War situation index?

How come my country has a war situation index of 50? Looking at my war index page it says I received 50 damage points, but then looking at the detailed breakdown there are no scores what so ever! I'm now playing the peaceful game and I've only fought a C3 country before! Any help anybody?

Probably because you have 0 Fortifications in your country?

You know, thats the exact same first noob question I ever asked on this game!

Ah really? Do they make that much of a difference?! How much does the war situation index count towards the overall score?

Forts account for approx .5 WI points each. So yeah, they do make a difference.

That's not entirely true, each fort counts for (50 / # of forts)... if you're just concerned about maximizing score, having 1 fort will put the war index to 100.

However, I'm not sure that the War Index counts toward score.

That was it, I'm back up to 100 with just one fort oh and btw the war index doesn't count towards your score