War Strategies

[Dr Rush]

So a medium level suggestion to spice up the war module.

 

In the same way that you can pick a government type for a specific bonus. Add an option to pick a military strategy as well. These strategies could only be changed once every 5 days & are selected in the same way as government types. They should have broad application to all unit types.

 

Some ideas on the strategies themselves;

 

Blitzkrieg: 1-3 extra AP when declaring wars.

Draft: All unit caps increased by 5%-10%. (When switching off this all units over the normal limit are automatically decommed.)

R&D: 2%-5% Extra damage across the board.

Rapid Mobilization: Daily recruitment cap increased by 20%.

Entrenchment: 2%-5% Less damage taken.

Zerg: Unit costs reduced by 10%. (Including res cost.)

Rationing: Attacks use 33% less resources.

 

Ofc the number of strategies & their exact effects can be changed. Could also include more exotic ones that come with a big benefit balanced by a slight negative.

[Lilac Veritas]

I quite like this as a small addition just to spice things up. Could be a bit of duplication with perks and military improvements or whatever, but yeah this would work nicely as a simple change.

[Hooves]

Blitzkrieg is really powerful to be heard. Even 1 extra AP can mean at next turn you'll have 8 AP right off the bat and can do 2 airstrikes. Now imagining 3 people doing that to the poor defender. It's kind of destructive, especially when you can wait on timer then swap out when you get the extra AP.

 

Blitzkrieg -> Wait 5 days (this requires heavy foresight) -> Declare War -> Switch to R&D -> Profit

 

Now in regards to Rapid Mobilization. Doesn't it just create the same problem that Sheepy didn't buff Propaganda to 20% instead of 10%? If you have Propaganda and this that's essentially 30% daily recruitment cap which Sheepy didn't approve of. Everything else is pretty alright, it's really hard to tell how this coexist with perks.

[Magicboyd25]

If there is blitzkrieg I suggest there be a military strategy available for those who may be on the defense first that would reduce the other person's starting AP by the same amount a blitzkrieg would add. You don't know if they will choose Blitzkrieg if you chose the defense oriented one (I have no name for it), but it would be a good balancer. 

[Dr Rush]

Blitzkrieg is really powerful to be heard. Even 1 extra AP can mean at next turn you'll have 8 AP right off the bat and can do 2 airstrikes. Now imagining 3 people doing that to the poor defender. It's kind of destructive, especially when you can wait on timer then swap out when you get the extra AP.

 

Blitzkrieg -> Wait 5 days (this requires heavy foresight) -> Declare War -> Switch to R&D -> Profit

 

Now in regards to Rapid Mobilization. Doesn't it just create the same problem that Sheepy didn't buff Propaganda to 20% instead of 10%? If you have Propaganda and this that's essentially 30% daily recruitment cap which Sheepy didn't approve of. Everything else is pretty alright, it's really hard to tell how this coexist with perks.

I agree that blitz is powerful, but to use it your passing up other equally powerful strategies like Draft, also if you are preempted it becomes completely useless. So there is both risk & a major opportunity cost. As for RM again there is the opportunity cost of not being able to use another strategy. Plus for that 30% bonus your using a project slot to boot. So a major bonus for that is fair. Also I picked 20% as it takes a day off build up & the stacked bonus takes off about 2 days. An active alliance could use this to beat out another alliance that's building up to hit them. 

 

If there is blitzkrieg I suggest there be a military strategy available for those who may be on the defense first that would reduce the other person's starting AP by the same amount a blitzkrieg would add. You don't know if they will choose Blitzkrieg if you chose the defense oriented one (I have no name for it), but it would be a good balancer. 

A project that reduces the AP of an attacker is an okay idea. Though a couple of the strategies are already geared towards defense.