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Dear swiss people and friends, hello.

After the dreadful fuel update, we now have an even newer update added into the game : the protector military module!

Those articles below explain all the mechanics of this new military function better than me, and they have inspired me to make this cool post :
CHECK THEM OUT, FOLKS! 😃
OK...

mixliarders awesome article explains everything in a simple manner, yet with a good amount of details, so that noone can be confused by this strange new update :
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/protectors-update-practical-explanations-you-all-needed--2743399

secondly, mr BITER has posted yet another excellent article fully explaining the new update :
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/protectors-of-nations-day-5-036-new-update-2021--2743367

third, we have mr dongasms good military and geopolitical analysis about the new updates with the protector update...
check his article out :
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-don-geopolitical-analysis-of-the-changes-2743657

So, to be more precise, the whole thing works kinda like this:

First of all, we have a new mission in our game called ''enroll, protect and serve''.

its description states that we must:
pledge our allegiance to a country’s armed forces,
which basically means to assign a vehicle to the armed forces of your favorite e-nation.

(for example, if you are from e-USA, you sign up for e-USA's forces :
or if, like you and me, you are from e-switzerland, you must assign your D1 or D2 vehicle to the service of the e-swiss armed forces, therefore choosing
e-switzerland as your e-country of service.

this will complete the mission, and it will give you its rewards :
+5 gold, and +1 vehicle discharge document.

-but what IS a ''vehicle discharge document'', chris?
you might ask me.

well, a vehicle discharge document is basically a reset token, with which they can allow you to reset and to re-assign your behicle to the service of an other e-country.

but beware, as for the time being, there are not many chances to get a reset token for your military service/protector rank system, so if you are going to choose which e-country you will serve, make sure its your main/favorite one!

my guess is that the ''vehicle discharge document'' (aka the reset token for your miltary pledge vehicles/protector rank), will be up for sale in weekly packs, or you will be able to earn it either by buying it with gold from the gold store, OR, by earning it through the weekly challenge thing.

To recap, in order to complete the first mission, you will need to enroll your military vehicle, and to assign it to your e-country's military service.
(in my case, to e-switzerland)

visit your Armory, at :
https://www.erepublik.com/en/military/armory/overview

and enroll at least one vehicle in the military service of your e-country.

1) after you will enroll 1 vehicle in the servive of your e-country, you will have completed the mission (and you will receive the +5 gold and the +1 vehicle discharge document=reset token).

2) choose in which e-country you want to deal the extra damage. the extra damage based in your current military rank + aircraft rank.

for example :
my current military rank is god of war*, so im able to deal +33% more damage for my country - LVL 24/50.

on the other hand, my current aircraft rank is squadron leader***, so im able to deal +6% more damage for my country - LVL 6/50.

3) before you start the Deploy in the Battlefield, you are able to see your extra damage (+33% & +6% and LVL 24/50 & 6/50 for me), if you want to fight for food only, Max (energy bars) or ammo/weapons.

4) If you've decided to change your vehicle and you didin't enroll it before, the vehicle bonuses will not be available,
the same is true if you fight to another e-country (you can only choose one
e-country to deal the extra damage per vehicle, as your first/main choice).

5) You can discharge your vehicle from the armed forces of your e-country (aka= the e-country you've chosen in the first place) by using the ''vehicle discharge document''/reset token that you have claimed from the first mission.

But, how do I get protector points for a country?

Well,you will earn 10% of damage dealt as protector points for the country of your citizenship if you have a vehicle deployed for that e-country and you fight for that e-country.

you will earn 4% of damage dealt as ''protector points'' for an allied
e-country (MPP of your citizenship e-country), if you have a vehicle deployed for that e-country and fight for them.
In our case, this would include e-china, who is our current MPP partner.
This make sense, because without MPP it would be at 2%.

you will earn 2% of damage dealt as protector points for any other country as long as you have a vehicle deployed and fight for that country.

you will earn 1% of damage dealt as protector points for any country if you do not have a vehicle deployed and fight for that country. As well, if you hit the maximum protector level for any given country, fighting more for that country will produce 1% of damage dealt as universal protector points, which can be assigned to a specific country.

you can become a protector of many countries at the same time and have bonuses when fighting for them.
for some, this seems like a great change for well-coordinated countries and alliances.
perhaps they will add a new ''true ally'' medal?
or more new quests?
one can hope...

-vehicle deployment

If you want to use and earn bonuses in the ground, you must have a ground vehicle deployed.
likewise, if you want to use and earn bonuses in the air field, you must have an air vehicle deployed (chosen).
You dont have to get both ground and air vehicles deployed to receive a bonus, tho!

for example, if you only want ground bonuses in e-switzerland, you can simply deploy a ground vehicle. You dont have to deploy a ground and air vehicle in e-switzerland if you do not want to use and earn bonuses in both ground and air.
(i personally want to do that in both ground/air fields of the game for e-switzerland, but you can choose differently for your air/ground battles...)

as i've said before, be careful with how you deploy your vehicles. Once deployed, you need a ''vehicle discharge document'' token to undeploy them. So far, you can only get one of these tokens from completing the first mission.
(but they will certainly add those ''vehicle discharge document''/reset tokens up for sale, either for gold, or for $$...)

-vehicle blueprints

Speaking about the reset tokens, special items and vehicle blueprints for special vehicle skins/items,
there is a new pack in the game (not surprising), called ''daily bundle''. this pack costs 4.9$ and includes:

x1 blueprint (we are receiving different blueprints everyday), x3 fuel, 2x x7 double energy bars, x50 overtime points, x17 gold and x5 loyalty points *

As far as we know, those different blueprints that one can purchase every day from the ''daily bundles'', can be used to assemble a unique tank or airplane skin (that you might have not won from the previous events) to your storage.

Ofcourse, this requires 10 Blueprints (50$ in total), which means that you should only try this if you REALLY want some of the more rare tank/airplane skins out there...
for me, its much better to play F2P, OR, to at the very least use your $$ in order to get the classic packs of the shop...
its a much better value for your money, than this ''tank/airplane skin'' thing...

just try to fight it out in F2P, or buy the classic packs for now, and see where this thing gets you.

other than that,
you can read more about the new protectors update (day 5,029) from:
https://www.erepublik.com/en/main/latest-updates/0/329
and
https://www.erepublik.com/en/main/latest-updates

i hope that this lengthy and tired guide will help you understand the new protector module update a bit better...

In other news, we MUST increase our e-global and e-national numbers and activity, ASAP!

Apart from those great news, we dont need to just expand our e-demographic, but to also keep our stable population active and engaged in happy conversations.

The best ways for us to do that, are to be active in here, in our circular PM's (or in the solo ones too), to be active in our daily tasks and to get active in the designated e-swiss chats and programs...

Namely, we have the official e-swiss discord channel, and it already has 42 members.
we need to increase this number, and the activity too!

lets have fun, and lets talk frequently in there ( about anything that you want, really! ), because we might have joined erepublik for the quests and the medals, but we stayed for the great friends that we've made in here...

our chat links shall be listed below:
the official e-swiss discord channel link :
https://discord.gg/vJM758s

our 2 e-swiss chat groups in telegram are :
https://t.me/joinchat/en7KVegjasBiNmFk
and this :
https://t.me/joinchat/azXDlczjrV0wOTM0

SO, lets get active in the chats and lets keep the e-swiss boat floating, folks!

plz let me know your thoughts and opinions in the comments section, and please comment/vote/endorse+subscribe to my newspaper.

as for subscriptions: plz subscribe to my newspaper+ tell it to other people too...
(i sub for subs, so lets help eachother to reach the 1000+ subs achievement!)
until then,

-chris j. swiss player.