First off, welcome to La Cosa Nostra, the best damned alliance in Earth 2025 :) . In La Cosa Nostra we netgain together, fight together and help each other out. Let me just say we expect you to be active here, we expect you to make friends with your division pals and grow big countries and fight like a mofo. We also expect you to follow our rules that keep us safe, and we most of all expect you to have fun.
First thing you should do here in Atlantic City, is read this post. :) We will be evaluating your skill level as soon as we get a chance to speak with you. My name is Andy Flag and I'm your Mentor Leader, think of me as a kind of coach to get you used to La Cosa Nostra as quickly as possible. I am here to guide you in your new alliance, and help you playing what might be new strats, and getting to know people, learning the LCN history, and goals. As well as making sure you are good enough to play with us.
The very first thing you should do is add me to your icq list. My icq is 8728088. Refer to me if you have any problems working through this opening package thread i've created for you. After you complete it there WILL be a test, if you fail the test you will not be admitted. Don't worry, if you read this info over once it should be enough to get 100%, and you can always look for the answers here while you are taking it. We don't baby you here, if you have a question, you better try to find the answer yourself on the boards because it is 99% of the time a question we've already answered somewhere. We want progressive people here, who can think for themselves, not boring drones. If you are boring noone will bother getting to know you. If english isn't your first language please let me know as well. We will set you up with someone already in LCN who speaks your primary language.
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"Gamerstown country report is also in the blue drop down bar at the top. Look under reports. Alliance box i set to none, and gov'ts boxes I leave alone. Some are afraid of dictators so exclude them and some want to get ent/res so only attack Republics. A good idea but land is paramount in my opinion and this should be only a secondary consideration.
In the third box I hit SHIFT and then "will retal". That excludes Friends and Don't Attacks. I work the retal
thing differently a little lower. :) However, if you find the alliances that are marked "will retal" are always correct by the methods below, you can exclude them (but check back every so often).
I leave the GDI and Live check boxes alone. Put a one in the update time and hits #. Diminishing returns starts to set in after 2 and we don't want a stale report.
In the "excluding attacks by country" box I check the box and put my country number in the box beside it. That way I never hit a country twice and swallow nukes because of it. However, you could probably get away with it after a 3 weeks or so.
I click the next two excluding boxes because while we are nasty and aggressive we also try to be fair and not gang up on the "Little People". :) This avoids unwanted wars and makes the FA's job much easier.
Standard Langrabbing advice (pay attention, this is the good part)
I pull the next box down and chose "Networth (in M)" In here I put a number that is around 40% of my NW. In the next box I put a number that is around 60%. For example, if my NW is 2M I place a 0.8 in the first box and 1.2 in the second. Just approximate, calculation is not necessary.
I want to attack someone half my net for a variety of reasons. That I won't get into, but trust me it is to your advantage. :) However, later in the game, especially if you are well ranked, these targets tend to disappear and they lose NW as they are farmed. You may and probably will have to go below 40%, but it's not preferable.
Of course you can play with both the land and the NW numbers whenever you want, and you will want to when you get used to gamerstown.
I then change the sort to land instead of NLG. NLG is useful early reset when land can take up much of your NW but after that you want to attack the fattest person possible in your attack range regardless of their NLG. Getting the most land with the least attacks as quickly as possible is the most important.
Once you have found some targets the first thing you do is go back to the LCN FA page to make sure we don't have a pact with the alliance in question.
After that check the news of the country and of the last 2 players to hit that country, if they are not retalled it's still good to go. This is a good thing to do all the time, especially if you are questioning whether an alliance can hit you back.
I do an additional "search" in game to make sure that the player has not switched alliance tags or had significant increase or decrease in land/networth since the last update in gamerstown." ~Written by Zabby.
Now is the time when you will update your country status html. This allows us to critique the strategy you are playing, and help you to learn the game better so you can get higher networth and be a bigger help to our team.
What you will do is copy the html from your status link in your Earth country, the same as when you pasted your html into GT from your scores link in your Earth country.
looking for luckygal's one, it had nice pictures :)
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Fighting Effectively
Maximize your attacks!
how ?
use always only 1/3 of your forces except you are ask from warchat leader to use more to be able to break - never fail an attack
(example: u have 150.000 troops --> you will not attack an target that requires more than 50.000 troops to break)
attack sequence for Tyranny: (1 turn/attack)
attack (GS or BR or SS)
readiness 96%
spy op, missile or something else
attack (GS or BR or SS)
readiness 95%
spy op, missile or something else
attack (GS or BR or SS)
readiness 94%
spy op, missile or something else
spy op, missile or something else
readiness 100%
attack sequence for Republic, Dictator, Communist, Theocracy, Facism
attack (GS or BR or SS)
readiness 99%
attack (GS or BR or SS)
readiness 98%
attack (GS or BR or SS)
readiness 97%
attack (GS or BR or SS)
readiness 96%
attack (GS or BR or SS)
readiness 95%
attack (GS or BR or SS)
readiness 94%
do 2 spy ops
or send 1 missile
readiness 100%
attack sequence for democracy
attack (GS or BR or SS)
readiness 100%
yup, as a democracy you will have to attack with every turn you use actual attack takes 7% of readiness away. Then every turn you gain 3% readiness
tyr: 100-7+3(it takes one turn to attack)=96%
Demo: 100-7+3+3+3=102%~100%
Mon/commie/Dict/rep/Fasc: 100-7+3+3=99%
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Restarting
We always restart in wars with a tyranny, simply because of its attacking style. Because you only need to attack with one turn, it allows you the turns inbetween to explore and build your country while still finishing off countries. YOU HAVE TO RESTART EVERYTIME YOU ARE KILLED IN LA COSA NOSTRA, OR YOU WILL BE REMOVED, BAR NONE!
Tyr Farmer War Restart
1st Half:
Monarch
100% turrets
Sell 100 troops
35% tax
Build 20 cs
Build 40 farms
Explore
Sell all food on PM
build 20 farms
Build 10 farms
Explore
Sell all food on PM
Build 20 farms
Explore
Sell all food on PM
Build 20 farms
Explore
Build 20 more CS
So Far:
55 turns taken
110 farms, 40 CS, ~12k bushels, ~110k cash
2nd Half:
(After 55 turns taken)
Build 45 farms.
Explore
Build 15 farms.
Sell all food on PM. (Wooo lots of cash now)
Explore.
Build 30 farms.
Explore.
Build 30 farms.
Explore.
Build 30 farms. (260 total farms now)
Explore.
Build 30 farms.
From now on, just explore/build farms..
If you get low on cash, and cannot build anything, sell a *LITTLE* bit of bushels on the PM to build..
But you'll want to sell LOTS of bushels, like 50k at least, on the PUBLIC market at turn 100.
After that, you'll probably get an FA package, and once you get 75 turns on hand, you can finish up on little small
countries, sending like 10k troops or something.
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Retals and Smacker's Retal Forum
Welcome to Smackers Forum … a forum with a familiar name, but now also the home for LCN’s new retal procedure.
Our primary objective: To insure every attack on LCN gets retalled fairly and hard!!!
In the past, retals were handled in division. If the attacked member couldn’t take the retal immediately the news was posted in division and opened up for everyone. If the retal wasn’t taken within 48 hours, the DL posted it in this Smackers Forum and opened it up to the alliance. This procedure served LCN well for many resets, but it was cumbersome at times and only gave members 24 hours notice on big retals. Many members expressed interest in developing an alliance wide retal forum to improve our retalling. In short, its time for a change :-)
So, what’s the new retal procedure and how will this forum work???
Well, first … we hope our tag and current ally list will help limit the number of attacks on LCN members.
Second, if you’re the target of some funky attacks (double taps, attacks by allies or acts of war) and need FA help, this
forum is not the place … go to the “WTF Forum”.
If you are landgrabbed and need a standard retal done … you’ve found the right place in Smackers Forum :-)
LCN Retal Forum (Policy and Procedure)
If you are attacked, you should try to do your own retals as soon after the attack as possible to maximize land returns.
All retals should be done as SS or PS attacks only. We strongly recommend using PS retals to maximize land returns.
If you require more than 24 hours to take the retal, post the original attack news in a new thread in Smackers Forum and indicate when you intend to take the retal. When posting a retal thread, include the ingame country search news and the original attack news. Use the example below as a guide (ask for help if you're not sure):
Title: 1 RETAL: Date/Time Country Name (#XXXX) (Alliance Name); XXXX NW; GDI
**GT Attack News (with date and time of attack)**
Country Found: XXXXX (#XXXX)
(Government)
Rank: XX
Networth: XX
Land: XX
Attack Win Percentage: X.X%
Defense Win Percentage: X.X%
I will take this retal tomorrow or I can’t take this retal, somebody smack him good!!!
Remember … MEMBERS must post their own retal threads!!!
If you can’t do the retal or want LCN to take it, post the original attack news in a new retal thread in Smackers Forum and state that you want to open it up to all LCN members.
Open retal threads may be claimed and taken by anyone for a period of 1 hour. If an open retal is completed, the retal news must be posted in the original thread to close it. If the retal isn’t completed within 1 hour, it will be considered open and available to the alliance again. Please make sure to clearly post your intentions regarding retal actions to avoid confusion.
Additionally, always check both GT news and Earth in-site news prior to taking any retals to insure that LCN doesn’t do double retals.
All retals must be taken within 72 hours of the original attack. If after 48 hours no one has taken the retal, the retal forum manager will solicit LCNers to insure we complete the retal before it expires.
Proper retalling of ALL landgrabs against LCN is critical to our success. Please help make this work!!! Failure to abide by this retal policy must be considered a rules violation and could result in loss of retal forum access and/or further
disciplinary action as warranted.
Thanks and good retalling :-)
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