Deployment Guide

Mobile Suit Gundam U.C. Engage's battles are not only decided by how good your units are, but how good you are at deploying them. Read on to see our tips for deploying your units before battle, some suggested formations, and the benefits of proper deployment.

Deployment Guide

Deployment Tips
Place Units in Front of Enemies They Have an Advantage Against Form Your Teams to Outmanuever Your Foes Be Mindful of the Best Placements for Your Units

Place Units in Front of Enemies They Have an Advantage Against

When you place a unit in front of an enemy, that's the first enemy they'll target when the battle starts. If you put your units in front of enemies they have a type or category advantage against, they'll deal more damage against that enemy and have an increased chance of winning.

This also means you should avoid placing your units in front of enemies they have a type or category weakness against and put them somewhere else on the battlefield.

Form Your Teams to Outmaneuver Your Foes

Units will always target whatever opponent is in front of them. However, on offense, if there's nobody in front of a mobile suit it targets the closest unit they have a type advantage over. That said, you can place mobile suits diagonally to attack a mobile suit they have a type advantage over, even if the said unit is hiding behind an Armored mobile suit.

For example, if your enemy is using a block formation similar to the above, you can place your Armored units in the back row while your DPS units can flank and target the MSs they have advantages over by placing them diagonally, ensuring no enemy units are directly in front of them.

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Be Mindful of the Best Placements for Your Units

Aside from just the actual formations, keep in mind what the optimal placements are for your units on the map based on their category.

For example, the S Gundam is a Bombardment Unit. The optimal placement for Bombardment and Sniper units is the backline, so try to keep them there. Raid, Armored, and Close Combat units meanwhile should be at the front, while Generic units should be at the midline.

However, this should not be followed religiously, as type advantages and your MS' protection will always be more important than optimal positioning based on the category. For example, even though it's an Armored unit, players have been placing the GP02A in the midline or the backline to increase its survivability and improve the chances of it firing its devastating EX skill before it dies.

Recommended Deployment Formations

Block Formation

A defensive formation that can be tough to crack for any attackers in Arena, especially since it concentrates all your firepower on only one side of the map. When setting up defenses like this, it's ideal to have an Armored mobile suit of the same type as your strongest carry to protect the latter from flanking threats.

Crescent Formation

The default formation, whose only redeeming factor is how it widely covers the map and all enemies (and also gives you space to maneuver any MSs you have that are weak versus that of the enemy's). Absolutely do not use this as your Arena defensive formation, as this will leave all your MSs vulnerable to being countered very easily. Instead, use this formation on offense to specifically abuse type advantage matchups and to avoid any of your MSs battling anyone they have a disadvantage against.

Split Formation

If your enemy is using a block formation, this is one way you can split apart your team so that you can go through the enemy defenses and get favorable individual matchups.

Perks of Correct Deployment

Your Units Take Full Advantage of Their Abilities

Gundam UCE's Auto-Deployment function is not as reliable as it should be because it only makes your units gang up on whatever units they have a unit advantage against. Of course, this is fine, but there's a possibility that these auto-generated formations can be broken or flanked if you're fighting against anything other than a computer opponent.

What is Deployment?

The Placement of Your Units Before Battle Starts

Just before a battle begins in Gundam UCE, you are given the option to deploy your units on the map and set their initial formation. This initial formation can give you an early advantage depending on where you place your mobile suits, which could then decide the outcome of the battle.

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