Hear that?
That's the sound of the sheep who think they HAVE to do every event Gree gives them. Regardless how utterly horrid it is.
Like this Frontline, piece of garbage. Has anyone NOT yet figured out it is ONLY about gold spending? Not a single other event is like this. De nada. Every other event, people can play along up to a point for free, then you will regen or have more energy and off you go again. This one, not so much.
Unless you are prepared to wait for 8+ hours to be able to deploy enough in a single battle, you have to spend gold. 25 deploys is nothing in this event, we now know. But assume you play the bare minimum per battle, you have to spend at least 25 gold per war. Assuming 25 wars, that's 625 gold. 625 GOLD JUST TO PLAY. Not to help finish an event or anything like that. JUST TO PLAY.
And if you really want to make an impact you have to get those little ships. Anything else doesn't move the needle people. The cash units are USELESS. Even if you are a low faction struggling to make top 4000. You can't do ANYTHING with them and any faction deploying only cash is sure to lose. Let's say you deploy 10 of those per battle. You will need 250 of them. That's 6213 gold. Mother....kisser....
So, just to play this game and make any impact you need to burn through 5+ vaults. Not to excel, just to participate. And the rewards are prizes we don't want or need. So my only question is, are you f-ing kidding us?
They say the sound of sheep bleating is always most deafening just before the slaughter. I can see the abattoir not very far away now.