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Guide to Military Gameplay

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Introduction
So, you have joined the Imperial Japanese Navy, and don't understand how R/D gameplay works? No worries; here is how it works.

What is R/D?
R/D gameplay, Raiding and Defending, is the act of moving a WA member nation into a region and endorsing a target Delegate, so that they can either take the Delegate position, or to reinforce the native Delegate (who is the target in such a case).

Raiding
Raiding is the act of trying to take the position of Delegate from a native, and take control of a region. Typically, the target Delegate is a member of the raider organisation.

Typically, when a region is raided, raiders will typically change the World Factbook Entry and Regional Flag to reflect the raiding organisation. Tag raids are on smaller regions, and just involve changing these things, while more active raids will actively occupy a region. In extreme cases, raiders will eject and ban natives, and will actually steal the region from them entirely.

Defending
Defending is the act of either defending the region from raid attempts, or liberating it from raiders. Defenders do this by either endorsing the native Delegate, or another Delegate if said native Delegate isn't active enough.

Unlike raiders, defenders will typically restore the region to the state prior to its raid, and restore power to natives.

Timing
Timing is crucial, especially when liberating a region from active raiders. Delegates change (if there are enough endorsements) at certain update times:

Major Update (0500 GMT - 0600 GMT)

Minor Update (1700 GMT - 1800 GMT)

However, each region updates at its own time between said times, so, while one region may update at 0515 GMT, another might update at 0545 GMT.

Timing is crucial, as every minute is a chance for raiders to eject defenders from a region, which can compromise a liberation. Conversely, every minute a raider is early presents more of an opportunity to eject and ban them, making a raiding operation fail. However, arriving after the update basically counts as being 12 hours early to the next update.

Jump Points
Jump Points are regions chosen because of their late update times. When a region updates, so do the nations in the regions and their endorsements. A nation in a region that updates earlier will still have updated, already, thus their endorsement is not counted.

In order for an endorsement to count, a nation has to update in the target region and endorse the target Delegate, before the region updates.

Influence
Influence limits how much Regional Officers (besides Founders) can eject and/or ban nations from a region. It is built-up by residency in a region, and by being endorsed by nations. Ejecting and banning nations, however, costs influence, and nations with more influence than said Regional Officer cannot even be banned.

Raiders will typically have a sleeper stay in a region and act like a native to build-up influence, prior to a raid. That way, they can have enough influence to fight-off defenders, who might try and take back a region.

Founders
Founders are nations that establish a region, and, when holding executive power, hold supreme power over the region, including the ability to eject and ban at will. Regions with active founders holding executive power, thus, are at a very low risk of being raided.

The founder can also make the Delegate non-executive, meaning that, even if a raider were to take the Delegate position, they would have no actual power, and cannot even vandalise the World Factbook Entry and/or the Regional Flag. Regions with non-executive Delegates (like Yokosuka) are, thus, impossible to raid at all, unless the founder ceases to exist.

Conclusion
Hopefully, this will clear-up how this works. The Imperial Japanese Navy is dedicated to defending and liberating regions from raiders, so understanding how this works is crucial to effective combat.

頑張って、天皇陛下万歳!
-Yokosuka naval district, Admiral, Imperial Japanese Navy

Yokosuka naval district

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