CoW Economic Guide - 2024
Originally prepared by General Nightman in May 2019.
Updated in Oct 2022 and again Nov 2024 (RSS removal of RM and Cargo) by OneNutSquirrel.
The Economy is the most critical element of a war. All wars are economic, and so was World War 2. The Great Depression meant, all countries had frail economies, and that is reflected in starting economies. The economy is the "might" of your country. Your entire ability to conduct war is based on what you can produce. This guide covers the basics of Economy in Call of War and establish the main ways to effectively build your nation in order to fund your military machine and win the game! Remember, one can have the best tactics, most loyal allies, but without resources to research and produce units to carry out those tactics, one is dead in the water.
Call of War Economical Terms:
- Resources (RSS) -There are 6 RSS in Call of War used to build units and upgrade territories and affect their production rates.
- Food, Goods, Metal, Oil and Rare Materials. As well as Cash, Manpower and War Bonds.
- Moral, though not produced needs to be maintained perhaps even more diligently than the others. Since it's the base multiplier for production of the above RSS as well as unit production and building construction times.
- Core: This the territory (around your capitol) you start the map with. This is your main production. Can be upgraded with buildings increasing province production.
- Non-Core: Production or RSS in territories which were captured during game play. (These territories produce reduced RSS amounts)
- Production Rate: This is the amount of a resource you produce in an hour. The bigger the number, the more RSS you are producing in an hour.
All unit production will use Cash and Manpower plus at least two other resources to produce.
How to Collect the Resources
Provinces under your control automatically produce the RSS and that production goes right into your inventory in real-time. As you build and improve the buildings which boost your production, capture more territories, and improve their Moral, you will see that reflected in your hourly numbers in the Inventory Ribbon display. If you select the ribbon (PC) or each individual resource (Mobile) you will see display showing a further break down of the production.
NOTE - Premium accounts earn War Bonds at +25% rate above non-paying accounts. Earning 1,000/hr for Premium Accounts vs 833/hr non-paying.
Economic Boosters (EB’s)
- Industry - This is the key driving force of resource production. A single, core city fully upgraded to Lvl 5 at 100% Moral, will produce 12,000 of its resources, 12,000 cash. While a captured city will, when fully upgraded (at same cost) with 100% Moral, will only provide 25% of those resources. You will need to capture 4 additional cities, and spend 4x the amount in upgrading those cities to produce the same amount of resources outside of your Core territory.
- Recruiting Station - Recruiting Stations raise your Manpower production. Core cities once fully upgraded to Lvl 3 will produce 1,800 Manpower each. Again, any captured city will only produce 25% of the resource while costing as much to upgrade as your Core.
- Propaganda Office - These buildings improve the Moral of the city/province. More on the importance of this shortly.
Other Mechanisms in the Economy
- Money : As in the real world: Money makes the world go around. Buying resources, making deals and producing units are all essential purposes of money. Cash is essential to a victory and one can accumulate millions throughout the game.
- Stock Market : The Stock Market, in real life, is an ever-changing exchange and flow of goods between countries and companies. The prices of resources in the game's Stock Market are always changing, though at the beginning of the round AIs offer a good deal for a lot of resources. Each transaction on the market, buy or sell has a 10% fee on it.
- Invading : When one is short on a certain resource, one can always invade an enemy province that contains a resource. One thing to remember is captured provinces only produce resources at 25% efficiency. The Loot you collect from them is equal to 50% of their daily production at time of capture (to a max. amount of materials they have on hand). Captured provinces will come to your control at 25% moral (or less).
- Morale : Morale is very important as it affects your economy. In your core province, your economy begins at 70% Moral and rarely dips below 90%. The higher morale you have, the more resources you will produce. Building Propaganda Offices helps provinces to raise their Moral, hence improves their production.
Core Province Economic Output for each City/Province is calculated as follows:
Base Amount x Economic Boosters(buildings) x Moral % = Production <<<<<=======The Formula
Captured Territory Economic Output is calculated at 25% of the above production rate.
Factors Affecting Moral
There are several factors with an effect the Moral of a province, and in doing so, will affect the production of that province.
Distance From Capitol - Based on distance to Capitol City (max penalty -30, of if you lost capitol -40) if not rebuilt)
Neighbours - Based on Diplomacy of surrounding provinces - leaving an uncaptured territory has a negative effect on the adjacent ones
Expansion - As you grow this modifier gets larger and affects ALL provinces equally
Propaganda Office - Bonus to Moral based on building level (Lvl 1+10, Lvl 2 +23, Lvl 3 +40)
(The modifiers above are based on the 100 Player World at War Map)
Capturing and Enemy Capitol
When you capture an enemy capitol, all your territories immediately get a Moral Boost of 10% (your enemy gets a 20% penalty to Moral in every territory they control). During the first few days, it's advantageous to capture the capitols as the Last territory of an enemy, thus allowing all your recently captured provinces to get the Moral Boost.This not only improves the economy, but also immediately makes them Revolt Proof! Later in the game, when you control dozens of cities, the opposite is true. By capturing the capitol first, all your previously captured cities get the Moral Boost and produce 10% more resources every hour. If you hold off on capturing the capitol for 1 hour, so you can improve the moral of more 4 cities, you have just lost out on increasing production on 20, 50 or 100 cities by 10% per hour of delay.
Garrisoned Units
Though a garrisoned unit or two do not actually modify the Moral in a territory, they can effectively prevent it from revolting at day change on those first few days after it's been captured. Once the Moral is above 30%, provinces will not rebel.
Operations and Rewards for Watching Ads (on Mobile)
Recently added (2023 with a few modifications since their first appearance), these bonuses show up in the form of "Cards" or "Boosters" you can use to supplement your forces/resources. Forces which would otherwise cost you RSS or take time to improve on their own. Hence they are included here. They come in 3 different varieties: Units, RSS and Boosters
Units
The units are just that, extra units you can add to your forces without paying any RSS for them. Just select a card, pick the province where you want to place the new unit and it spawns in that territory. There are certain conditions that must be met such as Map Day on which the card becomes available for use, and the Moral of the province you place the unit.
Unique Units
There are several units are ONLY available from Cards:
Amphibious Tank - Tank that does not need any time to Embark/Dis-embark for instant landing from sea.
Flame Tank - Strong vs Infantry
Resources
Exactly that, cards containing various quantities of resources you can add to your inventory. The Ads also provide Gold.
Boosters
These abilities improve the field with things like Moral improvements or healing units. Others speed up build time, research or production.
All these are available to everyone. Find a map with Operations available (visible on the Map Join screen) or watch videos on your Mobile to get these Cards and Boosters.
These 'Incomes" are MUCH more valuable on day 1 than day 10. On Day 1 your production of any resource will be approximately 250/hr. So a 125 Card of RSS is approximately 30 minutes of game time. On Day 10 when you're producing close to 1,500 of each RSS per hour, that same card represents less than 5 minutes of resource production. So using them in the first 2-4 days of a new map gives greater benefit compared to your daily production where their value is minuscule in late game.
I hope this guide helps, yet if something is inaccurate or I've missed something, let me know.
OneNutSquirrel
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The following were involved in preparation of the original piece.
General Nightman, GGBugh, Ependable, Attacker101
Updated by OneNutSquirrel
Thank you jubjub bird for catching some mistakes and errors.
The original post can be found here.
