iOS Walkthrough for Total Calculator

This walkthrough will show you exactly how to setup an attack  solution on Total Calculator, using an iOS device. 

I use Total Calculator to illustrate this, because using the "Show Attack Design" option, it will give you an exact report of what your attack should look like.

Once you have successfully used the calculator, I suggest applying the same process to using SK's calculator. The numbers come from the same place. SK's calculator is slightly more aggressive in Monsters, and will yield slightly better results, but the "Show Attack Design" option on Total Calculator will help you to understand what you are trying to achieve.

Step 1

The first step is to turn on all bonuses and set Premium to "Great Marshall". Select the captain you plan to use for the attack. Make sure the captain is outfitted with the correct gear and artifact that you plan to use. 

In the case of Armageddon, check the gear on your hero, and make sure he is wearing fighting gear.

If you are attacking Arachne or one of the other epics that allow multiple captains or multiple captains and hero, make sure all are outfitted in the proper gear and artifacts.

Step 2

Step two is to get the numbers that we need. If you have a very recent attack on the same epic, using the same captain and gear, you can use the battle report to get the numbers. Otherwise, the quickest way is to send a calibration attack.

For a calibration attack, send your captain with 1 of each G8 Guardsmen, 1 S8 Royal Lion, 1 S8 melee, 1 M8 Kraken, 1 Josephine2 cannon, and 1 Epic Monster Hunter.

Step 3

Step 3 is to open the battle report and get the bonuses. Enter all bonuses as outlined in the tutorial.

Battle Report from calibration attack with 1 of each troop type needed only. First I will select the Kraken.

From this screen, you will see that the Health bonus was 1793%. 

The Strength bonus was 2641.5%. 

You can also see that the Strength against epic monsters was 1638%.

At this point in the walkthrough, I need to discuss two concepts that are paramount in your understanding of the calculators, whether you are using totalcalculator or SK's calculator.

First, you need to think of your captains, artifacts and gear as fitting into one of two categories. They either affect every stack in your army, or they elevate one troop class or troop type above the others.

For example, Hercules, Beowulf and Cleopatra affect the bonuses of all troop stacks, where Wu Zetian elevates the flying stacks bonuses. 

The same applies to artifacts and gear. The heart affects all stacks, where the Fan of the Five Winds affects Guardsmen above other classes. Ragnarok and Seasonal gear affect the entire army, and Path of the Skybreaker boosts flying units.

The second concept is understanding the correlation between using level set captains, artifacts and gear versus using captains, artifacts and gear that boost one class or type troop. 

In the case of level set selections, I really only needed to send 1 Epic Monster Hunter and 1 silver troop to determine the values. If everything in my attacking army is level set,  the values for melee guardsmen, ranged guardsmen, mounted guardsmen and flying guardsmen will all be the same. The values for melee specialists, ranged specialists, mounted specialists and the Jospehine2 cannons will also be this same number. The Royal Lions and the monsters will be 100 points higher in strength and health provided you are T9 and monsters boost and army modernization are complete, as well as talents for strength and health are maxed in Battle Tactics and Expert Battle Tactics.

Step 4

Step 4 is to enter your Leadership and Dominance numbers. These numbers come from the lower left side of the attack screen, not the stats screen for your hero or captains. After selecting the captain to send, the numbers will change to reflect that particular captains Leadership, Authority and Dominance. For SK's calculator you will need all three values. For totalcalculator, you need Leadership and Dominance. 

Leadership is the top number next to the Spartan Helmet, Authority is the middle number next to the Eagle, and Dominance is the bottom number next to the Lion.

In this example you can see the Leadership for Hercules in his current gear is 290,940 and Dominance is 58,987. Authority is 117,975.

Unfortunately, I didn't capture a screen shot before Hercules leveled to 460. At the time of this attack he was level 459. If you follow the link below, you will see the attack I computed, and I will show the Battle Report so you can compare the results. At the time of the attack, Leadership was 289,821 and Dominance was 58,760.

https://totalcalculator.org/epic.php?g=g9&s=s9&m=m9&epics=1638&gsm=2541.5&ghm=1693&gsa=2541.5&gha=1693&gsr=2541.5&ghr=1693&ssm=2541.5&shm=1693&msm=2641.5&mhm=1793&msr=0&mhr=0&ssf=0&shf=0&gsf=2541.5&ghf=1693&msf=0&mhf=0&gms=0&gmh=0&sms=2641.5&smh=1793&gos=0&goh=0&cs=2541.5&ch=1693&extras=0&extrah=0&leadership=289821&gl=2&dominance=58760&sl=2&authority=0&ml=3&e9=on&e=other&om=on&of=on&oa=on&or=on&submit=&full=on#output

Remember, mercenaries stacks are limits, all others are exact values. Do not deviate.

Battle Info

Notice that the Battle Info follows the Total Calculator Output exactly.

Step 5

Step 5 is to highlight the url on your web browser and save the link in a text file on your desktop. This will allow you to recall the battle solution without entering the numbers again.