What does your army do to develop its AUSIA division? Do you feel like AUSIA is important? How do you feel about your army’s performance during AUSIA times. Do you like to battle during AUSIA times?

Shallissa, PIC Leader: AUSIA timezones are definitely the most slept on, but I’d argue that they are the division that deserves the most focus. Though PIC is growing, our entire lifespan has been SM, and we’ve had to learn to show strength where other armies are weakest. Building our AUSIA to a sustainable size has been one of the smartest moves we’ve made. There are Major armies like EGCP and TCP who have historically struggled during AUSIA hours, due to many of their leaders coming from countries using US timezones. But PIC is able to match their sizes, and in a lot of cases even overpass their AUSIA divisions despite our size classification. If you’re an up and coming SM army and have the resources to bulk up your AUSIA, then I absolutely recommend it. Not only is it a powerful tool to have during war, with the AUSIA multiplier decent sized events will boost you up on the Top Ten.

As a whole, recruiting has just gotten more difficult over the years, and the hunt for new troops in AUSIA time zones definitely doesn’t make it any easier. I never see this spoken about but peak AUSIA hours aren’t at normal hours for people in the Oceanic region. 9AM EST events are at 10PM for me, and 1AM for people on the east coast of Australia. As a person in an actual AUSIA timezone, 9AM EST events honestly put me at a disadvantage. Nevertheless at least that allows US and EU folks to recruit and attend during those hours, and I’m honestly surprised more armies aren’t taking advantage of this.

PIC has become pretty strong in war, and most battles we lose are only because of size. I love battling during AUSIA hours because for the most part, it gives us an equal playing field against our opponents, meaning it really just boils down to who is tactically better. In PIC’s war against WH our strong AUSIA is what led to their surrender. Our CPJ events have been a huge help, and we’ve gained quite a few AUSIA troops through our many AUSIA events in the CPPS.

Ugly, ACP Leader: ACP works every day to strengthen its AUSIA by working daily with our AUSIA situated team and recruit a lot of troops around that division. We always like to communicate and take thoughts and opinions with the AUSIA mods and high command to ensure the right path for the division and its future, as all of them are looking ahead for the Ausia Arena too. Our AUSIA division currently I would say one of the best, with an already hardworking and passionate team that are working on a daily basis to build and develop the division and army. AUSIA is an important division that is quite overlooked by the community a lot of times considering if you maximize your efforts on it it could be a real game changer for your army. It is a known fact that ACP’s preferable division is AUSIA, so yeah like to battle during AUSIA times as we max quite decent on it.

ROOBOO, HF Leader: My army has been devloping its AUSIA division along the years. There have been multiple AUSIA leaders that led the army during crucial times and gave a lot of focus for that division, so by time the army immensley grew during the AUSIA times. We usually pay a lot of focus for the fun aspects to be during AUSIA to let the members feel engaged espeically with the more community-related parts. A simple example would be that we’d make a CPJ AUSIA Stamp Segment then an EU Practice Battle. We also led many Recruiting and Stamp during our AUSIA timezone so it got so active. AUSIA is very important because the community drives it to importance. You have so many AUSIA members now in all armies and all what it takes is for the community joins forces and make it a bit more powerful. For example, make Ausia Arena a “Major Tournament” instead of just making all tournaments EU ones and then when the only AUSIA one is held it’s not considered a major one. I’d always suggest armies to host many events during their AUSIA timezone to be powerful from all sides. Our army is known to be an AUSIA force so we just learn to maintain and grow because it’s very imporatnt for us to keep our OGs alive and get new ones as well. Yes I love battling during AUSIA times because it’s something I fell in love with in my army. My army had so many important achievments during AUSIA times, so I just loved the activity there and now it’s always amazing! Make AUSIA more powerful in CPA!

Dino, WV Leader: WV just goes with the flow. We recruit during hours that are advantageous for AUSIA recruits and don’t overload our AUSIA division.

Indeed, I believe AUSIA divisions are crucial for any army. Ever since Flipmoo revolutionized the AUSIA division, they have become so valuable to armies including during wars.

I think we perform better than other armies. WV’s AUSIA isn’t as active as others as it’s primarily weekend-only but the Top Ten doesn’t lie. Besides, we went on a very great run last year when we had only just revived our AUSIA division and our AUSIA helped us during the World War. Even prior to my leadership, Misty’s and Guncotton’s AUSIAs were always lifesavers due to it performing better than others.

Not typically but I’m not against the idea of AUSIA battles. I mean, you train with something in mind—whether tournaments, wars, or just PBs. We don’t log onto Club Penguin to [do nothing]. Every non-battle event has a future battle in mind, so yeah I’d say that although we don’t really battle at AUSIA it’s not unwise either. No armies have approached us about it, though.