Battle of Poole

The Battle of Kerplakistan proceeded a previous conflict between the nation and Atlas Alliance forces which heavily damaged the city and sent it into anarchy sometime between June 16 - June 25, 2016. While the Battle of Kerplakistan was essentially a continuation of the Atlas attacks, in Ravenspurian history, this article deals mostly with the conflict from June 24, 2016 through early July of the same year while Ravenspur was involved in the fighting.

Naming Controversy
It is notable that, like other wars in Ravenspurian history, multiple names have been given to this battle. This battle has been known as "The Battle of Kerplakistan" or "The Battle of Poole" after the name of the country and capital, respectively; however it is very commonly known as "Brian Blessed Bombing Battle," the "Battle of Bombing Brian Blessed," "The Battle of the Three Bs," or, simply "4Bs" all due to the unusual name of the country's leader presumably being a cult in favor in deity admiration of the actor Brian Blessed. All of these are considered correct, if informal, and can and have been used interchangeably in contemporary texts.

History
The nation of Kreplakistan was a nation in the Atlas alliance of the black sphere at the breakout of The "For Steve" War. Centered around the English city of Poole with that city as its capital, it appears to have had a antebellum military consisting of 17,100 soldiers and possibly no air force defenses.

It is believed, by the fact that the nation's ruler is called "Brian Blessed is God" that Brian Blessed refers to the famous Shakespearian actor. It is unknown why the citizens of Kerplakistan worshipped Brian Blessed as a deity. It could be due to his tremendous acting ability or possibly due to him once having helped a woman give birth in a park followed by biting the umbilical cord and licking the face of the newborn clean.

The war would come to the nation on June 16, 2016 with the invasion of Atlas forces Caves Cave, Sengoku, and Cluck Dynasty. Combined those battles caused the complete loss of all of Kreplakistan's 17,100 soldier forces with the Atlas combined nations losing only 13,745 in the process. The forces of Atlas destroyed roughly 9,800 nation strength and roughly 2,500 infrastructure. Kreplakistan's forces seemed to mount no counter attacks.

Ravenspur's forces entered the battle on June 24, 2016 with an invasion force into the capital city, Poole. The armed forces found the capital and country side undefended with no soldiers putting up even a modest defense. Ravenspur forces were quickly able to continually enter the city on a daily basis and destroy $5,000,000.00 each day of the battle without resistance.

It was at this point that the newly formed Ravenspur's Air Corps began to shine. Daily bombing sorties filled the sky over Kerplakistan and began surgical strikes along with cruise missile blasts. The nation mounted no air defenses and Ravenspurian bombers, first Bristol Bienheims and later B-25 Mitchell bombers attacked the country without fear of reprisals. This proved a great testing ground for the fledgling Ravenspurian Air Corps which would prove useful in the later stages of the contemporary conflict the Battle for Eriene.

Aftermath
After the initial Atlas allied invasion, Kerplakistan lost the entirety of its 17,100 troop-strong army. Daily Ravenspur ground attacks destroyed an estimated $35,000,000 of the nations cash reserves. The lack of enemy ground troops meant that this would be a bloodless war for Ravenspur with zero losses of life. Damage to Kerplakistan was fair with 681.99 infrastructure damaged and a loss of just over 2,000 in nation strength.

Monuments and Memorials
The forces of Ravenspur chose to liberate the from this battle and repatriate it back to Ravenspur. As no soldiers died in the campaign the Monument serves to commemorate the great victory of the Ravenspur forces and is fondly visited by people on weekends and holidays as a great site for a picnic. The monument originally stood on a hill named Black Down, overlooking the English Channel near the town of Portesham in Dorset, England.
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The fact that it was designed originally in memory of a Vice Admiral and looks like a spyglass is somewhat ironic as Ravenspur had no navy at the time of the battle. Troops at the time thought that it looked like a possible look-out tower to be used by enemy troops to tell if in coming bombing waves were on their way.