Aries C3 War Guide (Air)

This guide will focus on how to raid c3s using air force units. The steps given assume that the goal is to maximize the amount of cash obtained, gain some population, and then drop the country. This guide describes an ideal method of raiding until war level 6.

One quick thing about war levels. To maximize cash as you raid c3s I recommend:

- If you are war level 0, you have to raid a war level 1 c3.
- If you just made war level 1, raid a war level 2 c3. You can raid a war level 2 c3 5 times before advancing to war level 3.
- If you are war level 3+, always raid a c3 at your war level. Every 4 wars won will advance you to the next war level.

In this way, you can complete 18 wars (on each world) using the steps in this guide before advancing to war level 6.

1. Obtain the necessary weapons and ammo. I recommend the minimum of:

Purchase at 330 quality:
400 Fighter Planes
40,000 Fighter Missiles
600 Precision Bombers
80,000 Precision Bombs
500 Interceptors (You can wait until war level 4)
45,000 Interceptor Missiles (You can wait until war level 4)

Purchase at 120 quality:
100 Military Transport Planes
4 Special Forces Units
1000 Special Forces Missiles

2. Form the following units:

Unit 1 (300 Fighter Planes/100 Precision Bombers)
Unit 2 (400 Precision Bombers)
4 - Air Transport Units with 25 Military Transport Planes each
4 - Special Forces Units
4 - Defense Interceptor Units (You can wait until war level 4)

3. Declare War on a C3 that meets the following criteria:

- It is not adjacent to the country you are raiding with
- It is within 2000 range. Use measure distance or if country is within 4-5 countries of you, it is probably in range.
- It has the most state corporations possible. 15+ is ideal. The more, the better.

4. Give air drop orders to your special forces units to drop on the targeted country.

5. Use Unit 1 (300 fighters/100 bombers) to attack the DEFENSES of a county or town. You should lose bombers and in return be shooting down interceptors. Continue doing this until no defense interceptor wings respond to your attack.

6. Use Unit 1 (300 fighters/100 bombers) to attack the Interceptor Wings directly. Easiest way is to select these units from the target list (not the map). This will destroy the units.

7. Use Unit 2 (400 bombers) to attack the DEFENSES once, this should destroy all defending weapons, and then TARGET of all corporations. Again, using the target list is the easiest way and destroy all corporations.

8. Move the special forces units you dropped around the country. This will "paint" the country, occupying territory that will allow you to win. Check the War Index of the c3 and look to see you get all 25 occupation points. Also, after getting the occupation points, check the total War Index of the c3. If it is zero, or less, you can attack the defenses of a county/town with either Unit 1 or 2 , for no losses, and win the war at that point, and skip step 9.

9. Use Unit 2 (400 bombers) to attack the Defenses and then target of the capital and then cities until you reduce the war index to 0, and win the war.

10. Use the "return" command to call your special forces units back to your country.

11. Change to the country you just conquered. Turn the automation setting "Automatic building of new corporations" off.

12. In the country you conquered, go to "employment" and "exchange professionals" and transfer 200,000 workers of your choice back to your main country.

13. Wait one game month.

14. In the country you conquered, go to "employment" and "exchange professionals" and transfer 200,000 workers of your choice back to your main country.

15. In the country you conquered, sell products of your choice ("trade" -> "trade with countries and enterprises directly") back to your main country (you will effectively get these for free). Production plants are particularly valuable followed by usually well-stocked items like airplane fuel, gasoline, services, military services, and trucks.

16. Complete the transaction by switching to your main country and accepting the sales.

17. Transfer all cash out of the conquered country ("Direct Trade" -> "receive game money from countries and enterprises"). You can use the same area to transfer the cash to your main country ("send game money to countries and enterprises").

18. Drop the country ("Account and Membership" -> "Countries and Enterprises" -> "Cancel a Country")

If you don't dec a level higher on your fourth war you wont get a GC reward but your WL will be bumped up ;)

I tested it. You get the coins. I tried to keep it simple, and complete, though when you are ready for your fourth war at war level 3 it might be better to dec a war level 4 country to get about double the cash. After that, the cash difference is negligible and you might as well keep decs to your war level.

I need to mention, as you go up in war level, you might need more than one Unit 1 or 2. That or, as you take losses, you need to disband and remake the unit to full strength periodically to retain its effectiveness.

It's been changed then. I remember complaining about it not to long ago.

I am trying this tonight. I have been buying the weapons over the past day or so. I already did the "win a war in 10 minutes" thing. I wish I had known this. I didn't get any of the money or workers out before I canceled the country.

Does it matter that I am already WL 1 since I won the war against a c3 once already? About how much money should I get from the country so I know that I have done it correctly?

Thanks,
Zen.

This worked faster than you even said. I didn't need to paint anything. I even had corps left to destroy when I won. I also transferred almost 1T out and it was a level 1 plus almost 400k workers. Everything but teacher, nurses, doc, and LMH workers.

Level 1 is cake. The guide is to work up to war level 6 and teaches the strategy that will hold through those war levels.

You only get 6 total wars until you are advanced to war level 3. You should dec a war level 2 next to collect $500 billion more/war.

I figured tonight I would go through the level 1 decs and then start level 2 tomorrow. When transferring workers, it said I could do up to 400k within my empire. Does that mean my main country can transfer 400k to each country I win tonight or is that total for the month?

You should be sending workers back to your main country. The newer countries are limited at transferring 200k. Your main has the same limit in receiving from these countries so, I believe, it can only receive workers from 1 of the c3s/month.

With the second country tonight, it put me to WL2. I transferred out every worker but ML and LL workers. I also transferred out all of the money and basically purchased almost everything from it and transferred all of that out as well. I cancelled the country then.

Question on the weapons in the C3s. I figured I didn't want to buy them because they would be low quality, but should I sell them on the market and then transfer out everything out? I would need to keep the country for a while to do it but it may be worth it if the weapons are worth enough, especially at higher levels?
What is the lowest quality weapon I should accept to purchase for my country, generally speaking?

You can take the weapons. They are not worth much, at any war level, but the argument to take them is the ease of getting them. You don't need to sell them, you can simply transfer them with the "transfer goods" option.

Lowest quality weapon is an interesting question. I will leave some things for you to figure out but consider that the cost of using weapon upgrades to increase the quality is constant/weapon regardless of the value of that weapon.

Sounds good. I think I will take one more tonight and call it good. I see I have already taken more cash than it cost to buy the weapons so I have more than made my money back.

Tomorrow, I will get the level 4 weapons ordered with a goal of WL4 by the weekend.

I didn't get any GCs for WL 2. Was I supposed to?

This answer is found in the war docs under "levels and declarations". Gold coins for raising war level do not start until level 4.

I see that now. Thank you!

One last question (I think) on this. I see that my country is automatically ordering replacement ammo as I am using it but it is not at 330 quality. I was going to set it order those products at 330 all the time, but I think I am going to set it buy a small amount of ammo every month (say 10,000) until I have a supply of a specific amount (say 100,000 for now). Am I looking at that correctly? If I click the units button (instead of months) and then put 100,000 in the first box and 10,000 in the second, it will auto order 10k per month until I have a supply of 100k and then will always maintain 100k. All of the orders will be 330Q.
Does that sound like a good idea so I can build a surplus without having to log in every month and buy ammo?

I don't currently use order strategy for ammo. Primarily because I look for deals and like to manually place my own orders for weapons and ammo. I think your explanation on how it works is close enough except I believe the maximum quality for auto-orders is 300.

Ok good to know. Thank you! I am close to WL4. Once I win the war I am in right now, I think I need 1 more. I'll probably go for it tonight.

I peaked at your current war. You are missing the "painting" step. You are expending much more ammo hitting additional cities, forts, and towns than you need to.

edit: In fact, check the log. Your last handful of attacks are expending ammo and doing damage to a country that will soon be yours but is not affecting the war index. Those last 10 points you need to paint for. The other 15 points you could have gained would have saved you quite an ammo bill.

Yeah I was waiting on the troops to arrive and thought they were taking a long time. I realized I "moved" them instead of "airdropped" them so I have corrected that.

I also just saw that I had it at 90 and nothing was changing it. Waiting on the airdrops to arrive to finish it off. I just thought it was taking longer because it is level 3.

When I get to WL4, I have the Def INT units now. Do I send them to the country I attacked and let them defend my units? I can't attack with them since they are defensive, right.

Just station them in your country. They will respond to the c3 stealth bombers that will attempt to attack your fighters and precision bombers.

Ah thanks! I made it to level 4. I may try to fight my first level 4 tonight if I have time. If not, tomorrow then

Bump. Helpful, thanks.

Once you hit WL 3 the documentation says you can't move up to 4 unless you declare against a 4 & win. Is this still true?

"Game Update" October 22, 2014
66. War Levels [ top ]

After fighting 4 wars against C3 countries at your current war level, your war level will auto increase.
Increasing war levels win you gold coins on all the five worlds but the number of gold coins is higher on the Fearless Blue world.

When starting a war against a C3 country, you can now choose between multiple options. You can start a war at a higher war level. Winning such a war will move you to the next war level.
You can start a war against a C3 country at the same war level you are. Such a war will win you the resources in the country and will move you to the next war level only after you win 4 such wars.

A new option, allows you to start a war against a C3 country at war level 3. The war may win you the country but there are no money rewards. The feature is added on request of some players for strategic reasons, trying to win a country closer to an area where they intend to fight a different war.