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How to Achieve Multiple Objectives

When you are in an all or nothing situation, and need to accomplish 3 different objectives, start with the one that is hardest. There is no point in accomplishing the easier two when you might fail against the most difficult objective.

For instance, let’s say you have three fronts against a certain opponent. You are only interested in going after them full-force if you can be assured of wiping them completely out. Each of those fronts is completely isolated from the other and would involve independently functioning campaigns, in which your troops in one front couldn’t assist those in another.

At this point troop allocation is critical, and you should see the article concerning how to handle this situation. However, once you’ve properly allocated your troops, which front should you engage first, or does it matter?

It should matter, if you’re in this all-or-nothing situation, where you’d rather not fight at all if you can’t obtain all three objectives. The first objective you should attempt should be the most difficult. This minimizes the risk that you’ll get to the very end of the third campaign and realize that you just won’t be able to finish the job. If you start with the easiest campaign, then move to the next easiest, and save the hardest for last, there will lots of instances in which you’ll achieve the first two, only to fail at the last.

By saving the easier campaigns for later, you may get stopped on the hardest campaign, but it’s the quickest way to know if you’re going to be able to get all-or-a-little. If you get stopped on the hardest campaign, then you can stop fighting overall and wait for another opportunity in another round.