Serbia wins the first battle – Aftermath of Liaoning.

Day 918, 14:35 • Published in USA USA • by Sossu
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After a contested overtime of the battle which broke all records, Serbia rose to be victorious in Liaoning. As was expected, Serbia gave everything and more to protect the most valuable region of Phoenix from Eden invasion.

The general populace of USA holds no match to their Serbian counterparts in numbers or dedication. Serbian government has successfully managed to underline the importance of Liaoning, and once the Sun rose over Europe, it was Serbia’s time to recover from the 700k disadvantage USA had diminished on the earliest hours of the battle. They did well, rising the wall to nearly 2,5 million with the help of the other Phoenix nations.

All major nations, both on Eden and on Phoenix side ordered their citizens to move to either USA or Serbia to fight in Liaoning. This statistics article shows the dedication of all nations, comparing the number of fighters and voters in the congress elections. On the Allied side, China, from obvious reasons, and Croatia stand out, both moving over 30% of their active population to USA. From Phoenix nations, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Russia contributed heavily, all sending over 25% of their active population to defend Serbia.

Eden did not stand idly either. After Serbian prime time was over, it was yet again the population of USA who were trusted to lower the wall to considerable amounts. With the help of military units unavailable to fight at the end of the battle, set to expire at 3:48 am CET, Americans reduced the wall back to it’s initial size of 1,6 million, setting the stage for a nail biter when one hour of the battle was remaining.

Eden started excessive tanking first at 45 minutes mark, dropping the wall hovering in border region in to a free fall. At best Eden leaded the battle with 1,5 million as the wall reached Administration center, never reaching underground though. The first tank rush of Phoenix was set to occur at 30 minutes, rising the wall back in to Suburbia. The wall remained in Suburbia for the rest of the battle, as both sides fought furiously, but with even forces. Finally Eden ran out of steam after pushing the battle to overtime for about half an hour, and exhausted Phoenix forces made the last push to drag the wall barely over the secure line.

The moral impact.

As the Vice President of the United States writes, Allied forces should not feel depressed for the loss. Eden performed marvelously, but there is still room to optimize the results in order to achieve perfection and supremacy over Phoenix. At the same time worrying news are heard from Serbia’s capability to stretch their forces over and over again and their economic state after they dealt nearly half of the damage alone while USA made only 21% of Eden's damage and trusted 80% of the effort to the hands of Eden.

Serbia should be congratulated for their outstanding performance. Roughly 7,000 Serbians fought, dealing 38% of all PHX damage, or 6,7 million. Add the damage made by people with Bosnian citizenship, and the total number of damage done by Serbian forces rises up to 8,1 million. Serbia made more damage than the top three Eden nations combined. Serbian newspapers gloat Eden for the loss while celebrating the victory and truly no nation could put up a fight similar to what Serbia unleashed in Liaoning.

Eden hasn’t fallen in to misery after the loss, as the battle was extremely close and with slight tactical alterations a victory is available to achieve. Eden is morally prepared to launch another try, as Serbia has their back on the wall with no place to run. Eden only have to win one battle while Serbia has to win them all.

The economic impact.

The battle easily became the most expensive battle ever fought. Figures taken from eReptools show Eden spending 24,704G on Wellness Packs while Phoenix spent 17,780. If we presume that a Q5-weapon was used in every WP-fight, and the global medium price for Q5-weapon is 0,85G, we can calculate the cost of tanking weaponry for both sides. Eden spent 10499,2G on weapons while Phoenix spent 7556,5G. The starting cost is 2802,25G, making the total amount of Gold spent by Eden to reach astronomical measures, 38005,45G. On the contrary Phoenix spent 25336,5G.



The GDP of Eden is larger than Phoenix’s, and with the usage of TAF and former examples of solidarity, they seem to be better at directing resources for common good than Phoenix. Losing 38,000G does them serious harm, and new attacks on Liaoning will probably not be carried out in the very near future, perhaps not even on this Presidential term.
Serbia however seems to struggle with economy even harder than Eden. Operation World in Flames reduced their Gold reserves, and they had to take either donations or loans reaching thousands of Gold from other member nations of Phoenix. For instance, UK loaned/gave 1000G to Serbia. Reports also say that the Serbian military was ordered to kamikaze, destroying their wellnesses by using a military tactic effectively abolished by a new set of hospital rules. When hospitals gave the same amount of wellness regardless of the number of fights, all militaries in the world used kamikazeing to save Gold. It is done by fighting 10 times instead of five, thus temporarily letting wellness fall under 50. It is not used anymore after Admins changed hospitals to give an amount of wellness equivalent to the number of fights the citizen has fought during the past eDay. If Serbian forces truly kamied, they will suffer from low wellness for several days, harming the Serbian companies where they work, unless they buy costly Wellness Packs to swiftly regain wellness.

As these evidences are taken in to observation, I count the 8,1 million as an absolute maximum Serbia can perform. They cannot continuously take loans to fund tanking, nor shall the member nations of Phoenix always open their wallets to hand out donations. Optimizing the tanking Eden might do more damage with the same amount of Gold, putting Serbia to a tough spot.

The military impact.

Both alliances fought tooth and nail for the fate of Liaoning. The battle reached total damage of 34,842,000, making it by far the biggest battle ever, surpassing C. Hungary by over 10 million. From the Allied nations, after USA, Poland showed up the strongest when Polish and Peruvian damage are combined. Polish troops inflicted over 2 million damage, followed by Spain with 1,9m, China with 1,3m, Romania with 1,3m and Croatia with 1,3m as well. The magnificent Serbian effort is backed by Russia, making 1,4m, Hungary, making 1,25m and Brazil and Indonesia, doing 590k each. The main line of defense rests on Serbia’s shoulders, and if they have problems, Eden should be emerge victorious as USA is backed by support far greater than what Phoenix can inflict.

The high amount of spent wellness packs indicates that the next battle shall be decided by tanks as well. Eden is superior to Phoenix in both terms of produced and bought Gold, giving them advantage on this aspect also. While Serbia’s perks are powerful general population and high morale, they lack in strong friends and Gold. Eden on the other hand has weaknesses in USA’s general population and having loose regions where Phoenix can start distraction battles, but they overcome Phoenix in Gold and having a better power-balance between the members of the alliance. USA holds the time zone advantage as well.

Recipe for success.

Eden does have some flaws in their battle strategy. After these problems are fixed, Eden should be vastly stronger the next time Serbia and USA face.

1. Make DoD Orders more intriguing. Giving a direct link in normal font doesn’t really underline the importance of the battle. I advise you to make the articles a bit more informative, telling briefly why is it so important to fight in Liaoning. Look at Poland’s orders. Big, shiny and interesting buttons which take the player right in the middle of the battlefield.

2. More distraction attacks. Romania can attack Serbia and Hungary, Croatia can join in the attack on Hungary to draw two-clickers from moving to Serbia and fighting in Liaoning. The border regions are cheap to attack.

3. More effective tanking. China used WP😒 worth 4000G and made 965k while Romania made 1070k with WP😒 worth 1600G less. Instead of nationalism, direct Gold better to the big guns. This way we make more damage with the 24,000G we had in disposal.

4. Media control. No free speech allowed in times of critical battles, especially if it’s the enemy giving out fake orders. Order the military to vote for important government articles and hand out their urls in DoD orders to achieve maximum effect.