Land of Nonsense War Rules

The Land of Nonsense's rule of war is a mathematical device used to provide the probability of victory in a war or battle. The system uses NSeconomy to calculate various real world factors that go into war such as geography or troop moral.

For going into a war on how this system works for a country at war read the bold numbers along the way.
NOTE:War does not actually effect your Nation States Nation- its just a way of showing who has a better army.

Starting War

Before starting a war several things needs to be done:

A Neutral Moderator is chosen- this is important as the neutral moderator does the mathematics to determine the probability of each side winning
Sides of the war needs to be chosen: self explanitory
Statistics of the players country needs to be taken down. The information is taken once and will not change as your individual country on Nation states changes. The information needed is: (all taken on the day before the war)
- Population
- % spending on Defense
- Amount of $ put in Defense
- % in education
- % in Public Transport
- % in Healthcare
- GDP
Fing out your Tech Value by this equation

1+ (2 X % in Education) + % in defense =Tech Value

Creating your Armies

Several Factors go into your army, such as size which is determined by this equation:

Pop X Def % X 1/2 = your potential army manpower

At the begining of the war you start with 1/3 of your potential army manpower and gain 10% per day

Divisions of the Army

1. Choose divisions of your army and potential strenght and weeknesses of the armies Divisions of the Army include: Air Forces, Ground Forces, Sea Forces, Special Opps, and potentially a space force. You may give bonus's to any of these divisions as long as you equal out the armies power to 1 ex:

Example: Army of the Skankin Penguins

Penguin National Guard (Ground forces) X.8	Amphibious Assualt Squad (Special Opps) x1.2
Sky Squad (Air Forces} X .5	International Penguin Navy X 1
Planet Smashers (Special Opps) X 1.5

Notice how the average off bonuses equal 1
These bonuses are multiplied to ratio in a battle

Equiping your army

2. Using the rescources given to you buy your army Your Defense spending and military manpower will be used to purchase equipment and vehicles for your army. The cost of these are listed

Basic For all Countries Sea

Types of Units	ideal start	Cost $	Cost Manpower quota	Speed	vehicle power	Manpower	Special	Description
Land
Basic infantry	40	2,000,000	1000	2 square /day	0	250	1,000 men with standard guns
Artlillery	12	4,000,000	900	1 sd	2	100	can be used if 1 square away	250 artillery guns
Tanks	30	5,000,000	900	4sd	3	150	____	300 tanks
Support Vehicle	20	3,000,000	800	4sd	1	100	can hold 1 units	400 vehicles
Anit Air	15	2,500,000	500	1 sd	2	50	takes out air	-
Battleship	5	10,000,000	1400	10 sd	3	150	____	1 battleship
Destroyer	10	5,000,000	800	10 sd	2	100	_______	2 destroyers
Cruiser	15	4,000,000	600	10 sd	1	50	_______	2 cruisers
Transport	20	3,000,000	0	10 sd	0	0	can hold designated # of troops	enough boats to transport 3 units
air craft carrirer	3	15,000,000	2000	10 sd	2	100	can hold 4 units of airplanes	1 air craft carrier
subs	15	4,000,000	700	12 sd	2	100	can be invisible fo a day	3 subs
Air
Fighter	50	2,000,000	400	16 sd	2	25	_______	300 planes
Bomber	40	3,000,000	700	15 sd	4	10	________	300 bombers
attack helicopter	30	2,500,000	500	12 sd	2	60	_________	250 helicopters
transport helicopter	10	2,000,000	0	14 sd	1	25	can hold units	enough to hold 1 unit
Space
Station	1	50,000,000	3000	5 sd	5	0	______	1 large space staion
fighter	15	5,000,000	600	10 sd	2	0	____	300 fighters
destroyer	3	15,000,000	1000	7 sd	3	0	_________	1 large destroyer
death star	0	100 trillion	100 billion	5 squares a day	100	0	can kill anything	1 death star
orbital space weapons	3	20,000,000	400	3 sd	2	0	can target ground targets-but only if you own the space quadrant	1 large space gun
Space Transport	0	10,000,000	0	1 day to get uints in space then 1 day to deploy	0	0	enough to carry 1 unit

Units are bought with:

Money - calculated from the amount you spend on defense
Manpower quota- the amount of manpower you have at the time- (at the beggining of the war its Pop X Def X 1/2)

Special units can be made by manipulating the stats and telling the neutral moderator. A system will be made eventually.

Special abilitys can be thought of and purchased such as

Sandbags for $3 a man for added defense
Barbed wire to stop enemy infantry for $5000 a square or added defense if in a city
Tank barriers to stop enemy vehicles for $6000 a square or added defense if in a city

Miliatary bases can be done several ways:

players may agree to have a set number of bases on the map
players may agree to have a number of available bases that may be purchased for a price
- Bases act as cities in giving reinforcments and defense
- Bases may be placed on nonclaimed land or agreed with another country to be placed on their territory.

Ranks and divisions

3. Divide your army into "battalions using numbers for easy reference Within each of your army divisions numbers need to be given to troops for easier communication of moving them- ex: The Penguins National Guard 102nd. or the Amphibious assualt squad 23rd Calvary.

Daily War Activity

4.

Every Day players must give the moderator where their armies have moved too on the grid version of the map.
The moderator plots out where each army is located and moving on the map and when two armies are in the same square a battle takes place- for this see battling.
The moderator tell each player where the battle is happening and player may ajust for the next day accordingly.
Space is fought on a special black map
- everyday players must fill out a form looking like this

Move Armies

Move (Army name) To (Location)

ect.

Reinforce

Buy (such amounts of units) and place in (certain army)

Buy (any improvements) and place in (a territory or army)

Heal

Send (some army) to (some territory to get healed

And every day in return the moderator will give you

Your military Victories

Battle A in (some square) took place resulting in (#) of your casualties and (#) of your enemies. A 10% moral bonus has been added to (the army in the battles). The (enemy army) has retreated to (some square close to the original). Your chances of winning was #

Your Military Loses

Batlle B in (some square) took place resulting in (#) of your casualties and (#) of your ememies. A 10% moral bonus has been deducted from (your army) and your army retreats to (some square). Your chances of winning was #.

Continuing battles

A conflict in (some square) with (your army) and (enemy) is continuing for another day. You took (casualty number) and your enemy took (casualty number). With the battle continuing tommorrow your chances of winning are (some number).

Sussesfully healed units

Your (unit) has been healed and is ready for battle

For more info see http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php?title=(title of war)

Probability of Winning the War

This equation can be used to calculate the probability of winning a war when Country A takes on Country B
(A's Manpower/B's Manpower) + (A's Tech Value/ B's Tech Value) +(A's BudgetB's Budget)=A's Ration

Reverse and do the same for B Then:

     A's Ratio /  A's ratio + B's ratio    =   Probaility A will win

=Special Factors

A 10% probabilty shoud be add if a country is on the complete defence from another nation.
When 2 or more countries are on a team: add the manpower, average the tech value and add the budget together.

Example

Country A has:

13 mill in manpower
a 1.43 tech level
600 billion in budget

Country B has

15 mill in manpower
a 1.13 tech level
300 billion in budget

then: 13/15+ 1.43/1.13+600/300 =4.13 ratio for A 15/13 + 1.13/1.43+ 300/600=2.44 ratio for B

- 4.13 to 2.44 chance of A winning

that come to be a 63% chance of winning the war.

Battles

Battle come when 2 armies come within the same quadrant. Battles are mainly handled by the moderator

Chance of winning a battle

Just like the probability of winning the war the chance of winning the battle is in an equation: (# of A's troops/# of B's Troops) + (A's tech value/ B's Tech Value) + (Power of A's vehicles/ Power of B's vehicles) = A's ratio (reverse for b and theres your ratio and probability)

The probabilty will be used in determining the victor of the battle.
Additions to the ratio can be added such as
- the ratio multiplied by the Division of the army
- A X 1.3 defense bonus
- A X 1.5 bonus for on home turf
- A + .2-3 for geographical and enviroment features
- A -2 to +2 for troop placement
- a -.1 or +.1 for moral

Chance of the battle continuing

The closer the ratios are the more likely the battle will continue for a second day. The top ratio will be divided by the bottom and then subtracted by 7 and divided by 10 to get the chance of the battle continuing. Ex: A has a 55% chance of winning B has a 45% chance so 55/45=1.22 then 7-1.22= 57% chance of it to conitnue tommorrow. or A has a 75% chance and B a 25% chance so 75/25=3 then 7-3= 40% chance.

If a battle continues:
- Players may reinforce the battle with available units
- Daily casualties are calculated and subtracted and daily the new battle ratios are made.
- At any point a player may retreat.

Winning a battle

The probabilty will be used with the website http://www.random.org/nform.html - the percentages will provide the chance of a winner. First the chance of the battle continuing for another day is resolved- if it is 30% the # is drawn and if is 1-30 the battle continues 31-100 a victor is decided. The victor is done the same way the contiuation of the battle works- lets say a person has a 70% chance of winning a battle if 1-70 comes up he wins if 71-100 he looses.

After a Battle

The moderator anounces the victor as soon as possible.
Casualtie rates are calculated using the chart below
Casualties may be healed by the % a country puts into healthcare
.1 moral is given to the victor and -.1 moral for the loser
you may heal units for a certain price to return them to full strength again.

Casualties

Casualties are as fallows

For the loser
- a 0-1:9-10 ratio- 80%-40% casualty for lower %, 40%-20% fo higher
- a 1-2:8-9 ratio- 50-30% for lower, 50% for higher
- a 2-3:7-8 ratio- 40-20% for lower, 60-15% for higher
- a 3-4:6-7 ratio- 30-10% for lower, 40-20% for higher
- a 4-5:5-4 ratio- 30-10% for either
for the winner
- A 1-33% loss
For a continued battle
10-40% loss

the random number generator will be used to calculate casualties.

Casualties are subtracted from troops available and destroy a section of their army. Manpower and vehicle power is also lowered for the unit.

Battling on home soil

Each player gets a Line of site around their units and country to give them a day's advance of when a enemy is comming.
Each player gets a 1.6 defence bonus for home soil battles
Each Player need to divide 7-15 up their cites to a percentage of economy to hold- ex: Main town may hold 10% of your economy- each of those cities must hold at least 3%
When a city is lost that percentage of the city holds is deducted from your economy (not from actual Nation states but from the war funds)
No moral restrictions apply- only bonus's

The Grid map

For war the map is separated out into squared on a grid. Units move by how many squares they can go a day. Each country in the war will not fallow the grid format though, instead it will be separated out into 15 regions which will each have an economic value, where if the person looses that section they also loose a section of their economy. The economic values need to be determined before the war.

controlling squares

On the land map squares in a players control will be represented by the players colors (either red or blue) so the enemy know's were the enemy has controll of. Space squares will be taken if a unit resided in the square.

special ways of playing

certain territories-such as island or areas of unclaimed territories can be given special bonus's if players conquer them. The Moderator will be the one to had out the bonus's and only he will know until the region is taken. This may or may not be used in war.

Winning

A player wins when one person gives up or is seen to be anialated