It's All Fun and Games, Until Romania Loses An Empire
Alex Lawrence
Note: Because it took so long to accurately research and give the rundown on every minor event in the world every day, I am going to just provide commentary and/or cover a few major events from now on on an erratic basis. College does that to you :/
Update: Well we got into the top 5 in the US, a first for my paper. Thanks to all the readers for their votes, subs and comments!
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For the past month or so, the United States has been partaking in war games with Mexico and, as of a few days ago, Ireland. These have helped the United States in a number of ways, increasing production, training the lower ranks of our military, and strengthening relations with our war game partners. But is this what the United States should be focusing on?
NO. The United States has the largest population in the game, and yet it is not involved in ONE (1) real war. As a matter of fact, it never has been really. Canada was a joke, France was half-hearted, Portugal was poorly planned, and Mexico was a complete disaster. In the meantime, Romania, a country that IRL is hardly of much note (no offense to my Romanian readers), has an empire the size of Alexander the Great's. See something wrong here?
The United States could be completely dominating if its leaders had any real stomach and smarts for waging a war. Why would you attack Canada, a friend, or Mexico, which has no resources or people in it? France is hardly anything to go to war over, and Portugal is Spain's problem. America needs to go overseas.
Russia is the prime target. They have been on their heels ever since their country was created, and if the United States invaded, we would be at the doorstep of Asia (as well as having high diamond resources). Our hordes of relatively weak soldiers could crush any 1337 squads sent in to protect sickly Russia or the puppet state of China. MPPs would be a factor, but if America's leaders coordinate things effectively we could get around those obstacles.
Why should America get involved in war? What's wrong with war games, you may ask.
First off, nothing REAL is gained. The U.S. and her allies don't gain new territories, only battle experience. It's like playing cops and robbers with your friends, ignoring the real robbers out there.
Indonesia hasn't gone to her allies looking for battle buddies, she's conquered Asia and moving West, as far west as South Africa. Neither has Romania, who is currently fighting a 5v1 fight and losing as of late.
This brings me to the topic of Romania, and Romania's relationship with the United States. Romania, like Indonesia, has done many bad things in the past (TOs, bug exploitation, etc), but they are our ally. Romania has also helped many nations in the past (including the most recent TO attempt on South Africa), so they are not all bad.
The reason why Romania is struggling now is because she is all alone. Romania has absolutely no help, and is still able to hold her own with some finesse. Imagine if the United States came to help, to divert Russian and Chinese forces away from the Romanian front, letting Romania push back against her other foes. This would essentially divide the world up between US and Romanian armies.
The fear with this scenario is then: what if Romania continues expanding? What happens when Indonesia and Hungary fall? Such fears are silly.
The entire world would unite against Romania. Not even the mighty Romanians could defeat the now friendly Indonesian tanks (who would fight against Romania from other countries) along with the rest of ATLANTIS. But I digress.
What we need to be afraid of is the current moment. Of the possibility of Romania falling, the only dam that is holding back the PEACE tide from flooding into the rest of the world. The United States needs to get over its fear of losing a war and start getting its boots dirty.
Scrabman, get the United States out of the sandbox and into the dust storm. There might not be much left outside the sandbox if you just continue sitting there, making imaginary castles with the Irish...
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Ou llea!
Romania is not all alone. Both the eMarines and the eNational Guard are/have fought in Romania, for Romania supported by USA funds.
For a story about an attack on Russia that never was:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/some[..]1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/some[..]1/20
After that we tried to PTO Russia in the Presidential elections.
I know, I used to be part of the NG.
But sending in a few soldiers overseas is nothing compared to a real war effort.
Maybe citizens want to focus on our ECONOMY, and we have had enought to send more money to a falling Romania...
Don't listen to Atlantis propaganda!
SPAM!
We have an Empire because we set goals and objectives and we were always at war. War is part of this game and if you don't go to war, you can't say you played the game.
Like you said, we're fighting 5v1, or should is say it, all of PEACE v 1, which is kind of hard, even with the large numbers of Atlantis soldiers in our country, we still get blocked by PEACE countries.
If Atlantis in a coordinated effort attacked other PEACE GC countries, Atlantis would win !
^ Thanks for your input, Indonesia. PEACE spam much?
@ NightH, I see you're Indonesian and you're talking about the US economy? Please tell me the connection.
By the way, the US economy is so weakly because you DON'T HAVE SO MANY HIGH REGIONS. WAR = HIGH REGIONS GAINED = ECONOMICAL BOOM.
Alex, I guarantee you that a "government official" will respond to anything like this article with the answer Gertrude gave. We've got the eMarines and supposedly some national guard units there. I suppose they're augmented by citizens who just travel to Romania on their own (myself included), but you're right, it's not the same as a full fledged military effort.
"national guard units there"
fx'd for you.
I think you overestimate the military strength of the US, along with our ability to organize our nation.
I agree eUSA should stop trying to play games for fun and get serious to help our actual alliance
I totally agree!
We are talking about the Mighty United States of America here. The Irish(UK) game wars are pretty lame. You should enjoy a real war! You are the country with the most population. The Atlantis, your allies are fighting Peace. You sent many troupes overseas and we are grateful and thank you for that.
But besides that we are waiting you to show the world what eUS is made of.
Show the world that you are a dominating power and a proud member of Atlantis!
Portugal was a diversion and RL has nothing to do with success in the game ...we need to develop an experienced army and devise a complete strategy before we go unlocking a bunch of PEACE MPP's
Get in the game, America. Look at how many of your soldiers are relocating to Romania, not just the USMC, but individuals as well. The time to fight PEACE is now. We know it. When will the rest of you figure it out?
Bogdan, a good deal of the effective military force is in Romania already to my knowledge. Most of the organized military units still in the eUS are not capable of dishing out much damage, but I may be wrong. I was never part of the eUS military.
Not saying that a couple of battles with Russia will give you a baby-boom. Fight against communism! Fight against Peace!
Another question: How is the US supposed to move the unorganized rabble that makes up a majority of its population?
@rlee16807,
I know that a good deal of the military is already in Romania giving big damage against Peace. I'm seeing that every day and like I said I'm grateful for that. Thank you!
What I'm saying is for the good of the US. Get a real war! Give them some sparks. Bring in the spirit! Many good people will rally for that. Right now US has a good number of people with wellness less than 40. Bring them alive! Give them a purpose in the New World. Fight the good fight and show the world you are the US. The No 1!
lol
Why doesn't ATLANTIS focus it's efforts on helping their members like Israel and Greece get their land back, instead of aiding Romania in the wars that THEY STARTED?
@Michael Collins,
Because we all know the Indo and Hungary won't stay in their original territories just for the sake of Romania helping Greece and Israel.
All the game is about sphere of influence, about power, about defending your principles against the others. In this case, against the cheaters.
The US people are fighting the good fight. What we are waiting is the US government to bring it on.
as a Marine In Romania I have fought many battles with our friends.
"Why doesn't ATLANTIS focus it's efforts on helping their members like Israel and Greece get their land back, instead of aiding Romania in the wars that THEY STARTED?"
Or, if I may add, protect Pakistan, which we also failed to do.
I sincerely don't see the fun in helping a large empire expand even more. If Atlantis "won", it would just break down and start infighting, in the illusion than an even smaller group of nations could "win".
Protect your weak allies, and see more and more nations looking at you for help, and thus being grateful later. Focus only on being the big bully, and you'll end up alone against everyone.
Voted. Once enough people are convinced, we only need to train our fighting force in hand-to-hand combat suitable to fighting armored war bears.
PS- We totally need an awesome nationalist saying. We need something to be our "For the motherland!!" or "Blut and Ehre!" (you know, without all the Nazi connotations)
The fact of the matter is that we are blocked by 3 or 4 countries and unless our allies start attacking and thus blocking those countries from blocking us we CANNOT continue our campaign.
Even if we have all of Atlantis in eRomania we still can't do anything if we're attacked by 3 or 4 countries, why? Because that's how the game works, if you're attacked, you cannot attack.
I hope this clarifies the need for articles like this one.
Playing Risk would be so boring if you didn't get to take over the world. There is always somebody in a weak position that is trying to argue against you kicking the S**t out of them and trying to get you to attack someone else. The eUS needs to start throwing its weight around and if eRom has been a friend and is in a good position to help us divide and occupy then what the heck are we waiting for? I can get combat experience fighting a real war in Asia just as fast as I can fake fighting in "war games" in Ireland. The eBeer and eWhisky is better, but I'm not here to get eDrunk - I'm here to win eRepublik!!!
Still waiting on an answer.
So let me get this straight a poorly organized war is not considered a real war? Is it only considered a real war if you win or march real well?
Using the power of media is quite possibly the worst thing Romania could do, pressuring an unstable ally to the limit is a two-sided weapon, you know what I mean so further explanation isn't needed.
If any US citizen thinks that PEACE is a real threat to the USA, then he's a foul. If the USA would consider by the ideology they'd choose PEACE, I'm sure of that, you should also consider that there's no such thing as a final form of alliances, some allies will become opponents (see the current situation between Sweden and Germany), therefore, new alliances will be formed.
Hari, it doesn't. They want to see a direct declaration of war.
ekszer, I'm curios as to why a hungarian would post in a topic not related to him.
This is about USA and Romania.
AndreiD, I'm curious why can't you argue with me.
Because it's just a waste of time to argue with you.
ekszer: You're assuming this article was written by Romanians. To the best of my knowlesge, it is not. It is written by an american.
Romanians are cheating again 🙁
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/free-fights-daychange-bug-ne-harcolj-chisinauban--796100/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/free[..]/1/20
Let's attack Russia, I mean if we do it the right way. Why the HELL not!!!
Exactly. Supplying soldiers is helpful, but opening up different fronts to relieve some pressure on Romania, is ideal. I suggested to our PM in England we should open up a front, and I did the same with Scrabman. I was told that if it could be coordinated, yes. Now I really do like Scrabman, but I have to agree with Alex here.
Your points have their merits, but the chief problem is boots on the ground that are capable of fighting an overseas war. Sure the military has three branches: NG, Army, and Marines, but the last two are the only ones that are meant to do any overseas fighting. As soldiers build their strength they move up each successive branch, but that requires manpower that our leaders seem to be building up right now through the very war games you're opposed to.
Our leaders obviously have a full war game plan in their minds, as you're suggesting, but haven't moved on it not out of pain of past failures but to prevent similar ones in a war that we couldn't afford to lose.
I'm just a lowly cadet in the NG, so I'm definitely not in the know when it comes to that, but I figure that's the reason why they're holding back and just using war games right now and off-book/black-ops Marines missions overseas to accomplish what their current objectives are.
If you're passionate about it, I would suggest you start a movement to create civilian, non-partisan, non-political oversight of the military's operations and training to ensure they are doing the best they can with the resources they've got. Not a board that would make decisions for the military, of course, but something along the lines of a security-cleared and trusted civilian oversight board. Just a suggestion.
can we frekin take over some countries this game is so dam boring without war
I personally think the fun and games will begin when eRomania does lose an empire.
ALL IN FAVOUR OF US INVASION OF RUSSIA!!!!!
I'll have to admit, the US ought to start a real war soon. Frankly, I just want to see us out of our little safety bubble.
"The United States could be completely dominating if its leaders had any real stomach and smarts for waging a war."
I agree. I was excited with anticipation when the "Something Big" was announced that never really occurred, and while I value the training in wargames, it should not be a substitute. It's about time we stood up alongside our allies, otherwise, why even be in the alliance? I understand war has the chance to backfire and most administrations don't want to risk their political career on it, but I think it's time to bite the bullet.
Perfectly said.
Nice Pictures. 😃
Btw. Romania you are not alone. The german Expeditionkorps are with you, unfortunently we are a little nation, but we try our best to assist you and ATLANTIS against PEACE.
And i would like to see the U.S. and U.K. more involved in those wars against devil PEACE fraction too.
To have war you need experienced soldiers, I.E war games, otherwise the population will only destroy the nations funds.
Perhaps the call to take up arms to go overseas is why it does not happen, also the citizens might not care about battle besides defenders.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-[..]1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-[..]1/20
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