Strike Teams - why they matter

Add: postive: daring negative: ill prepared, and Raucous

Only purchasable with mission funds.  No permanent equipable gear comes out of the crates.

That happened to me too with Salarians.

Then my Turians won a Gold mission with a 12% success rate.

I'll take it.

Question about gear: where can I find MP gear to buy with MF? I don't remember seeing that in the Store.
The best use for MF after you have 2 Strike Teams is really save up to buy MP gear?

Actually, with 2 teams I can do all available bronze/silver missions (even including some failures). So, in my opinion it only makes sense to have 3 teams when you have at least one good enough to do gold missions.

Observations from my data.

Sometimes Level Makes Sense and Sometimes It Doesn't
Makes sense:
Bronze mission, no traits relevant to either team
Level 13: 92% success
Level 14: 93% success
Level 15: 94% success
+1 level = +1 success

Does Not Make Sense
Silver mission, Outlaw Specialist trait is relevant
Level 13: 78% success
Level 14: 81% success <-- SAME TEAM as level 13 (leveled up in between checking)
+1 level = +3 success

Still does not make sense:
Gold mission, no traits relevant
Level 13: 11% success
Level 14: 13% success
+1 level = +2 success

(so Gold increment is less than Silver increment which kind of works, but both are more than Bronze increment? WTF?!)

Ze Traitz, Zhey Do Nothink!
Gold mission vs. team with Stealthy and Outlaw Specialist (SAME TEAM in both cases)
Remnant, No Room for Error, We Need a Hero: 29% success
Outlaw, No Room for Error, Silent and Deadly: 29% success (expect MUCH HIGHER due to double-bonuses from Outlaw Specialist and Stealthy)

But Other Times Traits Work Exactly How You'd Expect
Silver mission with Outlaw, No Room for Error, Bribe Attempt
both teams have Outlaw Specialist
vs. team with no other relevant traits: 88%
vs. team with Corruptible: 78% (exactly as expected due to negative impact of Bribe Attempt)

Yep, I think you can get positive or negative. I know I got a negative and a positive trait on one team at the same time. But I think negative might be more common with failed. I'm just not sure if it is worth it to keep sending teams out on missions with under 30% of success. It looks like the team price keeps going up. I could swear I paid less for my second than my third. And I am pretty sure my fourth costs more. A fourth team will cost me 120 MP IIRC. But I think my third only cost me around 60- 80.  If that is the case and if the missions only give 5-10 MP as a rule, sending on golds when they have a low chance of success just for a shot at success and or low level XP might not be worth it if you have bigger odds of racking up negative traits which lower your chance of success on future missions. At least that is how it looks to me. From what I can tell, it looks like if keep throwing them in low success rounds you could end up with a team that has too many negative traits which you would then have to retire if their success gets that low. 

I threw all mine into another round of golds to see how it goes. I think I have done around five golds and gotten a few negative traits so far. Chance of success is around 15%. I wonder if chance of success has anything to do with negative trait acquirement?

Another negative trait for you:

Berserker, -10. I have it on my careless but stealthy team of grizzled remnant specialists.

I think it applies to hostage situations only. Frankly, I think it should be a positive trait too.

If I ever get a krogan team I'm just going to send them on gold missions and accumulate negative traits. I'll probably get Timid first. /

Yeah, getting the MP Equipment within the 14 day period it is available is not going to be a huge problem if you are even remotely active.

Claiming Crates in SP is done at the Strike Team terminal on Nexus. To find the terminal look for the Turian named Tiran Kandros. He'll give you a talk about his strike teams--which you've already been deploying for several days.
It maybe possible to also claim reward on board the Tempest, at the Strike Team terminal there. Not sure, haven't checked.

When you're on the the terminal screen, look at the top of the screen for an icon of a box/crate.

Incidentally, I just went to the Nexus in SP to claim my crate rewards for strike missions thus far. Without having done any Gold Strike missions yet, I got a tonne of stuff which included the Ultra rare N7 Pirana shotgun (Wish I got this in Multiplayer!!!), Sidewinder Pistol, Carnifex Pistol, plus a whole bunch of credits, research points, and resources. Took me about 5 minutes to open all the 'crates', cos you have to do it one at a time.

Since starting out in the App, I've made 175 Mission Funds, which includes the initial funds you begin with, which I used to buy a second team. Since then I've bought the Juggernaut Shield, and am close to having enough for the Ammo Capacity Armor as well.

PSA: don't buy Strike Team equipment! Most of it is only useful on specific types of missions. There's a handful of equipment that is generally useful but I doubt whether the MF investment is actually worth it.

See below for potato quality pictures (sorry, was late/early at night/morning). I will transcribe this all into my Google Sheet eventually.