[CP] Phyrric Victory
Het Catshuis
Dear citizens of the eNetherlands,
What a week it has been. Together with our allies of Orion Sweden and France we embarked on an invasion of the UK, an action that would have succeeded flawlessly in ordinary circumstances. Just one month ago we walked unopposed in the UK; how different it was now.
Credits to Pamadapa for this map, describing the initial attacks
By the divine intervention of an Albanian visa the UK managed to first trounce the attack by Sweden, followed up by closing the front by liberating Denmark. Next up was the Netherlands, who managed to win the first few rounds flawlessly against the UK fighting on its own. In round 3, however, the UK was once again saved by millions of Combat Orders which made any follow-up effort impossible (we managed to restore the lead, only to be smacked once again by massive Albanian Combat Orders).
With only France winning their battles, it was clear that this campaign was turning to a defensive one for us. The United Kingdom, left to its own devices, yearned for revenge and attempted to invade the Netherlands - before France could close that front. In a true showdown between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands - without divine Albanian interventions - a heavy battle was fought which was eventually won by us. But the price was heavy for both sides. With that victory, our mission has however been accomplished.
We've shown to be loyal and hard-fighting allies, looking forward to jump in wars in favour of our allies instead of watching by passively, despite our small size. In our two battles we got arguably the most pressure from the UK and her allies and we fought it off correctly. As this was a collective effort of France, Sweden and the Netherlands we can call it a success. We don't need to win ourselves directly; by serving as a massive drain and fending such forces off, we've shown that we're an helpful asset in any future campaign.
Of course, a big sign of gratitude to our allies is fitting. We would be a lot less worth without them. Be it mammoths like Serbia or Slovenia, or smaller but still formidable nations like Australia and Canada.
Hail Canada!
Hail France!
Hail Iran!
Hail Netherlands!
Hail Peru!
Hail Sweden!
Kind regards,
NoTie112,
Country President
Comments
HAIL NL!
You beautiful bastards.
Do pardon my french.
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Wth are you on about, and why are you dragging nazi crap into the comments.
@Fosite; you know what NAZI is?
Glad we could have some fun. Netherlands is alright.
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3 countries attack one using co's, lose, complain about other ppls co's.. xD
I don't see any complaining though? Unless you admit being a visa or using Combat Orders has in inherently negative connotation 😛
I think it was a terrible addition to the game.. said so many times.
-VOTADO-
Most exciting battles that made us take off our laziness and take an active role in the fighting that happen around us and allied countries.
Infinite thanks to our allies for allowing us to dream once more to invade a country with dignity that is much stronger than us.
My respects to UK and allies, to defend himself in excellent way.
This is the end of the skirmishes? who could say so? o7
How much did you guys spend in CO when we counter-attacked eNL btw?
Less than you did ;P
That wouldn't be a lot then.
Overall, this article is a pretty good attempt at spin.
Lol spin? I admit it hasn't turned out the way it was supposed to be. That's a lot whole different than the trolling of some UKish whenever they win 1 (!) battle thanks to Colin.
Also, we both at least spend 200k. And we all know the UK isn't exactly that big on money (admitted in the Addaway CP article), so who is spinning here? 😉
We didn't spend near to 200k
Sure Addaway, I have followed all put COs in the entire battle, so I can make an educated guess. Perhaps not 200k precisely, but it wouldn't differ much. It's not that hard to reach 200k when you're setting 30/m COs on D4.
Well... lol
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I got my TP 😃 + I liked the eUK media Trolling eNL loved the Doot Doot article published in eNL.
"We've shown to be loyal and hard-fighting allies"
Ha!
You seemed to have trouble against a country which is less than 5x your size, so nothin to laugh about lad ;P
Yay voted o7
I strongly object to the title of this article. It's an abomination, spelling-wise. Fix it!
Indeed, in terms of spelling, it should be "Pyrrhic victory".
But what does this title refer to?! Who is the winner of this war? And I seem to have missed the eUK or eNL going bankrupt over this war... A pyrrhic victory is one which cost the winner so much that it would've probably been wiser to lose.
Afaik our short war with the UK ended in a draw, but it was a victory for Orion as a whole. And afaik both sides have not spent excessive amounts on this war.
So I'm inclined to think that the title is wrong also if the spelling would be fixed...
Hail Serbia!
Hail Slovenia!