The Occupation of France
Desertfalcon
The French capital is once again under siege, this time in Burgundy. Burgundy is the last region France holds on the European mainland and if it were to fall the French would have to prepare for a last stand in Corsica. Right now the attack on Burgundy is still anyone's game, the wall is only about 200K above the secure line and with 8 hours left that doesn't offer much security to the French. The French can still count on their allies to fight through their MPPs so that should offer the French some hope in Burgundy. Still, Spain also has allies who have deployed troops to help with their offensive so Spain will have a little help in knocking down the wall.
If France were to lose both of Burgundy and Corsica then they would be wiped out and all their wars would end in peace treaties. This would make things difficult for the French since if they did manage to win a resistance war they would be unable to use their allies to help fight a conquest war with Spain. At this point it would be a better strategic move to just resistance war all their regions back like Spain did when France completely conquered all of their regions not too long ago. France doesn't appear to be waiting to be taken over though, since the Spanish attack on Burgundy three resistance wars have started up across Spanish and Polish occupied France. While the French aren't winning any of these resistance wars the battles are all extremely close with two of them being just 5k over the secure line. This is mostly due to the fact that for some reason resistance wars tend to be neglected when conquest battles are occurring. Another reason is that there is often confusion over orders with people fighting on the wrong side or interpreting "fight red" (fight for the resistance) as "fight against red" (fight for the defenders). Both these reasons cause for shorter walls in resistance battles.
While occupying all of France for an extended period of time would be unrealistic, the Spanish should be able to hold onto a few key regions for quite awhile. One of the most strategic advantages from holding France is that Spain can use it as a launching point into other Phoenix countries such as the U.K. in Belgium. A direct invasion of the U.K. won't happen any time soon but Spain can weaken the U.K. by taking Belgium from them and then resistance waring it back to Belgium which would then become a free state. The Spanish have already launched an attack on Brussels which will likely succeed and we can expect that they will attack Flanders soon after to push the U.K. out of mainland Europe.
Whether Spain attempts a full scale invasion of Italy or the U.K. is yet to be seen. The Spanish have launched several attacks into Italy before, but there really isn't much benefit. For one both the U.K. and Italy only have high grain and two they are both roads to nowhere in that neither of them borders any new Phoenix countries. The only real difference difference between the two is that many citizens of EDEN aligned countries want revenge on the U.K. for defecting. If an invasion of the U.K. doesn't happen soon though, it is very possible that the U.K. starts their own offensive into Northern France since it wouldn't activate any of the Spanish MPPs and the U.K. wouldn't have much to lose.
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the future is bright ...the future is EDEN !!
DF FTW!
Lt. Scheisskopf
http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/stars-and-stripes-journal-191155/1" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/st[..]155/1
PHOENIX=EPICLY MAJOR FAIL
Keep on reporting!
Q2M100: France is not in Phoenix. Can you think as well, or just write fail to everywhere?
you need to write more frequently 🙂
What about Germany?
Sol is way better than EDEN, face it 😃
well said.
eFrance is not in PHOENIX!!!!!
Voted. Sol FTW!
Efrance had no time to answer but they are waiting a decision of admin for hackers ...
If you are honest and hate hackers ... you can vote for this article.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/admins-do-your-job-1134532/1/all" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/admi[..]/all
we are bored to see injustice.
ADOYA
first page DF
I hope we get more regular articles like during the invasion of the USA
So what if France isn't in Phoenix. They were in PEACE, and they attacked the US, Canada, and Spain. They deserve what's coming to them.
@ Mitch
I will try but it takes quite a bit of work to do this and for the next month I'm going to be a bit busy.
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The future is EDEN!
hail EDEN
American people with companies in Spain or Poland, beware with French saboteurs:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/aviso-a-empresarios-peligro-notice-to-employers-danger-1134672/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/avis[..]1/20
Hail EDEN
Who is the imperialist now?
A few month ago it was the PEACE/Phoenix. Now EDEN is?
I'm confused...
brrr...
Lol. Belgium would be free? Like under the controll of Spain, or just PTO'ed by romania and SEAL? Right...
Don't worry after this expansion soon will come the collapse 😃
France will be frree and rebuilt within two months, and stronger then ever...
españoles!!! AU! AU! AU!
hail EDEN!
Excellent wotks as always. If you have not seen our writup in the PRJ with an assessment of the military situation, here is the link:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/policy-reform-journal-213957/1" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/po[..]57/1
It does lightly touch on the question of resistance wars.
And where is the United Netherlands in this all. 😉
But, a good objective report once again. This people like to terrorize the comments, but the article was a nice read!
You don't mentioning Polish efforts in that war, and completly ignoring PL-GER war, so - unsub.
Cya
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History repeating itself..
Reduce PHOENIX to ashes and scatter them! Thaty'll be no "rising from the ashes" when EDEN gets through with them!
Viva Poland!
Viva Spain!
Viva EDEN!
On to London!
Glad to have one of your articles again!
Good analysis, as usual.
Imperialists...
W Bush's sons...
I understand what happened in Iraq now...
The last region France holds on the European mainland? You mean eFrance still holds some South Pacific Islands? Oh please! Oh please! I want to finish off eFrance... by invading Fiji!
I say we invade the UK! I know it doesn't have anything we want, but Phoenix won't help them. They'll be like Germany. We can easily overtake them!
1. Slovenia: Erased from map
2. Bulgaria: Erased from map
3. Germany: Erased from map
i Want France in my list!!
IF YOU DRINK Dr Pepper PM ME PLZ
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Zqym: Like Germany was an Atlantis member, but there allies ( Sweden and Poland ) conquered them 🙂
France left PEACE because of a woman, that now lives in Spain with the tresury of France.
I see U think way more in your Invasion, half of the World isnt enough for Eden, right?