The 100 Days War, A Retrospective
Desertfalcon
133 days ago the world was launched into the largest war ever seen. While the starting date of the war is undisputed its ending is. The war ended a bit like the real life Korean war, there was no official peace treaty and both sides still want to kill each other. The absence of a formal peace treaty between all the parties involved has led some say to that the war was over when the U.S. managed to reconquer all their regions while other say the war is still ongoing because battles are still being fought. Despite the lack of an official ending, most will agree that the most violent part of the war has passed. Today I will take a look back at the events of the war as well as the impact it had on American society rather then just recap every battle.
The whole thing began back after the July presidential elections. PEACE hadn't invaded yet but they started to make threats that had everyone in the U.S. worked up. It was during this time we saw the income tax hike to 30% in an attempt to build up the treasury and all the other general panic. The main reason for this panic though was that we gave PEACE way too many options to attack. In a head to head battle the U.S. could easily beat countries like France, Portugal, and Russia, however due to the fact that we left wars open where our enemies had MPPs that they could use we left ourselves vulnerable. On top of the threats from the old wars Indonesia and Hungary were also threatening to move through the U.K. and Japan to attack the U.S. and Canada. With regions at risk all along the east and west coast it made it very difficult to coordinate a defensive strategy.
Once France attacked Nova Scotia and Russia attacked Alaska F/E was forced to fight in a two front war which was a huge advantage for PEACE who had superior tanks at the time and could do a great deal of last minute damage. The U.S. and Canada started to lose ground but managed to stay in it until they managed to retreat and attack the countries that were attacking the other in order to block them and go back on the offensive. At first it looked like this would work but then Indonesia and Portugal entered the picture and the U.S. was split even thinner.
The weeks that followed were definitely the most interesting weeks in America's history. Nothing quite like this had ever happened before and most people began to realize we can't just sit at home anymore and just pretend that nobody will attack us because we are so great. This served as a wake up call to most Americans and it even got people who didn't normally pay too much attention to game to all of a sudden become more active and moved to Florida and New Jersey in order to help out their country.
Paradoxically morale was at an all time low after about three weeks when PEACE had just about taken everything west of the Mississippi. During this time period Eugene Harlot, the long time chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, resigned from his position after taking blame for the failed defensive efforts. Then came the August presidential elections, with many people becoming demoralized the U.S. the race came down to the incumbent Harrison Richardson and Emerick. There wasn't much campaigning from the HR camp as Harrison himself has said that he was going to let his track record speak for itself. This didn't really pay off well as Emerick won by a large margin, most likely due to the fact that people were discontent with the way the war was being handled.
Emerick's election seemed to brighten spirits a bit however the U.S. was still having trouble winning battles and continued to be pushed eastward. By day 42 the U.S. was on the verge of being wiped out, thousands of Americans flocked to Florida to await what was supposed to be the final battle. Instead though America was able to launch a counter offensive into the Indonesian held territories and began to pick up regions. By day 45 America had liberated Texas and a new wave of hope swept the country. People started putting aside their differences and worked to liberate the rest of the country, more and more two clickers became active soldiers and the U.S. just started to take control of things.
Soon Emerick struck a major deal with Portugal. In the agreement America would pay Portugal a small amount of gold in exchange for allowing America to have her southern regions back. This took Portugal out of the war and gave the U.S. a secure base of operations to continue the liberation of the country from. Over the next few days the American's pushed westward through Indonesia's claims almost as easily as PEACE pushed eastward through the country at the start of the war. Then what seemed impossible two weeks earlier became a reality when the U.S. marched all the way from Florida to California to retake the region that had become Indonesia's foothold in North America. The U.S. then took out Indonesia in Hawaii, thus pushing them out of the North American theater.
To make up for Indonesia being pushed out of the war, PEACE then plotted to have Colombia region swap with Mexico so that they could attack the U.S.. The Colombian attacks never posed much a threat however they ended up picking up a few regions since the U.S. would have to retreat the regions they were being attacked in if they wanted to go on the offensive. Despite the Colombians getting involved the general mood in the country was good and Russia seemed to be on the verge of collapse. Then out of nowhere Emerick was forced to resign, his reasoning for resigning was that he had some legal issues he needed to attend to in real life and Gaius Julius took over as president. The next few days were a bit chaotic but eventually Gaius was able to pick up where Emerick left off and after a week of back and forth fighting Russia was finally pushed out of North America on day 74.
The way things were going it seemed the U.S. would almost be completely liberated, with Indonesia, Portugal, and Russia all getting the boot the U.S. was on the verge of victory. Rather then go right for the jugular and take PEACE completely out of American regions, the U.S. spent most of their efforts fighting PEACE in allied countries such as Canada and helping out in the big war in Scandinavia between Russia and the Eden countries of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Soon after the Russian defeat in Scandinavia all attention turned to Hungary's claims in Canada and the U.S. where the U.S. and Canada were both gearing up to take there last few regions back.
Then on day 101 America made a huge win by taking Manitoba from Hungary in one of the bloodiest wars ever in the game. The battles between Hungary and the U.S. were very close since there were no active MPPs on either side and both sides were evenly matched. The U.S. then had another close skirmish with Hungary in Nunavut in a battle that ended foreign occupation of Canada. Then the war came full circle with the U.S. launching one last offensive into Alaska after taking Washington back. The U.S. won the battle quite easily and achieved total liberation leading many to believe the war was over. Russia though, wasn't done and attacked a couple of days later, Gaius retreated the region but retook it a couple of days later and after that there was never any real fighting in North America.
During the war I released daily articles to keep up with the events that you can go back and read if you have no life what so ever and want to learn more about the battles. I really wanted to write a summary including all the global events to such as the fall of Spain however there is just to much stuff to include so I had to settle for this. I had a great time writing daily updates and although it was stressful at times to meet the daily time limit it feels like a great accomplishment to be done. Now that my summary is released I finally feel like I can put the war behind me and move on with other parts of erepublik. I have also awoken from my deep slumber. I figured being away from erepublik for one week was long enough and its time to get back into the swing of things.
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As for my viewpoints I believe we should have a slightly adjusted tax module with the income tax being a bit lower (15 or so
😵to compensate for the loss of revenue I would support raising the import tax that way not only do we increase income from tariffs but we make it so it's no longer cheaper for companies in Spain to sell on our markets then it is for American companies. I support a strong military (like everyone else who wants to get elected) and support the continuation of the training wars in order to offer a steady supply of battles to the American public and to create demand for the weapons market.
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Comments
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Pertamax from Brazil and PEACE!
Oh snap!
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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yay
>he U.S. could easily beat countries like France, Portugal, and Russia
Dont make me lol
Finlandimaxx! <3
what?!
Russia attacked Russia? 10th paragraph
>he U.S. could easily beat countries like France, Portugal, and Russia
Dont make me lol (2)
I wrote something like this a long time ago.....
And lets not forget that there would be no US without you MPP's doing all the damage.
you gotta admit, if PEACE didn't have the balls to invade the US, these past couple of months would've been way more boring...
@ Coockies Crsip
Lets also not forgot that there would of been no mass invasion had France, Portugal, and Russia not all of had their MPPs to begin with.
falconmaxx
A bit propagandic, but good article 😛
>Lets also not forgot that there would of been no mass invasion had France, Portugal, and Russia not all of had their MPPs to begin with.
Lets not forget how they got the MPP's activated 🙂
first page 🙂
Your articles were great for keeping up when everything was going crazy during the wars. Thanks for doing such a good daily report.
CookiesCrisp, you know the US could take France, Portugal and Russia one on one, don't pretend.
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those who do not learn from the past are bound to repeat it.
good article as always. who do you think won the war and why?
Considering the U.S. has all its land back, and the PEACE alliance is no more, I would say the U.S. won. However it was not an overwhelming victory, and their enemies are still as strong as ever.
A bittersweet victory, but a victory nonetheless.
Why do you just say "Us" this and "America" that. Isen't it more corect to wright "E/F" and "Eden and fortis". Don't whant to be an ass about it but first you backstabed us and alied with germany, then just a month or so later we come to you'r rescue and i havent heard one american thank us. A bit selfish if you ask me.
Welcome back DF!
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U.S. won?
US took back it's regions due to the fact they have great allies and a pretty good Mobile Army of it's alliance (EMC) to support them.
USA is nothing alone.If you saw the end of an battle, you might see that the major effort to win them was done by foreigners from EMC.
"you gotta admit, if PEACE didn't have the balls to invade the US, these past couple of months would've been way more boring..." - Very true
"Why do you just say "Us" this and "America" that. Isen't it more corect to wright "E/F" and "Eden and fortis". Don't whant to be an ass about it but first you backstabed us and alied with germany, then just a month or so later we come to you'r rescue and i havent heard one american thank us. A bit selfish if you ask me." - unfortunately many Americans have an attention span of 30 secs. Others are too full of pride. Most of the real players in this game know how much we owe our allies. I have personally been on Eden and more specifically, Scandinavian media showing my sincere gratitude many times and will always fight for the US to be on your side in any conflict. When some said Poland was irrational and wrong to attack Latvia, I said they have the biggest balls of all and we should build them a statue. When US players say we should aid Peru in their takeover, I said we should ask what Eden thinks about it. Many of us, the ones that matter will never forget and will be there for you.
Hell, we could take them at the SAME TIME.
Cookies Crisp
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Cookies Crisp 2 hours ago
>he U.S. could easily beat countries like France, Portugal, and Russia
Dont make me lol
you are a putz. your country sucks and your women are trannies.
lol ok
Desert Falcon, your updates were always valuable. Thanks for the service.
STOP THINKING OUT YOUR ARTICLES, GAWD YOU MAKE EVERYONE ESLE LOOK WROSE.
Nice article. And, I kept up with the paper when you were updating daily. Was very interesting.
Wow I joined Erepublik after this huge war had happened. I remember seeing an article on it and didn't think much of it. I wish i had joined in before it so I could experience the huge event but Im glad there's at least a way i could read up on it. Thank you.
Ryoushi
ye thats a fair view, but i'l give u another. i consider that peace won this war for couple of reasons. if we view this war as a boxing match then peace nearly k.o e/f. e/f managed to get up on its feet but thats it. no retaliation followed thus no points for e/d. getting regions back does not mean the war is won, it only brings a war to status quo at best.
'peace does not exist' - this is true. but core countires of peace (hun, indo, rus, serbia) are still together and going to form a new alliance. i'm not sure why peace dissapeared but it is certainly not because of e/f. my guess is that core countries tired of constant moaning by the likes of france, italy and the general idea that alliance is supposed to be defensive. therefore a new one will be forged and it is very likely that it is going to be aggresive as hell ))
it is no coincidence the author of this article compares this war to real war in NK. its hard to decide who won when the war is still ongoing.
Samski... you forget half the important stuff...
First of all, Indonesia and Hungary lost most of their empires, this is a huge blow to them.
Second of All, many former PEACE, or neutral countries got the will to stand up against the oppression of their overlords, this is what resulted in PEACE's collapse.
Last of All, E/+A (+ allies) came out of the smokey haze much stronger than they went in (eUSA now has many paramilitary organizations, for example, that can help fight important battles or start and win an RW in PEACE occupied territory), while PEACE came out a battered and broken mess.
hmm not sure bout that. indo yes, struggling at the mo. but hungary not really, strong as ever.
not sure about the opression either. these countries chose not to follow hun/indo orders. in return ind/hun chose not to have such allies. thus alliance can not exist and had to split. who is going to benefit more time will tell. but the funny thing is that big guns decided to stick with hun.
and the same cud be said about peace countries. hun strong, russia got very strong, serb is growing in strength. indo yes, limping a little bit. if u consider economies, then former peace economies are stronger.
I love how the PEACEniks keep bringing up the MPP's. Only reason France, Portugal or anyone else dared to fight us was because they had MPP's of their own. Stupidest attempt at trolling. You had two monsters and we had a network of friends. Just recognize that we've pwnd you and you wouldn't dare try something like WW3 again. >8D
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Another nice article.
""Why do you just say "Us" this and "America" that. Isen't it more corect to wright "E/F" and "Eden and fortis". Don't whant to be an ass about it but first you backstabed us and alied with germany, then just a month or so later we come to you'r rescue and i havent heard one american thank us. A bit selfish if you ask me." - unfortunately many Americans have an attention span of 30 secs. Others are too full of pride. Most of the real players in this game know how much we owe our allies. I have personally been on Eden and more specifically, Scandinavian media showing my sincere gratitude many times and will always fight for the US to be on your side in any conflict. When some said Poland was irrational and wrong to attack Latvia, I said they have the biggest balls of all and we should build them a statue. When US players say we should aid Peru in their takeover, I said we should ask what Eden thinks about it. Many of us, the ones that matter will never forget and will be there for you."
You forgot the most important thing. THERE IS NO E/F FORTIS NEVER EXISTED. Therefore the trolls argument is null and void. Fail Troll is Fail.
DFMAXXXX as always!
I've loved your articles this whole time I've been here, thanks Desertfalcon, if you're doing anything else with the paper or another, I'll be tuning in there too.
Excellent coverage throughout the war. Great job!
Probably you forgot that it's, actually, US who invaded Russia
DF, as always, you do a fantastic job.