Day 778: Spain and Poland move to finish France and Germany
Aeros
SUMMARY
It has been a busy 48 hours since my last recap. Victories for Phoenix: Inner Mongolia was secured by Hungary, Jilin was secured by Russia. Victories for EDEN: Greece has secured the Aegean Islands, Crete and Tel Aviv. Spain has advanced through much of France thanks to a French retreat, while Poland has secured all of Germany down to Bavaria and the Rheinland while advancing against the United Kingdom in Belgium. China secured Liaoning and Xinjiang from a Russian attack, while Malaysia has successfully driven Indonesia from its territory following a counterattack on Sarawak.
EUROPEAN THEATER
The Western and Central European fronts were united two days ago when Spanish and Polish forces met on the French/German border near Strassbourg in Alsace province. With Germany reduced to its final bastions, Poland decided to put the Germans into an unwinnable situation. A few strategic land swaps with Spain completely surrounded the Saarland with Spanish territory following the Polish attack on the Rheinland. While Germany may have been reduced to the point where Poland must fight initiative deciding battles, the presence of the Spanish occupation zones will prevent Germany from mounting a counterattack even if they do prevail against the Polish attack. For starters, Germany would have to cough up the Gold to declare war on Spain before they could even consider trying to retake their country. If they do declare war, then they would have to fight 1 v 1 against the Spanish. Having already lost so much to Poland with activated MPP’s, it is unlikely Germany could advance against Spain without considerable Phoenix support. At this point, Germany’s position is unsustainable. Any defense will be stop gap at best with no possibility of capitalizing on any defensive victories Germany might win against Poland. The options for the Germans at this point are either surrender or total occupation. Knowing them, they will most likely opt to go down fighting, though what this will mean for Germany’s future will remain to be seen.
Germany’s predicament is directly caused by the plight of France, in that Spain was able to reach the Polish occupation zone after thoroughly trouncing the French and the Italians in their own campaign. Ever since Paris was captured, Spain has been keeping both countries initiative locked and unable to attack. The situation was so bad, France opted for the nuclear option of a defending country; scorched earth initiative flipping. This is a highly dangerous strategy that involves retreating all regions under attack except for a single battle that is about to close. If the strategy works, the defense wins the last battle and regains initiative. What makes it so dangerous is that if the attacking country notices what is going on they can declare an attack against a new province. This is what happened in this case. The French President began retreating battles and the Spanish President started attacking new ones. In this manner, France lost Pays de Loire, Provence Alps Azur and Lower Normandy. Now thanks to the region swaps with Poland, Spain has now launched an attack on the French reserve Hospital region of North Calais. If France loses all the currently active battles, they will be reduced to Upper Normandy and Corsica. With Poland advancing through Belgium, the Spanish could even region swap with the Poles to lock in the occupied French regions and remove any hope France has for retaking their territory in these final do or die battles. The options for the French at this point are either surrender or total occupation. France has thus far shown a willingness to go down fighting, though recent news media has expressed deep disappointment at the lack of support France has received from other countries presently fighting EDEN.
ASIAN THEATER
EDEN forces engaged in some intense fighting with Russia in Liaoning and Xinjiang provinces in an effort to mitigate the damage caused from the collapse of the Heilongjiang campaign. Xinjiang in particular had one of the most desperate mobile forces battles I have seen in some time. Hungarian tanks slammed the wall (which was set at about 20k in No Mans Land) in the final 15 seconds of the engagement. The US Military was rushed in as the clock clicked down to zero. The wall bounced back and forth between Secure and Underground without stopping in the middle at least two times before settling in No Mans land. Liaoning was much less dramatic, as EDEN Mobile forces and the Chinese handily held off the Russians. While Russia was defeated in Xinjiang and Liaoning, Hungary has thus far made no effort to press the advantage and advance further into China. With the Hungarian offensive on Chisana Romania, the Hungarians probably do not want to risk exposing themselves to a border with the United States without the Russians. Advancing in lock step with the Russians has the advantage of adding an extra country to help hold initiative. The downside to this strategy is that it depends on Russia being able to advance against China, who is proving to be a much harder nut to crack then anticipated if Liaoning is any indication. Overall, EDEN has managed to stall the Phoenix Asian counterattack, but this is largely due to Hungary’s unwillingness to commit itself more fully in this Theater.
While the Northern Front remains in flux, the United States has been moving decisively to shore up the Southern Sector in India. A horde of brand new citizens in India have been organized in an epic fashion almost inconceivable considering their age. A citizen barely a few weeks old nearly won the Indian Presidential elections, being supported by more than 200 other voters. For someone who never paid for major advertising, does not even possess a newspaper and has a total of 8 military fights to his name, this is an astounding accomplishment. I must commend ex.akrado, for being able to so successfully organize hundreds of other new citizens towards a common goal. It happened with “machine” like precision, and he should be proud. Alas, it was not enough thanks to a timely US intervention that gave the sitting Indian President the votes he needed to secure the position. No doubt Serbia, which is lurking inside Pakistan was counting on this PTO succeeding so they could easily region swap into India and attack the United States in Karnataka. They must now consider taking the hard road and fighting their way through India and dealing with counterattacks. As the Serbians approach Karnataka, they run the risk of having the United States counterattack the moment they secure a region adjacent to Karnataka. Serbia does have one thing going for them on this path however, in that the USA has proven a miserable failure at launching timely attacks and region swaps when it truly matters, though this could change now that this major weakness in America's defensive posture has been identified.
FINAL ANALYSIS
France and Germany are done. Its just a matter of convincing them of this fact. No doubt the rest of Phoenix has realized it even if they have not. Poland and Spain can region swap with each other at will, while France and Germany lack open wars with one of the aggressors. Even if such a war is declared, they would have to counterattack alone and without MPP’s against either Spain or Poland. At this point, defending both Germany and France will be just a waste of damage for Phoenix. Knowing this, we can expect most Allied support for both countries to disperse in favor of committing resources to other campaigns, and preparation for the defense of the United Kingdom and the United Netherlands who are now completely surrounded by EDEN. In Asia, the United States will move to shore up the defensive line. Heilongjiang is unattainable as things now stand, thanks to the presence of the Russians in Jilin and the Hungarians in Inner Mongolia. Both will have to be removed in near simultaneous fashion before an attack on Heilongjiang can be launched. This is unlikely to happen soon as EDEN is spread out on multiple fronts and the US Gold coffers are greatly reduced from the 3,000 spent to declare the failed double attacks on Heilongjiang and subsequent tanking.
Comments
first! now, to read....
2nd maxxxxx
great article
HAIL EDEN
😉
Big sigh this morning ... and the question for the day is what's next ?
HAIL EDEN!
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1st page
vote!!!
Nice one!!!!
And as a spaniard, I really hope the french swallow their pride and accept surrender. eUS did it during summer and as hard as it was, eUS managed to get back in two feet in no time!!!
There is not much honour in defeating a fallen soldier, but if he insists on figthing on... I'll honour his last request!!
V
I have a lot of respect for the French, but it's hard to drum up much sympathy for them after WWIII.
HAIL SPAIN! Nice work. O7
Love the work you do!
HAIL EDEN
France will not surrender. All the french political parties want fight against Spain, and some of them want CONQUER Spain.
So Spain will destroy them 😃
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I enjoyed reading that ,i like to see people talk fairly of the situation for both sides.
excellent. as ever.
I can't wait until the US, Spain, Poland, Sweden, Norway, and Canada go after the UK. We should all hope Jewitt is serious about his Goals this go round. 🙂
First page? Sweet article as always
EDEN BEASTS ALL!
Hail EDEN! China would be a pile of rubble without your support. We thank you.
Excelent article.
A great summarization of events and a pleasure to read. Voted and subscribed.
Liaoning was defended! This is good. Let's keep it that way. Thanks for the article!
Let's go EDEN!
The french can hate us and they can say that in the future they will revenge conquesting us one more time... but at the moment, practicaly they DONT EXIST LIKE COUNTRY 🙂
HAIL SPANISH-POLISH EMPIRE
HAIL EDEN AND EDEN PEOPLES
hoorah!
excellent work as always, Aeros.
this article is cross-linked at today's Army Times:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-quiet-war-a-ticking-time-bomb-education--1129921/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-[..]/1/20
@Aaron S
As much as I'd love to see that, the US is too involved with the Asian front to even consider joining in a joint attack on the UK.
Hungary 🙂
Same story as when they were in North America 😛
EDEN IS BEASTLY
My unit fought for China in LionKing province yesterday! Good job EDEN, so far! o7
Hail Phoenix, they will prevail.
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Hurray, for freedom! , oh sorry, are U freeing France? And Germany? They are really great imperialist, yeah, France, which U signed a peace with, Germany, that never occupied any foreign territory, but was attacked multiply times bye Sweden and Poland, even, when they were allies at Atlantis!
Great work freedomfighters :/
And we, who only conwuered high region for strategial porpuses, we are imperialistic, yeah. As yourself, Croatia-Poland and Spain arent imperialistic now? Owning worthless territories, just to destroy Germany-France-Slovenia?
...There's no imperialists on eRepublik: This is just a game. When a country conquer a territory, It's not killing anybody or kicking the freedom.
We are playing in a game and having a good time, don't hungry 🙂
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Excellent article, but I still need to learn a lot more to fully appreciate all it talks about.
😘( they destroyed GERMANY! now im stuck here 😘(
NEIN!!!! 😘(
The real question, and I would conjecture that this is more an issue for eGermany than eFrance, is how do the populations of these states deal with foreign occupation, if one assumes this to last any length of time. While hope is no substitute for a plan, there is no evidence that the eGerman government recognizes the seriousness of its situation, nor that it has given serious consideration of the alternatives...much less prepared its citizens for what lies ahead. Now, I disagree with Aeros on one key point. I think it is very much on the interest of the Phoenix alliance to shore up their position in Western Europe. It is precisely because of the weakness of the governments of eGermany and eFrance that they need to do this - there are signs serious disintegration in the eGerman population, with mid to senior level players going inactive - and these are players who either have been living in Saarland or have recently migrated there. The rational response to occupation would be for the healthy Phoenix nations to fund uprisings in the occupied territories. But this approach cannot even be successful enough to fail if the eGerman leadership does not look the situation squarely in the face. On the other hand, there is no evidence that the ePolish are even willing to offer terms of surrender. One interesting approach would be for the eRussians to set up an East German colony, lets say in Kaliningrad (used to be Koenigsburg) and let the eGermans set up shop with a successful resistance war - against themselves. At present (with about a half an hour to go), it does appear that Saarland will hold with Russian support today.
Viva EDEN!
On to London!
Hail Eden!
See you in London guys!
Spain and Poland shame my country(U.S.A)
they have the will power to go after the U.K. when we do not.
it's embarrassing.
i think MMP with Poland is a very good solution
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/csi-germany-1135091/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/csi-[..]/1/20