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I think you did great Aries! o7

At around 16:00 erep time:

that's 01:00 in dutch time so no wonder not many people were online 😉

There is also talk that Praetorian Guard may become our new state MU:

a private MU can never be the state MU.

Excuse me it was 15:00. Still midnight your time.

But there will for that reason be barely anybody online in the next 8 hours after that time.

So, great that you were supplying. But as more or less everyone was offline all of the supplies went to foreign mercenaries, and as soon as the Polish (and the majority of eDutch) came online the entire war was lost anyway.

jealous?

about what? it's simple a private army can never be the official army of a nation.

@odan: It cannot be the official state MU. But it is by far the largest MU of the eNL. So even though it's not a state MU the state cannot disregard it.

who the hell let you in government?

I'm sorry to ask, but can you explain your question? What is so shocking about Aries being MOD?

the guys a bit of a dick...

To all of you brits : )

Actually, I think it is more specifically to you since you aren't very nice either.

The clue is in the name guys, phonetically speaking - if you didn't get that already

i dont know what more I need to do D&T...

I think you do a great job

Hehe.

wankers wank 😉

As the guy on my avatar used to say: "with unwilling hounds it's hard to catch hare"
Respect for trying to make state MU's work. o7

Welcome back 🙂

Excuse me Aries Prime but I have seen NOTHING from YOU recently concerning a new MU setup while over a week ago Weekstrom sent out a message to switch from airforce to the new navy. So I'm not sure what this article is about but from where I stand your fingerpointing in the direction of Weekstrom lacks credibility.
As for the other government members I agree with you that the silence after all the pre-election bragging about how things should and would be done better is simply deafening.

To be exact, I got Weekstrom's message 10 days ago...

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-mod-mu-reorganization-amp-funding-2264313/1/20

And by the way, what does ST6 mean?

Seal Team 6, an elite group of USA origin.

and also a mercenary MU that fights against our allies. P

He means we dont follow PG orders. I never had orders to fight against our allies.

vS you mean that asgard is our enemy?

last week the Frech government was not amused to see the CP of a nation they were just helding a fundraiser for, was fighting against them. Same for the adviser, who even got a campaign medal for it. 🙁
Also one of the reason they didn't want to donate to the eNL gov. for the BB.

Oh right, thanks!

I'm as disappointed as you are Aries. While I originally disagreed with the change in MU hierarchy I was hoping the shake up would entice more of our soldiers to speak up. I hope you find what you are looking for in the PG.

Thanks for all the hard work and updates.

I appreciate it. I will be leaving Korps Mariniers in your hands.

Sorry to see you go Aries as you are/were doing a great job updating orders in PM and supplying during our night-time to name a few.
Since you are accusing me however (and several others as well) I have to clarify a few things I’m afraid.
For starters; you’re accusation to ST6 and gov in general; Our last RW shows top damage done by 4 Gov members. Three of them being "don’t giving a damn" ST6 members and myself. You’re beloved PG is not visible in the top 5. That said I want to be clear on the fact that PG, in my view, is a very well working MU with a very dedicated commander and team that deserves equal rights as a state MU has. I even would love to be part of it but I have my responsibilities within eNL Navy. In the meantime: Go wonder if it’s a thread that eNL citizens are member of ST6.

Then we have activity in general. No one being active you state? Lets see;
- RikW is busy doing the talks with ePL, no doubt supported by the MoFa team.
- As for the MoHa team; As there are no CS requests there is not much to do…
- Mod dept; You’re active enough as Thanatos was but he left eNL recently. No clue on why now during a term in which he agreed upon being minister.
- MoF dept; Indeed I’m not that visible atm. But as you know (or should know) I had a PC failure due to which I was forced to buy a new one and indeed since thats the machine I do most of my RL work on that has very much prio over a game. In the meantime I’m still busy as MG which has prio over other matters given the risks involved. As for the SSoF; we had some talks to get him aquinted with MoF and he has a chalenge at hand concerning our Commune (which actually should be a MoD issue)
- MoI dept; Well I’m sure we all agree upon the fact that’s the most visible dept we have as is always the case when ElGorro is in charge.
- MoC dept; There were several publications (done by MoI) and ofcourse the forum stuf.
So all are working well I’d say albeit not 40 hours a week, but its a game remember, not a RL job.

As for you’re plans; You didn’t present plans, you hinted in a direction that I was willing to follow concerning the organisation and acted on even though it was not even discussed. What I agreed upon was the change in positioning of players over MU’s. Stepping over the fact that somehow during the last MoD periods eNL Army vanished while we agreed on an army structure of three MU’s. I DID NOT agree upon name and avatar change as I stated in the gov private section but my questions were never answered. Instead you changed the name of Airforce and changed avatar and published an article that stated the not agreed upon/not even discussed change.

For several people this will sound familiar as we had a likewise situation a few months back. Back then, when you were not even a member of MoD, you managed to convince the CP of a necessary change in army structure of which you stated it was discussed within MoD and agreed upon. None of the two MoD’s back then, Dave Brinkman and Dick Dasterdly, however were consulted nor were the commanders of the MU’s. Back then you also published an article and managed to destroy the very well working eNL Army and demotivated two hard working guys in it (Marnix Maximus, back then called Kamp Amersfoort, and Tijl Uylenspiegel) who were both very active and learning our newbies how things work in the military and the game itself. In airforce you somehow managed to get the position of Commander at the cost of ElGorro who until then did a great job. After this event ElGorro decided to go to ST6 since he felt dumped for no apparent reason, as did Marnix. Navy didn’t change as it has me as commander and I refused to accept the change as did all other MoD members as it wasn’t the way our army would function best. So I did advise all members to stay until things were solved. They all did, and as we all know the changes were turned back but sadly the damage to several people and eNL Army MU were done.

As for RW’s; You should know the possibilities we have and the effect we can have as they were pointed out on several occasions. In short; Every RW supports Poland and makes them stronger and us weaker. And for a successful liberation and after that keeping our regions free by force that will cost at least 10M cc. 500-600k is nothing. Sure you can win a few battle rounds with it (if you would have the number of fighters needed that is) but you won’t win a RW let alone keep the region our own. And we would need four. That you managed to score points during the night as a standard fact; During the night Poland doesn’t bother. Sending a few troops in the morning solves the night swiftly.

I don't want to go into the reorganisation of state MU's, just want to clearafy some point you're bringing up. it's easy to do some damage, it's way harder to work towards winning. That I haven't seen! And dearly missed yesterday eve and night. 🙁

PG picked this up, that's why we were winning all div I and II division battles. We started winning in III and IV as well, as soon as we'd opened up supplies, just before the start of the 3th battle. Would have been nice if the CP who knew upfront would have taken a lead in this by organising and fighting, instead of only the latter. P

I'll give you a short response Weekstrom,

I damn well put in effort to make this stuff work, but I suppose you are too stubborn to try and make change work. At this point I realize Praetorian Guard in the only future MU for Netherlands.

It also saddens me that you aren't even willing to fight RW's and start throwing out crazy numbers on how much it costs to fight them. I spent about 300 Q7 last night and that is close to 1800cc, if not less. Our state has the money and the people to make resistance work, but we clearly don't have the right people in the government to make it happen.

This is why I am fed up with this crap. It is always one big argument and criticizing without anyway actually doing anything. I know I won't have to deal with this garbage in PG, and I also know that they are more organized and effective with the leadership and chain of command they have. Have fun doing whatever it is you aren't doing.

I am sad you did not folllowed my advise and had a little chat with our CP. i do think communication would solve your issues. Most of the gov members arent active in the night when you are online. That doesnt make things easier but not impossible.
Hope you appointed someone to commander who we can trust.

"the rest of our cabinet isn’t even active." I don't know if you are blind... I reposted 3 articles. Did some person-to-person coaching. I gave out the Forum Registration Reward. I gave out food from the eFrench to rookies...

If I can butt in on this? I have a wealth of experience of what happens to small countries that are divided like Ireland, India and now Netherlands. This country is going to go downhill very fast with no hope of a coherent strategy or plan unless you deal with your divisions quickly.

The fact that this is happening during what appears to be a baby boom shows how ridiculous this is.

You need to get an experienced and wise head as CP who will spend the next 2-3 terms implementing a strategy that deals with an alliance, a proposal to free regions for free, and a format to allow for the country to grow.

You need stability and hope, and that requires a CP who will put a lot of time and effort into it.

None of what I say should be construed as direct or indirect criticism of the current or previous governments

I agree, which is part of why I am upset.

When we had 3 stateMU's they stand all in the top 3. Then you wanted to change that and it lowered. Many members didn't like to hop around to other state MU's they went to PG, because that's a stabilized MU, they won a lot of members back then. Then I changed it back to 3 MU's it took 2-3 weeks to get eNL army running again, but not as good as before. The MU has been weaken. But the MU was stabilized. Then you disbanded eNL army. I didn't see what you did for those members, but from what I have seen they have been kicked out. And eNL Navy and eNL Airforce didn't get more members. The members were gone to PG again, I guess. After these changes. all the stateMU's are hang at the bottom of the MU list of eNL, only eNL Navy is still a steady hitter. The people want to count on their state MU's they don't want to hop around. So please let it rest. Find another good Commander for eNL airforce. And let's rise eNL army from the death. Then make a lot of publicity for those stateMU's and change at least as possible their names, CO's or Division in the MU's. Then the stateMU's will get their power back. PG has handled well on these situations. They were the MU were the people could count on.

the most peopple who left nl-army back then, did so because they were screamed at and insulted by CO's like Mr.Sphere. Further is PG a very well organised MU, with almost always a DO to do, strict rules on what wars to fight and what not, which gave PG a great international reputation. And then ofcourse our awesome uniform! 😉

Thats the reason Sphere was replaced by Marnix and Tijl who did a great job.

ALex yes you are right. in that time also many members were going to PG. But eNL Army was still a good working stateMU under Tijl, me and kixtart in the beginning.

Guys, i dont know most of you and I only so-so know this game a little. Altho the principles about strategy and winning games like this are the same all around and throughout every game.

A plan is key
Organisation is key
Allies are key
Supplies and other means are key.

Internal quarreling means any or all of the above is lacking and will destroy any chances of victory.

it's like death and taxes said we first have to restore stability because without stability everything goes !@@$#@. so if we want to restore stability we first have to address the problem of polish hordes

1. keep spamming RWs ( this is not the way because the change of us succeeding is nearly zero and we would just end using all supplies when a real change pops up.)
2. join a alliance and get them help us out be it asgard or other alliance because fighting together makes u stronger.
3. wait for the right moment to strike and do it ourselves. When the next WW starts maybe who knows.

but number 2 being the most valid because it has the most change of succeeding. so now we have one goal, one way this gives unity, unity creates stability and stability makes everything easier so rally the ppl behind one cause and chose one way to get their. to do this is the only way we're ever going to get something done.
this is just my opinion about how we should deal with it. because if the government is divided the ppl will also become divided thus losing stability