Introduction


Every 25 days I publish an article that summarizes the most important events in Poland. I believe that now is the perfect time to write similar article in English. I would like to briefly explain how our internal situation looked like in the past 3 months, describe my views on our long war with Georgia and thank our friends from GUN one more final time. Although I’m currently a Polish MoFA, I will present only my personal opinions here.
 

Internal




Of course I don’t want to write too many details in this section, but I think we had a quite unique situation in Poland. From the very beginning of the game our population was divided into two, more or less, hostile camps. The differences, as I was told, have their roots in one of the clone games. Players like me, who never played said clone, had to choose side early on.

Because of this conflict we started in a bit of a chaos. There were many laws proposed by trolls that delayed us (even though I don’t think Mordor is one of the trolls, this law shows pretty well how the situation was back then). It calmed down a bit after we joined GUN and Weandil became our 4th CP (he is a president since day 22). I also think that the war with Georgia took part in our better internal cooperation during past two month.

Other problems, with being divided like that, are potential spies on discord. I admit that I was usually the one being most paranoid about it. Both in polish and GUN discords. Some people even started to call me Mr. Conspiracy and that’s probably accurate. I just couldn’t help myself when I saw some genius DO changes, or perfectly timed counters to what we talked just minutes before. All of it could be pure luck or maybe I just lack years of experience some of our enemies have, but either way it was a bit harder to organize because of that.



War with Georgia

Before The War


I want to start by giving my perspective on the moves we made on the world map before Georgia attacked us. The reason why I want to do it is because Georgia and AEGIS published bunch of articles claiming that Poland was among countries deleting their neighbors. This statement, which was the only casus belli as far as I know, is simply false.

We took regions from Denmark, Germany and Russia (who owned Lithuania at the time) and we never deleted nobody in the process. We also released Kaliningrad for Russia to prevent their deletion by Georgia and China. We did it despite reduction of bonuses from Lithuania and while actually being in a war with Russia. Even though it’s all in the past I believe that it’s still important to point that out and I also think that we made a small mistake by not writing official article about it back then.



The War


Our war with Georgia lasted for about 55 days. Below are the links to the list of battles:

1. https://www.edominations.com/pl/war/show/179
2. https://www.edominations.com/pl/war/show/429

As you can see, the first part of the war was fully dominated by Georgia. They quickly took our Lithuanian regions, some of the cores and Danish regions. After that we refused their first NAP proposition. We were promised by allies that we will get more help and convinced that its very important for the whole war to stop Georgia on our regions.

After our refusal, Georgia moved towards our capital. We defended their first attack on Warsaw thanks to very a close round 2 (only 40k difference in 50kk round), but we still lost the second attack few days later. We moved our capital to Krakow while Georgia kept pushing, reducing our territories to only this one last region.

Before their first attack on Kraków they proposed us another NAP. We decided that we will fight till the end and rejected one more time. Our situation was almost hopeless, but giving our allies more time to delete China from Europe was more important. Again, we defended their first attempt (special thanks to Wiper and Croatia for this battle).

Georgia waited few days before their second attack (partly because of the expiration of the first war). They spammed chat with threats of record breaking damage, while we spammed chat trying to motivate our allies. I would say that both of us were successful. The battle completely broke the damage record for many days and our allies helped us in unbelievable way. (special thanks to Slovenia and Holjo for whom we built special monument in Kraków after this epic battle).


On the same day we also started 5 RWs vs Georgia (Polish in Warsaw, in South Korea, in North Korea, in Japan, and in Lithuania) and we won all of them. 3 asian RWs were ending at the exact same time and it was very satisfying to win them all in a day like that.

Georgia decided to back out from our core regions and barricaded with DS 5 in Kaliningrad. The plan was to keep Lithuanian territories as their European base. But once again we decided to keep fighting. We set up DSes in Pomerania and Masuria and the ping-pong began. The focus of alliance shifted to Macedonia, so we were mostly on our own. We began to fire 2-3 RWs vs Georgia daily, while trying to break through Kaliningrad barrier. After some unsuccessful rushes and successful defenses of Georgian replies (special thanks to Selektiv), we were finally able to win RW in Kaliningrad with some powerful T2 rush together with allies. We eliminated the rest of their European base shortly after.



After The War



After the war against Georgia ended, we won few battles vs Russia for Lithuanian territories. We also took 1 latvian and 2 danish regions, again without deleting anyone. This in total gave us 14/15 bonuses and that’s probably all we will be able to achieve at this point. Hopefully we will get some rest time now, because past months were very costly for us, both in gold and energy.

In conclusion, I think that this war ended up being something else than it was supposed to be at the beginning. During that 55 days we slowly evolved, from small obstacle on the way, to main enemy of the whole war for Georgia. All in all Im happy with how we handled things. I would also want to congratulate Georgia for being worthy opponent and thank them for many great battles.



GUN


I became Polish MoFA at day 45 and I joined the GUN discord on the same day. During that 40 days I met a lot of great people there, learned a lot of new things about the game and had many memorable experiences. It would be impossible to write down every single one of them, but here are the most notable to me:

- The help from our non-european allies. Especially Colombia and Peru, but also Indonesia, Ecuador and Canada. Biggest thanks to Manduco and Mihael for their help with organization, but also to Colpho, Andy Warhol and Adam Sutler. There were many important rushes that saved the day, but the one I will never forget is round 1 of our epic defense of the last region. The round was ending in the middle of European night and we had less than half of 15kk needed. We thought that its all over when suddenly Mihael appeared at T10 giving up brief info that SA prepared rush for us. We trusted them, we rushed and we won. It allowed us to take a break during round 2 and I believe that it actually played crucial role in winning the whole battle.

- Our friendship with SamoDesno. The fact that he speaks polish so well helped us many times in GUN discord. I also share personal views on some (((things))) with him. It was very disappointing to see him leaving the game and I hope that he will come back one day.

- Meeting the Slovenian Old Farts who turned out to be not only great allies and friends but also teachers. Thanks to the ones I met in GUN discord: Eevil, Holjo, Janez and Enigma “The Middlefinger”, and also to Keyser whose advices and stocks saved Poland few times and to Laoch, for his confidentiality.

- The unplanned formation of The Night Knights together with Mihael and Rainyday13. During European nights we were usually the only ones around on GUN discord. It began with some random rush in Sachsen and continued for many nights. Our rushes usually were organized in the last minutes possible and had some background stories like: getting home at T5 and running upstairs to charge phone on low battery or having full storage at T1 (both of these rushes were miraculously won).

- Traumatizing visit in French discord. This was one of my first experiences as a MoFA and I wasn’t prepared for an interrogation like that. If somebody from France is reading this: I promise I don’t want you to set up any DS anywhere!

- Planning of moves on the northern front together with Selektiv. I think we did a good job there, but also it was a lesson on what to avoid in the future. Sweden with Selektiv as CP was always great ally to Poland and I pray to Gustav Visa so that they will stay safe and be successful with their BB.

- Finally some extra shoutouts to countries and people I didn’t mention above: Macedonia with MysteriousMind, Ireland with Franky Four Fingers, Croatia with Motorina, Serbia with Rainyday13, Hungary with Kraegon and last but not least: always sober and never hitting for the wrong side - Stonewall.
 


Future


The big news about Spain and Slovenia joining AEGIS as trial members showed up while I was writing this article. I admit that it was a bit surprising to me, because I was expecting something different. I’m a little bit concerned about the balance of power in this new world order. Even if all of the other countries would unite (highly unlikely), it might still not be enough. Maybe Im wrong though.

I hope that Poland will not end up as a battleground for another 2 months. I think it’s too soon for us to fight someone else’s war on our cores again. I will not be the one making the decision, but this time I would like to see Poland as neutral country helping friends (even if on both sides) in defensive battles. Maybe some people won’t be happy to read it and maybe this option isn’t even possible, but that’s how I see it. I will monitor the situation and our possibilities closely, but I will also be ready to step down from politics if needed.

Currently I’m on my holiday in Spain though. Friends, beaches and games, everything is great here. I’m recharging my batteries and getting ready for whatever the future will bring...