Warbook Alliances

• Have a clear objective. What is the purpose of your Alliance? Is it to grow? Is your Alliance aggressive or is it mainly for self-protection? Or is it primarily for socialising?
• Have clearly articulated policies that meet your objective. This includes retaliation policies and Non-Aggression Pacts. Make sure members and non-members know of them. It’s best to be consistent.
• Clearly communicate internally. You’ll need a private forum, a chat room, email lists etc and the means to administer them. Facebook fortunately has a fair amount of that already but not quite enough.
• Clearly communicate externally. Have nominated contact members especially for complaints and for diplomacy with other Alliances.
• Do not grow too quickly. New members need to be inducted and can change the objectives of your Alliance.
• Form small units. Small units of members who play at the same time work more effectively together.
• Have clearly defined roles within units. Soldier factories (warmongers), banks (moguls), swords (again warmongers but could be anyone), spell support (mages) for when kingdoms go in alert. A possible tactic is to have all members supply money to a single specialised attacker (aka sword), have the sword grow, transfer soldiers and cash out to the bank, and then have other members of the unit attack the sword siphoning land until the sword is in full alert. Transfer soldiers back and have the sword grow again. This way, only the sword is exposed to retaliation, all other members remain unknown and safe. Also members level up when they siphon land off the sword keeping the unit roughly within the same level range.
• Form specialised units for between unit cooperation. A cadre of mages can be extremely effective when warring with locked down kingdoms - make sure they have very high defences however. A unit of soldier factories working around the clock is essential. A unit of swords designed to take heat is also good. Consider only using swords for retaliation and attacks. This protects all other members from retaliation.
• Share resources. Think about having a mobile army of soldiers that can transferred from one sword to another or from one unit to another. Have duty mages for spells.
• Manage retaliation lists (aka kill-lists) carefully. It’s quite easy for members to go overboard and retaliate above what your Alliance policy states is acceptable. Having separate kill-lists is essential. Ensure that members update the kill-list with information on retaliation. Moderate.
• Maintain discipline. Moderators and administrators of the Alliance have the responsibility of maintaining discipline. Have a clear policy for expulsion and implement it.

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