Dept. of Education - The Basics of Battle

Day 1,390, 20:52 • Published in USA USA • by Department of Citizen Affairs






Fighting is one of the most popular things to do in eRepublik. Between loyalties and alliances, diplomatic incidents, and resource collecting, there are plenty of reasons to go to war.

Battles available for your participation are put on your home screen. To find more, press Military Campaigns (or Shift-C). If you don't know where to fight, you can find the most important battle to America on the DoD newspaper.

When you pick and open a battle, you may immediately notice the giant "fight" button in the middle. Fighting delivers damage to your opponent, and takes 10 health from you.


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Every time you fight, you get one experience point and an amount of rank points, as well as adding influence to your country's side. To add these effects though, you have to defeat your opponent.



Influence points are the first tier of combat - they are how you affect your country's ability to win.



When a country owns the influence bar (holds it over 50😵, they receive victory points based on how long the battle has been going. This chart shows how much:



After a side collects 1800 victory points, they win the round. 8 rounds won means the battle is decided, and the region that they are fighting for is conquered or saved. You can find all three tiers of combat on the top of the battle screen:


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You should always look at the influence bar before jumping into a battle. If a side already has 1790 victory points, wait for the next round. If your country has the bar all the way at 100%, you don't really need to pile on at that moment. Fighting smart will help your country more than any tank you buy.



#1 rule of fighting: never fight unless you can actively produce or buy enough food to heal back to 100.

You can recover up to 100-500 health every 6 hours (depending on your town center level) by eating food. To do the most efficient amount of damage, you'll need to use most or all of the health you can get from food everyday. Obviously you can finance your bloodthirst yourself by buying it from the marketplace, but that can get mighty expensive.

A better route is to join a military unit. Here's all of the MUs available for you in America:

U.S. Armed Forces: USAF Application
Ultramarines: UM Application
SEAL Team 6: ST6 Application
Bad Company: Bad Company Application
EZ Company: EZC Application

Military units will give you a ton of free food in exchange for working in a government/private company. If it's your first time around the block and you're not ready to join one of these prestigious organizations, fear not, no one falls through the cracks. Use MoW and b4n to get your fill as well. You can do modest damage without a weapon, if you need to attack right this second.

Then, all you need to do is find a battlefield to fight in. You should go to (and vote, and subscribe to) the Department of Defense's orders to find out where your damage can help the most (unless you're in a military unit, then listen to your superior officer if he gives you different orders).

Until next time,