War Commander: Viper

Operation: Desert Recon Waves 1-70

Operation: Desert Recon Waves 1-70
1-10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj06VJiKH5Y
11-20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MoS2nMAsvQ
21-30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8eO9_XjX1c
31-40 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ggo5aytauI
41-50 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgVu0FdExeA
51-60 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOnxF46SV8E
61-70 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiARNwROz6g

Kixeye : The Interview (War Commander Spirit)

This video summarizes very well the War Commander Spirit
Good Luck Commander!

Cobra or Warhawks or Hellfires? Hellstorm, Laser Tanks...

Replied to a question in this thread about the Cobras. Sharing here.

Question:
Hi, I need some counsel.  I've got level 12 cobras and level 7 EHFs.   EHF is great, but i grow a beard by the time they are in place + they can be vulnerable even w cobras present.   My question is this:  I've got 25K points on the current event.   I'm thinking of Hellstorm, or i can buy a few other things -- Warkawk (but that seems somewhat redundant with cobras) or elete laser tank to compliment my ground (EHF +  level 8 hercs + lvl8 paladins).  FYI -- Im level 28 but really still a nube.  Any advice from the experts?

My answer:
Despite all the wuss from many here and around who just look at bare stats without weighting them to others, HS can often be useless alone cause their missiles get destroyed before they ever hit anything. Add them to HF yes maybe sometimes but very rare. HF are very slow, very weak health, and take ages to use and upgrade and repair. takes 30 minutes to fully use them on a base!! I have lvl 10-11 of all and switched back to all Cobra+Havoc or Cobra+2HS and EMT. I really only found the HS+EHF very useful in a wave 34 of last event against the yellow clowns. it was the only way to pass the wave and the only time they all were truly necessary. razorbacks were much more fun cause they stayed out of range at some level (15-25). around 29 and up, all is red (Lvl5) and your HF are always in range of something so you need a tank to protect and then their use still is slow but sometimes fun if you like to use the splash effect. just way too long. I prefer to waste a toon of EMT and move on with my life.

Laser Tanks are good for base defense against Elite Mega Tanks because of their higher range (400/390) except for their gun trail that makes them easy to spot.

Warhawks/Elite are indeed redundant with Cobra with same range (360) but have much weaker, almost half, Health/Space (17 vs. 36 @Lvl13) but their speed of 2.2 vs 1.6 can be very helping. I don't know, I chose to never take them because of these facts and cause I needed other stuff before.

WC Preview - Undead Rising wave 35 (Yellow Clowns)

Only Hellfires or 5 Hellstorms can get rid of the Yellow bastards clowns.
I tried platoons of Elite Laser Tanks lvl 9, Paladin 10, Elite Mega Tanks 4 and 150 Elite Riflemen. All got killed. Only Hellfire missiles can distract those bastard yellow clowns green ball weapon that shoot at air and ground.

UNDEAD RISING EVENT XPs

UNDEAD RISING EVENT XPs (Oct. 2013)

WAVE	ATTACK/DEFENSE	XP	Bonus XP	Total
1	D	600		600
2	D	620		1220
3	D	640		1860
4	D	660		2520
5	A	700		3220
6	D	730		3950
7	D	750		4700
8	D	760		5460
9	D	770		6230
10	A	790		7020
11	D	800		7820
12	D	810		8630
13	D	820		9450
14	D	830		10280
15	A	1650	300	12230
16	D	840		13070
17	D	850		13920
18	D	860		14780
19	A	870		15650
20	D	880		16530
21	D	890		17420
22	D	900		18320
23	A	910		19230
24	D	920		20150
25	D	930		21080
26	D	940		22020
27	A	1900	450	24370
28	D	950		25320
29	D	950		26270
30	D	960		27230
31	A	960		28190
32	D	970		29160
33	D	970		30130
34	D	980		31110
35	A (Air Destroyers)	980		32090
36	D	990		33080
37	D	990		34070
38	D	1000		35070

Best Anti-Air Defense Unit to defend your base (Part I) : Stinger or Flak Tank ?

What are the best units to defend your base against Air Attack ?

Which unit to chose and upgrade with your hard earned events XPs?

(Part I) : Flak Tank or Stinger ?

Unit / Space / Speed

Flak Tank / 100 / 0,9

Stinger / 50 / 1,2

Why them only? Why not include Gatling Trucks, Hercules or Humvees?

First, because you and I have Event XPs to spend on a deadline in a hurry before we lose them and we wonder about the difference between Flak Tank (10000 XP) and Stinger (9500 XP).

Then, because Flak Tank and Stinger are of those rare units to have the SPLASH effect against air while the others don't and another article will come soon about their choice. Elite Heavy Gunners customized in the Workshop can have that splash effect too but I'll investigate later cause I'm guessing it's not as strong and would take much more valuable space.

SPLASH means they shoot at one target and hit all the others around. That is much deadlier. While Elite Riflemen in Watchtowers are damn impressive despite their supposedly poor effect on air, they only shoot at one aircraft at a time and seem to do damage to that one only while the others still shoot at the tower and ultimately get it down. So, against a fleet of aircrafts, the SPLASH effect is much more effective cause ALL aircrafts are damaged by one single shot of the Stinger or Flak Tank while only one aircraft until dead before the other is hit by non splash defending units like Elite Riflemen.

Now which is really more worth than the other? And why the question?

Cause they are both events prizes and the Flak tank being more expensive than the Stinger, you might think it's a better option. Well, think twice! And read below. Because my maths show the contrary. Stinger seems to be at least twice better than the Flak tank when defending base.

Below are the maths. Watch the red encircled cells.

You can read My Maths on War Commander Units Stats to understand how I determine the qualities of a Unit and the metrics and formulas used here, what exactly are Health/Space, DPS/Space, Total Upgrade Time (TUT) and HRDPS.

And here is the CONCLUSION: FIRST CHOSE STINGERS OVER FLAK TANKS.

Why?

- They are twice more deadly (DPS/space). In Watchtowers, they are 2.5 deadlier than Flak Tanks and range 510 when Flak Tanks range 432-468. That's a huge difference. Even in strongholds with 0% DPS against air, they still are twice deadlier in DPS but range only 340 vs 432-468. so it's not their best spot. But they become so much more protected.

- They cost less (only 500XP ok, but yet)

- They are infantry and you will need to upgrade a lot more vehicles and aircrafts (in Tech Center) than infantry (in Academy). A lot lot more. So you need infantry prizes to upgrade.

- They have twice less Health/Space (=defense) but that is the total opposite and thus a non issue when placed in any type of bunker where they always belong.

- They move 30% faster than tanks. They are not to move much but just in case.
Drawbacks/inconvenience:
- It takes both more than a whole month to reach a decent level (9) before thorium need. That is way too long. But another reason to chose the infantry unit over the vehicle one. Cause your Academy is much less needed to upgrade it than your Tech Center. The upgrade delay for both favors the Stinger again.

CONCLUSION :

GO FOR THE STINGER!! Forget the Flak Tank until much later.

Please feel free to comment below and argue with your experience and constructive criticisms. I even opened commenting to anonymous :) No comments means they all agree. And this post has been read by many 33+ I know. Thanks for reading guys :)

Thanks to http://warcommander.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:Units for all their fantastic work and support.

My Maths on War Commander Units Stats

How do I determine the value of a War Commander Unit? Only by statistics? No, more than metrics, it is personal experience that determines the qualities of a unit. And everyone has his personal way of playing and then his opinion, depending on many personal factors and preferences. So I will only focus here on unquestionable maths and not on discussions or preferences. Then each can makes his choice with those given data.

In order to determine the maths qualities of a unit, I watch all statistics data given for Non-Customized Units where DPS is Damage Per Second, not per shot. I keep the

Range

and I derive 4 personal metrics from the ones given by Kixeye :

Health/Space,

DPS/Space and

Total Upgrade Time (TUT)

TUT adds all times needed to reach a unit level except the ones needed to build all buildings and/or other units needed to build that unit up to this level. So, as an indication of the prerequisite, I include the

Building Level (BLDG LVL)

Health/Space and DPS/Space are derived because Health and DPS have barely no meaning alone in my opinion if they are not compared to the amount of Space a unit occupies in a platoon or to defend the base. Maths proves it. The sudden appearance of Elite Riflemen proved it harshly. Their DPS/Space is quite higher than many other units with much higher absolute DPS or Health and that's how these little Riflemen could and can wipe out full fleet of helicopters Cobra level 10 or platoons of other apparently stronger vehicles.

I derived a 4^th personal metric that is less relevant but that combines Range with all other metrics in a single big equation and result : Health x Range x DPS/Space /1000 =

HRDPS

HRDPS becomes a usefull indicator revealing overall values and advantages of a unit when you are torn between similar ratios but antagonistic in Health vs. DPS.

Finally, so far, I chose to not include Repair Time here. First because it's still way too complicated to compute and then because its importance is ultimately your choice depending on how intensive you play. I personally find it essential if you play continuously but much less if you can just play an hour or two every 6 or 8 or 24 or more or if you coin. That leaves time to repair and come back.

Thorium or no Thorium?

That is the question. The highest possible stats with and without thorium are highlighted in yellow and they are the ones to watch and aim for.

So here is one sample of the dirty secret in War Commander Units stats I will share with you :

Operation DEADPOINT 2 XPs / Wave

Operation Deadpoint 2 : XPs per Wave

WAVE	ATTACK/DEFENSE	XP	Bonus XP	Total
1	A	600		600
2	D	620		1220
3	D	640		1860
4	A	660		2520
5	D	700		3220
6	D	730		3950
7	A	750		4700
8	D	760		5460
9	D	770		6230
10	A	1500	300	8030
11	D	790		8820
12	D	790		9610
13	D	800		10410
14	A	800		11210
15	D	810		12020
16	D	810		12830
17	A	820		13650
18	D	820		14470
19	D	830		15300
20	A	1600	450	17350
21	D	840		18190
22	D	840		19030
23	D	850		19880
24	A	850		20730
25	D	860		21590
26	D	860		22450
27	A	870		23320
28	D	870		24190
29	D	880		25070
30	A	1800		26870
31	D	900		27770
32	D	900		28670
33	D	910		29580
34	A	910		30490
35	D	920		31410
36	D	920		32330
37	A	930		33260
38	D	930		34190
39	D	940		35130
40	A	1800	540	36930
41	D (WIdowMaker)	950		37880
42	D	950		38830
43	D	960		39790
44	A	960		40750
45	D	970		41720
46	D	970		42690
47	A	980		43670
48	D	980		44650
49	D (WidowMaker)	990		45640

Level 12 Custom Hercules vs. Various Air + Spectre

Operation DEADPOINT 2 Waves 1-45

War commander, Laser Tank Battle vs. Plasma+Cryo+Laser Base

3 Platoons of customized Elite Laser Tanks to take in 9 minutes a base that usually kills 60 Elite Megas.

Attacking a Giant Thorium Deposit

Operation Deadpoint Wave 36 : Attack base difficulty

If you go by air first (22 Cobra 11 in my case), FIRST only take the FRONT E-Gatling Trucks and bonus XP building, THEN the NORTH bunkers that have no air defense and then the second Bonus XP building. Then progress from North East to South West. You will miss the lower left bonus but you can take it in an hour with ground support to destroy the towers and surrounding defenses without losing ALL your air that you need as support.

Operation: Deadpoint Waves 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 28, 39 & 40 - War...

Operation DEADPOINT XPs/Wave

WAVE	ATTACK/DEFENSE	XP	Bonus XP	Total
1	D	600		600
2	D	620		1220
3	D	640		1860
4	A	660		2520
5	D	700		3220
6	D	730		3950
7	D	750		4700
8	A	760		5460
9	D	770		6230
10	D	780		7010
11	D	790		7800
12	A	1600	360	9760
13	D	800		10560
14	D	810		11370
15	D	810		12180
16	A	820		13000
17	D	820		13820
18	D	830		14650
19	D	830		15480
20	A	840		16320
21	D	840		17160
22	D	850		18010
23	D	850		18860
24	A	1800	420	21080
25	D	900		21980
26	D	900		22880
27	D	910		23790
28	A	910		24700
29	D	920		25620
30	D	920		26540
31	D	930		27470
32	A	930		28400
33	D (Tarantula)	940		29340
34	D	940		30280
35	D	950		31230
36	A	2000	320	33550
37	D	960		34510
38	D	960		35470
39	D	970		36440

Operation HALCYON XPs / Wave

WAVE	XP	Total	Thorium
1	200	200
2	220	420
3	240	660
4	260	920
5	280	1200
6	300	1500
7	320	1820
8	340	2160
9	360	2520
10	400	2920
11	430	3350
12	460	3810
13	490	4300
14	520	4820
15	550	5370
16	580	5950
17	610	6560
18	640	7200
19	670	7870
20	700	8570
21	730	9300
22	760	10060
23	790	10850
24	820	11670
25	850	12520
26	880	13400	25600
27	910	14310	25700
28	940	15250	25800
29	970	16220	25900
30	1000	17220	26000
31	1030	18250	26250
32	1060	19310	26500
33	1090	20400	28000
34	1120	21520	28250
35	1150	22670	28500
36	1180	23850	28750
37	1210	25060	29000
38	1240	26300	29250
39	1270	27570	29500
40	1300	28870	29750
41	1330	30200	30000
42	1360	31560	30250
43	1390	32950	30500
44	1420	34370	30750
45	1450	35820	31000

Operation ARCHANGEL XPs/Wave

Operation Archangel XPs/Wave
Sure up to wave 34. just a guess after.

WAVE	XP	Bonus XP	Total
1	200		200
2	220		420
3	240	100	760
4	260		1020
5	280		1300
6	300	100	1700
7	320		2020
8	340	100	2460
9	360		2820
10	400		3220
11	430		3650
12	460	120	4230
13	490		4720
14	520	120	5360
15	550	120	6030
16	580		6610
17	610	120	7340
18	640		7980
19	670	120	8770
20	700		9470
21	730	140	10340
22	760	140	11240
23	790		12030
24	820		12850
25	850	140	13840
26	880		14720
27	910		15630
28	940	140	16710
29	970		17680
30	1000	0	18680
31	1030		19710
32	1060	160	20930
33	1090		22020
34	1120	160	23300
35	1150		24450
36	1180	200	25830
37	1210		27040
38	1240	220	28500
39	1270		29770
40	1300	240	31310
41	1330		32640
42	1360	260	34260
43	1390		35650
44	1420		37070

Operation FRONT LINE Waves 26, 27, 28, 29 & 30

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INFANTRY
2. VEHICLES
3. AIRCRAFT
4. DEFENSE BUILDINGS
5. INFANTRY in STANDARD BUNKER
6. INFANTRY in STRONGHOLD BUNKER
7. INFANTRY in WATCHTOWER BUNKER
8. RANGES of ALL UNITS + DEFENSE BUILDINGS (decreasing)
9. DPS/SPACE of ALL UNITS (decreasing)
10. HEALTH/SPACE of ALL UNITS (decreasing)
11. HEALTH x RANGE x DPS/SPACE/1000 of ALL UNITS (decreasing)

Includes all public stats + unique personal stats like DPS/Space, Health/Space, Health x Range x DPS/Space /1000 and Total building time for ALL units and Defense Buildings at ALL levels.

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