[DC] World in flames

Day 3,588, 05:46 Published in USA Croatia by Nikola barun Jurisic


Sup all?

We can all agree that most of the last few years we lacked some fun in this game. Except several strong attempts by big buyers like zdlemmy and Colin we've missed action in this game and the world has been turning more and more to a one-sided domination game. The rest of the countries on the weaker side could just negotiate deals with their occupators. It looks like things are changing now again. With the Admin's recent changes which were announced as bringing back the balance to the game in one of my previous articles we're now reminding ourselves that there is some fun here afterall.





Invasion on Russia


It all started several days ago when Turkey, Albania and Italy has proposed Russia, member of Pacifica as their AS/NE target. Russia is also a traditional ally of Bulgaria and Macedonia and that's what makes them special target. It was interesting to see what countries are fighting for Russia and what are fighting against them. Backed by Colin's CO Russia didn't stand too much chances against the trio which invaded them. At that point there were no counter-reaction from neither Bg/Mkd nor Pacifica.

Airstrike laws by Albania and Italy:
https://www.erepublik.com/en/main/law/Albania/196427
https://www.erepublik.com/en/main/law/Italy/196430

NE law by Turkey
https://www.erepublik.com/en/main/law/Turkey/196420

Seven days later Russia can't be found on the map, while the trio keeps marching on the other Pacifica members. First few battles required huge spending on both sides, but Russia couldn't cope with the trio and in this moments they are wiped, their RW's aren't being successful and the trio is focused on their next targets.





East part of Russia is occupied by Italy, the middle part by Albania and the western side of Russia is under the Turkish occupation. In this moment there were still no reaction by anyone else outside of those four countries.





Trio's expansion


After successfully taking over Russian land Albania, Italy and Turkey defended few RW's in there and soon after Albania has proposed Finland as their Natural enemy. Only 10 seconds before Finland did the same for them. It looks like Finland has been expecting this or they wanted to do that first, but Albania was faster.

After those two NE's were proposed this war became much bigger as it included more than two countries on the both side of bipolar world. Soon after that Sweden has jumped in to protect their allies from Finland, but by the looks of their first battles Albania will be strong enough to cope with both of Scandinavian countries.





The war has moved from Russia to Scandinavia where Albania fights both Sweden and Finland. I wasn't sure should we call this a world war or just one of the big ones until Turkey proposed another Pacifica member - Poland as their Natural enemy. In the same time they showed some admirable ninja skills to declare war on Finland too to help Albania in Scandinavia.

So, basicly in this moment we have four Pacifica members fighting three Anti-Asteria/Pacifica members which enough to be called a World War.





World in flames


It's going to be interesting to see how the war will continue as now there are some new NE laws being proposed. First one was Spanish (rogue) proposal to NE USA, after which USA has proposed NE on Spain too which followed by Bulgarian NE on USA. If another front opens this might grow to one of the biggest world wars seen so far. However, I'd expect things to keep going on only in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Russia so my prime focus will be there.

Can Turkey cope with both Finland and Poland while keeping Russia occupied?
Can Albania keep conquering the whole Scandinavia in a direct war vs. Finland and Sweden?
Will Italy do something else except keeping Russia wiped?



Italy is one of the most underestimated countries in this game, they've been under long occupations by Slovenians backed with the whole alliance, but Italian firepower is kinda big too. If they find a way (and there are few possibilities) to join in the Scandinavian front this war might gets even more interesting. Also, USA has the border with Turkey, a country which directly attacked Russia.

The options are numerous and there are several strategies each side could go with.

I'm also interested in what is Asteria doing whole this time, what's Pacifica up to and is there any way to include more anti-Asteria countris in this World War. We're definitly watching the most interesting battles this year and it's going to be fun to watch the world in flames.





Yours,
Don Croata