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Yesterday's Article

Editor's Notes
Today Poland declared war on Lithuania, starting a 24 hour Baltic war. Latvia and Lithuania worked together to complete shut down Poland, with clever tactics to prevent Polish wins, and hurriedly made MPPs to prevent any further Polish attack. Impressive.

Also impressive? Pangolin. Thank you Pangolin, as getting this paper out the door without you on days like this would be damned near impossible.

I hope to have few errors in this edition, but on days like this, sometimes they slip through. If you see any, let me know.

Baltic War
reported by Pangolin

* As happens every other day, Latvia attacked Samogitia, Lithuania. Nothing exciting here, probably just another training w...wait! What's this?! Lithuania retreated from Samogitia! Yes, indeed, as Poland was about to declare war on Lithuania, Latvia began land-swapping to get to the border with Poland - starting here in Samogitia.


* Next, Latvia attacked the Lithuanian Highland, and Lithuania retreated.


* Then, Latvia attacked Sudovia (on the left) - this is Lithuania's high grain region, right on the border with Poland. Latvia also attacked Dainava (on the right), as this Lithuanian territory also borders Poland. Marking as landswaps, but note that at this point Lithuania did not immediately retreat the regions.


* At this point, Poland's war declaration against Lithuania went through - so Poland attacked Dainava and Sudovia, both still under Lithuanian control. It is likely that Poland is hoping to conquer Lithuania's high-grain region, Sudovia, as there are a lot of players in Poland but no high resource regions.


* Once Poland had launched their attacks, the Latvian/Lithuanian plan became clear. Lithuania retreated from Sudovia, ceding it to Latvia and closing the battle against Poland. This most certainly earns the coveted Diabolical Landswap marker. We're not reporting battle heroes for the Latvia vs. Lithuania battle, as this amounts to a land-swap, but we are for the Poland vs. Lithuania battle. The Polish hero was carbon, the creator of ereptools.net, winning his seventh. The hero for Lithuania was Kieler, a German Field Marshal apparently eager to get revenge for the Polish PTO of Germany - at least judging from the 11910 damage he put up in this brief battle.


* Lithuania also retreated from Dainava, closing the Polish battle and leaving the territory in Latvian hands. This earns another Diabolical Landswap marker. The hero for Poland was TripleH, wrestling his way to his 2nd. The hero for Lithuania was Shaac, a French General probably surprised to pick up his first Battle Hero award.


* With Poland out of the war for the time being, Latvia swapped the initiative to Lithuania by attacking Lithuania Minor and then retreating.


* Lithuania then land-swapped with Latvia to get Samogitia back.


* And Lithuania reclaimed their high-grain region, Sudovia, in a land-swap with Latvia.


* And finally Lithuania attacked Latvian Dainava. Latvia did not retreat from this battle, likely leaving it open in place of the usual training war in Samogitia. At this point Poland has one border with Lithuania, which is not enough to guarantee initiative should it attack and fail to win the battle. It also has one border with Latvia. Note that when Poland attacked Lithuanian original territory, this triggered the alliances Lithuania had with France and China. For Poland, they felt they could overcome those odds in battle. However, Lithuania has secured since those attacks further alliances with Argentina, Slovenia, Hungary and Indonesia. Poland absolutely will not attack Lithuania again, as that would trigger those MPPs, and that would be very, very bad for Poland. Note that a lulz declare war on Latvia was proposed in the Polish congress, which sheepishly is declining to pass that war. Due to Lithuania's new MPPs, they can take their sweet time returning Dainava, using this landswap also as a training war.

Europe
reported by Pangolin

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* Finland attacked Russian Nord-Norge, one of the two originally-Norwegian territories that Russia controls.


* Sweden also attacked Russian Nord-Norge, giving Russia two battles to defend to keep this territory. There are no MPPs active in either of these two wars.


* Norway now has twice as many territories as yesterday, successfully land-swapping Vestlandet back from Finland through resistance war.


* Turkey attacked Greece's Aegean Islands - apparently just for something to do. There are other theories, however; yesterday, after citizens of Greece and Turkey fought in the Norwegian arctic, this paper made a joke about putting a frozen Turkey in Greece. Some have suggested that Turkey took this as a challenge, though we here are far too humble to ever suggest such a thing (or try to gain publicity by promoting the idea).


* Hungary successfully land-swapped the North Caucasus region back to Russia, in exchange for 600 gold.

Asia
reported by Pangolin

* Indonesia's training war in the originally-Chinese territory of Shanxi ended and was restarted.

North America
reported by Pangolin

* Canada attacked Hungarian Saskatchewan, mostly for the sake of having somewhere to fight. If the battle goes well, however, Jack Bauer has volunteered to lead the assault on the tunnels of Moose Jaw (as Kiefer Sutherland's grandfather was a famous politician from Saskatchewan. While I have you in this parenthesis, did you know Kiefer Sutherland has five middle names? Not really related, but still - five of 'em).

Closed Training wars
* See previous days maps for locations of started training wars.
* The Hungarian training war in Graubunden ended without incident.
* The United Kingdom's training war in Midtjylland ended, with green winning by 6 wickets.
* Indonesia's training war in the originally-Chinese territory of Shanxi ended and was restarted.

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