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• Result: Germany attacking, Poland attacking
 
 
 
In summary, if the two countries are at peace, both armies will be assigned the "attacking" status regardless of who started the fight or on which land they are standing.
 
 
 
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• Same as Case 5, but the countries were at peace when the attack happened
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• Result: Germany attacking, Poland attacking
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In summary, if the two countries are at peace, both armies will be assigned the "attacking" status regardless of who started the fight or on which land they are standing.
  
 
The "attacking" status and the other army the "defending" status, regardless of which land they are standing.
 
The "attacking" status and the other army the "defending" status, regardless of which land they are standing.

Revision as of 05:08, 29 November 2017

Commander, combat is the most important element of a successful military campaign in Conflict of Nations.

Combat at its Root

At its root, you should understand that combat aims to establish total dominance over an opposing force. This requires the following tactical awareness;

1. Diligence.

2. Effective strategy.

3. Ample resources.

4. Pure force.

As a commander of an entire nation, you need to deeply understand the intricate details of troops in combat, within various terrain settings. You need to understand the mechanics of close combat attack and defence, as well as how combat might play out in different scenarios.

Victory goes to the prepared!!

The Tools of War

It is this advice from your Generals that will assist you in your combat stratagy over the enemy!

Army Stacking Penalties: One of the most important changes to modern combat is in the relatively low number of combatants involved. No longer do one million men invade a foreign country, today’s invasions play by the factor of 10 or lower. To simulate modern logistics and fire and manoeuvre doctrines, you will notice a strict stacking penalty for units. Expect to see diminishing returns, and even negative modifiers, in combat strength, movement speed, and defensive capabilities. While marked in yellow, the stacked units are just suffering diminishing returns… but once the indicator hits red prepare to suffer.

Missile Warfare: Modern battlefields are extremely hostile due to the very high amount of damage concentrated in very small delivery systems such as Cruise Missiles. Conflict of Nations allows dedicated air, ground, and naval units to fire conventional, chemical, and nuclear cruise missiles at military targets, amongst others.

Additionally, we simulate strategic use of ballistic and intercontinental missiles of varying size and payload.


Tactical Terrain: In Conflict of Nations we have ensured that terrain plays a vital role in planning conquests. From the jungles of the Amazon to the icy wastes of Greenland, the terrain places specific demands on the men and machines in this game. Simply pull up the terrain mode in the lower right game corner and plan your optimal tactics.

Entrenching: Cities and provincial map-points (indicated by the junction of all major roads) will provide a solid defensive bonus by entrenching all units located in the area. This is automatic and stops once the unit is ordered to move on.

Retreating: Should units ever start getting mauled badly; players can order them to retreat to a neighbouring friendly territory at a cost of hit points. This helps preserve strength and allows the units to heal over time.

Unit Healing: Building military hospitals will speed up the recovery time of units low on HP. Generally, ground units will recover a small amount of HP over the course of time when in friendly territory. Just as naval vessels repair over time when in shallow waters.

Hardened Bunkers: Rather than creating an invincible fortress, today’s city defences are all about providing civil protection against weapons of mass destruction. The better equipped a city is, the more of its population will survive any serious attack. There is of course, some military value in hardened positions as well.

Crimes against Humanity: Units sent into enemy cities that are not yet conquered will start decimating the local population. This is considered a war crime and can have severe consequences with the morale of the player’s population – especially if large numbers of civilians suffer from this behavior.

Chemical and Nuclear Warfare: Probably the strongest weapons ever invented, these are the ultimate killers – albeit with a double edge. The resulting loss of life, devastation and contamination wrought by one of these weapons of mass destruction will not go unchecked by other nations and of the perpetrator’s own population. In Conflict of Nations there is the real chance of the world turning into a contaminated wasteland, populated by unhappy survivors. We warned you…

Insurgents: Insurgents are a special unit that pop out in a city as a rebellion mechanism. They are trained former military who are not easy pushovers because they are fighting for something they truly believe in, even if the “good guys” disagree, making them formidable and dangerous enemies. Even though they don't physically march into the city, they should be considered an attacking unit and treated as in the scenario "Offensive/ Defensive Engagement"- where the Insurgents are the Offensive unit.

Stealth Units: Stealthed units can have both meeting and offensive/defensive engagements, but on top of this, there is a First Strike / Ambush Bonus Damage.

Game Mechanics

Declaring War through the Diplomatic Panel:

To declare War you will need to go to the Diplomacy button and select your Lucky Opponent then from the drop-down menu change your status from “Peace” to "War". You could even be diplomatic about the process and send a note stating your justifications for doing so, but many commanders won’t be so obliging.
The Diplomacy Screen where YOU choose your target an relationships


Declaring War through Invasion:

Most attacks happen by default when your army meets the enemy at a border, or when you enter the province or city of an enemy country.

War Warning
Note: If you wish to avoid a war status with a country, it is important to remember that you will need either a Right of Way or a Military Pact, and/or for the Security Council Shared Intel. If you do not have either one of these statuses then you will be seen as aggressive and effectively declare war on the opposed country.

To warn you that you do not have the right to move your army through other lands, you will get a pop-up warning

If you do want to attack the other player, ignore the pop-up, and move your units to a location. Fighting will commence.

If, while on your travels outside your homeland, you meet hostile forces, your troops will fight the hostile army. If your forces win, the remaining troops will continue to the original destination.

Note: It is entirely possible that other players have chosen the same enemy target as you (I know great minds think alike). So if another player captures a province before you, YOUR units will continue their advancement and attack the city, and so declare an undeclared war on the other player (if you were not at war).

To avoid this I recommend you do not attack the city itself with your original orders. Instead target the enemy garrison within the city. To do this simply select the army in the city as your primary objective and if these units are hidden with a “?” then target the flag that flies over the city.

Note: Choose your targets carefully. If you declare war on a lot of nations simultaneously, your homeland country and people will suffer.

Changes to Population Morale

War Affects Morale

Province Morale and Warning
When you declare war, it does not just affect your troops it affects your nation as a whole. This War Penalty affects your Homeland civilian morale which can affect your production as well as your troop morale. This penalty is a subtracted 5% to your population’s morale for every country you are at war with. To find your war penalty click on one of your territories and press the "i" button beside "Morale" in the province pop up (local Population Morale) This will also show you what else affects morale in a province including distance to capital, energy shortages and neighbouring province morale.
Province Morale Peanlty info

Battle Stats and Report Generation

In Conflict of Nations, battle results are updated every hour (unless you are attacking a province with no units- that should be an instant win). You can find these results ingame in the CoN News:

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Writing your own News Article for the CON News:

Words are powerful. In the case of creating a News Article for the CON News, they have the ability to champion individual achievements or to influence and coerce general opinion toward an issue of your choice. Notably, they can move isolated groups into coordinated efforts just as efficiently as they can divide. As a player you are encouraged to write your own news article in order to promote your individual campaign needs.

A few words of writerly advice:

1. Intent:

The message that you convey to all of the in game players is important, but more so is the intent behind it. What do you hope to achieve with this article? Do you want to gain support, report an achievement, or belittle another player? News Articles are formal declarations that should be used with a bit of discretion.

All of the players in your game will read, and potentially respond, to your article. Be thoughtful in composing your article as it may have the unintended effect of inciting the ire of your opponents.

2. Length:

Generally, articles are short; easily digestible.

3. Content:

The words you use will be read by your friends and enemies alike. Using angry, aggressive words will elicit an emotional response that may or may not result in the affects you desire. Players will read arrogance, weakness, or anything else between the lines, and may change their priorities accordingly.

4. Details:

Details are important. Make sure that your information is detailed and accurate. Does your article reference a specific unit or location? All readers should be able to understand the details of your article with relative ease.

5. Clarity:

Keep your message simple. We have an international community who may misinterpret complicated, wordy, or otherwise inarticulate ideas. Furthermore, a messy post is rude to readers since it requires that much more effort to read.

6. Title:

Create an appropriate title that conveys the essentials of your article. This title should grab your reader’s attention. No fancy or special characters, but your title can be of a quirky, humorous, or serious tone.

7. Proofread:

Make sure that your words are spelled correctly, and that your sentences are punctuated effectively, grammatically sound, and cohesive.

It is a good strategy to read what you have written aloud, as sometimes your ears will pick up something that your eyes have missed.

Note: What happens in game stays in-game!

Game Mechanics:

Write article
From the CON News panel, simply click on the “Write Article button in the upper right hand corner, it will open up the composing panel:.
CoN News article window.

See writerly suggestions above.

Should you wish to remain Anonymous, click the Anonymous box.

Articles will be time-stamped and appear in that day’s news immediately after clicking the send button.


How Core Combat is designed to work In game:

Generally, combat rounds take place every hour. We differentiate between four possible scenarios:

1, Meeting Engagements.

2. Attack/Defence Engagements.

3. Edge Cases.

Cases Where Two Armies are in Movement. There is mention in this section of Insurgents and Stealth Units, before getting into the actual Mechanics of a Single Close Combat Attack Round.

In every combat round, both armies conduct an attack round on each other, so basically the damages dealt are DOUBLE that of city combat (effectively combat is 2x faster).

Also important to note, is that strongly defensive units will suffer more if caught in the open.

1. Meeting Engagement

Army “A” attacks Army “B” in the open - where Army “B” is stationed outside of a map point

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• First Combat Tick (immediately)

  • Army “A” attacks Army “B” using its offense (Strength) stats
  • Army “B” defends against Army “A” using its Defence stats
  • Army “B” counter-attacks Army “A” using its offense (Strength) stats   
  • Army “A” defends against Army “B” using its Defence stats

• Second Combat Tick (after 1 hour has passed)

  • Army “A” attacks Army B using its offense (Strength) stats
  • Army “B” defends against Army “A” using its Defence stats
  • Army “B” counter-attacks Army “A” using its offense (Strength) stats
  • Army “A” defends against Army “B” using its Defence stats
  • and so on...

2. Attack/Defence Engagement:

Army “A” attacks Army “B” - where “B” is stationed on a map point (aka city/town)

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When Army “B” is garrisoned inside a town, it is not performing offensive actions. Rather it is only Army “A” conducting attack rounds, while Army “B” is just defending:

• First Combat Tick (immediately)

 • Army “A” attacks Army “B” using its offense (Strength) stats
 • Army “B” defends against Army “A” using its defensive (Defence) stats

• Second Combat Tick (after 1 hour has passed)

 • Army “A” attacks Army “B” using its offense (Strength) stats
 • Army “B” defends against Army “A” using its defensive (Defence) stats
 •and so on...

3. Edge Cases:

Army “A” is moving without attack order, Army “B” is stationary either outside of, or on a map point.

If Army “A” is moving because of a move order, while Army “B” is just standing around, it works the same way as in Scenarios 1 and 2 depending on B's position.

• Effectively, moving is actually identical to ordering an attack, even if Army “A” doesn't anticipate a fight,
• The only difference is with regards to ranged units, wherein they only move into melee range, whereas they will open fire if ordered to attack once they are in range

4. Cases Where Two Armies are in Movement:

Army “A” and Army “B” run across each other while moving on the map no matter if outside or on a map point If Army “A” and Army “B” are both moving without an attack order and then close within combat range- Scenario 1 applies

5. The Mechanics of a Single Close-Combat Attack Round:

1. The system looks at the position of the target army. It draws a circle of size around it and labels it “default Splash Radius”. All armies within the radius form the "splash armies". Let's call these armies within the area of defence, the "defending armies".

2. The system calculates total damage done by the attacking army, for all damage types, based on their offensive stats.

3. The system calculates the total damage done by all of the defending armies, for all damage types, based on their defensive stats.

4. The system applies the defender’s damage to the attacking army and removes units if needed. The system generates kills and produces News Articles if needed.

5. The system applies the attacker’s damage to the defending armies, splitting it up based on the damage area of the individual defending armies, compared to their total damage area excluding "fast flying units" which are not taking damage. The system removes units and produces News Articles.

6. The system applies building damage to the province, based on the damage done by both the attackers and the defenders.

Attack-Defence Scenarios:

Case 1:

If the countries are at war;

• German army (1 light infantry) stands on the road • Polish army (1 light infantry) gets a move order to walk ‘through’ the German army and attack the city behind them • Countries are at peace until the attack happens • Attack happens on German soil • Result: German attacking, Poland attacking

Case 2:

• German army (1 light infantry) stands on the road • Polish army (1 light infantry) gets an attack order on the German army • Countries are at peace until the attack happens • Attack happens on German soil • Result: Germany attacking, Poland attacking

Case 3:

• Same as Case 1, but countries are at war before the attack happens • Result: Germany defending, Poland attacking

Case 4:

• Same as Case 2, but countries are at war before the attack happens • Result: Germany defending, Poland attacking

Case 5:

• Polish army (1 light infantry) stands on the road on German soil • German army attacks the Polish army • Countries are at war before the attack happens • Result: Germany attacking, Poland defending

Case 6:

• Same as Case 5, but the countries were at peace when the attack happened • The diplomacy status changed to 'at war' immediately • Result: Germany attacking, Poland attacking

In summary, if the two countries are at peace, both armies will be assigned the "attacking" status regardless of who started the fight or on which land they are standing.

The "attacking" status and the other army the "defending" status, regardless of which land they are standing.