EDEN Tanks at Flanders- Battle Report.
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Santiago Hortez
Reporter: Captain Santiago Hortez
On 10th January 2010, at precisely 12:10 hours, the last British ship left the shores of Flanders carrying with it the last 200 soldiers who were part of the defending army. Why? The Spanish army finally hoisted it's flag over the region of Flanders as the British were defeated in the region. So what exactly happened at Flanders during the battle. Let's find out.
EDEN Tanks Hard at Flanders
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What Happened at Flanders?
This battle, in contrast to the one at Brussels, saw more number of British defenders than the Spanish attackers. To be precise, there were 1,395 defenders against 1,140 attackers. This lack of enough attacking strength would influence the battle very much as we will be seeing later on in the article.
At first, the wall began modestly, at 20,000 damage. But constant Spanish attack brought it down steadily, and almost four hours into the battle, the hard work paid off. The Spanish had brought the wall down to around -10,000. The wall stayed more or less constant for the rest of the 12-hour period. At precisely 00:05-00:10 hours, the British hit back and hit back hard.
In a period of heightened British activity, the wall underwent a drastic change, hitting a peak of 70,000 almost seven-and-a-half hours later. This was the period when the British hit out with the SAS Tank Regiments, I guess. 23 tanks from the British side participated in the attack.
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All was going well until when there was less than 55 minutes on the clock. British victory seemed very much a decent possibility until then. However, starting then, at 11:15 hours, the Spanish deployed their tanks. Each of them began pulling the wall down very hard. So much so, that the 54 tanks they deployed brought down a 47,00 wall (approximately) to around -42,000 in less than an hour snatching victory from British hands
What does this mean for everyone?
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First of all, this shows us a measure of two things. One, that EDEN and Spain have got enough gold reserves to tank highly. Secondly, and more importantly, it shows us the importance of Flanders as a battlefield and a strategic location.
The defence of Flanders was necessary to prevent the opening up of another front for Spain against the UK. Flanders lost would also mean a Brussels surrounded by Spanish troops. The fall of Flanders means that the UK is now completely surrounded by EDEN troops. Spain completely surrounds the British-held territory of Brussels and Spain, Poland, Sweden, Canada, Norway and USA completely surround mainland UK. This gives EDEN a six against seven situation. I say seven even though I know that the UK has nine MPPs, because Turkey is fighting it's own war against Greece and Israel whereas Germany is no longer there as a country. Yes, Germans might well end up in London to defend our homeland.
Flanders was a strategic location for both the nations and the Spanish having won it can only mean one thing. An attack on Brussels is imminent or that an attack on UK itself is nearby. The former will be only by Spain but the latter will be by six countries. If the six do attack, then it would trigger a conflict in Western Europe whereby we will have a mini world war with at least thirteen nations actively involved in this conflict.
If that is the case, then both EDEN and Phoenix may need some extra gold reserves to tank as much as they can.
All I can do right now is sit and predict. Who knows what the future holds apart from Future herself?
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"EDEN Tanks Hard at Flanders"
lol, are you on crack or something?
The battle of flanders was a small battle, with small importance.
As we see on neat battle stats (http://neatbattlestats.co.cc/showbattle.php?id=8677), only 1 player tanked (himan) and not so hard.
When EDEN tanks hard, you will know it 😛
The truth is that Spain beat you very easily.
PS If flanders was important for you, as you wright, why didn't UK tanked?
Because english people care only about their own asses, honor is something they like talk about but something they don't really understand
You're doing it wrong.
Revenge is coming, UK.... Revenge is coming...
What goes around comes around.
Hail EDEN!!
No Dunkirk for you.
"The battle of flanders was a small battle, with small importance."
Then why did Spain use 54 tanks? It's given on the same page you pointed out.
"PS If flanders was important for you, as you wright, why didn't UK tanked?"
The UK too tanked though it was less than half the number of Spanish tanks (23 in number).
I must seriously advice you to read through the article once again.
Voted. Awesome!
Spain used 54 tanks against UK's 23. And yeah, I guess Flanders was important for Spain because they tanked and got it. If they hadn't I guess the Brits would've held on.
But anyway...
HAIL EDEN!
lol, Santiago do you know the meaning of the word tanking?
Tanking is when a a tank (a fm player with high dmg) is fighting more than the regural 10-12 fights per battle, using wellness packs, gifts and high quality guns. Thats tanking.
When a tank is fighting 5 times daily or 10 times in two days, thats not tanking, its regural fighting cause you know, tanks want to train too.
The number of the tanks in a battle is irrelevant. Somewhere have to fight them too you know, dah.
Sort your stats mate.
less fail