Dude, Where's my GOLD?
Day 775, 15:27
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by Serendipitous
Yesterday, we launched a two-pronged attack on Hungarian-held Heilongjiang. Now, this is good and all. The wall can be seen from space, but we've won against worst odds. Now then, to business. During the battle, President Jewitt and Commander of the Joint Chiefs Gaius Julius came onto the Congressional Boards asking for more GOLD to fund our tanks and allies with weapons and wellness packs. It's the usual stuff. However, this time the amount asked for was much larger than normal. However, thinking this was it and we'd win the Asian theater, we decided it was for the best.
Proposals like that go through the SCI, are usually very impromptu, and very expedited. So, X amount of GOLD goes to the military for preparation for this battle. Here's what the SCI is:
The SCI is a select committee of members designated to quickly fund requests; usually, this results in the outcome of the battle in our favor. The Select Committee on Intelligence (SCI) was formed under President Scrabman. Zcia has an article coming out that I'll post here later, so you can get a better idea.
So, you know the rest of the story. We lost both fronts of Hello Kitty, and ended up losing a lot of GOLD. So, you know, we win some we lose some. Then, wahooBob comes out with this beauty of an article: America: Land of the Second Chance.
Read that over, come on. You can do it. Alright. So today, someone comes to me. We're fighting this blocking battle for chiefly Romania, that's cool. Cesog fillireb comes to me and mentions this to me. So I go and check, and 'lo and behold... he's right! The battles were retreated! Here's the problem. We still tanked in Hello Kitty. We spent several thousand GOLD on a battle WE WERE SCHEDULED TO LOSE. So, we were lied to. X amount of GOLD down the drain simply because we needed to block. We could have retreated the battle and saved several thousand GOLD. The battles can be found here. I really have only one question, since we know where the GOLD went.
I'd link you to my normal repertoire of newspapers, but I'm not liking them anymore
St Krems's take on the blocking
Maybe these guys won't lie to us about where our money is going.
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Too much power to the man!
Lol serend 🙂
Krems' article was better.
Hail to the yes!
I SURE AM BLOCK
VOTED 😃
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...yet you still have gold for ads
Maybe because he wasn't stupid enough to spend it ALL on the war?
...yet you still have gold for ads [x2]
lol
angered. voted. shouted.
true story.
it was a tactical loss, but a strategic win. We freed Romania from initiative lock, and now they are hitting Bulgaria and have a chance to stop the Serbian land bridge to India. Greece has initiative against Turkey, and Hungary lost its Romanian regions, as well as initiative in the war, and Hungary spent more gold in the battle than we did. In the long run, the day was a win.
The day was a win, but the government lied to myself and my constituents. (I had to beg someone to give me 1 GOLD, too) 😛
If we retreated, Hungary would not tank the battle. I don't see any negative effects of tanking in the battle...
We help an ally + made the enemy spend gold.
Serendipitous: You being the SoH, i believe they should have told you but I don't see any reason for telling the whole congress as it could've ruined our plans. (I do not expect anything that is supposed to remain between congressmen to stay within them.)
That's fine. But the point is, they first passed it off as a legitimate battle, told everyone it wasn't, then decided to spend the GOLD anyway. I don't like my government lying to me.
"We freed Romania from initiative lock, and now they are hitting Bulgaria and have a chance to stop the Serbian land bridge to India."
lol, Romania is being blocked again, this time by Serbia 😃
So much for your plan...
yeah, Krems' was cooler, but still, nice article.
angered voted
Seriosly jewitt failed SO much with his article. It wouldn't be a problem if he just didn't write that article. It was a "let them eat cake level of fail"
Jewitt fallen in love with Romania. This love has already cost you thousands of gold and it will cost you much more.
Here is his article compressed in one song:
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From Jewitt's article: "Yes, we spent gold on tanking. Yes, we tried to win. But in the end, we still won."
Apparently you tl;dr'd it, Serendipitous, but it states right there exactly what you're complaining about. We thought we had a chance to win, so we took it. We lost, it happens. Jewitt's article was not saying that this was just a block, its saying that in spite of the tactical loss it was still a strategic victory because it accomplished its original goal, the goal of blocking for Romania. When it looked like we could win it, though, we decided to go in for it. We lost. We lost the gambit to serve yet another loss to Hungary, but we STILL won in our attempt to block Hungary.
If you don't understand that a single battle can have multiple focuses, not the least of which is carrying the battlefield, then I'm not going to sit here and explain it. Rather, take my word for it, a battle opened as a blocker can STILL become a major tactical victory if it succeeds. We realized that, and tried to gain the tactical victory after completing the overall strategic goal.
omg, Brad, I love that statement