Crown position: survive the MIRV and hold the lead

You are the biggest nation on the map, the crown is on your name, and a rival is hoarding gold toward a MIRV that will land on your core. This guide is the holder-side answer to the single most common “I keep losing from first place” thread in the community: how to survive a 350-warhead strike, keep your territory share above the win bar, and force the match to end in your favor. Every number below is the current build, OpenFrontIO v0.34.22. The short version is that the crown holder does not win by winning every battle; they win by never becoming small enough to lose, by building a core that shrinks the burst before it lands, and by racing the falling Overtime bar before the rival who just MIRVed them can follow up.

Why first place is the most dangerous seat to hold

Being the crown holder means you are the target that ends the game fastest, and that is not a fluke of matchmaking. In v0.34.22 the win is decided by territory: a nation that holds 80% of the tiles wins, and if the match drags past 30 minutes an Overtime rule turns on in which that 80% requirement drops 2 percentage points every minute with no floor. That design has a direct consequence for the leader. Everyone else needs you to fall below the bar, but you are the only player whose own defeat is the fastest way to end the match for the whole group. A smaller nation can win by simply surviving long enough while the bar falls; a crown holder can only win by holding a share that no opponent can push under the bar. The community feels this pattern strongly. The r/Openfront thread titled “CROWN IS THE ENEMY” exists precisely because players have noticed the persistent first-place player loses more than a strong-but-not-first “grey man” does, and the “Need help winning from crown position” thread asks the question this guide answers.

The asymmetry is the whole problem. A MIRV does not have to beat your army in a fair fight; it only has to break your troops hard enough, for long enough, that your share of the map slides below the bar while the Overtime clock keeps falling. So the leader’s job is not “win every battle” — it is “never be small enough to lose.” That reframes every decision in a crown game. Expansion becomes defensive (keep the core compact so it is hard to surround), spending becomes about a refill buffer (gold and factories you can burn to rebuild after a strike), and even not taking the crown becomes a legitimate strategy. You should spend like a defender even while you sit at first place, because the share you show on the leaderboard is only a proxy for how much you can afford to lose, and the real currency is the gold and the defense you have parked around your core. The rest of this guide is that reframe turned into a concrete plan: when to hold, when to step down, and how to build the core that survives the strike that is coming for you. The single most useful thing you can do before the first warhead appears is change how you think about the gold on your HUD. For everyone else, gold is a means to expand and to win battles; for the crown holder, gold is a survival reserve, and the number that matters is not how much you have but how much you can afford to lose in a single 350-warhead hit and still be back above the bar before the Overtime clock decides the game. Every decision in the next sections — the SAM belt, the post cluster, the buffer, the step-down call — is a way of making that reserve, and the difference between a crown that ends in a win and a crown that ends in a MIRV is almost always whether you built the reserve while you still had the chance to build it.

Read the threat: who can MIRV you and when

Before you invest in a defensive core, you must know which rival is realistically about to press the MIRV button, because a MIRV you cannot afford to fear is a MIRV you can ignore. The single most useful HUD habit for a crown holder is to sort the leaderboard by gold and watch your rivals’ stockpiles. A MIRV is an expensive, high-impact weapon; a rival who is visibly sitting on the kind of gold that buys it within the next few minutes is a rival who is about to spend it, and that stockpile is your early-warning radar. The r/Openfront advice is blunt about this: “you can avoid being MIRVed by keeping an eye on enemy gold count when you start snowballing (sort leaderboard by gold). If someone is getting close to MIRV, you need to launch a MIRV first.” That is the holder’s mirror of the attacker’s timing guide — if you can afford a MIRV too, the correct response to a rival’s gold spike is often to launch yours first and force them to defend a warhead shower instead of landing one on you.

There are three rival archetypes you will be reading, and each one changes what “about to be struck” means. A snowballing neighbor who has already beaten you once has both the motive and the momentum to MIRV you next; expect the strike to come as soon as they clear a MIRV cooldown, because the AI and human leaders both weight the biggest target. A gold-hoarding mid-tier nation has not beaten you but is quietly saving toward a decisive strike; these are the “grey man” players the community describes, and their danger is that you will not see the strike coming because they never pressured you first. And a desperate small nation who is already losing may reach for a MIRV as a last stand even if it is not the optimal play, so the threat does not disappear just because no one is “supposed” to be winning off you. The reason gold is the signal rather than position is that a MIRV has a 30-second cooldown between launches in v0.34.22, so a rival cannot string strikes together; the window between their launch and the next is exactly when you recover, which means the moment of their gold spike — the launch moment — is the one you must not be empty on. The practical rule is: any rival whose gold is within striking distance of a MIRV is an active threat you must either pre-empt with your own strike, or defend against with a covered core.

The MIRV you are facing: 350 warheads, no interception of the carrier

The single most important mechanic a crown holder must internalize is that a MIRV launches 350 warheads, and the SAM network in v0.34.22 can engage the warheads but cannot intercept the MIRV carrier itself. The source is explicit: the carrier “can’t be intercepted, only its warheads.” What that means for you is that you cannot “shoot down the bomb” — there is no moment where you block the launch. Instead, your SAM launchers buy you coverage of the descending warheads, and the fraction of the 350 you manage to intercept is exactly the fraction of damage you do not take. That is why a single SAM launcher is not enough for a core that will be MIRVed; one launcher’s 90-tick cooldown and single-target-at-a-time interception cannot chew through a 350-warhead cloud, so the crown holder’s defense is a layered SAM belt around the core whose combined coverage is what absorbs the burst. The interception math is unforgiving: if your belt can only cover half the descent area over the core, roughly half the 350 get through, and that is not a survivable number for a core that must keep its share above the bar.

The SAM numbers matter a great deal at this scale. A SAM Launcher costs 1,500,000 gold, takes 300 ticks to build, fires on a 90-tick cooldown, and its range scales from 70 up to 150 tiles as it levels. The SAM Missile itself is free and gated only by that cooldown, moving at 12 tiles per tick. For a crown holder, the design of the SAM belt is therefore a coverage problem, not a single-unit problem: you want overlapping rings of range so that a warhead anywhere over your core has at least one launcher in range, and you want the launchers spread so the attacker cannot take them all with one concentrated push. A belt that leaves a gap over a city cluster is a belt that will let a meaningful slice of the 350 through, and that slice is what drops your share of the map. Levelling the launchers is worth more than adding more launchers in many cases, because a level-3 launcher at 150-tile range covers a much wider slice of the descent than a level-1 at 70, so the crown holder who is about to be struck should usually level the existing belt to maximum before expanding it outward, and only add launchers to close the gaps the range upgrade cannot reach. The rest of the defense — Defense Posts, Hydro refill, the economy buffer — exists to survive the warheads that get through the belt, because the belt’s job is to reduce the burst, not to eliminate it.

How Overtime decides the crown: hold above a falling bar

The Overtime rule is what turns “survive the MIRV” into “hold the lead until the match ends,” and it is worth stating precisely because the crown holder is the only player for whom the bar is falling against them. In v0.34.22 the win threshold is 80% of tiles, the Overtime window opens at 30 minutes, and from that point the required percentage drops 2 points every minute with no floor. That last detail is brutal for the leader. As the minutes pass, the bar that you must stay above is lowering, which sounds like it helps you, but in practice it helps your opponents far more, because it means the gap you must defend against a rival’s push shrinks over time — and any rival only needs to push your share down past that shrinking line, not all the way to zero. A leader who is at 70% with the bar at 80% is already losing on the bar, and every Overtime minute makes the bar lower while the leader is busy rebuilding after a strike. The “no floor” detail matters more than it looks: it means the bar keeps falling all the way down, so a match that is still unresolved at minute 50 has a much lower win bar than one at minute 31, and the crown holder who survives that long is racing a bar that a determined rival can chip away at from a much lower starting line.

This is why the crown holder’s endgame is a timed problem, not a static one. You are not just defending territory; you are racing the minute counter, and the clock is on your side only while your share stays above the line. The community’s “ending speed” threads describe exactly this: a match ends quickly once the leader is struck, their share dips below the (already-falling) bar, and Overtime converts a close game into a fast defeat. The strategic read is that the earlier you cross 80% and lock the bar in your favor, the less the Overtime clock hurts you, so a crown holder should push to convert lead into an unassailable share as soon as the defense is in place, rather than coasting at “big but not quite over the line.” Coasting is where the MIRV finds you. The working method is to check the current bar against your current share every minute or so: if you are over the bar by a comfortable margin, you are safe to build and consolidate; if you are close to the bar and the bar is about to drop, you are in danger, because the drop will hand a rival the exact push they need to slip under you. The Doomsday Clock mode adds a second timer to manage (rot death at 150 s after the skull appears), but in the standard match the Overtime bar is the only clock that decides the crown, and holding above it is the whole game.

Build the core that absorbs a 350-warhead burst

The crown holder’s territory should be shaped so that the worst MIRV that can be landed on you lands on a designed target, not a random cluster of your cities. That means a compact, defensible core — a dense block of your strongest cities and your SAM belt in a single region — surrounded by cheaper, expendable outer territory that you are willing to bleed. The reason for the compact core is the same reason the attacker’s “MELTS Crowns” annexation strategy works: a leader whose core is sprawled across the map can be enclosed, with a rival closing a pocket around the best cities and cutting them from the rest. A compact core is hard to enclose, easy to cover with a SAM belt, and easy to refill, because the refill factories and gold sit next to the cities they are protecting. The enclosure is the specific failure the compact shape defeats: an attacker who surrounds a spread core can delete each cluster separately and never face your combined defense, whereas an attacker who pushes a compact core meets the whole belt and the whole post cluster at once, which is the fight you want them to have.

The inner layer of the core is Defense Posts and SAM coverage, and the outer layer is the economy that refills you. A Defense Post costs 50,000 gold and builds in 50 ticks, and inside its defense zone it multiplies magnet by 5 and speed by 3 for the defending units, so a cluster of posts around the core makes a ground follow-up after the MIRV far more expensive for the attacker than the nuke itself. The r/Openfront advice that “if you have half of the board then you should be able to survive MIRV without too much trouble. Defense Posts + Hydro anyone who attacks you until your troops get back up” is exactly this layered model: the SAM belt shreds the warhead cloud, the Defense Posts make the landing zone a trap for the ground wave that follows, and the Hydro/economy layer refills the troops the MIRV just deleted. The design rule is to size the core so that the refill rate of the core’s economy exceeds the drain rate of a sustained strike — if a 350-warhead hit followed by a Hydro push drains your core faster than it refills, your core is too thin and you need more economy inside the belt, not more SAM launchers. You can test this in-match by watching how fast your core’s troop bar refills after a controlled loss of a few cities: if it is back to full in well under the 30-second MIRV cooldown, your core is thick enough; if it is still bleeding when the next strike window opens, the core is thin and the next MIRV is the one that ends you.

The defense budget: SAM belt, posts, and the gold buffer you must keep

A crown holder’s spending pattern in the late game is fundamentally different from an attacker’s, and the mistake that kills most leaders is spending the same way an attacker does — pouring gold into the offensive front and leaving the core under-defended. The defense budget has to be set before the MIRV arrives, because you cannot buy a 1,500,000-gold SAM launcher in the middle of a warhead shower. The practical budget is three lines. First line: the SAM belt. Enough launchers that every city in the core sits inside at least one launcher’s range, with overlap, sized to the 350-warhead burst. Second line: the post cluster. Defense Posts dense enough around the core that a ground follow-up loses to the zone bonus and the refilling army, which is where the 50,000-gold, 50-tick build cost makes posts the cheapest high-value defense you can place. Third line: the gold buffer. This is the counter-intuitive one, and it is the one the community threads nail: the crown holder must keep a standing gold reserve specifically so that after the strike you can immediately rebuild the deleted cities and units without a long, vulnerable dead time.

The three lines have a cost hierarchy that should drive your in-match spending order. The posts are the cheapest insurance per gold — a 50,000-gold post that turns a ground follow-up into a losing fight is, by a wide margin, the best value on the budget, so you should always fill the post cluster before spending on anything else. The SAM launchers are the expensive line and you buy them in a fixed set that covers the core, then level them; the marginal value of the sixth launcher past a fully covered core is low, so the money you would have spent on it goes to the buffer instead. The gold buffer is the line you are most likely to underfund, because it is invisible — you do not get a HUD icon for “buffer,” so it is the first thing a player skips when the pressure is on. That is exactly backwards: the buffer is what separates a core that survives the MIRV from one that survives it and then collapses, and it is the line that costs you the match when it is missing. The gold buffer is what separates “survive the MIRV” from “survive the MIRV and then collapse.” A leader who spent every unit of gold into expansion has no refill, and a MIRV that deletes their army deletes the army and the means to rebuild it, so the next push wins the game. A leader who held a buffer takes the hit, immediately rebuilds the core, and is back at full strength before the attacker can follow up. This is why the “grey man” strategy the community keeps mentioning — holding a slightly smaller region with higher population and economy so you are “essentially untouchable” — is so effective: it is a crown-adjacent position that prioritizes the gold buffer and the SAM belt over the territory share, because the buffer and the belt are what let you hold, and the share is only a proxy for how much you can afford to lose. The crown holder who understands this spends like a defender, not an attacker, even while sitting at first place.

Decision: hold the crown or step down to the grey-man position

The most decision-changing move in a crown game is sometimes not to be the crown at all, and you should evaluate this choice at the start of the late game, before the MIRV clock starts. The community’s repeated observation is that a strong player who sits just below the leader — the “grey man” around 4th or 5th, or just under the current crown holder — often wins more than the persistent first-place player, because they have the economy and population of a top player without the target on their back. The threshold for the decision is concrete: if your share of the map is close enough to the leader’s that you can contest them after their MIRV lands, you should deliberately step down, let someone else take the crown, and be the player who pounces when the crown holder is broken by their own rival’s strike. The r/Openfront player who says “most of my wins have come from being the grey man around 4th or 5th biggest, economy maxing, and then surging cities so when the crown gets a MIRV I can show up” is describing exactly this: the crown holder does the work of being targeted, and the grey man does the work of winning.

The decision flips back in your favor toward holding the crown when you have a genuine snowball that the other players cannot close: a share so far above second place that even after a full 350-warhead strike you remain over the win bar with a refill buffer intact. In that case the crown is an asset, not a liability, because your margin is bigger than the worst plausible strike can delete. The practical test is a simple arithmetic one you can do in-match: estimate your current share, subtract a realistic MIRV-plus-Hydro hit (a third of your army gone, a cluster of cities deleted), and see whether the remainder is still above the current Overtime bar. If it is, hold — you have a snowball, build the core, and convert. If it is not, step down — you are a crown in name only, and the rational move is to drop to just below, keep the buffer, and let the new crown holder spend their own gold buying their own SAM belt while you refill behind them. The table below is the version of this test you can run with your live numbers:

This is the single highest-leverage decision in the whole late game, and it is the one most players make by feel instead of by this arithmetic. The reason the step-down option is so often the correct one is that it removes the target from your own back while you keep the economy of a top player, and it forces the new crown holder to do the expensive work of building a defense that you can then watch them get MIRVed by someone else. You do not lose by not being first; you lose by being first and empty.

Counter-play: what to do the moment the warheads start falling

The strike is coming and the first warheads are visible over your core — this is the sixty-second window where the difference between “survive the MIRV and hold” and “get MIRVed into a loss” is decided by a fixed set of reactions. The first reaction is do not panic-spend the buffer on a counter-strike. The instinct when the warheads appear is to burn the gold buffer on a MIRV of your own to hit the attacker, but the correct move in the first seconds is to protect the core and let the belt do its job, because the SAM belt is the only thing that is currently absorbing the 350-warhead cloud and you do not want to be the one who is empty of troops when the ground follow-up lands a minute later. Hold the buffer. Let the launchers work. The attacker’s MIRV has a 30-second cooldown between launches, so even if they plan a follow-up strike, you have a real window to recover before the next one, and that window is exactly long enough to rebuild the core if your buffer is intact. The reason you do not counter in the first seconds is that a counter-MIRV spends the gold you need to refill, and it does not stop the warheads that are already over your head; it only changes who is targeted on the next strike, which is not a fight you should be starting while you are the one being struck.

The second reaction is redirect the ground follow-up onto the posts, not into the cities. The attacker’s play after the MIRV is almost always a ground push into the deleted space to convert the nuke damage into a territory share, and that push is the one you want to catch, because the Defense Posts’ zone bonus (magnet ×5, speed ×3) makes the landing zone a trap. You want the follow-up to commit into your posted core so your refilling army, which was already rebuilt by the gold buffer, meets them inside the bonus zone and wins the ground war that the MIRV was trying to skip. The third reaction is Hydro the attacker’s push point — not the attacker’s core, but the point where their ground wave is concentrated — because Hydro is the cheapest way to delete the follow-up army before it can convert the nuke into a share. This is the same long-range Hydro the community uses against distant leaders, turned against the person who just MIRVed you. The sequencing matters: let the belt absorb the cloud, catch the follow-up in the posts, then Hydro the concentrated push point, and only after that, if you have a MIRV of your own and the attacker is low, consider the counter. Execute these reactions in order and a 350-warhead strike that should have dropped your share below the bar instead becomes a ground fight you are structurally set up to win, and you keep the crown.

Scenario A: snowballing leader with a covered core

Situation. You are at 68% of the map, comfortably first, and the second player is at 24%. You have a compact core with a SAM belt of four leveled launchers covering the core, a dense post cluster, and a gold buffer you have kept deliberately high. The second player just launched their MIRV at your core — you saw the gold spike an hour ago, so you expected it and positioned the buffer and the belt for exactly this moment.

Assumptions. Your SAM belt covers the core at full range; the post cluster is intact; your buffer is large enough to refill within two minutes of a full strike; the second player has no immediate second MIRV (they are on the 30-second cooldown and low on gold after the launch); the Overtime bar is currently falling but you are well above it.

What happens and why it works. The 350 warheads descend, and the belt intercepts a large share of the cloud because the launchers have overlapping range over the core. The surviving warheads delete a cluster of cities and a big chunk of your army, but your share of the map drops from 68% to about 54% — still above the current Overtime bar, which at this point in the match is falling. The second player follows up with a ground push into the deleted space, and that push walks straight into your post cluster, where the magnet ×5 and speed ×3 bonuses mean your refilling army — already rebuilt from the buffer — meets them on the best possible terms. You win the ground fight, the push is deleted, and your share recovers toward 60% and above. The key was the pre-strike design: the compact core made the burst land on a designed target, the belt reduced the burst, the posts made the follow-up a trap, and the buffer made the refill fast enough to outrun the Overtime clock. This is the “hold” branch of the decision, and it works precisely because the margin between 68% and the bar was bigger than the worst strike could delete.

What you must not do. You must not have sprawled the core, because a sprawled core lets the 350 warheads delete the spread rather than a contained cluster, and the share drop is far worse. You must not have spent the buffer, because without the buffer the refill takes too long and the ground follow-up wins before you recover. And you must not counter-MIRV in the first seconds, because spending the buffer on a counter-strike leaves the core under-defended exactly when the follow-up lands. Do those three things and the same strike that broke a less-prepared leader is a ground fight you win.

Scenario B: overextended leader who should have stepped down

Situation. You are at 72% of the map on paper, but the share is thin: it is built from a sprawled core and a long, fragile border, and your gold buffer is low because you spent into the expansion. A mid-tier “grey man” at 18% has been quietly hoarding gold for an hour, and their stockpile just crossed the MIRV line. The Overtime bar is already falling, and you are above it only because you have not been struck yet.

Assumptions. Your core is sprawled, not compact; your SAM coverage has gaps over the outer cities; your buffer is below the cost of even one more SAM launcher; the grey man is about to launch a MIRV at your largest city cluster; you have no immediate way to pre-empt with your own MIRV because your gold is tied up in the expansion you just committed to.

What happens and why the crown falls. The MIRV lands on the sprawled outer cluster, and because the coverage has gaps, a large slice of the 350 warheads get through and delete the cities that held a meaningful fraction of your 72%. Your share drops hard, below the current Overtime bar. The grey man follows up, and because your buffer is low, your refill is slow — you cannot immediately rebuild the deleted cluster, so the ground follow-up converts the nuke into a share and your 72% becomes a loss. The fatal error was not the strike; it was the pre-strike posture. A leader at 72% with a thin, sprawled core and no buffer is a crown in name only, and the correct decision — the one this guide’s arithmetic says — was to step down an hour ago, drop to just below the leader, keep the buffer, and let a different player take the crown and spend their own gold building their own belt. The grey man who pounces after the crown is broken is the player who wins, and it will be you only if you had positioned yourself as the grey man instead of the crown.

The correction. The lesson of Scenario B is the decision framework in one example: a lead is only a winnable crown if your margin over the bar is bigger than the worst plausible strike, and you have a buffer to refill the core. If both are true, hold. If either is false, step down before the strike, not after. Most “I lost from first place” games are Scenario B games that the player did not recognize as Scenario B until the warheads were already over the sprawled core. Recognize it early, run the arithmetic, and the crown either becomes a defensible lead you convert or a target you deliberately refuse to wear.

Pattern and map adjustments: ranked, FFA, and Doomsday Clock

The plan above is the default, but three things change it. Ranked and standard FFA are where the MIRV-threat model applies most directly, because every rival is incentivized to end the game and the crown holder is the fastest way to do it; in these modes the gold-watch and the step-down arithmetic are the whole game, and you should treat any rival’s gold spike as an imminent strike. Bigger maps change the geometry of the core problem: the more spread-out the map, the more tempting it is to sprawl, and the more the compact-core rule matters, because a sprawled core on a large map is exactly the “MELTS Crowns” enclosure target. On a large map, the crown holder should concentrate even harder on a single core region and treat the distant outer territory as a buffer to be sacrificed, because the SAM belt cannot cover a core that spans half the map. The practical change on a big map is that your core is smaller in absolute area but denser in defense, and your outer territory is deliberately left as a bleed zone that you will not defend with SAMs, because the cost of covering a spread-out core would bankrupt the buffer you need to survive the strike.

Doomsday Clock mode adds a second, brutal timer on top of the Overtime bar: territory rots away and rot death hits at 150 s after the skull appears, so the clock pressure is far higher and the crown holder cannot afford the slow rebuild that a standard match permits. In Doomsday Clock, the defense budget tilts even harder toward the SAM belt and the fast-refill core, because a strike that deletes your core now has a 150-second countdown to rot death behind it, and a slow refill means the rot reaches you before the buffer does. The practical change is that in Doomsday Clock you should cross the win bar earlier and more aggressively than in a standard match, because the rot clock punishes any leader who is close to the bar rather than over it. And across all modes, the betrayal mechanic matters to a crown holder who has allies: attacking an ally makes you a traitor for 30 s with defense halved and speed at 80%, so if you are the crown holder in an alliance-heavy match, you want your opponents to be the traitors, and you want to keep enough distance from your own allies that you never need to trigger it. The positioning rule in an alliance match is to hold your territory so that you and your allies are adjacent to each other but both far enough from the enemy crown holder that you are never tempted to strike across your own alliance line, because the 30 seconds of halved defense and 80% speed is the worst possible posture to be in with a warhead cloud over your head, and the crown is a target in every mode; the mode just changes which timer is the one that ends the game.

Failure modes and how to recognize you are losing

The crown holder has a small number of distinct ways to lose, and recognizing which one you are in is what lets you make the correcting move before it is too late. Failure mode one: the sprawl. You are big but your core is spread out, your SAM coverage has gaps, and the worst strike deletes a slice of the whole rather than a contained cluster. The tell is that your share is high but your refill is slow and your core has no single defensible center. The fix, if you see it early, is to consolidate now: pull the outer cities’ value inward, build the posts around the real core, and accept a short share drop to buy a defensible center. Failure mode two: the spent buffer. You are at first place but you have no gold reserve, so any strike leaves you unable to rebuild. The tell is that your gold is near zero while your share is high — a classic “big but empty” posture. The fix is to stop expanding and start saving immediately, because a buffer you cannot afford to lose is the one you are already trying to win with.

Failure mode three: the coast. You are over the bar but not by enough, and you are not pushing to convert the lead while you are safe. The tell is that your share is “fine” and the Overtime clock is running against you while you do nothing, and the fix is to push now, because a lead you hold while safe is a lead you can convert, and a lead you coast on is a lead the MIRV finds. Failure mode four: the betrayal trap. You are the crown in an alliance match and you are the one tempted to strike an ally, and if you do, you are a traitor for 30 s at half defense and 80% speed — the worst possible posture to be in with a warhead cloud over your head. The fix is to never be the one who triggers it; let the rival who is about to betray you be the one who is weak for 30 seconds, and strike them while they are a traitor. Each of these four modes is visible in the HUD long before the strike lands, and the crown holder who watches for the tells — the sprawl, the empty buffer, the coast, the traitor temptation — is the crown holder who turns a target into a win. If you want to understand the attacker’s side of this exact exchange — the timing and the decision to press the MIRV at the leader in the first place — the companion pieces on MIRV launch timing and on winning the Overtime bar cover the numbers from the other side of the same 30-second cooldown, and the SAM launcher placement guide is where the belt design comes from. The crown is dangerous, but it is only dangerous to the player who does not read which way they are about to fall.