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Artículo original: The battle for Ontario

For almost 24 hours the wall of Ontario has been incredibly steady, the variation being pretty small compared to the almost 400.000 defense points. With 30 minutes before the battle end, attackers rushed onto the battlefield, quickly and impressively conquering two zones, and 2/3 of the last zone, of the last remaining region of Canada, Ontario. Battle time expired at 07 30 eRepublik time, with just 25.000 points needed by attackers to make Canada vanish from the eRepublik map.Practically this was the beginning of the true battle.

After a heroic struggle, when everything seemed to be lost for Canada, their allies pushed back invading soldiers from Administration and City area. Almost 200.000 recovered points, despite PEACE armies and tanks resistance. After that, we had a great amount of inflicted damage per second, but the wall went upward very slowly, in small steps, which only proves the balanced distribution of gunfire. After another 30 minutes of intense fights on both sides, the defenders recovered some 20.000 points out of the needed 150.000 to secure the region. After another 20 minutes the needed 130.000 turned into 105.000. For the next 20 minutes the armies annihilated each other and the wall remained almost the same. At 09 30, two hours after the 24h counter reached 00 00 00, the wall was 85.000 short from the secure point.

At 09 45 what seemed impossible several hours prior, was happening: Canadians and their allies stepped into the Border Area. From defending the last remains of Administration Center to claiming back the border area of a 380.000 point wall, an impressive march. Every passing second meant a little bit of extra hope for Canadians.

At 10.00 o'clock, 2,5 hours after the battle should have finished regularly, defenders needed just 35.000 points more to secure their last remaining region. They had recovered 300.000 damage points but at a painfully slow rate for them. It was normal, given the fact that the attackers fought back with great power, not discouraged by losing meter/yard after meter/yard of initially conquered Canadian land. The victory seemed really close for Canada. But then, for the next hour, a massive counter-attack of PEACE armies approached Suburbia once again.

At 11 45 the defenders once more faced two hard zones to secure. By this time, after more than four hours of prolongation time, with both alliances needing at one point just 20.000 damage for the victory, we had no clear winner. Next, attackers marched through Suburbia, City and Administration zones, obtaining the victory in one of the longest battles in eRepublik history, much longer than the usual 24 hour battles.

In this true epic battle for Canada there were 17.000 soldiers inflicting more than 6.7 million damage combined! It was the largest single battle ever, and could have been even larger had several other battles not been active at the same time. The greatest efforts for this battle belong to Hungary (1.8 mil damage) and Indonesia (1.2 mil damage) on the attackers' side, Romania (0.9 mil), Spain (0.5 mil), USA (0.5 mil) and Poland (0.4 mil) on the defenders' side.

A great spirit of sacrifice was shown by America, choosing to help their Canadian friends despite that they could have secured some of their own regions with that damage, regions which they lost yesterday. Many other smaller countries fought just as bravely for their allies. The hours of intense fights following the “00 00 00” moment squeezed every single drop of available strength, leaving almost all the soldiers of eRepublik emasculated. Several days might be needed for everybody to recover, and this shows us what a great battle it was.

We would like to congratulate all the soldiers providing us memorable moments in eRepublik. We all feel that the “Ontario moment” is a turning point, probably the former Atlantis members will become closer than ever, feeling the real danger knocking at their doors. For sure, interesting strategies will be developed by the newly elected presidents, keeping us connected to this incredible war.

Regards,
The eRepublik Team