How do you think battles should be won?

[Flying Mullet]

There's nothing more noble or valiant than a hotdog eating contest.

[Cz]

I say war could be fought with units, dice and MONEY.

Money, so's you can't fight all the time.

Units, so's there's a tactical aspect, a regulatory aspect, and so forth,

And dice, so's wars could go either way - and even small states would have chances.

Armies (units), would be in a territory or other, and would attack other territories and/or armies, and they'd, depending on their size, number and competence, would cost money, which would be gathered depending on what kind of state is in question.
Every turn, players would send all their commands to their armies, and they all would be played at the same time, by the moderators, who would give us a general report, and secret reports to individual members.

I'd love that, but I don't think any kind of complex battle system will be allowed.

Still, it would be nice to have fortifications or something. Maybe they could extend the response time available to a nation?

Sorry, but I enjoy complexity.

[Loony BoB]

No, because if you're a leader of a nation you should have someone in your nation active once every 24 hours or so. =P

I might make the timeframe a bit longer than 24 hours, mind you, that was just a number I pulled off the top of my head. As I said, the only reason I want wars is to get rid of inactive nations. Otherwise, the main point of this forum is to have fun and create a world (or nation), not dominate it. It's an interactive world where you RP the leader of your nation, and you can do all sorts of things besides wars in that kind of scenario. I'm sure you'll all concentrate on naming things and organising systems before you consider battles.

[Cz]

Ah. In that case, 24-48 hours would be ideal. Sorry to waste your time with my bloodthirsty attitude.

[Maxico]

I guess we could have an like some sort excel spreadsheet that works it out by the amount of units and a random factor. I would make one but the random funtion doesnt work on mine becasue I dont have something installed :/ .
EDIT: here we go, the random numbers change everytime you change something. If it doesnt work then goto tools/Add-ins and enable Analyasis tool-pack (dont ask me why, the little cat (I dont like the paperclip) told me to do it.)

EDIT 2: Oh yeah, the person with the highest nubmer wins. I would put a fancy IF command that said things like "easy victory" or "close victory" but I cant remember how and I can be bothered to find out.

EDIT 3: Oh yeah (again) the units have to be a value of 1-10 for it to work.

[Nait]

[Maxico]

that maps a little bit confusing nait.

[The Captain]

Interesting ideas, though some of what has been said sounds very much like the game "Risk".

Perhaps, we should hold off a little while before any kind of attacks occur. If we are using the situation BoB made in another thread, then I'd warrant it's highly unlikely anyone would attack another nation because first and foremost, one must attempt to make a home for themselves and settle the territory.

Take care all.

[Cz]

Interesting ideas, though some of what has been said sounds very much like the game "Risk".

That's because Risk is awesome.

Perhaps, we should hold off a little while before any kind of attacks occur. If we are using the situation BoB made in another thread, then I'd warrant it's highly unlikely anyone would attack another nation because first and foremost, one must attempt to make a home for themselves and settle the territory.

Without doubt. I for one won't be engaging in any conflict until I've built a solid nation. In fact, the first thing I'll be doing is drawing up a peace treaty.

[Loony BoB]

Yeah, like I said, wars/battles should only happen if a nation has been inactive, because we'd rather have active players than not.

[-N-]

Wars need to be real-time.

Therefore, they must be conducted in chat.

[Loony BoB]

Oh no. xD Well, you can write out the war as you like it if you're the attacker and you win.

[Maxico]

heh, only one person bothered to look at mine.

[Nait]

Oh no. xD Well, you can write out the war as you like it if you're the attacker and you win.

That SUCKS. >:o

[Proxy]

1) Should we allow wars?
2) If so, how would one decide who wins?
3) What would happen to the members of the nation? Would it be up to the winner of the war, or would they have the ability to flee, or what?

1)I personally have no problem with it (I do not have any plan of any kind in engaging in warfare), but it shouldn't effect the economy.
2)i think maybe we should do a D&D style thing. find a flash dice rolling game, and then have some sort of plan like,
nation a: rolls a 3
nation b: rolls 1
nation b looses 200 soldiers (the difference between the rolled numbers). this should go on until whichever side has no remaining soldiers, or wishes to surrender
3)the winning nation should give the people 1 of 3 choices;
1 - Join our nation
2- flee & join another one
3 - start a revot & be slaughtered (sp?)


just my thoughts on the whole thing though ^_~