[War report] Pacific conflict

Day 1,814, 05:35 • Published in USA Greece • by Jack Lantos


eChilean soldiers landed at Hawaii today, but they were not greeted with an "Aloha" and flower lei.

eUSA ventured to eIndonesia a few days ago for the Halloween missions, only to find a geographically displaced eChile on the loose, looking for an NE target of their own for the same mission.

eChile (CoT) had for some time lost it's homelands to eArgentina (EDEN), and has been hiding out in the outback of eAustralia like a creepy spider. eChile has a border with with eNZ (CoT), ePeru (CoT), eIndo (exOne) but are at the time allied with them, and they had already wiped eAustralia (neutral, but traditional ally of eUSA).

Temporary entrance of eUSA (CTRL) gave a target other than eBrazil (CTRL) in South Africa, which would leave eChile more exposed to counter-attack.

To illustrate these sorts of situations the in-game map has a few important limitations:
1. unclear as to the links between regions, especially arbitrary "water borders"
2. doesn't show the original owners of each region, which is important for RW consideration
3. the "war module" completely ignores geographic barriers so RL geography is distracting
4. the battles in this case go off the edges of the map
5. in general, most 2D world maps are inherently distorted representations of a 3D globe (the area of which is NOT a rectangle) and do not accurately represent real countries anyway, which unfortunately fosters mass cultural bias.

To develop an alternative way to report/plan battles, I'm introducing a new type of tactical map to illustrate as follows. The RL geography is ignored, so we can more clearly see how the game mechanics are set.

A few days ago:


eChile took Maluku Islands and Papua, then rushed to lose these original eIndonesian regions by resistance wars before the Hawaii battle finished, fearing a counter-attack from eUSA which could cost eChile their entire foothold if eUSA decided to retaliate systematically.

Today:


Since eChile has no immediate fall-back territory, the situation would most likely be resolved if initiative was regained in the California battle, followed by Hawaii being re-captured. eChile and eIndo seem to already have what they wanted, but if they do continue to push, they'll likely be reminded they are exposed to eBrazil on their western border; it would be a good opportunity for eUSA to co-ordinate with them.


Strategic deployment of Hawaiian defence forces.

Day 1815 Update:
eUSA has re-captured Hawaii, closing the war with eChile.
Minutes later, eArgentina captured the last region of eNZ and started an NE proposal against eChile.
The NE proposal is in dispute however, as the eChileans were unable to do the same seemingly due to a bug in the war module. They have no borders with eUSA yet still have eUSA set as their natural enemy, blocking them from making NE proposals.
See articles:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-adb-news-robo-contra-chile-unfair-against-chile-2153797/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/plato-you-win-echile-dont-fight-more--2153795/1/20