Opening notes on the Ulster Campaign
Sir Humphrey Appleby
Good afternoon gents o/,
This article focuses primarily on the current and historic dynamic of relations between the eUK and eIreland. If you haven’t already done so first, have a quick read of Huey’s update and take a moment to fill in his Forces Coordination survey.
Why is eIreland invading?
I can think of three immediate reasons. The first and obvious is our geographical location. Neighbours have always had a (decent) fight at one point but as a rule of thumb, unless aided by alcohol, smaller countries tend not to pick fights with larger ones.
However with smaller nations like ours, at this stage of the game, allied support counts for a lot more than local contribution. So it will be interesting to wager whether it was several pints and St Patrick, or foreign promised support, that led to the Irish finally voting yes.
Historic enmity. You would have to live under a rock not to be dimly aware of this. Even though there are very few actual Irish players left in the game, eIreland’s foreign community have admirably embraced their adopted eNational culture.
One of the keystones of that perceived culture is an understandable hatred for all things English, with an almost religious-like belief in their United Island. Thus contention over Ulster mirrors historic real life troubles in the region and can be relied upon to rally the masses (with alternating enthusiasm).
The third - boredom. Both communities are desperately avoiding the main death of other non-medium communities. There are old friendships on either side of the Irish sea that are happy to confirm this is mostly the case. Unending ‘training wars’ and lack of real conflicts necessarily demand artificial ones take their place. For this need, Ulster and Empire have been useful on both sides several times over the years.
The opening of the war
The first few campaigns should be interesting. At the time of writing the first is 22/94 all in favour of Ire. For any of their citizens reading I salute your continued tight-knit organisation over the years demonstrated again today.
I must admit that my analysis here is very rough at best, but the balance of power (hopefully) will slowly shift to the eUK’s various strategic, local and importantly ‘training’ allies whose threatened interests this unilateral invasion could be encouraged to become a focus.
I hopefully expect however we will be in for a very good fight with our neighbours and look forward to heroes on either side. Perhaps even we smaller nations can remember how to enjoy each others’ company again, even with a gun…
The conduct of the war
We should honestly be grateful for what Slua and his country have done for us here. We have been mutually in need of some reason to be mildly interested and they have unilaterally solved our endless debate over it.
Whilst the possession of Ulster is a highly contentious issue in our actual lives, I hope to hell not to see it genuinely pressed beyond humour in this artificial game.
I hope we will keep an entertaining banter with our neighbours and enjoy the good common fun of it together.
Appleby o7,
A dram of scotch to every man, either side - a reward for still playing erep...
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Very accurate article.
Boredom is the primary reason for this campaign. Smaller countries have become nothing but pawns in this game that mainly serve as hosts for Training Wars, our allies like us but we never get to really "play" the game.
If our two countries cant play the game and have a friendly war (I want no nasty business), then what are we even farming for? Ireland and UK are similar enough in ground damage, we win air hands down.
As for region of choice, there is the real life element but also as we don't want to mess with your TW situation. Bulgaria were informed we have no intention to stray across the Irish sea.
Lots of love and hopefully we see some activity and buzz in the UK.
Cute article 🙂
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https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2693099
we are small nation too but we are not satellite of bigger countries at least we don't accept that!
bless... you have about 5 Irishmen. The rest of you are Croats.
Some of us are also Americans
some others Albanians including me but that's not the point
I fondly remember some of the old and current foreign souls we have amongst our community - don't let Kerr get yer down
I'm South African actually XD
Foreigners make me sick!
Best to just ignore Wayne, you'll never see him on the battlefield. Unless they bring back CO's and he has access to the UK treasury, then you can sit back and watch him accidently waste millions.
He's almost a secret agent.
What a surprise Rory is now eIrish. Such a bitter young man.
"Thus contention over Ulster mirrors historic real life troubles in the region and can be relied upon to rally the masses (with alternating enthusiasm)"
Also April 2nd is only 2 weeks away and it was used in the past for the same: rallying the masses to give new life to a dying community.
Anyway nice thoughts and good written article.
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Nice article
I heard there's free whiskey on offer...
Horice ✌🏻️
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Good and correct article.
Wish you didn't ask for Bulgarians to NE us so we can have some 1 on 1 fun as two almost equal countries damage wise...but well...
Maybe next time!
we ain't equal...
yes we ain't equal, you have 504 citizens and we 179 !
As much as it pains me to say it, eIreland are streets ahead of us. That 504 number you cite is more like 54 with the rest being multis.
is your fault!
We gave the eUK everything they ever wished for. 100% bonuses, friends and allies across the eWorld and adventure!
They squandered it and returned to meta play... my fault it's not. I will, along with the rest of us currently playing, take blame for the continued malaise that we are suffering.
ah yes, the e-irish campaign.
its an interesting sight to behold.
e-ireland has the justice on their side, no matter the battle's outcome.
other than that, lets play the game nicely and respectfully to eachother,
despite our differenced.
thanks for the dram of scotch, sir! (OP)