Federation advice - ASPER (Little Upsilon)

Been asked to join a fed with 100% defense agreement,
Q-Does that mean if an Alli of mine gets attacked my defense army will auto attack my fed mates enemies to 100%?
or does that mean that I am simply obligated to send units if asked??
Any help understanding this will be appreciated.
Madison

Defensive resources that are shared during war are air defenses only, so if you or one of the fed members (should you join) has air defense wings (don't use these), interceptor wings or helicopter wings (use those two instead) they will act in defense of your country or your fedmates country when attacked assuming they are within range, the range for response is 1000 km. Any other weapons or units you have will not automatically defend or attack nor will your country automatically declare war on the person that declares war on your fedmate (unless you sign the war treaty, don't do that either unless after you gain some experience you decide you want to do so, but it is generally not a good idea).

I'm on LU as well and if you have any questions feel free to message me at WB 001 Econ.

WB

The only automatic consequence of joining a fed is the air defense WB described above. 100% is the only number that makes sense. If you don't put up any interceptor or helicopter wings then none of your forces will do anything at all. The point of shared fed air defense is that it makes it much more costly for an attacker to make headway in attacking a country if he is confronted with air defense wings both from the country he is attacking and from that country's ally both in the same attack.

A healthy fed will also share information about how to succeed in the game, economic as well as war, through in-game messaging. If they're really serious they'll also communicate through an SC chatroom or maybe they're set up with MSN chat.

A really committed fed will have a webpage someplace. Insane ones will have a constitution and officers and other crazy stuff.

Besides sharing air defense a good fed's memb

Wow - really great advice - I always wondered about that also. heles & Intercepts - better start producing those instead Lisa

Agreed - thank you both