EDEN is losing the Balkans
8-3=1
Yesterday there was a good fight in Sofia (formerly belonging to Romania, now Serbia). It was a 1/1 battle in which Romania lost. Looking at the battle statistics, we will see that the difference was made by the Hungarian and Russian armies fighting together with Serbia.
EDEN did not consider necessary to send troups (only Croatian army came independently). This time there was no major war happening anywhere on the globe requiring some important moves of armies. This is a quite a strategic mistake for the following reasons:
a. Romania is obviously feeling that there is no support from EDEN towards them. There were already (independent) voices in Romania complaining about the lack of support from the allies in previous campaigns. Today it was the President of Romania who said it more than clearly:
"[Infrangerea din Sofia]...este dureroasa mai ales prin prisma lipsei suportului unor tari pe care Romania le-a ajutat sa-si revina de la o singura regiune, sa obtina regiuni iron-high, sa stearga tari de pe harta sau sa isi pastreze teritorii."
"decizia mea (pe care mi-o asum 100% si care este valabila pana la sfarsitul mandatului, urmatorul presedinte avand libertatea de a face ceea ce doreste) este ca Romania sa isi limiteze semnificativ ajutorul acordat aliatilor (cu exceptia Croatiei) in operatiunile desfasurate in afara granitelor Romaniei"
This should make EDEN diplomacy a bit worried and perhaps they should take some steps to resolve the existing situation.
b. It is quite obvious that EDEN do not consider the Balkan region to have a strategic importance. Many voices considered the Romanian campaign in Bulgaria and Turkey to be absolutely pointless, but it created the background for several wins of the allies in West Europe and Asia. With Balkans being quiet, Phoenix regained the initiative in West Europe and they will use UK and RWs in French and German regions to make EDEN life more and more miserable.
c. It seems now that Phoenix gives more and more attention to the region. Previously it looked like it is going to be an EDEN territory (with Romania wiping out Bulgaria and bordering with Greece; Ukraine getting closer and closer to EDEN via diplomacy, Greece using a lot of resources in the war against Turkey). Since then Phoenix operated with much better coordination (Hungary, Serbia and Russia) and they are now having initiative and gaining regions in the area.
For all the reasons above, it looks like EDEN will be losing the war in the Balkans. The perspective of a Phoenix invasion in Croatia and Romania is not far away and this time they might succeed due to much better coordination of attacks compared to EDEN defense. A lot of pressure will be put on Poland to assist the defense in the region, so Poland must decide whether they will remain involved in West Europe only or start behaving like a super-power who can fight on two fronts.
From "across the pond", except Canada attack on UK it all seems quiet. USA is probably waiting to get involved against UK, but it might be simply too late. Meanwhile, the fortress of Balkans might lay in ruins.
The equilibrium of the game might be severely impacted and USA might need to show as a true leader of EDEN not only by asking for allied support for their offensive campaigns, but also by being forced to move their armies across the globe to defend the allies. Also the dream to attack Hellongjiang is now far away and another attack (with a chance of success) will not be possible in less than 2 weeks from now.
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once again romania stands alone,
romania is one of the super-power nation, and seems that does not have that status in EDEN
russia, hungary and serbia are super-powers of PHOENIX and thay are united in every decision.
I know that you hardly can join PHOENIX, but i also know that your status in PHOENIX could be wery good for you.
"USA might need to show as a true leader of EDEN"
WTF o.O Do we play the same game?
Well it's nobody's fault but the Romanians - expecting that US and Poland care for them. There were total of 35 Polish and 8 (!!) US soldiers fighting for Romania in Sofia. lol 😃
Obviously this was not the first time Romania has been betrayed by its "allies" - in the recent past there were the debacle of Romanian conquest of Turkey which received zero EDEN support despite Romanians blowing their entire treasury on it, and ofc the hungarian invasion.
Let this be a lesson to all the other lesser EDEN members.
We have been in South Africa fighting against Indonesia. Will can't move - the eUS military have jobs and they need to keep them to stunt the economy there and we need to take down the Indonesians.
I wish we had been deployed to help you instead of eSouth Africa, especially when eSouth Africa helped the invasion of eAustralia and you consistently have helped the eUS in our battles.
I imagine the logic was that if eIndonesia attacked ePeru's high iron region, which they will if we fail to kick eIndonesia out of eSA, ePoland would be stretched thin defending in both Europe and South America and end up losing everything. This would end up being more problematic for all Eden, including eRomania.
eIndonesia gaining a high iron region and foothold in South America plus ePoland losing a high iron region and it's long held PTO in ePeru would be far more devastating than eRomania losing an eBulgarian territory. I don't mean to be harsh or cold, that is the truth though.
yes, there are always more important battles for the US
we heard it all before
@Shinybluepope: http://ereptools.net/battles/info/id/8802" target="_blank">http://ereptools.net/battles/info/id/880[..]8802
Have a look at the top damage on each side. What was the purpose of this? 🙂
What do you mean "we" MaxHardcore? You're a Bosnian in Russia. Stop trolling.
@MaxHardcore: you little troll 🙂
8-3=1, that is a training war for eUS citizens, not the military. Some military people fought there, but our official orders were to head to eSouth Africa.
@Shynybluepope: there is an explaination for everything 🙂
Well regardless, I do wish we had been ordered to help you guys.
Just like in RL great powers underestimate strategical importance of Balkan. Well, better for us 🙂
Oh come Indonesia FTW they are falling empire they have lost many high ranked players, Serbia is much bigger threat than Indonesia and it's growing, and Balkans are divided between EDEN and Phoenix!
Balkans:
EDEN: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Greece, with high Romanian influence!
PHOENIX: Serbia, Bulgaria and Slovenia, with high Hungarian influence!
So I herd u liek bickering
Yeah, except for the military campaign to finish Indonesia in South Africa. Other than that, you are right, there were no real battles.