The very first war in erepublik history
Arriaes
The very first war in erepbulik history
I wanted to write an article about a historical event that concerned the UK. As i was sniffing around the wiki i came by an interesting topic. It was the first war on erepublik. This war was held between the UK and Belgium. It so happens to be that i got accepted as a citizen of the UK three hours ago. At this point you have probably already guessed what my previous nationality was, Belgian. Because of this amusing coincidence i decided to take this topic as the first short part of what should become a series.
The first war on erepublik actually wasn't a real war at all. Altough it was the first time actual battles took place, the motive of the Belgian president to attack the UK wasn't to annex it but rather the opposite. Erepublik was still in it's baby shoes and Belgium tried to get annexed by the UK because it was a much more developed nation. The UK president at the time Kaleb (known for being one of the founders of
Aurum) declared the union between the two countries a little after the battles were won. Altough there was no official contract between the two nations (which raised doubts amongst some citizens) it was a project that got welcomed at both sides of the Channel.
The fighting started on 10 April 2008 and lasted three days untill 13 April 2008. It was a very quick war with the Belgians on one side and the UK with the USA, Romania, Ireland and China on the other. In a simple five battles consisting of 18 fights. The UK and it's allies easily won all of the battles. The easy victory was facilitated by the Belgians. They attacked the UK first because in those days the side that got attacked first always had the defenders bonus. This way the UK had the bonus even though they were actually annexing Belgian territories. The Belgian government also decided to attack first because in a scenario where the UK attacked first the MPP's of Belgium would be activated. This would cost their soon to be nation gold.
Once the battles where done, the union could begin. It lasted 11 months and 7 different presidents. However as all other things, also the union had to come to an end. On February 21st 2009 Belgium became an independent state once again.
I hope you enjoyed reading my first article published in the UK. As i already mentioned it's quite short. This is because i wanted to write and publish something the first day living as a citizen of the UK as a sort of introduction of myself.
~Arriaes
(me after publishing my first article in the UK)
I once wrote another history article, about the United Netherlands (union between the Netherlands and Belgium). For those that are interested in this history article i have placed a link to it:
Erepublik history: the United Netherlands
Comments
Hey, good article!
Looking forward to more 🙂
wow so ive been playing this for nearly 10 years.
nice article and welcome to the UK
Thank you, more should follow soon.
Nice 🙂
I like reading these things. Better days.
Good to hear that, my next article is already in the making.
I remember dear old Kaleb (the old goat) and the happy months of Anglo-Belgian Unity extremely well. In those early months the population of eUK was far larger than it is now. The Belgian contingent within eUK were very active, particularly in the Military where they had an awesome reputation as hard fighters.
And yes Dougal - in a couple of months we will have been playing this game - more or less continuously - for TEN YEARS!
I do like a story about the good old days!
Very cool, digging up some old history!
really interesting 🙂
Thank you, if you want to read more i just released a new article a minute ago.
A history reminder, very good.
V + s