Your longest battle?

Carl Wilson wrote:

Nope... There were many combat phases where no damage was dealt.

I know, but I'm not exaggerating.

It wasn't exactly a battle, but a war. I went on an on from day 14 to around day 70, though I'm not sure. Every once in a while we would agree to a cease fire, and then fight each other a couple of days later. It cost in total almost a million lives (close to half a million of both sides). I had a massive empire, but I was always busy fighting another war somewhere else, so I couldn't crush him until very late game. The most deadly part of the war was the very beginning. When our armies first met 100,000 died in the first series of battles. My army was destroyed, but so was his. It's a good thing we had allies to watch our backs!

GreatbigHippo wrote:

It wasn't exactly a battle, but a war. I went on an on from day 14 to around day 70, though I'm not sure. Every once in a while we would agree to a cease fire, and then fight each other a couple of days later. It cost in total almost a million lives (close to half a million of both sides). I had a massive empire, but I was always busy fighting another war somewhere else, so I couldn't crush him until very late game. The most deadly part of the war was the very beginning. When our armies first met 100,000 died in the first series of battles. My army was destroyed, but so was his. It's a good thing we had allies to watch our backs!

Kehsct wrote:

My tutorial game. It went on for 57 days. The war really started on day 25. The only players left at this time were Yugoslavia(181 VPs), Russian Empire(93 VPs), Morocco(224 VPs), and Greater Finland (me, 298 VPs).I had taken France and the UK from Morocco without a fight after he attacked some of my men in England. I was allied with Yugoslavia and the Russian Empire at the time.

Morocco then suddenly slammed my men with tactical bombers (which I wasn't prepared for considering it was my first game). After the tactical bombers struck, his armored brigades (mostly mediums) came over the border from Spain as my men started a full retreat. Yugoslavia then betrayed me and struck my weak underbelly, and my army of 100 (also mostly mediums) fell back to an easy defense line.

As they started their assault, I realized they had more men than I did, so I sent my armored brigades to blitzkrieg their undefended territories after they slipped through the enemies defenses. I almost got to Paris with one (that was Morocco's cap at the time). Another went all the way to Greece and launched off into Africa. I then promptly blitzed that until my light tanks were finally stopped right at Morocco's homeland. A third got to Yugoslavia's cap (still Belgrade). The fourth group was destroyed before it took out anything that major.

As these guys died off, I had a smaller force ready to try and counter made up of SP artillery, SP anti-air, tank destroyers, and medium tanks. They were made in nearby factories and brought into one province to counter an attack. I used this one to delay the enemy while I built up another one further back. That one was used in the same fashion. The last few were pulled back as Morocco and Yugoslavia drew close. They eventually had to stop because if they kept pulling back, my homeland would be assaulted. They held back one or two assault from the enemy, but they eventually succumbed.

While that happened, I was spamming Anti-Tank guns along with Anti-Air (and where possible, artillery) in my urban areas. This kept the war going for much longer. When their first men entered my homeland, my UK provinces were still mysteriously untouched, and Morocco had invaded my Swedish and Norwegian territories, making his new capital Oslo.

As the assaults started on my cities, Leningrad proved to be the toughest. The forces in Leningrad weren't the largest of my forces, but they held back two or three assaults by Yugoslavia before falling. My African cities also turned out to be resilient due to lack of large enemy forces in the area, and high level factories generously provided by Morocco. (through all of this the Russian Empire was being thoroughly beaten by Yugoslavia). It was day 40 at this point.

Eventually, my homeland fell and only my UK provinces plus a few outcast territories (gained by the last of my motorized divisions) remained. I only had two destroyers, 3 interceptors, and the assorted anti-tank, anti-air, and artillery regiments I had just started making (I never expected the UK to be my last stand).

Eventually, I built up my air force to 5 interceptors, 3 tactical bombers, and 3 strategic bombers (that were always bombarding city's buildings into nothing). My land force in the UK had 24 anti-tank guns and 4 anti-air guns (Morocco's air force had disappeared so I had grown a bit lazy there). My navy was 9 destroyers strong and had set up a loose screen around England. I had actually launched a counter-offensive in Africa with anti-tank guns, anti-air, and artillery atm.

Then everything went to hell again. Rocket attacks and Tactical bombers destroyed my entire air force due to it being stationed in one place and my interceptors not providing air cover. Morocco then promptly slipped 70-80 of his divisions into England. I had all of my units pulled out and relocated to my capital which was Dublin. Everyone made it out alive, and my destroyers set up a screen so tight, that there was only 1 or 2 entry points available. All the other landing points for Ireland were covered by 2 destroyer squadrons. My forces in Africa had been obliterated by an attack by Yugoslavia.

Then, before any more invasions, the game ended. I'm still not sure whether Yugoslavia collected enough VPs (Morocco didn't take nearly as much land as Yugoslavia), or everyone voted to retire (there were already 2 out of 3 votes cast to retire). For all of my trouble, I only got 55 gold pieces.

The final casualty counts were:

Morocco: 235,106 Yugoslavia: 154,787 Yugoslavia: 87,609

Greater Finland: 190,416 Greater Finland: 154,221 Russian Empire: 114,657

Total Casualties:

Morocco+Yugoslavia: 477,502

Greater Finland+Russian Empire: 459,294

Apparently, that's what holding out to the end does. (note: there may have been more casualties due to un-updated casualty reports in the newspaper).

My most costly battle was me (Spain), and most of my friends from school, We had just taken over France for making two accounts and taking resources from the other account, then Canada attacked me and took over most of my land, I fought him off then my friend from Germany flew his squadrons of nuclear bombers down to my country and nuked EVERY SINGLE one of my provinces, I had only a few bits from Egypt, Egypt had a piece of land and the land Canada took went to Egypt, this sparked a HUGE nuclear war of me launching missiles, and everyone was fighting an all country war, WW3, it was a long war, they took all of my land, I had a 200 unit task force made of heavy tanks, light tanks, armored cars, heavy tanks, SP Artillery, SP Anti-Air, Artillery, mechanized infantry, motorized infantry, etc, Came back that day and I had 0 of everything and............Yeah! It was fun?

JCS Darragh wrote:

My most costly battle was me (Spain), and most of my friends from school, We had just taken over France for making two accounts and taking resources from the other account, then Canada attacked me and took over most of my land, I fought him off then my friend from Germany flew his squadrons of nuclear bombers down to my country and nuked EVERY SINGLE one of my provinces, I had only a few bits from Egypt, Egypt had a piece of land and the land Canada took went to Egypt, this sparked a HUGE nuclear war of me launching missiles, and everyone was fighting an all country war, WW3, it was a long war, they took all of my land, I had a 200 unit task force made of heavy tanks, light tanks, armored cars, heavy tanks, SP Artillery, SP Anti-Air, Artillery, mechanized infantry, motorized infantry, etc, Came back that day and I had 0 of everything and............Yeah! It was fun?

seems like a good game

The longest game ive ever been part of is currently still going on. It was an 100 player ma and kentucky and kansas declared war on me on day 1 but didnt invade till about day 25 so I conqured west europe the middle east and libya and egypt so then my ally gabon gets attcked on day 15 by marhao and they are still fighting I supply gabon but dont engae so me and my oter ally finlndare doing are daily patrol in the english channel and medd and we find about 500 units from kansas and kentucky so they invade my other ally algeria and wipe him out and then i try making peace but they bomb my ally finland and i join the war for the first 2 weeks its a stalemate on the maginot line until they open another war in africa and i try to defend both but fail so they just overwelm me and finland reinforces and we fight for another week but we are oushed back in europe so i start a counter offence in africa but ive intercepted they had nukes so i messagemy buddy south sudan who agreed to cover my retreat so I retreated to sri lanka with 25 subs and 150 heavy tanks 30 tactcals 20 medium and5 light tanks and about 20 aaguns and 10 invantry then toady I found out kentucky quit so im retaking my homeland italy first and then going to retake my empire

Thread is about a longest battle, but almoast all replier write about longest war they have had.

Nobody can read? My longest fight AC vs AC in mountains was over 27 hours, longest battle was may be a week, longest war may be 4 weeks. longest game over 160 days.

Also explanation for minorreadskilled: Gameround can have many wars even between same enemy. A singe war have many battles. A battle can have high number of single fights.

Read the first post made. It talks about a war, not a battle.

Kehsct wrote:

Read the first post made. It talks about a war, not a battle.

TankBuster wrote:

Ok guys, whats been your longest and most costly battle, victory or war?

This is the experience which got me addicted to this game.

I started playing this game last year, but stopped during the summer because I was too busy to keep playing. I came back to the game this january, and in my very first 100-player world map game I choose Madagascar.

As Madagascar I did the usual thing in the beginning of the game, conquering npc's/inactives, befriending neighbors, joining coalitions, and it was all going very well. Everyone around me was either fighting each other or going inactive so I grew to encompass almost all of southern and eastern africa. I began researching and producing naval units to prevent any random attacks to my island nation, as in previous games I have seen many people from all over the Indian ocean send random attacks to Madagascar, and did not want to have to deal with such annoyances.

But during this time Algeria was growing faster than any other nation in the game, causing everyone to be concerned and worried that he would win. Since we were growing towards each other I tried to broker a peace between me, Algeria, and Sudan (his only ally), but he would not listen. Once I conquered Belgium Congo we had a land border, and after only a few hours, he attacked.

At first I thought this was not going to be a problem, as I had a strong army and had been very successful thus far. So I send my troops to attack, leave to take care of real world things, and when I came back all of my attacking troops were dead.... I was shocked, but figured he got the jump on me, so I sent in another, even larger force to attack him. When I came back they were almost all dead and I saw how, he had spent an insane amount of gold to have over 40 interceptors/bombers by day 20.... At this point I had not even researched interceptors and had barely any AA's built, so I knew I was completely boned.

I ordered a complete withdraw of my troops back to Nampula, the only city within flying distance of Madagascar, and I used this time to research interceptors, and to build AA, interceptors and fortifications. Then after a few more days, he was at Nampula. At this point I had just enough AA and interceptors and level 4+ forts to fight off his air attacks, so he began a full on siege of the city. Algeria and Sudan bombarded Nampula for over 50 hours straight where I actually had to spend some gold inorder to get enough air defences in place, as i was building new air and ground forces on madagascar. I then brought in my new troops, killing all of Algeria and Sudan's forces around Nampula and recapturing the surrounding provinces.

At this point Argentina had grown so concerned over Algeria's expansion that we allied and worked together, and he was beginning to attack Algeria from west africa. I had fought him off and pushed back Algeria and Sudan, and Sudan became quit and stopped attacking me, leaving me with only the Horn of Africa. But the silence of victory only meant trouble... As he soon began pushing back to get his planes within reach again. And before long I saw it, a 40 stack of ground troops with 22 SP arty. And yet again, this rich MF'er is throwing down gold to try and kill me, as I had not even researched SP arty yet, and this time I knew Nampula was lost.

So I ordered all of my troops to withdraw from Nampula, to Madagascar, Leaving Algeria without a true victory and anxious to kill me. It took him 2 more days, but he finally sent that 40 (gold-laden) stack into the water, completely unprotected. I almost immediately found them and ordered all my nearby sub's and destroyers to attack and finish them off. By this time Argentina had made considerable gains on Algeria and Italy had joined in our fight against Algeria in Europe, all while Sudan was still just sitting there. Then I left for a few hours and came back to see that Algeria had actually gotten 1 infantry through the single gap in my ring of destroyers protecting my island, and conquered a useless province (thank god!). At this point I knew he was dead as he had just spent gold to reveal my troops and that was all he could do, as it was an act of anger, not strategy.

At this point I told Argentina and Italy of this victory and that now was the time to attack. At this point Sudan started playing again, trying to take the horn of africa from me as I was using Mogadishu to build troops. Together with Argentina we tore apart Algeria and Sudan, leaving me with more than what I lost to them originally, but Argentina got the bulk share of land/VP's.

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End of story:

After this Peru and Argentina were the dominant powers in the game, so I allied up with

australia/new zealand since we were major maritime powers. I sat back and built up my forces until Argentina wanted to war with india. We went to war with India (and China), but then Peru back stabbed Argentina taking his core. This caused Argentina to withdraw all troops back to the america's to strike back at Peru.

This left me with India and China to fight with alone, but they proved to be of little challenge and I quickly overwhelmed them both, causing me to become a dominant player. Apparently that very weekend after backstabbing Argentina, Peru felt so good he decided to take the weekend off. So with him no responding to me, I thought he was planning to come after me as well, so I joined Argentina in his fight against Peru and together we started attacking back. My dreadfleet of over 65 ships made its way over from China to Peru's coast to start hitting him where it hurts the most. Peru gave up and went inactive.

Now at this point I have 2473 VP, the largest econs/armies by far, and am on a straight path to victory with no competition.

Never in a million years did I think I would actually win this game. At first I was just happy to have defeated Algeria/Sudan, but through teamwork and strategy I have come out on top.

Day 54:

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I would never have expected Madagascar to conquer the world...

My longest game was the Winter invitational which dragged on past new years. I forget exactly the casualties but for two weeks my team fought over Caucasia and Iran with the EU, our rivals. Primary weapons were the flash mobbed lights with heavy supports of tacticals and SP Artillery. I was Siberia and basically it was diplomacy that saved my behind. Lost Tomsk twice but hanged on to pick up the pieces afterwards. We eventually won as the Moderators launched a surprise strike that caused the few surviving EU players to panic and withdraw which started a slide into defeat much like Napoleon's Grand Armee.