DevinMacGregor wrote:
I name each of my operations.
I don't exactly name my offensives, but I do like to name battles of extreme importance.
Right now I am dominating my world. I am Saudi Arabia and I have Turkey, Russia, Italy, Germany, Poland, and lots of minor countries. In the Polish War I had Germany and Russia and the status of number one player. However, Poland had the status of number three in military power while I was at 15th. They decided they liked the odds and declared war (while I was offline). When I got back they were eating pieces of Germany. So I quickly got my HIs on the Russian side rounded up and jumped across Ukraine to attack their holdings in Lithuania and Belarus. Meanwhile in Ion the western front I was holding off the attacking forces with missiles from my bombers. I felt like I was playing whack-a-mole because they just kept coming and coming! I had about 70 missiles on the first day. By the time I logged off I was down to about 20-30. The Polish casualties were over 60,000 that first day. And it continued into the night. That was when I employed the artillery tactic from a few comments ago that saved my units from getting overrun. By morning they had taken about 10-20,000 more casualties. I decided to call that first day The Battle Of Running Fire, because of that massive bloodbath and how it played out. To put it in perspective the Poles lost more men in that one day than the Russians did during my entire war (of several weeks) with them. My war with the Poles was my favorite because of the casualty rates. 5,000 me - 108,000 Poles. 21 to 1. Never before or since have I dealt such massive casualties with such relative loss of life on my side.
On the other hand, my favorite battle for least casualties overall was with Ukraine. I had just connected my eastern and western empires by taking Belarus. I decided to expand my connection by taking Ukraine. So I jumped my men into the country and took it within 45 minutes. I met with ZERO resistance. By the time everything was taken both sides had taken no casualties. 0 me - 0 Ukraine. I couldn't even call it a battle. So I decided to call it The Annexation Of Ukraine.