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WARERA’S WAR MACHINE ATE 19.6 MILLION GOLD. ALMOST HALF IN 11 WEEKS.

Johnny_SinsAugust 25, 2026stats

Yesterday https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af15d9 and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac829 spent 133,878 gold in https://app.warera.io/battle/6a8bee7f36e26ed4619af1ed, the most expensive fight ever recorded. 28,993 accounts have been paid to fight since the June rework. The median one made 3.06 gold.

Disclosure. I own https://app.warera.io/mu/69b937289b25c65012bb501e. It is fifth on the unit board in Part X of this piece, and it sells into the contract market Parts III and X price. Every figure here is counted at the treasury end or off the server's own ranking rows, never from anything I can see as an owner.

The window is 2026-06-09 to 2026-08-24, v0.25.x and nothing else, except where a board says all time. Win rates are contested only, n beside every percentage, nobody on a board under 20 contested battles, and 215 assertions rebuild every figure before it reaches this page.

1. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7c0 93% contested WR, 74 n

2. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7aa 83% contested WR, 29 n

3. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac83c 79% contested WR, 42 n

4. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac899 77% contested WR, 26 n

5. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac858 75% contested WR, 81 n

6. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7f2 72% contested WR, 39 n

7. https://app.warera.io/country/6873d0ea1758b40e712b5f16 68% contested WR, 50 n

8. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac874 67% contested WR, 21 n

9. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a8 66% contested WR, 41 n

10. https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af15c3 65% contested WR, 84 n

The bottom of the same board is https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac848 at 16 percent on 25, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac8cb at 22 on 23 and https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b4 at 23 on 26. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 is 25 percent on 112, which is a lot of losing to sign up for.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7eb is the row that does not fit anywhere. It won 55 of the 69 war battles it started, and its war defence is 11 percent on 64 contested. It attacks well, it defends terribly, and as Part IV shows, it has paid more for the privilege than any country in the game.

30 war battles started under the Latvian flag since the rework. 30 won. Check two: https://app.warera.io/battle/6a8744dda955593aec404ba2 and https://app.warera.io/battle/6a868268670f9f38ba8b0db2, both against https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac868 on 20 August. Then 41 uprisings came at the ground it had taken, and 36 of those were beaten off too.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7c0 holds 31 regions, https://app.warera.io/region/6813b70a9403bc4170a5da17 included, from a country of 92 people, on 116,361 gold. Twenty-ninth on the spending board.

mercenary contracts 7,810,678 committed, 2,528,080 came back, 5,282,598 realised

battle bounties 5,652,031 committed, 1,533,412 came back, 4,118,619 realised

battle orders 56,377

starting a revolt 19,280

contract cancellations 19,177

total 13,557,543 committed, 4,061,492 came back, 9,496,051 realised

Thirty percent of every gold a government commits to a war comes home unclaimed, so a state puts up 13.6 million and actually loses 9.5. The auction is the main instrument now: contracts are 56 percent of realised war spending, and the old mercenary pool line is dead in this window.

Now the whole bill. The treasury books reach back to week 2025-01, and across 71 weeks and 180 countries the governments of this world have committed 27,666,392 gold to war and actually lost 19,635,061 of it. Eleven of those 71 weeks sit in this window, and they carry half of everything ever committed.

1. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7eb 805,219 spent all time, 340,328 of that, since June, 43% contested WR

2. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac858 690,505 spent all time, 212,479 of that, since June, 75% contested WR

3. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a2 644,294 spent all time, 324,670 of that, since June, 38% contested WR

4. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7ae 626,242 spent all time, 228,232 of that, since June, 44% contested WR

5. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a0 575,248 spent all time, 178,564 of that, since June, 52% contested WR,

6. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac79c 552,273 spent all time, 129,166 of that, since June, 54% contested WR,

7. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7ba 546,207 spent all time, 389,058 of that, since June, 62% contested WR,

8. https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af1612 541,826 spent all time, 216,466 of that, since June, 44% contested WR,

9. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac845 472,800 spent all time, 250,506 of that, since June, 52% contested WR,

10. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7e5 464,626 spent all time, 99,922 of that, since June, 38% contested WR,

Two clocks in one table, on purpose, and they are not the same one. The gold runs back to 2025-01; the win rate is the eleven-week window, because that is the only span this piece measures win rates over. Read the last column as "how it is doing now", never as what the money bought.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7eb has spent more on war than anybody who has ever played this game: 805,219 gold lost, against 1,068,541 committed. It is winning 43 percent of what it contests today. Venezuela is second at 690,505 and is winning 75 percent, which is the widest gap on this page between what a war has cost and how it is going.

Two rows say where the money is moving. Serbia has run up 71 percent of its entire war bill in these eleven weeks and is the biggest spender in the window at 389,058. Germany has spent 23 percent of its bill in the same span: an old power gone quiet. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7e5 is the strangest row here, tenth all time on 464,626 and barely present now, at 99,922.

The other end of the board is worth more than the top. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac811 bought 20 wins at 357 gold each. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac8ce paid 358, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac826 421. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a2 paid 8,325 a win.

The states' money lands on the server's own ranking rows, contract money included. Here is where it went.

  1. https://app.warera.io/user/684110e55a2ea3f4a48cbf1c 39,558 took home, 27,766 money, 11,792 loot, 263.06M damage

  2. https://app.warera.io/user/68291a2ce10d9906653b5f47 339,089 took home, 28,029 money, 11,061 loot, 216.01M damage

  3. https://app.warera.io/user/6879d778820ed429e1825ffb 31,920 took home, 19,419 money, 12,500 loot, 244.56M damage

  4. https://app.warera.io/user/6813b758efecdf9bab1950b3 31,308 took home, 24,031 money, 7,277 loot, 183.08M damage

  5. https://app.warera.io/user/686c6d8fbe1cef5842840efe 29,099 took home, 19,403 money, 9,696 loot, 211.38M damage

  6. https://app.warera.io/user/6834a52677410036463f8d2b 28,781 took home, 21,497 money, 7,285 loot, 167.67M damage

  7. https://app.warera.io/user/681afda47c71edf800d8d31e 28,689 took home, 21,424 money, 7,265 loot, 206.70M damage

  8. https://app.warera.io/user/6838a7320b77c3a92564bd8e 28,000 took home, 18,092 money, 9,908 loot, 178.83M damage

  9. https://app.warera.io/user/681d8310470bf2a1423d8d16 27,340 took home, 20,465 money, 6,876 loot, 145.99M damage

  10. https://app.warera.io/user/696361d05a395c072623949d 27,276 took home, 19,594 money, 7,682 loot, 153.89M damage

Now the part that matters. Those ten took 2.4 percent of all the money paid out. It takes 852 accounts to reach half of it and 3,851 to reach nine tenths. The median paid account made 3.06 gold for the whole eleven weeks. 28,993 accounts were paid something; 43,385 turned up.

This is a flat payroll. Nobody is getting rich off this war, the top of the board included: https://app.warera.io/user/684110e55a2ea3f4a48cbf1c's 39,558 is real money and it is also a tenth of what https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7ba alone spent. Look twice at https://app.warera.io/user/6879d778820ed429e1825ffb, who took more than a third of his total out of the ground rather than from any treasury.

Yesterday morning https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af15d9 crossed into https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac829 and both governments opened their wallets at the same rate, 0.06 a thousand damage. Battle https://app.warera.io/battle/6a8bee7f36e26ed4619af1ed ran 1.311 billion damage across 376,619 hits, and when the second round closed Indonesia had held.

133,878 gold changed hands over it: https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af15d9 paid 62,043 across 2,452 accounts, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac82971,835 across 2,478. That is one battle carrying 1.4 percent of eleven weeks of war payroll, and 4,930 paid accounts in a single fight out of 28,993 who have ever been paid. Nothing else in the window comes close.

  1. https://app.warera.io/battle/6a8bee7f36e26ed4619af1ed, 133,878 both sides paid, https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af15d9 62,043

  2. https://app.warera.io/battle/6a45ff084707a3112911a662, 100,558 both sides paid, https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af1612 69,817

  3. https://app.warera.io/battle/6a8612629ca0ccc6b4a5f352, 97,869 both sides paid, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac8da 63,292

  4. https://app.warera.io/battle/6a3bc0ba5512e3a30e8aa2d9, 94,697 both sides paid, https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac845 59,800

  5. https://app.warera.io/battle/6a47508a5bb462a419d3a823, 89,998 both sides paid, https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af1612 57,174

https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af1612's 69,817 on 2 July is the most gold anyone has ever lost on a single battle, and https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af15f7 beat them again the next day for another 57,174. Look at the pattern in that column: on four of these five the side that spent MORE is the side that lost. A bigger cheque is not a better argument.

VIII. WHO BURNED IT

Add up every battle a country lost and count what it paid its own fighters anyway. That is gold that bought nothing at all.

  1. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a2 194,669 burned losing, 29 defeats, 117,706 paid on wins, 62% wasted

  2. https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af1612 167,650 burned losing, 30 defeats, 157,224 paid on wins, 52% wasted

  3. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac845 143,269 burned losing, 38 defeats, 102,228 paid on wins, 58% wasted

  4. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7ae 139,670 burned losing, 31 defeats, 107,384 paid on wins, 57% wasted

  5. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a0 133,884 burned losing, 17 defeats, 84,730 paid on wins, 61% wasted

  6. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b2 132,592 burned losing, 24 defeats, 42,843 paid on wins, 76% wasted

  7. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 131,088 burned losing, 27 defeats, 33,439 paid on wins, 80% wasted

  8. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac82c 127,301 burned losing, 28 defeats, 59,930 paid on wins, 68% wasted

  9. https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7bc 126,676 burned losing, 32 defeats, 61,888 paid on wins, 67% wasted

  10. https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af15d9 101,762 burned losing, 3 defeats, 5,908 paid on wins, 95% wasted

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7a2 is the most expensive underachiever in the game. Third on the all-time spending board, 38 percent of contested battles won, and 194,669 gold paid out on defeats in eleven weeks - 62 percent of everything it put in a fighter's hand.

https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d446e731854c7ac7b8 is the sharper version of the same problem: 80 percent of its battle payroll went to a losing side, on 27 defeats against 24 wins. It is paying like a winner and finishing like neither.

https://app.warera.io/country/683ddd2c24b5a2e114af15d9 is on this board almost entirely because of one morning. Three defeats, 95 percent wasted, and 62,043 of that 101,762 is yesterday's fight against https://app.warera.io/country/6813b6d546e731854c7ac829.

350,538 drops landed on ranking rows in the window: 175,092 uncommon, 112,049 rare, 52,810 epic, 8,777 legendary and 1,810 mythic.

That is 24,662,124 scraps, or 5,389,217 gold at the traded August price - 57 percent of everything all 180 governments realised on the war combined. The ground is the second treasury and it bills nobody. An average drop is 70.36 scraps, 15.37 gold: a small payment, not a prize.

Unit rows are the server's own attribution, so this needs no guessing about who belongs to what.

  1. https://app.warera.io/mu/69d206fc97650a3fb98a8520 218,739 paid, 66 rep, 2,010.18M damage, 0.109 gold per 1k

  2. https://app.warera.io/mu/690b7aa4a0d3052d4e8bb4ac 199,247 paid, 42 rep, 2,359.94M damage, 0.084 gold per 1k

  3. https://app.warera.io/mu/6873f123ad05f3637920645e 193,744 paid, 40 rep, 2,501.84M damage, 0.077 gold per 1k

  4. https://app.warera.io/mu/699b4ac6eef9d1e9cf74a80a 185,478 paid, 64 rep, 1,330.56M damage, 0.139 gold per 1k

  5. https://app.warera.io/mu/69b937289b25c65012bb501e 180,626 paid, 81 rep, 1,327.65M damage, 0.136 gold per 1k

  6. https://app.warera.io/mu/69cc40fa8c83b81ca7c8fb41 152,373 paid, 45 rep, 1,859.82M damage, 0.082 gold per 1k

  7. https://app.warera.io/mu/68b71ca8b5e39a174fba68c2 147,996 paid, 68 rep, 1,455.27M damage, 0.102 gold per 1k

  8. https://app.warera.io/mu/69b4546b2820922eee3eb876 125,280 paid, 19 rep, 2,607.43M damage, 0.048 gold per 1k

  9. https://app.warera.io/mu/6876841e7071f3c01bfe98a5 125,266 paid, 28 rep, 610.20M damage, 0.205 gold per 1k

  10. https://app.warera.io/mu/6935a8851d5b42aed261f81b 110,671 paid, 38 rep, 880.20M damage, 0.126 gold per 1k

The last column is the story. https://app.warera.io/mu/6876841e7071f3c01bfe98a5 is ninth on money and first on price by a distance: 0.205 per 1,000 damage against https://app.warera.io/mu/69b4546b2820922eee3eb876's 0.048, 4 times the price for a quarter of the damage. It held its base while everyone undercut, and it is the only unit here still being paid like the cap means something.

https://app.warera.io/mu/69b4546b2820922eee3eb876 took the opposite trade and it is not obviously worse off: the most damage of anyone on the board, 2,607.43M, at the lowest rate, for 125,280 gold - 14 gold more than https://app.warera.io/mu/6876841e7071f3c01bfe98a5 took for a quarter of the work. Reputation tracks price loosely at best: https://app.warera.io/mu/69d206fc97650a3fb98a8520at 66 and https://app.warera.io/mu/6873f123ad05f3637920645e at 40 sit a coin apart on money and nowhere near each other on rate.

28,993 fighters got paid, the median took home 3.06 gold, and half the world still got screwed. For once,https://app.warera.io/user/697b55e4bcecf3b37667e0d1 was only there to count it.

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