Game Guide

Game installation

Currently English version is Android only. Download From Official Website [1] or Google Play [2]
Run the game and register a new account.

Basic

Read Zones for all sortie maps details.
Don't consume your girls for exp. Don't sell your equipment.
Try to clear storyline (overall B rank or above) that will increase your income from sortie, and unlock more special maps.
Always clear all available special map for Blueprint
Event maps drop Items such as Test Doll or Wreck. If you don't know what to do, clear them all.
Clash (PVP) for silver and codon . Only few silver can be stolen from enemy, but the game will give you a large amount of bonus based on enemy level. Also you won't lose any codon from (successful) enemy attacks - you lost a few silver and drop in rank only, which is good because lower rank means easier enemies.
Let others defeat you in PVP by putting weak defense team. If your rank is too high, that would be harder to win and get silver from PVP.
Gold trade for resources, buff or reset cooldown. Lots of function.
Codon can improve technology and promote your girls.
G-Corn Trade them for fuel if needed and don't spend on G-Milk, if you fucked up that hard go to spam 2-3, 2-4 with blue tank to get rid of excess fuel.
G-Iron uses in Store - Forge - Source Forge for equipment and girls especially in early games. That would help you a lot. In the late game you may switch to material forge or reset port and lifestyle.

How to obtain these material :

(Daily) quests, USD (monthly payment has the best exchange rate).

Clash (PVP) is the major income, and the sortie. Remember sortie income increase for all maps when you unlock a new chapter. Try to clear them ASAP. Silver Mine in Base gives you steady income but only noticeable in early game. Some unrepeatable quests gives silver too, try not to redeem them until you need some quick money in urgent.

Codon : Clash, sortie (the main source), quest and material forge (rare).

(Daily) quests, special maps (rare drop), 3-star lifestyle, upgrade port (rare), monthly USD payment.

Some unrepeatable quests, Iron mine (Base), Special and some event maps, monthly USD payment or exchange from gold.

All listed below are obtainable from Material Forge and Port (need port upgrades for higher rank Blueprint)

Event Order A, Special 1,5,9,13,17,21

Event Order B, Special 2,6,10,14,18,22

Event Order C, Special 3,7,11,15,19,23

Event Order D, Special 4,8,12,16,20,24

Special 1,2,3,4

Special 5,6,7,8

Special 9,10,11,12

Special 13,14,15,16

Special 17,18,19,20

Special 21,22,23,24

Read Items page for complete list.

Lifestyle

Read Lifestyle page for introduction. It is one of your major income in game and you should gain access to it ASAP.

Stat

Firepower. Of course this is important, but firepower decreases if you can't penetrate their armor.
Durability. Your HP. Can increase ~~bust size~~ with Skirt Armour
Stealth. Unless you want that unit to draw more enemy fire, higher stealth is good for them. Please note them in Shelling phrase unit with best camouflage is least likely to fail to scouting phrase. So your firepower output - usually SPGs - should have best stealth in the team.
Penetration. The only problem is we don't have exact stat of our enemy unit, so we can only guess their armor value and increase our penetration to overcome it. Successful penetration gives you a skull cut-in during battle.
Armor. Armour Plate provides better protection. Reactive Armour can absorb a set amount of damage which is good for early game, but harder to find.
Detection. Bring for your scout with 2+ internal slots for maximum effects in scouting phrase.
Targeting. Ignore it and this game will become panzer miss. Enemy (beast tank) have high evasion, while others like usually can't dodge at all. Please note that for player's tank maiden even some heavy or SPG have excellent evasion.
Evasion. Not only armor, evasion can provide you excellent protection - if they miss the shot on you, but it really depends on luck. Anyway there are girls with extreme evasion that can evade 9 out of 10 shots.
Range. Higher range is good in open map but they miss more on close target. The penalty of over maximum range may discuss in ammo section. During shelling phrase, unit with highest range shoot first and less like be targeted, unless she is fully exposed.

Hidden Stat

Ignite - Each ammo has their own ignite bonus, that will increase the chance of setting target on fire and fire damage.
Fire Resist - Decrease ignite chance and fire damage. Please note that not only , some type of Armour or Engine can increase fire resist too. Don't be confused when you see the girls got the bonus without installing any equipment.
Crit Defense - Decrease the armor debuff from crit attack. How crit works is decrease your armor by a ratio base on your crit defense. Higher crit defense means less bonus damage from crit. Can improves by
Crit Resist - Decrease crit chance.
Ricochet - All tanks comes with 0 ricochet chance and only some type of Chassis or Armour can provide this bonus.
Hit - From you ammo, to decrease the ricochet chance. Some type of ammo, such as HE has extreme high hit chance so they are not possible to ricochet at all.

Please note that Ignite, Ricochet and hit stat still hidden in current game version. Only Fire resist, Crit Defense and Crit resist can be checked in R&D page, click on the girl and press the icon next to the tank in upper right corner.

About the rating from E to S

Rank	Fire Resist	Crit Resist	Crit Defense
S	85+	80+	79+
A	70-84	65-79	73-78
B	55-69	55-64	68-72
C	40-54	45-54	63-67
D	25-39	25-44	56-62
E	0-24	0-24	0-55

Metal Maiden

There are three rarity : Blue, Purple and Gold. Players may use N1 to N6 to describe their class or rarity, by the Blueprints used to craft them.
Six Gold rarity girls can be obtained from Store - Forge
- Pz.Kpfw.B2, Grant Mk-VIII, Panzer 38(t), Sd.Kfz.234/3 , SU-8 and Hetzer
- Only Purple or Gold from Forge. No Blue, and no girl is forge-only.
It is possible to obtain Metal Maiden from Map Drop, Port, Forge, R&D Develop or Refactor. Please visit R&D list in-game to view the method for each girl. Purple and Gold and some Blue have Live2D animated CG.
It is recommended to research cheap N1 tank from R&D early to build up your team quickly.

Unit Type

Tank Classes
Heavy Tank, usually good at tanking damage thanks to their thick armor and low Stealth stat, which will draw more firepower upon them in order to protect teammate.
Medium Tank, a versatile unit that can play lots of role. Sometimes their Stealth maybe too high to draw enemy fire.
Light Tank, usually scout for the team with their good detection, some of them are battle focus with more Stealth, Range and Firepower but poor at Detection.
Self-Propelled Gun, or artillery/arty in other games, excellent firepower output, but their Targeting is poor against enemy under Range 350, and may encounter "too close" missing shots.
Armored Vehicle, or known as light armored vehicle, will come to shine when they can install Cabin on them. Also their evasion is high and this may save them from enemy fire.
Anti-Tank Gun, most girls in this class also known as tank destroyer/TD. They have higher penetration but poor Targeting.

Promote

You can Promote each of your Metal Maiden to 2-star and 3-star after you reach certain Commander level.
These promotion however, can only be done to Purple (2-star) or Gold (2-star and 3-star) Metal Maiden.
Requirement to promote a Metal Maiden from 1-star to 2-star is Metal Maiden level 35, with cost of 800 and 20 of either or or or , depending on your Metal Maiden type (some Metal Maidens require 1,000 and 24 materials, perhaps they're relatively more powerful compared to their comrades?)
- This will increase your Metal Maiden level cap from 60 to 75 and also give bonus to other attributes except range.
Requirement to promote a Metal Maiden from 2-star to 3-star is Metal Maiden level 70, with cost of 12,000 and 320 of either or or or , depending on your Metal Maiden type.
- This will increase your Metal Maiden level cap from 75 to 90 and also give bonus like upgrading from 1 to 2 stars.

Battle

Three battle phrase - Shelling, Contact, CQB
A tracking starts before the shelling phrase battle. Units that didn't fail in the tracking can attack the enemy. Then the regular shelling phrase battle start and all units can attack again.

How tracking works

All unit has their own detection point and during tracking, everyone will spend their points to whole enemy team (so more effective if there are less enemy), and their orange bar will increase, depends on their stealth stat, unit with good stealth is slower. Bar will turns to red if unit is fully exposed. gives bonus detection points and gives bonus stealth point.
Once tracking is finished the blue and red bar in center will decide how many unit will fail in tracking and lose the additional attack. Unit with highest expose value (orange bar) fails first.
When a unit is under attack, its orange bar decrease and able to detect the attacker again, thus exposing the enemy.
Items Suppressor from mod can reduce camouflage loss from attacking, and ammo with Tracer effects can light up target unit.
For some reason if both targets have similar camouflage, they will shoot the target with lowest range first.

Infantry

Infantry always attack first in CQB phrase, and pick 1 to 3 target randomly. Machine guns can reduce their damage.
Some promoted (2 or 3 stars) girls can install in external slot or in Cabin slot. More infantry deals higher damage, but also affected by other factor.
- Range. Pick the ammo with lowest range.
- Penetration. Try to max your penetration stat.
- Ammo type. Non-Kinetic rounds deal half damage. Bring your AP.
Higher evasion also let your infantry attack FIRST in CQB
To avoid losing infantry from enemy attack, they must be well protected such as higher camo or evasion, and not to bring infantry to unit that prone to take hits such as heavy tanks.

Terrain

Please read Terrain for effects details.
Desert - Hot (Reduces Fire Resistance) and Dusty (Takes more damage) effects. Your meatshield, such as heavy tank should comes with dust proof Engine.
Dirt - Swamp (Reduces Penetration) and Wet (Reduces Detection) effects, only scout needs to counter wet. Your firepower output may affected by Swamp. Dirt Forest is the worst, you lose both penetration and firepower !
Grass - No effects. Like walking in the park !
Forest - Bushy (Reduces Firepower). A good number of tanks with rear turret Chassis can handle this.
Rocky - Flat (Reduces Armour) and Rocky (Reduces Targeting). Not many unit comes with wheeled chassis, and their armor are too weak to withstand any attack anyway... you only need to keep you targeting enough to kill their light unit.
Snow - Snowy (Mobility) and Cold (Takes more damage). Cold affects works like Dusty, and need Cold proof Engine to counter this. Most tank maiden have treads and immune from Snowy.
Plains - Broad (Reduces Firepower). Please note that only reduce in shelling phrase ! Usually only SPG needs to counter this effect, thanks to the default 4000m range.
Hills - Steep (Mobility). Reduce your evasion... similar to Snowy, but no effect until contact phrase.
Streets - Trap (Reduces Crit Resistance). Trap resistance is not hard to find (chassis) and hope your tank is not a crit magnet like KV2 or Churchill...
Valley - Exposed (Reduces Stealth). May expose your light unit such as SPG. Some Engine counter this.

Techology

Science and Technology
Technology is more important than girls' level, that gives you bonus stat even without installing any upgrades. Each tier has 16 stages, Tier 1 provides bonus for all girls. Tier 2 is only for purple or gold tiers. Tier 3 is gold tier only.
Heavy Armour for Heavy tank and Anti-Tank Gun. Focus on best Armor rating and ricochet effect.
Medium Armour for Light and Medium tank. Depends on your role, armor with bonus Stealth and Evasion are good for you.
Light Armour for Armored Car and Self-Propelled Gun. They would love armor with Stealth and Evasion bonus too.
Chassis increase your Durability and usually comes with other bonus, and able to counter some Terrain effects. Always focus on it first.
Engine provide much needed evasion and usually comes with tech that counter Terrain effects.

Ammunition

Please read Ammunition for effects details.
There are two type of ammo, Kinetic and Chemical.
- Kinetic: AP, APCR, APDS - Penetration, Firepower decrease over range, and may ricochet. Cost to research.
- Chemical: HE, HEAT, RP, HESH - Cost to research.
Conventional Shell. Comes with shell normaliztion (that decease ricochet chance), most common type of ammo.
Composite-Rigid. Good Penetration, Firepower and sometimes Targeting bonus. Bonus damage in short range or against lightly armored unit, excellent in street battles.
Discarding-Sabot. Trade Firepower for high Penetration and range, ignore partial target armor. Better than other two kinetic rounds against long range target.
High-Explosive. SPG main ammo, excellent Firepower but little penetration. Should come with +penetration equipment to counter this problem. Have armor reduction effects.
Anti-Tank. Compare to HE, they have good Penetration, can lit up target easily, but may ricochet and there are armor and equipment to counter the fire damage. Enemy loves these in desert map, where Hot effect increase fire damage.
Rocket-Propelled. Somehow similar with HE with their high Firepower and low Penetration. But they may hit two target, making both exposed from camouflage - if they still alive.
Squash-Head. Damage target twice and higher crit chance but lower crit damage bonus. Not a common type of ammo.
If you are not sure which ammo is worthy to invest, place your bid on AP and HE.

Base (Structure)

View Base page for structure list.
Headquarters - Your first priority ! Upgraded HQ provides more fuel (means more money and codon), unlock techs and new chapters.
Silver Vault - Increase your silver limit, thanks to the skyrocketing building cost... you'll need to upgrade this anyway.
Silver Mine - Maybe useful for new player, but usually last to upgrade when you have nothing else to upgrade. Stop production while upgrading, but killing cooldown with gold is much more expensive then buying them directly.
Iron Mine - Produce G-Iron, but very expensive to upgrade. Only consider when you have lots of cash to spare.
Service Station - Start focus on it when you are reach the level to unlock Lifestyle. Lifestyle rewards are great and still gives you something from failed expeditions.
Naval Port - Unlock this ASAP. Upgrading this will unlock more trading slots and rare items, including Metal Maiden. Buying Maiden from port is much cheaper than research them yourself.
- You should buy everything from port if possible. Exp is cheap and top priority all the time. Codon is expensive for new player but if you can afford them - buy it. Foods are cheap and you'll need a lot to boost tank maiden's level. Buy all high tier blueprints you lack of and all materials there.
- You can spend silver or G-Iron to restock port inventory. G-Iron can refresh unlimited times.

BWMG Depot and Refactor

You'll need LV12 HQ to build BWMG Depot, once finished you can gain access to refactor and have unlocked. Also let you to exchange and other materials from store. Those refactor material regenerate slowly, but the best way to obtain them is farming high level maps. Their drop chance and quantity greatly increase in later chapters. Read this forum post for more refactor formula and links [3]

Live2D

Read Live2D for detailed instruction. Here is another guide...

Download Adobe Air (FREE!) [4] and Live2D Viewer [5] also free :)
Install Adobe Air, then Live2D Viewer. It will become default application to load live2d files.
Connect your phone to PC for file transfer. Find your game files, my location is
```
Android\data\com.happyuniverse.pub.panzer\patch\_1.9\live
```
and copy everything to your harddisk.
All image files have .pn_ as file extension. You must rename them to .png first, by manual one by one or use this advance method with Microsoft Windows Power Shell...

Using power shell to rename

Run windows power shell, and go to file folder that contains your live2d files (just same as using cmd). For example

cd C:\Users\administrator\Desktop\live

if you place that folder on the desktop. Copy your own link, dont use this !

Once you are in power shell and correct directory, copy these and run

get-childItem -recurse | Where {$_.extension -eq ".pn_"} | rename-item -newname {  $_.name  -replace ".pn_",".png"  }

that should rename all .pn_ files to .png in one second. Better than rename them by you one by one.

Power shell is really powerful and can cause damage that impossible to revert. Use with caution and if you are not good at it, just rename the files yourself !

Run the live2d file. For example 38-t is 38t_a.moc
- If you install Live2d viewer correctly you should see a purple V icon on those files.
Girl has NO or INCORRECT texture, which is normal. Click the texture folder, enable all image, then, don't forget to change the "no" column in order like 0,1,2,3,4,5... then click apply. If everything works, your girl should display correctly.
- If still has texture issue, try to change the load order
- Some girls have more than one texture set. You may check their png file directly.
Go back to your folder in windows explorer. Find physics.json first and throw it into the viewer. Drag all files in expression and motions to the viewer too. Your girl is alive now !
Try to click those new item and see how your girl react. Or change the parameter yourself :) There are some setting in the viewer top menu like enable eye blink
Last move, try to resize and scroll the screen, and go to menu View - Show Canvas Window to disable it. Now your girl "merge" into the desktop !