Main vs rein
The same player is not one object on a battlefield. They are main on their tile, a rein on someone else’s, sometimes both in the same window. Those jobs have different layers, different stakes, and different “did they do well?” stories.
By hand you sort every report they appear in by whether they were participant zero on defense or a helper — then build two careers. People instead argue about “how X played” as if it were one career.
Focus
One player’s defenses, then “only main” or “only when they were a rein.” Or start at the battlefield and cut “when [name] was main” as a custom subset.
Why this used to die as a daydream
Opening screenshots do not make the split obvious across twenty fights. A player can look like a god on reins (small stake, good trades) and a problem on their own keep (the pile). Or the reverse. Leadership needs both columns.
Questions (any wording)
Split the career
- Their main-defender fights vs the fights where they only reinforced.
- Which job ate the points given up?
- Which job did the killing?
Quality of the help
- When they reined, were they full or already dust?
- Did they show up on the holds that mattered, or on the easy ones?
Their tile
- When they were main, who was inside with them (reins)?
- Incoming type on their mains vs when they were out helping?
What a good answer looks like
Two piles, labeled. Counts. A measure that is not only “wins.” No merging rein lines into the main without saying so.
Common miss
Saying “look at their defenses” and then arguing as if every row were their keep. Check the post-focus summary: main vs reinforcement is a real cut. Use it.