The Trinity! | How Alexander Marcus, Kang, & Charvanek affect mitigation in Star Trek Fleet Command

Got Kang? Marcus? Char? Seen @everyone else flying them around but have no idea how they work or how to use them? Well guess what, now you will. In this video I go over their captain's abilities (briefly) and their officers abilities (at length) to discuss how they can help swing the tide of battle in your favor in Star Trek Fleet Command. There's a reason you see all those big players using these three cards and now you can know when to!
Topics covered:
1. How they work: Captains abilities
2. Using the officers abilities to affect mitigation
3. Calculating advanced algorithms and top secret formulas using Scopely maths!
4. If you have any game mechanic questions, feel free to drop those questions in the comments!
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[@JR-yf1ri]

Deuce, here is an idea for the Scopely team. How about crew members accumulate experience similar to how ships accumulate points? Have it focused on crew members in the primary “big 3”. Would be interested in your thoughts.

[@jqmichael13]

I love watching these officer videos. Without them, it is so much harder to understand how these officers truly work. You do a great job of explaining it in a way that I could understand and I appreciate that. Keep up the Great work, Deuce!

[@Binngoo-nc3xs]

Thanks Rev, I have to say I'm surprised you didn't mention how they can also be used to reverse/break the triangle. For example Kang will help you win a sally vs. sally fight or Chavez can help your enterprise bring down an augur

[@RevDeuce]

Yup, exactly how I use them. Was more explaining how they affect mitigation and how mitigation works. :)

[@wishelephant]

Actually, this is what I was looking for. I still haven't mastered it and now I need to add in the anti-trinity...

[@ChefAnatoly]

One of the most effective crews in the game!

[@felippw]

Would be nice to have a video with loadout crews for multiples ships due to takeover. Running Augur Ent, D4/Sally and Sarc is always a "problem".

[@joeroebuck3729]

The TLDR... Kang vs Interceptors Marcus vs Explorers Chav vs Battleships Add this flavour to your favourite pvp combos. It’s less effective boosting existing battle triangle advantages as the extra added has diminishing returns. For example added kang to an explorer to fight a interceptor has less impact than say adding him to another interceptor. This makes a huge difference.

[@Sachrial1]

Correct! The fact that these abilities increases stats in percentage of crew health/defende/attack makes them also usefull to push the weak side of a ship. E.g. armour piercing of an explorer or accuracy of a battleship.

[@gabebarahona6072]

Another great video, I was always unsure on how to use Marcus and Kang. I have to get them leveled up!!!!

[@thomasboomer9809]

Thanks this video was very helpful to me.

[@thomasboomer9809]

Thanks!

[@RevDeuce]

Welcome!

[@Badwolf212]

Need a video like that for lower-level 18 to 25

[@Blogengage]

Agree

[@gp8231]

You can't really, as investing in any officers at that level except hostile cadet crew and Morale crew is a waste

[@Blogengage]

@@gp8231 really ? We stay in that bracket so long how can it be a waste?

[@gp8231]

@@Blogengage Because once you come out of that bracket the mitigation officers available at that level will not ever be used again, and as not epic their stats are unlikely good enough for long term below deck usage. Save your officer XP. Focus on Morale only for PvP

[@nunyabidness3075]

@@Blogengage Gary is correct. Only work on Morale for PvP and Augment raiding crew. PvP is inefficient and a resource waste. If a base is defended, find another target. When your Sally hits around 1.4 you can start la little PvP. And then realize how silly it is in this game, lol.

[@charlesjohnmcclarrie]

Good sense. Awesome as always

[@gary1arm]

Itd like you read my mind. I just got kang and was going for charvenic 🤔👍

[@izmazix2148]

Watched to end, commented.

[@gp8231]

I can certainly see the value of these officers, but unless you are a BIG dolphin ($200+ spend per month, so $2400 PER YEAR) or a small whale you won't be getting the shards to make them worthy until the late thirties, at which point you need them to be T4 or T5 really. I know Rev says work on them early, but the only way you can grind them is through transporter shards, and Kirk and Khan should be your priority above these officers, and you won't get enough patterns to also work on both those and these officers. This is my main gripe with this game, it gives the illusion of lots of variation but due to being an unbalanced game and difficulty in getting the epic officers levelled up that give you that variability, there isn't variation at all for most players. And besides you can run Marcus on your Augur all you want, if an Enterprise is well crewed you're losing no matter what as it has the best mitigation tool in the game by far... Forever Shield. And if you have an Enterprise you don't need Char or Kang to beat Augurs and D4's anyway, as the Enterprise is OP. Marcus is good for Enterprise for Enterprise PvP granted, so late thirties you should try and get him to T4 if your Kirk and Khan are already T4 as Enterprise is the dominant PvP ship in the game for non-whale players

[@RevDeuce]

Thats simply not true. You can def get enough patterns by maxing out multiple factions (FEDS/Augment/etc.) Many people are doing this in the 20s now!

[@gp8231]

@@RevDeuce I can't see the math. Are you saying these officers should be prioritised over Pike, Kirk and Khan for Transporter patterns? If not, you will need 6 figure transporter patterns to move onto these officers, I can't see how your maths stack up sorry

[@bryanbenjamin1632]

5 of 10, 7 of 10, kang at 800 percent on my bortas and those overpowered saladins are in for a surprise

[@madmat404]

good luck catching them ;-)

[@10000276249]

You should switch the battle direction so you fight against battle triangle, then those officers get effective or same shiptype

[@Badwolf212]

Awesome video yes it was

[@reubenjames3651]

yuki C. Kirk, Charv in Enterprise will take out Augers several hundred thousand more power. as long as you have these crew members at least 2 tiers or higer.

[@scottchampion567]

Yo Rev, can you start to hound them about the Lagg that occurs during takeovers, its absolutely ridiculous that we waste so much resources, latinum, speedups during a takeover because of Lagg, especially so when you should be succesful but are not because it's impossible to play properly. Territories are a huge aspect and this just isn't being resolved.

[@davelowry123]

Is it Scopely Federation favouritism again that Marcus's cap ability can trigger "at the start of each round", Char only checks once at 80% hull, and Kang once at the beginning of combat?

[@somekindofmonkeyapprentice8697]

Also makes “sense”. Klingons boom n zoom. Roms battleships/big hull. Feds shields/longevity

[@nunyabidness3075]

@@somekindofmonkeyapprentice8697 Might make sense from that narrative you threw out, but sense none of that makes sense in the game it’s just more imbalance. Unless Kang’s description is wrong, I cannot see him working. Show me the logs.

[@gp8231]

Yes, Fed officers are always (relatively) OP

[@davelowry123]

And also Kang doesn't work for three rounds as his tooltip says. It only works for two rounds.

[@alagass6466]

Rev! Can you do a Video analyzing 6/10 for Armadas. His officer ability looks like he would be great in then, as he'd break their Mitigation after a few rounds. Thanks much love!

[@gp8231]

5 or 10 is easily better for armadas

[@stang393]

567

[@Screwu273]

Which order do you crew them in?

[@jasonm2880]

For your higher level players wouldn't Capt Gorkon, Killy, and replace Kang with Khan since crits need to happen for Hull Breach to proc to get use of Killy's ability or would Lorca be better than Gorkon in the original crew?

[@gp8231]

The Federation Hull Breach (Lorca) and Burning (Gorgiou) officers easily outclass the native Klingon (Gorkon) and Romulan (Nero) officers, the difficulty is tiering them up meaning they are not relevant for most players currently

[@jasonm2880]

@@gp8231 Yeah the new Fed officers are way better than their counterparts, but in Rev's video he was saying high levels have been using Capt Gorkon, Killy, Kang, Gorkon requires a crit to proc hull breach, with using Kang instead of Khan you'll be sitting at the base + small research of 12% crit chance. It is hard to "plan" for crits at that small of a chance.. At least using Capt Lorca, Killy, Kang, even at base level gives you a 50% chance of hull breach unless you switch out Kang for Khan and Gorkon can be substituted for Lorca.

[@therkyn]

So this is a run a particular one of the 3 against particular ship review, not that your ship type defines which one (e.g. I would still use hull breach against a battleship in an Augur and not char). Is that correct? So I have to level all 3 is what I'm hearing. Also, Char v. Georgiou? I though Georgiou was the solution to Char... Or is it just because you can transporter pattern Char?

[@bubsterthree9875]

is the capt ability of Kang displayed wrong? you said it did hull breach at the beginning of each round but it displays at the start of battle so a one time activation per battle

[@joeroebuck3729]

Yes. Kang only activates once at start which is different to chav and Marcus

[@randomloginnamebtw7759]

Is the audio slightly off from the video for anyone else?

[@SavageDarknessGames]

Yes slight delay between him talking and the sound, almost not noticeable.

[@debbiecarleton2101]

Good morning

[@brianwillson6679]

I know what the answer is but I'll ask anyway, in a PvP situation like a territory takeover battle where you're basically shooting anything moving is it dumb to have all 3 on the bridge together? I've been doing it and maybe I've just gotten lucky but the swiss army knife approach has been working. I use Kang as captain because out of the 3 his ability just happens no matter who is with him.

[@Sachrial1]

I don't think it is stupid. I even think that this might be the perfect PvP crew, IF (and that is a big if) you have all these officers at 800% or more. Their second ability becomes ridiculously strong at higher levels. On level 5 it is even 1600%. And during a takeover, were you can't really aim anyway, why not? These three prepare you for just about anything they could possibly throw at your ship.

[@vanjasuica2637]

Where are photon tokens and new transporter patterns officers?

[@davidwald2898]

Thanks rev.

[@kitonpawz]

So what is better removing shield health like vemet or shield piercing of Marcus ?

[@RevDeuce]

Depends on the situation. Generally, mitigation is more important to alter

[@johnd5952]

This is not actually how these officer bonuses are calculated for their impact on mitigation, they are generally much more effective than this.

[@NivMizzet13]

Dose Kang's accuracy boost have any effect on explorers and battleships?

[@somekindofmonkeyapprentice8697]

Yes but minimal

[@joeroebuck3729]

Don’t use these officers on a ship where it’s primary stats. They have very little added effect. Don’t use kang on explorer Don’t use Marcus on battleship Don’t use chav on interceptor Use kang vs interceptors Use Marcus vs explorers Use chav vs battleships

[@somekindofmonkeyapprentice8697]

@@joeroebuck3729 you can use them to boost what’s already there. Char on a sally is better than no char when fighting bigger augurs

[@JMX2323]

well I just used 21k transporter patters to get Marcus to lvl 2 because of this

[@gp8231]

That's a waste buddy.... Khan and Kirk should be a much higher priority

[@gary1arm]

I will definitely need some time 1 night to go through it with u lol but marcus is a lil bit away she is 4 shsrds

[@stang393]

There is Alexander marcus and carol marcus, hes talking about Alexander

[@jmwintermute1]

Who would be the correct captain/crew against D4?

[@joeroebuck3729]

You would use Kang against a D4 as it’s an interceptor

[@jamesoliphant2322]

Dam it beat me to it lol

[@fylopian]

Kang doesn't have the 80% of starting hull health requirement though. Interesting difference. Or is the description just wrong?

[@thomasellefredt9152]

Yep, that is a great difference between Kang and the others. Btw there is a difference in the desciption between Marcus (80 % of the opponent's hull health) and Charv (80 % of the hull health) so you don't know if Charv's maneuver is referring to your own ship or to the opponent.

[@beginnereasy]

KURON EVENT COMING SOON!!

[@derpizzadieb]

for real? I want him so bad but guess he wont be available for f2ps like me

[@paulellis6814]

How do you get Franklin bps now Are the events when you are level 17 still up

[@gp8231]

What's your spend on the game Paul? You have to seriously think what level you might end up in the game, if you're not gonna make it into the late thirties don't bother with the Franklin as it takes 20 MILLION transistors and a bunch of expensive research to max. There's no way you get the payback for the grind over the repair difference of using another explorer, maybe over 10 years lol

[@mercuno]

Are you gonna join raid when the servers merge?

[@heathgleason4166]

U said kang works at the start of a round is it a chance to cause HB at the start of battle only for only 3 rounds or is it the start of each round so he can work the whole battle?

[@RevDeuce]

He actually only works for 2 rounds cause he's borked. Annoying and forgot to mention that

[@heathgleason4166]

With a million morale officers it’s time for a new good hull breach crew

[@joeroebuck3729]

Lorca is the most reliable hull breach starter. Kang and Gorkon only impact first few rounds which is a waste of an ability. Kang is for his officer ability to reduce mitigation against interceptors. The only point to add that Deuce didn’t cover is that they are less effective where you already have battle triangle. So kang on a D4/sally vs another D4/sally works a charm... kang on an enterprise/brel vs a d4/sally could be a waste (depends on other ships officers)

[@heathgleason4166]

@@joeroebuck3729 I know that’s why we need more burning /HB officers not morale

[@gp8231]

@@heathgleason4166 Agreed, the Federation Hull Breach (Lorca) and Burning (Gorgiou) officers easily outclass the native Klingon (Gorkon) and Romulan (Nero) officers, which along with Morale crew, the Saladin and the Enterprise make the Federation faction ridiculously OP

[@geraldgrenier8132]

last 3 seconds seams to suck for me, as only the first second of it procs officer abilities. so Zhou defection will at best only work 1/3 of the time Marcus is procing

[@jeremiahmitchell6420]

PMC BUGGED, Tlann gave points

[@OmarJuvera]

9:37 Captain Killy? Do you mean Tilly?

[@stang393]

No capt Killy is a thing

[@OmarJuvera]

@@stang393 So...Killy is a nickname for Tilly?

[@cmrobertson311]

Would Kang be the captain in this setup? Is it the disco Tilly or terran Tilly?

[@charlesjohnmcclarrie]

First to like the video. Yeah

[@howardthompson7661]

you lost me in the numbers and missed th mark on how to use

[@XHunter442]

WTH was that at the end... brain fart... who's that at the end?

[@XHunter442]

Ezri Dax =O

[@alanhanniffy8177]

Rev, this is as much use as a chocolate teapot to a mid thirties player, who actually understands most of the mechanics, IT DOES NOT WORK LIKE THIS IN REALITY, battle logs require a math degree from MIT, this game is getting harder to justify spending time on, and these videos are getting harder to bother watching, need a lot more simple language 😶🇮🇪