Col Courage and Clean Sweep!? "LASER BLAST" yeah!

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I just pulled a Heavy Water card from a set of Bronze coins. He is an Uncommon. Was also surprised as I got a 4 star Epic Lady Jaye (olive drab/camo uniform).

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Apparently the removal of the title bonus was premature, as they restored it pretty quickly. Maybe they had planned to start Global Warfare but had to delay it a day at the last minute. Whatever the case, I expect it to start tonight since the double XP ends at 5pm PST tonight, which coincides with the usual 8pm EST start time for group assignments for Global Warfare (though on the first day no one will actually be in a group until they reach the Scrapper title).

I've gotten Clean-Sweep, Coil Crusher, and Sludge-Viper cards so far via tokens, and I've fought against Stretcher. But, so far I've not received any more Tracker cards than the one I found a month ago.

I got through the first Cobra level of the new maps, but I've gone back to the last level of the Everglades maps because it is slightly easier to level up my cards there, and I definitely want to take advantage of double XP. I was able to get my second Resolute Cobra Commander maxed out, and it is nice to have two of them to boost my squad. Of course, I've still had at least four battles today alone where neither of them executed Rally Troops (sigh). It also doesn't help that all the top players now have the tactical Beach Head in their Joe squad along with Spirits, Tiger Force Dukes, and Legendary Flints, so my boosts don't do much good there once he uses Sabotage. In battles 10-12 and usually even in 7-9, it seems that all I get is a choice of three BattleMasters with squads that are some combination of those four cards, so it's difficult to advance past those levels any more. I was at least happy that I scored a victory against Aeterian a few nights ago using only a regular attack. He is one of the top players, finishing first in the Take Down event, and he had three Legendary Flint cards (you could only get at most two as rewards, so he must have traded for one). But, he didn't have a tactical Beach Head in his squad at the time, and my awesome offense came through big time. I've never been so proud of my Cobra squad as I was then (I had to fight back tears).

Suddenly I can't even get a 3 streak in PvP... It's frustrating a bit

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Looking through some trade offers, I see some trades requesting a one-star Rare Snow Job and a one-star Rare Croc Master, each of which has no art and can apparently be promoted to Epic. I'm guessing those must be upcoming event cards. That seems odd timing, as I was just thinking last night about a potential new Croc Master card using the VvV version as one version and the unreleased PoC Python Patrol deco as the other.

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That art for Beachhead is amazing

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That Beach Head is pretty impressive. Too bad I likely won't be able to get one, since I'm sure it will only go to the top 30 as it is a Legendary card.

I went up against a Joe squad earlier that had a 1-star Rare with no art, so I'm not sure who it was. Maybe it was the mystery Snow Job card?

It turns out that there are new Snow Job (Rare is RoC Rockslide driver and Epic appears to be the Then and Now RAHC figure) and Croc Master (I was close - Rare is the VvV version, while the Epic is the regular/25th version but not the Python Patrol colors) cards, and even a Legendary Scarlett card (VvV wave 5 "desert" deco). So far, I don't have any of them, though I did pick up the Epic Hit 'n Run card over the weekend.

One thing I noticed this morning is that the newer cards only get one entry each for the Rare and the Epic versions. I guess it makes sense because the art doesn't change from a one-star Rare to a two-star Rare, nor from a 3-star Epic to a 4-star Epic, but it is a change from how the gallery has worked in the past. This appears to go back at least as far as the last Takedown event. I wish I had known before I wasted money promoting my SAW-Viper and HEAT-Viper to 4-star Epic when I don't plan on doing anything with those cards.

As for the event itself, I was up to 67 and a Duelist ranking as of the last time I was logged in. For today's group, I'm almost doubled up on my nearest competitors, but there are two of them in striking distance of my double promotion. I'm hoping I can somehow get to the top 30, though that would take a massive effort and a lot of people ahead of me would need to stop playing. This event seems a little better than the past Global Warfare events in that it seems like I'm more often being given at least one squad out of three where I have a competitive chance with a regular attack, so I'm burning through less ammo. It also appears that the heavy hitters have been laying off my squad, as I think I've only been attacked by any of them one time so far. I think there has only been one Revenge battle so far that I've lost, which is impressive because it has been my Joe squad that has been attacked most of the time.

I was hovering around the low 40s in ranking for most of this event and should have just let myself get a demotion yesterday to set up an easier field today. Instead i fought to keep my commander title last night and woke up ranked in the high 90s.

Now, after having meetings pretty much all day at work and only a few opportunities to play, I'm going to finish ranked around 115 and demoted to chief.

I REALLY wish they'd save these events for the weekends and just ruun them Thursday - Sunday night.

I was in the low 40s myself on Wednesday morning, when I quit the game entirely out of frustration to how the groupings were being assigned. After being put in a group with almost entirely top 30 players on Tuesday, I got a demotion and still ended up getting mostly top 30 players. I thought that you were only supposed to be assigned to a group of players with the same title ranking, but that definitely wasn't true on Wednesday, as I had at least two Commanders compared to my Enforcer ranking. It got to the point where MuscleB kept attacking my squad and stealing my points, and I couldn't beat his squad in Revenge even with an All-Out attack unless I was really lucky. That was enough for me, as I was already thinking that it would reach this point now that the top players were monopolizing on the Legendary cards. I had hoped that I could finish in the top 30, but between that and no longer being given options in battles 9-12 that I could beat even with an All-Out attack (gotta love those squads with four Tiger Force Dukes), and not being willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money and still possibly not getting the one Legendary card that is attainable outside of event rewards (Scarlett), I decided it wasn't worth my time anymore. I probably would have been ok if the game wouldn't constantly throw the top 30 players at me in PvP, but somehow in a game that appears to have several thousand players, I must constantly fight the same 12 over and over and over again.

So far, I'm amazed that I haven't missed the game. Spin, I apologize that I'm not likely going to be an event ally for you in the next Battlefield Simulator event.

I was in the 6000's lol. I'm in the mid 4000's usually, for events. I just didn't have the time this week to put into it. Plus I refuse to spend a dime on the game, so you can only go so far, I think.

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So is there a place hosting the artwork for this?

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I spend between $2-$5 during most events and have been doing reasonably well. But I have to imagine the five or six players who each have three or more legendary cards and multiples of the event exclusives, all leveled to e max, are spending healthily to bolster their decks. There's just no other way they could be that strong that fast.

On balance I still find the game relatively enjoyable and an entertaining distraction, but those Global warfare events are just starting to grind on me.

No event needs to last a week. And I have to kind of feel sorry for someone who consistently dominates in events that demand that level of commitment/obsession.

Underground Metal Mine

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