http://www.earthgraphs.com/...6f49cde44a8a8bb9a427a4f19

Edit: Updated time of warstat link to be more accurate.

SoF opened up with 2 quick chem rushes before the missiles could be sabotaged. Currently 8-4 in SoF's favor.

Still very early in the fight and I expect it to be a bit closer after the initial 24 hours and everyone has a chance to hit. Players accross all timezones need their chance to attack before any assessment can be made.

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Nice activity on both sides so far.

Well Sof is almost doubling Sol in hits...

I was surprised Sol wanted a weekend war they're activity is best on weekdays IMO.

wow quite the difference so far

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excited .

I think we can expect SOL to really step it up in the next coming days.

Agreed. SOL also normally have some ferocious restarts.

Also everyone needs to keep it in perspective. Do not forget that SOL has a fairly new leadership line up (after losing a couple of leaders last set) and it will take time for them to find their feet.

What you are seeing is an Alliance which has only just started to rebuild versus an Alliance that rebuilt a few sets ago.

All that matters is that both involved Alliances enjoy themselves. If SOL is behind right now then they should savour the challenge of trying to get back ahead.

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well put Sov. good luck to both sides.

lol SoF destroyed all the high stock Fascists.

That should be the end of the war :)

From a noobie point of view it looks heavily against the favour of SoF,

But I have played 3 sets, and all 3 of them I've warred and been killed by SoL. They know how to war, and there restarts kill more than the normal countries.

Very good team when they want to be.

Great show from both sides so far.

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Perhaps SOL should limit their spy ops to SoFxWAR and leave our netting tag alone...

Wouldn't want to piss them off and be at war with two SoFs at the same time =)

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great war!

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Good war:) Seems SoF will win...

Lol I think SOL thinks your netting tag is sending FA :P

is sov dead yet? :D

He died while he was doing unmanly things!!!

did it involve strap-ons?

lol 133tz

SoF knows how to stockpile and use said stock, the solers with stock died

still a few of us with enough stock to play

I'm curious how much stock swampy blew today ;)

I will FA swampy all my stock. If Sol promises to kill Boltar :P

It is a pretty slow war

I'm guessing the new way things are being done now.

Now that you guys have had an "even" war which way do you prefer? The old ways or these new ones?

Yeah the game changes suck to put it bluntly. I understand the intention behind them but I think it needs to be scaled back.

It is horrible to be killing 5 civilians per hit on a walling target with 2k pop. A target can get online, buy troops and logout and subsequently live for another 200 hits. With the hpk hovering between 400-500 it slows down war significantly.

The formula needs to be wound back (i.e adjusted) a bit.

Ya, agree with Sov. I was telling people that a tagkill is almost impossible by either alliance this reset at 3 to 4 kills daily (assumes 1 to 2 wallers daily).

While intially, I was against many of the changes, and yes even complained about them,

over time, they grew on me. Yes kills are slower....but that makes a good war longer too:) And it requires new strategies....

You didn't come up against many wallers with lots of stock. It does not make any sense that the duration of a killrun can be doubled simply because the target buys up 2 million troops.

It also makes it more feasible to not try and kill a waller but leave him and let him recover and then come back to him later, which is also stupid.

SOF clearly had an early advance which will be hard to recover.
Killing countries with large stocks.
They have better activity.

Gotta agree the new system is seriously flawed

I'm with Servant on this one. It may be a lot harder to kill a country, but that just means strategies need to be adjusted. From what I understand, with the "attack again" button, if you were targetted in war, you were dead no matter what. Maybe that's overstated.. I don't know because I hadn't been around under that system before these changes.. but I've never been a fan of the virtually guaranteed kill. I always thought it would be better if there were more options in war besides just "do 300 GS or BR" on every target.

I don't know if anybody really cares about this kind of stuff, but the fact that buying up troops extends a kill run is a lot more in line with reality. One troop trying to defend 30,000 citizens should be disastrous. Two million troops defending those same 30,000 citizens should be an entirely different story.

If these changes stay as they are, perhaps the goals in war will change. Instead of just tallying up kills, maybe alliances will focus more on reducing the enemy to a point where they can't do much damage. I don't really see what's so wrong with that.

And BTW, against certain targets, I can think of some pretty easy ways around the big buy up of troops. Just requires some different strategies. Almost every country has some exploitable holes in its defenses, if people just take a breath and look for what they are. And those that don't have any holes should be very hard to kill indeed.

wtf.. WHERE'D THE CAPS GO!!?!?

The change essentially makes it so a small alliance would have no chance in hell of killing a waller. It favors larger alliances because we can muster the turns to get the kill, but a 20 member alliance would never be able to take out an active war country.

I think Imag experienced that versus Monsters this set.

nice dig into scode there sovy!

early days but it looks like we have proved once again who is the fittest out of sol and sof.

want to wish Sol good luck. that 200M net difference is going to hard to overcome now. Especially when hitting less then SoF. Both sides have put on good show though.

I don't think it makes a "good war longer" it just prolongs the inevitable.

Wats this attack again button ppl complain about? Never once saw it and I can hit faster than most ppl without it

So far, I like the changes and am for keeping them.

I think its better for morale by extending wars. Of course, this may change if I see it from a smaller alliances perspective, but I don't think it'd make much difference.

Those kills are prolonged in the wrong way imo. Seems too easy to live that way. The grabbing changes seem silly to me too.

Theres a whole lot of rythym goin round..

When it comes down to it does it really matter what we perceive as flawed in attacking/defending? No matter how you look at it, the same rules will apply to both sides in a war. The execution of the war is all that matters (as it always has) in determining the winner.

There were times an imag counry would come online.

We'd stop the kill...Even at mid 40 numbers. it took round 3 on one imag country.

We had to adjust our tatics. And our approach and plan for people coming online. Even at Mid 40's.

The wars will be longer, they will require a change of tatics...both are good things..

Are their issues, yes, do I know how to solve them, no....

But overall the change has grown on me.
It took a 4-5 day tagkill, and changed it into a 10 or so day one. I think that's a good thing.