The Battle System

The basis of AnotherEidos is Tower Defense. Select a unit to place it on a hex. It will auto attack when an enemy gets in range of it. When the bar under a unit is filled, tap it to use it's skill

The battle system features a real-time tower defense gameplay. Refer to Tips and Tricks for supplementary info.

Starting Battle

You take a roster of at most 12 characters into a stage, and additional support unit from other players. The upper portion of the battle screen shows much life you have and how many enemies would spawn. Each stage starts with set amount of resource called cost which increases at a rate of one per second. Battle can be paused or sped up to 2x. Enemies will spawn in hex grids with red borders, and will follow a predetermined path to reach one of your bases, which are hex grids with blue borders. You can deploy characters, which consumes cost, and they will auto-attack (or heal) over a set interval.

Characters all have varying niches they fill and are useful in different stages of the battle.

Using Skills

Skills are special abilities that units can use to change the tide of battle. Skills cost SP to use, but as explained above, SP is tied to each Skill, not the character. The general SP progress of a skill can be seen by either looking at the blue bar that grows beneath a character, or by tapping on that character and examining the square box that pops up below the character. Characters gain sp at a rate of one per second, and can trigger skills, either automatically or manually. The SP bar will turn yellow when full. Once full, for manually activated skills, simply tap the Skill icon to use it. For automatically activated skills, they simply will await until their conditions are met.

The blue box circled in red is an example of a Skill. It's currently generated 8 SP out of a max of 20 SP.	In general, a Skills SP bar must be full to use a Skill, but there are exceptions.

Dealing with Enemies

There two types of tiles positions: High and Low tiles. Most enemies walk in low tiles and can be blocked by units. However, some fly and bypass being blocked and must be dealt with ranged attackers. Enemies with ranged attacks will prioritize the most recently deployed unit that is within their range. Units can be killed by enemies or manually taken out of combat, which will return them to the pool of deployable units, but with a cooldown reposition timer.

Check Enemy Data for more information on enemy types.

Win/Lose Conditions

When enemies go through your base, your life would be deducted a point, and reaching zero leads to a game over. Successfully beating all enemies and maintaining at least 1 life would lead to a victory. Depending on your performance on keeping units alive, and enemies away from the base would determine your star rating, which may determine some of the drops you will get. Beating a stage with 3 stars unlocks their 4 star challenge, and ability to use skip tickets to bypass playing the stage for farming purposes. Characters you bring along in a stage will gain bond at the end, regardless if they were used or not.

Unit Information

Class and Trait

See: The Class System

Nature

Unit's unique passive skill that usually gives them a unique buff or function. Some units' natures can be improved through Intimacy, but it still doesn't work right now.

Rank

The current power level of your character, and determines the max level they can reach. Characters can be ranked up when they reach the max level they can currently reach. After ranking up, character levels will reset, but they'll maintain their stats, and be able to level up up to a higher level cap. Skills will also be able levelled up to 7. There are three ranks: Bronze (Rank1) , Silver (Rank 2), and Gold (Rank 3) All units start off as bronze, aside from limited units that start at silver. Currently only a select amount of characters can be ranked up to silver, and none to gold. 3 stars and up can be promoted to silver.

• Characters that can be ranked up to silver: Main Character/Gaia, Barboros, Amorey, Elaine, Robin, Leonhart, Pino, Fu, Rai, Jinnosuke

Stats

• HP (Hit Points) - The amount of damage a unit can sustain. When it reaches 0, they are automatically withdrawn.
• ATK(Attack) - Determines the amount of damage or healing a unit does on their attack. This is contested by an enemy' DEF or RES depending on the damage type, and has the same rules as your characters.
• DEF(Defense) - Determines the amount subtracted against incoming instance of physical damage. However, enemies will deal a minimum of 25% of their attack regardless of how high one's defense is.
• RES(Magic Resistance) - Determines how much incoming instance of magical damage is reduced. Somehow, it is currently computed like defense, including the damage minimum, even if the expectation is it reduces damage at by percentage.
• Reposition - This is the cooldown time for a unit to be placed back into the map after being defeated or manually withdrawn.
• Cost - The amount of cost points a unit will consume when deployed in battle.
• Block - The amount of enemies a unit can hold off from passing through. Units will usually prioritize fighting blocked enemies in order of who came first, while all blocked enemies will be attacking their blocker. Enemies will start to leak through if the unit is blocking the same amount as their Block count.
• ASPD(Attack Speed) - This is the time interval in seconds between each auto attack a unit performs in battle. A lower interval means they are able to deal more attacks within a period of time. For whatever reason, buffs that increase attack speed would be denoted with a (+) despite the fact it should instead be subtracting instead. Inversely, effects that decrease attack speed are denoted with (-) even if they're actually increasing the interval.
• Bond - Indicates how many times you've cleared a stage with that unit in your Party. At the moment, it has no clear purpose, nor is it clear how exactly it's calculated. A unit's bond appears to go up by 1 per stage clear, but there are cases where this doesn't seem to be consistent.
• Intimacy - The amount of presents you've gifted to your unit. Units gets stat bonuses at certain intimacy levels. But currently they do not work.

Skills

• SP (Skill Points) - This is the resource characters charge at a rate of one per second. Character's sp is denoted by a blue bar than slowly fills up, and when sp cost is met, it turns yellow. Sp stops charging once the bar is full. There may be other ways of charging sp that do not increase over time, but through dealing or sustaining attacks but this has yet to be seen.
• SP Cost - This amount a character needs to charge in order to ready their skill for use. Some take longer than others to charge. Some character's skills have charge stacks. Cost is tied to the skill itself, so in the event characters have multiple skills, their sp costs may change accordingly.
• Starting SP - Characters are usually deployed with starting sp for their skills, making most first activations require less time.
• Skill Level - Skills can be upgraded to improve their performance. They can be upgraded up to lv. 3 at bronze rank, and up to lv. 7 at silver rank.
• Skill Duration - How long a skill is in effect. Some are instantaneous, while some last for a period. Some skills immediately start recovering sp while the skill is still on, but these are exceptions.
• Skill Activation - There are two types: Auto and Manual. Auto will activate on their own once requirements are met, usually if target is in range or condition is met like low hp. Manual requires the player to activate it on their own.

Proficiency

• Proficiencies are small stat bonuses gained through expending draco and character duplicates.
• It can enhance Hp, Attack, Defense, Reposition, and Attack Speed. To note: this is the few ways to improve the latter two stats.
• The cost and number of duplicates needed to increase Proficiency increases with Proficiency level.
• At higher levels, upgrades can fail. These only consumes the draco and not the duplicates.
• Stat gains are different between units, and though there is no known formula for their gains, findings shows an average of 10% stat increase at proficiency +99. It's safe to assume overall stat gain of a unit is on average 0.1% per +1 proficiency.
• The stat gains are flat and works independent of what level your unit is in. You will gain the same stat boost between giving +1 proficiency to a Lv 1 Romanes, and a Lv 50 Romanes.
• +1 gives the largest boost in stats. Subsequent boosts will give less stat gains and increasingly severe diminishing returns. At the moment, upgrading a unit past +8 isn't much worth the cost unless you really like a unit.

Unit Level Up Costs

For info on farming draco and battle records, see: Exploration Quests.

Rank 1 / Bronze

Level	Required Exp	Required Draco
1	0	0
2	100	110
3	206	227
4	???	???
5	432	475
6	???	???
7	680	748
8	813	894
9	???	???
10	1098	1208
11	1252	1377
12	1414	1555
13	????	????
14	1763	1939
15	1952	2147
16	2151	2366
17	2361	2597
18	2582	2840
19	2815	3097
20	3061	3367
21	3321	3653
22	3595	3955
23	3885	4274
24	4191	4610
25	4515	4967

Level	Required Exp	Required Draco
26	4858	5344
27	5221	5743
28	5606	6167
29	6014	6615
30	6447	7092
31	6906	7597
32	7394	8133
33	7912	8703
34	8463	9309
35	9049	9954
36	9672	10639
37	10334	11367
38	11038	12142
39	11788	12967
40	12587	13846
41	13438	14782
42	14344	15778
43	15310	16841
44	16340	17974
45	17438	19182
46	18610	20471
47	19861	21847
48	21196	23316
49	22621	24883
50	24142	26556

Rank 2 / Silver

Level	Required Exp	Required Draco
1	0	0
2	170	187
3	352	387
4	546	601
5	753	828
6	974	1071
7	1210	1331
8	1462	1608
9	1731	1904
10	2018	2220
11	2324	2556
12	2650	2915
13	2998	3298
14	3369	3706
15	3765	4142
16	4187	4606
17	4637	5101
18	5117	5629
19	5629	6192
20	6175	6793
21	6757	7433
22	7377	8115
23	8038	8842
24	8742	9616
25	9492	10441
26	10291	11320
27	11142	12256
28	12049	13254
29	13015	14317
30	14044	15448
31	15140	16654
32	16308	17939
33	17552	19307
34	18877	20765
35	20289	22318
36	21793	23972
37	23395	25735
38	25102	27612
39	26920	29612
40	28857	31743

Level	Required Exp	Required Draco
41	30920	34012
42	33118	36430
43	35459	39005
44	37953	41748
45	40610	44671
46	43440	47784
47	46454	51099
48	49664	54630
49	53083	58391
50	56725	62398
51	60604	66664
52	64736	71210
53	69137	76051
54	73825	81208
55	78818	86700
56	81436	89580
57	89800	98780
58	95833	105416
59	102259	112485
60	109103	120013
61	116392	128031
62	124155	136571
63	132423	145665
64	141229	155352
65	150608	165669
66	160597	176657
67	171236	188360
68	182567	200824
69	194635	214099
70	207488	228237
71	221177	243295
72	235756	259332
73	251283	276411
74	267820	294602
75	285432	313975
76	304189	334608
77	324166	356583
78	345442	379986
79	368101	404911
80	392233	431456

Rank 3 / Gold

(Unimplemented)

Battle Records

Icon	Name	Exp	Draco
	Battle Record I	200	220
	Battle Record II	400	440
	Battle Record III	1000	1100
	Battle Record IV	2000	2200