Never fight a land war in Asia
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by Dillan Stone
Napoleon lost an empire there. Hitler lost an empire there. Now Romania's elite troops are swarming over the Russian Steppes.
Unfortunately for Russia, its combination of a relatively undeveloped economy and rich natural resources made it a tempting target for invasion.
Even more unfortunately for Russia, eRepublik doesn't emulate the famous Russian winters which have undone all those before who attempted to conquer Russia from the west.
This bodes poorly for ATLANTIS, in that Russia has been forced to seek MPPs from PEACE nations; Turkey, Iran, Indonesia, Hungary and Brazil have already signed to defend Russia from Romania.
While this will give Romania a direct-front against PEACE, and thereby potentially reduce PEACE's effectiveness in Western Europe, it has also turned Russia, a potential friend with significant economic potential, into a likely permanent member of the PEACE coalition.
In the end, Romania's potential gain is our likely long-term loss - Russian raw materials will flow into PEACE nations instead of ATLANTIS nations - in particular the Iron we are hurting for.
America and her close allies need Iron. In large amounts. More than anything else, war in eRepublik is about directly converting economic power into military power. And it is there, that Romania's war-itch hurts us most.
The most lamentable thing, is that Romania is going to go for an attack on a newly freed nation, rather than using the leverage of resistance war and direct attacks on far more deserving nearby targets, like, say, Turkey. Ah, but that's Asia, and you don't fight a land war there... right.
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Great article 😉
Well written, and voted.
x Quote x "In the end, Romania's potential gain is our likely long-term loss - Russian raw materials will flow into PEACE nations instead of ATLANTIS nations - in particular the Iron we are hurting for." x End of Quote x 1. No PEACE nations will get their hands on Siberia.
2. Nobody can stop you from making raw materials companies anywhere.
3. If Norway had 2 times the same resources at high levels, those resources would have been useless. This way both Romania and Norway will have those resources.
4. Turkey has no resources for us. Why waste anything on them?
5. We helped ATLANTIS plenty in France, until you decided to pull back.
6. "America and her close allies need Iron." Who are you referring to? Because we need all types of resources badly.
As for the "land fight in Asia", you must agree the game cannot simulate the millions of people slaughtered to defend Russia from the well trained germans.
The game developers cannot convince thousands of Chinese, Indians etc. to join just to make the eWorld look like the real world.
Genghis Khans Empire flourished there
Persian Empire flourished there
Chinese Empire flourished there
In addition desertfalcon the russians "flourished" (not under communism) there, they were invaders as well..just from way back, gotta love those viking raiders who stay to take the land.
Hitler's empire was stopped before they invaded the asian part of Russia, so...techinically Hitlers "empire" if you could call it that was ended in europe.
yeah same for Napoleon.
"Even more unfortunately for Russia, eRepublik doesn't emulate the famous Russian winters which have undone all those before who attempted to conquer Russia from the west."
It would be really cool though if they somehow put in attrition features like that, like attackers of a artic nation (and the defenders but to a lesser degree) take increased damage to to weather and such.
and @Desertfalcon, GL with the presidency run, you and Moishe got my vote
AHHAHAHAH
RUSSIA IS NOT ASIA, IGNORANT WHITE PEOPLE.
This seems silly to me. Before Peace can even think about getting their hands on Russia, it will be Romania who is controlling Russia. Having Russia under the control of an Atlantis nation is a good thing, for obvious reasons.
If managed properly, this will be a very good thing for Atlantis.
@pyro, it is silly only if you don't know who was suppose to control Russia. Romania interfered into some world domination plans cooked closer to you than you would imagine.
Just from the title, people just know this from playing Risk. sheesh!
This seems silly to me. Before Peace can even think about getting their hands on Russia, it will be Romania who is controlling Russia. Having Russia under the control of an Atlantis nation is a good thing, for obvious reasons.
If managed properly, this will be a very good thing for Atlantis.
You lose.