however long you sleep for). You can achieve this either through upgrading your Training Grounds or by building more Training Grounds. You may also need to use a small speed-up or two to get things working efficiently. E.g. it’s better to use a 60 min speed-up to finish and restart a new 8-hour queue then to let your queue finish 4 hours before you wake.

Rule 3 – Make sure your Troop Training Queue is long enough to allow you to use Speed Ups Efficiently

Try not to buy small speed-ups with gold

After making sure your queue is long enough to make it through the night, your next goal is to get it long enough to make efficient use of speed ups. If you are using 8 hours speed-ups on a 6-hour queue then that is clearly quite wasteful. Additionally, the bigger speed ups are much more efficient from a gold point of view. For example an 8-hour speed up costs around 80 gold per hour but a 3-day speed up only costs around 60 gold per hour. If you have a quick look at this table:

Speed-up Efficiency (gold per hour):

	Gold Cost	Gold per Hour
1 minute	5	300
15 minute	70	280
60 minute	130	130
3-hour speed	300	100
8 hour speed up	650	81
15 hour speed up	1000	67
24 hour speed up	1500	63
3 day speed up	4400	61

You can see that the smaller speed-ups are very gold inefficient. Therefore, if you are going to be spending gold on training troops then try to get your queue to at least 15 hours as this is only slightly less efficient than a 3-day speed up. To be able to use these then you clearly need your troop training queue to be at least 15 hours long.

The other point to mention is that as you increase your troop training speed, your queue time will drop. This doesn’t mean that you should avoid increasing troop training speed, but do be mindful that you will have to keep upgrading your Training Grounds as you grow.

Long-term, 2 x level 21 Training Grounds should be sufficient to make use of 3-days speed ups when training Tier 3 troops, but until you get there you will often need at least 3 Training Grounds.

Rule 4 – Try to avoid Speed Training Troops until you have your Economy Nicely Optimized

It might be tempting to blast out troops as quickly as you can but it will pay dividends to make sure you have steps 1 to 3 set-up before you do. Saving your gold until you have things nice and efficient will mean you get a lot more troops and power for your buck and let you overtake your competition who spend their gold wastefully. Ideally, you will have at least:

Troop Training 1 and 2 fully maxed out in your Commander Skills
A 15 hour troop training queue to let you use efficient 15 hour speed ups
A good number of Banks nicely upgraded for some extra training boost

Rule 5 – Do Troop Training in Batches to Win Challenge Prizes

Whilst it is important to keep your training queue full, don’t be tempted to blast out a bunch of training at random times. Always time them with a good set of Basic, Extreme, State and Alliance Challenges where possible to maximise your rewards. Sometimes you will even win enough to fully re-pay the cost of the training!

Some Common Questions

What happens when I run out of food? Do my troops die?

No they don’t. Nearly all big bases have 0 food and there are no consequences to running out of food.

Should I build farms and focus on Food Production to make sure I have enough food?

In short, no. It is a losing battle. Just accept that eventually you will get to the point where your troops are eating so much food that it becomes impossible to stay in surplus. You will have to rely on crates/items, farming as well as alliance members to get the food you need. Having a seperate account focussed on producing food is also another good idea. It can send your main account food through the Trading Post as and when it needs some.

How Many Troops Should I Have?

The short answer is as many as possible. Although to be more specific, your first aim should be to have enough troops to fill a whole deployment. The amount of troops you can have in a single deployment depends on your HQ level, but it maxes out at 250kat HQ level 21 (375k with a 50% deployment size boost). This should be your first target as there is a safety in numbers effect so attacking with the maximum number of troops will mean you lose fewer troops. Your second aim is to have enough troops to fill a deployment with one troop type. If you have a balanced number of troops then this means a total of 1.1m troops (375k of each troop type). After this point, additional troops will not make you any better at attacking (except as replacements for the ones that die).

When defending it is quite simple – the more troops the better!

The exception to all of this is if you are running a trap account (i.e. an account design to keep your power artificially low in order to trick people into attacking you). This is a much more complex affair but you might decide to stop training troops to try to keep your power low.

Conclusions

In summary, it takes a bit of time to get your base and economy set up to efficiently train troops. You need to think about your city layout, your commander skills and your timings. It is well worth the effort though, troops are expensive and in order to be competitive (without spending a ton of money) you need to make exceptionally efficient use of your resources (which includes time!).

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Guide to Combat Boosts in Mobile Strike

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Guide for Mobile Strike

Attacking Rebel Targets in Mobile Strike

Attacking Rebel Targets in Mobile Strike

What is a Jumper Account?

What is a Jumper Account?

General Principles

Commander Goals

Research/Buildings

Troops

Why Would You Want a Jumper Account?

Attacking Combat in Mobile Strike – A Beginners Guide

Attacking Combat in Mobile Strike – A Beginners Guide

Power Level

Stronghold Level

Is Their Commander Present?

What Gear are they Wearing?

Troop Numbers

Attacking Someone Multiple Times

Conclusion

How to Efficiently Train Troops in Mobile Strike

How to Efficiently Train Troops in Mobile Strike

Rule 1 – Always be Training Troops

Rule 2 – Focus on Troop Training Speed Boost

Rule 2 – Make Sure your Training Ground Queue is long Enough to Make it Through the Night

Rule 3 – Make sure your Troop Training Queue is long enough to allow you to use Speed Ups Efficiently

Rule 4 – Try to avoid Speed Training Troops until you have your Economy Nicely Optimized

Rule 5 – Do Troop Training in Batches to Win Challenge Prizes

Some Common Questions

Conclusions

Guide to Combat Boosts in Mobile Strike

Guide to Combat Boosts in Mobile Strike

Mobile Strike Boosts – Head to Head Comparison

Tier 1 Boosts:

Tier 2 Boosts:

Enemy Health Debuff

Often nearly as good as Attack Boost, but does nothing at all against very strong opponents (e.g. Zeroing a huge player).

Health Boost

Very good in nearly all scenarios but does very little against very weak opponents.

Tier 3 Boosts:

Defense Debuff

Essentially the opposite of Health Debuff. The very best boost when battling very strong opponents (e.g. Zeroing a huge player) but in most common scenarios it only increases damage by a moderate amount. Great for multi-billion power rally leaders. Not so great for everyone else.

Defense Boost

Better than Health Boost when losses are very low, but it’s effectiveness drops off rapidly as troop losses increase.

Tier 4 Boosts:

Trap Boost

Traps are affected by Troop boosts anyway so there is little need to focus on this. Traps have a big impact on the game for medium power bases, but once you get to millions of troops, 125k traps just don’t have a huge influence.

Siege Boost

As with Trap Boost – once players start getting millions of troops, having a troop specialized in destroying 125k traps just isn’t that useful.

The Results – Time for Some Graphs!

Attack Boosts

This section is looking at the boosts that deal extra damage. It is looking at how many additional kills each boost type gets.

Scenario 1: Rallying a Huge Target

2.375m vs. 25m troops

You: 600% Attack Boost

Opponent: 600% Defense and Health Boost

When fighting a huge opponent health debuff does nothing whereas defense debuff is even better than attack boost. This is true in all scenarios where your opponent has very high defence (through massive troop numbers and/or through huge defence boosts).

Scenario 2: Solo Attacking a Medium Target

375k vs. 1m Troops

You: Attack: 400%

Opponent: Defense: 200% Health: 200%

Here defense debuff gets much worse. It still does a reasonable amount of extra damage but far less than the other two boosts. Health debuff is nearly as good as troop attack, even overtaking it at higher levels.

Scenario 3: Taking a Hit from a Rally

5m vs 2.375m

You: 600% Attack

Opponent: Defense: 600% Health: 600%

Defense debuff becomes very ineffective in fights that are even or where you are ahead. Again, we see health debuff is very similar to troop attack.

Defensive Boosts

This section looks at how the defensive boosts reduce kills. A number of players had reported seeing positive results by using a mix of defence and health boost so I have also included a 50/50 split of these two boosts.

Scenario 1: Rallying a Large Target

2.375m vs. 10m troops

You: 600% Defense and Health Boost

Opponent: 400% Attack Boost

Scenario 2: Solo Attacking a Medium Target

375k vs. 1m Troops

You: Defense: 300% Health: 300%

Opponent: Attack: 250%

Very similar results to the scenario above. You are outnumbered, and even though you have better boosts than your opponent, defense boost is very ineffective. Attack debuff is dominant once again.

Scenario 3: Taking a Hit from a Rally

5m vs 2.375m Troops

You: Defense: 400% Health: 400%