Weekly Power Rankings #3; Facepalms Worldwide
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by Shoi12
Welcome to another edition of the eRepublik Power Rankings! Here are the rules; the efforts of the top five countries this week will be recognized, and the five worst performances will be mocked, no exceptions! Countries are recognized for many things, including successful defending, securing strong alliances, and, of course, conquering rivals. Without further ado, let's begin!
Updated as of 19:00 New World Time, Day 1,663
RK (Last)
WINNERS
1 (NR) Latvia
Well done, Latvia. While they didn't gain many lands for themselves, they succeeded in freeing their friend Estonia from Finnish occupation. Not only did they free Estonia, they pushed into Finnish lands and did so flawlessly. While Latvia didn't do much for itself, its liberation of ally Estonia give it the top spot.
Week rating: 8.2/10
2 (NR) North Korea
Our favorite dictator state took on superpower China and won! Yes, the country that didn't exist two weeks ago has now reestablished itself. It's now up to a modest three provinces. Besides breaking free, it also managed to survive the surprisingly strong assault China has sent. While Serbia has struggled against China, North Korea has stood strong.
Week rating: 7.9/10
3 (5) Bulgaria
Bulgaria got an opportunity and ran with it, finishing off the suddenly ostracized Turkey and rebuilding the Bulgarian nation at its height. It's also now set up to expand into the south through Cyprus or Israel. Barring another Turkish mass revolution, things look good for Bulgaria.
Week rating: 7.4/10
4 (B1) Spain
Being occupied sucks, and Spain finally got the memo. The world's largest population made quick of distracted China, seizing back all of China's progress while they moved on to Italy. They also took all of Portugal's Spanish lands back. While in all truth their opponents did not give their all, managing to take back everything in such a short time is impressive.
Week rating: 6.9/10
5 (H1) Croatia
Croatia's soldiers have long been well renowned for their talents and abilities, and finally they got around to freeing their own lands. Harassing Serbia in two fronts, they managed to reclaim most of its homeland, as well as a foothold onto southern Italy. It now has the chance to help out its allies even more than before, as well as reclaiming its own chance at glory.
Week rating: 6.8/10
Honorable Mentions: Poland and Ukraine
LOSERS
Just barely good enough: Columbia and Portugal
B5 (NR) Serbia
Serbia is looking much more vulnerable now. Attacked by 5 fronts, Serbia gave up lands in B&H, Italy, and Croatia, and is not looking as if it can stop the hemorrhaging. With revolts springing up north and south, it's not looking good for the perennial superpower.
Week rating: 3.5/10
B4 (L2) Romania
Hungary came back home to find its lands under Romanian occupation, and caught the Romanians off guard. Romania lost nearly half of its impressive empire in the span of a week, and is on the verge of a total collapse. It has proven unable to save any of its lands, even their homelands, and there's no one around to save them. Things don't look good.
Week rating: 3.1/10
B3 (NR) Greece
Protecting the Macedonia name won't work if you can't protect against the Macedonian army. (See what I did there? No? ...Screw you) While Greece did manage to hold off Egypt, it's little compensation for losing to bitter rival FYROM, almost losing the entire foothold in the Balkans. When their best hope is from Israel, there's something wrong with the country.
Week rating: 3.0/10
B2 (3) Finland
How does such a successful campaign turn into a trainwreck in the blink of an eye? After Finland's wipe of Estonia, it looked prepared to crush Latvia as well, but found themselves overpowered. They quickly lost all their modest gains in the course of a week, giving up all Estonian lands, and found themselves invaded and begging for peace. Not the way to finish a campaign.
Week rating: 2.4/10
B1 (B5) Turkey
There's no explanation for how Turkey even managed to gain the upper hand at all in the war. After their first week of success, they haven't looked anything resembling a united country, and Bulgaria finished the job, putting Turkey back in its place. Turkey also faces animosity from many 'allies' within EDEN and Terra who want them out of EDEN. So besides being wiped, they look to have no allies in their quest to come back. Arrivederci!
Week rating: 0/10
NOTABLE EVENTS
Welcome back: Chile, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia
Sayonara: Turkey, Denmark
Other notable events:
ATOM article goes viral, sparking interest for a ONE-Terra alliance
Public appeals to kick Turkey out of EDEN becomes widespread
Canada begins debates over NEing Ireland
Countries cease-fire tomorrow, Day 1,664
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Good read
V Good Read but one thing. Serbia doesn't care about those tinny countries! If you watch Serbia's wars you will see a) They are beating China b) They win against Coratia etc when they arn't attacking China c) when this war with the serbs is over they will wipe al those countrys who attacked e.i. Croata.
Still I do really enjoy your articles, keep them up mate 😉
Great read. Do you think that we will end up like Finland if we attack Ireland?
Well, invading Ireland, who we have a treaty with, would be a good excuse for us to invade you, kinda like Latvia invading Finland for wiping Estonia
Yeah, now that China is back on the other side of the globe, Serbia can focus on Croatia. I expect an invasion of N. America by the 4th of July. China was the only crank in the way of ONE controlling Europe. Now, with the Terra- Eden alliance fracturing, ONE can start expanding like they did last summer
This is not just propaganda here. All of the TEDEN powers in Europe are facing current or imminent invasion.
I think the underlying issue here is that many TEDEN countries are too far away to make a difference in campaigns, except for MPP damage. If China and Argentina could easily access Europe, they could beat ONE, but TEDEN countries are scattered physically around the world. This leads to internal conflict between TEDEN countries because at any time, an area has to be neglected cont...
to focus on other areas. ONE, on the other hand, has all of their major powers in Europe. This can have advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that many resources, like Saltpeter, Oil, and Rubber, are scarce in Europe. So TEDEN countries tend to make more stuff. The consolidated power has benefits however. If one or two ONE countries start doing well, it benefits the whole alliance, because the gains usually take pressure off of other ONE countries. cont...
This is different than successes in TEDEN.
"you wiped Chile again, Argentina! That really helps out Romania and Croatia there!"
or "China is beating up on N. Korea!"
These battles generally do not help TEDEN as a whole, and drain damage from more important battles
Keep writing, i loves it!
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It's true that I've underestimated Croatia at times. Even without China's powerful influence and strength, Serbia still has 4 fronts against them (Croatia, Italy RW, Croatia RW, B&H RW), and it'd be difficult to win all 4 at once. Look at Argentina; they had 4 fronts against RWs and New Zealand (New Zealand!) and gave up some land. It's all a matter of how many fronts TEDEN can spam at Serbia, because they can't stop everything, and we still have a couple of countries with borders with Serbia.
''Serbia is looking much more vulnerable now. Attacked by 5 fronts''
5 fronts! Its clear you have a deep seated hatred of anything Serbian but considering theyve just sent China packing you'll probably see them back to their best. You write good articles but you dont half have your head in the clouds at times
^um mate, you do realize Canada is in Terra, so its obvious we're gonna be a bit biased ^__^