[TFTF] WAR NEWS
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WAR NEWS
Items
- The World Situation
- What Are We Gonna Do Now?
- How to Play Havoc
The World Situation
Being naught but a humble gardener, natch I've not been extravagantly noodled about the world situation. My areas of expertise are more like...
- How early one can start to germinate celery seeds? (now)
- When to prune the rose bushes? (in March)
- Is it true that a border of marigolds will keep bugs out of your vegetable garden? (yes, more or less)
- How much sunshine does it take to successfuly grow weed outdoors? (I don't know. But I was a agog the first time a local nursery started advertising webinars on growing your own cannabis. Legalization has been less, ummm, radically transformative, than I once thought it was going to be.)
But. Thrust into the august role of Minister of Propaganda for All the Northern Murikas and Their Scattered Dominions, I felt obliged to take a fresh look at screens I've been ignoring. Like the ones labled "Country Rankings", "World Map" and so forth. And holy crap, Batman!
Though a branding like "Balkan Wars in the 21st Century" would be more accurate, the crazy-quilt of eRepublik's national boundaries is so breathtakingly bonkers, one can't help but to fall in love with the game all over again.
You know. Every now and then, a new player in the e-USA goes batshit mental over the fact that the US states are carved up into Farmville regions. We are a patient people. So somebody patiently explains that Farmville is a good thing. There's benefits of having lots of training wars on offer. And having stronger allied powers close to our cores is good strategy, because they can rescue us more quickly when we're threatened.
Just to be an ornery little rocket-butt, I like to pile on after than and remind the noobs, "You know, the USA is a second-rate power, right, not quite as powerful as bigger guns like Bosnia or Taiwan? But hey, at least we're in the Top 20! Well. Just barely, anyway."
As a reminder... here's a list of the most powerful countries at present. Those in the same alliance with the USA (Asteria) are circled.
For a bit more fun (or hysteria, as the case may be), just in case you're feeling concern about the Patchwork States of Murika in eRepublik, try taking a look at the situation in Europe. Holy muck! That makes the Americas look like the Sea of Tranquility. Well. No. That's on the Moon. But you get what I mean...
Just a few things to note:
- France is in Hungary
- Chile is in France
- Hungary is in Italy and in Romania
- Macedonia is in Lithuania
- Argentina is in Russia, as is Bosnia
- Ukraine is in Donbas (a-hem!)
- Iran is in Moldova
- Australia is in Slovakia
And perhaps most importantly:
- Croatia is in Just About Everything
In fact, the world situation of eRepublik is characterized by Croatian Big Power Imperialism.
It has always been this way. Furthermore, Serbia has always been our friend and protector. In the final analysis, the whole cause of e-world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the allied Murikan, Serbo, Ukrainian, Bulgar, Persian and Romano-Modovan players -- with assistance from the brave and noble Swedes, Colombians and Portuguese. Together with our other friendlies, this unbreakable band of brothers and sisters makes up the overwhelming majority of the e-world's population of free-spirited, freethinking mavericks and nonconformists.
Hold on. I have a phone call.
Ummm. That was President "The Rock (not)" Kody. He said I may have some of the historical facts confused. But I don't think so. Based on some random google searches, I studied some propaganda posters quite carefully for several minutes and am quite convinced that Bruce Lee's untimely passing was not due to his marijuana use. So.
What?
Hold on. My new best friend and, ummm, roommate, Ali says there's a knock on the door.
OK. OK. So. I don't really speak Serbo-Bulgarian very well. But evidently I am to wrap up this section and get on with the rest of the war news. So...let's move on.
What Are We Gonna Do Now?
After
Of course I give away no secrets. Here's what I learned.
My dear friend and confidante, President Kody affirmed that we need to let fury have the hour, that anger can be power. Then pointed out that, just as Vasil Levski went all around Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria organizing every kind of resistance to the Ottomans, so we must continually harass the Croat foe, weakening them wherever we can, or at least draining their strength by any means necessary, both militarily and diplomatically.
As I noted above -- perhaps with some vagueness -- Pres. Kody pointed out that the Croats have bases all of the world and therefore there are many targets where we can harass them. The strategic goal would be to reduce or eliminate their presence in various parts of the world, including our common Balkan homeland of course.
The gracious and eloguent Herr Vootmans, titular head of the Asteria Alliance and former Honcho of the Murkins, was a bit shorter with me. I don't mean to say that he is shorter than me. That's just an impression people often get due to the awesome power of my butt-rockets.
In his comments, the Vootz pointed out that our eternal friends -- Serbia-Bulgaria-Romania -- that is, the very heartland of the immortal apostle of Freedom, were viciously attacked last week in a nine-pronged pincer move by Croatianian, Hungry, Chilly, Greecy, Turkey-flavored, as well as French, Rio Platenese and Shqipërical forces. We were honor-bound to come to the defense the Romanian cores, which we did by attacking Hungary.
Our fighting has angered the Croatian Imperialists, to be sure, and there were (and likely will be more) counter-attacks against our brave Murikan boys and girls, driving us back from the Hungarish lands. But we can and should be very proud of having smacked Hungary around, which allowed Romanio-Serbo-Bulgaro fighters to win regions back in their cores.
How to Play HAVOC
My favorite little militia, the Bear Cavalry (BC), isn't the biggest or the most powerful. But we do punch above our weight pretty often. And we have a super-awesome logo:
I expect the Bears' fighting capacity is due mostly to our relentless training in ving tsun and to our deep ideological commitment to Osmany Ramon Thought. But now that I think about it, I suppose the tireless work of our commanders, Shiloh13 and hcmadman, may have something to do with it too.
As it happened, I was relaxing the other day up at our secret retreat on Bear Mountain, just hanging out in the Josh Mahurin Memorial Gazebo, when I heard Commander Shiloh's bike roaring up the path. I saw him rounding the last bend, picking off some varmint on his trail.
After he settled in a bit, I asked him about a game we like to play in the BC we call "HAVOC". It's a fun game that keeps us entertained during times of active war, but when there isn't a clear-cut real-war battle going on.
Shiloh reminisced in between puffs on the giant-sized Max Rontgen Memorial Hookah.
"HAVOC missions started when we were wiped by CODE. We were in a jam, having a difficult time RW'ing our regions back. It was frustrating.
"Voots was CP. He said we should start messing with the CODE training wars. So we did.
"You remember how a bunch of us liked the 'Men of Mayhem' theme from that 'Sons of Anarchy' show, right? Somehow that morphed into 'HAVOC'. You know the BC likes doing things outside the norm so we embraced it fully. Anything we could do to make life miserable for the invaders -- we were into. We went into the wild blue yonder, engaging in air battles and some ground to turn TW walls the wrong way or to grab SH medals.
"Was it successful? Judging by some of the hate mail we got... maybe yes.
"We bounced around to whatever enemy country was being the most annoying. Hungary was at the receiving end of a lot of it. Once an enemy country retreated from our cores we ended our missions against them and moved on the next target.
"It was tons of fun. And as you know there's not much fun to be had when you're wiped.
"And that's how we became kind of a marauding motorcyle gang let loose upon our enemies, with no rules. Or decency. LOL. In times of war you do what you have to to survice and to harass the enemy. So we did."
And that's all the war news that fits for today.
Until next time, remember: Live Like Василъ!
xio, PQ
Comments
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothin', so boy get running
It's the best years of your life they want to steal
I remember when the bigger countries had 20-30 k players each. Above all FYROM. Times were wild.
See those numbers now makes me sad.
HAVOC sounds like a blast!
HAVOC is fun as hell, but I have to keep a browser open to Google.translate to decode the love letters I get in Hungarian and whatever Croatians speak...Croak maybe?
I think their language is actually called Croatian, but it is so closely related to Serbian, and probably languages of other nearby countries, that it they can understand each other quite easily.
Google translate calls it "Croatian-Serbian." The Serbs seem to flip between it and some Cyrillic-based language.
Oooo. You're gonna be getting some harsh side-eye in Serbian... 😉
So that's what's going on.
Down with CODE and their coddling of eFrance!
HAVOC does sound like fun, and might be very useful if you want to get your enemies to get distracted from priorities and split their damage.
To be sure, alliances have changed frequently in the game, and often have no resemblance to real world alliances, past or present. When in doubt about where you should fight, it is always good to check your MU or country feed, which will usually be up to date.
Oh, and thanks for the gardening tips!
You're welcome. Hoping to see those celery seedlings start sprouting any day now.
Great work.
I will note that country power is not a great representation of strength - following the weekly leaderboard gives an idea of how much damage a country puts out:
https://www.erepublik.com/en/main/leaderboards-damage
So far this week - the top 10 Ground are:
Croatia
Romania
Serbia
Poland
Bulgaria
USA
Hungary
Lithuania
Ukraine
Indonesia
and top 10 for Air are:
Serbia
Indonesia
Romania
Poland
USA
Hungary
Bulgaria
Croatia
Taiwan
Brazil
Thanks!
An outstanding article!
This is the first time in years that I have read an article with this kind of info for the regular citizens to digest. This is keeping people engaged, nice job!
Please keep them coming.
As far as HAVOC it is waging irregular combat against an aggressor. Sometimes that is all you have left to continue to resist
Better known as Partisan Warfare/Guerrilla Warfare in the RW
In a nutshell F*** with the Occupier
Sabotage/Hit and Run Raids on his regular military activity.
Or in other words "screw up enemy Farmville activities"
Really it is the only thing you can do in this game to try to make an impact.
I think this video might explain it best....Enjoy
https://youtu.be/Ph-CA_tu5KA
Ursa Fi!
Thanks Commander! Yes, that video makes it all very clear.
And it reminds me of a great joke...
What is Ant-Man's secret weapon?
His Thor Axe!
Oh yeah. I'll be here all week...
In 1972 a crack commando unit lead by Thomas Magnum and Angus MacGyver were getting too old for this bit.
Ursa Fi 😛
😃 Have you seen the Magnum meets MacGyver fan fiction scripts?
No, that would have been awesome back in the day, but weren't they different networks? lol
Ursa Fi!!
perfect
Ursa Fi!!!