Join the new world

In the last article I wrote about the pre-war module Northern Alliance so the natural step would be to move a bit further in the history of the New World which is exactly what we're going to do.

A first glance at war

On April 7th the war module was released and the world took deep breath to prepare for the mass invasion that many people thought that Sweden would commence. But there was no war. For three days the world waited too see who would throw the first rock. The first official war was the Belgium-United Kingdom war, why I use the word official instead of simply the first war is because some people claim that this was in fact just a merging between the United Kingdom and Belgium, why they would do this was because of the state of Belgium at the time (which was the state of many countries at the time) was horrible, people were starving to death and needed a good economy which the UK could provide.

The first "real" war

The same day as Belgium started their "war" against the UK Slovakia invaded their neighbour country Czech Republic, at first glance the Slovakians had the advantage in numbers but what they didn't expect was that the world wanted to try out their new toy and the Czechs received help from curious fighters from around the world. So the Slovakian plan backfired and all five regions of Slovakia were conquered by the Czech Republic. These two minor wars were nowhere close to what the world would witness when the United States of America invaded Canada.

North America at war

While there were minor conflicts in Europe being fought USA decided to try out their strength by attacking a seemingly weaker country, Canada. This is the first major conflict in eRep history. On April 11th USA invaded Canada, first off it looked like USA would bag the victory fairly easily but just as Slovakia they didn't count on warriors from other countries helping Canada, this was not the only problem as this war would be riddled with bugs and glitches. As the war began people from all around the world (quite a lot from over here in Sweden) moved to Canada to aid them in their struggle. Many claimed to do this to "protect the rights of the canadians" but I have a different much less dramatic theory. The relation between Europe and USA at the time was quite unstable especially here in Sweden were some people even went as far as saying that they hated the US. But that being said there were a few people who went to aid the US but this was just not enough and the canadians were surprisingly seeming to win the war. After fifteen days of bloody battles and great casualties on both sides the war ended with an agreement where all regions would be returned to their previous owners and a three month non agression pact would be signed. Many canadians were upset about this decision probably because they thought they could win the war and conquer the US.

This war was a lesson to the world that you can never be sure of the results of a war and that the war module was still pretty glitchy. But this was not enough to stop the great war machine that had been started and eRepublik would never be the same.