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Our second round on E2.
Establishing our home base on New Zealand proved no problem for SoLD and we set to expanding our zone of influence soon. So1D was not so lucky, due to some leadership hickups at the start and another top ally starting right next to them (RwS). So after a while So1D hive was moved to South Africa.
With relics already out, not much happened in the beginning, though the relic distribution was reasonably bad for us (a lot of relics in America/Europe, almost none in Asia). We got 3 early on, RwS got 2, the rest was in the hand of North America alliances. It was pretty clear that some war would soon start eventually, but we had NAPs with both RwS and the biggest NA ally, FAR. In between, FAR got into trouble with VVV (one of their allies/subs, who did not like having their relics taken away by FAR), which provided us with the opportunity to pick up some friends and a 4th relic.
Shortly before our NAP should have ended, FAR started letting some of our enemies from Africa relocate to the US. When we followed, they attacked our OP, so the war started a bit early.
We quickly took greenland, they defended mainland Northern America. FAR also proved good at rallying any big and middle NA ally to their cause - out of these PIG proved to be outstanding support, but SERA and TF also put up a fight. Meanwhile, RwS made a deal with us to hand us over their relics if we managed to take FAR's.
Cue in several hundreds of rounds fighting (SoLD + S0LD, vs the above mentioned + their subs). The sheer mass of enemies + the high activity level of FAR/PIG made advancing hard. Eventually, we did force a big battle against first PIG and latter FAR though. The resistance collapsed, enablying us to take the NA relics.
Special thanks to Eddie, who temporarily took over as SoLD leader, when I was away.
Shouts:
FAR, PIG: You did well, this was one of the harder rounds for us. Keep up the fighting spirit.
RwS: Thx for honoring our agreement and not dragging the round out further.
So1D/S0LD: You helped a ton breaking up the stand still in NA (and defending home, escorting relics, etc), SoLD is still blessed with the best partner alliances out there.
All SoLD members: Have a fun next round, I enjoyed leading this round, even though I didn't have as much time to dedicate to it as I would have liked.
- Xeeron
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