Join the new world

I don't want to write a complete guide (yet) but I would like to share my first considerations.
First of all, I changed my min😛 war module rocks! But it is also fair to ad😛 "if you have golds and time". Anyway, you can be very important even if you don't have golds.



How do you win a battle?
Your country needs to control 75% of the tiles and the capital. There is no requirement related to winning fights. That's why a newbie that conquers 3 free tiles avoiding fights... can be decisive.

Time is essential
The battle is decided during the last hour and the overtime (most of the battles goes overtime). Timing is essential: Italy lost South East of Mexico also because Brazil opened a battle that ended at 3 am in Italy (9 pm in Brasil). The only Italian ally (Spain) shared the same timezone. So the battle result was pretty much predictable.
If you don't have much time to spend on the battlefiel😛 deploy, reach an important tile (capital, hospital, defence system, bridge...) and leave your unit there. It will stay in position and help your army until someone beats you. You can take care of your real-life partner while your unit is still defending your capital! 😉

Decisive tiles
Every tile is decisive as you need to control 75% of them. Some of them, anyway, are more important.
Capital: you have to control the Capital to win the battle, but don't overestimate it: it's just a tile! It is more important (and difficult) to control 75% of the other tiles. After that, you can easily focus your forces on the capital. There's an exception: if you have different timezone than your enemy and the battle is ending during their night. In this case you may try to keep the capital overtime and wait for your enemies to go to sleep. 🙂
Bridges and mountain passes: they are bottlenecks for tanks and artilleries (bridges are bottleneck for infantry too). Keeping them means blocking enemies, and it is the main goal before the last minutes of the battle.
Hospitals and defence systems: Units inside a controlled hospital range recover wellness. Units inside a controlled defence system range have a bonus in defence. Easy to understand how it is vital to keep them! They are even more important than the Capital...



How can a newbie help?
If you don't have a high quality weapon and/or high rank and/or high skill... Don't fight. You can be very very precious without fighting. Buy a q1 helicopter (with high durability), avoid fights and conquer as many free tiles you can. Don't focus on fights: soon you will be skilled enough to fight (and win)! You will have fun and you will regret golds paid/lost to go back to 100 wellness when you had no real chance to win. 🙂

How can a medium player help?
You have two main options: conquer free tiles or defend the capital and the most important tiles in the map. If a weaker enemy is all alone near you... ok, go for it and have fun! 🙂 Tactics are important but fun and morale are even more important.

How can a veteran help?
If you have time, go and kick some a**es. Less enemies on battlefield, more space for newbies/medium players to conquer tiles. Plus, it is always fun to kick some a**. A veteran should always use its own most skilled weapon with the highest quality. Attack and damage are the most important characteristics for your weapon, followed by defence. Durability is not important: if you are skilled your army will provide you good weapons. Of course, don't use them in training/less important battles!

Chat: a must to be effective
Join your army channel to coordinate with your friends. If two persons attack the same enemy (and the first one wins the fight), the second will loose 5 wellness points and will not free any tile (as it has been already cleared by the first one). It is a waste of time and wellness. So coordinate with soldiers in your zone to attack/conquer different tiles. Even more important: following a coordinated tactic is always more effective than fighting by yourself.



Some tips
Infantry: avoid hills and (if possible) plains. Reach a forest/mountain zone and fight there. If bridges are not blocked, coordinate with a group of tanks/heli and reach the cities/capital to kill artillery!
Artillery: place your unit in Capital and leave it there. Go out with your friends and have fun. 🙂 Otherwise you could try hunting some helicopters crossing rivers while your allies block bridges.
Tank: if the sky is full of enemy helicopters, stay on hills. Otherwise go hunting infantries, expecially if it is approaching your capital or other defended-by-artillery tiles.
Air Unit: NEVER EVER end your turn on a hill or in a city. Stay on plains/water/mountains: most of the tiles are "your kingdom", so why should you risk?
Enemies: always check their wellness a few seconds before the attack. If they have 40 wellness, you can easily win even if they are stronger than you. Consider their wellness, it is even more important than weapon/skill/bonuses!