The Economist ~ Where we Were, Are, and why we should VOTE KARACTICUS
Day 832, 12:23
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A retrospective view
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Out of Bullets
After a few weeks of pretty intense fighting, MPPing, opening resistance wars, tactically retreating regions, and supplying daring raids the UK was spent of gold. President Dishmcds and his MoFA team decided that since the opportunity for a tactical breather and closure of the UK front presented itself they would take it.
People at the time criticised the move based on two separate reasons. Firstly because closing the war with Poland ended the hope we could liberate Europe. Secondly because it would allow the USA to redirect damage elsewhere. At the time I stayed relatively silent on the issue, because I had my own reasons for supporting and opposing the peace, mainly reputation based.
The UK never had any hope of retaking Europe. Spain would simply region swap to block us, and 1v1 we could never defeat Spain. The second we tried we would be blocked by USA/Sweden and outmanoeuvred by Spain. Our tactical team spent two weeks throughout the early stages of the war using every advantage we had to cause confusion amongst the enemy, but at no point did we consider a breakout possible.
As for redirecting US damage, we have seen very little to show that the USA cares about their allies in Eastern Europe. How many Americans fight in EDEN battles that don’t involve their direct interests? Usually we Phoenix people get lambasted with articles from angry Romanians/Croats/Spaniards in the international media, with a tinypic image of the battle stats showing the 5/6 US soldiers who made it to the battlefield.
Since then Dish has stayed relatively quiet, possibly out of a personal desire to avoid further unwarranted criticism. However as he leaves office I want to say that the decisions he made during the war as President were the best military decisions that could be made, and if you disagree with that you don’t understand the war module enough. If there was a single chance to help our allies Dish would have taken it.
In retrospect we can take a lot of positives from our little adventure. We can take the sense of national unity, the rapid promotion of capable young players into the cabinet (always a good thing), the fact that the armed forces were put through proofing and survived the test. We can take the whittling down of our citizenry as a good thing too. It gives us some idea of the amount of players we have who are active and aware. We can take from the war a lean mean PMing machine, in the form of the Ministry of Home Affairs, led by Karacticus.
But there are some things we need to leave behind as well. Politics is the art of the centre road. Extremism on both sides is completely untenable. There are those who advocate total peace, neutrality, appeasement. But those who attack this position with the most venom tend to be the warmongers, the violent and the unreasonable. Both extremes are bad. We have seen the peaceniks mostly disappear during the war, but the warmongers, who advocate unrealistic military and diplomatic moves, are still around. We have to make sure that the route we take in the future leaves us not just with fun, but with a country to have fun with.
The Present View
Whilst Britain Sleeps, its citizens walk
When the war ended, we saw a lot of citizens grumble about how we’d face a mass exodus. It didn’t materialise, but we did begin to see a leak of players from the top levels of our country towards allies like Serbia. The fact of it is that any country is most vulnerable after the war, when infrastructure and morale are crucial. Having these high-profile citizens leaving now only weakens the UK. Now I’m not passing judgement, everyone is a free citizen, and can live wherever they like.
However we have to remember that this game isn’t all about war, and even if it is to fight a war you need guns, supplies, moving tickets, organisation and infrastructure. Filling up companies with iron isn’t exciting, but someone has to do it. It’s exciting to charge into battle with eighty gold and forty plus Q5 guns to tank, sure. But behind you doing that one act there are hundreds of hours of labour and hard work, especially in a small country like the UK.
Our present day view is one of the quiet after the storm. We have recovered our land, but our economy is weakened (a global phenomenon sadly), our military is undergoing reforms (REFORM!) and our political scene is looking a bit naked. We need experience now more than we need it in war. Because now what we don’t need is someone to take five minutes and burn a days income all at once. That’s the fun guys. That was the exciting bit, not a duty.
What we need now are people who can look at a problem and spend a couple of days working on a solution. We need every citizen to pull together and offer what they can. So you’ve ran a couple of businesses? Ever thought of working for the government managing their Skill 0 companies? Want to advance your political knowledge? Apprentice to the Ministry of Legislative Affairs. There are things every citizen can be doing.
The present view is that although the worst seems to be over, the challenge has only just begun. The UK population needs to wake up and see it.
The future holds?
Time to rebuild
What the future holds is hard for anybody to say, but what we should do to make sure there IS a future is much simpler. What we need over the next couple of months is to contact every citizen, to approach every individual, and find a way to involve them. Whether their role is in the navy, our civilian political branches or in supporting British business there is a place for them.
What we need is strength, direction, experience and continuity. What we need is to pick up the pieces and direct our collective willpower towards rebuilding Britain.
How can we do this? First of all we need a leader. In three days the Presidential elections roll around again and the UK will have to cast their collective vote in favour of the next President. No surprises, the main political parties are once again divided over who to back, but you as a citizen have to make a decision based on merit. For me, I am voting Karacticus. He has many months of experience working in the Ministry of Home Affairs (Mr Woldy’s Ministry of old) and two months as Dishmcds Vice-President.
In the first of those roles he has organised exactly the sort of collective action that we need for the future, contacting citizens and involving them in our activities. In the second of those roles he has represented the UK at the very highest level. His experience in alliance politics, military and foreign affairs is up-to-date and consistently impressive, something I can testify to personally.
The winner of the upcoming elections will face the difficult challenge of manoeuvring through V2, involving the population and attempting to generate a baby boom for the UK. All three tasks are difficult, and domestic in their nature. Things like military action and training wars are good, but promising them at a Presidential level is like promising Q5 hospitals at a congressional level- pointless. The President doesn’t decide when to push the button anymore than the congressman places hospitals. No country can win a war alone, and thus the decision to go to war is taken collectively, by all our allies. The best a President can hope for is to handle the situation well when it arises.
For me, the future is very bright indeed. We have well over three hundred active citizens in the navy alone, which is an amazing platform for developing the next generation of congressmen, presidents and military leaders.
A conclusion- nobody likes a Quitter
If you take anything from this article, it’s this. We need you now more than ever. Quitting when its exciting- never happens. People quit when they’re bored, or feel let down. But the truth of it is that when things are looking bad, then that’s when we need you the most, god-damn it! If people look divided, or down; If the country is fighting amongst ourselves and not the enemy; If we have poor politicians and economists; then don’t leave, stay and help us fix it! Get involved!
Iain
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A retrospective view
Out of Bullets
After a few weeks of pretty intense fighting, MPPing, opening resistance wars, tactically retreating regions, and supplying daring raids the UK was spent of gold. President Dishmcds and his MoFA team decided that since the opportunity for a tactical breather and closure of the UK front presented itself they would take it.
People at the time criticised the move based on two separate reasons. Firstly because closing the war with Poland ended the hope we could liberate Europe. Secondly because it would allow the USA to redirect damage elsewhere. At the time I stayed relatively silent on the issue, because I had my own reasons for supporting and opposing the peace, mainly reputation based.
The UK never had any hope of retaking Europe. Spain would simply region swap to block us, and 1v1 we could never defeat Spain. The second we tried we would be blocked by USA/Sweden and outmanoeuvred by Spain. Our tactical team spent two weeks throughout the early stages of the war using every advantage we had to cause confusion amongst the enemy, but at no point did we consider a breakout possible.
As for redirecting US damage, we have seen very little to show that the USA cares about their allies in Eastern Europe. How many Americans fight in EDEN battles that don’t involve their direct interests? Usually we Phoenix people get lambasted with articles from angry Romanians/Croats/Spaniards in the international media, with a tinypic image of the battle stats showing the 5/6 US soldiers who made it to the battlefield.
Since then Dish has stayed relatively quiet, possibly out of a personal desire to avoid further unwarranted criticism. However as he leaves office I want to say that the decisions he made during the war as President were the best military decisions that could be made, and if you disagree with that you don’t understand the war module enough. If there was a single chance to help our allies Dish would have taken it.
In retrospect we can take a lot of positives from our little adventure. We can take the sense of national unity, the rapid promotion of capable young players into the cabinet (always a good thing), the fact that the armed forces were put through proofing and survived the test. We can take the whittling down of our citizenry as a good thing too. It gives us some idea of the amount of players we have who are active and aware. We can take from the war a lean mean PMing machine, in the form of the Ministry of Home Affairs, led by Karacticus.
But there are some things we need to leave behind as well. Politics is the art of the centre road. Extremism on both sides is completely untenable. There are those who advocate total peace, neutrality, appeasement. But those who attack this position with the most venom tend to be the warmongers, the violent and the unreasonable. Both extremes are bad. We have seen the peaceniks mostly disappear during the war, but the warmongers, who advocate unrealistic military and diplomatic moves, are still around. We have to make sure that the route we take in the future leaves us not just with fun, but with a country to have fun with.
The Present View
Whilst Britain Sleeps, its citizens walk
When the war ended, we saw a lot of citizens grumble about how we’d face a mass exodus. It didn’t materialise, but we did begin to see a leak of players from the top levels of our country towards allies like Serbia. The fact of it is that any country is most vulnerable after the war, when infrastructure and morale are crucial. Having these high-profile citizens leaving now only weakens the UK. Now I’m not passing judgement, everyone is a free citizen, and can live wherever they like.
However we have to remember that this game isn’t all about war, and even if it is to fight a war you need guns, supplies, moving tickets, organisation and infrastructure. Filling up companies with iron isn’t exciting, but someone has to do it. It’s exciting to charge into battle with eighty gold and forty plus Q5 guns to tank, sure. But behind you doing that one act there are hundreds of hours of labour and hard work, especially in a small country like the UK.
Our present day view is one of the quiet after the storm. We have recovered our land, but our economy is weakened (a global phenomenon sadly), our military is undergoing reforms (REFORM!) and our political scene is looking a bit naked. We need experience now more than we need it in war. Because now what we don’t need is someone to take five minutes and burn a days income all at once. That’s the fun guys. That was the exciting bit, not a duty.
What we need now are people who can look at a problem and spend a couple of days working on a solution. We need every citizen to pull together and offer what they can. So you’ve ran a couple of businesses? Ever thought of working for the government managing their Skill 0 companies? Want to advance your political knowledge? Apprentice to the Ministry of Legislative Affairs. There are things every citizen can be doing.
The present view is that although the worst seems to be over, the challenge has only just begun. The UK population needs to wake up and see it.
The future holds?
Time to rebuild
What the future holds is hard for anybody to say, but what we should do to make sure there IS a future is much simpler. What we need over the next couple of months is to contact every citizen, to approach every individual, and find a way to involve them. Whether their role is in the navy, our civilian political branches or in supporting British business there is a place for them.
What we need is strength, direction, experience and continuity. What we need is to pick up the pieces and direct our collective willpower towards rebuilding Britain.
How can we do this? First of all we need a leader. In three days the Presidential elections roll around again and the UK will have to cast their collective vote in favour of the next President. No surprises, the main political parties are once again divided over who to back, but you as a citizen have to make a decision based on merit. For me, I am voting Karacticus. He has many months of experience working in the Ministry of Home Affairs (Mr Woldy’s Ministry of old) and two months as Dishmcds Vice-President.
In the first of those roles he has organised exactly the sort of collective action that we need for the future, contacting citizens and involving them in our activities. In the second of those roles he has represented the UK at the very highest level. His experience in alliance politics, military and foreign affairs is up-to-date and consistently impressive, something I can testify to personally.
The winner of the upcoming elections will face the difficult challenge of manoeuvring through V2, involving the population and attempting to generate a baby boom for the UK. All three tasks are difficult, and domestic in their nature. Things like military action and training wars are good, but promising them at a Presidential level is like promising Q5 hospitals at a congressional level- pointless. The President doesn’t decide when to push the button anymore than the congressman places hospitals. No country can win a war alone, and thus the decision to go to war is taken collectively, by all our allies. The best a President can hope for is to handle the situation well when it arises.
For me, the future is very bright indeed. We have well over three hundred active citizens in the navy alone, which is an amazing platform for developing the next generation of congressmen, presidents and military leaders.
A conclusion- nobody likes a Quitter
If you take anything from this article, it’s this. We need you now more than ever. Quitting when its exciting- never happens. People quit when they’re bored, or feel let down. But the truth of it is that when things are looking bad, then that’s when we need you the most, god-damn it! If people look divided, or down; If the country is fighting amongst ourselves and not the enemy; If we have poor politicians and economists; then don’t leave, stay and help us fix it! Get involved!
Iain
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Nice pictures.
First!
Damn you Rory!
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A balanced voice of reason. As always, yet so refreshing these days.
I missed reading you Keers, nice article.
G x
I'm voting Karacticus
Gosh I had no idea I still had a subscription to this, it's always nice to see what's happening in the eUK.
Iain is right, quitting sucks e___e
Hmm... Karacticus looks like a rather good candidate. Just sayin' is all.
Voted from eIRAN
I'm voting cactus this friday.
The Vamp will rise.
Good article btw, I like the retrospective and present view the best.
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Great article Iain
NO TO QUITTERS
You sir, are a talented artist.
Good article....though AV has my vote
well said Ian. 🙂
It's a good article, although I disagree with some of its political angles.
Hey, I know I normally only comment here to educate and elucidate but today I just want to give a belated thanks for the good fight, chaps.
Long to read, but well written!
"A masterpiece"
- says The Marx Times
"Turly Brilliant"
- says The The (So, a vote for Karacticus, is a wise choice)
I believe that signing of that separate peace was a bad move. At the very least, i believe it was carried out poorly, and thats an understatement.
Most arguments used for the signing are pretty much void for me, since most were just hypothetical crap with the intenmtion to scare off anyone against peace in that form and at that time. Good example for that was the "costly attrition" argument. Almost immediately after the successful defense of London, and before the UK gave any try at withstanding the attrition (while testing our enemies resolve), you settled with a deal. The same goes for the "perma block" argument that is so frequently used. You never even gave a go at it.
And that is just the technical stuff. The social aspect of this strategy game was almost completely overlooked when peace was made. You cant make a deal like that, in complete secrecy toward your allies (free tip: allied HQ 😕= your allies... the lesson USA will never learn it seems), your own citizens (i dont remember anyone even mentioning peace, before it was officialy announced that it was already signed and in effect), without a good justiofication other then using line of hypothetical arguments that could very well be used by the opposite side.
And it doesnt stop there. We, who question the decision, were named ignorant, selfish, warmongering fools. How convenient...
The epilogue:
- broken trust in the UK by LOTS of its own, as well as allied citizens.
- somewhat shaken image of the UK, with lost of "ooops, they did it again" jokes on how you betrayed your allies, again.
- great expectations that her allies hold for UK now, since Dish stated that the peace was everything that UK really needed in order to offer greater help to the allied effort, in occupied France and Germany in the first place.
If you read my article and still think there was any point to the UK committing suicide you don't understand the war module
The Economist is a great newspaper in RL. Just because of that, I vote + subscribe. 😉
"No country can win a war alone, and thus the decision to go to war is taken collectively, by all our allies."
I can think of no better way to weaken the UK than to sit around waiting for a war we can win.
That picture shows a British person on a building site.
Just a tad anachronistic, is it not?