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This article is a proposal for a study that I think would prove very informative to the US and her allies when it comes to battle plans, if something like this has not already been done. While fighting for Sweden, I noticed a similarity between the two battles in Gotaland and Svealand. At the day change, Lithuania led Sweden by a couple battles, but the rounds that immediately followed seemed to fall, sometimes heavily, in Sweden's favor. However, I woke up the next day to see that after about 2 rounds of the Sweden rebound, Lithuania had come back and won almost (if not every) round after that. This made me wonder about each side's activity throughout the day, and how that affected each round.
What if it were possible to map out the battle activity of a country throughout the course of an e-sim day? What if we could use that information to plan attacks and get an advantage in battles by attacking countries when their activity is low and our activity was high? How would this work?
Well in order to win a battle, you must win 8, two hour long rounds before your opponent does. Since there are 24 hours in a day, that makes 12 rounds per day. Now, assume there are two countries fighting each other, country BLUE and country RED. Half of the day country BLUE dominates, while the other half, country RED does. Depending on what time of day the battle is started, a different country will end up victorious!
In each circular diagram depicted, the circle is divided into 12 segments (for 12 rounds in a day). The blue segments are the rounds where country BLUE dominates and vice versa for the red segments. In each portion, a line indicates the battle starting time, where time travels in the clockwise direction. The numbers are there to track how many wins each country has as time goes on, and as you can see, the final outcome can be changed based on when the battle was started. If you read the diagrams correctly, you would see that in the one on the left, BLUE went up 2-0 before falling behind 2-6, and then coming back to win 8-6. In the one on the right, RED went up 0-6, then BLUE tied it up 6-6, and finally RED won 2 more to finally win 6-8.
It should be stated that this is a VERY simplified situation. In reality, one would have to take into account other factors that could affect battle activity, such as number of other battles the country is distributing damage between, the motivation behind fighting for the region (if its a high region or the battle was subsidized more people would participate), attacking allies, strategically holding damage, etc. The diagrams are there just to prove that by assuming changing activities throughout the day, the outcome of the battle can be determined based on when the battle was initiated.
By finding a means of measuring a country's activity throughout a given day, one could potentially know the maximum effort a single country could give at certain times of the day and design battle plans around this principle. This does not have to be limited to theoretical one on one battles either, but applied to a more realistic battle involving multiple countries by summing their activities for a certain time. While I bet people are already aware of the changing activities and how to use them in battle, this explanation serves as a necessary introduction to the study I want to propose, though because this article is getting rather long, I will leave the details for the next one.
Thank you for reading America,
chipmonkey
Local Newb
US Army Soldier
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