Indonesia vs Malaysia: The brilliant gamble that wasn't.

Day 725, 22:07 • Published in USA USA • by George Barker

As most people know, Indonesia has attacked an original region of Malaysia, activating a staggering 27 MPPs against themselves. Included among those MPPs are heavy hitters like the US, Romania, Poland, Spain, Croatia, Iran, and the pocket battleships Sweden and Greece. In Indonesia's own MPPs are Hungary, Serbia, Brazil, Russia, and of course, the Indos are no slouches themselves. But looking at that list, it's pretty clear that Malaysia, with its MPPs, can successfully mount an attack on Indonesia's home regions, and wipe them out, if they are able to get initiative and use it, and if Malaysia's MPP partners want to play ball. Since it would take repeated, and expensive, blocking attacks from the Indos against Malaysia to prevent this, and since Indonesia, with its far-flung empire surrounded by open wars, is easily blocked itself, it is pretty clear that eventually -- probably sooner rather than later -- Malaysia will get a chance to attack Indonesia, with those MPPs, and Indonesia will lose its home regions. That's a pretty inviting scenario for the Malaysians, isn't it?

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Not necessarily.


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The strength of Indonesia's country is in its conquered regions, not its original regions. Its original regions have nothing except oil. The fuel that fires Indonesia's war machine is actually Karnataka,
a high iron region Indonesia took from India, and one that is safely cocooned among Indian regions. India is too weak to take Indonesia out in a direct attack, so Karnataka is a perfectly safe fallback for the Indonesians, their version of Florida -- except unlike Florida in the last war, it can't be attacked by a dangerous opponent, and it has a resource, in this case, the best resource there is, iron.

So this is what Indonesia risks here: their original regions are taken out by Malaysia. They move their population that isn't already there to Karnataka, and then recruit like mad, telling other Indonesians how the mean Malaysians have taken their country from them, and they need to join the game to punish the evildoers -- everyone knows how that will go. Enough new Indonesian players will join so that Malaysia, a lightly populated country to begin with, will be PTOable in a matter of weeks, as the new Indonesians join the game and gain Malaysian citizenship. They'll outnumber the Malaysians, quickly take the country over, make a peace offer to Indonesia deactivating the MPPs, Indonesia RWs its regions back, and we return to the status quo that existed before the war began -- except Indonesia will have gotten a population boom out of it.

As an alternative, Malaysia can wipe all the regions, and their hospitals, out and then immediately RW the regions back to Indonesia, but it leaves Malaysia dependent on an expensive set of MPPs for its survival, as attacking Indonesia on its home regions will activate Indonesia's MPPs.

So what is Malaysia's best play here? Unfortunately, it's to do nothing. Maintain enough MPPs to defend against a solo Indonesian attack, and let the Indos sit in their country until their population, already dwindling, has shrunk to the point where they are no longer a lead player on the world stage, or they try some other gamble to spark a population boom. It's unfortunate, but the realities of the game, and Malaysia's current status as a lightly populated country, dictate their course of action, which is to continue the patient waiting game they've been pursuing thus far.

As for Indonesia, well, you have to give them credit for thinking all this out. The obvious risk they take is that Malaysia will see through their plan and not fall for it, which means they will be back at square one, after spending a bunch of gold on the war declaration, and Malaysia will still be in their face with activated MPPs.

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