Getting ganged up on

• First of all, don't shout in the newspaper because it draws attention and makes you a target.
• Anyone who has a lot of VP in the first days will get noticed by the others.
• It's a common tactic: "When two dogs fight for a bone, the third takes it home." I often take over two countries that killed each other and walk away with the big prize without any losses.
• Don't join a coalition too early as well. Coalitions tend to clash with each other as they are natural enemies. When you are not in a coalition you are less of a threat and less likely to be attacked by another coalition. Many coalitions fall apart after a few days because they lost the fight or due to inactivity. After a couple days you will see who are the most active players and who are the players to beat. Contact those players and form your own propper coalition and you will crush the others.

Good advice thanks

Thanks for the advice. However, I'm actually level 58 and I know what I'm doing. I know it's a common strategy to let others fight first. And I know that having a THIRTY point difference from the second player below you on Day 3 also attracts attention of those who reads the newspaper to check up the stats of others. The reason why I posted on the news articles because I thought it'd be a fun idea. So I did it and what'd you expect? The entire international community wants you dead. Happened on Day 3, so that was fun.

Yup, I have been in those shoes.

In an arms race I started as New Mexico. As soon as the peace period ended I was invaded from the south by East Mexico I believe. He threw units at my forts and laid siege to some of my cities. I hunkered down in my forts and waited for a good opportunity to counter.

The next day West Mexico got frisky and started working up on my west side, taking a few provinces and shelling one city with his railroad gun. I had two railroad guns, but they wern't in the right places yet.

Then west texas starts working on my eastern side.

Now none of these fellows have captured one of my fortified and well defended cities, but I was complete surrounded and missing a few valuable core provinces.

For Texas I managed to keep sneaking my artillery out of my forts and hammering their stacks as they left most of their artillery at home. Some fancy maneuvering past their front line to capture some of their core provinces, and a whole day of massed artillery, and they were out of the fight.

East mexico met a similar fate, as I was able to come through Texas around his front line, and scatter his forces as they were trying to chase me down. Divide and conquer so to speak.

Meanwhile my 2 railroad guns had been playing hide and seek with West Mexico for 3 days now, and West mexico was also trying to move west leaving his neighbors to mop me up. Again as I was able to run around in his core because of his undefended border with East Mexico it was at least a fair fight.

Then to top it off, Nebraska decided that I looked like an easy target and sent thirty or more units single file into one of my forts.

After all that some people were amazed that I was still playing. I was fairly weak, but I survived being attacked from all sides like that.

BMfox wrote:

Don't join a coalition too early as well. Coalitions tend to clash with each other as they are natural enemies. When you are not in a coalition you are less of a threat and less likely to be attacked by another coalition

VorlonFCW wrote:

Nebraska decided that I looked like an easy target and sent thirty or more units single file into one of my forts.

micons wrote:

The moral of the story?

micons wrote:

You breathe a sigh of relief and thought to yourself " Oh man, I crushed these fools. Time to tell about my victories in the Middle east before sleeping." You finish writing your sentence worth of an article and went to sleep.