Woldy at War
Spygon
Hello euk, as mentioned before I normally stay out of the epolitics bubble as I am no politician. I have been in the military forever but as any good citizen knows you can not completely ignore other parts of the game as they will affect you no matter how far you run. But a few days ago a report was pushed on to my desk, my table... okay, the bar. I took another swig of my whisky and quickly ran my eyes over it. It was a typical good Woldy manifesto nothing to be too shocked by. Then I started reading the military and foreign affairs section; the important part for soldiers like me. Staying allied with TWO, not signing a peace treaty with Ireland, and a national military - all good things that I agree with. Wait, did he just say a national military?
I assume my reaction was similar to a lot of people in the eUK, “We do not have the money and the game doesn’t have the economy to fund a national military any more” and started wondering if I would have to start calling him mad King Woldy. I mulled this over a few times whilst sipping my whisky (as you have to when you mulling something over). I wasn’t happy - I had been fighting to get politics out of the running of the military for a long time and I wasn’t going to throw that away.So I thought no this doesn’t sound right, Woldy knows the eUK’s situation better than anybody and so I went to talk to him directly.
After sitting down and having a chat with Woldy he set things straight and fully explained his idea that I now actually really like.
So lets start at the start. We are not a huge hitter in the eWorld sadly, this is fact and I doubt we ever will be. But we used to always surprise other countries and hit above our weight. We made up for our lack of firepower by fielding one of the most organised and rapidly supplied armies in the world. There is a good reason a number of our best military minds are now sitting or have sat in TWOs HQ chairs. We used to out manoeuvre and out mobilise a lot of other countries, hugely frustrating our enemies.
Sadly things have changed. We are divided and our mobilisation speed to battle is starting to hurt us just as our enemies want it to do. But I feel with this plan of action we can change things - we can start to be a real threat to our enemies again.
I know quite a few people were struggling with what Woldy meant when he said “National Military” so going to do my best to explain it in a bit more depth.
The infrastructure of the Military units
Right, first things first the government will not change or exclude MU's so all MU's will be invited and the government will not make any Military Unit change its supplies, its recruiting process, its members or it's leadership. A military unit can leave whenever it wants, giving the MU's the flexibility to do what it feel is best for the eUK and the military unit itself. This means nothing will change to any of the military units or the soldiers, it will be like any day at the barracks.
The supplies which would be offered
The eUK has spare funds, the real problem is getting them to the battlefield effectively. Woldy knows that a Military unit can normally out supply government channels as they already know where and who needs supplies. So Woldy wants to make a war chest so when red alert sirens start blaring the MOD can go straight to the military units of the eUK commanders in the program and say here are some weapons and cash can you use them to kill our enemy here.
An organised response program
That is pretty much it - the military unit gets to decide who and how the weapons get supplied so the MOD would select the target as they do most of the time and then the Military unit decides how to hit it so pretty much do what we do best. Also all military unit commanders in the program will form an advisory board so more communication directly with the MOD about all things military. So more communication directly with the MOD about all things military. So with this organised response program we can mobilise rapidly dropping large amounts of damage when the euk needs it most and with World War 6 starting to flare up I think the eUK will need focused damage more than ever. Another difference is this idea adds more pressure on commanders and troops to fight smart and to succeed, adding great incentives for an otherwise splintered military to really focus and control it’s power.
Tl:dr Stop reading my articles then.
It is the noblest and safest thing for a great army to be visibly animated by one spirit.
Spygon o7
Comments
That's right! Thanks for the support Spygon (and for breaking it down for people) o7
(Good use of pictures 10/10)
No problem Woldy just felt a few things needed cleaning up
VOTED \O/ great article as well
7 months ago the UK used to earn about 40/50k in tax a DAY! and we could only just afford to support the nation army then...
We earn on average about 2/3k a day now... When someone looks at the numbers and shows me how this can work I will believe it :3
7 months ago a Q7 tank cost 66 GBP, today it's 6 GBP and that is in WRM costs outside of events for both. The economy was deflated back to what it's supposed to be, that's all. Aside from MPPs (which we have less of now) relatively costing more, nothing really changed for states.
So what should really be noted is that our politicians traded supplies for relatively speaking more expenses in (often unneeded) MPPs.
i heard that the price of the gold back then was 3000 cc/gold. now 225~230 cc/gold.
ask Legion how much it cost in WRM prices daily to maintain it 😉
A fortune 🙁
Bigant your comparing running a national military unit to having a emergency war chest and emergency war room.Did you even read the article?
Î wanna guess: NO..
I'm all for mobility and for having a pool of supplies, but I'm not sure what (if anything) about this plan is new. Many governments have tried this in the past without much success.
The root of the problem is that we have a small fighting force that logs in at different times throughout the day. Historically we have not had many tanks or credit card swipers either. Then we have the problem that some MU leaders don't want to have anything to do with the government and the fact that many MU's are poorly organized.
Well they say it takes a woman to do a mans job...
Roz4MoD
Hello euk, as mentioned before I normally stay out of the epolitics LOL that is a good joke.
Is there some sort of low IQ criteria you have to meet to find that funny?
"I dont care about what happens in the euk i am in poland"
thats a better one dapper
I'm sitting in South London you tard, and my unit is in the UK Fool, I supply over 100 fighters for the UK what about you ? what do you do ? 🙂 who do you help-- no one
I am just quoting you the last time you got into an argument about the euk.But i guess that facade has past.I am in legion command dapper and have helped out in the euk military 3 years before you even joined the game.
So stop waving you 100 members around before i quote some numbers and make you look stupid
Good article and nice Red Alert pictures. When you say "The eUK has spare funds" do you mean that the funding will come from the daily profit (if there is any) or from the large reserves the country holds. I have no issue using the reserves and think thats what they should be for, but other CPs were criticised heavily (cough... BA) by high profile TUP members when they used these funds for war. Therefore I would like to know where exactly the money is coming from, and if there has been a change in stance on using the treasury (within TUP) then some justification and how the situation has changed to warrant it. I'd like to open up comments to all.
cuz it's one of theirs... also amuses me that those vocal about all MU's being treated equally in the eyes of 'Government' are all remaining silent. Last time we tried to set this up they kept putting the 'Political MU' barrier in place. Especially the now MoD Bohemond4... and better still they want to pay em, I did lol when I read Woldys MoD idea!
None of it's new (apart from the funding), people have been saying all MU's should be treated equally regardless of affiliation.
As Roz touched on above, our problems can be eased by having the MoD do some research on MU hitting times along with CO log in times and adjust messages and communications accordingly. We are creatures of habit and people will log in with some regularity. Also does the Government even have details on MU's? Supplier and supply information, Company information, how many are on supply etc etc. There could be a better way to spend our cash to help our MU's found from the information. One example could be a rubber for salt program. Rather just just throwing cash at em and hoping its not just embezzled or passed on to a select few.
My main view on the new part is the targets you hit efficiently and well you get more weapons.You are unorganized and not hitting you do not get as many weapons so more weapons in the hands of organised and decent mu's.
This will make bad Military units take notice if they don't no big lost as supplies are going to good MU's