# Web of Shadows

**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/web-of-shadows/67751
**Category:** Official News
**Created:** [December 20, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/web-of-shadows/67751 "2020-12-20T22:59:56Z")
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### Author: ![Jonathan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jonathan/32/66724_2.png) [@Jonathan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jonathan)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/web-of-shadows/67751/11 "2020-12-21T03:26:45Z")

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> [@cyberkiwi](#):
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> it will lead at times to map states where all 4 or 5 choices end up being the same least desirable troop/s (so your _smart_ choices amounted to nothing).

Mm – you really only need to know which battles give the _least_ points, and leave those on the map (in terms of scoring optimum points). By that stage, you’ll never have a choice between Arach and Matron, only the low-scoring Night Spider/Deep Huntsman and something better.

E.g., here you would just pick whichever battle _isn’t_ a War Sphinx (unless of course they all are), and so you’re basically just rotating out one slot:

 ![IMG_20201221_142444](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/2/f/2f6b12c86d45e71a92510cb9cacaa081ef8f96d9.jpeg)

I actually tend to adopt a similar approach to Starlite, at least as long as I don’t think it will make my guild worry that I’ve gone crazy 😝:

> [@Ice Age](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/ice-age/67024/15):
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> It’s worth noting that it’s sometimes worth accumulating many copies of the same battle on the board at the same time, because they will always be at the same level, yet give increasing rewards (not this week, obviously). This only works for World Events where the whole board doesn’t get reset – or rather, only in between the resets.

By taking all of the _easiest_ battles earlier on, you can end up with a full map of lower level Mythic battles (which should supposedly be harder, but more importantly level up a lot more quickly).

 ![IMG_20201221_141726](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/9/0/902e3219a258e31b0caf1183bcb77bb001e3efcb.jpeg)

Then, as you approach the end of your Sigils or your Guild approaches the last reward, you can switch to always _avoiding_ the lowest-scoring battle.

This kind of min-maxing really only makes a difference if you think you’ll have trouble beating the higher-level battles, though, which isn’t really the case for a lot of forum players (but might be for their lower-levelled guildies). It’s also only temporary/limited to the 4 battles you can store on the map, so at most lets you play a battle 4 level progressions lower than you would otherwise.

I really only do it at the start, now, because it can be kind of fun one-shotting 5-6 Mythic battles in a row 😝 and I don’t want confuse people.

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