8th update!! (late 30's)
- USSR INVADES THE OTTOMANS
Being dead tired of the never-ending peace "negotiations" while parts of USSR were under Ottoman's occupation, Russian forces made a massive attack against the Ottoman frontlines. Not only were the Ottomans pushed back, but Ukraine - the entire Ukraine, including region 80 - decided to join Russian troops and soon the Ottomans were driven back to Caucasus. War analysists have estimated that the reason for this was the low confidence in the Ottoman leaders that the Ukranian people had.
USSR wasn't the only nation who benefitted from Ottoman's bad situation; ROMANIA was also cabaple of taking the rebellious area of 110 without any resistance, and 110 was more than glad to join Romania.
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- FRANCE SUFFERS IN NORTH AND SOUTH
Calais (region 8) had it's rebellion supported by other nations and finaly ended up overthrowing the French rule. They declared themselves a socialist people's republic and have decided to join Netherlands as a province with home ruling. The reason for their success, however, was Moroccan soldiers, who disembarked in southern France...
While most French navies were guarding the shores of Spain, Morocco had no trouble making a surprise disembarkment in southern France, and they are now occupying small areas there...
In Spain, the frontlines remained the same. Both countries have, however, suffered one confidence and one army level; as the war rages on their armies have started dying and thus, the people in both Spain and France have started to wonder wether or not the war is meaningful...
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- HELP FAILS TO REACH IRELAND; SUICIDE BOMBINGS STILL CONTINUE
The British navy, which was blocking Ireland, was surprised to see a huge fleet of ships approaching, apparently carrying equipment to the Irish rebels. After a tight battle, the Brits were able to keep these huge navies out, but they never found out who send them.
The Irish rebellion still stands at the edge of it's destruction and british troops have advanced well in region 107. Still, the knowledge of other countries helping them gave more confidence to the few rebels who are left.
London got once again hit by suicide bombers. 2 memebers of the parliament were killed. The British people don't seem to be as confident in their leader as before due to the success of these suicide strikes...
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- CIVIL WAR STARTS IN ICELAND
Rebels whose plan is first to take over the entire Iceland and then to join some other socialist nation (preferably Sweden or Neatherlands) with home rule have taken control in most parts of Iceland. The rebellion which had been very unpopular at first became more and more popular, as the leaders of Iceland didn't bother to do anything to end it. And as people grew more and more unconfident to their leaders, they ended up joining the rebellion.
Now, the last remaining soldiers who are supporting their democratic government have been driven to Reykjavik and to the western beaches of Iceland, and they seem to have been caught between the sea and the advancing communist rebels.
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- SWEDEN INVADES ICELAND
Sweden seized the opportunity and disembarked to Iceland. They quickly advanced at first as they had landed to the rebellious areas and the rebels had nothing against having a Swedish rule. But the more they advanced, the more hard it was to get the socialist rebels put their guns down without a fight, as they believed that they should first take control of the entire Iceland and then decide which country to join as an autonomic state with home rule. With weapons which they had received from Neatherlands, they finaly stopped the Swedish advancement. However, Sweden has taken a solid foothold in western Iceland.
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- CU'S BAD LUCK CONTINUES
CU soldiers were able to put down the rebellion in Rhineland - just to receive transmissions of new rebellions starting in the other side of the country, this time in Slovakia (region 56). Apparently, a small percentage of Slovakians have decided that Slovakia would be better off if it joined USSR. It is yet unknown how these rebels got hold of weapons (perhaps someone is supplying them to the rebels? Who knows). But most Slovakians would still rather stick with CU and the rebels have not been able to take over the entire region.
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- NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
Romania and Bulgaria have reached level 3, leaving the Ottoman Empire as the only (independent) country with only level 2 tech. Spain and Switzerland have reached level 4, and thus getting an improved military which should prove to be useful especially to Spain...
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NPC DIPLOMACY:
From Morocco
To France:
*secret* give us the areas we have conquered and we will sign a separate peace with you *secret*
From Switzerland
To the World:
We are willing to sell level 4 technology to anyone who wishes to pay 2 economy levels for it.
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OOC:
Naervod, you are NPC'd (no orders for 3 turns).
Emu, post orders or you'll be NPC'd in the next update.
And once again I remind everybody to read from the first page what different tech level will do to you - especially level 3, as it will change the rules of the game for you quite a bit.