Victory in Strategic Mind: The Pacific2 May @ 3:34pm - Alexandr
You may have noticed a green progress bar in the top left corner of the screen showing you the number of Victory points you currently have.
At the start of each operation, you have 150 Victory points, and this number may go up to 400 or down to 0 depending on your actions.
So how to get these points?Apart from 150 you have from the start, there are the following ways:
• Destroy or chase from the map (if enemy forces retreat by scenario) all enemy units to get up to 100 Victory points.
• Complete secondary objectives to get up to 100 Victory points.
• If there is not a single enemy unit left on the map, you gain an additional 25 Victory points.
• If you (or your allies) control ALL flags on the map, you gain an additional 25 points. (As you do not have Ground units during the first two operations of USA campaign, you should use Marine squad Equipment to get this done)
How can you lose Victory points?• Losing units. You do not lose Victory points for damaged units, only for the lost ones. (While you still spend Prestige to repair them) The more units you lose, the more Victory points you lose. However each operation has a certain “Acceptable losses” threshold, and until you have not exceeded it, you lose 0 points even if you lost a unit.
• Playing extra turns. At the start of operations you a number of turns available to you indicated on the “End turn” button. (For example, 10/15). The first number indicates the number of turns before the Indecision penalty starts to kick in. The second number indicates the number of turns before you lose the operation. After the first number has reached 0, each of the following turns will give you a -10 Victory points penalty per turn.
To finish the operation, you have to complete all the primary objectives. And then you choose either to finish the operation immediately or to stay (if you have spare turns left) and finish some secondary objectives etc.
So why do you need these points?• First of all, Victory points are required to learn and level up the HQ skills.
• Victory points also determine what type of victory you will get. If by the time you can finish the operation you have got less than 250 - it is a Bronze victory. 250 - 349 gives you a Silver victory, 350+ gives you a Golden victory.
• Better victory type speeds up getting some awards (however, some of them are awarded for getting all secondary objectives done) and new ranks. Thus you will have more command points to use HQ skills.
Note that type of victory does not affect the reward for completing the operation (in Prestige), but killing more enemies and finishing Secondary objectives gives you more Prestige by itself if you do not lose too many units in the process.
Thus it is important to both achieve your goals and minimize your losses.
We plan to add more hints with detailed information into the statistics screen.
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