Fighting for Ireland
wingfield
(or not)
While some of us took a long time to accept this, eRep is now primarily about fighting. Never giving up was the way to my successful military career. Sometimes patience is the key, sometimes the berserker mode!
We don’t get to fight for Ireland too often, or directly so at least. However, I like it so much here that I’m not going to go looking for other places from which to play soldier.
Whatever permits fighting for Ireland is good. The best option is for Ireland to be actively at war, including such goodies as Air Strikes. Whoever advocates this will nearly always get my vote, such as An Sluagh last month and Nyx Lynx this month.
However, this option is not always available. The next best thing is to be in a strong alliance, with plenty of fighting opportunities. There is something essential that goes with this, even though many people shy off at the expense. That is a good MPP stack. Keeping a small number of MPPs going, like four, is bad for the country. Our people get less opportunity to fight without costly moves to battle zones.
So whatever builds up the ordinary fighter is what we need. Strength building requires patience but rank building needs damage. You cannot hurry strength building except for the occasional reward. That is obtained by more fighting.
Now, there are some who criticise others for collecting mercenary medals. This is ridiculous. When True Patriot medals are unobtainable, what is wrong with collecting the gold you need to come even close to self-sufficiency?
We cannot fight for our allies all the time either. The way to bleed energy is to play sensibly. In order to work toward a mercenary medal, pay close attention to the campaign status for any battle you wish to join. The main point is not to damage Ireland or its interests and allies.
Pain-free mercenary medal hunting can be done by fighting for hopeless causes. Where one side has a very low damage level, say under 25%, and the battle is nearly over, there is no danger of hurting your country by fighting for an enemy. Likewise, a country with only a few domination points while its opponent is approaching 83 points is a good choice to add to your collection.
Don’t forget that fighting for an ally when the wall is high and the battle or campaign is already won does not make any special difference. Remember the old expression “gilding the lily”.
So think smart and fight smarter. Ireland will get stronger and you will become a better soldier.
Comments
Nyx Lynx for CP!
thx 😁
V!
hey great article. This is useful info o7
Voted!
I heard from someone that if Nyx Lynx became CP of eIReland,she will AS ALbania.
IF this is true,it will be very bad :/
Heard from someone LOL
Voted!
Voted 🙂
Actually you make a good point but dont think got it most one can do damage in a Mercenary medal is 25 kills which is usually below a million damage. In most battles BH is 100 to 200 million. Scoring a percentage point of the BH can in no way damage your country in my opinion. Thats Division 4 and will apply to any division. Also one seeks doubles mostly so I will attribute the same strength to both sides of a battle.
I think we can therefore lay Obelsik and Nyx's noob theories to rest as its debunked by the 25 kill req/damage for 25 kills
It's true that sniping 25kills off the end of a hopeless campaign doesn't effect the outcome.
It would be preferable not to wear a national avatar while doing it; feelings can run high/irrational in a lost campaign.
However many ppl view MercMedals as selfish. Dmg is a valuable commodity. Those are 25kills may not effect that campaign, but they could have been spent elsewhere in the alliance, where it could make a difference.
many noobs? play the game or shut the vark up. mercenary medal does not happen overnight . i sometimes just leave them and fight for any country for a while until their at 30 or so then go seriously for the medal.
It's not unfair to view it as military inefficiency.
However the argument could be made that the 5g for the medal went to improving the player's dmg potential so.
Big vote here!
Subscribed as well.
Interestingly, given the response from a certain quarter, I looked at my battle records since Day 2382 (just over 3 months). I think that my point is well and truly borne out by these figures:
Fought for ... Kills ... Damage
Ireland ..... 3451 ..... 893895779
Chile .... 1443 ..... 288312277
Italy..... 974 ..... 220009881
Croatia ..... 551 ......115938656
France 498 127289590
Canada 475 82750877
Ukraine 428 99660462
Austria 425 77103747
Norway 402 66148422
Russia 401 83697821
Turkey 384 81666158
Iran.... 375 77005150
Macedonia 360 69318729
Spain 326 49243522
India.. 325 61376306
UK.... 316 55473091
Lithuania 300 72996086
Bolivia 300 59402084
Germany 287 55275137
Sweden 275 62132666
Bulgaria 275 60269645
Albania 275 45244713
Paraguay 270 65296559
South Africa 251 46597360
Brazil 250 46193193
Slovakia 225 51173921
Netherlands 225 48735079
Switzerland 225 46897442
Indonesia 200 44384348
Georgia 200 43255992
Saudi Arabia 200 38338284
Malaysia 200 34051287
Estonia 194 40496714
Poland 181 40902618
Japan 179 44863182
Belarus 175 36558029
Cyprus 175 29335111
Montenegro 151 34161932
Bosnia 150 31353800
Peru 150 27681669
Romania 150 25936789
Denmark 125 32655598
Cuba 125 29539733
Finland 125 27976629
Czech Rep 125 27783768
Mexico 125 27120838
South Korea 125 26498294
Australia 125 26494064
Philippines 125 23626123
Hungary 125 23317093
Uruguay 125 20575179
UAE ........125 20404380
Nigeria 100 23077557
Portugal 100 22337280
Latvia 100 20994029
Moldova 100 20907654
Colombia 75 17123557
North Korea 75 15637325
Taiwan 75 14136818
Pakistan 75 14114169
China 75 13733240
Greece 75 11874111
Thailand 75 10435958
Israel .......61 11557626
Argentina 50 10961881
Singapore 26 5630652
Armenia 25 6412687
Egypt 25 5692043
New Zealand 25 5396195
Slovenia ... 25 4700555
USA.......... 0 0
Serbia ...... 0 0
Belgium ..... 0 0
Apologies if the formatting is skew (I'd love to know how to paste a table here)
Spent 1/2 a fkn hour making a nice table to learn that the first time :/