Spain Losing Its Grip on France
Desertfalcon
In the past couple of days France has managed to come back from being an island nation with one region in Corsica, to having six regions. Yesterday, France was able to regain two regions through resistance wars in Spanish territory and today three more regions fell via conquest wars. France won't be able to take all of their regions back soon though since Poland still occupies a large chunk of the country and the U.S. still holds Brittany. All it will take is a couple of region swaps by Poland to block France off from Spain but at this point in time that would ruin any chance Spain had of invading Britian. This is a huge momentum shift in the Western European theater as up until now the Spanish and the Polish have dominated the French in conquest wars.
The most likely reason for this sudden shift is the fact that many EDEN nations who have had troops stationed in Spain have moved on and the recent resignation of Romania from the EMC and their refusal to send military assistance to the aid of other EDEN nations in battles that don't involve the defense of their original regions. The Romanian president announced this a few days after ago Romania lost two of the regions that they occupied in Bulgaria. The Romanians were upset by the fact that other EDEN members such as the U.S., were spending more time and troops in South Africa and Western Europe than they were helping out Romania. They maintained that the lack of allied support cost them these two regions and because of that they have stated they will only help out allies when their original regions come under attack. The two regions have since been returned to Bulgaria by Serbia.
The long anticipated invasion of Britain also took a big hit with the withdrawal of Romania. Without the help of Romanian tanks and their ground forces it will be much more difficult and expensive to take and hold British regions. It's still possible that the whole incident with Romania will blow over and we could see their troops fighting for EDEN again in a short while however, some also speculate that this could be the first step to Romania withdrawing from EDEN completely. While this is unlikely it is something worth watching in the coming weeks as without Romanian support, the chances of the U.S. ever pushing the button are slim to none.
The Siege of Britain has also stopped which is yet another sign that there won't be any mass invasion in the near future. while there are still enough nations who could keep the siege alive, the cost may be too much to keep giving the Brits a free training war when it's not likely the U.S. will invade any time soon. Over the past few days Sweden has given up their regions in Denmark to Norway so they no longer share a border with the U.K. and with Spain losing control of Northern France they likely won't be able to join in the siege. This just leave Poland and Canada, but Poland has been relying on region swapping with Spain to get access to the U.K. so if Spain loses those regions Poland is out of the picture as well. The U.S. could enter the fray but it doesn't appear that those who decide the military policy of the U.S. want to invade the U.K. that bad.
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Great article!
First.
Never mind.
4th! now to read...
310 subscribers to go ..to get to 5000. df is awesome as usual. 😃
so after all the talk - eUK will still survive? LOL. wtf.. time to push that button jewitt! go out in a bang!
good one again, thanks for your (most of the time >.<😉 fully unbiased journalism!
Excelent article.
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Great article!
Good article. Romania is not withdrawing completely from EDEN... but if EDEN is not making some attitude adjustment, who knows what the gov will decide.
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The damage is done.
Total damage in all 3 battles:
- USA aprox. 23.000
- Romania+ Ukraine 93.000 (with one battle hero)
The upset Romania who withdrowed the troupes from EMC still managed to inflict 4 times more damage then the friendly americans.
Good job USA!
French should have been wiped out earlier. 🙁
I am not an automatic "vote because it's DesertFalcon" reader. I don't care if I'm first or fiftieth. I read the Global Defense Report because it's news.. real news presented like news, professional and straight up like black coffee.
I have been remiss in not including this paper in the standard set of links from The Army Times, a mistake which will be corrected with its next publication.
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Bulgaria is useless, pick more important targets and Eden will come.
@natrix: Bulgaria made sure Serbia has a border with Greece(one of the owners of a high iron region in the EDEN influence-sphere). I wouldn't go as far as to call them useless.
And by important targets, do you mean dormant former empires?
@natrix1: your comment done it! i'll fight against you!
eBulgaria (under eRomanian rule) was more important than your entire original lan😛
-way to eTurkey
-protects eGreece
-locks eSerbia if its asian provinces fall
-curbs eBulgarian baby-boom
-helps eRomania economy
-uses eBulgarian babies as a shield
You are the useless ones if you couldn't see these facts.
FAIL eUSA!
@natrix1
I am new in this game compared to you but even I know eBulgaria is not useless..I could tell you why but I don't think you would learn anything, so why bother...
Maybe we should, I don't know, deploy to Spain to help them.
"The U.S. could enter the fray but it doesn't appear that those who decide the military policy of the U.S. want to invade the U.K. that bad."
LOL yes let others fight you battles.HAHAHAHA
Why is it so important to attack eUK?It looks like eUSA is the head of EDEN but it doesnt have rights to be that becouse it isnt the strongest member and their leadership would be shooting in your head,EDEN.
In other words: no northern France for Spain means no EDEN invasion of the UK.
Not that we give much of a damn in any case about those lost regions...
What now??? Nobody knows.
For us in Spain, chill out in Paris, Alsace and Rhone Alps along our Polish mates probly.
Maybe we should have attacked the UK a month ago when we had the chance. Instead we sat on our thumbs and are now losing.
THANK YOU EDEN
Military accomplishments lead by the eUSA:
1) Liberation of Central Greece (High Iron region). This helped a friendly nation get on its feet. Greece is now a rock steady ally and all members of EDEN benefit from access to the Greek iron region.
2) Liberation of Israel. This ended the Turk empire and allowed a small nation to control its own destiny.
3) Liberation of Liaoning. This has helped China (which has gone from ne
Military accomplishments lead by eRomania:
1)Single-handedly pushed eHungary to 1 last region
2)Wiped out Russia entirely
3)Kicked Indonesia's ass across Asia(when Indonesia was actually an empire
If you want to go around comparing pricks...
I'd like to point out that Romania had a significant military presence in at least points no. 1 and 2.
Romania, has shown what it thinks of the rest of use. We were an investment for them and nothing more. It has made the cold calculation that the Alliance does not help them conquer enough foreign land to be worth the investment they made before. In short they thought they were being loyal and obedient servants with thier gold and tanks not equal allies. Learning that they had allies and not servants has been a large disappointment to them.
nice article
@Aurelius: Actually, learning that enemies did more damage for us in certain battles than some of our allies is what disappointed most of us.
You're right, we didnt think we had allies, we thought we had friends/brothers.
Imma say it again(and again and again and again and again) the alliance managed to put Serbia right next to Greece, just so they can kick Indonesia out of Africa.
Yeah Baby, Yeah! The Almighty America did more damage than Spain itself in defending from the French. Ooops, wrong scify channel.
Check this out http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-battles-of-aquitaine-upper-normandy-and-pays-de-la-loire-8907-8908-8910--1176146/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-[..]/1/20 and you will understand why frustration is high with America.
P.S. Read the figures carefully and the non-combat crybaby Romania is still above America. Am i the only one noticing a pattern developing? Hmmm, it's called US support for allies (or lack there of). Have a nice TW in Chatisomwhere
@Aurelius:
You really should thank the Alliance for having Serbia as a neighbour.
natrix1: "Bulgaria is useless, pick more important targets and Eden will come."
Did you ever ask yourself how much did it cost to attack those regions? Was it really that useless? Damn some of you Americans are cocky.
About the article: nice article, I'll sub, I like these kind of articles, keep it up.
Deserfalcon,I have been a reader of your paper sine you were way before your first Media Mogul medal and I've always liked your articles for you provided well-balanced,well-informed information.However I am disappointed in you now.
It is not about two lost regions held in eBulgaria,these are just the drops that filled the glass if you know what I am saying.eRomania has no desire of withdrawing from EDEN,eRomania wants to be treated with respect and not as a great damage servant.
Our issues are with EDEN high command,not eUSA citizens although there are people who think that way.
You are one of eUSA's proeminent figures and you are not helping at all the relationship between our countries by picturing eRo this way.
When squabbles like this become so public, and alliance is almost over.
Maybe Romania would be better off being "neutral" or developing friendships with Hungary, Russia, and Serbia.
The US and Canada understand each other-- we share tragedy and triumphs. Neither of us feels we are the "top dog" in the relationship.
Romania ran the world for a long time. It seems to me they still feel that they should be the overlord of former ATLANTIS/EDEN.
It sounds to me like they've declared "neutrality".
If so, good luck with your friendly neighbors, Romania.
We will miss you.
@Jon Barack:
Damn, you still don't get it! Check SuperSupreme1's comment & we'll talk later.
P.S.: read this, maybe you open your eyes a little bit http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/get-your-act-together-eden--1176062/1/all#commentsall" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/get-[..]tsall
great as always
Cry me a river!
Good article, finally some eAmericans show some interest to the wars in eEurope instead of shouting "Push the button" without thinking.
I agree to some extent to most of what you say except the part where you say eSpain is losing because eRomania didn't show up in the fights.
Look at the battle results for a start.... and you'll see that eRomania came fourth in EDEN damage eSpanish side, behind ePoland and eCroatia. eUSA came 7th, 8th, and 9th in the 3 battles. eFrance won by over 2 million damage in the 3 battles... (of course we had 9 MPP's)... so saying it was eRomania's fault is not only mocking them while eUSA did less, but also overestimating their abroad army.
Let me remind you to end this reply that eUSA official orders asked to fight in a resistance war....
Here are the stats:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-battles-of-aquitaine-upper-normandy-and-pays-de-la-loire-8907-8908-8910--1176146/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-[..]/1/20
france and all of its closest "friends" managed to recover a couple locations away from Spain and no allies. Good for you francie! Would you like for us to take them back?
Spain is under attack. But not a French attack. Our problem are a "casual" bugs of the spanish interface or eRepublik...
@ mccvii
Please 🙂
Come 🙂
eUSA was not able to push a button to invade eUK while it was on the verge of falling apart with a lot of MPP's on their side. I doubt eUSA would try to activate the eFrench MPP's without having any on your side.
But please do, that would make it much simpler for us to take back Brittany 🙂
We had nice chance of taking out the UK. I figure calculating too much brought whats happening now. Were on defensive again.
V+S, good article!
Quite simply : I think everyone saw that EDEN did nothing in the last 4 weeks ..someone had the guts to say ..let's have a plan ..and shout it out loud .
What does eRomania has got to do with eUS not wanting to attack eUK ?
eRomania fights against eUk through eNorway right now .
eUS has a lot of MPP s active against eUK .eRomania is not among the eUS MPPs .
So I do not understand why and how eRomania prevents eUS from attacking eUK.
USA invades Wales!
Outlaw Jose Wales!!!
d**n romanians! now we might not be able to invade eUF at all.