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There are four specializations during N-day, each assigned randomly: Military, Strategic, Economic, and Intel. Each specialization has its own benefits that play best into specific roles.

The Military and Strategic specialists are counterparts to one another, with Military specialists having a discount on producing nukes, and the Strategic specialists having a discount on producing shields. Their optimal roles are offensive for Military, and defensive for Strategic.
Economic specialists don't get any discounts, but rather have a higher production cap, holding four times as much production as other nations. Economic Specialists’ benefit doesn’t predispose them towards being better at offense or defense, so they fulfill both roles equally well.
Intel specialists, like Economic specialists, don’t get any discounts either. Intel specialists’ benefit is that they can finalize their nukes’ targets faster, allowing them quicker response times. Intel specialists are best at offense as their benefit lies with improving nukes.

If you're an Intel or Military specialist you should produce nukes and work on offense, targeting and firing at our enemies as directed by high command.
If you're a Strategic specialist, you should produce shields and use them to shoot down nukes coming at our faction. Remember to protect everyone, N-day is a team effort.
If you're an Economic specialist, you can fulfill any role. Command might give orders to economic specialists to produce nukes at one time and shields at another as needed for the survival of the faction.

If you really dislike slinging nukes and only want to protect, shielding the faction from torrents of incoming nuclear armageddon, it’s okay to follow the orders for strategic specialists instead. The same is true if you want to be a nuke-slinging missile platform annihilating our enemies. If you want to play offense and not defense then it’s okay to follow the orders for the Military specialists instead.

Launching nukes is a two-stage process and it takes time to ready and launch one.

The first stage to launch a nuke is to choose an enemy and target them with however many nukes you want to use. You can do this from their nation's nuke page. It takes 10 minutes from when you target a nation for the nuke to reach a ready state where it can be launched (this time is reduced to 3 minutes for intel specialists, more on specialists later). Targeting people is public information, so factions will often target each other as threats even if they don’t launch. You should never target someone Trident Command doesn’t tell you to for this reason, it will create tension and enemies.

The second stage is to launch the nuke. Once you’ve launched the nuke it’s out of your hands and will hit the targeted nation in 3 to 5 minutes if it isn’t shot down.

Strategy Tips for nukes: WA nations have 10x more production power than Non-WA nations and can thus produce 10x the nukes or shields than a non-WA could, thus destroying enemy WA nations should be prioritized over non-WA, although it’s still important to remove both.

Shields are a lot simpler than nukes, however you can only use them on incoming nukes. You can find incoming nukes on the incoming nukes page. You can select the ones you want to shoot down from here.

What is the shield stockpile?
Each faction has a shield stockpile that their nations can donate shields to. The shield stockpile automatically shoots down incoming nukes, but it will never stop all of them. Players can shoot down nukes much faster than the stockpile can, so if you’re online it’s better to shoot them down yourself then donate to the stockpile. If you aren’t going to be online though, donate your shields to the stockpile.

Strategy tips for shields: WA nations have 10x more production power than Non-WA nations and can thus produce 10x the nukes or shields than a non-WA could, thus protecting our WA nations should be prioritized over non-WA. It’s far more important to shoot down as many nukes as you can though, as strikes on us reduce our power and lose us points so we don’t want any getting through.