It's been a week since the entire world was plunged into all out war.

In a struggle to achieve superiority over the 4 major alliances there has been much in the way of subterfuge and counter subterfuge. Maverick players breaking ranks with their Coalition and launching their own settlement of old scores as bitter hatred comes to the surface along the fault lines of entire continents.

The most bloodshed has been in the midst of the Eurasian land mass as Europe has retaliated for maverick Asian generals aggressive incursions. As a result huge gains have been made as the Asian team sorted out it's internal issues. Leaders were deposed and new regimes installed.

Meanwhile there has been much fighting in the North African areas as Europe reveals it's agenda of world domination by also making inroads that have been robustly dealt with by the rest of Africa. Their allies in Oceania however have largely stayed out of the fray, merely shouting words of encouragement from the sidelines.

The Mods continue to gather their strengths in relative peace in the Americas. Other than a few toes in the water by, you guessed it, Europe no player has had any significant success against the Mods.

The only incident of note was two back to back suicide troll accounts attacking the notorious Clanpred. Having beaten these trolls with the help of GO Clanpred has been able to catch up and now lies second only to Mark Achkar. The mystery is who brought the trolls in? More exciting than the troll in Harry Potter's Philosopher's Stone or fearsome than the Cave Troll in Lord of the Rings but investigations continue for the culprit's identification.

Stay tuned for the next sitrep.

Current Standings - Week 1

Week 2 Sitrep!!!

Strife engulfs the entire world as the all-consuming dogs of war have been set loose. Armed conflict has spread like a pandemic as the madness of slaughter makes the rivers run red with the blood of the fallen.

Cartographers burn the midnight oil as they redraw the new boundaries of nations which bloat with the spoils of war and the glut of ruin.

Such has been the overwhelming success of the European generals that teams of players have made strange bedfellows by selling their souls to the mods. Yes, you heard it right and you heard it here first. Such has been the onslaught unleashed in the East by the Europeans that the Asian Alliance has gone begging to the Mods for their assistance in fending off the advances of the European juggernaut.

3 players have been brought before the International Court of Justice and found guilty of breaking the NO GOLD rule. They thought they could get away with it but the investigators were able to uncover and disentangle a web of shadow companies,gold transfers and secret Swiss Bank accounts. Measures have been taken and the wrongs righted. No one can get away with it.

The Afro-Oceanic Alliance has been bolstered by the late entry into the war of more African nations as the European menace’s tentacles dig deep into sub Saharan Africa threatening to upset the established existence of centuries in the Dark Continent. The tide however is turning and despite overtures of peace the African nations are determined to press on and throw the aggressors into the sea.

As Halloween passed it seemed that the witching hour brought about the culmination of an internal power struggle within the European team. Their leader was ousted amidst scandal and accusations of impropriety. At the same time the Asian Alliance seemed to have contained the European Aggression with those in the Far East bolstering and aiding their allies on the Western Front (relatively speaking geographically) who bore the brunt of the fighting. In the North Americas a tentative raid by UK and Germany has been repulsed with ease by the Mods. Only the Brits could have the bare faced cheek to demand reparations after their failed incursion.

Has the European Express run out of steam? Will it recover from its internal power struggle? Have they over-extended and are being rolled up on all sides? Will the UK insist on a quick BREXIT before the war is over?

Confusion has arisen towards the end of the week as Cats needed to be traded for pumpkins and a world-wide shortage of spiders saw prices spiral upwards on the stock markets as financial groups struggled to keep track of candy as starvation stares into the faces of millions across the world. Fears rise as winter progresses and many consider the nightmare of battling snowmen, upgrading igloos and the possibility of a world-wide shortage of mince pies and egg nog. Will reindeer be pulling armoured sleighs across the tundra? Will there be enough elf power to raise the necessary battalions?

Meanwhile there has been an unprecedented act of cooperation between the Mod Alliance and the Africa-Oceania Group. A maritime reserve has been created near Africa. North Brazil has been innovative and a world leader with the game changing concept of creating artificial reefs for marine wildlife and flora to inhabit using old war stock from Supremacy 1914.

The benefits to the ecosphere are many and soon fishing fleets will be able to reap the harvest as North Brazil beats it's swords into plough shares or rather ships into reefs.

North Brazil authorities would like to thank the countries of Africa who assisted with the sinking of this fleet. A huge saving in explosives and other paraphernalia was therefore achieved by North Brazil who views this as a tremendous side benefit.An Armada Real spokesman stated "With the clouds of war on the horizon, North Brazil cannot expect to be untouched by the ravages of war. The saving in explosives and manpower may come in useful in the near future but let's pray that it doesn't come to that".


Meanwhile the fortunes of war favour the brave and the cautious. Mark Achkar has fought tooth and nail, spearheading the European advance deep into Asia whilst Clanpred builds his huge economy in the relative safety of South America with his partner in crime Ay Blinkin who is a close third. It is rumoured that there are rising tensions between the two as there appears to have been a certain loose interpretation ofa greements and one party has exceeded the agreed exploitation of the Latin American land mass.

Standings at End of Week 2

The week has seen the battlefronts consolidated along fault lines as thetectonic plates of the great alliances grind against each other.

Much of the week has been spent in acrimonious exchanges in the League ofNations chamber as accusations of connivance with one alliance or the other hasgiven rise to heated debates and much pointing of fingers.
Nowhere else has this been worse than in the African Alliance.Separated by the Indian Ocean from theirOceania brothers the African Alliance fell to the brutal onslaught from thetriumvirate of Yugoslavia, Spain and Italy.Three columns have thrust from the north and right now are picking up thecrumbs of South Africa after having driven all the way through desert andjungle against fierce opposition.

These confrontations saw a second overseas foray by North Brazil who somehowwas enticed by Belgian Congo to land in Africa.Gifting provinces and units to North Brazil saw them land a substantialforce but these found themselves caught between the hammer of the EuropeanAlliance and South Africa.Aftersustaining heavy losses, most of North Brazil’s forces fought to clear achannel south and buy some time to embark on troopships back home.Although the plan went without a hitch thetroopships were then ambushed by a U Boat wolf-pack from South Africa who sentthem all to a watery grave.

Argentina who was due to land and support N Brazil realised that it wasn’t awise idea to land in Africa and instead continued to Madagascar where at themoment they are fighting tooth and nail to break out of their beach head.The Madagascans blew up the runway whichmeant that Argentina could not deploy their considerable air power to supporttheir ground forces.To add furtherinsult to injury the Madagascans deployed a considerable navy includingaircraft carriers from New South Wales to isolate the Argentinian expeditionaryforce.

North Brazil was also dipping a toe in Oceania and successfully captured theNew Zealand capital of Wellington.However they sought to carry their surprise to the South Island but werethemselves surprised by a submarine force who encouraged them to explore awatery location instead.

Meanwhile Belgian Congo’s leader was seen as persona non grata by his formerAfrican Allies after having sold his soul to the Mod team.They all preferred fighting to the lastbreath against the European menace than make a deal with mods.It is thought he tried to escape to AscensionIsland to live a Napoleonic exile there but it is believed that thePresidential Convoy is now feeding the fishes on the bottom of the Atlantic.

The Panama Canal has been closed to all maritime traffic by the ModAlliance.Only hospital ships will beallowed through.

The British Columbia navy is heading to the coast to investigate claims thata diver may have come across “the lost nuke” – a Mark IV bomb that went missingafter a B-36 bomber crashed in the region before the war.
Diver Sean Smyrichinsky was wrapping up a day of diving near Haida Gwaii, anarchipelago some 80km west of the coast of British Columbia, when he stumbledacross what may be the remains of the world’s first known “broken arrow” – thecode name for accidents involving nuclear weapons.
The object was huge, he said, measuring around 12 feet long. “It resembled abagel cut in half, and then around the circle of the bagel these bolts allmolded into it, like half spheres. It was the strangest thing I had ever seen.”“I was just looking for fish for the next day. I figured I would do a littlereconnaissance dive looking around and on my dive I got pretty far from myboat,” he told the British Columbia Broadcasting Corporation. “And then I foundsomething that I had never, ever seen before.”

He came out of the water, excitedly describing the bowl-shaped object andits bolts that were bigger than basketballs. “I started telling my crew ‘myGod, I found a UFO.’” He sketched a rough outline of what he had seen on anapkin.
Smyrichinsky started asking around, curious if anyone else had ever comeacross the mysterious object. “Nobody had ever seen it before or heard of it.Nobody ever dives there,” he told the Vancouver Sun. “Then some one said, ‘Oh,you might have found that bomb.’”

It was a reference to the Mark IV, a 10-foot, blimp-shaped nuclear bombweighing some five tons and which went missing over the Pacific during a B-36training flight on 13 February.

According to the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada, theintercontinental bomber had left an air base in Alaska for a mission thatinclude a simulated drop on San Francisco when three of the plane’s six enginescaught fire.
The crew was forced to abandon the bomber but air force reports said theyfirst jettisoned the bomb over the Pacific. The bomber disappeared from theradar screen just before midnight. Days later, 12 of the 17 men onboard werefound alive. The plane, set to autopilot by the crew before they parachutingout of the aircraft, crashed into the snow-covered mountains of northern BritishColumbia.

The parallels between what he had seen and the story of the lost nuke sentSmyrichinsky searching online. “And sure enough, there was a story about thislost bomb,” he told CBC.

An image turned up a photo resembling what he had seen. “A big circle withthese balls, I had no idea that particular bomb contained all these big balls,bigger than basketballs.” A further search suggested that the balls – each some20 inches across, he said – were home to the plutonium stored in the MarkIV.

The bomber had crashed some 50 miles south of where he had been diving. “I’mright in the right area and it looks like it could be a piece of that thing,”he said. “What else could it possibly be? I was thinking UFO, but probably nota UFO, right?”

Smyrichinsky detailed his find in a telegraph to Brtish Columbia’s department of national defence, who told him theywere looking into the matter with “keen interest”.

The British Columbian Armed Forces said on Thursday that a navy ship hadbeen deployed to investigate. Government records indicate that the lost bombwas live and poses a serious risk of nuclear detonation, said a spokesperson.
“Nonetheless we do want to be sure and we do want to investigate itfurther,” he added. The navy ship is expected to arrive in the area within thenext two weeks.

Alarm has spread throughout Asia at the thought of British Columbiaacquiring nuclear weapons and advanced technology given the conflict in theBering Straits.

The titanic struggle between Europe vs Africa and vs Asia is clearly visible. But it also shows treachery as Sweden seems to have attacked Great Britian it's former ally. Is this the end of the European Alliance?

These last two weeks has seen a paucity of news from the frontlines.The hardships that our war correspondents face range from malnutrition to having their remains scattered over a square kilometre following contact with a large landmine.Nevertheless they continue this task to bringus hope that our struggles remain fruitful and that the brave men and women whoput their lives at risk to preserve our way of life are safe in their glorious efforts.As such, forgive the lack ofrecent news.

The entire world has seen the wholly unexpected result ofthe democratic process in North America deliver a harder stance on the world stage.Seeking an early success for their new leader the North American forces, joined by their lackey of North Argentina have brought devastation to the Iberian Peninsular.Their joint forces battled through a submerged safety screen of submarines to lay waste to Portugal and Spain entering France at one point. But the onslaught crashed and burnt against the mighty bastion of the Alps where a resolute defence by the remnants of the Spanish military together with the Italian Alpinisti di la Montagine Divisions were able to turn back the Orange Tide and make significant gains in Spain with pockets of troops waiting to be mopped up in some major cities.Key to the success of this action has beenthe manner in which the European Alliance reacted to this clear and present danger.Forces from as far away as Sweden and Yugoslavia joined the fray.Aircraft proved vital in the first few days as the Orange Tide found that their unwillingness to commit their own air units to Operation Tangerine to have proved a fatal mistake.
Masses of captured troops fill large camps in Spain and appropriately enough have been put to work in the orchards to gather the bountiful crop of oranges given that the majority of Spanish men are deployed overseas in Asia and Africa.
Their success in Asia threatens to change the balance of geo-politics as the continent of asia is now a patchwork of colours on a map so fragmented as the result of so many weeks of intense fighting.

In Africa they have already consigned much of North Brazil’s invasion force to the deep. Such has been the extent of the losses that together with earlier unsuccessful forays into Africa have led some to believe that the Brazilians intend to build a bridge between the two continents of sunken rusty ship hulks.

But a new threat has appeared.The mysterious and secretive Madagascans have decided to “move it, move it!”. Having stayed out of combat other than repelling an Argentinian invasion they have now decided to take advantage ofthe events elsewhere to expand into east Africa.This sudden change from a peace loving nature to naked aggression has stunned world leaders.Most of the losses have been experienced by Yugoslavia who has seen their status as world leader drop due to losses on the various fronts.

But all is not well within the European Alliance as jostling for leadership of the alliance has led to internal conflict. A number of weaker powers have been “annexed” by Sweden, increasing their influence in the Alliance.This has served to confirm to many world observers that the Swedes have a secret agenda of world domination and those that challenge it will be forcefully silenced.

For some reason the Europeans now cry that the whole world has turned against them and that instead we should all unite against the Yellow Peril. Apparently they fail tounderstand that a policy of world domination can have its downsides.

Similarly there is a rise in tension in Latin America with formal protests being lodged against the Argentinian military who have retained a large garrison in the North Brazilian capital of Macapa. Concern has been raised by the citizens due to the troops outrageous behaviour in drinking the local bars dry whilst keeping the various houses of ill repute fully booked.The local Military Commander, Majorissimo Generalitito Aysus Blinkinondo has said that his troops were simply celebratingthe success of their brothers in the Iberian Peninsular although with the recent reverses suffered there they are now drowning their sorrows.

Nevertheless this partnership has produced one recent success. With the capture intact of a nuclear device by North Argentinian agents working with Brazilian Capoeira Ninjas, scientists in Latin America have been able to adapt the weapon to a non destructive form. The weapon has thrown the enemy into confusion as they are perplexed as to why their intelligence gathering assets have been nullified.

The weapon is termed the Fuches Unilateral Converting Katalyser - Electro Magnetic - Uni-Polariser. It's code name is classified for understandable reasons.

It interferes with the electro magnetic spectrum and units not shielded from it's effect will have their vision impaired to an extent that they can only see lines with their eyes. Cameras, compasses, radios, radars are also affected meaning no one can see any of our Allied activities allowing our troops to drive towards the Sahara and Congo without opposition from an enemy that has been blinded.

Governor Clanpred addressed Parliament today and hinted that the boys may be back for Christmas!!

Reports have also emerged of Brazilian research into intensely powerful beams of light called LASERS.It is alleged that these beams will cause spots of intense red or green light which the enemy will feel obliged to chase around and distract them from their military duties.The locality where these tests have been carried out have also reported the whole sale disappearance of cats and jaguars from the area.

Even more bizarre has been the mysterious deployment of giant railroad guns at the Panama Canal.Having declared the Panama Canal closed to all except humanitarian maritime traffic, it would seem that they are intent on barring anyone theychose from transiting through these locks.

Apparently there are brazil nuts and Brazilian nutters!

The only ray of hope has been the prospect of a Thanksgiving Truce but truthfully it was truly difficult to arrive at a truly favourable decision. Despite fearing that their countries would disappear overnight on Thursday 24^th no such great cataclysm has fallen Germany or indeed any other country that chose to feast onturkey and cranberry sauce. Despite thebest efforts of Clanpred to negotiate a ceasefire there was too much concern that demands would then be placed for ceasefires for every holiday under the sun, the X Factor finals and American Idol contests, not to mention stopping everything to allow players to watch sport unmolested by flying bombs, rocketsand falling masonry.

This week's leaderboard shows Clanpred heading the charts once again as his expansion into other continents continues. Mark Achbar has lost ground to the predations of Asian Alliance and the mysterious and enigmatic Madagascarians. Commanderincharge has held on but is in danger of falling prey to Clanpred over the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile At Blinkin could be doing so much better if he kicked his troops out of the Brazilian bars and brothels and sent them to the front lines.

Brazilian EMP weapon. The Fuches Unilateral ConvertingKatalyser - Electro Magnetic - Uni-Polariser

No Truth for Thanksgiving but will our troops still be at it for Christmas Day? Will this season of peace and goodwill to fellow men be marred by violence and depravation of war?

Is body count a measure of success? Don't think so.

Sadly some people did not play the long game, over extended themselves and are now suffering the consequences, in their most desperate hour they were found wanting. Their charades proved to be empty worthless endeavours that did not secure their survival, their lack of loyalty and genuine fraternal bonds to their brothers in arms did not extend further than arm's reach.

Alas as their empires crumble and their bones turn to dust history will be written by the victors and their words will not be charitable.

Instead the chaff has been sorted from the wheat, only the strong have survived. Now it remains to be seen if they can challenge the Mods for world domination.

The map shows how the Asian menace sweeps through Europe and Africa scything European Alliance forces clear out of their path.