The Resistance War of 1157

Day 1,158, 02:23 • Published in South Africa South Africa • by Rexdeus

Hail eSouth Africa !!!

Around 20:00 eRep time and it is quiet. Strange how extra quiet things sound when you know soon it will be deafening sounds of war that would echo over your ears. Minutes later the call came and we all knew it was time. We did not really know what to expect and how tough the battles would be.

I spent some time everywhere to get a feeling of the battles, The motivation was high and the sense was nothing was going to stop the eSAAF from gaining the chosen 3 regions. And indeed the battles started off well enough, although one could sense each time at round end there came a surge from the Brazilians, which meant the soldiers and tanks had to stay vigilant. The Brazilian orders has changed a couple of times through the day , from not engaging, to engaging us as priority, to 2nd priority. In the end I believe the Brazilian soldiers felt not to die for a foreign region, whereas the South Africans had everything to fight for. And indeed so they did.



For such a small country, South Africa has many loyal and active soldiers, mostly funding their own battles out of a feeling of national unity and pride. The soldiers among them assisted each other with extra weapons, food, and gold so as to utilise our soldiers to the best. The small country with its slowly recovering economy does not have the resources to fund everyone and all the logistics that goes with such an operation. Funding mainly came from the soldiers themselves, Hamilton Moore, and smaller contributions from Rexdeus and the Reserve Bank of South Africa.

Many of the mini-battles was not very heavily contested, the first couple and the last couple, was noticeably less contested than the peak battles of the day. While others was very tense and close. The first half of the day I spent mostly with the troops, but then I got the opportunity from our President Grimstone to join the South African tanks IRC, wow, what an opportunity. The first thing I noticed when I entered was the quiet calm and seriousness everything is handled with, the “War room” was lit in a red glow, and it was bit on the dark side, with all the tanks in front of multiple screens monitoring and directing their influence in co-ordinated fashion, much quieter than it was in the National IRC, less shouting and talking at the same time, simply organised efficiency. Every now and then a tank would call the teams attention to possible resurgence from the Brazilians, and whenever this happened you would see an overwhelming force come rolling through, pushing back our advantage to where the tanks felt more comfortable. Do not think that there is not some friendly rivalry between the tanks, lol, probably a necessity to stay on your toes in this game.



Something I realized while in the presence of our super tanks was everyone has a roll to play. I chatted to a couple of soldiers yesterday complaining that they cannot do as much influence as the “Big Guns”, but one has to realize your function is not to be a tank, your function is to keep the influence rolling over. Quite simply many of the battles would have been lost if it was not for all those smaller influences, due to the fact there is more lower levels than higher levels, so here we work with the nrs, more lower levels so your individual influence matter not it is the collective influence done by all the nrs that make the difference. So if all the lower levels do not fight cause they think they do not make a difference, we will be in trouble, everyone has a role to play.

Once the dust has settled we have regained 3 new regions. And we look at our hero’s with pride. We congratulate our soldiers who have attained Campaign Hero and Battle Hero status: Grimstone, Zamrg, Candykiller, Joe Franco, Squall90, Krimpiekat, Shiloh The Great and Rexdeus and all the soldiers that has fought so valiantly and with dedication to get our lost regions back, thank you.

Now just for informational, the top 5 most influential soldiers on yesterday’s battle field was as follows:
1) Candykiller – 600 943
2) Squall90 – 352 736
3) Zamrg – 324 054
4) Joe Franco – 246 824
5) Grimstone – 207 846

All the above soldiers started somewhere, let they be your inspiration, one day you will be one of them.

Big thanks to the soldiers from far and wide that came to help, and specifically the eIDF, and as we have seen with Joe Franco also in the top 5 most influence, Thanks to all the support we received.

Grimstone specifically asked me to thank Hamilton Moore myself and the Reserve Bank of South Africa for assisting with funding the successful resistance wars we had, greatest thanks for the valuable help. Hail eSA !!

eSouth Africans, welcome and well done !!!




Rexdeus
Patriot and proud South African.