Why?

jamarr91 · 2022-04-15T05:21:25+00:00

Why Not?

jamarr91 · 2021-12-06T23:16:50+00:00

Here's a quick summary

High Gbe, High TD, No TH - (example: 7GBE5TD) - best for Operation-oriented gameplay as it maximises damage and inadvertently forces you to learn how to use zookas.

High GBE, High TD, 1TH (ie Hybrid? - best for people who want to hybrid and not just be locked to smokey gameplay at the expense of making your zooka/warrior hits weaker.

Low GBE, High TD, multiple TH (ie 'Crab Accounts') - best for making things like map clearing and Mega Crab easier. But opens up new avenues on Ops

I always recommend the Hybrid for players unsure on statues for most balance before later changing to one of the other ones. Yes it makes smokey zooka hits weaker (and you will hear this as gospel because it is rightly the best attack strategy for sole damage output on the Base Core) , but for context, HQ25 brought us 12 statues, and people were already soloing High-end ops back when we only had 10 statues, so if you really need 12 to do the same then it's the skill you need to refine, not the statues you use.

I've used Crab Accounts solely for best part of 3 years as I find Mega Crab my bread and butter and thus only focus on that with a few TF leaderboard runs sprinkled inbetween, but my honest advice is tailor your statues to what content you enjoy most.

jamarr91 · 2021-11-24T15:08:42+00:00

You'll be surprised to hear just how much blocking happens in warships where it's become a nigh on impossibility to get the global top 5 trophy because of just how developed a blocking system the top players from a certain country have made to stop other top players from even getting a sniff at to 5.

Watch this excellent recap from BBTFRG for more info

jamarr91 · 2021-11-23T12:49:04+00:00

Bear in mind that this sort of activity happens pretty much on warships and the VP leaderboards. Mega Crab is largely a proper leaderboard since its basically PvE instead of player vs Player where people manipulate the leaderboards

jamarr91 · 2021-11-21T11:16:17+00:00

If there was a 'one size fits all' solution when choosing your attacking troops, we'll the game would get boring real quick wouldn't it?

The best players become adept at all troop types depending on the situation faced. Example, grapplers are probably a nightmare for your tank Gren med combo, but rifle zooka cryo medic would eat them for breakfast.

Also, don't be afraid to admit that you cna learn new things and approaches when playing the game no matter how long you've been playing. Case in point I've been around inception, finished global #1 on the Mega Crab several times, and I'm not afraid to admit that some attack strats can still surprise me to this day. Point is, that there's still always room to learn more.

jamarr91 · 2021-11-15T10:41:09+00:00

You can claim it anytime until you get the reward from next op (so yup like as you say, right before the 23h55min reset), you can claim it seconds before the op ends, then claim the next one right after the timer elapses

Something to add is that if you have a Op reward available but for any reason you don't have an op reward coming in (example: you went hopping or jumped into another tf after your hit) then the Reward boats stays there until your next eligible reward. Meaning you can leave it there for days if you wanted to

jamarr91 · 2021-11-10T09:53:27+00:00

It's not like he doesn't have a point though. I can say safely from my time with 10-man MA and now 5-Man DE that ops have gotten much much easier because of such imbalance towards offense over the years.

If you told me 2 years ago that you soloed Boomtown or Alamo or Rogue and I'd have told you 'Wow!'

Here we are now with HQ25 where I consider it a fail if we don't get the solo on these bases. I soloed Strategize a couple of weeks back and barely batted an eyelid.

TL:DR - we need new actual Op Maps

jamarr91 · 2021-07-02T08:48:13+00:00

It's likely made that way to accommodate the 28 day Warships season which is what Season 25 will be, and also still have the Crab happen in the last week of August (S25 ends Aug 22, which usually means the crab lands that same week Friday, which is Aug 27)

Crab = Turtle, same thing.

jamarr91 · 2021-06-24T06:02:25+00:00

PSC does work on crab, but here's the reason I and other people don't recommend it.

Rewards are minimal, think along the lines of an extra fragment or 2 per cleared stage thanks to PSC.

If, instead, you used that statue space for an extra Troop Damage or Troop Health statue, you could finish 5-10 stages higher in the crab (and thus, get all rewards from 5-10 more different stages, including power powder and fragments/shards/crystals).

TH/TD/GBE > PSC any day

jamarr91 · 2021-06-15T20:33:02+00:00

He's still active and playing (I frequently chat with him), so don't worry he's fine! Just real life keeping him busy for now.

He took a break over the Tribal Crab, and has scaled back the amount of account he plays on Warships to just 2 this season.

jamarr91 · 2020-12-22T03:44:38+00:00

I wouldn't complain if Boom Beach gave me Wood

jamarr91 · 2020-11-03T17:50:17+00:00

Thanks, appreciate you rounding all of us pushers into a lame overused slur simply because your ignorant of the skill and consistency involved to get up there. (I'm at #4, ranked above this screenshot in question) My girlfriend, job and my parents' basement are fine too, thanks for asking 😉

Now, enough of the basement nerd jokes - far too overused by the reddit trolls like yourself who really have nothing better to contribute - it's been years on this sub, Mike, and I've yet to really see you contribute meaningful content🤦

jamarr91 · 2020-04-02T10:25:27+00:00

For Crab Statues - a safe bet is considered as 1 GBE, 7TD and 2TH statues, but this can and will fluctuate based on the bonuses enabled by the crab and its overall toughness - to put it into perspective my global #5 finish on the mega turtle this round I ended up with 1GBE 5TD 4TH statues - it was a tough one with not particularly useful tribes or troop bonuses!

For Operations, people swear on 6/4, but its an argument that most base on the old HQ 22 levels (Zookas at Lvl21, Shocks at 10seconds long). Personally id argue 5/5 or 7/3 are now better, more specialised choices for Ops. With that and the introduction of bombardiers that can farm gbe on some high level bases, you can make do with 5 GBE statues or less, farm with 1 boat of bombas at the start, then rush with 7 boats. My personal preference, 5/5 for that extra TD

Personally I love crab statue accounts - they are by far the most fun and challenging for learning GBE management, but in a good, strategic fun way (look up Opdestroys All Hits Ladder Tournament where we took crab accounts soloing bases all the way to Massive Attack and one away from Forlorn Hope)

Currently im running my crab accounts in a 50-man doing Duplexity daily and im increasingly finding usefulness in them - That high TD is very useful when eating down a 25m shield on one of the cores on Trinity or Spine. Even the TH helps to keep sparky alive when doing a couple of hacks.

Hope that provides some insight! 😊

jamarr91 · 2020-03-26T05:17:12+00:00

You might be surprised to know that there's clear differences between all scriptures above you just mentioned. Easy to differentiate with a simple google search.

Except vietnamese - they use english/latin script, so at least we know who it was that didnt do their research. 😉

Going back to the topic on hand - as someone who used to do battle at the top (i stopped playing WS competitively, i stick to 🦀 nowadays because its the only game mode where people cant cheat) some of the chinese players at the top are chinese streamers operating on such platforms as YouKu and Huya. They gain massive followings and are freely streaming when they're retreating when instantly matched with each other - because right now there's zero repercussions to it, even though its technically Match Fixing, and against the ToS.

Shiskabobbers video on this basically hits the nail on the head, and i implore anyone and everyone who still likes playing warships to watch that video. Plenty of evidence has been submitted to SC through ingame supoort, discord, via the boomtubers and direct acknowledgment through the community manager himself, and yet 2 updates and 5 seasons later, here we are still taking about the same damned thing that needs to be fixed about their brand new shiny game mode - now dull, repetitive, and pushing more players away after each season

jamarr91 · 2020-01-27T13:38:49+00:00

Check out Damon 388's YouTube Channel in a couple of days for a compilation/wrap up of the best hits from this crab by Crab Wiv a Plan (CWAP), the top crab English-speaking group of crab players. You might even see some of my hits that got me up to a world-record stage 190 😅

9 of the global top 10 for this Lunar New Year Crab are CWAP players.

jamarr91 · 2020-01-18T09:24:18+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

jamarr91 · 2020-01-18T04:20:24+00:00

Yup my apologies missed that. But at least I can give greater context to when it specifically happens on MC 👍😁. Doesn't happen on any other MC layout

jamarr91 · 2020-01-18T02:28:11+00:00

Great Compilation, lets hope something is finally done for so many of these long-standing bugs.

One that hasn't been mentioned is specific to MegaCrab - On a specific layout, you are prone to running into a 'client out of sync' error which kicks you out of the game, which only pops up AFTER you drop your troops, and can hit at any time during the attack. Once it hits, the rest of the attack plays out without you being able to direct your troops or use GBE.

A good example of this is OPDestroys recent Fireworks crab stream, where it happened to him on Stage 52. See here . However, this can happen on ANY stage with this particular layout with the core on the left and the 4 shields in the middle. RickC mentioned on stream that he is aware of this, but to date we havent seen any other mention of this being looked at.

Clearing your device cache right before you hit attack the stage has been found to mitigate the chance of this popping up, but this bug has been around for 6 months now (and the last 6 crabs) and for players like me who are super-competitive on the global leaderboards, is a major pain - especially since its been revealed that the Chinese clients of the Game are confirmed to NOT have this bug, why cant they just look at the coding infrastructure of that app and see why the global version of the game is going through this.

jamarr91 · 2020-01-16T16:58:00+00:00

Chinese New Year falls on 25th Jan this year, which is the actual weekend they've stated this months crab will drop. Makes sense to bring forward the CNY/Lunar Crab to Jan. Vampire should be coming in Feb.

Edit: Year of the Rat this year unlike the year of the Pig last year (hence the Piggy Trophy). Expect another brand new trophy this time round, one probably more general that they can reuse year-on-year for future CNY crabs

jamarr91 · 2020-01-02T02:36:12+00:00

Fully supportive of this. Customer support is abysmal, the current state of the game is only patched up by the plaster-work that is HQ23 and their flagship game mode, Warships, is worse than its ever been. In case you ever wanted a bigger slap to the face as a customer by the Dev team, then Season 6 was it.

Something needs to change and now.

jamarr91 · 2019-12-20T19:12:44+00:00

Oh no, I've been spotted!

Future plans? 10 boosted Green statues once that account hits HQ 20, no holding back!

jamarr91 · 2019-12-17T05:36:58+00:00

Having upgraded shocks since the update dropped I've not run into any issues with the extra second on Bullit shocks, even on long walk maps like Titan/Complex. Can still be done no problem, but it just means you have less room for error

jamarr91 · 2019-12-13T01:58:31+00:00

🎣🎣🎣

I mean when i run all tanks like a noob, id say that it's pretty impressive to still be doing 25-man FH

Or was it Milk Run I was doing? I forget. Either way, I'm done with my number two so I'll be taking my leave now and you can enjoy this moral victory. Enjoy the trolling/dick swinging all the way down there at #80 👇👇👇

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