Zellie's Striking Walk through's

Hey Guys and Gals Just a few basics that the blog has been talking about Hope you enjoy ill be doing some that are more items specific

How to block other players on MS As in any situation you'll always find a person that just rubs you the wrong way. Sometimes this is part of a strategic play. This is inevitably a strategic game and what better way than to goad you in to attacking their base than posting comments that you don't appreciate. You have a AC (alliance chat) which can only be seen by your fellow team mates and a SC (State Chat) which includes all alliances in your state. You can also create separate chat rooms for R4 groups or even allies to help fill rallies. Yet there as in every village is just that 1 person that pushes the limit. Here is how to block that specific person and even if the change their name they cant contact or mail you again. Your R4 and R5 team can also block a person from the alliance. But that function can only be blocked from the alliance management page. To block there is two ways. If on state chat simply click on there name a pop up will appear and simply click bloc

Keeping up and checking the MS on game blog At the start of the game lots of players seem to ignore the daily Ms in game blog. It really is important to take a minute to read that blog. Why? Because it short lists all of the newly released items and advises what days a SVS or state vs state event is. This tells you what is the newest and best insignia and augments to use, what dates you need to be ready for a event or what new states have been released. Some new states when opened can be DBC (daily bonus club) state which has a massive research boost active. Where to find it? Click on more then click on blog believe me take a minute to read it.

Control Point Sentry insignia This insignia is primarily most effective for a control point fight as some new insignia was release yesterday that has a better rally boost. Remember to quip and activate on memorial to use

Fortify Master Insignia Now this one is nice for defending your base it adds 2500% defense to your defense overall stats. Remember to equip and activate on your Memorial building to use this insignia. Is available in the newest pack released on 29/04

Its All about the CP :-) Not really this insignia has some awesome rally boosts too. The Control Point insignia II was released on 19/04 and o my what nice big boosts it has. Now remember insignia has to be equipped and active on your memorial and also has a cool down period before you can reactivate that same insignia. So if your planning to hold a Cp for hours on end stock up on some of them. Or remember to hit activate when a rally is set on a Cp or a few minutes before marching. They also have wicked rally boosts here are their boosts:

Train Train and some more Training New Captains Training gear has been released with a red beret and some serious boots to whip your troops in shape. Whats nice about this gear is that over and above the speed that is added when using this gear and a commander tree set to training and troop Que it also has a larger troop Que added per tier type of troops. Thus you can train more and faster awesome gear to have. Remember to combine this with a troop insignia and ask a Alliance member to add additional troop training speed to your training regimen. The team members help can shave off a lot of speed ups especially if your training 10 Bil troops at a time. Here is what the gear looks like and boosts applicable.

Augments - Weapon Attachments Well no gun is complete without sights, scopes, a decent stock and a mean silencer. That's basically what Augments is in the game. The augments work as two parts. 1 - Augment research in the research center. You will need to complete the research to be able to place the augments on to the weapon. 2 - Attach the augments that you received in the packs, there are both defensive and attack augments. Usually the newest augments are advertised in the blog. To open them you need to open the augment in your items under crates. To attach them you need to go to the gear, click on commander, click on the weapons and find the weapon that you wish to augment. Click install top right click on Augments. it will open a picture tap on each block and add the item. Remember to add them as a set

Mod-set Presets for your commander Mod-set bonus is a type of research that will gain additional boosts from you mod-sets. Like a deck of cards some things just work better when put together. The commanders gear can hold 4 mods. Three square and one round mod. You will need to complete the full manufacturing research tree for you to be able to insert all four mods. We use to manually place mods and no one was more glad when Mobile Strike released the VIP levels that unlocked modest presets From level 122 you can remove mods for free from your gear and as the levels go up you can also unlock mod-set presets this makes building gear so much easier. Click on your commander, click on any gear item to open up the inventory. Find the item that you want to place your new modset on. Ps. Remember that the mod-set you have bought from either the black market (discussed earlier in the blog) or that you've won in challenges or bought via packs can be found under your items and crates.

Commander Skill Tree In the blog I've talked about setting your commander skill tree and presets. To set up your presets click top left corner on your commanders picture. To open the presets you'll need to complete some or all of the battle tactics presets and some additional is in the commander research. Click on the commander and click on the preset drop down box, click open presets. It will open  blank preset with no gear in. Add your specific gear that you are setting up and allocate the skill points. After adding your gear to the preset item click on the commander picture beneath the gear. It will open the commander skill tree on how your commander skills are applied. This can add massive amounts of attack, defense or shave off large amounts on research and construction. Always allocate from the bottom to the top of the skill tree. To get more points you will have to upgrade your commander. For instance research with research gear insignia's and boosts:

Troops Going Back to School Lets be honest who of us did not laugh thinking of big bad army clad troops going back to school. But it is way cheaper sending your lower tier troops to the academy and promoting those troops than training them from scratch. To upgrade the building and to unlock troops you'll require various badges for T5 normal, Advance and Merc and T6 troops. Additionally for T6 combat you will required manuals to complete the research. To use the the troop academy open the building, tap on the troop you want to promote then tap on the troop you want to promote to. You can promote a troop one tier up to any type of troop one tier up. To receive the max benefit of this building use the training gear on your commander with a commander set to troop training, add training insignia's and a troop boost under your additional boosts. As always when promoting large amounts of troops please check your nerf count (posted earlier on blog)

Speedup building in base To be honest not my favorite building but only because much later in the game when excessively large speedups are needed you wont use the building much. The building is in the top left hand corner of your base and is worth it when you've just started playing. Like the gold investment building you deposit the pesky small speedups and they grow over a investment time. Good to keep it running because you will always need speed ups.

The Insignia building and what it does Powerful little building on your doorstep. Don't worry i regularly slap my forehead thinking "Really Zel come on how did you forget that". The building is situated to the left of your HQ. Unlocked with a ticket from a pack and boosts can be stacked on top of each other with various insignia's to multiply the max range boost you need for a item. The first slot is unlocked by the pack with supporting insignia's. the third/second depending if you buy or research it can be unlocked with a second insignia slot item in packs. (get why its important to take time and read whats in the pack when you buy it?) The second/ third slot is unlocked by completing the building development research its 7 lines down in the research. What does it do? Well place all gold level insignia on this building for instance adding 3 research insignia's will add 270% research speed. Add a 30% research boost in your milestone boosts (right si

Nerf Calculators Everyone talks about it and mostly everyone has a huge question mark as to the explanation on what it is. The in a nutshell translation is = having way to many little or lower tier troops. To prevent the players from only building massive amounts of small troops rules have been written to ensure that should you exceed that specific type of troops for instance T1 and T2 troops that you would automatically loose and loose a lot of troops. I strongly recommend that all players look up and find a NERF Calculator. I personally have tried various ones and strongly recommend the following blog link http://www.games-guide.info/mobile-strike/tools/nerf-calculator  Rally leaders love finding bases like these its billions of kills for only missing that nerf by 1 troop vs sending only a few troops at you so please take the time to look up what you can build without turning to be Nerf out Here is what a nerf hit looks like please take the time to do the work loosing

Covert Ops Center 600% Defense, 600% Health and 600% attack stats added at full level. The building can be unlocked with a blue print found in packs and also requires drones to be sent out and collected from rebel drone tiles (only you are able to send the drone and see its location). However as soon as you occupy the tile it can be seen on the map so be aware if you are in a tile hitting state for the tile to not be tile hit as you'll need to complete the tile to receive the materials needed to upgrade it.

Memorial building The memorial building lists your commanders killed and the one's you've killed. The building requires grave diggers coins found in packs to upgrade and adds various boosts. but most don't realize reading their memorial of a person your attacking can be a very big benift to you. a Head of State grave stone  is gold, possibly if that person has killed a HOS or a few Heads of state it's a really bad call to rally that person. UE or Ultimate elimination will kill a enemy commander for 7 days, to do this a grave stone is required which can unfortunately and fortunately only be bought that makes it very scarce for some one to UE but some time they will. Should you upgrade your grave yard to full level 22 your UE time will be lessened to 3 days. This sucks believe me you cant do anything but take a break and have a beer for tree days unless your power level and research is so high that you can safely still fill rallies.

Mobile Ops center and Research The mobile ops center works whit a few items. Tank gear for the commander to score additional tank moves etc when playing the mini game in the center it self. You'll need badges and passes to move to the next level of the center. you'll also need to complete the research to be able to apply these credits. although most people will receive enough credits in the packs they wont need to play the mini game to get the credits, the mini game is quite fun feature that was added to the game. Overall when the research is done you'll need to go and stack the credits next to the boosts you want maxed it adds 50,000% overall attack and 100,000% Control point attack and health. here is what it looks like :-)

Presets on your commander Commander presets make your life 100 times easier they are there to pre-set your gear and commander skill tree so that you can switch to a support / defense or attack mode at any time. Here is a few recommendations on what I've found to be most needed. 1. Attacking the Control Point - You set this to have the max attack gear, stats and mods while filling your commander skill tree from bottom to top, maxing out the control and rally attack blocks. There after you max out the other attacks and health blocks. 2. Research - Research also set with gear and research mods should max out the minimal points on the right of the tree and maxing out the research blocks only. from there set your commander tree to full defense (the reason for this is so you have a level of defense while your nose is in research) Ultimately I say shield while researching but that depends on how big your power is) 3. Defense - a full guardian or defense set with your commander s

Armory Building The armory holds gear set stats, Mods, manufacturing of core items and combining items like crates and mods. Lots of players forget that they receive crates that can be exchanged for rss, some hold great mods and others for gear leveling, hardening or that one missing gear item you have. Go to Armory. Click on collectibles. Click master combine and level to level 6 or gold level. Anything that is combined in the armory must always be at a level 6 or gold level for it to have the most effective reward. Click on the golden items and click exchange item. The items will be in your items under crates just click open. The rss etc items will auto be added to rss. Gear and mods will open to new crates open them and use where needed

New gear gets released all the time Always take the time to compare it to your current gear. Go the the armory, set gear then compare the new gear with the gear boosts you have. Use the standard set under the set gear that you have to compare with the new gear this way you compare apples with apples.

Set gear leveling - Is it worth it? Yup it is in a nutshell adds  speeds to research,defense to guardian and attack to rebel and attack gear In your combat lab top tab is set gear leveling, tap on leveling you have to have opened the full set out of your items for it to show in this page when the set is full you are able to level it up. Tap on the item, add set gear Xp points and click unlock to move to next level the higher the level the higher the bonus received. Please post a comment if you have any questions

Defense is one of the most important things to get right New Guardian gear #TrapHeaven I personally love trap accounts, they take a lot of time to figure out and finally Mobile Strike released the new "Hammer Head" its absolutely wicked gear. Maxed out there isn't many that beat this gear out. The full Ultimate gear can be bought in a pack and requires to be fully hardened up in your combat lab with three various items. Also the gear can be leveled up to level 100 gear within the combat lab for a additional boost. Add defense insignia and a anti scout when logging off and 9/10 times if your shield drop's while sleeping you should be safe. To check your defensive boost click on your power at the top of the screen, click boosts scroll to defense. Anything above 40,000% is good. you build it up with Gear, Research and Commander skill Tree. Remember in this gear set your commander tree minimal points to unlock from the top, then when you reach the bottom max o

The Grave Yard Building This building requires heroic medals to upgrade which can be found in packs. After level 7 upgrade you have to have 1:1 T5 and 1:1,5 for every T6 troop sacrifices or points to upgrade the level even further. Sounds very strange but this building is worth it it adds massive amounts of attack for a rally leader or even on solo attacks. I recommend getting the points by testing out and killing off your T5 troops by either attacking your in house alliance traps (this way they can test if their base is holding out against a big guy) or alternatively at a control point fight would be the fastest way, I personally would rather sacrifice those kills in house but that's up to you This is one of those buildings that is worth the effort in the end the massive amount of attack gained in army overall attack really pays off