War History of Uralica

Uralica has had a very eventful history in combat, participating in four wars (as of 31 May 2008) and volunteering for three more only to not end up fighting.

The Guernsey Alliance Conflict
An NS-boost mistake prevented Uralica from unleashing a "Midnight Surprise" on Pafraqistan of Guernsey Alliance, a micro-alliance, from whom two of five members were attacking CCC nation littleexplosion. This conflict would not have time to see any CCC involvement, though, as peace was declared on 26 March. The two raiders would have a rather gruesome fate, though, as the United League of Nations ended up anarchying Pafraqistan. These two nations, however, managed to escape a much worse fate.

The "LUA-Raid Phony War"
Although from the League of United Armenians' standpoint, this war actually did happen, as a member of the larger Knights of Christ bloc, the CCC wanted to try and help their MDP alliance, when one of their members was attacked by a rogue named Lord Dangit. KingJarkko was all too eager to send the Uralic Tribes to war, but when Uralica's Nation strength went too high for him to do so, he backed off. The name "The LUA-Raid Phony War" is used almost exclusively in Uralica.

The Ionized-Jelly War
Uralica's first real war happened when a rogue nation from a micro-alliance attacked CCC member Giant Jellyfish and his nation of Jellyfishia on 27 March 2008, without provocation. This rogue was named Ionizer. His alliance's charter forbade the attack, and he was given specific orders not to attack anyone, however these were both disregarded, for this reason: "I hear you don't like Mudkips."

The Tribes jumped headlong into the fray, pounding Ionizer with aerial and ground assaults that all but wiped out the nation. However, the opponent proved to be much more tenacious than was expected, and the war would drag on for three more days, including an attack on the then outer-rim settlement of Pazhga. However, two other nations, Project Earth (led by Invincible) and the German Empire (led by Emperor Kristoph), joined the attack on 29 March 2008, while Uralica's resolve surged. Project Earth and Uralica became fast friends and orchestrated a crippling assault that brought his numbers down considerably before a cease-fire was declared 30 March 2008.

After numerous insults hurled at CCC alliance government members as well as KingJarkko, and four days of war of attrition, the conflict was over. The initial war was named 3 April 2008. Uralica was praised for its efforts, and KingJarkko was awarded a field promotion to Captain of his nation group, The Knights Templar, while his two fellow defenders were given commendation. The original attacked nation, Jellyfishia, was also commended by the CCC, and praised in particular by KingJarkko, who compared Jellyfishia's tenacity under siege to that of the Maltese during World War II.

Ionizer would, however, continue to haunt both the CCC and his former alliance. In violating the cease-fire and allegedly having a hand in a DoS attack on his former alliance's headquarters, Ionizer had set himself up for another run, but this would be short-lived thanks to four devastating and completely unexpected ground assaults by Invincible's Project Earth which reduced Ionizer's nation, Ionicion, to an anarchistic, bombed-out mess.

The Nordic Ghost Conflict
The Nordic Ghost Conflict started when a failed applicant to Valhalla named Beilliran (ruled by President Fionn) attacked then-CCC member nation Sudetenland (ruled by Erebus Chaos) on 9 April 2008. A defence coalition took no time at all to build as Uralica joined Gladius (led by Samwise) and Jellyfishia in defence of the Sudetens. Under the orders of the CCC's Minister of Defence, The Kaiser, the opening attacks were strictly by air, doing much damage to the infrastructure of the attacker. Beilliran had made the rash decision of having around two-thirds of his troops deployed and thus was caught off-guard when the ground attacks started early due to miscommunication within the CCC, losing him around eight hundred of his 1845 original defending troops. The Uralic Tribes hit him from the north later, with disastrous results for the aggressor nation. Although the soldier casualties were only slightly in favour of the Uralic tribes - 811 killed versus 723 lost - and the tank losses were heavy, Uralica put Beilliran into a state of anarchy, forcing them to withdraw all troops deployed in Sudetenland.

While the CCC's crack negotiation team began negotiations for a cease-fire, Uralica bode its time as Gladius first sent a spy in to spread misinformation, then severely depleted the ghost's soldier reserves with the Samwise Offensive, which lost the aggressor 2180 soldiers. Uralica inflicted a further 201 soldiers' worth of casualties, putting Beilliran into a state of anarchy for the second time, one from which this nation would never recover.

The war appeared to be over after a day as President Fionn requested a cease-fire on 10 April. However, the slow nature of his establishment of a dialogue had many CCC members suspicious. A reconnaissance run by a flight of Udmurt recon-planes from Uralica confirmed these suspicions to KingJarkko - Beilliran was rebuilding - while the CCC's dialogue was not reciprocated, and therefore the Minister of Defence (with the blessing of the then-Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs) ordered them back into action. Jellyfishia was first into the fray, inflicting 357 soldiers and 80 tanks' worth of damage despite suffering more casualties themselves.

Thus was precipitated the Battle of the Two Komis on 11 April 2008, as expert Komi and Permyak soldiers surprised Beilliran from the northern and eastern fronts in a pincer attack, destroying 1919 soldiers and 17 tanks.

On 12 April, a cease-fire deal was reached despite some arrogance on the part of Beilliran, who threatened the CCC with Valhalla retribution. Feigning a lack of knowledge when told he wasn't even an initiate at Valhalla, Beilliran roundaboutly admitted to ghosting...

"I used their name over the past few days because it is an unfortunate fact that nations that don't belong to alliances, even superficially are more often victims to attacks from other nations."

Peace was finally declared two days later.

Although no CCC honours were awarded, KingJarkko made a point of awarding the four battallion leaders of the Battle of the Two Komis for valour, and special honours were bestowed upon various troops, including three posthumous honours.

Sudetenland Goes South
Probably Uralica's "easiest" campaign, due to the nature of the attacked, but also one of the most painful.

Sudetenland, whom KingJarkko and the Tribes defended valiantly alongside Gladius and Jellyfishia, decided to attack a member of FEAR, an action that was in blatant violation of the Charter of the CCC. The Tribes were outraged and petitioners were lined up outside the doors of their Tribal Boards with petitions demanding sanctions. KingJarkko gave an address to his people from the Tribal Council Chambers on 22 April 2008 voicing his own disgust with the situation as well as his intention to demand Sudetenland's expulsion from the CCC wholesale.

Even though theywere expelled that very day, Sudetenland continued to use the CCC's AA and was therefore guilty of ghosting, however, and was warned several times. The leader had apparently fled the nation as soon as 25 April 2008, but had made the mistake of leaving his nation, at least superficially, at the mercy of the CCC. After more than a week of speculation and various debates both in the CCC and the Uralican Tribal Council, the first attacks were finally launched on 6 May 2008 after the CCC's Ministers of Defence and Foreign Affairs agreed that something would need to be done to save face with FEAR. KingJarkko was all too adamant to get this done and over with. Attacking this former member was "something that needed to be done for security reasons." (KingJarkko, Tribal Council Session #19, 5 May 2008.)

Joining Jellyfishia and later Project Earth, Uralica wasn't needed to do much on the ground, but what they lacked in ground efforts they more than made up for in their aerial endeavours. Always a strong supporter of air power, KingJarkko mobilised a 50-bomber group to hack away at Sudetenland's infrastructure, doing severe damage. The CCC were intent on complete destruction (ZI) of Sudetenland, so even though the war was nearly over after two days of fighting and over a thousand soldiers had been killed, the war dragged on until the eventual "state of ZI" announcement by KingJarkko on 10 May 2008.

A Tale Of Two Ghosts
Things got really hairy, really fast for the northern nation of Long Rifle (ruled by Giacomo) on the day of 10 May 2008, when a nation ghosting the Viridian Entente, named talin (ruler tulk14), attacked his nation, and not long after the fact (about 7 1/2 hours), he brought a much larger friend, MCXA applicant Amerzica (ruler Manuel Raponzo) in to help him. This sort of bullying didn't sit particularly well with anyone in Uralica, especially not KingJarkko, who furiously demanded to be let at him.

He even went so far as to say, "I'd just as soon torch the git without having to worry about politicking."

An MCXA representative officially disowned Amerzica only three hours after he had engaged Giacomo. Three more hours later, then-CCC Vice-Chancellor nate1865 declared "open season" on Amerzica. KingJarkko promptly scrambled his troops. Two spies were caught in Amerzica's capital city of Roponz, but the damage had been done, as several units were sent a false cease and desist order. The results from the air were devastating. As Project Earth had joined the fray, the two teamed up to do amazing damage in what came to be known as the Invincible Uralican Air Raid. Project Earth was also very efficient on the ground, taking out nearly 2400 troops. This was called the Battle of Santa Catarina.

A mixed company of Nenets and Samoyeds ("Bad Company") was sent barrelling in from the south into Allende, destroying large amounts of infrastructure and taking out most of Amerzica's remaining troops. Before they could hit the air force base outside of Roponz, though, the remaining bombers were deployed in one last, desperate attempt to do damage against Uralica. This failed miserably. The bombers were spotted and shot down before they could even get within range, and not one person aboard any of the bombers would survive. Amerzican refugees still cringe when the name "Kirov" is mentioned, as that is where the bombers were shot down. The fighter accompanying them was lucky to escape with his life.

By the evening the war started, Amerzica was already nearing ruin. But talin was still untouched. This wouldn't change for another few days. What ended up happening also was that an NPO Cadet named GeneralWolfwood would jump into the action as well and get rid of all but five of Amerzica's remaining troops.

The morning of 11 May was a brutal one for Amerzica as they were hit hard in the capital city Roponz, which was completely obliterated. This came to be called the Samoyed Raid.

On 12 May, Manuel Raponzo himself flew into Kirov in an attempt to take out some of Uralica's bombers, and barely made it back alive. And when he did make it back, he found that his order to recruit more soldiers had angered the Samoyeds and Nenets that had destroyed Roponz, and most of these new soldiers ended up dead as they were ambushed in Cerrito, just northwest of Roponz.

An emergency session of the Tribal Council allowed KingJarkko to authorise the shipment of aid to Giacomo, who was again attacked by Amerzica, and was still being hit by Talin.

The next five days would be very arduous for all involved as the remaining troops dug themselves in at Monterrey, and were constantly attacked by Bad Company. Although the last of Amerzica's troops were finished off by the 14th, the Uralican Armed Forces were ordered to "wipe Amerzica off the map."

It was also at this time that Giacomo finally got help with his other attacker, talin. Willy Wonka (ruler Frodimeister) and later White America (ruler Redden) declared on talin shortly after talin tried to make peace with the excuse that he didn't have time to fight. KingJarkko, who had by this time been named Grand Master of the Knights Templar, ordered the ZIing of talin, both "as a favour to the Viridian Entente" and "to send a message to all rogues what Hell will come upon them if they dare attack the CCC." His call to arms ends with the quotable quote, "TEMPLARS! PREPARE FOR GLORY!!!"

The Siege of Monterrey took an interesting twist on 16 May as "Giacomo's Backlash" began, sent in from Long Rifle. By 18 May, Amerzica's infrastructure was down to seven levels, and the core of Monterrey was all that remained of the nation. Long Rifle, Uralica, and ProjectEarth withdrew all troops.

On 19 May, Frodimeister secretly negotiated a "shotgun peace" with talin, which infuriated KingJarkko, who put a reprimand on nation Willy Wonka's record for Class 5 Insubordination (Class 1 being the highest). Redden and White America continued to attack.

The following day may have been a holiday for Uralica, but it wasn't for KingJarkko, who brought in a new combatant to fight against talin, and to finish the job Uralica, Project Earth, and Giacomo had started with Amerzica. The Lafleureux from nation La Fleur proved to be more than necessary to finish Amerzica off for good. It took a while because the Lafleureux weren't particularly accurate, due to the small stature of what they were trying to hit. But on 22 May, Amerzica was officially declared destroyed. Later that day, the Uralican Tribal Council voted unanimously to award La Fleur's ruler l1jake1 with the prestigious Kunnianmitali, and he is to this date the only foreigner to have won this. But the ruler was too busy executing the "Eight-Missile Midnight Suprise" to be able to accept it in person!

By that evening, talin was defenseless. The next three days would consist of a ruthless bomb-and-raid campaign that would, by 12:03 AM on 26 May 2008, reduce talin to ZI.

l1jake1 was awarded a Silver Cross of the Knights Templar that evening. The war would be officially named three days later.

The 4-Day Phony War
When Project Earth found themselves on the bad end of a war declaration on 24 May 2008, Uralica mobilised to help, but eventually wasn't needed to. The "attacker," Lindondy of the Democratic Republic of Argonaut, was disavowed (but not expelled) by his alliance on 25 May, and despite the fact that the declaration of peace from Lindondy didn't come until 28 May, there were no attacks and no damage, hence the name.