May 3, 2006

Info About Armies
Ok, first of all, it is important to try and _ALWAYS_ be in an army.
even if you need to go train to the lands, if possible, ask a higher in
command to make an army to take you there and back to the MAIN army.

* MAIN ARMY

Always try to be in the MAIN ARMY, this is important for several reasons
which include:
- your safety: if you're in the main army the chance of you dying is way
smaller than when you're in a city by yourself.
- fun: if you come online you are most likely close to the action if
there is any and thus will get a chance to gather XP by joining strike
forces (see below) or by pvp-ing enemies.
- patriotism: you help your country this way, we can only defeat enemies
if we have a strong main army to crush our enemies main armies.

*Holding/*Waiting Army

Sometimes a main army will have to wait to follow a strike force because
0 movers in the strike need to be collected first - when this happens,
the strike leader will often times form something called a
"holding" or "waiting" army - if you're in a strike and one appears,
join it rather than moving back to rejoin the main.

* (Online) Strike Forces

These are used to take empty cities of enemies and give you on average
40-100 xp when you join in and the strike is succesful.
- ONLINE: Most of the time they are flagged as ONLINE, this means you
have to be around and click now and then to check whether or not you
already have a message to tell you you participated in a battle.
If this is the case then join another army asap. this can be a taxi
taking you back to the next SF, or the main army which followed you.
usually you get a message from the SF-leader or someone from HC on what
to do.
- 0,1,2,3 MP: For some strike forces something like this is showed. It
notifies ppl if a certain number of Move Points is required to join the
Strike Force. You can check your Move points in the City Center screen.
- SF #1,2,3: if you see multiple SF (Strike Forces) in your castle
screen, this means there are multiple strikes in the same tick usually.
Join the one with the lowest number first and join the taxi back later.
usually next strikes you will be out of MP which make that you stay in
the same city. So you can join the next strike forces as soon as the
last strike is done, doing this quickly will allow us to take many
cities in the same tick and will help us greatly.

* Taxis or Holding Army's

These are used for several things.
- Sometimes strike force leaders make them to taxi ppl back to the next
strike force/ main army. Always join these after a strike if you can.
- Taxi to main: These are used to bring ppl from far away areas to Main
Army, it's a good idea to join these if you can't be online enough to
get to Main yourself (always check first if you can't get to main
yourself). There is an option to select a second commander and this
should always be done if the main Taxi-driver can't reach Main while
he's online. The Taxi should have in it's name where it's going, when
it's departing (and preferably arriving). If you make a taxi, make sure
to move it, if you don't you will be CM'd so you can't make armies anymore.

Ok, I think I covered most here... if you got any comments/additions,
please message me with them, as I'd like to keep this spam-free ;)