What is it?
A PvE stage campaign — Operation Falcon — where you steer a growing formation through a lane of barrels, weapons and hazards. The reward is surviving troops at the finish, capped at 60 per stage, using your highest currently producible troop tier. Confirmed Mechanic Every detour has to pay for itself in future firepower or survivors.
When does it happen?
Operation Falcon runs as a persistent stage campaign; community documentation maps the ladder to roughly 48 stages (Game8 cohort). Confirmed Mechanic A separate Sunday limited ranking-event form is documented on newer cohorts — see the note below; do not assume one schedule covers both. Update-Sensitive
Who can start it?
It’s an individual PvE run inside the event, and it pairs naturally with coordinated alliance pushes when a selected team farms it together. Watch a route video for the exact stage and version, not merely a same-numbered stage from an older UI. Corroborated Strategy
How does it work?
The objective is to maximize surviving troops at the finish, not objects collected. Confirmed Mechanic Soldier barrels grow your formation; weapon barrels raise firepower and ammo and are sometimes worth more than raw soldiers; negative panels can be shot toward positive but remove troops on contact before they’re neutralized; bikes/Gatling raise capability; launchers and Monica deal area damage — and Monica can harm your own troops. Confirmed Mechanic The collision hitbox is unforgiving, so the whole event is small, precise lateral corrections.
Object-value framework
| Object | Take it when… | Skip / avoid when… |
|---|---|---|
| Soldier barrel | Your formation is too small to clear the next barrier. | The path exposes more troops to an uncleared obstacle than it adds. |
| Weapon barrel | Firepower unlocks multiple later barrels/gates. | It costs a guaranteed large troop pickup with no downstream return. |
| Negative panel | You have time/firepower to convert it positive. | Collision risk is high or current troops can’t survive the route. |
| Bike / Gatling | The damage increase changes the next break point. | It pulls the formation into a lethal lane. |
| Launcher / Monica | Area damage clears dense obstacles safely. | The friendly-fire radius overlaps your own formation. |
Precision protocol
Memorize only the first three decision points, then add later segments once your consistency improves. Prioritize early firepower when it unlocks multiple barrels — but stop chasing every positive target. Use small lateral corrections. Corroborated Strategy Route videos are demonstrations, not guaranteed percentile outcomes; later stages and different accounts score inconsistently, so treat a “top-1% route” as a target, not a promise. Community-Tested Intel
Farming with chapter reset
On Server 2132 the account shows a daily chapter-reset control. Corroborated Strategy Where a cleared eight-stage chapter can be reset once per day, that’s a theoretical up to 480 free troops/day at the 60-per-stage cap — but other cohorts document that cleared stages cannot ordinarily be replayed, so this is genuinely version-controlled. Update-Sensitive Before planning around 480/day, confirm the reset button is live, and confirm whether reward troops use your present maximum tier — that payoff detail isn’t yet verified on 2132. Update-Sensitive
Common mistakes
- Optimizing for objects collected instead of troops surviving at the finish.
- Following an old same-numbered stage video against a newer UI.
- Grabbing every positive panel and walking into an uncleared obstacle.
- Letting Monica’s area damage clip your own formation.
- Assuming a daily replay exists — or doesn’t — without checking your live controls.
Leadership protocol
Name the exact stage/version when sharing a route, and publish the Sunday-form caveat below so members don’t plan a persistent-campaign route around a ranking event (or vice-versa). For a selected farming team, confirm the reset control on one account before committing the group. Leadership Protocol
Two distinct Frontline forms are documented and both appear present for Server 2132: the persistent Operation Falcon stage campaign (the spine of this page) and a separate Sunday limited ranking-event form documented in 2026 regional coverage. They are NOT safely interchangeable — the Sunday form has its own scoring formula and routes, which are not confirmed for 2132. We're publishing the Sunday variant as a deliberate stub: record its scoring formula and a current-version route from your own event screen before using any persistent-stage walkthrough on it. Verify in-game.