Day 7&8: Fortis Does A Hat Trick, PEACE Responds

Day 608, 10:34 • Published in USA USA • by Desertfalcon

Well I got my computer working sooner then I hoped for so I should be able to continue the daily updates now. A lot has happened over the past two days but I won't be able to offer too much detail today since I was unable to watch them unfold however you can be sure that tomorrow the updates will be back to the way they used to be.

On Day 7 American and Canadian forces had made two major stops, one in Montana and one in New Brunswick. PEACE however remained on the offensive and launched assaults into both Manitoba and Idaho. F/E forces were able to raise the wall up high in Idaho but were losing bad in Manitoba which was the more strategic region. If Manitoba fell it was likely that the rest of western Canada would be likely to follow so the U.S. military made a bold move. By retreating in Idaho it made it so the U.S. was no longer under attack and the president of Canada retreated in Manitoba so the Americans could attack it. The French soon retreated out of Manitoba handing it over to U.S. forces.

Not only did Manitoba going to the U.S. successfully block off France by forcing them to go through the U.S. in Manitoba to get to the western half of Canada but Canada also attempted to go on the offensive and attacked Russian regions in both Alaska and Russia. For the first time in the war PEACE had to go on the defensive but for some reason they retread from Alaska and Russia and then a few minutes later it became clear why. Since Russia now controls Idaho they no longer needed Washington or Alaska to attack the U.S. and rather then stay on the defensive and have the battles end when it was convenient for North American players they used the retreat tactic themselves and set it up so they would launch attacks on both Oregon and Utah in the U.S. as well as Quebec in Canada.

It is important the Quebec not fall to the French as if it does it will give the French access to Ontario, the capital and stronghold of Canada, if Ontario were to fall Canada would lose over half their population and one of their Q5 hospitals. As of right now Quebec does not appear to be going to well and it appears that it will probably fall unless another region swap is called. This time it would be a tougher decision since in order to the U.S. to save Quebec they would have to hand over both Utah and Oregon to Russia. Right now Quebec is worth more then those two regions as not only would the region swap prevent Quebec from falling but it would just about make it so France couldn't advance any further in the country (except New Brunswick) without attacking the U.S. claims in Canada.

If the U.S. wants to region swap Quebec now might be the best time to do it as PEACE has the power to do something that would block any attempt by the U.S. to swap regions and that is to open the Portuguese front. Portugal is one of the four countries who has multiple PEACE MPPs open against the U.S. however they have yet to make a strike like Russia or France. If Portugal were to launch an assault on Florida it would kill any possibility of a region swap as the U.S. just can't afford to lose Florida. The only downside about this for PEACE is that it would cost a huge amount of gold to attack Florida and the attack would most likely be a failure as the U.S. won't retreat. Their other alternative is to go for Georgia which isn't as strategically important to the U.S. but it would likely prevent the region swap tactic. France could also kill this tactic by attacking the U.S. in Manitoba.

While these region swaps will force France to fight through the U.S. if they want to advance they would still have three allies to help them, one being Indonesia. America would still have the advantage but if PEACE is able to keep us on our toes in other regions they could divert our forces from the regions we occupy in Canada and come in and pick up the pieces. With Russia advancing into the interior regions of the U.S., Quebec on the verge of falling, and Portugal and Mexico still at our doorstep these next few days will be very interesting.

Edit: Russia has launched another attack on Montana and is making a deep push into Quebec and Utah at the moment. The attack on Montana appears to be an attempt to spread out American forces and prevent the U.S. from attempting a region swap.

Battle Links

Oregon- http://www.erepublik.com/en/battles/show/6908
Utah- http://www.erepublik.com/en/battles/show/6907
Montana- http://www.erepublik.com/en/battles/show/6911
Quebec- http://www.erepublik.com/en/battles/show/6905