User:MeenOlMan/War Strategy

= THE LANDING =

we have each of our sister factions call for an all faction event.. GUN,SHO,SF2,SF6 Before event, we prepare a faction (War Party) with no provinces for stealing a province from Raptor.

Pre-event

 * Each faction including sly, move rally starter's bases to NYC to sync rally arrivals.
 * 9 to 10 players from multiple factions or more join War Party.
 * create a list of Raptor members and their relative location (London hive, capital hive, etc..), military strength, and any other useful info (if we have a spy, how long since last login).. Pre-rank each member based on best target.

Event Timeline

 * 0:00 SLY Starts 3 x 30 min Rallies vs important players in the hive
 * 0:15 SLY Provides each faction 2 targets each...
 * 0:20 4 Sisters starts 8 x 10 min rallies (2 each) vs best targets for non-shields.. using speedups to get players to rally point
 * 0:25 Disbanded Phase 2 Rallies should start 5 min replacement rallies using speedups if needed
 * 0:30 Rallies begin towards targets roughly at same time (doesn't have to be exact.. event better if its a little chaotic)
 * 0:30 Players in war party jump to Paris and surround
 * 0:31 Players in war party sync attack Paris
 * 0:35 Half of players in party jump back to NYC and send fresh garrison to Paris.
 * 0:39 All Rallies without a 3 to 1 military strength advantage are disbanded
 * 0:40 Rallies Land
 * 0:45 Second half of players jump back to NYC and send fresh garrison to Paris.. 9 player garrison
 * any Rallies started against occupation (forcing players to abandon shield) should be met with immediate 5 min rallies

War Party players live in NYC and maintain a full army garrison on Paris while occupying The goal of this plan is to take over Paris and/or kill Raptor troops. Any attempt to directly attack Raptor members or bases will end with those bases being heavily reinforced and causing too much damage to undertake, or shields on those bases preventing the attack.

Shields
Shields can destroy even the best of plans, and any successful plan will need to take these into account.

shield facts


 * must be online to use a shield (can be known in advance, but knowing if player receives notifications needs to be scouted)
 * must own or have medals to purchase shield (almost impossible to know in advance, and always could be purchased)

Reinforcements
Reinforcements drive the reasoning in creating hives, and Raptor will reinforce each other if we attack their hives. This also can be an opening to destroy troops of players with shields. Players overextending the number of troops in fights will fill their garages and take losses.

reinforcement facts


 * only players online can reinforce bases
 * players need an available commander and troops for commander
 * bases receiving reinforcement must be able to garrison all the troops (reinforcement garrison's level + faction bonus)

Preparation
All rally leaders should move to same location in NYC. This will permit all rallies to have relatively same travel time. NYC and Paris are roughly 10 min apart. All players that intend to join War Party should join faction and cloak.

Phase 1 - 3 x 30 min Rallies
We need this to create a buzz, but we want them to feel confident in their defense. Luring them into reinforcing all 3 targets.

targets


 * must not be online and able to shield
 * lower the base level and lower the number of troops...
 * player that has been offline for days is preferable
 * if we could get a spy into Raptor, attacking are spies would be preferential because then we can guarantee no shield.. ( spy should also send all troops away on mines far away to prevent them from returning during battles )

If we choose badly and our target uses a shield early, disband the rally and wait till the 10 min Rallies.

''My expectation is that most players online will reinforce each of these rallies. They will call back gathering commanders and send them to reinforce. With 3 big rallies headed for them, I expect a ton of chatter and people encouraging more reinforcement. 20 min should be enough for them to be completely committed to all 3 targets. Extremely strong defenses.. hopefully lessoned some by smaller Garrison Command buildings, we should have a military advantage.. and because its doubtful that any will have garage capacity of more than 1 army, players reinforcing more than 1 target will be just as vulnerable as attackers.''

Phase 2 - 8 x 10 min Rallies
Using the Raptor list, choose the best unshielded targets of the Raptor members not-reinforcing the 3 Phase 1 targets (probably not online). Any rallies that have targets that shield should be disbanded and replaced with next best targets with 5 or 10 min rallies, depending on when shield comes.

''By targeting those not-reinforcing, there is more likely a chance they are offline and will not shield. If we are lucky, the number targets with shields are not too-high so we don't have a lot of chaos trying to re-target.''

Phase 3 - War Party captures Paris
Taking advantage of the 11 Rallies now within 10 min of Raptor territory, War Party teleports to Paris to do a quick sync. We do not want to give players the opportunity to callback troops and reinforce Paris, we want this to be a clean battle. Then we need half of those that jumped and any others in the faction that didn't to garrison Paris for occupation, while half jumps back and sends garrison. Then second half jumps back and garrison. I don't want to leave bases at Paris during occupation, they are too difficult to defend.

If Raptor creates a Rally on Paris too large to defend, players should pull callback garrison. Or just defend it best as possible killing as many as they can while Rallies are baring down.

I expect there to be some kind of an attempt to get Paris back, but with 11 Rallies baring down on them, they have to choose to weaken those reinforcements against the rallies to get back Paris or let us continue to occupy.

Phase 4 - Next Phase of Rallies and Continued Occupation
Occupation will take an hour, so we have to continue to keep at least 2 rallies from SLY and 1 to 2 from each of our sisters going until occupation is finished. 1 ends, 1 starts, repeat.. (Sly's 3rd rally used for occupation defense duty)

facts about attacking occupations


 * you can't start an attack vs occupation while shielded
 * you can't shield while attacking an occupation

occupation defense duty
When a player starts a rally against Paris Occupation, Sly needs to immediately start a rally targeting the rally leader's base attempting to coincide rally's arrival times. If their rally leader does not disband rally before rally start, speedups should be used to hit their base same time their rally hits Paris. preventing their garage from saving troops

rally times


 * 30 min.. we start 10 min rally with 15 min left.. that way we are 5 min from target theirs deploys
 * 10 min.. we start 5 min rally
 * 5 min.. we start 5 min rally and use speed ups