Tour of Duty

"Operation" redirects here. For other uses, see Operation (disambiguation).

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A Tour of Duty, also referred to as an operation, is a collection of missions that may span multiple maps in Mann vs. Machine official servers. Released in the relative update, they are available only on servers which run Mann Up Mode; a Tour of Duty Ticket is required to participate in a Tour of Duty. Squad Surplus Vouchers can be used as well.

Depending on the tour, completing one mission grants a player an Operation badge: starting at level 1, these badges track in their description the stat of the subsequent missions completed which belong to their Tour of Duty. Once a Tour of Duty is completed, its level increases by 1, to complete a full Tour of Duty a player must complete all missions under the same specific Operation.

Also, completing a Tour of Duty grants a player tour-specific rewards, usually in the form of Botkiller weapons: Rust and Blood are granted from Operation Oil Spill, Silver and Gold Mk.I weapons are granted from Operation Steel Trap, Silver and Gold Mk.II weapons are granted from Operation Mecha Engine, and Carbonado and Diamond are granted from Operation Gear Grinder. The Blood, Gold, and Diamond Botkiller weapons are less likely to drop than their counterparts. Australium weapons are granted from any Advanced or Expert tour (Operation Steel Trap, Operation Mecha Engine, Operation Two Cities, Operation Gear Grinder), while Killstreak Kits and Killstreak Kit Fabricators are only rewarded in Operation Two Cities. All Australium weapons received are Strange quality.

Available Tours of Duty

List of Tour of Duty Badges
Name	Difficulty	Maps	Missions	Reward
Operation Oil Spill	Intermediate	Decoy	Doe's Doom Day of Wreckening	Operation Oil Spill Badge† Rust Botkiller weapons Mk.I / Blood Botkiller weapons Mk.I
		Coal Town	Cave-in Quarry
		Mannworks	Mean Machines Mannhunt
Operation Steel Trap	Advanced	Decoy	Disk Deletion Data Demolition	Operation Steel Trap Badge† Silver Botkiller weapons Mk.I / Gold Botkiller weapons Mk.I / Australium weapons
		Coal Town	Ctrl+Alt+Destruction CPU Slaughter
		Mannworks	Machine Massacre Mech Mutilation
Operation Mecha Engine	Advanced	Decoy	Disintegration	Operation Mecha Engine Badge† Silver Botkiller weapons Mk.II / Gold Botkiller weapons Mk.II / Australium weapons
		Bigrock	Broken Parts Bone Shaker
Operation Two Cities	Advanced	Mannhattan	Empire Escalation Metro Malice	Operation Two Cities Badge† Killstreak Kit Fabricator / Australium weapons
		Rottenburg	Hamlet Hostility Bavarian Botbash
Operation Gear Grinder	Expert	Decoy	Desperation	Operation Gear Grinder Badge† Carbonado Botkiller weapons Mk.I / Diamond Botkiller weapons Mk.I / Australium weapons
		Coal Town	Cataclysm
		Mannworks	Mannslaughter

^†Only rewarded once, its level goes up by 1 after every subsequent tour.

Update history

August 15, 2012 Patch (Mann vs. Machine Update)

• [Undocumented] Added Tour of Duty Operation Steel Trap.

October 9, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added Tours of Duty Operation Oil Spill and Operation Gear Grinder.

December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)

• Added Tour of Duty Operation Mecha Engine.

November 21, 2013 Patch (Two Cities Update)

• Added Tour of Duty Operation Two Cities.

See also

• Tour of Duty Ticket
• Squad Surplus Voucher
• Mann vs. Machine mission