Monday, March 5, 2012

Battle Nations - PvP

Clan critical mass is now at 5 players for Battle Nations.  Why aren't you playing yet?

UnsavorySamurai gave me a tip to check out PvP.  If you choose the PvP icon in your bottom control panel, it will take you to the "Fight Other Players" screen where you can do live head to head battles against random players that match your lvl.  There's three huge advantages to this game mode:

  1. It's absolutely free.  None of your casualties need to be healed in the hospital, so there's no concern about losing expensive units.
  2. There's huge rewards.  You earn 1 VP (Victory Point) for each loss and 4 VPs for each win.  The game gives you rewards for every 10 VPs until 40 VPs every 24 hours.
  3. Fast return time.  It only takes 2 hours to return armies from PvP, so you get them back pretty quickly.
In my first couple days playing PvP, these are the rewards that I've gotten at lvl 24:
  • 10 VP: 1,600 gold
  • 20 VP : 5,000 gold
  • 30 VP: 10,000 XP
  • 40 VP: 4 - 6 gears
It's actually better if you start playing PvP at lower levels, because the game will only match you with players of the same lvl.  At lower levels, you can go into battle with armies of just basic Troopers and be able to win with just some smart strategy.  Assuming you win half the time, it only takes 16 quick battles to hit 40 VP each day, and it gives you something interesting to do while you're waiting for resources to pile up or jobs to finish construction.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Can you clarify on "It's absolutely free. None of your casualties need to be healed in the hospital, so there's no concern about losing expensive units."

As far as I can tell, lost units are lost forever. If you spent money/nanopods on them, too bad.

This review seems to back that up as does this FAQ:
- http://toucharcade.com/2011/12/07/battle-nations-review/
- http://www.trade-nations.com/content/forum/bn-questions-answers

Is there some way to get lost units back?

John said...

You need to collect them from the Army Management Tab. At the bottom right of the screen, it's the second icon from the right, the one that looks like three troops stacked on top of each other.

That menu takes you to a screen with tabs for Units, Armies, Garrisons. Touch the Armies tab, and all your lost troops should be there.