From The Shelf

This was a huge victory, the power and finally the number of the fighters were the same, but still Atlantis brought this time the tanking and sacrificing back in his yard. It was joy and everybody was cheering up. Romania and their allies were the best!

Still the "bigger picture" was there in some minds. Got bigger and bigger... (Part I)


The moment was great for the Romanian Empire, still occupying big parts of Hungary, almost all the
Ukraine(exception being the hungarian TOed territory). They had their WSR back proving to the indonesians who's the Big Guy in the New World.

We were so happy and wasted at the same time that we didn't put too much effort in the next day after the WSR battle when Hungary attacked NorthernGreat Plain

[6150] Battle of Northern-Great-Plain (21 March 2009, 12:55)

Attacker(Hungary): 2762 fighters
Defender(Romania): 2377 fighters
Score: won by Hungary
A: -325346d, 15665f, -20.77d/f
278520d, 8990f, 30.98d/f
Sacrificing:
Attacker: WP: 109, WP_guns: 535, 37 fighters, DMG: -30391
Defender: WP: 45, WP_guns: 99, 5 fighters, DMG: 7415
Tanking:
Attacker: WP: 48, WP_guns: 60, 2 fighters, DMG: -11467
Defender: WP: 0, WP_guns: 0, 0 fighters, DMG: 0

Still very good effort for Hungary! They took it and try it again in Northern Hungary, but not every day is Christmas:

[6159] Battle of Northern-Hungary (22 March 2009, 13:08)

Attacker(Hungary): 2831 fighters
Defender(Romania): 2799 fighters
Score: won by Romania
A: -206155d, 12151f, -16.97d/f
369663d, 12460f, 29.67d/f
Sacrificing:
Attacker: WP: 7, WP_guns: 31, 2 fighters, DMG: -1638
Defender: WP: 57, WP_guns: 99, 5 fighters, DMG: 8752
Tanking:
Attacker: WP: 13, WP_guns: 19, 1 fighters, DMG: -3216
Defender: WP: 0, WP_guns: 0, 0 fighters, DMG: 0

After that Hungary seemed to be happy enough so they didn't do almost anything for next 3 weeks. Anything else other than working on their kindergarten.

Romania on the other hand did their promise to the "switching border territories" states(Iran-Pakistan-Indonesia), successfully TOing Pakistan. Han Solo was the president and they have now the command over a couple of territories in central Asia. Still, they didn't have a common border with them.

On the other side PEACE worked on the same political front successfully TOing the Congress of the
Romanian's ally Norway. Romania's got Norway's territories to protect(the main one being ESR, big tactical advantage for the Romanian's side!).

For romanians the only problem was that Xinjiang (the only common border with Indonesia) was indestructible so to speak(the indos built here a huge wall). So what the romanians did was to avoid the big indonesian wall in Xinjiang going to hit Iran in Inner Mongolia.

Let's take a look at the map


PEACE "switching territories" strategy was a great move. But still, there was only one disadvantage: Iran had to be in war with Indonesia(in order to retreat and so on), so they didn't have any MPPs. Pakistan was blocking Indonesia from switching territories so the iranian's controled territories were starting to roll over one after the other into romanian's pocket: Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan.

[6163] Battle of Inner-Mongolia (23 March 2009, 13:18)

Attacker(Romania): 2843 fighters
Defender(Iran): 308 fighters
Score: won by Romania
A: -400936d, 12696f, -31.58d/f
41062d, 1325f, 30.99d/f


[6190] Battle of Gansu (30 March 2009, 23:15)

Attacker(Romania): 2007 fighters
Defender(Iran): 394 fighters
Score: won by Romania
A: -267200d, 8321f, -32.11d/f
60930d, 1581f, 38.54d/f


[6212] Battle of Sichuan (01 April 2009, 23:40)

Attacker(Romania): 2864 fighters
Defender(Iran): 708 fighters
Score: won by Romania
A: -362972d, 12106f, -29.98d/f
127073d, 3159f, 40.23d/f

[6227] Battle of Qinghai (03 April 2009, 23:40)

Attacker(Romania): 2922 fighters
Defender(Iran): 739 fighters
Score: won by Romania
A: -365803d, 12394f, -29.51d/f
127264d, 3291f, 38.67d/f

Everything was working just fine for romanians! The huge wall in Xinjiang is useless. Now Romanian's got another border with Indonesia in the low populated region Tibet! And a common border with their Pakistan as well!

The presidential elections brought in Romania a new president dani36, MoFA sebahmah, MoD nea bachus and anorien. The "bigger picture" was back, much bigger than ever! Feeling really good after the big victory in WSR battle, having already Han Solo's Pakistan , they stated the Romanian's main military objective: Karnataka!!! The only high iron region of Indonesia at that time! You can say whatever you want about them, but not that they have focused on a very low objective. It was like they would go for Java or on the other side the indonesians would want to go for Bucharest! Huge statement!!


The war was once again on the brink to erupt. And so it did!

-it will continue-

Part III