Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-174.107.123.96-20130717030410/@comment-9890645-20130717220748

First off, Health > Attack > Defense in terms of any weapon pairings for fragile cards, in my opinion.

1) I find opinions on this vary. My suggestion is to try it out for a bit - but watch the combat and pay attention to the damage dealt and taken by the card pairing in question, and then to your overall damage (if you miss the kill). Your minimum damage is your most crucial number to know (barring random outliers - you'll figure it out pretty quickly), so always know that number for each boss, bearing in mind that all the L8's are equal to slightly harder than the top boss.

2) Card position in terms of who is in front of who is not relevant to protection to the 3x line card. Watch a few combats and switch guys up and you'll see. Given that, judge on an individual basis whether or not the shields work. I wouldn't use them on raid cards, as they have minimal attack bonuses on their own (they are impressive mostly on their signature cards). Right now I have 2x5 and 2x3 MTMs; the x5s have his weapon and Long Haul's weapon and x3's have Venom and Shockwave 2 weapons.

3 - 13thPrime's q) No, Recommend actually gets one thing right, and it's whether or not a faction bonus is relevant to your deck's output. The 1.2x you get helps the smaller cards make up for their lack of size AND improves the other great cards in your deck enough to more than compensate for any loss of power from the other guys.