[MoFA] Day 2534 - About the eCuban air strike
Ushlau
As you have all noticed we were briefly visited by eCuba.
eCuba had not been invited, they did not ask for a train war or similar, so the air strike was 100% hostile. They did contact the German CP, n0s3, after the air strike had been proposed as law, stating that they did not intend to attack eGermany or stay in eDenmark for a longer period of time and that the air strike was just for the purpose of gathering prestige points in the epic tournament which to place last week. n0s3 naturally responded that they were not welcome and that any attack on eDenmark would be considered an attack on Germark. He was also so nice to inform them that if the idea of the air strike was to gather prestige points for the tournament they would be much better of fighting in the epic battles that gave 3 times the amount of prestige points as regular battles (and a battle between eCuba and eDenmark has less than 0% chance of becoming epic – and it turned out that none of them did indeed turn epic).
Whether the government of eCuba knew that n0s3 also is the eDanish MoD is unknown (but I like to think that they did not) – as n0s3 is also eGerman CP he cannot technically have the tittle eDanish MoD - hence the title is unused this month.
The government of eCuba must, unless they are totally incompetent, have known that an air strike was not the most effective way of gathering prestige points. However if it was an actual attempt to land it was rather poorly planned and executed. On top it seems that they had no clue what they were facing. They set up COs from the beginning - which was rather unusual if they truly meant the air strike as a train war… the COs was eventually depleted and I suppose the eCubans realized that throwing more money after this rather hopeless and futile endeavor was a waste of money.
Though I doubt it, I hope that someone in the eCuban government or opposition at this moment is reflecting over the idiocy of the air strike. As a starter they could sum up the amount of wasted money and the prestige points lost due to fighting in the eCuba / Germark war that only gave 1 prestige point per hit (and possible 2 for the lucky few that earned a BH) instead of the numerous epic battles that gave 3 prestige point per hit (and more if you ended up on top5).
The actual fighting was actually not that hectic. Libertas and n0s3 were monitoring the battle from the beginning and setting COs - the spirit was in general good and optimistic. Bubbi was quick to transfer funds to DKL so in case it became relevant MC could also put up additional COs. So already from the begining we felt rather well prepared. The big "if" was whether we would survive the night, but it turned out not to be a problem as surprisingly many eDanes and allies where willing to go to bed late and/or get up early. The next morning MC was setting the needed COs and the final result was unambiguous.
The Germark victory was fairly unproblematic and I like to thank all that fought on the side of Germark.
As standing united against a common enemy is always fun, it was interesting to watch the battle on the new battle page and see how a lot of eDanes, who you might rarely run into, turned up and fought the best they could for eDenmark – and quite a few true patriot and battle hero medals was collected.
Not to mention the activity and high spirited mood on IRC after the victory was a fact. I don’t remember ever to have “seen” so many eDanes on IRC at the same time – so at least something good came out of the air strike.
Comments
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Cuba could definitely not into Beer&Bacon.. Now, the question that begs to be asked is:
Can Beer&Bacon into Cigars and rum?
I belive in B&B!
Long live eDenmark and great to see that many eDanes fighting for eDenmark. It was a pleasure to follow. Furthermore: Wonderfull article as always and I couldn't have said it better/different myself.
There you go; leave our beer and bacon alone 😛
Furthermore I'm a bit disappointed, as the visitors didnt bring any Havana´s for the new year party. The least you can do if you are not invited, is to bring gifts - where are they ???
The Queen thanks everyone of you that helped Germark showing these unwanted visitors the door >
If they don't bring gifts, I guess we will have to go get them ourselves??
Germark! \o/
n0s3 ♥
AS cuba now \o/
ty for no as dk 💔
We should also mention the fact that Cuba was in advantage of a MPP with the whitest people of SA called Argentinia. Anyway, it was a pleasure fighting for you and also nice to earn two TP Medals.
Nice article Ushlau. Well done Germark. Longest lasting and best union in this game. Once again proved.
Yes, the battle against eCuba was good.
I have to mention though that I was not impressed by some eDane's performance during the tournament at all. Yes, there were some foreign newbies added to eDenmark to slow us down, but the worst were our own eDanes, incl. some congress members who found it too har to click the "fight" button for eDenmark! This did not require any weapons, it was running very well only with prestige (and hits with no weapon give more prestige). If they knew in advance that participating in the tournament and helping eDenmark would bother them too much, why didn't they join enemy military unit for the tournament?
The result of the tournament for me was 177 energy bars, so I can be happy with that. But I am definitely not happy with *someones* way of teamplay!
I had no energy bars at the end of the tournament 😉
I was not able to use my last 2 energy bar packs from the tournnament because of serious lag issues. I could hardly use the recovered energy. Only every 10th click worked. And today came one extra pack as a promissed compensation from Plato.
(Have you collected your extra milestone reward?)
Yeah, the extra energy bars was quite nice - and the server issues was extremly annoying....
I saw you on the battlefield, you did indeed fight well.
I think you should stop blaming others. You don't know why they did not fight. I know at least one who was not able to fight more than he/she did, due to private life. If you know that they didn't have anything the prevented them in fighting more you are allowed to criticize them. I do agree and think that we could have done better and perhaps enter top 10, but if people are prevented from fighting because of private life they DO NOT let down the community. Furthermore we are very happy for your massive contribution and expect to be rewarded for your effort.
As I have mentione😛 if they wanted to help and could not fight (regardless of the reason for that), they could join enemy country's military unit 🙂
It would be perfectly OK if it was one or two. But half of the country? Sorry, that is not OK.
I must admit that I personally had not had the thought before the start of the tournament to have people joining the MUs of other countries to improve the average. It was only a possibility I was made aware a few days into the tournament. If such a tournament should happen again we should in my opinion think about using it.
However, that aside, please notice that if it wasn’t for several of the people you are criticizing for not doing enough for eDenmark in the tournament, there would be no danish eDenmark – it would be a Serbian eDenmark. I respect what they have done for eDenmark and will stand up for them any day - so should you. This was just a tournament, and though gold is nice, the only thing that matters is the defense of eDenmark - that being from foreign military attacks or more seriously, foreign political take overs.
I can only agree with you Siku Siku 😉
As far as i understand the thing about tournaments, is that you are locked to the unit and nation you were at the beginning of said tournament. So as far as the lack of figthing i agree that its a shame, but i still would never force anyone to fight.
This. It is a game. People can and should do what they want for their own fun.