Platoon Explained

This guide was created by Snows who is a Guild Leader for a Top 1% Platoon on the CN Server and a guidemaker/theorycrafter. For any feedback you can contact him on Discord - here's his handle: swonsavon.

This guide focuses only on explaining the Platoon system coming to the Global server soon, but Snows also created a dedicated guide for those who want to be competitive in this mode and you can find it under this link (check the Gunsmoke Frontline tab):

Before you begin you should ask yourself what Platoon you are trying to be and what members you are looking for - whether it's Casual, Semi-Competitive (get all Rewards), or Competitive (Ranking). Due to the slow leveling you are very limited to the amount of people in Guild/Platoon to start and as you progress. Who you recruit- and making sure that they are all active - is important.

• Casual: Don’t really care about rankings and just want a Guild for the Guild Shop and Daily Crystal.
• Semi-Competitive (get all Rewards): Getting 5% in Gunsmoke for all Rewards.
• Competitive (ranking): Getting all rewards asap and vanity; Flexing your Guild Ranking (Top 1 - 100) and leveling as fast as possible in order to unlock shop items.

Picking the right members

Guild EXP requires daily task completion + you can borrow Support units of members in your Guild so it’s pretty crucial the quality of people you recruit. So in terms of people you want to recruit it’d be like this:

• Casual: Whoever you want, ideally daily active.
• Semi-Competitive (get all Rewards): Daily Active, having one or two+ consistent V6 players to borrow Supports from.
• Competitive (Ranking): As many V6 players as possible - who are willing to spend daily crystal for Dustsmoke (if you are aiming for levels + Ranking).

For 5% and up it’s very very crucial you have that V6 owners to borrow Supports from - due to the advantage you’d have over 95% of other guilds. This is a borderline requirement in CN for 5%, although it will depend on the overall level of EN Platoons + population of course. Having consistent V6 (and R6 does help) of the important units for every Gunsmoke Season is something to keep in mind.

Here are the most wanted V6 characters:

Qiongjiu

KlukayCN

Makiatto

SpringfieldCN

Others important characters: Invested Papasha (as much as possible), Zhaohui V5/V6, Peritya V6, Vector V6, Andoris V6, Belka V6.

Roles and Moderation

In this tab here as Guild Leader you can check your members list.

The columns from left to right are: Name - Role - Weekly Merit Points - Total Merit Points - Status

Roles

• Guild Leader: Has control over the Guilds Info (Name, Tags, Titles), can accept Guild Applications, can promote/demote/kick/transfer Guild Leadership, can disband the Guild,
• Vice-Leaders: Can accept Guild Applications.

Merit Points

Merit Points are not EXP, it is some arbitrary number that is gained based on a couple of things:

• Logging in (50)
• Daily Patrol Completed (40)
• Gunsmoke Hits (???)

Note: As a Guild Leader for Daily Patrol and Gunsmoke there is no way of knowing besides Merit Points and Gunsmoke Points to tell if someone is doing their daily activities. You can use this as a SCUFFED method in order to track this - mostly Daily Patrol during non Gunsmoke as we're not sure how much merit you accumulate exactly from Gunsmoke. The best way is naturally recruiting people with a good mindset and activity rate.

Slots and Levels

Platoons start with 24 slots available at Level 1 - then increases by +2/+1 as you level. The amount of Platoon EXP needed is shown below, as well as the levels + caps:

There are two ways to gain Platoon EXP: Daily Patrol + Gunsmoke Frontline.

Daily Patrol

This gives 40 Platoon EXP. Daily Mission for each member that is always recurring - gives Platoon Coins + Crystal. It's essentially just a mobbing map, not difficult at all.

Do note as a Guild Leader you cannot tell who has completed their Daily Patrol - there is no way to track this in-game.

Gunsmoke Frontline

This gives 30 Platoon EXP per ticket used. You get 2x tickets per day - you can also buy an additional 1 Ticket for 50 Crystals.

Leveling takes a long time

CN Top 3 Guilds have just hit Level 8 - doing 3 hits a day with all members after almost an year's worth of progress (as on 22-Dec-2024).

Leveling requirement costs are absurd and Level 20 itself will take YEARS to reach, so keep that in mind when planning and reserving members. If you are a big community you should be making multiple guilds and not expecting to depend on level ups.

Leveling is not just for slots

As you might have noticed there are 2 level milestones between each Level - these give certain benefits to Guild:

• Unlocking iItems in Guild Shop,
• Upgrading the Daily Guild Chest,
• Buffs in Gunsmoke Frontline.

So you aren't just leveling just for slots but also for these 3 benefits. Guilds who make sure to be active daily (and buy tickets) to reach these milestones have a distinct advantage over other guilds, especially in regardless to slots + buffs for Gunsmoke - as it will massively boost your rankings.

These Milestones are only present from Levels 1 - 10. Past Level 10 there are no more Milestones, only levels for slots.

Platoon Coins

Platoon Currency is the currency you gain from this mode and spend in the shop.

You gain these from:

• Daily Chest,
• Daily Patrol,
• Daily Patrol Chests,
• Gunsmoke Frontline Runs,
• Level Up Milestones.

You spend these in:

• Weekly Reset Shop
• Permanent (One-Time Shop)

Daily Patrol

Chests

Daily Login Chest

• You get one of these daily with a 24 HR Timer.
• RNG Rewards.
• This Chest also upgrades based on Level Milestones.

Daily Patrol Chest

• There is a chance for these to drop whenever a member completes Daily Patrol - it drops for the whole Guild. It is important for everyone to do Daily Patrol to get the most chances at chests.
• RNG Rewards.
• This Chest does not upgrade.
• You can check in “Updates” to see who dropped a Chest.

Weekly Shop

• Where you obtain additional Papasha Dupes (via Fragments), 5 per week.
• Other items are very much not recommended due to the small amount of coins you get, you cannot buy out this shop weekly.
• If you have excess and don’t need to spend anything in Perma shop you can buy in priority: Papasha Fragments > Gold > EXPS > Uncaps. Never buy Attachment Box.

Permanent Shop

• One-Time Purchase Items - once you buy them out they are GONE.
• Items here are unlocked based on Level Milestones.
• You can get Papashas SSR gun and an item to Refine it.
• There are also Cores + Tickets.
• Do note like stated with Level Milestones can take an extremely long time to unlock these items.