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[Muz]

I'm not sure how many of you have played My Brute, but the game got around. It was a rather poor game, you watch your guys fight other guys. In a sense, the game just rolled dice for your character, picked skills like your character, and all you could do was watch and make no decisions other than choosing who they'd fight. Sort of like a visual Progress Quest.

Still, there was quite a bit of fun in watching your guy exchange blows with someone else's char. Though in the end, it kinda sucked as the only way to improve your character was to either spam the game or cheat, and all the top players were the most prolific cheaters. And after a while, it becomes a matter of who got lucky with good skills.


Mini Troopers is like a well polished version of My Brute, added with a few guns. You get to choose your characters and choose your skills. There's a rather good anti-cheat system in place. The animations are quite fun to watch, and instead of a one on one fight, you get a bunch of people fighting each other. It's much more of a game in that there's actually some decisions to make, and an a well designed army has much higher odds than just a random selection of good skills.

It's good fun right off the start. It's slow to start, takes a couple days. I'd suggest getting about two level 2 guys, then unlocking missions. The real fun starts when you unlock 3 guys or more and the battles start becoming more tactical.

Spoiler: How it works (click to show/hide)

First off, you pick a referral link from someone you like, like from the Bay12 army list. You'll get a few choices.

But don't just pick any guy because there's nothing better. If you don't like your choices, try joining under a different army. Every army gives random units. And if you still don't like it, you can wait a few hours, or try under a different IP. Your first recruit will be available to the guy you signed up with in raids, so choosing carefully pays off for them too.

Once you have your army, get a password. Not fun getting a few hundred from hard earned referrals, then having someone you don't know spend it on stuff. Plus, passwords can only be set on the computer you registered from, if you've registered from a cybercafe or work or school, you won't be able to change it later without going back to that same computer.

The key to having a good army is to have skills that complement each other. You should pick your guys carefully.

Also note that by default, you can only have 4 people in a wave at a time. If you have 6 guys, your first 4 will enter, then when all of them die, the other 2 will come in (usually at a numerical disadvantage).

At lvl 6, you can get hats.
After lvl 7, you can unlock some of the more elite skills.


Fights: You get 3 fights a day. Winning earns you 2 [T] a day, losing still earns you 1 [T]. This will be quite a lot early on, but later on becomes a pittance, so you could just mess around with it.

Missions: It costs about 5 [T] to unlock, but it's well worth it, because every day, you can earn up to 4 [T] when you succeed in a mission.

Raids: This will be a major source of income later. The first person from every army you recruit will be available in a raid. For every raid you win, you get 4 [T]. The raids get exponentially harder, though, so recruiting only helps so much.

Spoiler: Muz's Complete Skill Guide (click to show/hide)

I'll try to sort the list of skills down from best to worst, since most of the time you just want to pick one or the other.

Also, here, I prioritize dodging over life for tanking... the reasoning being that a dodge will save you from a sniper headshot or bazooka, but not +10 life. Plus, it's possible to dodge every bullet from a minigun, whereas getting hit by several bullets will still kill.

I'll also prioritize initiative over speed. I think speed gives you a dodge bonus, but initiative lets you move first, reload first, and more importantly, shoot first. Speed is also not very helpful for guys who don't move, the aiming and reloading is based off initiative.


Mundane skills
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Skills available from level one.

Hydroshock shells: Probably THE best skill in the game, gives you a lot of instakills no matter what weapon you use. Maybe useless on bazookas, because bazookas are instakill anyway.

Tuck 'n' Roll: One of the best defensive skills, it's a complete lifesaver, and allows you to dodge miniguns, snipers, bazookas.

On point: +200 initiative is amazing, it'll ensure that they'll shoot, reload, and fire faster than most people could blink.

Rush: One of my favorite skills. Less so on a bazooka or sniper, as they don't have to move. It's one of the best skills to have on an assault rifle, because it allows troopers to run back to get over minimum range, but fires immediately while running away. It also combines extremely well with any speed bonuses, because it means you can run into range and get a free shot.

Gas grenade: The poison can often kill everyone in the back (snipers, bazookas!) allowing enough time for just one shot. Less useful later when there's doctors, but it'll still distract doctors for a few rounds and do hefty damage. Downside is that they don't trigger in every battle.

Twinoid: That poison hurts, but I've seen troopers fire off 3 shots from a single shotgun, including reloading!

Cold blooded: Yeah, double speed aiming is awesome on everything, especially the devastating and slow weapons like bazooka, sniper, and minigun.

Compensator: It's wonderful on auto weapons, mainly miniguns and assault rifles! 30% faster recovery is still excellent though, so it's worth it on slow weapons like bazookas and snipers, as long as you have the ammo for it.

Laser sights: VERY highly recommended for bazookas. Good on most weapons too. Not that useful on shotguns and sniper rifles, since they already have high aim.
Eye of the tiger: Similar, but weaker.

Loader: Instant reload... Extremely useful on machine guns. Good on one-shot guns too, like sniper/bazooka/shotgun, because it reloads fast enough to practically give you a second free shot. Just don't get it for the pump action shotgun.

Heat sensor: The 20% aim isn't so great, but the "can't be dodged" is! Even more so for a bazooka.

Adrenaline: Doesn't say whether it's speed or initiative or how high. But it sounds like it'd combo well with a dodger.

Scavenger: Disarm an enemy AND get a free backup weapon. Great early in the game against weaker guys, later on less useful when people (including your guy) has multiple weapons, and when saboteur disables weapons much more effectively.

Frag grenade: What it doesn't tell you is that the grenades always pop over people's heads and are often a headshot, actually doing 2-10 damage per frag. I've seen some nice headshot instakills from them, and even when they aren't instakills, they can finish off weakened targets. Would be higher if they hit more and triggered more often.

Flashbang: The blindness lasts long enough to effectively cripple an enemy long enough to kill them.

Take cover: Gives an amazing 50% dodge when they need it the most. At worst, it allows your shotgun guys to tank much better when reloading, which is what they're meant to do.

Frenetic: The 200 initiative is superb. Drawback is that you actually have to kill someone first. But it should go along very well with a sniper or rocket guy.

Sprinter: Speed isn't so great, but double speed is amazing to watch and will help in either running towards the enemy or running away.

Camouflage: 20% dodge, yeah. Maybe nice on a bazooka guy too, gives him time for that first shot.

Heartbreaker: The killshot bonus is great, just remember to tell this guy to aim at the heart.

Zigzag: Dodge bonuses are great, though this only applies when they're moving. Very good with shotgun guys, though.

Bulletproof vest: Reduced damage is nice. Doesn't protect against AP weapons, but who picks AP anyway. Would be rated higher if it didn't take an equipment slot.
Full metal balaclava: Ditto. But actually better, because headshots are more common AND it defends from the double damage to head.

Battle ready: Highly recommended on any weapon with more than one bullet... can't have enough on your first clip.

Nimble fingers: Worthless with single shot weapons. Excellent with weapons that have a lot of ammo to load like minigun and assault rifles, or some pistols.

Trigger happy: Great with some slow weapons like the snipers with more than 1 ammo or most of the pistols. OK on assault rifles too, not so useful on miniguns since their burst is high enough anyway. I'd rank it high on specialist sniper rifles, semi-auto shotgun, and assault rifles and pistols. Low on everything else.

Vicious: Good with most of the accurate weapons.

Sturdy: Highly recommended if you actually have a heavy weapon, not so, otherwise.

King of boules: Excellent if you have a good grenade. But some grenades have a large enough radius that they don't really miss anyway.

Toxic shells: Poison is a definite killer. Excellent on sniper, but I've seen it used surprisingly well on shotgun too.

Explosive shells: Double damage is incredible, but you're only able to double for 6 bullets. Still, it means an instant kill with all but the weakest weapons, great on low ammo, high accuracy weapons like pistol and sniper.

Smart: Ambivalent on this one. On one hand, it gives you an extra skill to choose from, keeping you from picking between two stupid choices. On the other hand, it actually uses up a choice slot. Later in the game, you get elite skills, so unless your > lvl 9 or something, it's usually worth taking.

Dodger: Only dodges one shot. Still... it's a guaranteed dodge, and that one shot is most likely either a rocket or sniper headshot.

Shock grenade: Nice area, and it'll disarm everyone long enough for your guys to either move in, or get a couple of shots ahead.

Heavyweight: Not fond of life, but 10 life is almost double. Speed penalty is a problem, but not so bad if you have longer range guys.

Bipod: Useful on all weapons. Might want to adjust your favorite target to try to hit fast movers if you get this.

Unshakeable: Since many hits kill, I don't think having lowered performance is your main worry.
Hard boiled: Ditto.

Grenade: Damage is poor, area is kinda too small, seen it miss too often to recommend.

Huge calves: Not bad, but there are better skills, and these don't turn the tide of battle.

Paralyzing shells: Paralysis makes them easier to hit, and keeps them from shooting back. But it seems to last much too short to be of any use, I see it more like a weak knockdown.

Glue grenade: Delay is nice, makes the enemy 'lose a turn', but lasts far too short to be recommended.

Tail gunner: Only works for automatic weapons. The 2 bullets will be less accurate, and use up more ammo..

Juggler: Switching weapons is fast enough without it.

Heavy armor: Speed penalty isn't nice. But the game doesn't seem to call this armor, so it may be immune to armor piercing. Maybe more useful on a sniper..

Survival Instinct: Speed is not so useful... and seeing how this only applies when you're injured, even less so, since the point is to run there before you get injured.

Lucky charm: It'll save you from early headshots, but then you'll still get killed over the tiniest fragment.

Brick shithouse: Hmm... 3 life isn't much, and they're often too spread out to cover each other.

Commando: 5 life stops only 1-2 bullets, and not the critical ones.

Motorcycle: Would be better if it triggered more often.

Thermos of coffee: Speed doesn't help much and this only wastes an equipment slot.

Enthusiastic: Again, speed.. and this one requires you to not be injured.

Bait: Making them easier to hit in exchange for life. Not a great exchange, even if that extra life lets you take an extra bullet.


Hats
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Available at level 6. Hard to prioritize because the choice depends on how they fight. Spy is horrible with snipers, doctors and munitions is bad with front liners, pilot is bad with a good character.

Scout: This allows you to bring in an extra guy! As long as you can afford more troopers, a scout is a great choice.

Saboteur: Disables weapons, pretty damn good choice. Plus, you don't have to keep him alive.

Spy: Excellent choice with a heavy damage guy, and that extra initiative really helps. Recommended with a shotgun or minigun guy with some initiative boosts.

Doctor: Good for mid-long range players who you don't expect to die early. I give my doctor a bazooka and assault rifle, lets him stay out of battle for one bazooka shot, then go in for the kills and healing afterwords. Oh, and doctors heal poison too.

Comms officer: Kinda weak, but a bonus is better than getting a worthless soldier.

Munitions: I'd get this just for the double grenades, especially if someone has gas grenades. Getting a bonus AFTER WINNING is a bit weak, IMO, but it could turn the tide late game. Plus, you actually have to keep the munitions guy alive to get that bonus.

Pilot: Putting a great trooper inside a tank is a bit of a waste of a trooper. No guarantee that you'll get a vehicle either. And when you do get one, no guarantee that they'll bring it to the battlefield. Still, every vehicle aside from a motorcycle is excellent, a drastic increase in possibly getting a tank is well worth it.

Soldier: 1 life is a pittance, 1 life per level even more so. Worst choice.


Elite skills
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Skills that are available from lvl 5-7 onwards..

Voodoo doll: Double killshots on everyone!

Wife Beater: 30% speed is great, but the 30% dodge is higher than almost anything in the game.

Suspicious: Excellent late game skill, great anti-spy and anti-saboteur, and the immunity to friendly fire tops it.

Anatomy: Double killshots is always great, though it's not as good as hydroshock. But being able to hit your favorite part is excellent.

Martyr: 5 free guys with 150 initiative. Hell yeah. Too bad the guy actually has to die for you to get this, and you'll never actually have 5 guys in reserve.

Talky-Walky: Lets you have a free guy, great skill.
Out of Bounds: Ditto.
Crybaby: Ditto, but less useful.

Restless: 200 init is nothing to sniff at. Not sure how it works, but it sounds like it'd be great in large fights.

Helicopter: The vehicles really add a lot of firepower, though your trooper won't be using their other weapons while they're active. They don't activate all the time, though.
Fighter Jet: Ditto.
Light Tank: Ditto.
Heavy Tank: Ditto.

Rucksack: Never seen it in action, but giving everyone full munitions at the start of the game sounds great.

Covering fire: Anything that allows you more instant shots is great, never seen it actually in action, though.

Last Mohican: Not useful on single shot weapons, but on pistols and automatic weapons, I can see how this can be extremely devastating. Unfortunately, your semi-auto guys aren't expected to live to be the last person, unless they're a sniper with a pistol as backup weapon.

Grenade Benie: Really nice radius, damage is high enough to kill most troopers immediately. Definitely combos well if you have a munitions guy.

Clown grenade: That clown is actually quite tough and will keep many of your guys from dying.

Invincible: No instakills is especially nice on anyone. Won't help you with the rats, though. Or bazookas.

Interception: Considering how devastating grenades are, this is very much a lifesaver. But I haven't seen it in action, so can't recommend it yet.

Nervous: Emptying the clip can really kill, though most of the bullets will be rather inaccurate. Excellent in the right situations, though.

Black hole grenade: Well, grenades are killer anyway, so a confirmed kill isn't much of an upgrade. The zone is too small to recommend it over grenade benie.

Bounce back: Awesome, when you actually do get knocked down. Unfortunately, most knockdowns are already rather fatal

Hyperactive: Not sure what "interferes enemy" means. If it's throwing back grenades, bump this up a few notches. Still, 50% speed is decent.

Death grip: Never dropping weapons is nice, but that +1 fist damage is sort of like a free extra skill, so worth it just for that.

Vendetta: 50 init is moderate, and this assumes that your teammate is going to die first

Radio: Com bonus is nice, but it's dependent on luck.

Savior: Haven't seen this in action, so no idea if actually heals them to full health or just one point and such. If it's full health, I'd put this as a must have... though this also assumes that you're not the dead soldier.

Friendly fire: Considering how many friendly headshots with shotguns I've seen, there's a real use for it. If you have that blessed grenade, you should definitely pick this one up too.

Blind fury: You don't really get blinded that often, but helpful when you do get blinded.

Hurry: 10% speed is negligible. The double power use ranges from either very powerful or useless, depending on your trooper's skillset.

Healing Grenade: Not sure on the accuracy of this thing or how often it triggers, but healing can save a few troopers. And it relies on you keeping the owner alive.

Binoculars: One of the weaker skills to pull in other guys, especially with the init penalty, but still gets you an extra guy.

Armor Piercing Shells: Armor is too rare for this to be of much use. Maybe for a sniper attempting headshots..

Charge: I see it as a speed boost, but haven't actually seen it done to recommend it.

Amphetamine Boost: 500 turns seems a bit short. 100% speed is nice, but Sprinter is better for this if you can get it.

Trample: Not that good unless you have a guy skilled with knockdowns or maybe a scattergun.

First aid: By the time you use this, it's almost over.

Fall guy: Doubt you'd survive whatever destroys a vehicle anyway.

Survivor: Not so useful. Poison still kills them, and 1 life is only enough to be a decoy.

Commander: By now, you should have more battles than you need. Maybe more entertaining to watch..

Reverse attack: Don't see the point in this, except to support snipers and bazookas.

Occupation: 1 [T] is nearly worthless, now that you can win most battles, and do raids.

Spoiler: Muz's Weapon Guide (click to show/hide)

Choose your first weapon carefully, as you can often find a lot of choices to pick from for your members. It's often worth waiting a day for a better weapon rather than pick a guy with a poor starter weapon. Much easier to choose starter weapons than trying to wait for an upgrade on a level up.

With the exception of bazooka and comanche auto (the basic minigun), avoid all generic weapons, like 'pistol' and 'sniper'. Go for the branded weapons.


Knife: Avoid, nearly worthless, unless you're playing with a low ammo weapon and don't have a better choice for a backup weapon. They do more damage than fists, but most of the other close combat skills are better. Faceboot and Wrestler are both knockdowns, Fists of Fury can disarm.


Pistols:
They have the worst damage and are relatively inaccurate. They're average speed, but have a slightly longer range than most weapons. If you can skip them, do skip them entirely. The only purpose to having them would be as a backup weapon, and a weapon for finishing off softened targets.

Toxic and Explosive shells are great with pistols.
Aiming skills help with the pistol's poor aim, and makes up for their longer range.
Trigger happy is nice too, actually gives you firepower.

The generic 'Pistol' is the worst weapon in the game, aside from knife.

Revolver is suited for disabling targets. Good damage, but unfortunately too slow and inaccurate.

Desert Eagle has the best range in the game, aside from snipers/rockets, good finishing weapon, nice damage. Combine with explosive/toxic shells for great use.

Beretta has nearly the speed of a knife, especially suited to pistol tasks, whatever it is you want a pistol to do.


Shotgun:
Worst range, but best damage and very accurate. But suffers from very slow firing rate and limited ammo.

Speed and dodging is a shotgunner's best skill.
Barrel extension helps with the limited range too.
Cold blooded is nice, to deal with the shotgun's horrible recovery time. As is Loader.
Rush is also incredible when combined with shotguns, imagine running in and then firing it off.
Aiming bonuses are worthless.
Heartbreaker, anatomy, hydroshock shells combo incredibly well, makes them capable of killing several in a rush.

Please don't get the generic "Shotgun", every other shotgun is better than the standard one. Unless you like running out of ammo and getting only one shot.


Assault rifles:
First unintuitive thing about them is that they have a minimum range, if enemies get inside that range, they have to back off. Range is moderate. Damage and accuracy is poor, individually as much as the pistols, but with the advantage of bursts. Recovery time is very fast, and most assault rifles hold enough for 3 bursts.

Rush is extremely useful offensively AND defensively here. Assault rifle guys often have to run away from an enemy that's too close, rush lets them fire it off as they run.
Cold blooded is not as useful, as assault rifles are already fast to aim.
Barrel extension certainly helps with the limited range and accuracy.
Any other accuracy bonuses would also be well spent.
Tail gunner works good with assault rifles too, but it'd limit you to 2 bursts per reload.
Nimble fingers and loader definitely help too.

FAMAS deserves a special mention for being one of the top weapons in the game. No minimum range unlike other assault rifles. But the range is shorter, similar to a shotgun's.

Thompson is probably the deadliest, with about twice the damage as other assault rifles, no disadvantage compared to the standard.


Bazookas:
They're often good for softening up the opposition and creating chaos before finishing off the enemy. Bazookas have very high range, but can't fire point blank. Many are instant kill. Slow to fire and inaccurate.

You really want accuracy improvements for a bazooka user.
Almost all bazookas, except the M25 are single shot.
Cold blooded is probably the most useful skill with a bazooka.
You'll also want any initiative bonuses you can find, they'll really help you get a second shot in before your army closes in.

Most bazookas are quite good. Infernal tube does double damage, but carries almost no ammo.


Machine guns:
Medium range, slow to lug around. And slow to aim, but almost guarantee a kill when you get them fired. Individual bullets do low damage (as much as a pistol), but there's so many, who cares

Definitely want to get Cold Blooded.
Rush is also a great alternative, since you get to fire without the aiming time.
Barrel extension is also good here, you want as much time as you can to aim, as well as high accuracy.
Nimble fingers and loader are best with machine guns too.
Aiming boosts, initiative, and speed are all welcome.

Don't bother getting Battle Ready with a Heavy Machine Gun


Snipers:
Low damage, but very high accuracy and crits. The bonus to hitting body parts means that you'll almost always want to aim at the head.

Aiming skils are worthless with snipers, aim is already very high.
Cold blooded is nice.
Heartbreaker is also very nice, since you'll have a very high chance of hitting favored parts.
Toxic shells will ensure that your target dies, even if the shot doesn't crush their skull.

Try not to get the generic sniper, they're hopeless and hold only 1 ammo. All the others except sparrowhawk hold more than 1.

MOS-TECK has very high damage, more than the others.
CK-Magellan is about as strong as a pistol, but shoots very fast (and lets you aim for the head well)
Sparrowhawk has the highest accuracy of any weapon, highest crits. Definitely aim for a soft spot with it, you'll almost always hit.
Lizaro Jungle is overall balanced, and doesn't suck as much as "Sniper"

Full skill sheet: http://minitroopers.co.cc/
More detailed skill sheet, but in French: http://www.twinpedia.com/minitroopers/bonus/start

[Synzig]

This is relevant to my interests.  If I were to creature an account under your link, do I benefit at all?  Or more specifically, could you create a drone for my army if I use your referral?

[Ultimuh]

If it is as limited as Mybrute.. I will quickly lose my interest..

[Labs]

If anyone joins through this link, free money for me. Just sayin.

[Aklyon]

If it is as limited as Mybrute.. I will quickly lose my interest..

Advance Wars infantry or not, I'm also this.

[Jimlad11]

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[Apple Master]

It seems a lot more in depth. You have to spend money to level your troopers up, you can rename them, and the skills they get when they level up can affect the tactics of the battle greatly. You can also set preferred targets, etc. So I have my bazooka guy aiming for the biggest threat, which usually works.

[Deon]

Heh, it's fun.

Is it okay to put referrals in? If so, register after going through http://deons-brutes.minitroopers.com, it gives 100 gold .

I've picked a shotgun dude and gave him a bazooka... Not sure if  was a good pick, but whatever.

[warhammer651]

Help me out brothers?

Please? the Alpha Legion needs you

[Pandarsenic]

Never tried the Brute thing but that combat demo looked nifty enough to give a shot. http://pandarsenic.minitroopers.com if anyone feels like helpan.

Hell with that, shotgun is GARBAGE. Starting anew at http://ambition.minitroopers.com

[Ma88hew]

This game is pretty nifty, it seems like it could get pretty tactical in higher-level fights.

http://alpha-37a.minitroopers.com

Would appreciate some 100 credits.

I got a dude with a buff that negates penalties for injuries and heavy weapons. Tank?

EDIT: Thanks.

[webadict]

Err, yeah, this game would be fun if... you know... there was way more gold tokens to spend. You get like 1-2 per battle and that just doesn't cut it for me.

Especially since there's 3 battles a day

[Pandarsenic]

Getting a recruit gives you a hundred. Hurr durr viral planning derp that's clearly the only way to accomplish anything money-related.

[warhammer651]

Never tried the Brute thing but that combat demo looked nifty enough to give a shot. http://pandarsenic.minitroopers.com if anyone feels like helpan.

Hell with that, shotgun is GARBAGE. Starting anew at http://ambition.minitroopers.com

thank you for the cash

[Deon]

Thank you whoever logged in, heheh. It's a big push forward. Viral marketing moves all along.