The Economist ~ The Blame Game

Day 1,376, 05:56 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by Spite313


Dear friends,

Over the last few weeks the UK and indeed ONE has began to lose ground against the reorganised and revitalised forced of Terra and EDEN (TEDEN). It’s natural in such a situation to look to our leaders for answers, and to point the finger of blame. But before we do so, let’s look at the cause of this resurgence.

Firstly we have to look at the balance of power. ONE is comprised of two main halves, Spain-Poland and the Balkan countries: Hungary, Serbia and Macedonia. Whilst the former is engaged as the primary defence/offence block vs Terra, for latter is engaged with EDEN. So long as each of these groups is fighting, the balance of power is more or less equal, and with proONE countries helping, ONE has the advantage.

However this has not been the case. Relative peace in the Balkans has allowed Croatia and Bulgaria to roam free, especially recently. The one major war in the region, MKD-Greece was won by EDEN because of the superiority of EDEN’s mobile forces. With Croatia completely free from danger, their troops have been free to cause havoc.

Secondly, we have to look at strengths and weaknesses. ONE’s main strength is it’s doomstack of MPPs. When a ONE country declares war, it carries a maximum of 2 billion daily damage with it. However this strength is also it’s weakness, because the string of past victories have left ONE countries with probably 50%+ non-original regions.

ONE’s main weakness is on the defensive, protecting against RWs. Now many countries have foreign territories abroad to defend, it reduces the contribution of those countries to the MPP doomstack, and therefore reduces their only advantage. There is a direct correlation between Poland fighting RWs and MPP damage, for example. This seems obvious, but obvious or not it is a major issue.

Thirdly, there is the change in the nature of ONE. It was originally founded as 4 strong countries which could be 100% offence. They wouldn’t be wasting time defending, just attacking. However since then they have accumulated more and more informal allies which need defending. In addition to Peru, Venezuela, Thailand, Pakistan, New Zealand etc, there are also the larger proONE countries- UK, Slovenia, Turkey, Iran, Indonesia. These have provided a major distraction to ONE’s forces.

Because of this, ONE is losing core regions of countries like Macedonia, and is also losing its co-ordination. With each country defending its “friends” there is the risk of a lack of unified defence policy.



The solution to these issues is simple.

Firstly we have to attack and attempt to wipe Croatia, Bulgaria and Greece. It sounds like this is an impossible task, but it is well within our abilities. This may require sacrifices by proONE countries and concessions by Spain/Poland to Terra in the form of temporary losses. In the long run though, it removes the most powerful 3 countries from the map, and destroys their mobile potential by forcing valuable mobile troops to act as nothing more than MPP fighters.

This ties into my second point, which is that we need to abandon our weak point (RWs) and force the EDEN mobile troops to abandon their strengths at the same time. The way to do this is to nail their mobile troops down with crucial battles via MPP, whilst at the same time surrendering RWs to be regained later via direct war. By forcing them to fight on our terms, they are reacting to our policy and not the other way around. This is just common sense.

Finally we need to accept that different countries have different values to the whole. Though smaller countries can and should be defended, at least in their “crucial” regions, temporarily sacrificing a region or two of a smaller country has a much smaller effect on ONE’s fighting capacity than say losing a region of Poland. If Poland loses 20% weapon production, we are talking thousands of guns per day lost. If someone like Peru loses 20%, the lost damage as a % is incomparably small. We have to think of ONE as a single body, and protect the most important bits first. This is not selfish- the efficiency and strength of ONE’s core regions directly decides how much damage can be put into the field to protect the peripheries. So long as the cores are willing to help small countries later, helping them is literally helping ourselves.

With this three-part simple strategy, we can turn the war round.

Best,

Iain



Ps. I would like to say I am really enjoying the battles, especially with Ireland 😃 And it is good to see EDEN back on its feet....temporarily 😉

PPs. I heard today that 1st Amoured Brigade refused to fight for UK unless the government paid them. Some “Patriots” they are. I am fighting for free and will be donating weapons once the London battle opens tonight!

PPPs. http://economy.erepublik.com/en/market/job/29/0/0/desc to the factories! Support Britain's war effort with your labour. All tanks built go to the defence of London!