Tips and Guide

## Discord

Before reading further, we recommend that you join the official Stream Captains discord. You will find many helpful people that will answer any questions you have about Stream Raiders! You can join the discord here.

In-depth Guide

## The Basics

**Starting units.** When you first start Stream Raiders, you will have 3 units unlocked (Warrior, Tank and Archer) and one Captain Slot unlocked. You will unlock more units and more captain slots as you play the game.

**Starting a game.** Start by clicking Choose Streamer and selecting a Captain. Once you have selected a Captain, click Place Unit and drag one of the units in the bottom bar on to an open spot on the field. You can do this for each Captain once every 5 minutes until the battle is ready.

**Wait time.** The battle will be ready in 30 minutes. After five minutes, the Captain can choose to start the battle early.

**Placing units.** A maximum of 6 units can be placed at once for each Captain. After placing a unit, you will receive one Scroll for the unit you placed (excluding Legendary Units) and one Epic Potion. That unit will then go on cooldown and cannot be placed until the cooldown is over.

**Cooldowns.** Cooldowns for units are shared between Captains. Consuming meat reduces the cooldown by 5 minutes per meat. The cooldown time for each unit depends on its rarity. This differs for Captains.

 Uncommon
 Rare
 Legendary

## Beginner's Guide and Tips

Now that you understand the basics of Stream Raiders, you may be wondering what is the best way to progress.

**Captain Slots.** First, you will want to unlock the other two Captain Slots. Having more slots allows you to earn more scrolls, more gold and more potions to upgrade your units and better support your Captain! During events, you can buy a Battle Pass to unlock an additional Captain Slot.

**Unlocking units.** Unlocking a unit will require you to have 10 gold and 5 scrolls for that unit. Scrolls to unlock units can be obtained through the Store, through a Chest after winning a raid that you participated in or by placing down a unit. It is a good idea to unlock as many units as you can when starting out.

**Leveling units.** The next step is leveling your units. To level your units, you will need scrolls for that unit and gold.

**Obtaining gold.** Gold can be obtained through Chest rewards, Gold Split after a Captain wins a battle, killing a Treasure Chest and Event Rewards.

**Store.** The store will allow you to buy scrolls for gold. The store will reset every 6 hours and is not the same for every player.

**Chests.** Chest Rewards are awarded after a Captain wins a raid that you participated in. Chests contain scrolls and/or gold based on the Chest type. If the Captain loses the battle, or if you leave before the battle, you receive a Salvage Chest.

**Placing units.** Placing down a unit will reward you with 1 Scroll for that unit and 1 Epic Potion. This is the easiest, fastest and most consistent way to obtain scrolls for specific units. Remember that each unit shares the same cooldown between all Captains. *Legendary units do not receive scrolls for placing units.*

## Unit Stats

The stat names for Stream Raiders can be confusing. Fortunately, this guide exists.

* **Hit Points:** The amount of damage a unit can take before it dies.
* **Damage:** The base damage a unit deals per hit. Many modifiers can increase or reduce the actual damage you deal with each hit.
* **Attack Speed:** How frequently the unit attacks or provides their heal / buff spell, per second. For example, the Warrior's attack speed is 1, so they attack once every second, while the Archer's attack speed is 0.5, so they attack once every 2 seconds.
* **Speed:** How many squares a unit moves per second.
* **Range:** How many squares ahead a unit can hit up to.
* **Targets:** What a unit can hit, like Ground units vs Flying Units.
* **Role:** The category the unit falls into, determining which types of enemy units prioritize targeting it and which types deal increased or reduced damage against it.
* **Milestone Ability:** A unit's special ability, that increases as the unit hits specific level milestones (5, 10, 20, 30).

## Advanced Tips

For those who are looking to know more, here are some more tips that we can give you.

* **Choosing which units you want to level.** We recommend leveling each unit to level 10 and then focus on 3-5 units you want to main, at least 2 of which should be common. This will vary depending on how much time the player spends on the game.

* **Consider the unit cooldown.** Common units only have a 10 minute cooldown, while uncommon and rare units who have a 30 and 60 minute cooldown respectively. This means you can level common units 3 and 6 times faster than uncommon and rare units by way of unit placement. Common units will be stronger than your rare units for a while.
* **Store reset.** The store refreshes every 6 hours. It can cost anywhere from 288 to 896 gold to buy every scroll from the store. Make sure to have some gold saved for when the store refreshes. It is ill-advised to refresh the shop more than once every 6 hours.

* **Cut your losses.** If a Captain goes offline before starting the battle/collecting rewards or is taking a long time to start their battle, **leave**. It is not worth the time to wait for them to come back online. Join another captain instead and continue gaining rewards.
* **Leveling flag bearers and healers.** Level Flag Bearers and Healers from milestone to milestone (levels 5, 10, 20, 30), not one level at a time. Flag Bearers and Healers’ abilities are based on their milestone abilities. Leveling them in between gives them only a minuscule HP buff. Your gold is better spent on other units while you amass the scrolls needed to level to the next milestone.

## Tips for Captains

* **Don't be afraid to start early!** If you think you can win a battle, start it! This will allow more campaign wins in a shorter period of time. But beware the consequences should you fail the battle. No player will receive a salvage chest of scrolls, gold, or potions. Secondly, unless the captain has a retry token available, you will have to restart the chapter from the beginning.
* **Don't leave your players hanging.** Do not start a raid if you cannot finish it! Players cannot leave until the battle is ready, and most are unwilling to wait until you start streaming again to start the battle. Doing this too often may cause players to avoid choosing you as a Captain. Also, remember to collect the rewards before getting off!
* **Level 1-3 units at a time.** Since Captains can only place one per game, it can be difficult to level many units at once. Thankfully, this is balanced out by requiring less scrolls.
* **Always go for Treasure Trove battles on your map.** Everyone loves gold.
* **Retry tokens.** Retry Tokens refill every 30 minutes. You can have 2 retry tokens at a time.