Relay Defense

“Defend your area to earn rewards!”

Relay Defense (introduced in Ver. 2.9.0) is a sort of Special Maps where the player must protect the fortress. The goal of Relay Defense is to protect the player's camps and fortress during 8 turns with 5 units regulary changed. The player's performance is evaluated after the stage has been cleared. Since 2.11.0 update, Relay Defense is "on hiatus for the time being".

Rules

The following rules apply for Relay Defense:

• The battle will end after 8 turns have passed or the player's fortress is destroyed, but it won't end if one side's forces are depleted.
• The player use a brigade instead of a regular team. The first five units are the five on the first row and are change every two turns with the units of others rows.
• Reinforcements do not gain boosts from Legendary Effects.
• No EXP or SP will be earned.

Area

Relay Defense's map are 8 x 6 maps and have camps and fortress.

A fortress and its warp points

A camp and its warp points

The fortress have 3 HP and the player will lose the battle if it is destroyed by the enemy. The camps have 2 HP and can't be take back when they are destroyed
The fortress and the camps are defensive terrain which heal 10 HP at the beginning of each turn if a hero is on them.
The fortress, the camps and the spaces around them are warp points. Heroes can instantly go on those spaces if they are already on a warp point.

Level

In Relay Defense mode, height several selectable difficulties. A level is unlocked only after finishing the previous one.

Difficulty	Level	Target Score	Enemy Stat Boost
			HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res
Normal	30	540	0	0	0	0	0
Hard	35	720	5	0	0	0	0
Lunatic	40	900	10	2	2	2	2
Infernal	40	1080	10	4	4	4	4
Infernal	40	1260	15	6	6	6	6
Infernal	40	1440	15	8	8	8	8
Abyssal	40	1620	15	10	10	10	10
Abyssal	40	1800	15	12	12	12	12

Score

In order to finish the level, the player need to achieve certain high scores.

Defeated + Surviving

The player accumulates points for each enemy defeated and each Hero alive after two turns, capping at 30.

Difficulty	Normal	Hard	Lunatic	Infernal 1	Infernal 2	Infernal 3	Abyssal 1	Abyssal 2
Points per foe	9	12	15	18	21	24	27	30
Points per ally	9	12	15	18	21	24	27	30

Camp Defense

Points are added based on the number of camps held by the player at the end of the stage.

Camp remaining	Normal	Hard	Lunatic	Infernal 1	Infernal 2	Infernal 3	Abyssal 1	Abyssal 2
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	90	120	150	180	210	240	270	300
2	180	240	300	360	420	480	540	600

Fortress Defense

Points are added depending on how well the player defends their fortress. The more HP at the end of the stage, the better.

Camp remaining	Normal	Hard	Lunatic	Infernal 1	Infernal 2	Infernal 3	Abyssal 1	Abyssal 2
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	90	120	150	180	210	240	270	300
2	180	240	300	360	420	480	540	600
3	270	360	450	540	630	720	810	900

Max Total Score

Score for:	Normal	Hard	Lunatic	Infernal 1	Infernal 2	Infernal 3	Abyssal 1	Abyssal 2
Defeated + Surviving	270	360	450	540	630	720	810	900
Camp Defense	180	240	300	360	420	480	540	600
Fortress Defense	270	360	450	540	630	720	810	900
Total Score	720	960	1200	1440	1680	1920	2160	2400

List of Relay Defense maps

Relay Defense	Rewards	Availability
Event Map Relay Defense Relay Defense: Event Map	1 (Normal)  500 (Hard)  500 (Lunatic)  10 (Infernal 1)  500 (Infernal 2)  10 (Infernal 3)  1 (Abyssal 1)  500 (Abyssal 2)	2018-09-08T07:00:00Z – 2018-09-22T06:59:59Z
Event Map Relay Defense Relay Defense: Event Map	1 (Normal)  500 (Hard)  500 (Lunatic)  10 (Infernal 1)  1 500 (Infernal 2)  500 10 (Infernal 3)  3 (Abyssal 1)  3 (Abyssal 2)	2018-10-13T07:00:00Z – 2018-10-27T06:59:59Z

In other languages

Language	Name
Japanese	リレー防衛戦
German	Staffelverteidig.
Spanish (Europe)	Def. por relevos
Spanish (Latin America)	Def. por relevos
French	Défense en relais
Italian	Difesa alterna
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)	接力防衛戰
Portuguese	Defesa revezada