Main vs rein

A reading: who was in the city when it held

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 be impossible by hand

Opening screenshots do not make the split obvious across twenty fights. A player can look strong on reins (small stake, good trades) and weak on their own keep (the larger pile). Or the reverse. Leadership needs both columns.

Defender hit-sequence timeline with heals and reinforcement movement between hits — Defender sequence with reins on the tile — main and helpers visible across hits, not one career mashed together. Click to enlarge.

Net points and Effectiveness across a defense sequence with chronological defender scoreboard — Net points and Effectiveness across that defense sequence, plus the chronological defender scoreboard. Click to enlarge.

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.

Main and rein are two careers. Split them on loaded holds.

A player can look strong on reins and weak on their own keep — or the reverse. That split needs their defense reports in Tactica. Fast Read the event, focus their defenses, then cut main-only vs rein-only before you argue about “how they played.”

Ask this on your own battlefield How to name the cut

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