[GOV] UK / France region swaps
•
by Ministerie van Media en Recrui
As you can see in the “Latest Events” on your eRep home, we have ‘conquered’ some regions from England and ‘lost’ them again to France. Some of you might wonder what happened all in one night.
Let get one thing clear first: both UK and France are our closest allies and friends. The ‘attack’ therefore wasn’t a real attack, but a “region swap” to help them out.
UK is under attack by Canada. Canada was moving up through UK and having the initiative against them. They would keep attacking if we didn’t help them out. Thanks to the region swaps and our help, France is currently ‘blocking’ Canada, effectively preventing them from attacking the UK capital London.
So if France is blocking, why were we included?
To attack a region, you have to be in ‘war’-status in the game. As we did this blocking before, we still had an open war with UK. France, on the other hand, did not have an open war, but a MPP (alliance). If they would attack UK, the alliance would be broken, and UK would have to face Canada with even less allies. Furthermore, the declaration of war would take war too much time to pass their Congress (24 hours), making the action way too late.
France would be able to take the region from us, without breaking that alliance with UK and without having to declare war. Therefore, we attacked the regions, and the UK president immediately retreated. Afterwards, France attacked us and our president Garmr immediately retreated the battlefield. This way, we could swap the regions from UK to France in a very short timeframe, and without breaking any active alliances
This way, we did our part in helping to block Canada for our alliance Phoenix.
There is still one region (East of England) under our control. Handing this over to France or England is currently not a priority, but this will be done later on. You can there expect to see such another event in the near future.
I hope this cleared things up a bit. If required, our President will issue a more detailed explanation later, but I think I covered most of it already.
Kind regards,
Boklevski,
UNL Prime Minister
Facebook
Twitter
Discord
Comments
thanx bok!
Very clearly written Bok, even I understand this military theory 🙂
Thank you so much....I am very new and don't have a clue about the whole war side of the game yet....figured I'm not in any shape to fight yet so I'll learn once that happens. But I was very puzzled by what was going on and thought there must be an explanation. I totally get it now. Very cool!
Blocking doesnt work in V2. You can simply retreat and re-attack the same region straight after.
The reason why France swapped with the UK is that two are stronger then one. France was no longer able to liberate any UK regions because the UK was blocking the road.
Quote: 20Hans RienveldDay 1,011, 02:44 Very clearly written Bok, even I understand this military theory
²
Two are stronger than one? But with the MPP, France could have fought beside England anyway, right?
Yes, but Canada has activated MPP's on the UK and not on FR.
you can only attack a region once every 72 hours - we couldn't re-attack a Canadian region, so we got France to do it for us.
@Garmr: Canada has activated both our's and France's MPPs
btw, you can keep East of England if you want. It is worth less than the cost of swapping it back, and Canada doesn't have an open war with you guys (I think), so actually it would be really helpful to leave it with you. Plus, it will cost less/take less time next time you want/need to swap in.