Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9017943-20130822194015

I'm a Tier 2 player. Some of the recent reward cards are major tanks but don't do much damage (ie. Hotspot, Silverstreak, etc). Anyone come up with objective results for whether it's better to put these tanks in the back, keep them in the front row, or leave them out and go all-out on dps for the team?

Some qualitative observations:

1) Cards in the front don't 'block' for the cards in the back so there doesn't seem like there is much strategic value to put the tanks in the front. They still get one-shotted by critical attacks and they deal pitiful damage. It would be nice if the cards in the front have to go down first before the back row can get touched to give the battles some strategy. Is it worth putting the tanks in the back so they get bonuses on their huge defensive stats?

2) I've been putting my glass cannon, not-yet-MTM raid cards in the back row and while the boost in damage is awesome, it's not helpful if they aren't able to get in that many hits, hence the increased variance in battle results. Is it better to just leave these in the front row? If they get in hits, great. If not, at least I give the back row bonus to sturdier cards? 