First victories in the invasion of Russia – China to have titanium, USA hits WSR

Day 1,005, 05:24 • Published in USA USA • by Sossu

I intended to write this one earlier, but schools have started and studying takes a lot of free time. I might not be able to write these articles in the middle of the week, but I’m trying to scrape enough time on weekends to write articles about the events of the past week, unless something really major happens, in which case I try to put out as fast as possible.

After beating back the Russian invasion on America with the help of Poland, America was compelled to hit back when the time was right. At some point USA lost the MPP with Romania (Reala, huh?) and Croatia’s active MPP was erased as Croatia was conquered completely and all their wars were closed. America is still backed up by some impressive Eden nations, such as Poland, Spain and the new, upcoming giant of eRepublik, China. Looking closely at the success of Canada against UK and their several MPP😒 due to the growing importance of time zones, USA planned a campaign on Russia, intending to use the very same tactic of using the favorable time zones as an asset. Phoenix is in a severe disadvantage, as their 3 core powers are all located near each other, while Eden has strong nations in Europe, in America and in Asia. Phoenix’s Brazil and Argentina can’t beat the armies of the Brolliance, nor is Indonesia a match for China.

In V2 Gold is scarce, but America has a fairly secured financial position as the economy of America is large, and thousands of Gold flock in monthly from the lease agreement with Poland. With these sources of revenue, USA attacked Far Eastern Russia, commonly known as FER, in the largest battle fought in V2. This battle was a solid proof that V2 warfaring can be cool. The server didn’t freeze at any point and the battle was exciting to the last minutes. Being a part of that battle was a great experience and I for one really enjoyed being trapped to the capital, surrounded by Russians on all sides until a solid fighting force, be it a branch of the USAF or some European army came to help us and unified the fortified positions of the capital with the edge of the map again.

From the battle stats, China’s importance can be underlined, though they had a personal interest in this battle. China fought the best from the Allied nations, making twice the damage Spain did. With a large economy and a big player base alongside with a favorable position regarding time zones, China is the new force of Eden who will certainly cause much harm to Phoenix in the future.
Having a puppet nation in Asia has yet again proven to be extremely useful, as North Korea hit American-owned FER the very moment USA captured it. North Korea practically has no native population at all, but the most permanent residents come from Japan, Europe and South Korea. North Korea can’t really be PTO:ed as there are no real natives, but the closest to a PTO was the Russian regime of NK for many months after North Korea helped Eden during the North American War. China’s effort can be counted as ATO, as the closest to natives supported the Chinese candidate against the Russian one, but ultimately North Korea is now a puppet of China, helping them in tactical maneuvers like getting Poland to Asia.

After succeeding where his predecessors scrabman and Chocolate McSkittles failed, the President of the United States, St Krems led his nation forward and attacked Eastern Siberia, the other one of Russia’s two titanium regions. At this point Russia took advantage of the revised initiative rules, just like what UK has done in the war against Canada. In V2, the traditional blockings and initiative rules are null. The risk has been passed from the defendant to the attacker. If the offender fails in his attack, he can’t attack the same region for 72 hours. The defender however can retreat the region he is defending and attack it straight back, thus becoming the attacker and taking the risk of failing. This gives the defender the chance of fighting a battle over the same region when it favors him the most, to make sure the attacker can’t just steamroll the entire nation by attacking on such times when the defenders are asleep.


Eastern Russia, 05:00 eTime, Day 1005. Chinese attack on North Korean FER, Russian attack on U.S Eastern Siberia, U.S’ attack on Russia’s Western Siberia.

North Korea invaded FER from America, paving the way for China to attack it immediately. China is on the verge of having titanium, and capturing the resource-havens of Russia is going to be the ultimate goal of the campaign. Russia launched several MPP-sets against themselves and they are now paying the price. Russia can’t be erased as they have 3 regions in Southern Norway, but most likely Eden isn’t even gunning for the destruction of Russia. Russia is consisted of extremely large regions that are few in number. For instance, Italy has more regions than Russia. If Eden forms a wall of regions through swappings to separate Russia from the regions USA has captured, they will be out of Russia’s reach. China would be the ideal nation to separate Russia from USA as they have nearly ten strong MPP😒 against Russia, making it impossible for them to plow through Chinese regions.


A possible strategy to separate Russia from America. Dark blue = Russia, Red = China, Blue = USA

Russia is on the mercy of her attackers as there is no Phoenix power to interfere and put an end to the Allied advance. Serbia sits tightly in Liaoning, unable to do anything. In fact, Poland might make a move towards them at any point as they’ve camped in Southern China for several weeks now. Earlier today, USA attacked the biggest target of the campaign, Western Siberia. Though admins dropped the “Region”-part out of the name, Western Siberia is still known as WSR. WSR was the site of huge battles between Indonesia and Romania during the times when ATLANTIS was still alive. Indonesia came out as the winner, and WSR fuelled their invasions in Asia and America until Russia grew big enough to make a reasonable plead of returning WSR to them. While WSR isn’t the most important region in the world anymore, it’s still the crown of Russia, and the three high resources located in WSR make it the richest region in the world in terms of natural riches. The sheer symbolic value of WSR makes it worth conquering and USA is in a good position as the battle ends during their prime time. It’s possible that Russia retreats and attacks it back immediately when it suits them the best, but they might think twice as 3000 Russians call WSR home and many others work in companies located there.

The campaign has already partially succeeded as China is about to claim titanium, but if USA is able to capture more regions from Russia, Phoenix will be severely weakened. Poland is in a perfect position to take out Liaoning, and if Russia falls alongside with Poland having Iron, Eden will become economically superior. Phoenix’s only sources of Titanium would be the regions of PTO:ed Australia, and knocking out Liaoning will in addition weaken the strongest PHX nation, Serbia. On the other hand, Canada’s monopoly of Eden’s titanium will break as China and possibly USA will have sources of their own. This lowers Canada’s importance but will do well for Eden as two major power’s economy will be boosted by having an industry of titanium.

For America, the war on Russia is going to be extremely exciting and it is exactly what they’ve been asking for. For the past months, USA has mainly fought for others, but hasn’t fought in a campaign purely for their own amusement and benefit. The invasion of Russia is the perfect choice, as it benefits Eden, makes USA a stronger nation, serves as a serious hit on Phoenix and offers endless amounts of amusement due to the history of Russia and USA, both in game and in real life. The Chinese occupation of FER gives protection to USA as Russia can’t go through China, and should America fail this time, their positioning inside China means a new shot directly to WSR can be dealt at any possible time.