Epic Warfare missions and defense shields

Day 2,121, 07:07 Published in Netherlands USA by Yfke van de Zand

The Epic Warfare tournament is coming.

It is an unusual tournament, in that countries will be rewarded according to average performance of its players. I welcome this change, as it gives smaller countries a really good chance of coordinating their not many citizens to achieve higher levels of defense shields awarded.

The basic strategy, for country rewards, is simple: only players that can fight the maximum extent possible should fight next 7 days during the tournament, everybody else should stay put. Individual rewards are hard to get but they will entice many players with lower fighting capacity (regardless of strength) to give a shot anyways, lowering their countries' average. Therefore, countries that are able to manage well their citizens (so that those who fight to it to the maximum possible extent), especially their lower divisions, stand to gain.

Remaining Defense Shield protection
A very important feature of this tournament is that countries can accumulate defense shield protections. This can start adding up for some very serious protection for smaller countries with few regions, if this practice is to be kept. I welcome that the admins are letting defense shield protection to accumulate, giving a different and interesting path for small countries to manage their long-term existence in a World full of big-shot bullies.

Let's look at the current remaining protection remaining on countries with active defense shields (in million damage protection)

Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore 10000
Germany 8411
United Kingdom 8217
India, Japan 8000
Estonia 7179
Sweden 6833
Pakistan 6544
Denmark, Netherlands 6000
Latvia 5830
Thailand 5118
Belgium 4198
Moldova 4172
Belarus, Malaysia, Paraguay, United Arab Emirates 4000
Mexico 3886
Italy 3649
Iran 2979
Portugal 2894
Chile 2320
Turkey 2011
Israel 2000
Greece 1520
Poland 1416
China 1302
Slovakia 1267
Spain 1164
Russia 1067
Peru 1086
Czech Republic, Egypt, South Korea 1000
Slovenia 990
Indonesia 960
Croatia 828
Albania 798
Romania 583
Taiwan 544
Finland 483
Lithuania 279
Argentina 249
Uruguay 240
Colombia 227
Hungary 212
United States, Venezuela 146
Serbia 39
Bosnia 7
all other countries - zero