eUSA and War Tactics - August 4th 2009
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by Ron Richardson
Welcome. Well I've decided to put my thoughts onto paper. I hate the bickering of this game about the president elections, watching everyone trying and cling to power, while pushing blame on each other. This has pretty much been dominating the news papers recently which I am sick of.. Myself I've trying to do something different. I hold no politic affiliation, and I have no clue who I will vote for. With that out of the way onto the reason I'm writing this.
I will be putting my thoughts down about the war to try and gain a better understand of tactics. I am not here to push blame on those in charge, I am just trying to learn tactics and hopefully help my readers learn at the same, while opening dialog up between each other to make eUSA a better place. Let's start with what happened yesterday, along with total damages so far during the war. I'll start with Indonesia as this is really the most interest due to being the most recent war started.
Please note these figures are current at time of publication.
Oregon was conquered by Indonesia
At war Since 24 Jul 2009
Indonesia 7,596,873 Total damage
USA + Allies 7,887,930 Total damage
So USA has put out 291,057 more damage since the war started, yet seems to be losing the majority of battles. Truthfully this can only really come down to superior tactics by Indonesia, mainly the retreats they have been doing. If we were going by numbers we should be winning.
Onto Russia as it's the next newest.
Nebraska was conquered by Russia
At war since 30 April 2009
USA + Allies 19,010,606 Total damage
Russia + Allies 17,815,871 Total damage
USA has put out 1,194,735 more damage than Russia since the start of the war in April, yet again we are getting creamed for some reason. I do not think Russia has played an as good tactical game as Indonesia has but they still seem to be winning a lot of battles. I really can't see any reason why we are not winning against Russia based on those stats alone.
Onto Portugal
District of Columbia was Conquered by Portugal
Since 07 Dec 2008
USA 4,364,277 Total Damage
Portugal 4,121,168 Total Damage
Again USA has done 243,109 more damage, yet still losing. This is pretty close though but is a very long war so the numbers are not too accurate for today's standings.
Onto the Canadian front.
British Columbia was conquered by France
Since Dec 07 2008
Canada + Allies 15,703,653 Total Damage
France + Allies 17,944,505 Total Damage
France has done 2,240,852 more damage than Canada. Again this is a pretty old war so these figures are not great to make assumptions off. The only assumption I can really make is it seems we have not aided our allies as much as we worried about ourselves.
Onto battles that started today.
Indonesia Attacked Texas
Indonesia Attacked Arkansas
Russia Attacked Wyoming
France Attacked New Brunswick
Protugal Attacked Maryland
Hungary Attacked North Dakota
Please feel free to poke flaws in my plan or come up with your own, as the whole objective of this paper is to figure out the smartest plan of attack for the day then see what would have changed tomorrow if we did this plan.
My Plan:
We should start the day by spread damage between Texas and Wyoming. Retreat Arkansas at the last possible moment and throw the tanks at Texas at the last possible moment in the new day. This secures Texas but Indonesia will more than likely attack another state before Texas is secured to not get locked out for 24 hours. Put the rest of the damage towards Wyoming to try and win that against Russia. Protugal pretty much gets a free pass in Maryland unless we are totally dominating in the other two battles.
We need to be able to be put the enemy on the back foot, this should be our primary objective. To me the smartest move is to get ourselves into a position where we can attack Russia as they have shown to put out marginally less damage. (I have not taken into account if this will activate any Murial Protection Pacts, or if it even will) If we can get an attack in during US prime time it gives us a superior tactical advantage over the battle and should help us gain states back. We should be aiming for two attacking fronts during US prime time. Indonesia has shown the efficiency of two fronts spaced an hour or two apart in your home country's prime time.
Onto Problems I see with our organization.
Our attack order news needs to be more newbie friendly. We need to have better directions on what to do once you hit level 5. Lately I've seen a major amount of people sitting at level 5 or 6 at 35 wellness, in a non-hospital sate that end up quitting as they have no clue what to do. I also believe we need a list of all battles for the day on this daily news and put more weight behind telling people to hold attack until the last moment of day or battle if possible.
We also need to help our allies more and not be scared to sacrifice a US state to help our greater good. To me a strong president in this game is a president that will sacrifice a state and willing to stand up to the people and tell them it's for our greater good. We need a leader that will help explain things to us civilians, and help us understand what's going on, and how we can help with the war effort. We also need better communication and coordination with our allies. They are to key to winning this war. Without them we stand no hope. If we sacrificed DC yesterday, Canada would have an extra state today, and so would we. The US people would more than likely want to rip the presidents head off but in my eyes it seemed to be the right move in hindsight. It would have also shown our president/leaders have guts to make the hard calls.
We also need leaders in charge to be more vocal at the start, and end of the day about where to fight while telling people to hold attacks until the last moment. These people need to be in a dedicated IRC channel that we tell everyone to join that only these leaders can talk into.
That's my 5 cents. I did get a little off track from my tactics ideas, but hopefully tomorrow I will focus a little more on tactics rather than ideas on how to improve our current ways of doing things. Please feel free to comment. I still don't 100% know all the in's and out's about retreating but this is hopefully something you guys can help educate me about.
Thanks for reading.
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It's funny to see the politicoes squabbling to be elected over what will be nothing more than an anthill when this is over. A true leader should be directing a competent military campaign with his generals. Nothing says, "Reelect Me!" like a string of victories. Nothing says, "Sack Me" like a string of defeats.
A couple comments:
1. DC was a bottleneck protecting the Northeast from Portugal, making it important
2. Wyoming is imo the least important battle today
3. Texas is huge, losing TX would hurt the taxes a lot
4. Some of the numbers in the wars are misleading because when a member declares peace, their points don't show (Italy, and UK)
5. My hope is that Canada helps uss w/ Texas today, and we'll help them w/ Ontario tomorrow, ND and New Brunswick will have to fall I'm thinking
6. All of the attacking countries have learned to start a war before the other ends or retreat before a losing one is over...so we will not regain initiative unless someone else attacks their home regions for us to stop them all.
I don't understand your plan at all.
We can't attack Russia period, while we are being attacked by Portugal or Indonesia.
You noted that either one of these countries will simply open a new battle to avoid the 24 hour rule. ( which blocks us from ever attacking )
I'm new, so I don't know all the mechanics, but I thank you for starting this paper so we can learn together. I don't know what the best tactic is, but I would actually take the reverse course of action. Let them take Wyoming, it is hard to fight when surrounded, it would be easier to retake it later as we initiate a forward push to reclaim. I would actually focus on preventing Indonesia from taking Maryland. They are our biggest threat. If they take PA, assuming they can't take NJ, there is their launch pad to NY and the rest of New England, which will be gone. Then its just down the coast to the SE. I don't know, I'm new, but I think we need to give up the west and protect what we have and stop the biggest threat right now.
@Aaron S
Texas is huge; yes, it would hurt taxes, but mano look at the wall. It starts at 140k. Currently at 180k I think, but that's takes serious tanking to break open especially with an active defense. Stopping Portugal, getting back Washington DC and helping Canada would be better.
BTW, the mechanics of this game stinks, especially the war module.
Should have done this in early times of the war. Maybe eUSA won't be losing like now. There are still chance to do it. I don't know if your government is going to consider this or even noticing this thread ~ Timing is important in this your plan, and you need the president to execute it.
We conquer more regions despite having less total damage because we distributed our forces well. eUSA threw away a lot of unnecessary damage in unimportant battle.
Thanks for the comments guys. I appreciate it. It has opened my eyes to potential problems of my plan and mechanics of the game.
Marshall O'Neal - You've hit the nail on the head. I really don't want to get into presidential debate though as people will start calling me bias and peace propaganda.
Aaron S - Thanks for the comments. Yeah I think I made a mistake about Wyoming. Why can't we be using these retreat/initiative against them. When the Indonesia president was suspended that should of been the turning point where we pushed hard on the last state to regain initiative.
Galt's Gulch - So I guess we need an ally to open up new fronts in the US to help divert troops then? Thanks for the comments
Daspion - tactically you may be right. Losing texas will be a huge blow though. On reflection saying Wyoming was a mistake. I was just using it as I see Russia as the weaker of the country's and tactics.
Karzard - We have to live within the mechanics of this game. Stick or not, we can't use it as an excuse for losing.
Alfonzo - Thanks for the kind comments. I'd love to have data to see where the eUSA threw damage away.
I'm going to take the damage numbers today, minus them from damage numbers yesterday and see how much total damage was done on today's fronts. I think this will be very interesting as I don't see this damage posted anywhere else.