EDEN and Phoenix get set to break the new War Module.

Day 961, 12:04 • Published in USA Australia • by Aeros



Shortly before V1 came to its end, Phoenix and EDEN decided to push all the buttons on pretty much everything, setting the stage for what is certain to be an epic clash of the Alliances once the war module reactivates. At stake is nothing less then world domination and a whole lot of Titanium. Channeling the ghost of D.I.R past, I will now endeavor to predict how things will go, and hopefully make you all as excited as I am! If all goes according to the master plan, I may actually have a consistent amount of material to start writing regularly again : )


RUSSIA


Russia is the richest country in eRepublik for one simple reason. It owns every raw resource. In fact, it owns them in ridiculous abundance. For this reason, Russia is without a doubt the raw resource capital of the Phoenix Alliance, providing a stable and abundant supply of resources independent of the colonies in other countries that Phoenix has held from time to time. However, Russia also serves as a hub nation for the Phoenix MPP web, and as such is enormously well defended. Even after the United States barely managed to hang on in World War 3 and possessed all those MPP’s against Russia, the American’s declined to invade Russia due to their fear of counter attack. However, the antics of one “Hank Scorpio” and his little hamstas led to Russia attacking pretty much everyone on its border except Poland. The latter problem was corrected at the end of V1 when Russia decided to hit Polish home territory, for the lulz apparently, because that’s the only reason I can see.


This is how an invasion of Russia will most likely look. The most obvious move of course is for the United States to go charging into Far-Eastern Russia and attempt to knock off this critical Russian fortress. The Success EDEN had at regaining control of North Korea (thanks in no small part to China) will insure the American’s will not get outflanked by a strategic blocking attack if they successfully advance into Russian territory. Under normal circumstances however, the USA would be forced into initiative deciding battles every step of the way until they made it to Western Siberia had it not been for Russia’s fights with Finland and China.




Finland has no real strategic resource or position to benefit Phoenix from a long term occupation. In fact, Russia has occupied the Finns before, though never for very long. To make things extra special, Finland also possesses activated MPP’s against Russia and is almost certain to be aiming strategic blocking attacks against Northern Russia whenever it seems the USA offensive has become stalled. In addition to Finland, the possibility also exists for China to launch blocking attacks at the Russians from the South, though this is slightly less likely due to the need for EDEN to prevent Heilongjiang from slipping back into Phoenix control.

The Final and most dangerous threat to Russia would be from Poland. This threat is further compounded by the fact that the Polish civilian population has proven much better at occupation then the American population. In the United States, the citizens tend to have a distaste for respecting authority (Any authority). As consequence, the population point blank refuses to cooperate with Government requests to move to strategic regions and fortify them. The systematic destructing of the previous old infrastructure was the only thing that compelled the creation of America’s two fortresses in the first place. Because of this, it is highly unlikely the American’s will be able to sustain a hold in Russia long term. Poland is another matter. Just ask France.

For starters, Poland will be able to take out the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, that would have previously been beyond the reach of the USA, China and Finland (and thus would have preserved Russia’s MPP’s). Now though, Poland can capture this critical region. Also, thanks to the recent switch by Latvia, Poland will also be able to gain a border with Russia proper if they successfully manage to barrel through Lithuania. Given all the conflicts that are sure to erupt around the world, it is almost certain that they will succeed there as well.

Those other conflicts will be myriad, and almost certain to involve another war between Croatia and its neighbors of Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia. A conflict Romania is almost sure to jump in on as well. We also cannot discount the possibility of Greece and Turkey going at it again, along with Spain and Brazil. Finally, there is the situation of Australia which is currently under Indonesian PTO. Tiny South Africa is suddenly quite surrounded and sitting on three titanium regions. Expect further Phoenix action down there as well. Most likely South Africa will be attacked in the form of multi farms if the current strategy is continued. After all, why waste the gold to win when you can just create 5 accounts and do it come election day?