I'm in. Although I might just have to settle for smallpox instead of ebola, since I decided to get a resort first. But I'll be building up the military... what are some good forces for attacking, Cable? Hopefully I can have some air units and tanks by then.
Based on what people are saying in the OE forum, tanks are the premiere offensive unit in the game. But just crunching the numbers, I'm a big fan of the black hawk. They're cheap, they're airborne (making them harder to destroy), and they've got bombing capabilities. I haven't tested it out (yet ), but if you get 2-3 hundred black hawks all attacking at once, you can slowly destroy every military installation in the game (even Nuke Silos), knocking it down one upgrade level at a time. At least that's how I interpret their battle system when it comes to bombing. I'll have three helo-pads churning these suckers out, and I've built a couple of airstrips just to boost the number of air-unit slots.
I just signed up, reading over some of the material now trying to learn the ropes. I think someone mentioned that there can only be 30 in a cartel? That will be an issue if this gets more popular (I'd be surprised if we don't have 30 or close to by now). Name is the same "Tapefreak". Lol, would love to join, or someone start up a 2nd clutchfans cartel and we'll get an alliance! Muwahaha!
Crap. Just realized that the helicopters have to be at the same installation to attack as a group. Oh well, I won't have quite as many black hawks as I'd like, but we'll make due. Oh and check out this new feature they implemented on the site. You can quickly size up everyone's rank in the cartel: Clutchfans Cartel Dark Soldier's Cartel We are going to crush them.
I'm down for Sunday. I've been messing around with my choppers tonight. Pretty killer. I'll have Marines in 3.8 hours.
Hmm. Good question. I never noticed that before. In my mind, we can do one of three things: 1. We can go though with the attack anyway, and see how strong their alliance actually is. 2. We can hold off on attacking them for the time being in order to build up our power. Then we can use this Sunday as a test run by attacking a smaller unaffiliated cartel. 3. We can totally forget about them and go back to the drawing board. I guess I'm leaning towards 2 for now.
Crap. I read around a bit more and you're right. The person who uses the Missles/WMD's do in fact get embargoed, not the other way around like I thought. But the good news is that it only affects business (shopping center, resort, stadiums), so you can still make money off oil.
Just start building up an army. A couple hundred infantry is a good start. Some Black hawks too. Here's some more sitting ducks that have tons of money in the bank but hasn't logged-in in a while Azsoldier Huubio Rosanero1900
I'm down with an attack on the Dark Soldiers. They don't intimidate me like some of the top Cartels. I really am ready for action. But if you guys don't want to step on any big toes, just point me in the right direction. Speaking of action, someone finally attacked me! I had been expecing a reprisal for a while since I rob everyone around me blind, and it finally happened today. This one shmuck sent 20 infantry against my base and got whiped out. I sent eight kill strikes with my blackhawks then infantry back at his entire complex until he was almost whiped out of soldiers. It was too easy. I'm ready for a challenge.
You know what. You're right. This round is over halfway through and we'll only have 2 weekends left to do anything. And who knows how strong their alliance is. And one thing, I've found out, a lot of people are just too damn far to attack. For all we know, their allies would waste too many resources if they wanted to come back at us. The attack against the Dark Soldiers is back on. Everyone continue to build up your military. Lots of Infantry, Black Hawks, or higher grade units if you've got the resources (some tanks would be pretty badass). At 3pm est (2pm Houston time) on Sunday afternoon, we'll all meet in the cartel chat room to coordinate the attack: http://oilempires.itch.com/chat.cfm?defaultToClan=1
Yes, you would have to cut off the lower grades so that the next refining process can process it to be even finer. One thing I recently did if you have a lot of crude oil and it is clogging your storage, just put a Yes to sell crude oil and it will sell the excess crude which you will have anyways by the next pump....Hope that makes sense...and hope I can make it to the War on Sunday! Finally getting the Black Hawks down, just saving up for a Resort so I can start getting a Million every hour.
