Hyothetical Situation #1: THE "IN YOUR FACE" WAR

SENARIO: You have ticked off, ran into, or live beside a real jerk. But a smart jerk none the less. Heres what he/she does.. How would you counter/ defend / prevent it?

DETAILS: They are an alliance with full membership (100 active players 800k might + each). They also have a sister alliance with simular membership, but less might per player. In addition, we can assume that they also have at least several other alliances set to friendly. We have no way to know which alliances these are, or how strong.


THE ATTACK:
1. They have their high might alliance members each attack whichever of your alliance members is closest in proximity. This takes out wall defenses and any resourses your storehouse could not protect, or that you did not hide. Along with possibly some of your troops, or those of other alliance members, depending on whether or not you were set to defend and/or were reinforced.

2. At the same time, they have their second (sister) alliance players take all your wilds. and reinforce them. Your resourses are slower in coming, troops may or may not be abandoning depending on your food to consumption ratio after losing all your wilds. If they are, you now need to decide wether to upgrade farms and rebuild troops later, or pump them out in hopes this ends soon.

3. They continue to send in waves of attacks in an attempt to prevent you from building up troops to defend. Your alliance may send you troops and resourses, but they are under the same attack, and you are all being farmed. You now have begun to use up even the resourses that your storehouse protected. You may build more troops with those resourses, but most likely you already cant feed the ones you have, and troops are abandoning faster than the builds can make them. Farms depending on the level, may or may not be "too little too late"

4. They now inlist the aid of any friendly alliances to take any unclaimed wilds in your immediate area. They do not ask them to participate in the war, simply to take a few unowned wilds, and reinforce.


IN A VERY SHORT TIME, YOUR ENTIRE ALLIANCE IS IN A ROUGH SITUATION.

THE CHALLENGE IS, FIRST ATTEMPT TO RESOLVE THE SITUATION USING THE ACTUAL RESOURCES, AND STATS OF YOUR CITY, AS THEY STAND TODAY.
THEN, ATTEMPT TO EITHER RESOLVE, OR PREVENT IT, USING WHATEVER ACTUALLY OBTAINABLE, BUT HYPOTHETICAL MEANS YOU FEEL WOULD GET THE JOB DONE

THIS IS MENT TO BE SIMPLY A FUN EXERSIZE TO ALLOW EVERYONE TO BOTH FLEX AND STRENGTHEN THEIR E-MUSCLES

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Well, you pretty much covered every single option that I could have come up with to save the alliance. The only option I see is to abandon the existing cities of the alliance and restart anew at a different location if possible. If there appears to be a lull in the attacks, then the existing cities may be able to recover enough to mount attacks as well. If the attackers are taking over wilds near your city then they must first abandon the ones they have. members could attack those wilds to maintain resource production.

It would be nice if the game would allow a player to amass their troops and attack from a wilderness location thereby cut the march time down for each attack. That way when a member notices that the offending attacker is sending troops to attack your city, you could attack their city while it is less defended..........Does that make any sense?

Ultimately the alliance would have to decide to either stay and fight or cut and run. If they entire alliance were to cut and run and rebuild a new alliance with new cities they could use the old cities as reinforcement troops for their new cities. Heck this may be an idea to grow might anyway!

I belive that enemy is stronger than we so thats the challenge...except this he has sister alliance and other allies (sister all are worse). Well if they attacking You as a whole team not just a single attack to take resources then is only one way to win (I belive). We are not a charity organisation so running/abandoning cities woudn't give as victory. Other story is how to define victory- when will be a peace beetwen us? we destroy their armies? etc.. I belive that this plan need work in case of war with the strongest team in game so....The strongest team is also the most insolent on the forum and in diplomacy.. we can't just destroy them (because of game rules), we can't plunder them all, but what is possible? We could possible destroy they diplomacy power- we win if they will lose ally and if some of ally team players will leave teams (and join other teams/build new), we could win if a couple strong teams will support us in this war (from first 20) and some of medium power/weak teams will support us also( that will be more difficoult to persuade them). We need also to use some 'sheety' weapons which are not necessery but can decide about victory or losses. About it I could speak only on prive ond only with heads of our alliance...There is also pr side of war- we need support of other teams and single players (without alliances). thats possible- we could use chat room as a weapon. Good arguments and sneaky language could get us unexpected ally. Even if they are not strong they could keep enemies army when we will organise attacks/build army. we will won if top team will stop groving and someone jump on his place. We need to push other teams above them (even if they are not our ally), but they can't be they ally!
First- we need to be a team- so everyone whos in is helping prepare war and is fighting. Full solidarity- You playing with us or You outside the team. We can't afford casual players who are once a month on. They are only good as a battle meat- enemies will be attacking them and thats all. 75% of us need to play during the war regularry.
First way (mayby even half of war) will be to destroy enemies ally connection. we need to discover who is playing with them against us, make him weak as possible but most important- attack the weakest of them until they will agree leave aliance to get peace( nobody from the officers and might member will do it). If we could take 5 to 10 members from 100memb enemy team then he's going down on list and could be attacked by other people from other teams. It woudn't be easy- our enemy will try help them...We could share our forces- half of us will attack enemy allies to weak them and steal members. Other halp can't win with big guy until other people/teams will join war. They could join us if we will stop enemy groving process...by buiding a traps. We will be attacked. They best solutions could be hiding troops and sending concentrating them in few cities. Enemy might players will be attackinh our strongest players, enemy medium might players will be attacking our medium/weak players....Might players( 3-5) could connect forces in one medium player city and wait for attack. Then transfer them to other city (after won battle). Thats my basic/short theory how to win with strong enemy. Generally the first 5 teams are too strong to win the war by only upgrading our industry, only diplomacy and support of more teams (even not ally) can help us. Each attack on our player need to be publicated on forum as a attack without reason/provocation so other teams (weaker) which are in similar situation support us just to avange losses. Thats my idea now

nice input, keep it coming; one person's idea or belief may trigger thoughts from previous posters or even trigger an urge to participate from those sitting on the sidelines, if you will.

Good Job - when brain-storming for answers, there is never a dumb or stupid answer when it is sincere and from the heart. What you may have to contribute may be what leads us to victory. I realize that we as an pretty much a passive alliance, but there always will be those that are more aggressive and will try to take advantage of our kind nature. So it is good insurance that we have an idea what will need to be done if this occurs; we all know this will happen some time or another.

sorry, had to much caffeine this morning, bouncing off the walls



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there is also a couple things to do, but we need to be sure that we haven't any 'mole' in team.
Except this do we know anything about our potential enemies? Mayby we should start collecting info about teams who are attacking us casually? It could be handy for example who is supporting them....

my best guess and plan of action...
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