【PM】The story of the two airstrikes

Day 3,775, 08:44 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by 10 Downing Street

【Before you read this, the Australian Airstike is still active. We've come from 61-5 down to turn it around, and we're so close to being able to close it. Fight with everything you have to close the Airstrike here】

Greetings to actives, inactives, nonactives, not yet actives, and of course, the rest of the peons. I am writing today to basically summarize the last 48 hours, which have been eventful for some or completely the same for others. For those of you who got involved in the wars, thank you. Ultimately, our Airstrike on Albania was never meant to be a drain, our aim was to land. But some issues in other areas meant that our allies couldn't attack at the same time as us, and we became basically the main priority for half of the world.

However, I would like to say, that the score of 0 points we got is in no way, shape or form a reflection of the effort that we, our allies, and many others around the world put in.

Round 1 of our air strike


First Air round of our air strike


After we lost the first air round, I made the decision to ask our allies to drop their support, and focus on other avenues: preparing our defence against the Australian invasion. From that point on, we didn't really focus on winning the war, but we still had gave Albania some testing rounds. I would like to congratulate Albania and Colin for a well deserved victory. We were outspent by a factor of 30 to 1, and with figures like that it's obviously never going to be a war that we can win. But despite losing, our allies turned up. To take a country that spends over 3.8 million CC in Combat Orders, as far as we did, in as many rounds as we did, is commendable. Ultimately though: we lost. The original plan when I proposed the Air strike, is that we would be hitting as part of a trio. Portugal and Bulgaria would hit Albania in their colonies: the UK would hit their originals. Unfortunately, due to (this may surprise you) CO's from Colin, Portugal and Bulgaria lost their borders. Ultimately Bulgaria regained it, but it was too late to enable us to attack at the same time. When you combine all of the money spent across those three arenas: thats over 11 million CC.


But ultimately Albania won, we lost. At that point, I had used up pretty much every last bit of gold, cc and energy bar I had, and had used about 170k CC of the UK Gov's money to fund CCs too. Thus, when I finally went to bed, I knew by the time I woke up Australia would have landed safely in the UK.

Ultimately. They didn't. By the time I was back in the land of the conscious, Australia were up 61-5. I just caught the tail end of the previous round, and saw Division 4 being masterfully stolen by Huey. I tried to help and steal some other divisions, but as I had to dash, wasn't around for the end. I did, in the meantime, manage to set COs and ping everyone to begin to send the soldiers we'd prepped the night before: and boy did they come.

The start of the fightback


The fightback continues


The damage done until the end of round 10


Again, it's important to stress we lost. I made the choice to pull us into this war, and I have to take responsibility not just for the loss of our attacking Airstrike on Albania, but also the not insignificant amount of money that we've spent today defending ourselves against Australia (by my calculations we underspent them by a factor of 1:1.3). If things had gone to plan and Bulgaria/Portugal hit with us, I have no doubt we would have landed safely in Albania, and would currently be enjoying delicious extra bonuses and colonies. But it didn't go to plan. HOWEVER: I'm sure as you can see not just from the amount of damage thrown our way during the attack, and the huge amount to fend off Australia - we owe a huge amount to our allies.

Bulgaria, Spain, Romania, Serbia, France, Ukraine, Macedonia, Portugal, and to everyone who fought for us. Thank you. I shall be sending Aaron the mongoose around to do individual thank you articles, but on behalf of the UK government, the UK population (all 7 of us), and peons everywhere: Thank you. It was a engaging and entertaining fight, and I think the whole world realises that whilst the UK is small, we aren't insignificant all the time. Once the Australian Airstrike war is over, I'll update this article with more information about that. Until then, fight hard in Northern Ireland!

Until next time,
~jamesw