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Introduction
Training wars have become an important part of this game however if you are newer to the game or less engaged \ informed with the global politics they can lead to confusion if your own country is not directly involved. Lately, I have observed some confusion from newer players and frustration from older players with regards to training wars.

So I thought I'd write a simple 10-minute guide to identify them with the tools available to us as players.



Guide

Let's start with 6 random battles




There are three direct battles and the three resistance wars above, all fairly close or near the start of the campaign and "potentially" hard to tell if these are genuine conflicts or training wars if you are new or less engaged \ informed with the global politics of the world and you don't have a shout feed requesting your support in critical battles.

Steps to identify a Training War

Ideally (and likely), there would be (is) an official newspaper article from the countries involved MoFA or MoD or CP's office which would explain the terms of the TW or an update from your own MoFA. Here is a fine example - [MoD] Changes in Indonesia TW

However the length of time, an article is prominent in the media usually means if there is one it can be quite difficult to find and in a world of training wars the administration overhead can be high to regularly published articles to keep all updated on training wars. Even at the start of training war agreements, they can be lost in the international media if not upvoted enough.



So what practical steps can you as a player take to identify a non-domestic training war without a potentially time-consuming trawl of the media. There are at least a few of ways I can think of however I'm going to go through one.

Every player has access to all countries' Military tab



From this tab, you will want to view Active war in . . .list



This will give you the information you can quickly review to identify a training war. So let's take the 6 examples above

Portugal vs Spain
Find the war on either Spain or Portugal's active wars list

Click on "details"

As you can see this is very likely to be a training war using border regions where the defender always wins. So as a player wishing to respect another country's TW agreement always fight for the defender.

Belarus vs United Arab Emirates
Again find the war on either Belarus or the United Arab Emirates active wars list and click details

As you can see this is very likely to be a training war hosted by Belarus as they are not neighbours however where the defender always wins. So as a player wishing to respect another country's TW agreement always fight for the defender.

Hungary vs Chile
Again find the war on either Hungary or Chile's active wars list and click details

As you can see this is very likely to be a training war hosted by neither Hungary or Chile as the region being used are not their original regions however again where the defender always wins. So as a player wishing to respect another country's TW agreement always fight for the defender.

Saudi Arabia vs Cyprus
Again find the war on either Saudi Arabia or Cyprus active wars list and click details

As you can see this is very likely to be a training war hosted by Saudi Arabia as they are not neighbours however the attacker should always win assuming a couple of "bumps" in sticking to the agreement or temporary adjustment to the agreement between the governments involved. This is because the same regions are consistently conquered by Cyprus so you can infer that the same regions are consistently liberated. So as a player wishing to respect another country's TW agreement always fight for the attacker, whether in direct battles or the subsequent resistance war.

USA vs Croatia
Again find the war on either USA or Croatia active wars list and click details

As you can see this is very likely to be a training war hosted by USA as they are not neighbours however the attacker should always win. This is because a similar set of regions are consistently conquered by Croatia so you can infer that the same regions are consistently liberated. So as a player wishing to respect another country's TW agreement always fight for the attacker, whether direct battles or the subsequent resistance war.


Spain vs Iran
Again find the war on either Spain or Iran active wars list and click details

As you can see this is very likely to be a training war hosted by Iran as they are not neighbours however the attacker should always win. This is because a similar set of regions are consistently conquered by Spain so you can infer that the same regions are consistently liberated. So as a player wishing to respect another country's TW agreement always fight for the attacker, whether direct battles or the subsequent resistance war.

Although worth noting that only Northwestern Iran and Southwestern Iran are conquered by Spain, which may infer the other regions in Iran are not part of the TW agreement or strictly off-limits so in this case, I would advise caution about fighting for Spain in Mazandaran and Golistan however would feel free to fight for Iran in their liberation of Southwestern Iran.



Hope this guide while simple has been effective and will help you navigate in a world of training wars. There are other options such as looking at who is fighting for which side i.e. nationals fighting against there own country, low overall damage in battles, a very one-sided campaign can be a good indicator of a training war, however, would still advise a review of the "war details page"

Thanks for reading

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Huey George
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