Hi all!

Slovenia declares neutrality as of this moment.
For the sake of any country shopping around with our name in a potential alliance, I want to make it very clear that the only way you can believe those words, is in case they are coming from a representative of Slovenian goverment. And since we decided to go neutral for the foreseeable future, thats not that likely to happen.
We closed the war with Greece, for which Id like to thank Greek goverment for understanding and cooperation without the hard feelings, perceiving this as a game only. You have my respect!


Many people are wondering what exactly happened in GUN and why it broke apart. My article Which countries help their allies the most? probably had a part in it. If I knew what would happen, Id probably try to write some things differently, even to the extent of directly pointing fingers and providing the actual damage stats.
Sadly, wrong people considered this article as an attack on themselves and their own country and unsurprisingly some others with less ego or RL resentments had no problems with it, but considered it merely as statistics and as such, relative to some degree just as I explicitly pointed out in the article - all statistics are. The article was meant to be a reminder for 3-4 loud individuals, to think about it for a few seconds and at the very least just try to be polite, if not even just a bit more humble, nothing more. Yet instead it bursted out into even harsher accusations.

Slovenia has indeed made mistakes. I waited in Szeged and gave out the order to strike too late, while AEGIS won with, what is now obvious, their ussual 30 millions of damage in the last 30 seconds. Were not as numerous as some other countries and the damage we commit isnt a coincidence but a matter of long term preparations, unfammiliar to some. When Crisana took place we already gave notifications to T-1 Sicily out, for 10+ hours or so. Only 8 people were present on discord accordingly at that hour and even less decided to hit, the laughable accusations in the meeting one day earlier might have something to do with that.
That is bound to happen when strategic discussions are run on 1 on 1 basis, excluding most of the countries, however small and seemingly unimportant to some, instead of official channels. Yeah, we had a spy paranoia as well, but I dont accept such fixable issues as an excuse.
Some would say that the biggest mistake we made, was probably spreading damage around 10 battles instead of concentration on 1-2 and than brag about it later on on the main chat. I dont think so. In fact now that I look back, I feel sorry that we didnt help Colombia, Poland, Sweden, Canada... and in distant history, Romania, more when we had the chance. Constant changing of daily orders and sometimes even 10 smaller rushes per day were wearing down some of our most active fighters, that eventually just couldnt keep that same pace. Thats what naturaly happens when an alliance is underpowered, spreading the damage effectively becomes really hard.
We did try to be there for the alliance, however werent always able to follow everyones wishes. If anyone believes they are doing better, I am sure they will have no troubles finding a better ally than we are.

Result of that 1 on 1 strategy discussions was that some people in GUN had absolutely no idea what were doing in Sicily. The plan was to travel south, attack Greece, help Macedonia back on the map and finaly win a core AEGIS region, while in the same time, offer a relief on the battles in Romania. In the mean time, nothing worked as it was planned for more than a week beforehand. Go wonder. We decided to try with some damage drain, hopefully AEGIS would be put to sleep at one point and we would go crazy on Ionian Islands than.
We did a 52 millions overkill in 2nd battle for Sicily, after Crisana was lost?! Well yeah, we did. And also dropped 16 M on Kalinigrad after. I would suggest anyone that believes that battle was more important for Slovenia than for the alliance, to stay away from military tactics for their own countries sake. It also does take special type of noobs, or even real life resentments and stereotypes that translated into the game, to miss the fact that was probably... what?.... 2nd or at the very worst 3rd time in the game, when we actually asked the alliance to put priority on Slovenia? ... which makes the whole idea of changing alliances name into shoot for Slovenia from I feel sorry for the man to an actual its impossible to cooperate with such retards.

I wasnt able to stay quiet anymore, got into a pretty harsh fight with one individual, that might just been momentarily frustrated just as I have been and than Croatia and Serbia announced theyre leaving the alliance. Suits me, however I dont think they thought it out carefully. Respect to Motorina for trying to hold people back, just the way Holjo, Eevil King and me stopped each other when one of us was about to loose a nerve. But one individual can hardly make it. That common silence from others, did pan out as a silent agreement, without people realizing they are slowely yet surely burning the bridges, quite ironicaly bridges they themselves need the most, not us.


I dont think some people ever actually wanted us in the alliance, the opposite, it showed with every single day we are there only because they needed us.
No biggie, Slovenia from now on finaly is in an alliance called Shoot for Slovenia (SFS!!!) and whoever had troubles fighting for us, wont be forced to do so any longer.
With sincere regrets to all those fighters that actually gave it all for us in good faith and there are many of them, including some that might not take this article lightly. I meant it sincerely, no matter your potential response to it - To all of those I wish them and their countries a more mature and experienced leadership in the future.

Also, best regards to all the people I met in GUN and had some good times with. You know who you guys are. o7

This one is for you:



P.S. I dont know how arogant this article will be percieved, but from my standing point, I can do a lot worse than that o7


Regards,
Janez Grozni