Checkmate [Official Analysis of the Russian War]
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by dsalageanu
Dear citizens of Norway,
As a final step in my mandate as eRomanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, I would like to present you the line of events in our engagement on the Russian front.
About a week ago, the Romanian Army, with the approval of the Norwegian President Salve, crossed the Norwegian border in order to start a Resistance War in the Moscow region and successfully attached the region to Russia, opening a common border with Russia. Consecutively, Romania declared war on Russia and occupied the region without significant resistance.
Our next move was to start a Resistance War in the Northern Region (again in Norway, with proper acceptance from the Norwegian leadership) in order to create a link to the Russian Western Siberian region, which was the military target of this campaign, a region with high iron, wood and oil resources, which, except iron, are not available in eRomania. After an unsuccessful attempt (for whatever reasons), we have achieved to liberate the Northern Region and to prepare the next steps.
In the mean time, Russia has successfully secured MPP’s with 6 PEACE countries, among which Indonesia, Italy and Iran, which we consider to be great military powers of the New World. Romania benefitted from the great support from allied Atlantis troops but nevertheless, as aggressors, stood without MPP’s and with a thin backup due to the global war.
Next followed a direct military confrontation in the battle for the Northern Region, a battle which broke many records in of the warfare in the New World, the Romanian Army placing a incredible amount of damage and defeating the strongest armies of the PEACE alliance, all fighting “from home”, with the aid of the MPP’s. This incredible achievement was secured in parallel to a very serious engagement of the Romanian Army in the Argentine war, where we have secured a more than fair amount of damage.
Of course, even with this overwhelming victory, PEACE forces were doubting our ability or determination to invest an enormous amount of resources in securing our military objectives and, much like everybody else, were expecting French Toast all over again.
Our only valid options were to direct our efforts in two distinct directions:
1. Consuming as much as possible the resources of our enemies before the next all-out confrontation
2. Convincing the PEACE alliance that there WILL BE a next all-out confrontation and distracting their attention from our war tactics.
We have used a fair amount of propaganda and the Romanian Intelligence Service had many sleepless nights, but I have to say we had a lot of fun. Ombrone (the italian officer who “flanked” me) and I “danced” a lot in several articles and it felt a little like the Cold War, which was great.
Militarily, we have opened every 23 hours and 57 minutes new regions (Black Earth region, Volga-Vyatka and then Black Earth again), in order to consume the resources of our enemies and to keep the war initiative in our hands, achieving to convince the PEACE alliance to invest around 200k - 250k in damage placed in evasive manoeuvres. Of course, PEACE intelligence realized that we pull an erosion tactics, so that only a part of the estimated damage was heavily resource-consuming. Nevertheless, the Battle for the Northern Region closing at -4k in damage, we were credible in our effort.
Yesterday morning, day 411 of the New World, official eRepublik time 23:58, a Romanian agent was nominated for Presidential Elections in Russia and entered the race (no bug, trust me, just a severe misunderstanding of what “official eRepublik time” means). Both presidential candidates in Romania with credible chances of success decided to support this mission, even if endangering their own campaign back home.
Yesterday evening, more than 150 members of the Romanian Army crossed the Norwegian borders again, prepared to change the results in the Russian elections. Yesterday, day 412 of the new world, 09:30 eRepublik time, our troops crossed the Russian border from Norway and secured the presidential office in Russia.
Today, we will trigger the following line of events. Romania will open new battles in the Volga-Vyatka and Western Siberian Regions, as we have kept the war initiative and we will have it until the closure of the Black Earth region (which is tonight, approx. 11:56 eRepublik time). The Russian President will then use the “Retreat Troops” button in every region, thus capitulating in the name of Russia all battles, more than 12 hours before the President Impeachment becomes effective.
As a consequence, all Russian regions will be annexed to Romania and Russia will cease to exist on the map of the New World. All MPP’s will PEACE will be automatically erased, so will all Hospitals and Defence Systems.
Checkmate.
So, what will happen next? First, we will install a Q5 Defence System and a Q5 Hospital in the Western Siberian region, which we have in stock for way before this campaign ever started. It will be our third full-Q5 region, which we intend to keep indefinitely. Our troops will remain stationed in the Western Siberian region until we have moved enough population in oder to make the wall safe enough.
The resources we have gathered for an “all-out” conquer (which would have created us some economic difficulties with all the “f***k Sparta” propaganda), scenario which was FEASIBLE bit economically toxic, will be kept for defense or preemptive strikes on any aggression upon our new or old territory.
Russia had to be wiped out, in order to kill the MPP’s and to enforce a rapid peace and to avoid another French scenario. Russia will be liberated probably, but this is no longer my job. Smif, the new Romanian president, as well as the Romanian congress have full authority to decide on this matter and to negotiate with the ex-Russian leadership.
The resources conquered will be put to good use, to all interested countries with whom we are not at war with. As we came to the conclusion that economy canot follow the artificial paths described by foreign politics, I guess both Atlantis and PEACE countries lacking those resources can benefit from them. We will make sure to adjust our tax system to make the exploitation of these resources profitable for everybody. Of course, the very high competitivity for the human resources in Romania are encouraging foreign countries to send their own people for mining, lumbering and drilling operations, our permanent military presence in Western Siberia will ensure a peaceful and stable environment for everybody.
Being my last day in office, I would like to thank both our allies, for being there for us and trusting us in our complicated tactics (which often led to misinformation, we are sorry about that) and our “enemies”, the brave soldiers and commanders of the PEACE alliance, which gave us great fights and a lot of thrills.
May we meet again and have a quality experience together!
Kind regards,
dsalageanu
eRomanian Minister of Foreign Affairs
(ex-Minister after pressing the “Publish” button 😛
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I'm sorry, but you make it sound like Salve approved freeing Moscow so that Romania could take it. We never knew what the starter of the RW was Romanian.
That's not true, Pusur. We all knew it.
Nice summary
And you told the story as you saw it, but there are other views also. But technically it was well done and timed.
The reality of war is to win or lose. So what did you win, not the diplomacy, because there were little diplomacy involve. You came through and will probably obtain what you aimed for.
But the diplomacy and negotiation and propaganda are the losers. Those who depend on articles are the losers. The Romanian tactics show that military efficiency mixed with some persuading approaches on some key presidents involved are what it takes to destroy a nation and checkmate the rest.
You have learned the eWorld the way and the fact that all our democratic entities are more or less of no use in this struggle to survive, gain and conquer. Seems like a strong military dictatorship is what it takes to exploit the rules of this game.
Or is it more to it Minister?
Rebellion all over Romania is what you will get!
Romanian empire will end just like the austo-hungaric in RL.
Agree with both Pusur and Anders here (no, we did not know that nemeiah was Romanian, and no, the congress did not approve the RW in NR).
I would love to join the celebration of our ally gaining territories, but the way this has went down has been wrong or partially wrong from beginning to end. Gooning? Come on, we're better than that! Best of luck to Romania also in the future, but I do hope that your methods will be cleaner and our communication better.
And no Norwegian support to Romania in their continuation war either.
@Anders: I strongly believe that there is much more to it. All the tools of the game would have been valid to achieve a different result, even for a small country. Yes, size counts, I would be hypocritical to say otherwise, but as the game offered these solutions for us, there would have been many others.
1. A diplomatic solution would have been possible all along. We would have paid gladly 500 gold for Western Siberia and signed a binding contract on the forum, much harder than any MPP the to spend 5 times more and to risk so much. But the really cool Russian hardliner diplomacy "you Rumanianz are scum, trash, both in eR and in real life. We do not negotiate! We do not capitulate!", etc, etc, wasn't very helpful, to say the least.
2. Romania is pretty far away from a military dictatorship. We are a very democratic country, with a pretty violent internal political stage. This month, the party who pulled this off, lost the elections at home 🙂 All the soldiers who voted in Russia would have NEVER voted "on comman😛 in Romania, believe me 🙂
3. We call this tactics "Weapons of Mass Distraction", because "destruction" would be to much for a virtual game 😁 And yes, our military doctrine does include such tactics, for both deterrence and effectiveness purposes. WMD are inhumane means of war in RL, but they are standard in the arsenal of the most democratic countries. Military logics is pretty far away from the democratic ideals, but somehow, these two concepts manage to coexist in our societies 🙂
-repeating what heivoll said-
Are you going to give some of the russian treasury back to norway, as most of their gold was stolen by RW's in norwegian regions? About 1000 gold was "stolen" in total....
BTW: It's dance time romanian style!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfiVc0X9Ewc
Here are some photos of romanians
entering Russia:
http://photopostcards.blogspot.com/2008/04/funny-romania.html
Russians were right, you are scum,
you'll pay for this, war is not over.
Russia has emptied its treasuries long time before our takeover. Russia never kept their monetary resources in their treasury, but this surely was visible by anybody.
Love the pics 🙂