***The Development of War Tactics***
Uncle Sam
Throughout our Ehistory, war has been a big part of developing that history. Many of the wars that happened in our world changed our course of history and effected future wars. Today we look at how war tactics developed in our New World
In the Beginning
The first major conflict in our world was the USA vs. Canada war. From personal experience and behind the scenes information, I can say that speculation as to how fighting would happen was quite wrong. In the USA, fighting was believed to happen only between the neighboring regions, and that only people from those regions could fight for those regions. the Mobil Defense Teams were moved to Saint Paul in order to prepare an attack into Canada and other devisions were mobilized to Albany to surround Ontario.
Much to the citizens surprise, all the planning came to naught. It was rapidly discovered that citizens could fight from any region, to defend any battle field. With this discovery and first understanding of the fighting system came the Queue line tactic
The Queue tactic was used in a fashion where all the soldiers of a country would line up for fights in the battle field and hope that their numbers would repel any attacks. The fighting back then acted in the way that a soldier would fight in the queue until he was defeated. Then the next fighter would step up and take the next challenger. This tactic relied on the dedication and organization of military personal and was only used effectively by a few countries.
Things start to change
Shortly after the first real war broke out, The admins changed a few things on how to fight. After a soldier in the queue fought a single battle, he would move to the end of the queue if he won and let others with fresh wellness fight. The USA realized this and rapidly formed the next war tactic in order to take advantage of the change. this strategy Is referred to a Decay and Destroy Tactic
This tactic would use individual soldiers attacking soldiers in the queue line during the course of the 23 hours before the region can be conquered. This would lower the average wellness of the soldiers in the queue with their defense (or attack if you're awesome like Pakistan) still looking strong in their numbers. Finally in the final hour before the region is conquerable, the attacking (or defending) army would launch a missive assault on the queue defense. The remaining soldier in the queue would have too low wellness to fight back successfully.
This tactic became popular and would be used in future wars. It all came down to which army was stronger or more organized in these kind of battles, so not much thinking required. Also, during this time the higher defensive bonuses implanted the idea of a War of Attrition.
This tactic was basically to preserve wellness until it was your turn to defend. The idea of this was to severely weaken the opponent until you could attack them with easy. This tactic was not used immediately, however, but was implemented in future wars.
The Precedent Has Been Set
After the show at the USA vs. Canada war, much of the world saw how fighting works. For quite a time many countries used the queue line and the decay and destroy tactics as it was a very basic and understandable way to fight. Many countries used this tactic in both attacking and defending. Only the most organized countries were successful with these ways of war like Pakistan and Sweden and Norway.
On May 13th The Mediterranean Alliance showed us a strategy much unlike the norm for the time. In their invasion of Switzerland they used a Divide and Conquer Tactic
This tactic didn't have much to do with the fighting system. This tactic had to do with a multiple attack on a country. Both Italy and France declared war on Switzerland. With Switzerland having to worry about two different wars on their hands, their forces were divided which made them that much easier to conquer for the Mediterranean Alliance. The flaw with this tactic was that it cost more gold for both nations to declare war as opposed to moving soldiers to to one of those countries. We have from that point on never seen that kind of tactic again.
The New Era of Fighting
Later after a few wars, the Admins released the ranking system, which would change everything in war tactics. Individuals arose from their past war victories like Alucard and Nave. Seeing the effects of rank in fights and their personal records, individuals became concerned with how many wins in fights they had. this trend showed on the battle field and fights moved on to the Guerrilla tactics
Guerrilla tactics involves Soldiers constantly watching the battle field and waiting for someone weak enough to show up for them to beat. They would then join the battle and get their win. However, soldiers on the other side would be watching as well and as soon as the first soldier got his win, others would jump him after he is weak from his first fight. This would go back and fourth between sides with the number of soldiers on the field remaining around 0 for both sides. Normally once a soldier wins a fight they would quickly leave the battle for fear of a surprise attack on them from an enemy. This hit and run attack has been used in the most recent wars and will probably continue to be the trend in battles for a while more to come.
The final tactic worth mentioning is the Rambo Tactic
Only even used by Nave and Alucard, the Rambo Tactic has proven only to be useful to the extremely strong and/or extremely wealthy. In this tactic, one can use his superior strength and rank in attacking to wipe out foes without taking damage before retaliation occurs. Alucard uses his rank to his advantage in this way only to further increase his wins on the battle field. The other way we have seen this tactic done is through gold and many wellness packs. In Manitoba and in Central Hungary, Nave single handedly took out the queue of soldiers defending the region through using his immense wealth to buy numerous wellness packs. Allowing him to fight over and over again with all the wellness, proves how the key to war is wealth, because even Alucard needs to buy his wellness packs at times.
No one knows what the future will bring to our war strategies, but it is a safe to say that it will change at one time or another.
If you enjoyed this article please vote it up, and be ready for my next article about the need for land from war.
-Uncle Sam-
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Comments
ahahah good article Uncle Sam
Very informative for me. As I have never been in a battle before, or participated in any war. Clever Tactics indeed.
Meh, original article
Most of these I wouldn\'t consider tactics and I\'m guessing you just made up and assigned most of these.
I would really combine all of these into one, as everything is done by one soldier per fight.
You also missed Cicero\'s goldspam, add him to the list of Rambos.
If anything, a tactic that is actually a tactic is the last minute tactic.
Created by the great Zhuge Liang, it calls for a highly trained group of soldiers to decend upon a battle in the last few seconds, kill everything through blitz and capture/secure the territory. That is a legit tactic.
Nonethless, good research!
I like this article a lot, partially because it gives us a good base for terminology in the future such as how to describe something in our chat room for example. Sam, you\'re a prime example of a successful Guerrilla Warfare tactician if I remember correctly 🙂
@Rambo Tactic: I think that, in order to successfully go \"rambo\", you need to one-hit defenders with low wellness because you have a large amount of power. Also, I have seen people like Zhuge, Cicero, and a couple others use this tactic as well.
WOW, Banach great minds think alike huh.
Very good article. As the others said, you could have used the last-minute attack approach (which I combined with the Rambo tactic in Hungary). Maybe you could even talk to Alucard, Zhuge, Cicero, and me and get our input. Regardless, very good read.
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Voted. Good Article.
@benn Haha
How do you explain the attack of Indonesia against South Africa, USA, Argentina and Venezuela? Unite and Conquer?
@Nave and others, the last minute approach is kinda implied with the decay and destroy tactic and part of your Rambo attack. I haven\'t had the honor of seeing Zhuge or Cicero fight yet, so I\'ll have to check them out
@Benn, i do indeed win at the Guerrilla tactic
@Media friendly, Only 10? lol
@isnuwardana, no, it\'s called the beat up on the small guy tactic, not the first time we\'ve seen it 😉 but seriously, you guys did come together rather efficiently, however I would have to give that tactic to Canada. they were really inactive before the war, then during it they kicked ass.
Nice article. I like the \"awesome like Pakistan\" part 😃
best article I\'ve read on erepublik, but I\'m new to the USA, keep \'em coming
as i was one of the guys thinking and applying that tactic of MA called by you \"divide and conquer\" i want to add my personal experience view:
it was chosen more as generousity and fraternity than for looking for a \"tactical advantage\" since italy lost much gold on it...we , i was in the governemtn, we decided to do it only to show that we wanted to act as brotehrs without look at gains ... personally speaking i can say that was , its costs, was the cause of the DEATH of the government who was ruling that time, mostly...so it was a VERY HARD, not selfish, choice..not surprised never happnjed again, its suicidal, but for people who think more to principle and honour, it was worth, let me tell you im proud of that decision...
Great work!
Nice.
Umm, Indonesia didn\'t just steamrolled South Africa.
We took over South Africa first, then make it strong enough by making MPP with several countries, after that we attack it.
There\'s also the Germany strategy, retreat from bigger country then collaborate to attack smaller country.
@isnuwardana This article is about tactics, don\'t strategies. Divide and Conquer can be consider both because it has a direct effect in the development of a battle, but your examples are strategies 😉
awesome article!
i can\'t believe i forgot to write about gifting your enemies!
although i don\'t think it should be considered a tactic, it\'s still worth mentioning.
That\'s more of a exploit Sam.
After seeing Moose and Alucard tag team in SA, I thought about tactics a little bit too. Good article. You should talk to Moose and Alucard(I think he does it a lot) about a team tactic
Actually, team tactics is pretty popular too. One person acts as a meat shield, and gives the win to their friend. Or, They study the que like the guerrilla tactic, and rush it
yes, pakistan likes the meat shield tactic, as i have it on good information that they have an entire division of meat shields!
anywho, when it comes to the team tactic, i didn\'t really take a look at it yet, obviously something I missed
@PHuSiOn9, it is, but it still played a key factor in the recent wars.