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 :