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Hello, all it's been a while! I've been lurking around for a couple of weeks but I haven't done or said much so hello to everyone who cares. Yes I'm alive at the minute, but who knows about the future. I want to break down the Battle for Manchester (NWoE) as I found this, and the Battle for Bristol (SWoE) both very interesting.

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The Battle for Manchester (North West of England)

Air battles are worth 22 points for a victory and the position of the first one (after three rounds) makes it often a critical battle. The UK was leading overall before going into the first air battle; however it was still early, and due to real life (RL) time differences US citizens would soon be online in large numbers.


The UK won the first air battle, which was a major success. Without this early win the UK would have surely lost the battle for the NWoE. When you break down the fighters into citizenship you find some interesting numbers. There were 9 fighters in the top 50 from the UK, 7 from Spain, 4 from Argentina, 3 from Serbia, 2 from Ireland, 2 from Macedonia, 2 from Finland, 2 from Mexico, 2 from Germany, 2 from Indonesia, 2 from Canada, 2 from the USA, 2 from the Netherlands and 1 from each of the following: Romania, Slovenia, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Cuba, Singapore, Italy and Taiwan. I will talk more about this at the end, but the second air battle was also important in finishing the fight...



The fighter citizenship numbers are as follows: 9 fighters from the UK, 5 from Spain, 5 from Ukraine, 4 from Hungary, 3 from Germany, 3 from Croatia, 3 from Bulgaria, 2 from Indonesia, 2 from Macedonia, 2 from Romania, 2 from Belarus, 2 from Poland and 1 from each of the following: Taiwan, Russia, Slovakia, China, Lithuania, South Korea, Chile and Turkey.

Again the UK won this air battle and with it: overall success was almost guaranteed.

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The surprises

I was surprised to see some of these nations on the list. Some of the surprising nationalities actually did a lot of damage for the UK and will have had to use energy bars and a lot of air weapons. The UK definitely had a CO (combat order) in the first air battle (and I suspect the second air battle too - hopefully someone can clarify in the comments section) so some people might have been drawn to the fight by that. However the UK CO was not high enough to pay the whole cost of air weapons so some people still chose to come and add damage for the UK at a financial cost to themselves. You could argue that people were fighting for the UK (and claiming CO) as a cheap way to level up their ranks. This would of-course be true some of the time, but not always. I would argue some people fought for the UK because they wanted to assist a nation under attack. Personally I believe there are players out there who will fight for the oppressed regardless of nationality - respect to you.

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Conclusion


The UK will need all the support it can get in future wars as it will not be easy to stop the USA. The USA is bigger than the UK and has more allies. If the UK is smart it will try and boost the support of allied nations as well as trying to build meaningful relations with non-allied nations. This could be by assisting other countries in their own struggles, offering support against political takeovers, CO's and anything else that can be thought of. Another key factor will be how much can the UK prevent the citizens of the US wanting to fight or fight hard against the UK. If American citizens do not value the fight, they are less likely to use stockpiles of energy bars, weapons and anything else. This is tricky to do but the UK government would be unwise not to consider the merits of this.


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